The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-02-07
From Our Own Correspondent
OUR IRISH LETTER
DUBLIN, Jan 18th. 1875.

DUBLIN, Jan 12th, 1875,
The fright Hon." John T. Ball. Lord Chan
cellor of Ireland, took his seat in tb. Cont =
0'Ancery mere Tor the first time on Monday
there was the usual throng of barristers an,
'"eir laoy friends to witness the spectacle, an,
'nefe was the usual burst of applause for tn
| ne" othcial' who was clad in splendid robe O
D.AoA ana gold, and was accompanied BY tn,
vice-Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls
Mr. Ball, as think have recently pointed
out' was once Liberal. When he found tha
promotion to the Bench was easier by being s
Iory' ne according tarned round and became &
Aory. After wait of four or five years he has
received his reward-ss,0OO a year and mex,
10 nothing to do; and when his party goes out
OF Office and he must go out too, he will have
an annual pension of $4,000!
Ihls brings me to notice the only politica,
event of the week. The vacancy in the renre.
sentation of the University of Dublin. caused
by his promotion, will be filed M in the
course OF the next week. The nomination of
candidates will probably take place on Satur-
day. The candidates are three in numbsr
1t is hard to say which is the more objection.
able from Catholic and an Irish point of
view. All are bitterly anti Catholic and anti
irish. Yet they are fighting amongst them
selves as bitterly as if they belonged to diff
1erent political camps, and accusing one an
other OF the most discreditable tricks. All are
freshmen, bat one of them has spent most of
his life in England at the English Bar He
comes over here with the recommendation of
the Tory Cabinet, aud majority of the
electors, it is generally believed, will be found
mean enough to act auch n 4
ihey probably expect he will have PATRONAGE
10 dispense in England and, as many of them
IRE Protestant clergymen who have sucked the
Protestant church in Ireland dry, he will no
ionbt be able and willing to give them Some
living in England. Of this, however. more at
mother time.
Preparations are now being made tbronob
ut the country to hold National Land Con.
9rence in the Rotundo on the Goth inst
apricious evictions in various parts of the
ountry and other causes have determined the
'Fhiefs AND their friends to meet together for
10 purpose OF agreeing upon the heads of a
III for amending the Land Act of 1870, which
as proved to be utterly inefficient to secure
10 farmer in his holding. The landlords who |
lsh 10 eVlct do not seem in the least deferred
: the Act They sometimes demand such an .
crease OF rent that the tenant has no alterpa (
We but to quit Sometimes they proceed a
thout any such preliminary to evict their = :
nants off their lands In either case all thew q
We to suffer in return is the payment of a p
'all hne The farmers require to be pro- -
'ted from such tyranny as that of Lord w
rtrey in county Louth, who few months a
&c demanded a ruinous increase of rent az
m all his tenants-some twenty or thirty in b,
mber and when they refused TO nav II nj
we'd them with processes of eiectment. a Sc
re of which have already come under the 60
,nizance of the proper tribunal with results NJ
verse to the tenants. The local Farmers De De
I'D has done its best to help these unfortu- a
10 men by feeling counsel for them and ex- fe
ing public opinion in their favor, but so far oe
thout the slightest success And the same rir
ng is going on in other counties-the farmers Ca
Ireland are still icing steadily weeded ont an
The country as if they ERE 60 many noxious an,
nts. aB tn
It meeting of the Dublin CoSsoration yes- OF
day, letter was read from the SublIn Port W.
Docks Board, enclosing memorI:t against pa
christening of Grattan Bridge! I6s Port oy'
Docks Board is composed, I belisTs, of va va
sons nominated by the Lord Liehshant bid
of other persons nominated bv tn. Garner the
~ TIT - = A.. ~ pull
no A"hneh arc Ihe maJorlV ana, OF Mo-
rse, they are an un-Irish lot sfellows, que
, being 50, they have looked witfao favor pro
, eye upon the change of name hscm Essex t ttn
lge to Grattan Bridge. The 5selish and cue
tch colony here, bounded on bStAair news old
ers, have also, as told you id ny last let Of CT
objected to the change. They R0f up the Lam
norial and got several large ait doing IRIS tEis
mess in the neighborhood of IS 5ge to the
! it. Il is q disgraceful fact, true,