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From the B r i e f o f H is H o lin ess P iu s IX . to The Tablet June iSyo.
V ol. 76. No. 2641. L ondon, December 20, i 8qo..
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C hronicle of the W eek : Page
The Struggle in Ireland — Mr. Healy at Castlecomer—Meeting in BalKnahill — The Affray at Castlscomer—Death of Sir Edgar Boehm—Funeral of Dean Church The Bassetlaw Election _— The Affairs of Queen Natalie—The American Indian Troubles—The Elgin Marbles—The Behring Sea Dispute—The Stanley Expedition —Mr. Campbell Bannerman on the Crisis—The Separation of Central Queensland — The City Libel Case— London County Council—
ê ccouchement of the . German mpress—Statue of the Emperor Frederick , .........................9^*
’L eaders :
The Struggle in Ireland .. •• 9^5 The Nemesis ,of the Slave Trade 966
C O N T E N T S ,
Leaders (Continued) :
In the Matter of Hungarian Bap
Page tisms .................................... 967 ' A Dream of Space.........................968
The Nationalist Pledge N o t e s ............................
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R eviews :
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How French Soldiers Fared in
German Prisons .. ’ • • •• 972 Summer Rambles around Man
Chester .................................... 972 Marcia . . ... •• 973 Seasonable Books .. ^ •• •• 973 The Story of the Nations.. .. 974 The Impressions of a Tenderfoot 974
Aspects of Anglicanism
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Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. . . ’ .. •• 977
Correspondence (Continued):
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. . . 978 Florence-(From Our Own Corre
spondent) .. .. .. .. 979
Letters to th e E ditor :
The Temperance Question .. 780 But what of the O’Briens and
Healys? .. .. . . .. 981 The Strange Accusation I. ., 982 Cardinal Newman’s Memorial .. 982 Interesting to Adhiprajna , .. 982 A Ccfrrespondence and a Comment 982 Music at the Brompton Oratory .. 983
Obituary . . . . . . . . 983
C hristmas A ppeals . . . . 983
Social and Political . . ..9 8*.
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SUPPLEMENT. N ews from th e Schools :
Mount St. Mary’s College, Ches
Page terfield . . .. .. .. 993 Academy of St. Paulinus, Catte- ' „ rick .. ......................... •• 993 St. Ignatius’ School, Oxford .. 993 Catholic Collegiate Institute, Man- '
Chester , .. .. .. .. 993 About E ducation ........................... 993 N ews from th e D ioceses :
Southwark .. .. .. ... 994 Leeds .. .. .. .. 995 Northampton .. .. .. 995 Portsmouth .. .. ..... 995 The Book of Common Prayer .. 995 The Indian R i s i n g ........................... 996 Quarterly Meeting of the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul .. .. 997 Christians in C h i n a ........................... 997
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE STRUGGLE IN
IRELAND.
LL the week long Mr. Parnell has conducted the campaign in Kilkenny with unfailing energy, and has everywhere been met by Mr. Davitt with a courage and a resolution equal to his own. Sunday was a busy day for both parties, and meetings were held simultaneously in several parts of the county. Speaking in Kilkenny city, Mr. Parnell contrasted the merits of the rival candidates. O f Sir John Pope Hennessy, whom The Freem an's J o u r n a l describes as “ the battered ex-Governor of the Cannibal Islands and Hong-Kong,” Mr. Parnell said that he had a record which would qualify him well to be the leader of the party of renegades, and that he was nothing but a placehunting politician. The fact that Sir John Pope Hennessy was accepted as the only Nationalist candidate, at a time when Mr. Parnell was still undisputed master of the situation, was not alluded to. Of~Mr. Vincent Scully, Mr. Parnell said that he was honest Irishman who had devoted his life to the interests of his country, who had built up the Munster and Leinster Bank into a great financial institution, and as one who was-admirably fitted to help to build up the languishing industries and develop the coalfields of Kilkenny. And it will be admitted that, but for the special issue now before the country, Mr. Scully’s success would be cordially welcomed by all parties. The knowledge that he has promised to give J 6oo a year to the Evicted Tenants’ Fund is not likely to be forgotten on the polling day. Mr. O’Kelly, who followed, sought to remove the feeling that the break with Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party would ♦ throw back the chances of Home Rule by pointing out that in any case there would still be the 85 Nationalist votes, counting 170 in a division, to be reckoned with, friendship or no friendship. Let them therefore stand by the leader of their own choice, and then when the time came they could say to Mr. Gladstone: “ If you do not give us what we want, out you go.” He concluded by saying that virile independence, which once distinguished the Nationalist party, had been sapped in recent years by English hospitality and too long sojournings in London clubs. From Kilkenny Mr. Parnell drove to Tullamore, and here his language was of a kind which will make reconciliation very
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difficult. He defined the issue as just this;— whether the Irish people were to be free to choose their own leader, or were to be dictated to by renegades and Englishmen., At Freshford he denounced his late comrades as gutter-sparrows, and said that he had given every man o f them a better chance than he himself had had, “ and yet these miserable scoundrels had dared to go amongst the people of Ireland to defame their leader behind his back.” His opponents had taken advantage of the fact that during the past three years he had been incapacitated by illness from taking his proper place in public life, and they thought to strike at the independence of the Irish party in the hope that they had forgotten him ; but they had not forgotten him, and though he might be weak in body, he had a strong spirit, and he would persevere in this quarrel till the end.
Among the Nationalists opposed to Mr.
m r . h e a l y a t Parnell who have hitherto thrown themselves c a s t l e c om e r . unreservedly into the struggle the most effec
tive are Mr. Healy, Mr. Davitt, and Dr.
Tanner. These three seem to have realised that they have burnt their boats behind them, and that there can be no peace patched up until one or other party has been definitely worsted. In this respect the attitude of each of these three men has been in strong contrast to that up till now observed by Mr. William O’Brien and Mr. Dillon, and even Mr. M’Carthy, whose recollections of Mr. Parnell’s past services seem to incapacitate them from offering serious and energetic resistance. Mr. Healy indeed, in his first speech at Castlecomer, spoke of the sadness which filled him at the thought of having to range himself against the leader he had loved so well, but soon warmed to his work and showed that he meant to leave no stone unturned to excite the political passions of his hearers against Mr. Parnell. He told them they had to choose between smashing up the unity and independence of the Irish party and allegiance to a dethroned and broken idol. The truth which had been concealed for the sake of Ireland for the last 10 years must out now. When others had worked, Mr. Parnell had had the glory. They knew, in 1885, when Mr. Parnell forced Captain O’Shea upon a Galway constituency, what was the price he got for the transaction. In the presence of honest women he would not mention it. They were silent then because they were unwilling to create dissensions in the party and to tarnish the name of Mr. Parnell at the very moment when Mr. Gladstone was going to bring in his Bill. Mr. Parnell had signed a pledge that he would sit and act and vote with the party. The party had voted him down, and why then had he not retired ?
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