Year: 1875

DUBLIN, August 7, 1875
The 0'Connell festival is over; but all
the results reached? This is the question that
Is occupying the thoughtful part of the
community. Every man here who is not blind
acknowledges that for week past Ireland has
been like sleeping volcano There have been mutter-
ings and mumbings of the smothered political elements
The internal fires have given uncomfortable warnings
and the most sagacous have been without serious
apprehensons lest the thin covering that yelled the
sumberlng political fires might prove too frai and al
low them to burst forth in all their intensity horror


sLUMBERNG FIRES


wish 1t were in my power to say conscientously
that the excitement is ended that the danger past
What have of the Irish people during a brief
week renders it impossible to form rational opinion
70 the end. have found of the eminence of Car
dinal Cuen-a COOL shrewd sagacous eccesiastic who
talks with the slowness of ono who believes his
words Of consequence to Church and people
asserting that everything politically and socially
In his native land is calm and peaceful bright
summer sky, and yet have found, when the real test
came, those storms and lightning flashes of popular
ctement that seemed to indicate deepseated discomfort
and unhappness have heard it asserted that all the
rumhngs and warnings deceptions the idle in
ventons of political adventures, who at time were
arrayed against the great 0'Connel, but who now
sought in vain to stir the popular passions for their
selfish ends reckless Of ways and means but at the
same time powerless to work evil And yet l have
found the great day Of Ireland the centenary of the
ilustrous Liberator successfully used by these
socalled political adventurers, spite of the efforts of
priests and government agitate the very founda
ton the unconquerabe yearnngs of this strange people


HOME RULE AND LF-GovERNMENT.


have found demonstration concocted and devised





TO the advantage of his own Church and interest,
wrenched from his grasp and used for purpose alto
geher foreign and abhorrent o.the original design The
aim and object of the orignaors of the OConne celc
bration to give the affair such inclination to
repe all the home rule eements and yet the of
the people not only seemed unwilling to sympathize
with this scheme but when the proper moment
sided with the home rule element enabling men like
Butt oConnor Power, A. NJ. O'sullivan, Mccarthy
Downing and others of the class TO assume con-
of things and twist and turn everything into what
obliged to consider must be the natural channel


How therefore, can any say that the end is yet
that the trouble is over-tha this extraordinary 0Con
nell demonstration will not


LEAD TO POLITICAL RESULTS


that its concoctors never dreamed of and, perhaps
would little relish?


was very much struck during brief conversation
had few days ago with His Eminence Cardinal Cullen
at the cautious and gingerly he dealt with
the subject of home rule When asked him what he
thought was the popular feeling on the question, he
answered. evasively, that Of the opinion
that even it secured might after all be for
the best interest Of the people Therefore am tempted
TO write that perhaps, the concoctorsor the dstin-
guished Cardinal admittedly of them-may
regret the results to flow from their handiwork


But descending from these generalzations the more
specific


EVENTS OF CELEBRATION


The centenary proceedings commenced in sunshine
and ended in ran opened in brothery love and closed in
dsharmony and bitterness. We have had no less than
three banquets, monster procession sconcers church
ceremonies speeches. free fight and the end is thus
far, at least, general disharmony among those who
have taken part Never did festival promise to be so
interesting this, and made the journey hither in
the expectation Of sending homo only pleasant accounts
of sojourn and the fte; but ii is very difficult to
write at all We have memories of the beautiful core
monies in the cathedral of the grand numbers collected
in and the procession Of the brilliant gathering
at the banquet in the Mansion House on Thursday nght
while contrasting with this have the unhappy end
ing of other banquets the unpleasant conclusion TO
the procession and the present conflict Of political par
ties in Dublin.


WHO is RESPONSIBILITY


have been twice the guest of the Lord Mayor of Dub
and the acceptance OF demands tnat
shall not speak i'll Of host But journalists must be
exempted from this rule. A knd-hcartcd, generous,
courtly gentleman, Lord Mayor Mcswney has won our
sympathes on many during the recent festvi-
ties but shall We withhold the truth in speaking of the
political aspect Of the fete for which he alone
sponsble? He must be held accountable for the immi-
ncnt danger in which Dublin and Ireland stand to day
tho danger Of riot and bloodshed of civil strife and mill
tary interference-knowng as he did how easily the
passions of the Celt aroused and knowing too that
while the banquets progress and the great pro-
moved its slow length through the Streets the
troops OF England awaited in their barracks, silent,
armed and momentarily expecting to be called to que
the outbreak.


FESTIVAL


was to have been in honor of Daniel o'Conncll as an
Irish patriot the great Lberaor procured for
Catholics and the Protestants too Of Ireland that civil
religious liberty of which they had been long do
prived 1t to have been such but has Il been cee-
bratcd grand Irish national festva9 II has been
grand religious display confined first to last to only
ono element of the popuation--the Catholic element
We have had brilliant gathering OF prelates an inter-
estng display Of religious DEVOTION wild ebullition OF
political feeling and attempt to transfer the Hyde
Park amnesty demonstrations 10 Sackvlle street.
Amnesty" and ''RGmembor the prisoners"
were tho legends Gaunted before your face