The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 90, 1871.

vast crowds (for country people had docked
into the town in hundreds) at 10 o'clock at
night shouting with one voice, "Long live
Plus TX! Long live the Pope King
Long live our beloved pastor, Arcbdeacon
O'Regan ~ while the deep and solemn vi
brations of the newly hung bell were heard
for miles around.-Correspon tlent, June II.
MEMORIAL TO THE VERY REV. DIR. sPRATT.
A public meeting of the citizens of Dublin
was held on Sunday in the Carmelite
Church, Whitefriar street, to adopt mea-
sures for raising memorial to the late
Very Rev. DR.. Spratt. There was great
assemblage on the occasion, the spacious
church being thronged in every part. A
large number of ladies attended. Within
the sanctuary were many of the leading
citizens of Dublin, Catholic and Protestant,
and Il full representation of the trades of
the city. The following resolutions were
adopted:
That the character If the Very Rev. DIR.
Spratt as priest, q patriot and O philanthro-
pist. and the inestimable services which, dur
ing half a century, he rendered to religion,
education, country, temperance, and the suf-
ferinr poor. deserve to be held in grateful aud
enduring remembrance.
THAT memorial be raised which will in
some degree express our sense OF the long, uu-
wearied and selfsacrificing labors of this pub
lie benefactOr, and the sentiments Of affection
and reverence with which his memory Is re-
sa y 4bat a. tho v.rv Raw d. snr.tt va. f,r
over fifty years guardian of the st. Peters
Orphanage, and during that time bestowed
upon it his anxious care and tender solicitude,
the endowm of that admirableioha rarity will
be o suitable application of the Memorial
Fund, at the same time providing fitting mon
ument.
"That it is the duty of all who respect
long life spent without earthly reward in the
Advancement of sobriety and virtue, the pro-
motion of Christian instruction, and the relief
of poverty and suffering, to unite in raising a
memorial mem OF the Very Rev. DR.: spratt, and
"That as the Very Rev. DIR. Spratt devoted
the greater part of his life to the promotion of
the spiritual and temporal welfare of the
working classes, and uniformly manifested his
sympathy and love for them, this meeting
calls upon the trades and laboring classes, in
an especial manner, to join in the general
tribute"
A committee, with the lord Mayor as
chairman, was appointed to carry out the
purposes of the meeting. The Lord Mayor,
Sir James Power and Rev. John Hall were
appointed treasurers. - Dublin Freeman,
July 1.
RESIGNATION.
On learning of DR.. Whitehead's intention
to resign the office of Vice President of St.
Patrick's College, Maynooth, the students
presented him with q massive silver claret
jug and an appropriate address, in graft
tude for his ceaseless and unselfsh zeal for
their well-being, and in appreciation of
those rare talents by which he has so sig
nally promoted the best interests of the
college for more than forty years, daring
twenty-six of which he had been Vice
President. The claret jug, with two &C
compaDying goblets of the same material,
bore this inscription ga token of affection
and esteem from the students of Maynooth
COllegeYto the Very Rev. Robert French
Whitehead, on his intended resignation OF
the Vice Presidency June 81, 1871" DIR.
Whitehead returned a fitting and feeling
reply.
LORD DERBY's IRISH ESTATES.
A rumor is current that Lord Derby'i
estates in Tipperary have been bought by
Mr.. Valentine O'Connor for El50,O0O. It II
to be hoped that this is true. Mr.. O'Con.
every prospect Of his making an excellent
landlord. At the same time it strikes us i
| would have been been better If the lan(
| had been set up in small lots and bough
| dy some five or ten thousand small farm
era, as has just been done in Glare. 1t i
to be hoped that some other absentee land
lords will follow the good example set then
by Lord Derby, and 30 help to relieve Ire
| land from the stigma Of abeenteeism. w
might recommend Lord Darnley and Lor
Fitzwilliam to inaugurate the movement.
THE CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOR cor;
FERRED ON A CoRKMAN.
The French Government has conferre
the Cross of Chevalier Of the Legion G
Honor-the highest grade in the Order-o
Mr.. William Nash Leader, second son Q
MT. Henry Leader, of Clonmoyle, in th
County of Cork, and nephew of Mr.. Nicho
las PhilpOtt Leader, of Dromagh, ex-M. T
. for the county. Mr.. Leader served wit
distinction on the staff of Gen. Cambrielf
{ He particularly distinguished himself b
his gallantry at Orleans, when Ave hundre
: Zouaves being surrounded by the Germani
~ and their commanders being shot down, th