The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14

are antt-P -ParnelliteS, determined to pun ish the Parnellite newspaper proprietor and Parnellite M. P, who had the cour- age to give candid utterance to his views at Westminster on an important question Of public policy. Two Of the majority gave notice of a resolution condemning as vile and .anti-clericaI
 the speech Of MT. Hayden, and express ing the intention to keep his reporters ouL Of the board room during the meet ings of the board, and to deprive his newspaper of the boards advertise nlenJs. II was a continuation Of a per secution 10 which MT. Hayden has been subjected for ten or twelve years, De- cause of a difference of opinion between himself and the Bishop (I0r. sNulJy1 on the question Of a water supply for the town of Mulligan, and it was no doupt thought a good stroke to seize the oc- caSion presented by the Westminster speech to which ] have referred Tor bringing MT. Hayden 10 his knees Bhl the too Zealous advocates Of the clergy in Muligan overreached themselves In the first place, the resolution Whlch the Mulligan board was 10 have passed in reference 70 MT. Hayden was voted in the House Of Lords on the very evening when the question Of admit ting the clergy to the new councils was raised in that assembly in connection with the local government bill, With the result that the Government, which had been Wavering on the point, stuck to it's guns and that the. House of Lords supported il in keeping out the clergy But this was not all. The matter was next brought before the House Of Com
 mons as a question of privilege. Every one who spoke condemned the intoler- ant resolution of the Mulhgan board, including MT. Davitt, who, though an anti-PaInellite himself, denounced II sharply; and in the result 1t was voted breach of privilege, a plain 1ntlmauon being at the same time given that 1T the resolution were passed and acted upon it's authors and those who voted for it would be brought to the bar of the House of Commons and imprisoned in. the Clock Tower. The sequel IS a miserable story of funk and retreat. The day before yesterday, at meeting of the Mulligan board, the boycott1ng resolution was withdrawn by it's chief promoter, who persisted in running away, despite all sorts Of taunts to stand firm. It remains to be seen, how
 ever, whether what was threatened will not yet be accomplished. In the meantime most persons of all politics
 q fancy) are glad that MT. Hayden
 has for the time triumphed. He Is known to be a thoroughly honest poli- tician. In the days Of coercion he was, though very young man, four or nVe times in prison for maintaining the nb- eTty of the press. as well as the rlght or the people. to combine against the land lords. Apart from politics he IS the oo-
 ject Of the highest esteem and the
 warmest regard to a large circle of friends. His fellow journalists in Ire land have given a marked proof or the opinion in which they hold him as member of the journalistic profession by unanimously electing him president of the Irish District of the Institute Of Journalists. There is no doubt that John Hayden is 9 coming man
 Since 1 wrote q week ago the most notable demonstration which has taken place in memory Of the men Of '9S has been that,in- Carlow. In that town a hundred years ago 640 united Irish men were maSsacred in the streets, while just outside the town the man gled and bleeding bodies were all buried together in one huge grave which was nicknamed the Croppy Hole. 2" ''croppies" being the name given to the insurgents. Some years ago the spot was incIoseds with a railing, and on Sunday there was erected with in the iuclosure 6 beautiful Celtic cross in memory of the maTtyTed dead. The assembIage on the occasion was an i'm
 nense one, and all the Nationalist par ties sent representatives It is need less to add that the enthusiasm was intense and that the speeches were pretty outspoken deliverances- All this was to be expected, especially in Car low for the district, Of which that town was the center. was one of those which suffered most at the hands Of the Brit ish soldiers in black '9S. Horror was Diled on horror there. first in melting to and then in putting down the in surrection. Houses burned, brutal sol diers living at free quarters, women ravished and men murdered-those are the things about '9S which have i'm pressed themselves inefaceably on the mind of every Catholic in the counties of Kildare. Queens and Carlow The result is only natural. Nine-tenths of the population of that whole district
 would shake off the British yoke al together to-day if they could, and that is what it was intended to express by the meeting of Sunday last at "Croppy Hole"
 An Irish writer of really brilliant tal- ents has just passed away in the per son of Richard Bowling. Twenty
 seven or twenty-eight years ago met him first as d colleague in the Nation office. He came from Waterford, from which town also another writer in the same office had come a short time be- ! fore in the person of MT. Thomas Sex ton. who afterward built up so great 2 reputation for himself as a Parlia- ] mput2Ty orator. InOQgh they WtIt little more than boys at the time, they
 were set by the late A M Sullivan ! and his brother. Mir. T. D. Sullivan, ] Nj. P, to very important editorial | work: but Bowling, being more of a ] litterateur than politician and his in- l clination for humorous writing being ] very marked, he was soon made one Of ] the chief contributors to humorous l weekly called Zozimus, which the ] Messrs. Sullivan had just started in ad- dition to their other papers. To Zo- ! zirnus he contributed a series of papers ] that split the sides with laughter, and 1 afterward constituted in their collected 1 form his first book under the title of
 Babies and Ladders" After a few
 years Richard Bowling migrated to i London. where he soon became known as one of the most promising novelists i of the day by his Mystery of tKillard' and other books Unfortunately, his health some time ago broke down, and yesterday he died in his fifty-third year at his residence in Footing before he l had time to accomplish all that he was capable of in the field of literary ere ation. l may. mention that, besides