MARSHAL MACMAHON AND THE IRISH PEOPLE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 March 1874, Page 9

MARSHAL MACMAHON AND THE IRISH PEOPLE.

The following has appearad in the ' Freeman : ' —

Dr M'Devitt, the Bishop of Raphoe, in a letter from Paris to a friend in this city, received a few days since, gives a most interesting account of an interview which his lordship and the Bishop of Armagh (Dr Conroy) had with Marshal MacMahon. The President of the French Republic showed that he felt proud of hi 3 connection witjj Ireland, and in the course of the interview warmly returned thanks, in the name of France, to the Irish people for the sympathy and assistance extended to her in her recent calamities. Knowing how gratifying this will be to Irishmen, we gladly avail ourselves of the permission to give the following extract from Dr M'Devitt's letter: —

" We made our way direct to Versailles," writes the bishop, " and had an audience of Marshal MacMahon, the President of the French Republic. He was alone, and received us at the door of his room, and, the moment we were well in, he burst forth into such a torrent of words as I had neTer heard before, all than Sing the Irish people, in the name of France, for their sympathy and assistance, &c. It was a most interesting interview. I shall never forget it. He spoke with extraordinary energy. There was a warm kindness in his manner, and he asked more than once were we staying long in France, &c."