New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-29


so richly clad a. shs
Beautiful exceedingly
might meet with in the by-streets of Dublin. Had
10 been London. should have told her plainly it
would not do. No woman in that attire col I'D have
safely walked even the Sums of Westminster har1
by the Palace ! remembered. too. the rather appa-
ling story told me of an English Indy who while n
visitor at the Castle not many years ago hal tried
a snort cut through bad quarter and had mario W.
y escaped after much insult and some pelting with
mud. and with vegetables OF no market value
However after pause which hope was impercep-
tible said should be delighted and we set out on
foot. Neither Of us knew the wav. We plunged
almost at once into a dismal ne ghborhood. We
met 10 policeman aud hardly one man or woman
well dressed. asked for the road from half dozen
meu whose unitei warlrobes would not have got
loan of many shings from the most patriotic
pawnbroker. The answers were not always instruc-
tive nv ear is dull one for the Dublin brogue-
but always civil We came presently to st. Patrcks
Cathedral not far from which. and in full view
runs a street which must be the Pettcoat Lane OF
Dublin. II was Saturday. the market day of the
poor and the street filled from doorway 10 curb
and from sidewalk to sidewalk with booths, with
pedlers. with closely packed multitude of buyers
and sellers. cosrermongers AMI their barrows fruit
fish. crockety wares of many kinds. Nothing would
satisfy my companion but a stroll through this
street. The crowd was so dense that neither
nor anybody else could walk quickly The Dublin
rough there. and tho in their most pict-
uresquc variety, male and female IL it had been
London. l repeat, ] certain should never
have got through. The velvet and sabes would
have been transferred to shoulders much shape
ly aud we should have had practical personal ap-
plicaton of Mr.. Chamberans doctrine of ransom.
Being in Dublin. amid grim squalor and blank,
vvhi oh let FRA With ave
in London. came through triumphantly. Not
word said to either Of US. nobody begged
people stood aside to let pass. and were not
stared at found nothing but the most en- tire
courtesy from end to tho other. The explana
ton was simple All these people perceived
instantly that this lady must be guest at the
Castle. and whoever was a friend OF the Aberdeens
would lind friends and friends only, in the streets
of Dublin.
Tbls early in their reign had the Viceroy and Lady
Aberdeen found their way to the affections OF the
Irish people. They owed part of their popularity
to the fact that they were there ambassadors
from Mr. Gladstone, already convert to ii ONE
Rule Their intimate friendship with him and 10y
atty to his policy was well known. Another part
they soon conquered for themselves They used to
say they did not see how any body could live week
in Dublin without being a Home Ruler Others
have tried it and found it possible. But the warm
sympathies of Lord and Lady Aberdeen went out
at once to this sympathetic people. The part Lady
Aberdeen played is not a new one TO her. In Scot
land IN London or in Dublin. her energetic benevo-
lence is the same possibly IN Dublin and as the
wife of the Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland. she found
more play for it. | don't think there was a day
while was in Dublin that Lady Aberdeen was not
visiting hospital. or opening bazaar. or giving
away medals, or engaged in some work of active
charity. She had the most practical notions about
encouraging Irish industries The garden party at
the Viceregal Lodge. where every guest was bIdden
to dress in Irish fabrics was the best known Of her
efforts in this direction. The Dublin shOpkeepers
could tell you of many Others. There were should
think. few Irish industries and no Irish charities
that did not profit by her efforts and expenditures
and the manner in which her help was given doub-
led the value of it Probably the manner
much As the matter with people whose sensibities
are so keen those Of the Irish.
There was at this time much distress in Dublin.
suppose there alwaysis. but in March it had become
acute. The Viceroy and Lady Aberdeen wanted to
do something to relieve 1t and the question WAS
WHAT Strictly. the subject was a municipal one,
and the relations between the Castle and the Man
sion House were then what they had loug BEEN
there were none. The Lord Mayor of Dublin had
never presented himself at a Levee, nor heid any
communication with the Lord Lieutenant. The
observation not to say suspicion. The antipathy
to the Castle wa; deep rOotet to be forgotten IN
a month Etiquette forbade the Vceroy to make
advances perhaps policy. or it may be politics.
STAYED the steps OF Lord Mayor Sul.ivan. What
Lord Aberleen did in this dilemma was worthy Of
a diplomatst and of something better than a dipio-
matist. He caused 1t to ,be made known, unOih-
ciaily TO Mr.. Sullivan that if he would call TO-
cether u meeting of representative men without
distinction of party. he Lord Aberdeen, would
attend and do what he could in aid of the m)ve-
mcnt thus set on foot. The Lord Mayor welcomed
the suggestion and acted at Tn, meet
ing was held at the summons OF the
Lord Mayor. In accordance with Lord
Aberdeen's wish nothing was sid OF the part
he had taken in proposing it. bu it was announce
that the Viceroy wor 4 he present. He was prescat
and made a speech aui a fuod was started to
which he contribute a31 the "'ovement took the
usual course with malv benefits to the poor of
d blin Nobody knew more than that the Vlceroy
had helped. The Lord Mayer had the credit OF the
VII DE. as it meant he shonld. and 1t was not
from either Of the Aberdeens that heard the true
.ccouu' of the matter. This was the meeting at
whlst Lord Aberdeen said to have shaken
hands with Mr.. Michael Davitt; fact, il it he a
fact on which there was much angry comment
Mr. Davitt was certainly there on the platform with
the yiceroy aLd made a speech, which / heard
with disappointment. Bat 1 cannot say whether
the haudshakng occurred -Nor,dOes it much mat
ter When the Lord-Licutenant of Ireland and the
ex-convict and actual agrarian agitator had stood
on the same platform and spoken for the same
cause they had. as Victor Hugo would say, shaken
hands morally.
Other murmurs there have been against the Vice
row. not unlike this about Mr. DavItt. Needless to
raw his rule has been To the taste of the Irish
landlord. The landlord party have always said
that the late yceroy had abdicated in favor of the
National League. Lord Aberdeen had the title and
the pay Mr.. Psrnell governed. They scrutInizod
his acts jealousy. They complained that &C toler-
ated open disloy lty; listened to serenldes where
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