The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-14
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QUE IRIaK LETTER.
DunLIN. Oct. 26tb, 1875.

DUsLIx, Oct. 96tb, 1875.
The Home RuIs campaign has been carried
on very actively here for three four weeks
past. Since last wrote on this subject, Home
RuIe demonstrate have been held in Meath,
Wexford. DundaIk, Team, (where the Arch
bishop himself presided and blesssd the Home
Rule bADnsr), Galway, Nsryboro, aud Water
ford; at all Of which the attendance vas large
and influential, the speaking generally, very
good from every point of view, and the resolu-
tions Of the right stamp. At all the places
have named the demand made was the same
. demand, namely. for Home Rule. DeDomina-
tioral Education, Amnesty for the FeDiAn
Prisoners, Fixity Of Teuure for the Irish oeeu-
pier of land, and Union amongst Irishmen |;
and At all the policy of Lord Mayor Macs winey
was denounced equally with Mr.. P. J. Smyth's
traitorons movement for Repeal OF all the
speeches, the most important are those of tie
Archbishop of Tuam, ut the meeting in that
town, and of Mr.. A. II. Sullivan, II. p, to his
constituents in Dundalk. DR.. MacHale con-
6rmed Mr.. Butt in his position ne leader of the
National movement by saying that the mantle
of oConnell has long since fallen upon that
gentleman. 1t will. be hard after this for any
one to question the leadership Of Mr.. Butt AS
for Mr.. sullivan-wbo, by the way, il generally
in Ireland called Mr.. Batt's lieu tenaut-general
and in England the real leader of the Home
Rule movenent-he has been paid the com
Plimeut of having his speech discussed at
length in the leading columns of the Times
and all the other daily papers of London ard
the provinces of Eogland and to-day fipd
that the London comic paper. Judy, has this
week made sentence OF bis speech the sub
ject OF its principal cartoon. No other Irish
member during the recess has received such
attention in the English press. Aed to this,
that the Home Role League has every week
for the last month bed q meeting in the Ro-
tundo here, and il will be seen that, as have
said at the beginning, the N atiopsl movement
is being worked with unusual activity. All
the work, of course, is gone through with the
view of strengthening the hands of those who
will bring the subject of Home Rule before the
House of Commons next session, when the
subject is certain 10 arouse a more or less fierce
conflict.
The annual volume of the Criminal and
Judicial Statistics of Ireland, prepared by order
of the Government, has just been issued. The
tables show, Notwithstanding the assertions of
English ministers TO the contrary, that there
hde utcD over tH6 WDCIc OeS3OG, JIOLO lsSA 10
1874, remarks able dimiD 1tion in crimes OF the
more serious class. On the other hand, a coz
siderable increase is manifest in the minor
class Of offences such as drunkenness.
APropos of temperance, remarkable letter
has been addressed TO the Chief Secretary for
Ireland in support of the bill for closing pa bic
houses Sunday. The writer 10 Mr.. John 6.
Richardson, q linen manufacturer in the North
of Ireland, who has built little town of his
own call Bessbrook, on q model, IS imagine
of VinelaDd in New jersey, and who states row
that in that village there are no pawn brokers',
there is no necessity to pledge the effects Of
the sober and the industrious; no police for
there no disorders to e1bdue; no crime, for
there 10 no whisky TO blind the inhabitants to
the dictates of virtue! 1 may jest mention
here that Nr Fox the en- Prime Minister of
New Zealand, is At present in this country,
lecturing every where he can get hearing on
the temperance question.
How we'll deserving of its name is our
National" Board of Education. The other
day the Irish Archaeological Society applied to
the Board to have the Irish language taught
in the National schools. and the answer was q
peremptory refusal. Under Home Rule that
Board, at any rate, would not long hold eff CO.
Tho illustrated Monitor, little periodical
conducted in this city by Father Robert Kelly,
S. j., gives some very interesting statistics
concerning that great Iay-rel gious organiz1-
ton, the Redemptorist Confraternity of the
! Holy Family. 1t appears that there are alto.
gether in Ireland thirty six Confraternities OF
men, numbering 81, l60 members and twelve
| Copfraternities of women, numbering II zoo
members. The largest number of mem bers il
! to be found in Cork. j. c.
Letter from Bishop pell;csr.