The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-22

demonstration took place in the city OF Dublin,
though in Il quieter way and on Il more limited
scale There was no procession OF trades, no mill
tary display, no booming of cannons, no banners
or transparencies, or fireworks, but simply BAN
quet given by the Lord Mayor of that city, to Mr..
G. T. BRIGHT, the Engneer-in-Chef to the Allan
tic Telegraph Company and his fellow electricians.
The assemblage embraced the highest names in
the metropolis, civil and military Many noble
men were present, and, amongst the celebrities,
was Cardinal WIsEMAN, Sin full Cardinalite cos
''tume' Toasts were given, and speeches dellv-
cred, as is usual on such festive occasions; the
chief orators of the evening being Mr.. BRIGHT and
Cardinal WIsEMAY. The speech of the former is
said to have been a piece Of easy, unaffected
eloquence; nor did he forget in relating the
anXieties and perils which attended the prosecu-
ton of the great achievement, TO acknowledge IN
the warmcst terms, the services Of the man
aging Director, Mr. FIELD. Cardinal WlsEMAN
descanted in glowing terms on the new triumph
of science, and highly complimented ''the lead
ing guest of the evening" for his unassuming
and truthful narrative. But the demonstration,
though it is reported to have been worthy of the
PNNliSf
of the great occasion upon which that hospitality
was exercised has left behind it, feelings of bitter
ness which, it is feared, will revive those sectarian
''animosities that even in Ireland, were beginning
''to die out" Lord EGLNToUN, the NiCeroy OF
Ireland, and his subordinate officials, were invited
TO the banquet, and the invitation was as frankly
accepted; but neither Lord ECLINToUN, nor any of
the other members of the government were present
to do honor TO Mr.. BRIGHT and his scientific asso-
ciates. The cause assigned, the part of the
Lord Lieutenant, for subsequently declining the
invitation was-Cardinal WIsEMAN. His Lord
ship did not desire to meet His Eminence--to sit
at the same table with His Eminence-to listen to
the speeches of His Eminence-and, above all, he
wished to avoid drinking the health of His Emil
nencc. Lord EGLINToUN did not, indeed, avow
the motives by which he was actuated; he simply
''declincd to meet Cardinal WIsEMAN," and the
"Caste officials were of course constrained to
absent themselves likewise.
Years ago, Lord EGLINToUN made his name
famous throughout the United Kingdom, by re-
viving, with medieval splendor, that chivalric
pastme-the tournament-with all its parapher-
MALTA of tents and banners its lists for eats of arms
It's warderS and its heralds its gaily caparisoned
steeds, and its noble and richly appointed cavaliers.
For several seasons the tournaments mt Egntoun
Castle attracted the beauty and the fashion of the
land; but Temporal mutGntur, nos ct mutdRur IN Ills.
His Lordship no longer breaks a lance in honor of
the "Queen of Beauty" The fair SHERIDAN of those
DAYS has long since lost her maiden bloom. OF
the gay knights of the Tourney, some have gone
to that bourne from which no traveller returns:
portly fathers of families, and all that
main, are grayer and gravcr than in the DAYS of
old. How many of them have been called to office
we have no means of knowing; but the Earl of
EGLNToUN is, at this time, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, and instead of fitting at the ring, or
breaking spears at the barriers, he has couched a
lance against Cardinal WIsEMAN, greatly to the
Indignation of the Catholics of Ireland, and TO the
damage of his own reputation. NoL me taRgcrc,
thundered the cannons of Cherbourg. con earth
peace-good will toward men, was the burthen of
the song that was sung at the Nativity, and was
flashed across the wires of the submarine Gable
Surely the lesson that each taught, and the event
the Mayor of Dublin desired TO fifty celebrate,
ought to have admonishcd the Vicerov, of the pro-
priety of ignoring religious differences, on an oc-
cason devoted to the celebration of scientific
achievement, and at a time when the old hatred
between Catholic and Protestant Ireland was
yielding to nobler impulses and kindlier feelings