The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-02
FFrom Our Own Correspondent
DUB IRISH LETTER.
DUBLIN, July 14th, 1877

DUBLIN, July 14th, 1874.
think told you in my last letter that a
meeting would be held on Saturday in the Ro-
tnndo here, under the auspices of the Home
Rule League. The meeting in question was
duly held, and was q magnificent success.
Every part of the great room was crowded to
suffocation, though a charge was made for ad-
mission. Amongst those on the platform were
Messrs. Butt, M. P, Sullivan, NJ p, Meldon,
NJ. p, Fay, NJ. p, and O'Leary, NJ. P, and
some Irish Americans at present on visit to
the old land. The chair was occnpied by Mr..
Charles Stewart Parnell I. p, High Sheriff of
the county Wicklow, the spirited young fellow
who contested county Dublin at the last cleo
ton in the Home Rule interest against. Col.
Taylor. Mr.. Parnell and the other most prom
inent men received great ovation on making
their appearauce-Messrs Butt aud Sullivan
being the great favorites. All the gentlemen
have named, spoke, but the speeches of Mr..
Butt and Mr.. Sullivan were the chief ones OF
the night. All took favorable view of the
result of the recent debate in the House OF
Commons, and declared that the struggle for
Home Rule would be kept up at any hazard in
and out of the House of Commops-a declara-
ton that was enthusiastically cheered 1t was
emphatically pointed out both by Mr.. Butt
and Mr.. Sullivan that the Irish vote at any
rate was decisively in favor of Home Rule,
and that this fact demonstrates to the world
that it is by force alone that Ireland is kept
subjected to England. Amongst the new
members admitted to the League on Saturday
night find twenty or thirty are from
Montreal, Canada. 1 also find the honored
name of DR.. Casey, Professor of Mathematics
in the Catholic University. On the whole, the
result OF the meeting is greatly to inspirit the
country.
The chief Orange anniversary" the 18th OF
July "-was celebrated yesterday by demon
strations in the usual strongholds of the Or
ange party in Ulster. There is scarcely any
thing to he said about those demonstra-
tions. There was the usual drumming and
fling, and hanging out of Orange flags, and
wearing of Orange sashes aud rosettes, and
marching N procession, and clarifying of Will
liam Ill, and denouncing of Popery," Ultra
montanism, Home Rule, and Mr.. Gladstone.
Nay, Mr.. Disraeli came in, at several meetings,
for u sound lecture for his and his government
abandoning of Father O'Keeffe and the bgot
Newdegate (the convent burglary. The Tory
government was threatened with withdrawal
of Orange support unless it adopted what was
called " a manly Protestant policy" that is, a
Bismarckian policy. The Orangemen, in fact,
feel they have been sold by the said gov
eminent. They thought when they had Dis
raeli at the helm that they would have every
thing as they liked, and they find they have
nothing of tho kind and that Disraeli is after
all pretty much the same as Gladstone. In the
Rotundo here the usual indoor demonstration
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speeches Imaginable were delivered. They
were conceived in spirit of terrible earnest
ness, yet they were irresistibly funny. Thus
the Rev. DR.. Duncan Craig declared that st.
Patrick was not only good Protestant but an
Orangeman The only disturbances of the
day took place in Lurgan and Armagh. In the
former town-which is one of che worst nests
of Orangeism in all Olster-tnere was serious
rioting-by which party provoked it rs not yet
quite clear. In Armagh the sexton of the Ca
tholIc Cathedral was shot--but not fatally; at
least he has not Yet died. 1t is stated by some
that for this outrage there was not given the
sli ghtest provOcstioD, that the wounded man
was quietly watching Gin company of priest)
the Orange procession when he received the
ball from the Orange ranks, and that it was
the priest who was really aimed at. Others
state that some stones were thrown a. the
orangemen. Judging from the past, myself
feel inclined to give credencS to the former
version of the story. do believe the Orange
men of Armagh are capable of any strocity
whatever.
The great strike of mill workers in Belfast,
which began on yesterday week, still continues.
Forty thousand bands are idle. Some hun
dreds of these have crossed over to England to
End employment Tho cause of the strike is
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