Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 1 February 1900, Page 9

Irish News.

CORK.— Celebrating tteir Silver Jubilee-— A touching ceremony was witnet-sed at the Franciscan Capuchin Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork, recently, when the silver jubilee of the Very Rev. Father Bernard was celebrated. Father Rernard is a well-known and highly-respected priest of the Capuchin Order in Ireland. The greatest portion of his Uine he lias spent in Coxk, where ho is well known, and has gathered round himself numerous friends. Some days previous the silver jubilee in religion of ihe Very liev. Father Nicholas was celebrated. Father Nicholas is now better Known in Dublin, where his name is a household world, from his efficient work in the cause of temperance.

DUBLlN.— Reform in Church Music— His Grace Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, has written a letter of approval to the conductor of St. Mary's Prize Choir in Dublin, tbe members of which have produced Palestrinu's and Vittoria's masterpieces recently in the church of the Uominic&ns. The Archbishop also thanked Mr. Edward Marty a for his assistance in bringing about a much-needed reform in metrop litan church music Mr. Martyn \» the author of ' The Heather Field." produced at the Irish National Theatre last May.

The Copyright of a Popular Publication— Two Dublin printers have gone to law with regard to the copyright of ' Old Moore's Almanac' founded in 1 ( » 1 0 Mr. Warren has been printing it under a cotyright, and now seeks to restrain Mr. Quirke from issuing a colourable imitation.

A Portrait of a Distinguished Author —A portrait of the late Mr. W. I. Fit/p itnck. the distinguished author of many historical works ri-lating to Ireland, has jnst been presented to the National Portrait Gallery, Mernon Square, Dublin, and was accepted at a meeting of the Governors. The portrait, which is by Mr. Catterson Smith. R.H.A., is a full-size head and shoulders, and is an admirable likeness of the late Mr. Fit/patrick.

Death of a well-known Journalist.— The death of Mr. JA. Scott, editor of the Inxh Tivu >. occurred rather suddenly at his residence in Dublin towards the end of November. Mr. Scott had only just recovered from an acute attack of dyspepsia, and had resumed his duties as editor of the paper. He was in the In\h Times office the day before he died, and appeared to be in prettj 7 good health and spirits, After attending to .some matters of business he returned to his home, and having dined, retired to his library, where it was his custom to spend .some time before coming down to his office to perform his duties for the night. In the library he was suddenly seized with an attack of syncope and passed peacefully away a few minutes later. Mr. Scott began his literary cau or in I^M.when he was about 1!) years of sge. He was associated with Dr. Maunsell and Mr. Le F.inu in the editorship and management of the ])uhlm En mmj JfmJ, and afterwards edited the Dublin I mnr\ih/ Maqazim. He became editor of the Jri.sli Ttviix'm ls7l». and held that position until his death. Mr. Scott was a widely known and respected Irish journalist.

Archbishop Walsh on Proselytism —in the course of an address at the meeting of the friends and supporters of the Sacred Home, Druincondra. his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin in scathing language condemned the vile and sinful traflic in the souls of Catholic children which i^ still carried on in the mo'-t brazen manner by proselytiaers in the c~.pital of Catholic Ireland. It was to combat this hateful traffic that the Sacred Heart Home was established. That it has done good work is evident from the fact that it has already rescued 7.V) children from thes-e vile dens to which they had been consigned.

Death of Mr. Justice O'Brien. — Tne Right Hon. w O'Brien, one of the Judge* of the Queen's Bench Division in Ireland, died ii the earJy part of Xoumber at his residence in Dublin. The cable informed us at the time that it was Sir Peter O'Brien, the Lord Chief Justice, who died. The deceased judge was in his 67th year. He worked :s a reporter on the Cork H.riininu r, then as editor, and' later as a lawyer he was appointed asajmige. A man of high ability and no little eloquence he often gave uttir anee to speeches irom the Rench which were regarded as ou'-ide the strict province of a judge. In private life he was a most exemplary Catholic.

GAL WAY. — Bishop McCormack on the University Question- — In the course of a letter to a Dublin newspaper regaiding the attempt of the medical staff of the Queen's College, Galway, to veto the appointment of a Sister of Mtny as matron of the Galway County Hospital, his Lord-hip the Bishop of Galway says :—: — l I am not surprised that these Professors of the Queen's College have taken up this attitude of hostility to a Catholic appointment, as probably they have come to regard the County Galway Hospital as an outpost of the Galway Protestant education garrison. This addition to the stronghold of Protestant educational ascendancy would complete the monopoly. 'Ihey have the Queen's College practically in their own hands. The Model School is simply a higher school for non-Catholics, and regarded by the Protestant body as one of their educational preserves-. Add to Ihese the Erasmus Smith Galway Grammar School, to which Mr Justice O'Brien, in his singularly eloquent and able statement of the case. proves the rightful claim of certain Catholic children, but which is exclusively used a» a Protestant endowed school, and we have a nionopo y perhaps unequalled in any other town or city of Ireland. The Uitlandera are a majority of the Transvaal Republic, and the Rritish Government have drawn the sword of war in assertion of the Uitlander claims, with an appalling expenditure of blood and money ; but the Catholics of Ireland are a majority in a larger

ratio, and their claims are absolutely unheeded by the same British Government. Such is the method of operation of the boasted British even (?) keel ! '

KERRY.— The Deanery of Tralee.— Canon Carmody, of Castletown, Berehaven, has been appointed by the most Rev. Dr. Coffey to the Deanery of Tralee. The new appointment has given great satisfaction, as the Canon is highly esteemed by all who know him.

LIMERICK.— A Training School for Catholic Girls — The foundaUon-bloue of a new training college for Catholic girla was laid at Limerick recently by his Lordship Bishop O'Dwyer. It will, when completed, piovide. aoooinmodaLion for close on. one hundred teachers. The college will have an imposing frontage on

Prospect-hill, facing the road which runs from Henry-street to Ralinacurra. The main building is 101 feet long and 70 feet deep, with a height to the eaves of .">o> feet. A recreation hall, 73 by .'{.") feet, and a kitchen, 30 by 2(> feet, together with a covered gallery from the college, biing the frontage up to 330 feet long.

here was a large attendance of the clergy and laity when the

isi-.hop laid the foundation-stone of the new building. His Lordihip, in the course of his address, said it is to be a purely denomina-

tioii'U college. It will be entirely under the control of the Sisters of Mercy, and without any limitation whatsoever.

MAYO.— Mr. Michael Davitt's Constituency— From the

Home papers we learn that there were three candidates in the field for South Mayo, the 6eat vacated by Mr. Michael Davitt. They were Messrs. O'Connor Kelly, of Claremorris ; Haviland Burke, of Clurremorris ; and O'Connor Power, of London.

TIPPERARY.— A Bazaar in aid of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families. — A bazaar was held on December 7 in Cahir Castle, kindly lent by Lady Margaret Charters, in aid of the funds of the Soldiers" and Sailors' Families' Association. Among the

most prominent patrons was the Rev. Father Power, parish priest of the district.

Presentations to a Popular Priest-— The Rev. Father O'Halloran. lately transferred Irom Portrol to the more important parochial charge of Rallywilliam, Youghalarra, and Newtown, has

been made the recipient of a very fine selection of gifts for these churches including ciboriuin, chalice, etc.. iv gold and silver, and a

magnificent harmonium from Mr. P. M. Gleeson, Dublin, who is a native of Youghalarra parish. The esteemed rev. gentleman has also received a fine Virgin' 3 altar and statue of the Immaculate Conception, as well as elegant Stations of the Cross in beautifully carved oak frames, etc. The presentation altogether was of an elaborate and costly character, and pays a high tribute to Father O'Halloran.

WESTMEATH -A New Cathedral for Mullingar-The Most Rev. Dr. Gaffney, Richop of Meath, has decided to erect a new cathedral and also a seminaiy at Mullingar. The latter, which will co-t C2O O(ii). will be erected by the bishops and pritsts of the diooete, who for the last twenfy-five years have contributed toward* a tumi for that purpose. To erect a new cathedral worthy of the Catholic traditions of the great diocese of Meath a public appeal will be made. The announcement has given general satisfaction, as it has lontr been felt that the present building was wholly inadequate tor the large congregations which attended it.

GENERAL.

Injury to the Butter and Bacon Trade —Immense injury

has been done to the Irish bacon and butter industry by the fraudulent selling of American bacon as Iribh, and of margarine aa butter. A leading firm in Dublin has been fined £20 for the former offence, and Mr. Mahony, the magistrate, stated that in case of repetition he would send the managing director to prison, as his jurisdiction was plenary. A provision merchant, on being fined £5 for selling margarine as butter, profu&ely thanked Mr. Mahony for not

fining him more heawly.

Eviction Made Easy- — An official return shows that no less than 1 l^s pviction-iuaJe-easy notices were served on Irish tenants during July, August, and September. This means, without writs, hail lifts, or police, these poor people can be turned out on an order obtained at any potty serious, and there can be no doubt that

"Should the, vgilanee of the United Irish League be relaxed, these and other poor tenants would be ruthlessly thrown on the roadside. Irish Surgeons not Required —The Council of the irißh College of Surgeons offered to send high experts to South Africa to assi&t in the treatment of the wounded, but the War Office declined the offer Thisia the thanks the College have got for dissociating: themselves from the general protest of the medical profession at the trtatment of army surgeons. When the army was boycotted by the profession at large the Irish College of Surgeons stepped in and accepted the offer of the Government to nominate emergency men. They have now leisure to reflect upon the extent of the gratitude of the War Department. Irish Uitlanders. — The Irish Catholics, after a struggle extending over hundreds of years, have good reason (says the Catholic Tones') to envy the Uitlanders, for apparently they must always remain Uitlanders in their own land. The other day a charge of an agrarian character was heard at Sligo. Five-pixths of the people of Sligo are Catholics, but not a tingle Catholic in Sligo is to be trusted on his oath. That at least is the sound Government doctrine. One after another, over twenty Catholics were told to • s-tand aside ' when called to serve as jurors, and a carefully packed jury was chv «en from which every professor of tbe detested creed was rigidly excluded. No one, we tlink. will be astoni&hed that our correspondent should say 'there are Uitlanders elsewhere than in the Transvaal.' From the Bench, too, the Uitlander has been very successfully excluded. There were four Catholic judges out

of eighteen, and now that Judge O'Brien is dead there are three. The newspapers have been suggesting that the place left vacant through the demise of this Catholic judge should be filled by the appointment of a distinguished Catholic lawyer, The MacDermot, Q.C. The Irish Executive, of cour«e, has no intention of adopting such a dangerous suggestion. The statesmanlike policy is to promote loyalty amongst the Catholics by treating them harsh'y and contemptuously.

The Legal Title Of Catholics— The gradual annihilation of the Penal Code (''ays the /■Wr/nans Journal) has reminded a correspondent of a corresponding change in the legal title of Catholics From the time of the introduction of the Protestant creed into Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth the appellation used by me Btatutea was 'persons in communion with the Church of Rome.' At the beginning of the Penal Code period, in l(J02, in the reign of William 111., and for a century afterwards, the Statutes describe Catholics, in hostile and contemptuous phraseology, as ' Papists and Popish people.' In 1703 Catholics attained the title of ' Tapibt", or persons professing the Popish or Roman Catholic religion,' and by later Statutes they are termed ' Roman Catholics ' only. The reproachful epithet of ' Papist,' ' Popish,' ' Romish,' ' Romanist,' etc., writes Mr Scully in 1812, ' was no longer applied to Catholics by any gentleman or scholar.' This series of charges in the legal nomenclature of Catholics is of something more than a mere academic interest. Two years ago Mr Lecky, the member for Dublin University, had an animated controversy with a constituent, a clergyman of the English Established Cuurch, by whom he was fiercely assailed for the offence of designating the members of the Catholic faith in debate in the House of Commons ' Catholics ' and not ' Roman Catholics' — a compound epithet which involves a solecism in language.

The Lord Chancellor and the Magistracy. — Lord Ashbourne, the Irish Lord Chancellor, seems to have extraordinary notions of judicial procedure (says an exchange). Lord Emly was reported to have said, in addressing a meeting of labourers, that they would not have induced the Local District Council to give them the work on the roads if they had not shown a stern determination. If they had not come there in their numbers, and if they had not come with blackthorns, they would not have succeeded. Lord Emly was stated to have described these words, upon the demand of the Lord Chancellor, for an explanation, as ' an oratorical flourish.' If they had been used they certainly would have been nothing more, and should not have been taken serious'y by Lord Ashbourne. But Lord Emly did not admit having uttered them. On the contrary, he is said to have intimated to the Lord Chancellor that the report was inaccurate, though refusing to give any further information. How any man with a judicial mind could, under the circumstances, have penalised Lord Emly — a man of distinction and the son of a Postmaster-General — surpasses understanding. Lord Ashbourne is the same official who restored to the mat istracy the Orangeman. Lord Rossmore, who was dismissed from it for a riotous rush through the ranks of the Queen's troops', whilst shouting that his men would cut them up. The Lord Chancellor is likely to have not a little trouble ovtr the removal from the magistracy of Mr. Kendal O'Brien, chairman of the Tipperary District council, for his namesake Mr. William O'Brien, asserts that he has given the National District Councillors of Ireland a lead which will be followed.