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Show Xl)e: Eaiesl IrisS) Hews ' Father Vaughan draws a large congregation con-gregation whenever - he preaches in Dublin, and fortunate in consequence is the charity on behalf of which he pleads. Every seat was filled in St. .Saviour's church, Dojninick street, on -Sunday, w;ben he ascended the pulpit to preach the ' annual charity sermon in aid of St. Vincent de Paul's female orphanage. North William street, in which 1,000 "of the most destitute children chil-dren have been brought up. and their faith, which was in danger of being lost, preserved.. Before concluding his discourse the eloquent preacher paid ja graceful compliment to the Scjns of St. Patrick, to whose, missionary zeal, he said, is duo the wonderful developr ment of the church in America, in Australia, Aus-tralia, and in fact in. all parts, of the 1 world during the past .century. I The one-time member of Galway and ardent advocate of Catholic rights, now the curlad darling of the enemies of both faith and fatherland, continues contin-ues in the Belfast Protestant press his screaming appeals to "the generous opinions of Ulster." Generous, indeed! The Catholics of the north know something some-thing of the generosity. They look forward with gloomy forebodings to the 12th of July, when they will no doubt be treated to a fresh sample of it. The following description of the ever-faithful Irish priesthood taken from Mr. O'Donnell's latest contribution to thc Northern Whig, wil lgive an idea of the depths to which he has fallen. He describes de-scribes that glorious body as "a clerical monopoly, perhaps the most ignorant and incompetent, the most wasteful of lay money, and the most indifferent to lay welfare, which can be found in the ent're world." Comment would be su perfluous. At the month of May procession in the Christian Brothers' schools. Mount Sion," Waterford on "Sunday, the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, addressing those present, said that he referred -to 'the matter with reluctance and pain. It became his duty publicly to ask this Protestant dignitary to do what the corporation of Waterford had requested request-ed him to do. So far he had taken no steps to comply with the unanimous request of that body. Dr. Sheehan expressed ex-pressed a hope that Dr. O'Harra would not allow the Catholics of Waterford and the neighborhood to remain under this grevious imputation. ' ; A repore of Dr. O'Hara's sermon having found its way into the Clonmel Nationalist arid the press of Waterford, in which city his lordship resides, the matter has been-taken up by several public " bodies, and this distinguished digniary of the 'Protestant church has been challenged to substantiate his statements. So far he has made no attempt at-tempt to do so. ' To their credit be it said, his lordship's coreligionists are not the least forcible in their condemnation con-demnation of him. Alderman Goff, a Protestant member of the Waterford corporation, in supporting a resojution calling, for an explanation or retraction, retrac-tion, said: "L!have' always met with extreme kindness and extreme toler? ation from my Roman Catholic fellow-citizen, fellow-citizen, and I da hot think that; there is a city in Ireland and I am saying now what I have said over and, over again that I dorr's believe there is a city In Ireland iri w hich there is less religious animosity; than there is in the city of- WaterforaV'r. Some time ago 'Dr. O'Hara, Protestant Protest-ant bishop of Cashel and late rector of Coleraine, paid a Visit to the scene of his former ministrations. While sojourning so-journing there the atmosphere of the north proved 4oo much for his lordship and brought on .an acute attack of bigotry. big-otry. -.Preaching in his old church, he stated, according to the Belfast Orange press,.. tluiti"b '.wa.s placed- in a part of ' the country where the people were very few a country overshadowed by the'dark cloud of ignorance and superstitiona super-stitiona country, made miserable by senseless. and wicked agitation, and he knew how theif little 'flocks in the -Protectant ehnrches had to fctruezle for bare existence. He knew how they were only suffered to live, and they were there by. a sort of grudging concession con-cession on the part .of others." Slanders such as this too ' frequently remain half hidden in the' anti-Catholic papers of Ulster, whef'e"'they are' the means of doing much vile and ignoble 'work. They should get 'wider publicity, .the wider the better,? as they sicken and die when dragged from their native haunts. Refutation follows publicity of such gross calumnies. The executive committee met in Dub lin on Tuesday, 6th inst.. Rev. Dr. M. P. O'Hickey in the chair: the other members present being Miss O'Farrel-ly, O'Farrel-ly, Miss Hayden, Messrs MacNeill, Pearse. Lloyd O'Donoghue, O'Neill, Barrett (treasurer);. O'Neastain (editor An Claidheamh-Soluis"), .and O'Daly (general secretary). .Important matters were discussed and arrangements made in connection with the forthcoming congress.. Mr. Richard A, Foley has resigned ids position on the executive committee. The following new branches were atfiliated. viz.. Glasgow, Wigan, Desertperges (Co. Cork). The following follow-ing renewed their affiliation: Rathfarn-, ham and Maynooth. Monthly reports were received from Kilkenny, Clonmel, Clon-mel, Limerick, Waterford, Rostrevor, Colmcllle. Swords, Glasgow, Co, Derry, nnd Bailleborough Co. Cavan. I The convent at, St. Pierre belonged to the well know n French Order of the I Reilgieuses de St. Joseph de Cluny, ! whose fine school at Mount Sackville ;. Phoenixpark, occupies such a prominent promi-nent place amongst the educational institutions in-stitutions of this country. At least one member of the St. Pierre community was an Irish lady, as to whose fate rate ner sorrowing relatives now anxiously anx-iously await information. The Castte Attacks the People's Representatives. Rep-resentatives. The United Irish League is no longer the sole object of the Castle's Cas-tle's attack. The lord lieutenant and his advisers have developed a new plan of campaign, and, in addition to fighting the popular organization, they have now decided to make an onslaught on the councils constituted under the local government act. The . first of these bodies to receive the attention of j the . coersionists is the Mill street Urban Ur-ban council, three of whose members ' are charged with the awful offense of referring to landgrabbing at a recent meeting. This development of the Castle policy will be watched with interest, in-terest, and we have no doubt that one I of its first results will be to make every ev-ery county and district council in the I country more determined than ever to stamp out the pernicious system of landgrabbing. If Mr. Wyndham, chief secretary for Ireland, hopes to intimi date the representatives of the people by his latest form of atttack he wilt have all hla work cut out for him. . Coersion in the South District Councillors Coun-cillors Prosecuted. Dublin castle has opened its attack 'on the popularly-elected popularly-elected bodies. The chairman and two members of the local district council have been summoned to attend a coercion coer-cion court at Milistreet. the offense with which thty are charged being that they, were concerned in the passing of a resolution, referring to landgrab-bers landgrab-bers and .graziers, at a meeting of the council' held last February. rThe defendants de-fendants are:: Messrs. J. J. Corkerryj J. P.; M. Fitzpatriek, and P. J. Rahilly. The clerk and assistant clerk of the union have been supoenaed to produce the minute book. In which, it is alleged, the minute was Inserte'd. Coersion in Clare; Heavy Sentences. Two-magistrates to be Imprisoned- Messrs': A. Newton Brady, RM., chairman, chair-man, and P. Kelly, R. M., sat at the coercion court under the crime act, held at F.nnls. May 12. Mr. P. J. 7-ln- nane, J. P., chairman of the Ennis Urban Ur-ban council, and vice president East Clare executive United Irish League; Timothy Flanagan, J. P., chairman of the Corofln district council; M. Griffey, Grif-fey, and M. O'Brien, district councillors; council-lors; Joseph Sullivan, and two others, were convicted of having taken part in an alleged criminal conspiracy to compel certain parties not to continue Iin the occupation of certain lands. Mr. Flanagan was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with hard la-I la-I bor, Mr. Linnane to three months' w ithout ith-out hard labor, Mr. Sullivan to three months, and the. others to two months with hard labor, except in the case of Mr. Griffey. Mr. O'Regun was discharged. dis-charged. ' The result of the case, and the se- verity of the sentences, which was not i anticipated, caused a good deal of sensation sen-sation through town. S Dublin and the Coronation of King Edward VII. " The Proposed Decoration Decora-tion of the Streets. Action of the Paving Pav-ing Committee. A special meeting of the paving committee of the corporation corpora-tion was held on Monday, May 12, to consider a motion by Alderman Doyle to rescind the resolution recently adopted on the motion of Councillor Tallon, granting leave to a committee to open the streets for the purpose of erecting poles for the decoration of the city in connection with the coronation. There was a large attendance of the committee. Alderman Doyle proposed that the order of the 6th inst, giving facilities for public decorations on the occasion of the" coronation, be hereby rescinded and that no permission be given either for the erection of poles on our thor- uugiuaiea or 101 me ui.-pio ui aucoiu- ers across the streets of the city. Mr. Briscoe seconded the motion. A division was taken, when there voted: For 'Alderman Doyle's motion, 6; against 3.'. Permission to decorate the streets is therefore refused. The High Sheriff of Dublin Repudiated Repudi-ated by His Nationalist Colleagues. The High Sheriff and the Corporation. A private meeting of the nationalist party in the corporation was held in the members' room, city hall, Dublin, on the 12th inst. Alderman Davin presided. pre-sided. The following resolutions were carried unanimously: "Resolved, That we, the nationalist members of the corporation, forming, as we do, the vast majority of the municipal mu-nicipal council, hereby solemnly repudiate repu-diate the impudent assertion of Councillor Coun-cillor McCabe, high sheriff of Dublin, that it is incumbent on him in the face of the refusal of the lord mayor to attend at-tend the coronation ceremony, to proceed pro-ceed to London himself in order to represent rep-resent the citizens; and that while endorsing en-dorsing the action of the right honorable honor-able the lord mayor, we hereby repudiate repudi-ate the authority of the high sheriff, Councillor McCabe, to represent the citizens of Dublin at the approaching coronation', which action is not only a betrayal of the nationalist party which elected him' but a mean endeavor to obtain. from the British government a shoddy title as the price of his betrayal. betray-al. . . ; -. "That the name of Councillor P. J. McCabe be expunged from the roll of members of the nationalist party in the corporation." . It was decided also to request a special spe-cial meeting of the council to be called that they might as a body deal with the high sheriff. - . .High , Sheriff's Action condemned by the U. I. L. The fortnightly, meeting of the Stephen's Green Divisional executive ex-ecutive of the United Irish league was held last evening at the league offices, 3!) Upper O'Conneli street, Dublin. Mr. C. L. Fleming (Trinity ward) presided. The following resolution was unanimously-adopted: "That we, the members mem-bers of the Stephen's Green executive and contemptible treachery of the high sheriff in attending the recent Orange meeting in the rotunda; and we hereby here-by repudiate his insolent statement that he would represent the citizens of : Dublin at the king's coronation." Coercion in Tipperary Prosecutions at Roscrea. At Roscrea, on the 13th of May, before Messrs. Home and pease, R. M.'s, the hearing was resumed, re-sumed, under the crimes act, of the prosecution of the following persons for having taken part in an unlawful conspiracy: Messrs. Edward Delany (Oldcastle), Philip Kennedy (Shana-cloon), (Shana-cloon), James Sheedy (Longford), Cornelius Cor-nelius Greed (Gorteen). Laurence Tier-ney Tier-ney (Cloonakenny), and Michael Coady (Kylemanagh). The defendants were charged with having, between Jan. 1 and April 30, at Clonakenny, being a proclaimed district, taken part in an unlawful conspiracy to induce one Denis Connolly not to work aS herd for John'Hodgins, who had taken a farm of land at Borrisnoe, formerly occupied by Miss Lloyd. They were, further ! charged with conspiring to unlawfully induce John H. Hodgins not to occupy the said farm, and with conspiracy to Induce persons not to deal with Connolly Con-nolly or Hodgins. After the usual police evidence, the magistrates having deliberated, the chairman said Edward Delany was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor in each case three months in all and ordered to find bail, himself in 20, and two sureties of JC10 each, to keep the peace for twelve months, or in default to go to gaol for three months without hard labor; Cornelius Cor-nelius Greedy was sentenced to three months with hard labor, two to run concurrently, with the same bail rule; a like rule in the case of James Shee- -dy; Philip Kennedy, same sesntences: Michael Coady, put under the same bail rule only; and Laurence Tierney, S although found guilty, was let go on ! 1 account of his old age. I Coercion Prosecution in County Cork. Heavy Sentence on a League Secretary. Secre-tary. Cork. May 15. Today before Messrs. Dickson and Turner, R. M.'s, Mr. Thomas Nash, secretary United Irish League, Kildorrery. was charged with having conspired to boycott certain cer-tain persons in connection with the ! taking of evicted farms in the district. 1 The magistrates ordered that the defendant, de-fendant, Thomas Nash, should be imprisoned im-prisoned for four months, with hard labor, in Cork county jail. i; Notice of appeal against the sentence was given. . The Land War IrTthe West Efforts j by the Priests Towards a Settlement ' Murphy's Reply; "Full Rent, - Full ' !; Costs."-Castlerea, May 15. For some time past negotiations for a satisfactory satisfac-tory settlement on the Murphy estate s have been pending. Mr. Quinn, the j agent on the estate, notified his intention in-tention of holding a rent office in Bal- rj laghaderreen on the 9th inst. The - It Very Rev. Canon White, P. P., and the f Rev. J. 'O'Connor, Adm., met him on behalf of the tenants. Mr. Quinn vis- i Heel French park yesterday, when he ' was waited upon by Canon White on behalf of his parishioners In Lisnacull, . I Mr. P. J. Clarke, D. C. and Mr. Mich- ' ael Egan, D. C, representing the Mul- Iin tenants. The agent's final answer : was that he tame to receive the full rent and full costs, and that he would j j give no abatement whatever. 3 The tenants heard of the- result with the uttnost equanimity, and immediately immedi-ately afterwards held a meeting, at which it' was resolved: "That, inasmuch, as the' landlord is determined to exact the full rent, we are determined to hold out until our lfmsn(l are aeeaded to." . . |
