The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-21
IRISH MAIL NRWs,
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dates to April SCI
PROGRESS OF THE HOME RULE MOVEMENT
The week began in Ireland with q splen
old demonstration in Ulster, in support @
lowed the example of Limerick. As in tn,
Southern city on Monday week, 80 In tn
Northern town on Monday last, the peopl,
attended in their thousands, the clerg,
were numerously represented, the two par
lismentary representatives received, al
they deserved, q warm greeting, and ever
some members of the upper classes tool
part in the proceedings. Unlike the Lime
rick demonstration, this at Cavan passed
on without Q angle incident to mar it,
harmony or detract from it's Importance.
The resolutions adopted by the men Of
CaVan declare the popular resolve on the
| questions of Home Rule, Education, Land
Law Reform, and Amnesty; and the
speeches in which those resolutions were
proposed deal with the same topics in terms
and In q spirit that leave nothing to
be desired. The speeches of Mr.. Fay and
Mr.. Biggar, and of Fathers O'Reilly and
Boylan, reveal true appreciation of the
duty before the people, and an unf1inchipg
determination to discharge it. In short,
ln Cavan, at all events, perseverance, In
the national struggle is the order of the
day.
A meeting of the Home Rule League was
held in the Rotundo on Saturday, of which
the chief incident was the delivery of
heightened speech by Mr.. Butt. The Home
Rule leaders, statement was of more than
ordinary Importance, and, assuredly, was
marked to a more than ordinary degree by
two of the most characteristic qualities of
Mr.. Butts oratOry-lucidity and force.
In the first place Mr.. Butt placed the
Limerick affair in it's true light before the
public, pointing out the grandeur of the
demonstration and the utter insignificance
of the disturbance at the monument of
commented on curious speech by Mr.
Lowe, he gave some most encouraging
proofs of the progress of the Homo Rule
movement in England and Scotland.
THE RIOT IN LIMERICK.
The Limerick disturbance came form
ally under the cognizance of tue local mag
istrates on Friday week, when five or six
of the persons who have been in custody as
were charged by the police
with riot and assault. The other prisoners
were unable to be present owing to the in
juries they received, and the life of one of
them 10 said to be even still in danger. In
consequence of these facts the result of
this preliminary investigation was q re-
mand, bail to be accepted for the appear
ance of the accused in n certain contin-
gency. Before the prisoners were remand |
ed, however, evidence was given on behalf
Of the police directly duplicating all those
parties in the disturbance and tending to |
show-what almost all the newspapers as
serted last week-that it was the Dalyites, |
ss they were called, who began the atfray |
Mr.. John DAILY asserting on the other hand |
hat his friends, 80 far from being assRil-
ante, had been wantonly attacked. On |
his point, it is almost needless to observe,
hinges the whole case.
THE CLERGY IN CARLOW.
At last some practical steps have been |
aiken to relieve the County Carlow from
the dreadful incubus of Tory ascendancy |
We quote in our pews columns from the |
Carlog Post an account of q meeting of
Catholic ciergymen at Boris last week, the |
at which, We hope and believe, |
the words of our excellent contemporary, |
initiated q movement which will form an |
historical turning point in the history of
representation OF the con-
In plain words, the clergymen |
n question have formed themselves into !
committee for the purpose Of thoroughly |
'evlsiDg the registry, and they have set |
about the work in such spirit that they |
must necessarily receive the hearty CO op-
grafton of every friend of the popular cause |
n the county.
THE LATE SIR WILLIAM WILDE.
The funeral of Sir William Wilde took
place on Saturday, and proved @ notable
ribute to the memory Of that eminent
From the list of those in at
md respect in which he was held were uni
'ersal amongst his fellow citizens. Not
My was the funeral one of the largest seen
n Dublin for years, but there were present
t it most of the most prominent men in
he city of all political and religious creeds.
Ind here we may note that the Royal
IRISH Academy, of which Sir William had
een for go many years one of the bright
ct ornaments, has discharged ats duty to-
Yards the eminent deceased by formally
acknowledging the value of his services
n the promotion of Irish antiquarian re-
earch.
FATHER o'KEEFFE.
The Dublin Mail, of Tuesday, publishes
correspondence between the unfortunate
'ather O'Keeffe and the Right Rev. DR..
lynch of Kildare. Father O'Keeffe COM
1enced it by imploring the Bishop in
he most earnest terms to get his Eminence {
cardinal Cullen to "epsre his life" The
bishop replied that Father O'Keeffs's {
ret step should be to do penance for his
ecent murderous threats anent his Emin-
nee. To tbia Fatbar | I