The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-09-17
IRIsH MAIL NEWS.
dublin Nation. Aug 20
THE HOME RULE CONVENTION

aud Tuesday the delegates Of che vsriou
bran chez of the Home Rule Confederate
of Great Britain, together with two o
three representatives of the Huhe Rul
League, met in the Rotundo and deli beTa
ted on the condition of the former organize
ton and on the question of the Irish Polic.
of the future. Their proceedings, which
were conducted in private, were marked
as We have the best reason to know, DO
only by singular harmony and decorum
but by rare Weldon, and the resul
| was the adoption of two sets of resolution
from which we select the following as benf
of general interest.
| XII. That in the opinion of this meeting
| before adopting course of action thai
| may become neceesary-namely, with.
drawal-it Will be expedient for the 1risl
mem bers to adopt much more deter mined
attitude in the House of Commons upon all
questions in which Ireland is concerned, &c
that the British people may be induced to
adopt the principle of division of labor in
government.
XII. That we have every confidence ia
our great leader Isaac Butt that we rely
on his genius aud determination, and give
him our continued allegiance.
we need not stay to refer in Diet to
those resolution which refer to the internal
administration of the Copfede alton of
Great Britain or to the annual report of
that body, although that is q document
which is calculated to fill with the liveliest
hopes every friend OF the Irish cause. What
we desire to draw particular attention to
here ls the vote of confidence in the Home
Rule leader, Mr.. Butt, the declaration that
stronger line of action should henceforth
be adopted in Parliament by the Home
Rule party, and the suggestion approved
OF by MIR. Butt, that the Home Rule organ
izations should Immediately be established
in every electoral district in Ireland. All
these pronouncemeDts, we need har lily say,
are thoroughly in harmony with the pre-
vailing Irish national opinion on the sub
jects under discussion.
Incidental to the meeting of the dele
gates from Great Britain are two other
events of notable and agreeable character.
On Monday evening meeting of the
League was held in the Ancient Concert
Rooms, for the purpose, amongst other
things, of giving public welcome to the
delegates from England and Scotland; and
on Tuesday evening in the same place,
banquet was given for similar purpose
under the auspices of the Home Rule
League. On both occasions spirited
speeches were delivered and received with
enthusiasm, and not the least satisfactory
event to DO noted is that an attempt at dis
turbance at the meeting on Monday night
was put down with promptitude and vigor
by the general voice. In addition to the
noisy interruption to which we refer, some
confusion was alec caused by diversion,
by Mr.. Doran of Queenstown, in favor of
the theory of physical force and no parlia-
mentary agitation but harmony was
broken only tor short time, and the pro
ceedings closed, in the usual way, with
enthusiastic cheers for Home Rule
One matter alone now remains to be
noted in this connection. We allude to the
police or governmental out
rage perpetrated on the gentlemen assem-
bled in the banquet hall. Towards the close
of the proceedings Tuesday evening a spy in
the employment of Dublin Castle was act
ually found seated on one of the benches,
no doubt mentally "takin' notes." 1t was
not kno7n at the time, and, as we write, it
is not yet certain, whether he went there
OF his own motion OF was sent by superiors
in the Upper or Lower Castle Yard. But
1t was felt thes, as it is felt still, that his
presence at euch gathering was an insult
and an outrage, and he was, accordingly,
put outside into the streets as soon as his
real character was discovered. The ex-
element occasioned by the episode was
great, and tue public will look
to the result of Mr.. Butts demand
or redress.
ORANGE TROUBLES IN BELFAST.
The Orangemen of Belfast were not con-
emit with the unprovoked attempt which
hey made on Lady Day to break up the |
Nationalist procession. For two or three !
u
erment by terocious acts of violence com |
nitted by some of the more reckless of the
>ody on some unC ffendiDg Catholics. On |
his point the testimony of the magistrate,
ir. Blake, is conclusive-given,a as it was,
rom the bench of the police court, and in a |
eview of the riots from beginning to
nd" al never saw anything" said this
gentlemen on Friday week, =" to equal the
luietness, the order, and the obedience to
very word that was said to them shown by
he people in the Catholic portions of the
own. When they were being stoned on
he Falls Road by people from the brick
lelds, there was not stone thrown by
hem. They always went back when the
'olice told them to do 80. only just state
What 1 have seen" These words have
roved quite too much for the apologies of
he Orangemen, and lend the very keenest
ont to remarkable denunciation by the
london Times.
ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM.
The election for coadiutor to his Grace
he Archbishop of Tuam took place in the
cathedral, Tuam, on Last Thursday morn
no after Hiph Mpso | ,