NEWS BY THE MAIL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 55, 16 May 1874, Page 11

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

IRELAND

Dublin has sent to Parliament a man pledged to use every means in his power to restore iN national Parliament. The candidates were Sir Arthur Guinness (Conservative), Alderman Maurice Brooks, Lord Mayor of Duhlin(Home iUiler), Mr Pim(Gladstonian), and a mythical individual naired Fox At the close of the election, the Hijjh Sheriff announced the poll as follows : — Guinness, 5213 ; Brooks, 4838 ; Pirn, 1937 ; Fox, 515. Among the British noblemen who, in consequence of reduced circumstances at home, have taken refuge in the colonies, is the Karl of Mount Cashel, who is residing in Canada, at a very advanced age. Hopeles^y entangled as his Irish estates were, Lord Mount Ca«hel betook hiniM'lf, several cars ago, to a remnant of colonial property belonging to him, taking up his residence at Lobo House, near, London, Ontario, iteie he devotes himself to agricultural pursuits, and may often be seen diiving his waggon, loaded with produce, into the town ol London clad in homespun, like any oilier farmer. This Earl of Mount Cashel is a connecting link between to-day and times lons past, being the identical " Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer," satirically referred to by Lord Byron. Right Hon. Sir Thomas S. Lawrence, X B , Earl of Howtb, died on the sth Feb., »t Cannes, France, where ho had been for some time before lesidins for the benefit of his health. He was b«rn on the 16th of August, 1803 The Home Rulers of Tralee intend lodging a petition against the return of the O'Dcnoghue on the grounds of bribery. The project of constructing a tunnel under the Irish Sea from a point near Belfast to the extremity of the peninsula opposite in Scotland, has been revived, it is said, with some probability of success The length of the proposed work would be about twelve miles, and the estimated cost £23,' i00,000. Irish readers, especially those from Louth, will be interested in hearing that one of the Bellinghams, of Castle Bellingham — Henry, eldest son of Sir Allan Bellingham — has been converted to the Catholic Church When he succeeds his father, he will inherit one of the finest properties of Louth. At Galway a singular incident has occurred. Mr Morris, Conservative and Home Ruler, brother of the Judge, and Viscount St. Lawrence, Liberal, lmve been returned against Mr F H. O'Donnell. ; The very day after the poll, Lord Howth, Lord St. Li w recce's father, died at Cannes, and Lord St. Lawrence became an Irish Peer, and i-o disqualified to bit for an Irish constituency. We suppose that tlieie will be a fresh election lor the sent, and Monahan, son of an Irish Chief Justice, is reported to be about to stand for it ; but if it should turn out that Lord llowlb died before the return was made, a question might arise whether the return of Lord St. Lawrence was not invalid *■ ab initio. Died, on Feb. o, Mrs Mary Butler ('ate Kddare street), aged 75 year?. Mrs Buthr will be long remembered with respect by the . utionalists of Ireland as tne lady who sheltered James Stephens from iho date of his escape from Richmond Prison until he led Ireland, at a tune when a reward of £2000 was offered bj the Government lor his j apprehension. A man named Dillon, who was stabbed Feb. 10, by one of the constabulary, during ihe i iot at Newpjllas, died on the following day f oni the injuries received A Strange Accident — Early on the morning of Feb. 10, a horse and outside cur weie obseived lying in r.he bed ol t iio ii\er shannon, close to the fen j slip. The animal having gone out too I'av, the driver, whose name is Ch ary, and vehicle were carried off by the current, which flows very rapidly at this part of the river. His bedy has not yet been found. Mr Mitchell Henry, the newly returned member for County Gal. wt;y, writes to the 'Freeman' with reference to the General Election, so far us Ireland is concerned. He says that the Li«.h boroughs have robly done their duty, the principle of Home Kide having obtained "all along the line" victories, culminating ii the triumphant return ol the Lord Mayor for Dublin. As reyard-. the - policy to be adopted by the Irish representatives, Mr Mitchell Henry declares their course to be perfectly clear. Whether Whig or Tory be m power the Home 1-uile members are masters of the situation. Bui it a 6ingle vote be given by them on either side until the terms of ullogiance have been clearly and formally settled, the spell will have been bioken and disaster will then most assuredly follow. Mr Mitchell Henry suggests that the Irish members elected on the National platlorm should as-somble before the meeting of Parliament at a Confe- I

rence, open to the public, and at which a definite line of action ihould be arranged. Dublin city is supplied with water from the river Vartry. An embankment across the valley of this river encloses an area of 409 acres, and constitutes a reservoir capable of holding 2,400 million gallons of water, equal to 200 days' consumption fo* the city of Dublin and suburbs, taking the population at 400,000, and allowing 25 gallons per head per day for domestic and public use, and 2,000,000 gallons for manufacturing purposes. A torchlight procession, in celebration of the marriage of the Duke of Edinborough with the Archduchess Maria, took place at Belfast on the night, of January 27th. It w<is probably the first time that the Transatlantic fashion of nocturnal jubilee whs attempted, at least on so large a scale in Ireland. The ' Dublin Gazette,' of the 13th Feb., notices the appointment of D. Corrigan, late M.P. for Dublin, as a Commissioner of Na'ional Education in the room of the late Lord Chief ttaron F'igott, deceased. " Verily he has hi« reward." Mr John Martin, M P., has been appointed Secretary to the Home Bule League. The DuMin Corporation has resolved to petition Parliament for a Federal Union between Enjjlund an 1 Ireland. Deve'ii»li is en island one mile north from Enni«killen, and contains a lonnd tower the m >st perfect and rao-tt highly finished of any in Ireland. Lists of Lish round towers lime been made to the number of <me hundred and twenty ; of these the remains of sivty-six are traceable. The best archeeMo^i-ts believe that these toners are ant.-ri .r to the ai rival of the Celts in Ireland, .mil date back to ihe n.ost, remote antiquity. Similar towers are found in Indu, Persia and Peru. The ' Waterford News' says :—": — " A few d.iy-< since, i cat made an extraordinary leap in town, and escaped S"nthele«s. Wilkm^ about on the platform at the top of " Reginald's Tower," which bund* fully sixly feet from the ground, she espied a pigeon on the parapet a few feet higher. Watching h-r opportunity, j-lio sprang at the, victim, and caught it in her mouth, but did .-o with <-uch force, that both bird and ca* went right orer, coming to the fligs below with a great thud. With the shock, the cat let go the bird, an 1 ma Je some efforts to get back into the Tower. She failed, however, an Iw is brought in by one of the sons of Head constable .U.thnny After being on the sick list for some days she is now quite recovered. An Athlone man, Mr O'Qradj, contneto for s<»me Barrack woik, is the first person who his tak> n advantage of the recent st'iiute permitting " Petitions of Right ' to be heard and delivered in Ireland. The death of one of the laM Manchester political prisoners, Mr Clrirles Moorehou«e, is announced Mr Moorehousi* was tried for complicity in the rescue of Messis Kid y and Deiiy from the prison van, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. He obfa'ned his discharge on the expiratioi <>( his sentence, but, did not long suvive. His remains were interred in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, on Sunday, the 8 h ol February. Tne ' liish Times' of the 23 rd Jin nary says :—": — " The faraou* giafc which alway man-bed at the he id of the ' Welsh Fusiliers ' died on the march to ihe Prah, to the great n gref of the whole regiment. He was a noble nnimil, and was present el by the Q'leen to the regiment on the death oflns predecessor On Hi- cruise off the Gold Cmist the annual bee line sick, find consequently cross The hot climate overcime him, buc lie went on at th,- head of the regiment thro'tgh the bu--h, and died suddenly on the in reh — it is supposed from eating some poisonous herb All who witne-so I the Autunn manoaveres at Cur.a^h, must have remarked (he diguified bearing and gallant stride of thit. favorite of the soldiers." The ' Cork Daily Telegraph ' has ceased publication. The paper was at one time the ' Southern Repo'ier,' and was ownel by the late William Fagin, M.P., after who^ death it passed into the hanas of a partnership, with Michael Joseph Barry as editor. Uu .'or the proprietorship of Mr Felix. Mullin, the ' Southern Reporter,' which was originally c tri-weekly paper, bemme a duly and after a short time, Messrs Potter and Giltman purchased it, and changed its title to the ' Irish Daily Telegraph.' On the 13 h December, the compositors who worked on the paper sued and got decrees from the local magistrates against the proprietors, (or the urre.i'i ol w i?es due to them. Mr Potter declared in court that he h,i 1 becu i-ti,,ied by his connection With the concern, lie was worth six hundred a year when he entered it,, und had lost it all. i he installation of tho new M n or of D;oghe~i, on New Year* Day, was a memorable eve.it. The new Ala -oi \-e are informed, attended by the Corporation and the < ivic ofli e> myed in their robes, and beat m£ the civic emblems, proceeded in »• ,i\ to the Catholic parish churi.li, whore th«\y assisted at \la-i Tho i > and sword of stale, which were borne in the p.'oce- j i>n, it ere ihe jfis to the municipality of Droffheda of William the Third ! What a l estimony was thus' (Horded of the inscrutable n■> of Prov, deuce ! These gifts presenteii by tho victor of (he Boyne, who, according to tli » u.seriptiou on thcob. lisk ai Oldbr dgo, '"delivere I " this country from "Popery," lent an additional splendor to a solemn act of Catholic worship. A s' range le^soii is bound up in thi-* lacl, if people would only try to read it Tins Catholic procession passed through tho streets that Cromwell deluged with Catholic blood, in sight of the ruined abb<»y and churches that G-od has allowed Lo stand until this clay, to witness the goo My pigeant. These ruined churches, looking on the proees-ion, were like a»ed J^inieon, who " h.id receivel an answer from the Holy Ghost that he should nol see death before lie hud seen the Chii'-t of the Lord." Now heir hoary walls may crumble away in peace, for they ha?c seen tho evil doer pass away and be forgot t n, aud his -victims arise and occupy the land.