The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-30
STAR AND CATHOLIC aKssRNaER, sUNLAY JUNE go 1873.

alternative proposal having been adopted.
1t should be added, that while two or three
of the majority expressed their sympathy
with Mr.. Parnell's object though they dis
approved of bis means, one or two others
10 wit, Mr.. French and Sir p. O'Brien-
had the audacity to repeat attacks they had
already made in the House of Commons on
the active section of their colleagues. The
intimation given by the member for the
Kings County that in the event of war
between England and Ireland he would be
found fighting on the eide of the former,
will, though it is only of piece with other
bellicose declarations of that hon. memb ber,
take long to fade from the popular memory.
THE VERY REV. DIR CLEARY AND THE POOR
OF DUNGARvAN.
DUNGARvAN, June 2nd, 1878.
To the Editor of the Nation.
Dear ir:-The following letter from
the learned member for Louth may be
deemed worthy of q place in the Nation
for the cake of the lesson conveyed in it's
eecond paragraph. The people of Dungar-
van are most thankful to Mr.. Sullivan's
two Irish friends for their generosity to
our poor. This second gift of five pounds
Christian Brothers and Presentation Nurs
for the clothing of the most neceesitOus
among the children of their schools. re-
main, dear sir, yours very faithfully,
j V. CLEARY, ID.
HOUSE OF Commons, London, 30th May.
My Dear DIR. OIeary II send you, en-
closed, q second five pounds to complete
the amount of the politico benevolent
Investment which Mr.. Dillon w ebb thought
to make in Dnngarvao. This enclosure is
handed to me by another worthy son of the
Irish soil, valued friend of mine, settled
here in London and I regret to say that,
like the good donor of the five pounds
sent the other day, he forbids me to pub
lieh his name.
Irisbmen in the old land can hardly
realize the keen and intense interest with
which their political action, for good or ill,
is watched by their countrymen removed
from home. The feelings displayed by
these two friends of mine, but reflect the
emotions aroused amongst thousands of US
here by this Dungarvan episode With
kindest regards, always faithfully,
A. M. SULLIVAN.
Rev. DIR. Cleary, PIP.
The remark able scene in Parliament on
Thureday night seems not to have attract
ed much notice, but l have never seen
anyone obtain so remarkable triumph
over another as that which Mr.. O'Connor
Power obtained over the chairman of
committee that evening. The chairman
had called on Mr.. O'Donnell to withdraw
the term "sham inquiry" applied by him
into the death of Sergeant Mccarthy,
stating that to 30 describe legal enquiry
WAS nnpariamantary- -Genersl-amaze-
ment at the ruling was felt, and Mr..
O'Donnell hesitated before acquiescing in
such curtailmept of the freedom of
spe ech ae that involved. The power of
the chairman or Speaker is, however, in
such q matter, absolute, and if called on
TO withdraw the statement that two and
two made four a mem ber would have no
option but to obey, unless he cared to be
coal -hoied. 1t was known that the Gov
ernment intended to make some stand
against the active section that evening.
Mr.. Raikes had evidently been primed
with frmness and instructed to seize on
the fret slip any of them made. After
some discussion Mr.. ODonnell withdrew
the phrase, telling the chairman he knew
he nuet be under Misrepresentation but
Mr.. O'Connor Power refused to let the
matter rest He compelled the Home
Secretary to state that the Mccarthy in
quiry was not a legal Inquiry. and Mr..
Power then got up and told Nr. Raikes
that he was wrong, and that III fact he had
made b fool of himself. The sensation
WAS immense, and everyone felt how to-
tally the attempt to make a victim of an
obnoxious member had failed. Mr.. Raikes's
pale face grew red, and white, and whittier.
He listened family to the Chancellor's
vehement demand that MIR. Power should
get up and apologize for his defiance. He
sees the member tor Mayo jsuntily cross
his legs to emphasize his refusal to stir,
amidst the cheers of the Irish members, and
after looking sbeepish, coughing and hem
ming through an eternity Of FIVE seconds,
be happily bethinks himself of way to
end his misery by proceeding to put the
question that he do report progress and ask
leave to sit again.
A STIFF SPEECH FROM MR. PARNELL, Mp.
Mr.. Paruell, NJ. P, for Meath, the chief
of the "Obstructienists,'' speaking at a
Home Role meeting at Islin gton, England,
recently, said that the Irish members had
an enormous power if they knew how to
use it. But, he added, they could not
expect three or four men to go on without
assistance. They could not, without
assistance, contend with the House of
Commons and the whole power of the Eng
lish Government, and not only that, but
against their own comrades. He should
do it for the present session, but, unless
the Irish people showed, at the next gen.
eral election, that they knew what work
had to be done, and that they were deter