Year: 1873

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| DUBLIN, July "a, 1873


This week has not baen distinguished b,
any political event worth talking Of, but ther,
and these proceed to notice.


=, And first OF all, we have had the consecra
mon OF the new new bishop of Waterford and Lis
parish priest of Clonmel. It was an imnosin .
ceremony, carried out as it was with more
1nan ina usual solemnity and in the presence of nc
! the Archbishop of Cashel, who was, of course
bishopsTthe s1 th Rgbt Rev 3F Hendriokon, Saa
amengss .he number, and here may say-en
| lew months, OF several Catholic bishops of the
Unite United St. States being in Ireland, CT route for
eat n Wots, WE clergy Of the diocese were
6ers, and SO, of course, were tie laity.
Conspicuoas amongst the latter were the Mag
or and members of the Town Council of XII.
members of the Town Council of Clonmel in
their official robes, and the Catholic members
OF the Waterford Town Council in similar
garb. The present Mayor of Waterford beirg
habit of Catholic corporations going in the
disguise OF their Offices to such Ceremonies, is
steadiiy growing. 1t is matter for copgrat-
uiaton need hardly tell the reader that
before 1899 it did not exist at all in this Cath
olic land. But since emancipation, we have
been gradually getting rid of the social bonds





and nave been gradually making a more and
more public profession of our faith as a thing
Of which we should be proud. Thus every
year we have Catholic Lord Mayor in Dab
lin, his Lordship and his Catholic brethren of
the Town Council go, on the first Sunday ir
January, in full civic state to the Cathedral,
and next month l observe that the Mayor and
corporation of Limerick, are to attend in their
official robes at the dedication of the new
church of Rathkeale, when the Archbishop of
Westminster will preach. The Mayor of Cion
VII led to Watar
He bore as gift to Dr.. Power from his late
parishioners, the sum of SsOO sterling. Usu-
ally, the sermon at the conservation in this
country is preached by a bishop. On this
occasion, the preacher was the very Rev. Dr.
J. v. Cleary, President of the Diocesan Col
lege in Waterford. No better selection could
man and is veryleloquent, and if his manner
is at all worthy of the matter of his dscourses,
1t must be delightful to listen to him. On the
whole, it was, as 1 have already intimated, a
very imposing spectacle. The new bishop is
not unlikely to provea dstin gaished member
OF the hierarchy; He comes OF family which
mas has given several distinguished ornaments to
the Church. He has two brothers parish
priests in his diocese, and cousins of his are
also in the sacred ministry. Let US hope that |
his nj lordships reign may be longer than that
terford diocese alone, I believe, of Irish do |
ccses has had no less th IN seven chief pas |
tors since the commencement of the century. |


Montgomery, the sub-Inspector of Police
has been put on his trial for the third time |
this week in O'Magh for the murder of the |
bank clerk in Newtown-stewart some two |
years ago. AS fully detailed for the readers
OF the STAR the circum stances of this horrible |
crime at the time of the first trial about this |
timeetwelve months, l need not enter into
them now beyond men tiouing that in tho very
middle of'a summers day the unfortunate
clerk who was alone in the bank at the time
arranging his cash, was suddenly knocked
down dead at single blow of q bill hook, by |
a man who must have been well known to
him, who must have been conversing in the
office wi th him, and who, when he had made
sure by four other mortal wounds and driving |
file through his head, that his victim was
quite dead, qlietly took all the notes he could |
get-he took no gold at all, strange to say
and walked cody out of the Office, shutting
case against Montgomery is very strong 1t |
has first been shown thai he was in want of
money. Then it has been proved that he was
seen leaving the bank at about the time the
murder must have been committed; that he
was late that night near the wood where the
money and the weapon were subsequently dis
covered that he bought lead sometime pre-
vlously such as was on the bill-hook and
that he said aud did things on the day of the
murder which are quito consistent with the
supposition that he is the murderer. Other
damaging circumstances too, have been proved
and against this body of testimony l cannot
remember that he has set up anything posi-
tive. Nevertheless, two juries have disagreed
on the question whether he is guilty or not
and the tendency is, when two jGries have not
agreed, for the third not to agree either; in
WnlCn &aSeJ tne pIlSoueE ID generally Sent out
Of the country without being tried apymore
1t is not impossible that this may be the result
of the presenttrial The crown, however, are
pressing the prosecution with great vigor-
with greater vigor than usual, imagine, be-
cause Montgomery belongs to the force
which is supposed to be at least the protectors
of our lives and property. On one of the for
Mer occasions the crown was represented by
the Attorney General (Mr. PAlles) and on an
other by Sergeant Armstrong. Now both of
these able counsel appear for the prosecution
No man at the Irish bar can surpass the At