The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-19

"KOunQ Tower" ADJOINING Cn0 uAUClnS
hall in that tower where many an "
Neil, many an o. Doael, O'Doherty, and
Fitzgerald had been held rebel prisoners
for their attempts to hold Ireland tor
the Irish Those grim old prison rooms
were this night fitted up for different
purpose. I will; close my account OF
this novel move by asserting my belief,
founded upon reliable Information, that
the Duchess has inaugurated perma-
nent, practical movement for the resusci-
| tation, of Irish manufactures and indus
try; that another more extended ball
will be given by her Grace in the course
Oft he summer in the Grand Rotundo of
Dublin, to which the wives and daugh-
ters of commercial society" will be in
vited, and moreover, that her grace will
hold similar balls and other such enter
tainments in other parts of Ireland tor
kindiing up Irish taste, Irish patriotism,
and Irish enterprise. This shows what
one good>hearted woman can achieve.
| now insert the Frseman's report, for
which crave the benefit of your ubiqui-
| tous newspaper:
There could be no mistaking the pre-
dominance, especially among the better
sort OF people of the many-tinted delicate
Irish polins, or the magnificent picture
they wrought in the ballroom. Every
mandatory in Dublin must have been
rifed Of its store of the beautiful fabrics.
One might dread the demand was VI
healthily large if there was not some
prospect Of its continuance. AT all
events the kind-hearted lady with whom
the idea originated is to be thanked and
congratulated on the success of her effort
to revive beautiful and peculiarly Irish
manufacture. Her Grace has brought
some good things into fashion already
things which local vulgality deemed
vulgar. Oae may unatfectedly hope,
humiliatng as it is in one sense, that it
mas been reserved for the wife of an
English nobleman to teach Irish ladies
the beauty Of their countrys fabrics and
the duty of encouraging them. The
Duchess OF Marlborough herself wore one
of the most radiant of the toilettes made
out OF Irish materials. The whole state
was thrown open. The great staircase
divided between st. Patrick's Hall and
the Throne room, and the music between
Mr.. Titles fine band and that cf the
Sixth Inniskilling Dragons. An octag-
onal chamber in the Birmingham Tower,
one where successive generations OF
TRAITORS" had other business than rev.
cling was flooring with scarlet cloth
and fitted up as a supper room for the
party. On one of tae buffets giittered
l. - Io 1,1;prr cold r,jato nf thu Ntolbor
ough tamily-huge gold goblets and
massy dishes off some of which the
great Duke supped whenever he was not
beating the French or pocketing com.
mission on bacon. The portrait chamber
was turned into supper room. where
people helped themselves with the usual
scrimmage over leg of chicken, or
war for the succession to a meats tongue.
More gold and silver were piled along
the table-notably, one monster repre-
sentation in solid silver Ca thousand
ounces. or more) OF the Conqueror OF
Blenheim sciobllng ion the back of a
drum amid the smoke of the battle, the
dispatch announcing his victory. BY
the way. the Lord Lieutenant preserves
in frame of gold this most interesting
dispatch, nearly us fresh as the day il
was written. 1t is scrubbed in lead pen
ell on two sides of soiled sheet of note
paper. the two pages of which are filled
with the items, in .jargon OF French
and English, OF his landlady's bill 70
food, candies, and washing during tn
campaign.
At the conclusion ST. Patrick's day il
the morning was danced, and speeche
made in honor Of the Duchess, an
ringing cheers echoed by the hbert
weavers who filled the castle square Out
side all night. and who were generou:
ly regaed by orders of the hospitabl
lady from whose noble heart ali thes
generous impulses were communicate
to a previously inert mass of an idle an
Improbable aristocracy.
TRANSATLANTIC