The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-05

the noble art Of playing stool-pigeon- The
bones OF Onc-eyed Thompson will rattle with
vexation in their grave at the thoughts ol what
he lost by destroying himself 50 prematurely;
and poor Bristol Bill, whom an inappreciative
jury in Vermont have lodged in the peniten-
iiary OF that State, will think himself accursed,
because he allowed himself to be caught before
Forney raised the trade TO an honorable rank
| in the world.
Distinguished Foreign yisitcrs and the OBJ
jccts Of their Visits.
| The United States has been recently visited
| 10y a great number of distinguished foreign
| visiters, especially from. England and Ireland.
| Some of these have come with one object and
some with another Among them is Earl Mount
scashel, an Irish nobleman, who, after being
| through Canada and the Southern States, has
just returned to New York, and is staying at
| the Clarendon Hotel. As we have lately given
an account of the life and lineage of the re-
| publican John Mitchell, Saxon Irishman,
| whose favorite maxim used to be- The life of
one peasant is as good as the life of one peer"
| it may not be amiss to give some brief account
of the birth, extraction and public career Of his
| The Earl Of Mountcashel (Stephen Moore)
county Tipperary and Baron Kilworth of Moore
Park. county Cork, in the peerage Of Ireland
| one of the representative Lords, was born goth
| of August. 1892, and is, therefore, in his
sixty -second year. He is accompanied by
his son, Lord Klworth, who is twenty
| eight years of age. This family deduces
| its descent from Thomas dc More, one
Of the Knights who accompanied the Norman
Conqueror into England, and who survived the
decisive battle Of Hastings, in which he had a
| principal command About the middle of the
! fourteenth century the ancestors Of the Earl
were seated in the West of England and in the
| beginning of Queen Elizabetfs reign they pur-
chased an estate in Shropshire. They were
| called the Mores OF Shropshire. III the reign
of King James l., Richard Moore emigrated to
Ireland and fixed his abode at Clonmel This
gentleman left two sons, the elder of whom,
Stephen Moore purchased the estate Of Kilworth,
county Cork, and settled there. He had the
| honor of personal acquaintance with King
| William, to whom, upon that Princes arrival in
| England he lent $4,000, which sum was never
| refunded. He was, however constituted by his
Majesty governor Of the county Tipperary and
| colonel of its militia His grandson Stephen
Moore, was elevated to the peerage of Ireland
| in 3764 as Baron Kilworth of Moore Park coun-
| ty Cork and created Tscount Mounteashel, of
the city of Cashel. county Tipperary, in 1866
In 1871 his son Stephen was advanced to an
Earldom as Earl of Mountcasbel He was the
grandfather of the present peer, who has
brother Lieutenant Colonel in the army and
another in holy orders, canon Of Windsor,
and has several children besides his eldest son.
His seats are Moore Park, county Cork, and
Galgormc Castle, county Antrim, which are at
the opposite extremes of Ireland. We need not
trouble the reader with an account of the ar
mortal bearings of the family. as these things
arc at discount in the United States, but the
motto is SO good that we may giveit. 1t is
ris anita .fortior-which translated, means,
power united is the stronger" or in other
words. " union is strength''--a very true and
very sensible saying though expressed in Latin
and attached to the arms Of a noblcman. In
personal appearance and dress, Earl Mount
cashel presents striking contrast to most of
the peers of Great Britain and Ireland. He is
remarkably plain, AM may be seen at any
time clad iE something like farmer dress lie
is great agTiculturist, and has also been dis
tinguished as a moral reformer. We believe |
he has the reputation of being religiously in
clined. He has been connected with agricui- |
tural societies and cattle shows, and has de- |
livered some opinions upon turnips and rota-
ton of green crops. In the time of the Irish |
famine he took some part in the meetings of |
landlords, who assembled to devise measures
Of relief, but accomplished nothing. He was
member Of the Irish Council at which John |
Mitchell played so conspicuous part on the !
question of land tenures and tenant right. |
He has made several speeches in the British |
Parliament
His business in coming to this country is
to obtain information of its resources, and |
institutions, and literature, and arts. and
manners and customs, and either to write
book on the subject, or to make use of
the facts be has collected in Parliament
There appears to be great anxiety in Eng
land to know all about this country and
there is always particular delight exhibited on
the part Of the aristocracy when anything
they regard as weak or unworthy comes to
view, whilst on the other hand the working
classes, and the democracy Of England, glory
in all that is good and great in this republic
and hail every evidence of the happiness and
prosperity of its people as an argument in favor
Of republican principles.
Many years ago Lord Morpeth, now Earl Of
Carlisle, and Lord Stanley, now Earl of Derby,
visited this country, and after peeping into
every hole and corner, went home and abused |
and misrepresentcd the United States whenever
they had chance, as Dickens, one of their
writers has since done. The result Of this
scandaLmongering in public and private was