The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-09-10
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING. s
ING. SEPTEMBER 10, 1871.
n1scE1LAHEous IRISH NEWS.

HlscEILAHEoUs IRISH NEWS.
THE PHGNIx PARK OUTRAGE.
Sir John Gray, member for Kilkenp,
City, In An able and courageous speech
brought this matter under the notice of til,
house or Commons. He showed by ex.
tracts from the opinions Of the highest
legal authorities in England that the Gov.
eminent possessed no power to disperse
the meeting. He concluded by. moving
that An inquiry be made into the circum.
the Irish Executive with the right of pub
lie meeting.n The motion was seconded
by Mr. Mccarthy Downing, who expressed
pas Deiief that no greater outrage had ever
Deen perpetrated upon the liberties of the
people, aud who showed that the authori.
ties in England had never dared to do in
that country, in regard to public meetings,
what the Irish Executive had done in "a.
| gard to this. The Marquis of Harrington,
who will probably turn out to be the prime
promoter and original cause of the outrage,
replied on behalf of the Government TO
the argument that the law in reference to
public meetings had been differently ap-
Piled In England and Ireland, lie feebly
ana lnconsequently replied that, although
the Government had allowed meetings In
hyde Park, they had never relinquished
their right to prohibit those meetings. He
professed himself unable to admit that a
proclamation by the Government prohibit
ing oil pofitical meetings, in the Phoenix
Fark would be any slur on the inliabit-
ante of Dublin or any indignity ON the
irlsh people," He Acknowledged that
there was not necessarily anything
wrong" about Il monster meeting,~ hut
sald that the meeting in question "was not
one which the Government would encour-
age" After some further discussion, Mr..
Gladstone agreeing to give a day during
the following week for further argument,
the subject was dropped.
AT the meeting Of the Dublin CORPORA.
ton, a resolution was unanimously adopted
calling on the Government for a full, |
searching and impartial inquiry. In the |
speeches made in support OF the motion,
the conduct of the Government was stig-
matized as cowardly and unconstitutional. !
Plain and honest speaking on this subject
has not been wanting in England itself. On |
Sunday, the 18th, q meeting to protest
against the course of Government was held
in Hyde Park. Several thousand people
attended. speeches which were anything
but mild were delivered, and the bands
played revolutionary airs. On the follow
ing day the workingnien of Birmingham,
headed by several of the most respectable
Inhabitants of the city, followed in example
Of the London Democrats. Neither at the
Hyde Park meeting nor at the Birmingham
one was single policeman any where
within view during the whole proceedings;
while ON Sunday last three hundred police
men were posted in the Phoenix Park with
orders to suppress agGin-with, we suppose,
the same brutal and unnecessary violence
as they displayed on the previous Sunday
"a public meeting of the citizens, should J
such be attempted to be held there W
ton, Auy 10.
GREAT MEETING IN DUNDALK.
A large and influential meeting to advo-
cate the cause of Home Rule for Ireland,
was held in -Dundalk on Tuesday From
early morning till about the hour fixed for
tho commensurate of the proceedings, peo-
pie continued to pour into the town, until
there were at least about twenty thousand
persons present, all of whom testified in
marked manner their earnest sympathy
with the Home Rule Movement, On the
platform were Catholic priests and Protest.
ant clergymep, landlords and tenants,
Liberals and Conservatives, all heartily
united on the one great question Of Home
Rule. Mt. Philip CalIan, MP, worthiIy
filled the chair, and amongst the speakers
were several of the leading men Of Dun
dalk and LOuth, Mr. John Martin, MP,
Rev. Mr.. Galbraith, Rev. Mr.. Campbell,
PIP, Carlingford; Rev. w. G. Carroll, of
st. Brides, Dublin Captain King Hartman,
MIR. A. M. Sullivan, and others. We need
hardly say that the speeches and resolu-
tione went straight to the point. 1t was
proclaimed, amidst enthusiasm rarely par
alleled, that it is the inalienable right of
every people to have the power of enact
ing its own laws and governing its own
people; that, while ireland had her own
parliament, she was prosperous and con-
tented, and that while she has been gov
erned by England, she has been neither |
prosperous nor contented; that the Gov
eminent of England should therefore be |
called on to restore Home Rule to Ireland /; |
and that 1T wac the duty Of all patriotic |
4rishmen at the present day to forget the |
contentious Of the past, and to foster that
cordial union which 10 now being effected !