The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-26
IRIeH MAIL NEWS.
Dublin Nation, Jan. 4.

Dublin Nation Jan. 4.
The installation Of the provincial m ay ors
took place also on Wednesday, and in most
place. passed off, like the ceremony ia
Dublin, without being marked by any
notable incident. In Cork, however, an
ex may or, Sir George Penrose, was treated
to a decided manifestation of popular dis
approval, probably in consequence of some
acts of fiunkeyism, and In Kilkenny, at the
new mayors inaugural banquet, Mr.. p.
Martin, Home R1le member for the county,
delivered a speech, which, if we may judge
from the report of it in the Freeman, avoid
ed all reference to Home Rule, though it was
altogether political.
The Ulster Examiner makes a very i'm
portant statement regarding the recent
election for Derry. "Sir Thomas M'Clure,"
it says, twas returned because he pledged
himself first and above all to vote for Ca
thoic University education in Ireland"
1t proceeds to say that it would never have
div ulged this secret but for some intempe-
rate writings which have lately appeared
in some 30 called Liberal journals. "To
give us pledges" it adds, "before an elec-
tion, and then when by our aid an election
has been won to turn round and boast of an
unaided victory, will not do, and shall not
be tolerated." Sir Thomas M'Clure's re-
ply to all this will be awaited with curl
osity.
Dublin is not particularly well-off in
music training facilities, yet it is remark
able fact that Mr. Carl Rosa. of the English
opera company, seems to find it rather
fertile recruiting ground for promising
singers. His late principal baritone, Mr..
Ludwig, is Dublin man his present one,
Mr.. Crotty, was enlisted in Dublin the
same can be said of Mr.. Forap, a promising
young tenor, and of Mr.. Lsahy, an equally
promising young bass, who is coming
rapidly to the front in principal parts. At
this rate it seems safe enough to assume
that if there were "conservatoire" here
to file down the rough vocal talent so plen
opera company would before long turn out
to be an Irish one.
The appointment of sheriffs under the
Municipal Privileges Act has this year
developed one or two noteworthy features.
In Waterford the three persons whose
names were submitted to the Lord Lieu
tenant all refused to act, the consequence
of which is that the Corporation has had
to make fresh nomin alton, while in ap-
pointing the sheriff for Drogheda the Lord
Lieutenant has, for the first time, broken
through the custom of accepting the fest
Of the three names submitted by the mu-
nicipal body. The Town Council of Drog
heda put Mr.. Thomas McEvoy in the fore
front, thereby intimating its desire to see
him selected, but that gentleman was
passed over for the second on the list, Mr..
McDonough. We are not, however, in the
least surprised at this exercise of power
Mr.. McEvoy is the came, we believe, who
was some time since deemed patriotic
enough to be deprived of the commission
of the peace.
election has been this week the subject of
articles in most of the English journals.
The Euglish press almost unanimously
asserts that whichever of the two English
parties obtains that vote will be master of
the situation, and that, accordingly, bids
over, it is generally asserted that the bid
to be made by the Tories will take the
shape of a University Bill ''on the lines of
the Intermediate Education Act" All this
surely conveys good deal OF lnstruct. on
for Irishmen, for it shows that if they are
| only true to themselves they will soon. to
use homely expression, have the bal at
their feet. As for the idea that Univer-
Jsity bill such as is spoken of would be cat
| isfactory to Ireland, it could, of course,
| have originated only in minds utterly ig
! norant of the " ishes and convictions of the
Irish Catholic hierarchy and their fiocks,
| who have both repeatedly secuted the
Examining Board plan as thinly disgui ised
expedient for evading the accomplishu ent
of an act of justice.
The usual Lord Mayors procession -or
rather PROFESSIONS, for there are two, that
of the outgoing civic chief from the Man
sion House to the City Hall, and that of
the incoming from the City Hall back to
the Mansion Hoase-took place on We'd
nesday. No novel feature marked the
proceedings from first to last. Nor was
there anything in the proceedings in the
Council Cham ber to attract particular at
tentlon. We should, perhaps, except a
characteristically ridiculous address de-
livered by the new Lord Mayer, Sir John
Darlington, who actually applied the epi-
thet "adorable" to the late Princess Alice.
After this, we suppose, the knight expects
be will be made a duke. II shall not
touch upon any thing POLITICAL" he said,
later on, and forthwith he proceeded to
eulogise the Earl of Beaconsfeld This
sort of conduct it is which makes many
persons throughout the country doubt the
expediency of allowing any others than
genuine Irish nationaiists into representa-
tive poeitione.