Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-03

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universal. Eighteen thousand operatives
are idle. The feeling against employers is
very bitter.
The O'COnneII Centennial Assuming a
Political Significance.
Herald Gable Special.
LONDON, Aug. 1.-The O'Connell Cen
tennary demonstration is assuming an uu-
expected political and diplomatic signif-
icance, embarrassing to Liberals, Home
Rulers, and the government.
The Lord Mayor Of Dublin, supposed to
be at the instigatiOn Of the willy Cardinal
Cullen, a pure churcbman, caring nothing
for the memory of OCOnnell, has given
the affair an UltramOntane character, Of
fensive alike 10 Irish and English liberals,
the Protestant noblemen, Home Rulers,
and Fenians. The invitations were maiRly
extended 10 Catholic laymen, and Bishops
of England, France, and Germany, which
has drawn an indignant protest from an
Irish peer, who claims that the Lord Mayor
is unauthorized to use his Office for a
purely Catholic purpose. Cardinal Gull
len is known to be an enemy Of
home rule, and he hopes thus to divide and
destroy that party. The Home Rulers and
Fenians will probably have independent
celebrations in honor Of the Liberation.
They cannot cooperate in an UltramOn-
tame movement without endangering the
Liberals alliance and alternating the Pro
testants, who sympathiZe with home rule
principles. Men like Butt, Sullivan, and
Mccarthy, and Downing, deplore the char
acter given to the affair, and fear they viii, in
consequence, lose the support Of English
Liberals and Irish Protestants in Dublin.
The Lord Mayor is considered impOlitic in
resolving to propose the POpe's health be-
fore that of the Queen. Englishmen gen
orally would cooperate in a proper demon
stratiOn in honor of the liberatOr, whom
they admire as a friend 81 civil and re-
ligiOUs liberty and parliamentary reform,
but they will not stand UltramOntaneism
or an insult to the Queen.
Sir Henry James, Sir William HarcOurt,
and other advanced Liberals, sOTOEfully
oppose the demonstration, as admirers OF
OCOnnell's ca eer. They do not want an
Identification with an anti-Bsm4rk dem
onstration.
Disraeli and Gladstone are rather retl-
cent. It is believed Dlsraeli would cheer
fully Join in a proper tribute 70 the liber-
ator, and Gladstone would accept an in
vitatiOn aud deliver a eulOgy, but ne,
having sided with DOllinger, must con-
sistently condemn the UltramOntane col
Oring given the approaching demonstration.
Besides, he believes Cardinals Cullen and
Manning, and other astute Catholics,
have cOntrived this demonstration pur-
posely to make trouble with Germany,
while consolidating Catholic feeling.
Lord Derby believes the feeling on the
Continent favors holding the governments
responsible for all occurring under their
jurisdiction. If the German Bishops in
troiuced their internal politics in their
Irish speeches, it would cause bad feeling
between the German and English papers
and possibly result in difficulty with Bis
maTck.
The Marquis Of Harrington takes an Or
thOdOx liberal position, and believes that
not in Ireland herself is the liberatOy's
memory more respected than among the
old English Wing families, because he was
the friend of civil and religious liberty
everywhere. The cry Of the Wings and
Liberals has always been that the LiberatOr
assisted the English Liberals.
Earl Russell says he has great respect for
the memory of O'COnnell, but he cannot
sanction ultramOntanism.
The mass Of the Irish applaud the Lord
Mayors action, and the English press almost
unanimously deplOre the Dublin Lord
Mayor making a religious instead of IA.
tiOnal affair of the celebration.
The Examiner says whoever is the friend
of the Pope and the enemy Of Germany is
welcomed by the Lord Mayor. The oEigi
nal legitimate purpose of the Centennial
has been lost. 1t believes the nearly &c
complished alliance Of the Irish Catholics
and English PrOtestants is now impossible
The Telegraph says no loyal Irish CalhO-
lie can take part where the sovereign i:
/ denied the first place.
The Big Banquet.
It is a significant fact that no German
Burgomaster answered the London Lori
MAYORS invitations to the municipal ban
/ QUIET. This it is believed was by order o.
| Bismarck. The invitation was accepted
by other contingent Mayors. The creates
attention was paid the Prefect Ofthe Seine
who now holds a reception in London liko
the Lord Mayor himself, the band of TIT
! Gard Republicaine playing French natiOna
airs in Alexandra palace, and bein!
cheered enthusiastically by the Euglisl
people.
Meeting In Favor Of Amnesty for
Fenian COnVicts.
LONDON, Aug. IAN immense meetinl
in favor Of amnesty for Fenian COnyicts wa
held in Hyde Park to-day. It was esti
mated that 10000 persons gathered arOun,
the various speakers stands, John O'COn
nor Power, member of Parliament, pre-
sided, and in his speech declared that tn
Fenian prisoners were entitled 10 approba
ton rather than censure. Mr.. Bigger
member for COvan county, and Messrs
Parnell and Mellon were also present
Resolutions of the usual character wer
carried by reclamation.