The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-07
MIscRLLANROUs IRISH NEWS.
Dublin Nation Oct. 10. I,

battle. It is now likely that the memora-
BILE demonstration at the bsse of Vinegar
Hill will be a few days hence equalled, if
not surpassed, in Importance by demons
trations at Tuam, Maryborough, and Dun
cannon. In each of those places, the
summons to action issued by the Home
Rule League has been promptly and, in
deed, enthusiastically obeyed. Priests and
people are working together az of old and
the result, accordingly, is that a splendid
success is in prospect.
The League itself ia not idle. The Sec
ond of series of meetings which the coun-
Gil has resolved to hold in Dublin, came
off In the Rotundo on Tuesday, and was q
gratifying one from many points of view.
1t was we'll attended; there was display
of great earnestnees and enthusiasm and
the speeches were of more than usual inn
portance. Mr.. Butts address, for instance,
on the question of the parliamentary fran
chise in Great Britain and Ireland, is nut
which ministers and their satellites will
find it impossible to crack. Never has the
gross injustice that is done to Ireland in
this business been 80 clearly and SO con-
Irish people will welcome the intimatiou
which Mr.. Butt gave, that next session he
will afford the government an amply
opportunity to defend, if they can, that
injustice.
But Mr.. Meldon's speech is the one
which will probably attract just DOW the
most attention. The member for Kildare
has been down in the West on business
connected with the Forthcoming demons
trations in that quarter, and from his visit
he was able to say there the people and
the priests are heartily united 10 support
of the national movement. He then turned
his attention to MIR. Peter Paul M'Swiney,
and to that gentlemen's attack, on the
Home Rule party aud the policy they have
been elected to put forward and defend.
1t lie little to say that he utterly demo.
lished Mr.. M'Swiney's position. He un-
earthed declaration of "the member whom
Meath would not have" to the effect that
though Repeater he" would not refuse
the largest instalment which could be
wrung from an alien government by the
united efforts of the Home Rule party.
with whom he would Loyalty CO operate !"
The effect of this palpable hit" on the
meeting was rather sensational, and we
imagine that the country at large will not
fail to draw from it both amusement and
instruction.
The echoes that arose from Vinegar Hill
last week, had scarcely died away when
the cry was taken up by the men of Meath.
On Wednesday week, Mr.. Parnell, M. p.
addressed his constituents in Navan, and
and was enthusiastically received by a
large and thoroughly representative au-
dience. Amongst others who attended to
ment were some thirteen of the true
hearted clergy of the royal county. Mr..
Parnell's address (Which will be found
reported at considerable length in another
column) dealt with all the chief topics of
the day in a thoroughly patriotic spirit !;
and it was preceded and followed by equally
patriotic addresses from the Very Rev.
Father Lynch. the Rev. Father Behan,
aud the Rev. Father Torney. Here again
were the Mansion House Plot and the Red
Herring Circular denounced in the strong
est terms. Each of the three respected
clergymen whom we have named, spoke of
both in teEms which will probably not be
soon forgotten by Mr.. M'Swiney, aud which
certainly amount to the severest possible
condemnation of that geutleman's conduct.
Ga the whole the meeting in 1NAvan,
though not of the dimension of that of En-
niscortby, was more than usually impor-
tant DIT demonstration.
Father OKce6e.-Father O'Keeffe has
come to the front once more. On Monday
| his Dublin organs-the anti papal Express
and NdiL-published two letters of his-
Cullen, the other to Mr.. Disraeli. The
| burden of both ia that Father o.
keetfe's resources are now exhausted, that
he is ready to accept from his ecclesiastical
superiors any terms with which he can
conscientiously comply, but that he will
| bCNSA SulhN OI
crime of which he is innocent. He asks
Cardinal Cullen to spare his life, and he
warns the Prime Minister that the British
people will hold him responsible for his
" murdor"!
The very day of the publication of these
extraordinary documents, curiously
enough, the people of Calan, who, it used
to be pretended, were on the eide of Father
OKeeffe in his struggle with his superiors,
appear to have shown a very decided ten
dency the other way. "Last night" says
a telegram dated Tuesday from Kilkenny
in the Daily Express, d" a mob OF people
attacked the residence of Father O'Keeffe,
and completely wrecked it, tearing down
the elates from off the house and throwing
the furniture out of the dwelling house on
to the street." Whether all this is true we
cannot say; but, if it be, it is plain that
Father O'Keeffe's "party is at last where
many suspected it always to have been-in
nubibuS
DEATH OF MOTHER ST. JoHN.-Died on
the 18th inst., Feast of St. Teresa, at Jo-
| seph's Convent. Chestnut Hill Mother ST