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Show .; ST. PATRICK'S DAY TIT ROME. Cardinal Vlncert Vannutelli Wore a t Large Bunch of Shamrocks on His Breast From Dawn Till Noon Maes Celebrated. As year after year rolls by, one can-fr,ot can-fr,ot help noticing that the feast of Ireland's Ire-land's patron is assuming new and grander proportions, says the Roman correspondent of the Standard and Times of Philadelphia. No doubt, cen-iturles cen-iturles ago, when O'Neill and O'Dimnell lived here under the protection of tha Papal flag, March 17 was far them and Itheir retainers a glorious though grim j' festa." But in those days no one sa.w : Rome's streets crowded witli Jrish- ; Americans. Irish-Australi3ns and Irish men born on the preen sod, all proudly i conscious of the full gra ideur of thair 'nation. I j From dawn till noon Italian. Amer ican and Irish priests celebrated mass ; continually in the Church of St. Aga- ; ;-ha. attached to the Irish college. At m. Cardinal Vincent Yanmitelli 'drove up to say the community ntuss ind administer Holy Communion to tlv ! students. Needless to say; the bunch jof shamrotk worn outside his robes j-vvas of the usual dimensions four iimes larger than that worn by any mo else'. Not. indeed, to correspond iwith lii3 giant proportion (six feet six '1n stocking feel) but to be a better Irishman Ir-ishman than any one in Rome, At the high mass Archbishop Paucini pontlfi-'cated pontlfi-'cated in presence of a large congregation congrega-tion of different nationalities, chiefly hrish and American. The St. Patrick s Mav banquet was attended by a large circle of Ireland's well-wishers, some !r them being priests from America iwho are sojourning temporarily in the Icii.v. ! Ill St. Isidore's the Irish Franciscans i celebrated the fenst with great pomp (and solemnity. The panegyric of the apostle was preached by Mgr. O'Han-Jlon. O'Han-Jlon. vicar apostolic of Uganda, and was (much admired for the vigor and sweetness sweet-ness with which the great missionary delivered it. In the evening benediction benedic-tion was given there by Cardinal Cas-Uetta. Irish Envoys Home. i The last week of March was a stirring stir-ring time in Ireland. It saw the home-coming of the four Irish envoys Messrs. Devlin and Donovan from Australia and New Zealand, and Messrs. Kettle and Hazelton from ihe United States of America. The jfour arrived together on March -S, und were met at the Cove of Cork by I delegates from the Irish party and ihe United Irish league and municipal munici-pal officials from Belfast, Cork, Gal-Svay Gal-Svay and Dublin. Their various ways 'home were a series of triumphant inarches. The enthusiasm of their welcome buck was long sustained and equalled only by the enthusiasm of The messages they brought from the great Irish colonies and countries beyond be-yond the sens, wher they were cordially cor-dially received as the duly accredited embassadors of a nation. Their speeches were gloriously cheering and encouraging. Mr. Joseph Devlin, who is the foremost of the four, is a levelheaded level-headed young man whom I met in Chicago, when he was engaged on a similar mission to America. He is , a fluent speaker, but guarded and careful in exoression. He said on his ?, - i arrival at Queenstown: v "The Irish abroad, who are keen jn students of home afairs. watch with i ardent and jealous interest every y. ,,f passing phrase of the national Strug- f file, and are well informed in every-1 I ' ihing that affects the Irish cause. , AVhatever differences may arise in Ire- In nd on questions of method and pol- l icy. they stand by the indestructible principle of majority rule. They know-that know-that it is on that principle that their own almost perfect system of government gov-ernment depends for its abiding povv-r. povv-r. and recognizing its value in their vn country, they have no place for factionists. however exalted, who assail as-sail that principle at home. Every-j Every-j where, the priests. Bishops, and Prln-! Prln-! es of the Church blessed our mis- si in. attended and addressed our meetings, anil were munificent in :iheir contributions to the funds. Ev-'-rywheie. too. the leading men in each state and district hastened to identifiy theniselve heartily with the movement. The Premier of New Zealand- assured us that very soon a. moll mo-ll ion approving Home Utile would be passed in the New Zealand Parlia-; Parlia-; tnent. as it has already been passed by Australia and Canada, so that all jilie great. s--lf-governing Colonies, Mhat Great Britain is so eag'r to conciliate con-ciliate wiil be linked in the same em-iphatie em-iphatie '-l In ration." ' Correspondent in Catholic Register. Maude Gonne's Young Ireland. Maude-Gonno continues to make her i home In Paris, and. at the annual mass : offered for Ireland on the 17th of March in The Church of Our Lady of 'Victory In i- 3-year-old son distributed 'shamrocks which an Irish society had , sent acros" th- channel. Young ire-iland ire-iland wore a white suit and his moth- i's cross of the Knights of t. Patrick. Pat-rick. After the mass Countess d. Cre-r.'ont. Cre-r.'ont. wife of the ojesldent of the St. i Tat rick's society of Paris, presented i i he Irish Joan of Arc to the pastor of lib- church and other high dignitaries ' h ssembli'd. Happily. Maud Gonne's boy resembles his bc:it:tifu! mother rather th)i his .very homely father. MaJ. McBride. of v, hom not a good word is said in Ireland Ire-land even by those who do not quite 'approve of the extreme views held by 3 his wife. Trinity College. Trinity college Dublin, is making a "sperate effort to pi eserve its sejarale Identity as a college, and not to be absorbed ab-sorbed into the proposed National uni versity, as recommended bv the late ommission which examined into its . nnditlons. Gaelic Leagvers. as a rule, are disposed to 'favor the elimination f the college as a distinct entity, not only because it fought ihe movement for years, but because as an educational education-al institution it is moribund. "An Claideamh Colius." the League organ, said recently on this subject, and its views represent those of the Leaguers generally: "Those who would place Trinity within a National university do not wish to destroy her. They wish to save her. Intellectually Trinity is bound to benefit by being brought Into contact with modern life. Today, despite her brave pretensions to the contrary, she is out of the main stream of the world's i bought and endeavor. ' She is in backwater. back-water. The centuries have rolled on and left her behind." Kuno Meyer, the scientist and liguist and an enthusiastic Leaguer, also says of Trinity: "Advancement of knowledge was not to be hoped for from a university which regulated Its courses by such an antiquated and artificial system as Trinity college, feeding its students on nothing but ready-made knowledge and satisfied when they received a certain number of marks in tricky examinations examina-tions that wore the laughing stock of ihe learned world. Such a system of teaching docs not exist in any other , lurried institution in Cluistendom," j ' ! ' |