The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-04
IRISH NAIL Hxws.
Dublin Nation. July 18th.
Sir John Darlington has been chosen
Mayor of Dublin for 1879.

Sir John Darlington has been chosen
Mayor of Dublin for 1879.
The Summer assiZes have been opened
during the week in Meath, Longford,
Drogheds, Dundalk (Loutb), North Tip
perary, and Letrim, and in all these places
| both the calenders and the police reports
| have afforded the judges ample grounds
for congratulating the various grand jeries
on the state of their respective districts.
We are confident that equally favorable
accounts will be forthcoming from most of
the other places on the four circuits.
In two widely separated districts of the
country steps were taken last week to
establish railway communication. The
grand jury of the North Riding of Tip
perary approved on Saturday of q guaran-
tee for a proposed line from Nenagh to
Thurles; and, day or two before, the
people of the town and neighborhood of
Roscommon, assembled in public meeting,
resolved to do all in their power to carry
| out the making of a line from Roscommon
to Carrick- ON Shannon by way of Strokes
town and Elphin. Both the projects are
undoubtedly worthy of support.
From the report of the United States
consul at Dublin it appears that in that
city the skilled mechanic gets per day IS.
Cd, and the unskilled mechanic receives
LIS. 81. per week Agricultural laborers
are paid per day from 1s. 81. to 2s. Cd.
permanent, and from 2s. Cd. to 3s.-6 in the
busy season. Near large towns the rate is
much higher than in the country districts,
also in spring and harvest the rate is high
OF than at the other seasons.
The price of wheat per l12 lbs, taking
the average of six principal markets in
1851 was Ss. Cd, and the price obtained Ia
the same manner for 1876 was los. 3a1.
Oats has varied during the came period,
from 5s. Sid. to 7s Gid. Potatoes from 3s.
lid. to 3s. 81. Beef from f2 2s. 24i. to
G3 Ids. 3D., in each case the quantity from
which this average it taken being liz lbs.
Lord James Butler has at last given up
the Irish Church as q bad job. He has
seeded from that organization and joined
the Church of-Lord James Butler. His
reasons for this step are stated with char
acteristic plainness in letter to Mr.. 81. A.
Hamilton, secretary of the Dublin Dioce-
san Synod. He cannot accept the Revised
Manual of Common Prayer, and there is,
he thinks, "less to offend the eye and mind
in the halls for public Amusement and ex
hibition than in the Chambers of Imagery
which are rising or have been re-opening
as cathedrals under the Irish Church,
whether in the capital or in the towns of
Ireland" Brought up in the exercise Of
private Judgment, and having no power
to effect change, "he steps down and
out" One thing is certain. The proceed
ings of the Protestant Synod will hence
forth be less lively, though they may be
much more edifying.
There has been another debate or two in |
the House of Commons on the Irish Land |
question. On Wednesday of last week Mr.. |
French-by way, We suppose, of making |
amends for his opposition to Mr.. Butte |
Land Bill, which has been approved by the |
Whn1o Eriah for and THAR frianAa-
brought forward Land Bill of his own, |
which, to speak mildly, is not calculated |
to excite the enth husiasm of any portion of |
the Irish people. The measure, in fact,
merely proposed to give the tenant of an |
estate which was passing through the
Landed Estates Court the option OF taking |
h 35 years. lease of his holding in case he
was not able to purchase. The object was
stated to be .eto cut ont land speculators l
who were always on the look out for cheap
estates, in order to screw up the rents to
the highest possible point" and it might
possibly have that effect if it became law.
Moderate, not TO say paltry, though Mr..
French's proposal was, it was, of course,
opposed by the Government, and rejected
oy lz9 10 78.
The second debate occurred on Tuesday
night, when Mr.. Errington brought forward
his motion for an irquiry into the working
Of the Land Act of 1870, The member for
delivered very forcible speech,
citing several striking cases of alleged op
preston of tenants by landlords, and he was
supported by Mr.. A. M. Sullivan, Mr.. Ar
thur Moore, Mr.. O'Shaughnessy, Major No
IAN, and other Irish members. On the other
side there was scarcely word said till Mr..
Lowther rose to reply on behalf of the
Government in the most insolent speech
that cfRcial has yet delivered on an Irish
question in Parliament. The quondGnn OBJ
structive made no concealment whatever
On this occasion of his anti tenant, pro-
landlord sentiments, going 80 far as to say
that he had no sympathy with the objects
Of the Act which it was sought to amend,
and describing Mr.. Buckley, the landlord
Of the Galtees, as an i'll used man. Mr..
Butt replied to Mr.. Lowther with appa
cently some degree of warmth but here
again the result was foregone conclusion,
the motion for inquiry being rejected by a
large majority. There is evidently no use
n merely arguing the Land question with
The present House of Commons.
oREADFTL FACTION FIGHT IN LIMERICK.