The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21
CARDINAL REFUSES
 SUFFRAGE OPINION
Offers of Marriage Received From Girls-TrOuble
 With Tenants
By THOMAS EMMETT

Dublin, April 0.-(SpeciaD-Card nal Logue will not be drawn into the womans suffrage controversy. An at tempt was recently made by the suf- fragettes to secure an approval of their propaganda from the Irish primate but t was not a brilliant success. His em- thence made this terse and emphatic reply to the request.
 "I must decline to mix myself up on either side in the unseemly squab- ble which number of women are car rying on at present."
 l While Ireland has not been touched 10 any considerable extent by the syn licatist movement which has gained such head in England, but there Is , much sympathy here for Tom Mann and the other syndicatists who have fallen into the clutches of the English law. And the reason is easy to under stand. Sir Edward Carson, Lord Lon donderry, Captain Craig and other unionist leaders have been openly preaching armed rebellion in Ulster and have hot been interferred with. While the offense of the syndicatists has been merely to urge soldiers not to fire upon strikers If called upon to do so. The fact that a different law is applied to these men from that applied to the enemies of home rule has been suf- 1icient to arouse Irish sympathy.
 Leap year offers of marriage from English girls have been received Tn punshaughlin, Ireland owing to the publicity given to the recent order of the local council compelling all labor CTS to marry within three months or quit their cottages
 The clerk at the meeting of the coun- cil said he had received a number of letters from various places in England, some from ladies, wishing to be placed in communication with eligible Dun shaughlin bachelors.
 One letter, addressed to a resident, asked if 1t were of 'any use offering four girls from Bristol as likely can didates," adding that they would be very pleased owing 10 the dreadful state of the country at present to set tie in the apparently peaceful village of Dunshaughlin with good husbands"
 Bayswater letter ran: T am ali English girl, aged 29 anxious to set tie down to matrimonial bliss"
 A letter signed Iris and Doris" which came from Portsmouth with a photograph of a very pretty maiden, stated that the writers. who were sis ters, had a little income of their own, and would be obliged for photos of two nice young men, and they must be In q decent position"
 "A correspondent from Kent described herself as quite domesticated, musical, tall and slight and dark" Another let ter purports to come from widow m beytonstone who lis 6 cook in serv-
 ice but is anxious to settle down"
 For a long time Lord Clanricarde. who prefers, by the way. to spell his title "Clanrikarde, has had an acri- monious dispute with his tenantry In Ireland. and now a climax has been reached by the congested districts board issuing a notice for the com pulsory acquisition of certain of his property to being foisted off. His seat Is Portumna castle. Galway, but as no landlord has probably incurred a lar ger measure of hatred from his ten- antry, he has net visited the place for years, making his home in Piccadilly at the Albany. Lord Clanricarde is one Of l7the recluses of the peerage and is rare ly seen in the house of lords
 Lord Clanricarde is so in Novem Der and as a young man spent some years in the diplomatic service after leaving Harrow. He is a great art con noisseur and there is little he does not know about jewelry, old wares china, pictures and furniture, having been all his life a collector His grandfather was George Canning. his mother hay ing been the only daughter of that yiceroy of India and viscounte