The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-11-11
Irish Ccfts in France and spain

Irish CeIts in France and spain
The London correspondent of the Wa
terford Citizen, in referring to dinner
given in Spain to the French representative,
affords from the list of names of the digni-
tares present, curious example of the vast
! distinction, power, and wealth the descend
ants of the Irish exiles of a century ago,
or more, have acquired on the continent.
AL the names below are the names of
men whose fathers, grandfathers. or other
ancestors had found refuge in France from
the tyranny of England:
The Italian question stands STILL Bier
ritz looks ''bothered." Let us look after
our Chateau= en- Espague! The Irish race
has given TO France three of her Marshals,
Count Re'ltc, the Due de Magenta Mac
Mahon), and Neil, of Solferino. The
Due de Malakof himself says that he is
| Tipperary Palatine, and there is no doubt
of the fact; perhaps he may prove some
day i1}sis Hibcrnis Hibernior. But at all
events, read with interest in to days pa
per the announcement of his attendance at
areview of the garrison of Madrid, conduc-
!
city, General Henry ODOnncl, the 6rauc
Sabreur of the Spanish army. lie after
wards dined with the French Ambassador
to her Most Catholic Majesty, Monsieur
Adolphe O'DHlon Barrot, where large
and distinguished company were assembled
to meet him. Among them were her
Most Catholic Majesty's Prime Minister,
the Marshal O'DonncA, Condo de Lucena;
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Don Juan
de C0myn the Colonial Secretary, Don
Isidore Wall. But the Minister of Marine
was unavoidaby absent. lie has gone
down to Barcelona to personally supern-
tend the organization of the great expedi-
ton against the Moors Of the Riff, in which
the Spanish. government is at present en-
gagged. With the French attack on one
end Of the empire of Morocco, and this
Spanish war at the other, | suspect few
| years will see the end of the once grand
dynasty of the Alhambra. 1t is not to be
regretted. In every region where it exists
Mahometanism seems rallying itself for one
last grand effort of massacre against Chris
tianity. Equally in Asia and Africa, the
Mahometan races appear to be animated by
an Internal fury, which can only be cooled
in blood.
The Spaniards seem to be determined, so
far as the pirate race of the Riff are con-
cerned, to make this expedition a terrible
example to their old conquerors. If they
are tempted to carry their arms so far as
| Tangier, one may be allowed to hope that
the Dowager Empress, that charming Hit
W 7hompSon of Cork, who won and held
SO we'll the heart of the late lamented and
imperial Muley, will be treated with every
consideration, and, if she wishes, allowed
to retire to her native Cove. Meantime,
however, the Minister of Marine, Field
Marshal Jose Mac GrOgham, is carefully
inspecting the beautiful little fleet of steam
frigates and steel-plated gunboats (for
which his Majesty, the French Emperor
obligingly gave him his own plan,) and
which he has had built by the first builders
of Deptford within the last two years.
The relations between her Most Catholic
Majesty's Irish Cabinet and his Imperial
Majesty's are extremely intimate. They
have made war together in Cochin China
last year they will make war together
on Morocco Immediately. This causes an
interchange, and indeed rivalry of cour-
tesies SO that the Due de Malakoff ex
pressed himself quite edited when he found
that the Emperor's system of ritled cannon
had been already extended to the whole
Spanish artillery, and that the rifles with
which the Spanish infantry-always, when
well led aad armed, the most splendid, sol
id, steady troops in Europe-had been sup
piled, would bear the most minute compar
ison with those of the Chasseurs de Vim
cennes Marshal Pelissiers' visit to Mad
rid, is in fact, like NieI's to Turin early
this year, friendly tour of military in
spectlon; but the Marshal's knowledge is
limited to the camp, and it is said the
Spanish government take even more pride
in their new navy than in the exquisite
order to which they have brought their
army. | have heard that Admiral Count
CASEY is about to be sent by the French
Admiralty on visit to Marshal MacCro-
CHAM, in order to test the metal and he
mettle of his fleet.
The papers which arc opposed to the
Queens government at Madrid have got
one Joke of which they never tire they do
us the honor to call Spain Young Ireland
presume there is some providentia pur-
bose indicated by this cropping up of the
old Irish blood abroad But at all events
it ought to be gratifying to us to see that
we thus help to pay our debt for the .hospi
tality and the alliance Of the Catholic
kingdoms of the Continent. MaIakoff,
Magenta, Soferino, are heavy entries on
our balance sheet with France, and we
have an absolute light to them. MacMa-
hon took the MaIakoff and Magenta by
setting on the inspiration of his own genius
against the written orders At SoIterino,
Napoleon the Third says, st was General
Neil who saved the army"
IT il said that Queen Victoria's second
dauGhter-now the first on the marriage
roll-has expressed wish to resign her
Hroyal IrWry - in order to becoma q nro