THE IRISH CAUSE IN AMERICA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2078, 31 October 1885, Page 4

THE IRISH CAUSE IN AMERICA.

The delegates representing the Irish National Leagues of nearly ever} State in the United States had a secret session at Chicago on the loth Augnst, to devise the best means of lending aid to Mr Farnell *nd his colleagues m the old country. During the conference a dispatch from Mr Parnell was read advising the meeting to fit on a date subsequently to the English elections for the holding uf the national convention. An address was then read and adopted, which, in part, is as follows : "In obedience to the suggestion of the chosen leader of the people of Ireland, the National Committee of the Irish National League in America, assembled to designate the time and place for holding the next Nation.il Convention of the League in the United States, have decided to postpone the date of meeting until January, 1880. It must be manifest to all members of the League and all friends of self-government in Ireland that it would be impossible either for Mr Parnell to attend the con vention in this country, or to send any of his able assistants pending the general election, which will probably occur next No\ ember. Hence the wisdom of hii suggestion that the convention be postponed. In the meantime, however, the League should inaugurate a peiiod of activity not less earnest than that which prevailed when li eland was threatened with another ai tificial famine, and when her lendcis were impiisoned and her press silenced under the so called Liberal Government. The party led by Mi Pariitll needs suppoit. /low well that mipport is clest rwd we need hardly tell the world Assuredly we need not tell men of Irish birth or descent. Serving without compensation, without ollicial power or patronage, among aliens who havo persecuted and who have sought to degrade them, being numerically less than one twentieth of the body in which they serve, they have achieved a success unparalleled in the history of sti uggles for free government. Ity their ability, their unity, their discipline, their faith in the justice of their cause, and by their rest less labours they havo forced not only their enemies but the world to look upon their oppression and to listen to the re ciUls of an outraged, plundered, misgoverned people. " They ha\ c not been able to got back Grattan's Paihanient for Ireland, but they boldly announce that no lesser measure will be accepted by them, and pending its restoration, though prohibited from governing Ireland, they have been able to dictate who must cease and who may asaunie the work of governing England. Whcu they next appear in Parliament their numbers will be increased from thirty to at least eighty. They will ha\o more or lew of the only leliable English support — that which conies from fear — from a number of English members who will owe thfir elections to the judicious exercise ot the balance of power of the exiled Irish m England and Scotland. With that strength they will be able to throttle English legislation and thus com pel the English to allow them to retiro fiom an atmosphere polluted by loyal and aristocratic bestiallity, and to fatal) lish a free Parliament for the government of tree people in Ireland." " In the accomplishment of this woik they need one moic gieat effort on the put of their American auxiliaries. We appeal to every branch of the League to give renewed hfo and detcrmimtion to the work. At the convention to b« held in January it is more than probable that Mr l*arn<-ll will le piescnt. It i"? eeitain that the Irish Paihamcntary paity will be represented. " In the evening a large demonstration | wa» held at Ogden's (irove, being at tended by several thousand fuends of the Irish cause. Among the addresses dc livered was one by Senator Kiddle-burger of Virginia. Alexander Sullivan, ex Pirsideut of the Irish-American League] in America, called to the chair, introdnccd the speaker in the follow ing words : ' ' The distinguished American pati iot v, ho is to address you this evening does not claim, like Mr Lowell, that he is English. He will not tell you, like Mr Phelps, that the Prince of Waleu is a pioper model foi your sons, and that the English Queen is our Quein. He does not believe with kodjc Americans that the United States Senate is an annex to Scotland-yard. He does not put on mourning whenever a stone falls from the walls of the modern Babylon." Tho Executive Committee of the Irish National League of Ann nea decided tonight to hold tin national convention at GJncago in Januaiy. Thr exact date is to bo fixed thiough concspoiidence between Messrs Parnell and Eiran.

Mi i.k L<n i >.i- Mkiih, 11 studying the Russian language in pti^on. A\ lien the words are cxctssntly large it is haul that •he is allowed to witstle with them in the corndors. Mml Miimi. If wk. has bet n granted by Kmpcror William tlio bonouraiy title of " Imperial Chamhcr Singer," a distinction .shared by only tlnee othei foreign prima donnas, Adelina I'.itti, Mine Jenny Liud (Joldaehmidt and Artot Padilla. Mrs (it AosTfi.vh finds her time pretty well occupied in countermanding hei talented husband's eccentric ordeis for liati, shoes, etc. Clara Morris declares that Mr Tilden is tho finest conversationalist she ever met, and that he is " far too lovable to have remained a bachelor." A Pfnnsylvan'M women who found a snake fastened to her dress ran so fast that the reptile was dashed to death. She ought to run for Congress. A mkmuui of the Virginia Legislature was recently sentenced to " one minute in gaol." It wai feared that if he were put in for any longer timo the other convicta would make an attempt to break out. — Lowell (,'iti/cn. Thk instalment plan. Little Miss Pert — "Oh, mamma! Lila Benson's got a little brother. "Won't you buy me one, mamma?" "We're too poor, dear. I haven't the money." " Couldn't you pay a dollar a wick on him, mamma! That's the way you got the piano."— Life. " Ik you meet a tiger, swear (it the top of your voice," said a lion tamer ; " pro fanity will humble any beast." This u»«st be so, for we have noticed that men very often swrar after they have se< n the tiger.— New York Graphic.