The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-12

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stafford Northcote having been invited by
Mr.. Kuatch bull .Hugessen, Liberal member
for Sandwich, to take swift and strong &C
tion in the matter, thanked bis supPortefs io
the assistance he had received, made hnai
appeal to the minority to yield, and hoPeo
that, in the absence of the honorable gentie
man whom he expected to arrive shortly the
committee would persevere with the Dill.
THE END OF THE FIGHT ON AFRICA.
Mr. ODoppell affected to regard this ss
threat of coercion, and said that under the
altered circumstances he would retire from ths
contest. As long as it was q question OF
pbysjcal endurance he and his frienos were
prepared to go on. This practically ended the
ig at on the African bill, which W as then push
eu forward in committee and completed AZ
ten minutes past two amid thunders OF ap-
nIaus. During the contest the chairman OF
the mmittee relieved four tunes, and
there were in all twenty-five divisions in as
many hours.
ANOTHER FIGHT.
The House then proceeded to take up other
bills violent scene followed in the dlscns'
sion of the Judicature (Ireland) BILL agaln
caused by MIR. Parnell This Dill, whlcn In
wolves and changes the constitution OF the
Irish law courts in several ways and rskes up
the question of patronage in the court omces,
has been bitterly contested by the irish mem
many important amendments. Mr.. Parneil
has been very active in this
THOSE AAwFUL HIRIsHMEN.
So the Obs.ructionists retired exhausted
after their bitter fight. The feeling throngn'
ont the country is QUE of evaporation against
them. through the long twenty-six hours
session the scenes thropgoout were animated
| and sometimes stormy. Within recent hlstory
| there has been no parallel to this sltting
The House of Commons sat twenty-five hours
| on the Slavery Emancipation bill, but not on
account of obstruction.
| SKETCH OF CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
| What manner of men are these two that thus
n
are their Objects What are their means of
| sctionf First, as TO Mf. Parnell To tell rho
| he is must first, curiousiy enough, recspitn-
late few incidents of a great American ca
| reer. The memory of "Old 1ronsides" ls still
green in the United States, and people have
not yet forgotten the veneration aud love Win
| which the old hero who bore that nickname
was universally regarded. Probably, too,
| there are few Americans who did not KNOW
| may be q little bszily-the leading incidents
of old Admiral Stewards career IL ls renem,
| bered that he was born in tue latter years oi
the last century, of Irish parentage that in
his twelfth year he had an interview with Gen
Washington, and that in the following year
when he was mature thirteen, he began lie o.
a cabin boy in q merchant vessel. So far bach
as 1898 Charles Stewart changed into the
navy of his country, Receiving lieu.enGne al v.
commission. 1912, when the war with Eng
land broke out, brought him and many other
the opportunity for which they sighed. I'm
medately after the declaration OF war, Gap
, | tain Stewart went to Washington, where, u
his astonishment, he found that 1t had oeei
/ determined, owing to the great strength OF tn
British navy, TO keep all American vessels q
home. He soon broke down tnls pustilani
nous resolve, went to sea in the good snl
% Constitution and in the following year won Tn
. great victory of his life. The story ID We
y known of how the American captain was,
= | the l9sh of February, 1918, attacked by ."
o British vessels the Cyane with thirty,tou
y guns, and the Levant, with tWenty-one DO"
with admirable strategy, he raKed both MS OF
ponents and at the same time kept himse
safe, aud Eow ne finally, after an engasemen
J. of forty minutes brought CT both the enemy
|. ships captive. OF his long life afterward nj
q ed with many remarkable events with deco
o of daring, of skilful strategy and of PATRON
devotion, it is unnecessary To speak :,
Charles Stewards daughter ID hr. Parne,i
mother, and hence it comes to pass that d
IN first two names are Charles Stewart. SO muc
o, for lis maternal descent.
't On the paternal side he can claim an equa
If ly illustrious ancestry. His great 9randf"th
m was Sir John Parnell, a man whose nan
ie figures often in the pages of Sir Jonah ba
10 ringtop and of other writers who descrlo DC u
IL period when the Irish Parliament was unite
ly with that of England. Sir John PArneii wa
O. in 1900, one of the most distinguished mei
IL bers of the Irish Legislature. He was go
no speaker; he had high character, and for
Is less than seventeen years he had occupied II
office of Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer.
all movements of popular kind he had tax
b. his part. When the volunteers were enrol.
ue in l7S3 Sir John Parnell was the com
ne of the Mary borough Infantry, one of the Dol
~, u est of the volunteer corps. In lSo9' WI
lCRStlereDEn brought III Lis VII "a eAiSi.
sn John Parnell, Notwithstanding his long offic
An training, notwithstanding immense ptessu
- and enormous temptations, was true to I
10 10 cause of his country-gave up his ohce, at
la to the last moment, bitterly opposed the
struction of his country's independence.
., .er Some thirty thirty FIVE years ago graz
~, ns son Of Sir John Parneh, travelling "a
Il" United States found himself ct WashIngt9
there he met the daughter of Admiral Stew
le and was there married to her. or such
use rents and such ancestry comes Charles Stew
Ta Parnen.
we WHAT he Is LIKE.
M And now something to the man hims
hat From the description 1 have given of MIR.
&C. nell 3 liue Of action and it's results the rea
to will probably have coujured up before his
to agination a very alarming portrait. Prooa
one recol!eotions Of Donnybcook Fair and
Illustrations TO Charles Levers will n
helped to create photograph in which I
for tered hat, a puguacions face, coat traiLed
ted the ground and shiIlelah whirled in the
ned will Oe the prominent features or perns
, as falling back on experiences Of the moo m
dem sgogue, the reader has figured to hin'
a man With a quat figure, voice of brass
lungs of leather, whose chest is always p31
nd prh wild lOCRa float Il