The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-08-19 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION. committed. With the Irishmen ol O'Connoll's day After the unveiling of the O'Connell monuand the Irishmen of the present what is there in ment in Sackville-street the Lord Mayor pro- common? Does Mr. Parnell compare himself with °Boded to Rutland-square to open the exhibition. O'Connell? Does he associate the past work of crime, Having arrived at the Exhibition, the directors murder, and outrage which have been the result of presented the Lord Mayor with an address ascribing his presehings with the vast orderly loyal demonstrato him the merit of initiating the undertaking, and to lions of O'Connell and a united people? Surely his determination and hopefulness much of its not. No greats,: contrast presents itself than the Irishsuccess. In working for their own country they were men who followed the leadership of the Liberator and not actuated by narrow feelings towards others, the Irishmen who, steeped in crime and degradation, divided amongst themselves, and stirred by every especially neighbouring nations, but much more depended on themselves than upon others in prorevolutionary principle, follow in the wake of Mr. meting the peace, enlightenment, and prosperity of Parnell and other members of the Land League. Had Ireland. the crowds who thronged the thoroughfares the pro. The Lord Mayor replied in reciprocal terms,remsek. sumption to compare themselves with those who jag that the success of the exhibition was a tribute to walled themselves around O'Connell, watching each the energy and self-reliance of the trades and working movement of his lips, each gesture he made, and classes. The promoters did not desire to exclude the enthusiastically waited for one object? Surely not. productions and manufacturers of other lands, but And yet, by the words which fell from the lips of the rather to encourage and develop their own. The emLord Mayor, Mr. Parnell, and Mr. Gray, it would ployers and workmen of Ireland had the future appear that they desire to associate their work of prosperity of the country in their hands. The disorder with the disciplined, noble streature of the exhibition was then declared open, great O'Connell. Shame on Irishmen who so permit The Exhibition itself in a creditable display, this ! Shame on them, I say I Like a brilliant sun although by no means a fully representative one, O'Connell stands alone, a true patriot, and yet a loyal owing to the circumstance that the loyal merchants man. No light has vet arisen which can dim his and others, in whom is centered the chief wealth of glory; no deed has yet- been done which can compare the city, have taken little or no part in it. When the with his groat work. Ay, truly the nation who can so question of an Irish exhibition was first started all tolerate and permit the desecration which took perties in Ireland joined the movement, and at one place to-day is unworthy the name of such, and while time there was every promise that the project would Ireland is swayed by such ignoble principles, so long will she merit no other name than province, and he carried out in an enthusiastic manner. The oppo- deserve not the title of 'independent kingdom,' which sition given by the national party to the proposal O'Connell strove to give her. Better, far better, by the loyalists that the Quail should be invited to give her patronage, brought would it have been to have kept that statue veiled the whole thing to the ground, and the large subscriptions which had been nntil a nation worthy of the honour of unveiling It end treading in the footsteps of him to whom it dogma to sent in were returned forthwith. The national party under Mr. Dawson (Lord Mayor) and Mr. Gray, give honour had arisen to brine glory and prosperity to the country he loved so well, instead of poverty, the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, then and degradation." formed a limited liability company with a capital of misery, -• £20,000, and the result is—the exhibition which was 1 Here Arnstein, a law student, of Vienna, was spending o;uned on Tuesday. The several drawhaeke perceivable I his vacati • on on the borders of the Tyrol, and ascended therefore are accounted for by the abstention of the i one of the higher mountaine, when he fell over a precipice loyal party, whose wealth and co-operation have been to a depth of several thousand feet, and was killed.