GENERAL.

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GENERAL.

The Irish Pilgrimage to Rome— The only lay member of the Irish pilgrimage admitted to private audience with the Holy Father was Count Moore. Interesting Reminiscences- — The absence of Mr. T. D. Sullivan from the House of Commons will have some compensating advantage for the leisure it will insure will, it is understood, be devoted to the writing of his Reminiscences, which his many friends have urged him to take in hand. The book ought to throw a good many interesting- oHpljjrhfcs on Trinh movements during the last half a century, for Mr. Sullivan has been more or less identified with all of them, and possesses an extensive inside knowledge to which few of his contemporaries can lay claim. He has been a journalist, a prominent personality in the civic life of Dublin, of which he was twice Lord Mayor, and a writer of verse whose stirring patriotic lyrics have been as familiar as household words in the mouths of more than one generation in Ireland, and a very active politician who has borne no inconsiderable share in the making of recent Irish history. He is equally respected by those who share his views and those who differ from him.