Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 18, 1 May 1902, Page 9

Irish News.

ARMAGH. A. congratulatory message, of which tihe following is a translation, was forwarded by his Eminence Cardinal Log,ue, Primate of All Ireland, to the Holy Father on the ~oth anniversary ot his pontificate : The Catholics of Ireland most heartily associate themselves with the Christian world in the rejoicing and good wishes with which it salutes the 25th year of the pontificate of your Holiness so auspiciously entered upon, and earnestly beseech Almighty God that He may long spare an,d preserve your Holiness.' The following was the rep,ly received by his Eminence :— ' The good wishes of the faithful of Ireland were most acceptable to the Pontiff entering upon his jubilee, and ho lovingly sends his blessing to you and your flock.' CLARE. — Coercion Law. Tho following news item taken from a Dublin paper will give our readers some idea of how the law is administered in Ireland at the present time : — During the progress of the pig fair at Kilrush, a member of tho local United Irish League, named O'Dohnell, was arrested, charged with inciting the boycotting of tho holder of an evicted farm. Mr. O'Donnell was at once brought before Mr. A M Harper, It M , and after hearing the police evidence, ho was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, in default of giving bail. Mr. O'DojincH's application for an adjournment to obtain professional assistance was refused DOWN. The respect entertained by the Orangemen of Ulster for law and order was beautifully manifested at Black.skull, near Dromoie. in. County Down, during the early part of March, at a creamcrv meeting The clergy of all denomnra turns join m promoting creameries on the cooperative principle, since such enterprises lead to gieat improvements in dairying in Ireland IVinn tho votaiies of private trading such institutions meet with constant hostility. At Black.skull a cieameiy meeting was beseiged by a mob, which indicated its composition by bellowing 'No Home Rule ' Priest and minister came m alike foi the rough handling of the crowd, ,\nd it was not until police piote.ction arrived after many hours that the creamery promoters vent'uied fiom the hall m which they were beleaguered. Even then two men wei c struck with stones and badly injured. A Romance. An American despatch fi om Moiristown, N.J., states that when Henry Warren returns from Ireland a month hence he will bring as his bride a woman who has been waiting 20 years for him. Her name is Mario Thompson, and she lives at Banbridge. When Mr Warren was a yotmg man he attended Trinity College in Dublin. His father was a banker there, and was wealthy Young Warren met Miss Thompson while she was in school They lo\ed and pledged themselves to each other. Suddenly tho banker died, and when his estate was settled nothing remained but debts. Young Warren left school, and staited to mako his way in the world He said he would never marry until he had paid off his father's debts lie offered his fiancee her freedom, but she said she would wait for years He struggled first at Home, and then in America, and at last, he accomplished his task. Ho had not corresponded with Miss Thompson during these 20 years, but through friends he knew she was still living He cabled to her—' All debts paid ,

I am coming.' In reply he received this — ' lam waiting,' and on February 18 he started for Ireland. Death of a Nun. T ho death is announced of the Itev Mother .Emmanuel, the only surviving sister of the late Lord Russell of Killowen and of Father Matthew Russell, S.J. Mother Emmanuel was the Superioress of the Convent of Mercy, Newry, and there she died after a very brief illness, whiuh developed into pneumonia, carrying her off in her 71st year Mother Emmanuel became a nun in 1858, entering then the convent where she diejd as Superioress Later on she went to Lurgan, and, returning to Newry, was appointed Reverend Mother in 1878. Her two sisters were nuns also, one of them having been the pioneer of the Mercy Sisters in California. The only surviving member of the generation now is Father Russell, S.J., who was with his sister in her last hours. DUBLIN.— Good Work. In making an appeal in the Carmelite ChMrch, Clarendon street, Dublin, on behalf of the Childrens' Hospital, which is conducted b.y the Sisters of Charity, the Rev. Father O'Reilly, S.J., said that last year the number of extern patients treated in this most meritorious institution was over 8000, and the number of intern patients 1000. GALWAY. — An Appointment. It is announced that Mr. Lehane, National School Inspector in Boyle, has been appointed examiner in Irish all over Ireland The \acancy m the Galway district will lie hlled up by the appointment of Mr lleniy Mahon. KING'S COUNTY.- Satisfactory. At the opening of the spring assizes Mr. Justice Andrews, m his charge to the grand uiry of King's County, said he was happy to s,iy the returns showed a continued decrease in the cases of intoxication On the whole, the count v w.is in a satisfactory state There were only nine bills to be investigated by the grand jury. LIMERICK.— The Hours of Labor Mr A. W. Shaw, .1 .P , head of the well-known firm of bacon-curers in Limerick, lias initiated a new s\ stem of work in his factory, the result of winch will be the shortening" of the workmen's hours from 58 to .11 in the week. A deputation of Messrs Denny and Sons' employees waited on the concern's manager recently, and it is stated that a new time, schedule will come into force as a consequence The other cui ers will piobably iollow suit Destructive Fire. A destiucti\e lire occuried in the early part of Maich at the .Shannon Biscuit Factory, Limerick, the extcnsi\e buildings being almost completely burned down The damageis estimated at JCI O,OOO Female Beauty. If the Limerick guls ha\e any gratitude they should subsci ibe to ' St James's Gazette ' which said a short tune ago : ' The Limerick face is the perfection of female beauty — a human ceramic witlmut a blemish.' We (' Irish People ') half expected to see m the mati linonial columns since a, proviso that, the lady must be a human cci annc — w.iii anted genuine Limerick The 'Luneiuk face ' should become as famous as the Limet lck lace SLIGO.— A Fine. Mr Mcllugh, nieinbei of the House of Commons for Leiti un North, was fined £50 by the Land Com t of Duiblm for inserting in 1 lie ' Slmo Champion' a resolution adapted by tho United Irish League demanding the surrender by a tenant of a faim taken despite the warnings of the League.

TYRONE.— PearI Fishing. An Irish industry (says the 'Freeman's Journal ') which seems to have escaped the attention of everybody, and which has, doubtless, been overworked to a mischievous extent, is the iishing for fresh-water pearl mussels in the river Strule, near Omagh, County Tyrone. Some years ago they were found in great abundance, and occasionally really valuable specimens luwtutled the seekers Men selling pill-boxes full of seedling peai Is usc-d to attend the trains, trying to dispose of them, especially to passing tourists. This unlimited iishing and dealing can hardly ha\o been very good for the mussels. Pearls are not like precious stones, that are there all tho time for the finding, but must) have time for growth, and, even after being taken from the shell, require special treatment to bring them to perfection. The Omagh mussel fisheries might become a source of local benefit if afforded a chance and some adequate attention GENERAL. Judge Morris. Early in March attention was called in the House of Commons to the partisan utterances from the bench by Judge O'Connor Morris. Mr. T. W Itussell took part m the discussion, his remarks being in part as follows — Hero was a gentleman appointed b.y the Crown to administer certain Acts of Parliament. He had, for example, to administer the Land Act of 1881, and was called upon to decide what was fair rent for any farmer coming into his court. Now, he (Mr Russell) put it to tho Government and to candid English members, was it a reasonable, thing after a man had denounced the Land Act — had declared it to be pure and unadulterated confiscation — to put him in a position to administer the Act '? It was impossible to expect to have even-handed justice from a man who had beforehand taken the greatest pawns to denounce the legislation he was called upon to administer What business had Mr O'Connor Morris with land purchase, voluntary oi compulsory? Ho was the County Court J ndge for Rosconunon and Shgo, and they were the two most seriously disturbed counties in. Ireland , they were in a dangerous state of disorder. At tho last quarter sessions he was called upon simply to do his duty ; and that was to adjudicate upon tho claim of Lord lie Frej ne as to rent winch was due His duty was to say whethei the rent was due or not He began a furious attack upon the legislation of that House, and upon the only legislation which had been successful in Ireland, and that was the legislation as to land purchase, which the Consei\atne party declared to be the land policy in Ireland lie said it was robbery and confiscation, and he (Mr. Russell) maintained that the measures attacked constituted tho only way of avoiding both robbery and conliscation Ha\ ing disposed of voluntary purchase he rated against compulsory purchase The fact was the nidge had got confiscation and robbeiy on the brain This man brought politics to the bench, and he convinced e\erv man at his court thai, so far as agranaft questions wei t: concerned, he had taken his side, and that he would get as much instice in agrai l.in issues as ho (the nidge) thought it right to (give, ami that was \e\y little. This was a mattei the Government might well take account of. He (Mr. Russell) was- sony there was no Cabinet Minister on the Bench He attached very little credence to newspaper rumors, but it appealed the Government were pacing attention to the mattei from another standpoint, but they might well ask themselves whether ( 'ns man was not putting a match to n powder magazine. When

they got an old Liberal made into a Tory by 15 or 16 years' communication with the real' article that was the most pestilential thing in Irish politics. That was exactly what this learned gentleman was. As one representing a purely agricultural constituency he protested against such a general exorcising of the Land Acts. Not Coercion but Statesmanship. In a remarkably powerful letter which he has addressed to the " Times,' Mr. T. W. Russell contends that it is not coercion that is required in Ireland, but statesmanship. And anyone who reads his arguments mrast acknowledge that they are lucid and cogent. At the present moment, when it is proposed to revive the Coercion Act of 1887 and to proclaim the "United Irish League, the whole country is crimeless. Crime of an ordinary character "is entirely absent, a/id agrarian crime has all b,ut disappeared. Boycotting certainly prevails in the West, but the trouble has been Ibrougiht about chiefly by an impolitic act on the part of the Government. The Congested Districts Board bought the Dillon estate and created ' a new heaven and a new earth ' for the tenants by re-selling, it to them. The tenants of the neighboring properties ask in vain for these privileges, and the outcome of the refusal is a strike for the same terms. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as economic rent on any of these western properties. There is not even subsistence. The rent is paid by children in New York and Chicago, and by labour in Grear Britain. Their conditions of life, Mr. Russell om'phatically declares, would take all spirit out of saints and would breed anarchy were it not for the controlling 'influence of that Catholic Church which those who arc now hounding on the Government' hate so cordially ; and he calls upon the Government to go forward not with a policy of conquest and ascendency, but with a policy of reconciliation and equality beiitting the twentieth century. Lord Spencer on Home Rule. Lord Spencer, in his recent speech at Eastbourne, .proclaimed himself the consistent and - unchangeable, Home Ruler he has long been known to be." Notwithstanding the fact) that the meeting of the Home Counties Liberal Federation, at whiQh ne spioke, was presided over by Mr. Freeman Thomas, M.P., one of the secretaries of the Liberal League, Lord Spencer said that he had been co-operating with Sir Henry Camp-■Bell-Bannerma.n, and will continue to do so so long as Sir ITenry was the Liberal leader in the House ol Commons. They had heard that Home Rule was to be given up by the Liberal Party. He coujd not' agree to that. If the Liberal Party gave up Home Rule he must take a . "back seat. He had not altered, and .would not alter, the views he held on this question. Parliamentary Fund. Tho United Irish League in the United States has contributed £1000 to the Irish Parliamentary Fund.