The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-20
IRISH MAIL NEWS.
dublin Nation. July 10 J


Protestant asceudency is evidently no
dead in the Queens County, whatever MAJ
be the case with regard to it elsewhere. W.
learn from the Kilkenny Journal that al
though that part of Ireland is Zone of tue
most Catholic in plumbers, wealth, educa
ton, and intelligence" yet the grand jury
list at this present assiZes contains not the
name of q solitary Catholic and that, too
although the High Sheriff-the Hon. b
Fitzpatrick--is the con of Lord Castletown
Lord Lieutenant of the count, who, as Mr
| John Wilson Fitzpatrick, was elected to
| Parliament again and again by the Catho-
| lie voters, clerical and lay. The AHksnny
| Journal adds hat at the Spring asslzes the
Qaeen's County grand jury refused to pay
the usual allowance for three local destl-
| tute children regularly committed TO a
Catholic Industrial School, while on the
Same occasion it certified for one Protestant
child committed to O Protestant institution
and, finally, that at this present assizes
"those Interested for those three destitute
orphans could not find q solitary Catholic
even to make the application, although Ger
tain of it's rejection beforehand" We GER
tainly think this is matter that ought to
DO ventilated in Parliament.
Again the constituents of he OCOnor
Don and the Hon. Charles French have
been uttering note of complaint. 1t will
be remembered that both of those gen tie,
men voted against Mr.. Butts Land Bill,
and that one of them (Ths O'Couor Dong
thought it right, in addition, to step into
the front rank of the speakers against it in
the recent debate in the House of Commons,
denouncing it in the clap trap style usual
with the worst type of landlord represent
atives. Well, on Sunday last, at a meeting
in the barony of Moycarn, this conduct was
in it's turn denounced in unspariDg terms,
and we observed that amongst those who
concurred in the censure passed upon the
members for Roscommon was local parish
priest, the Rev. Father Walsh. The move
ment thus set on foot will probably spread,
and if it should there will certainly be
nothing surprising in the fact for it is quite
certain that the Roscommon tenant farmers
never dreamed at the last election that they
were sending into Parliament opponents of
tenant-right bill.
The nation has now ct last some cause to
mourn. The Elcho Challenge Shield, which
" Ireland " won last year at Wimbledon,
has now been won back by England. At
the annual International Rifle Match, on
Thursday week, the English team scored
,463 points the Scotch, 1,455; and the
Irish only 1889. This melancholy result
ia at last ascribed, even by some of the
most thoroughgoing admirers of these Sin
ternational " contests, to the cause which
most lockers on long since fixed on as the
only reasonable and adequate one-the pro-
hibition of the use of any firearms what
ever by The mass of the Irish people. But
seriously speaking, the worst of it is that
this " Irish team, or some other one just
as little representative of the Irish nation,
will now SO over to New York to get beaten
there also, as is only too probable, in the
name Of" Ireland "
A daring instance of proeelytising fana
ticism is reported from Ballina. A person
named Darlington of the manager of the
local branch of the National Bank-had the
temerity ae we'll as the bad taste to stand
at the cathedral gate one day last week, as
the people came out from the closing
ceremonies of mission, aud to pro-
coed to distribute amongst them come
Protestant tracts he had brought with
him from Dublin. Those who know
the intensely Catholic spirit that prevades
every part of the West, and recollect
the sufferirgs the people there have en-
dured from the operations of Protestant
proseiy tism, will not be surprised to learn
that the outrage wac promptly and sternly
resented. But for the police, aided by the
Bishop of Killala and his clergy, Darling
would probably have been seriously in
jured. As it is, his overabundant zeal has
received q check which will keep him quiet
for some time at all events.