The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-23
From Our Own Correspondent
DUB IRISH LETTER.

DUBLIN, Dec. %, 1875.
a Christmas Day there were two High
Sses in the pro. Cathedral-one at A. M the
ser at 70 NJ; HIS Eminence, Cardinal Cullen,
ssding ut the latter and an immense congre-
! lon being present. The Lord Mayor, being
Rome, could not attend, but his place was
ZEN by his locun, tenens, Sir James w. Mackey,
20 went to the Cathedral clad in his official
s;bes and accom- panied by nearly all the Cath
Is members of the corporation. At the con. |
4sion of the Mass, the Cardinal impaired the |
.nediction. The services at the other churches
ere carried out with similar splendor.
THE poor are generously cared for in Dublin
+ Christmas. In the two poorhouses Of the
" the inmates got a good meat dinner, and
Is children besides, as in Cork, Killarney, and
ser places, were presented with toys. At the
pndicity Institution six hundred poor people
ere supplied with plentiful dinner of roast
sbef, bread and vegetables; amongst chose
Mo enabled the committee to distribute
rarity on so large q scale being the Duke OF
tAercorn (the Lord Lieutenapt), who sent'
'hem o fine OK and two hundred losves OF
read. The Sick and INDECENT Room-keepers
.Nciety relieved no less than 47O2 PERSONS
sthout regard to religious distin ctiops; and,
q course, the various Catholic charitable
societies did their part equally we'll on this
occasion. Conspicuous amongst these latter
was the Society of st. Vincent de Paul.
As to Christmas amusements in this city
here is not much to be said. The theatres
lone excepted, there are no places whittier
ne public may resort, as in many continental
lilies, to refresh themselves with pleasant
ghts and sounds and the theatres are not
nspicuously good establishments of their
nd. We have three here of some preten-
Alans--the Royal, the Gaiety and the Queens ;
sska these give us this year for pantomimes,
Dick Wilmington and his Cat" the " Babes
the Wood" and Beauty and the Beast
spectively. The first named is pretty fair
auction; the others are poor things.
here is more about the O'Connell Centenary
xnmittee this week, and, as usual, it is not
sN1irely creditable to that body, or rather to
esFsnin members of that body. The sub-com.
tee appointed to edit the Centenary Record
xeeently met and, stupg no doubt by the uni
sal outcry against the extravagant sums
Rs&ed for by them for the purposes of the
ord, resolved that they would do their part
he work gratuitously. But the resolution
ss not carried unanimously; there was on'
in any way This one dissentient was, Of
Ese. Professor Kavanagb, who mixed him
asSf in the business at the commencement fol
very purpose of making as much out of il
ossible. The other item of news is thai
ehael Angelo Hayes, brotherin-law and
fstary of the Lord Mayor, has sent car
orney's letter" to Dean O'Connell and Alder
mn Mccain, as two of the trustees of The
GonSenary Fund, threatening legal proceeding
he is not Immediately paid Gl50-half thu
1T of the portrait of the Lord Mayor, which
says he was appointed to paint. The poin
hether he ,cas appointed; there is no pub
record of the fact. All that is known il
sa--that when the Lord Mayor, in ft o
tuous indignation, refused the portrait ate
ne vote for it had been unanimously agreed
he turned round to Hayes and said he wopIC
Ike good to him the $780, But observe thu
% impudence of Hayes. When the Natioi
& startled the public with an account of tn,
inner in which the surplus had been disposed
by the committee, it set down 600 as tn
nm to be given to this person in payment G
- painting of the Lord Mayor. Tmmediatel
ayes wrote letter to the editor, denying i
most indignant terms that he had vote
money to himself or that he had yet got
ther of which assertions the Nation ha
de), and implying that he was not to get
the futurel Now, according to his ow
aer to Dean OConnell and Alderman MI
Pm, it turns out that, at the time he wa
holding himself up as picture of injure
Annocence, he had actually been promised nc
200 but $500! :
Ehe National Teachers are just now holdin
1eir annual Congress in this city. Yesterda
Ad to-day the discussions were private; th
oceedings will be conducted in private tc
errow likewise and on Thursday the resul