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paper report of the interview and, amongst
other things, mentions that Rochefort denies
that the hooting and kissing in Cork and
Queenstown were anything like what they
are represented in the papers. Some persons
have been blaming tho Southern people for
their treatment Of him; but they had heard
that Rochefort approved publicly Of the exc
cution Of the hostages under the short-lived
reign of the Commune and they had known
that he was himself Communist, and, Of
course under these circumstances such pa
triotio aud religious people could not be ex-
pected to act otherwise. On the whole, I don't
visit Ireland again.
The writ for Galway 10 signed at last. On
Fridsy night last the junior member for the
city of Limerick, Mr.. O'shaugnessy, as the
Home Rule "wbip" in the House of Commons,
moved, without comment, that the writ should
be issued and the molten WAS agreed to with
out division. 1t was not, however, agreed
without debate. Mr.. Connolly, one of the
Tory members for Donegal moved an amend
ment providing for the Acknowledgement of the
borough. He launched out into diatribe against
the priests of the town, and so on but so weak
was his case that the Tory Attorney General
for Ireland actually opposed the amendment,
which was opposed also by Mr. George Morris,
the existing member for Galway. Mr. NORRIS
speech was not bad but It might have been
better. It created much laughter, but 1t is to
be feared some if not much Of the laughter
was at the speaker. The only person who
boldly met and refuted, out of the official re-
port of the evidence given before Judge Law
son, the charge of intimidation made by that
partizan Judge against the priests and people
of Galway and their rightful representative
Mr.. oDonnell, was Mr.. Mccarthy; though, no
doubt, others, like Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, were
ready to take up the same ground should the
necessity arise. or course, this necessity could
not arise once the Government had declared
its opposition to the amendment; for all the
Tory members, from Great Britain as we'll as
ireland, were in their places to give the Gov
eminent help. 4 fresh contest is, therefore,
now going on in the old " cite of the Tribes"
The candidates are DR.. Ward, Home Ruler, and
the friend of the unseated member, Mr.. F. II.
o'Donuell; and Mr.. Monahan, place-hunting
Wing barrister and son of the Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas, who himself defeated in
the same town of Galway Thomas Francis
Meagher by maj ority of one, in the famous
year of 4S. DR.. Ward will, of course, be
elected as he is Enthusiastically the popular as
we'll as the clerical candidate. He is quite a
| young man, practicing at his profession in
| Dublin and holding the chair of demonstration
of anatomy in the Catholic Univerity school
| of medicine
| The tempera nee reform movement will not
| find n friend in the present Government or in
! the present House of Commons. The Per-
missiye Bill has been thrown out again this
wear. the Home Secretary speaking against it.
Amongst those who spoke powerfully in it's
favor ia this wears debate was Mfr. A. N. Sui
livan. Amongst those who spoke against it
was, 1 greet to say, DR.. O'Leary, the Home Rule
NJ. P. for Droeheda. who delivered rather
ridiculous and pedsntic little maiden speech
| on the question. Then, as I mentioned in a
previous letter, the Sunday closing bill was
remorselessly rejected by the iuaGenee Of the
Government. And finally the Government have
introduced an Irish licensing bill Of their own
| which gives solne small concessions to the
| Publicsus.
| Tuesday, the Goth, is now definitely fixed by
Mr.. Disraeli himself for the great discussion or
| Home Rule in the House OF Commons. The
terms of the motion which Mr.. Butt is then Il
| move has also been fixed as follows:
That this House resolve itself into q com
mittee of the whole House to consider thu
present parliamentary relations between drea
Britain and Ireland:
And in committee of the whole House -
That it is expedient and just to restore to tn
Irish nation the. right aud power Of mansGinI
all exclusively Irish affairs in an Irish PaEiia
4 ment. That prey1Sion shOula be made 1t th
same time for maintainiRg the integrity of tn
empire ana the oOnnsosion hbtwesn the. cOur
, tries - preserving to the Imperial PGrltaneu
: S1il and exclusive control over all Imports
!. IaGsifs. -