A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to The Tablet June 4, 1870.
V ol. 77. No. 2645. L ondon, J anuary 17, 1891.
P r ic e sd., by P ost
[R eg is t e r ed a t th e Gen e r a l P ost Offic e a s a N ew spaper.
‘C hronicle of th e Week :
Irish Politics — Mr. Parnell in Dublin—Mr. Morley at Newcastle—Mr. Lowther at Hartlepool—The American Congress and ihe Census — The Behring Sea .Difficulty—The Scottish Railway Strike — The Muzzling Order— Collision in the Firth of Forth— The Indian Marriage Bill—The Leeds Calamity—The Irish Distress Fund . . . . . . . . 81 L ead ers :
The New Year in Italy . . . . 85
Mixed ” Education Indeed . . 86 Old Masters at Burlington House 87 Newman’s Anglican Letters . . 87
C O N T
Page
N otes . . . . ............................ 90 R eview s :
The Story of the Nations : Swit
zerland . . . . . .
The Science of the Saints in Prac
tice.. . . . . . . . . 91 A Protestant Hero.. .. ^ .. 92 Black js White : or, Continuity
91
Continued .. . . . . . . 92 The World of Science . . . . 92 Aspects of Anglicanism _ . . . . 93 The Archbishop of Dublin on Irish
Elementary Education . . . . 94 Correspondence :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ...........................97
ENTS.
Correspondence (Continued) :
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) . . . . . . . . 98 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
The Wine of the Condemned . . 99 The Uncovered Dead . . . . 99 Bishop Samuel Peploe . . . . 99 N ews from th e D io ceses :
Southwark . . . . . . 100 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 100 Salford . . . . .. . . 100 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 100 The Cardinal Archbishop and So
cialism .. . . .. . . 100 The Irish Bishops and Mr. Parnell.. iox Salford Protection and Rescue So
ciety .......................... . . . . 102
Sir John Pope Hennessy and the
Carlton Club .. .. . . 103 The Convent Will Case . . . . 103 The Jenkins’ Memorial Church,
B a l t im o r e .......................... . . 105 The Bishop of Salford on the Temperance Movement.. . . . . 106 The Vice-Rector of the Scots Col
lege . .
Obituary ............................................ 106 S ocial and P o l it ic al . . . . 106
SU PPLEM ENT. D ecisions of R oman Congrega
t io n s .............................................-it? N ews from th e S chools :
The Instruction of Catholic Truant
Children . . . . . . . . 1 1 3 Fire at a Catholic School.. . . 1 14 A ppeal to th e C h a r it a b l e . . 1 14
106
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
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TH E most interesting event of the week past wasthe announced meeting forSunday last at Limerick, which Mr. Parnell had consented to attend. The journey to Limerick was anade on Saturday by the u o p.m. train from Dublin. A saloon carriage had been set apart for -the convenience of Mr. Parnell and his friends. Before leaving the terminus at Kingsbridge, Mr. Parnell addressed the persons present, thanking them for coming to see him off. Along the journey, at the various stations where the train stopped, there were demonstrations of a varying character as Parnellism or anti-Parnellism was in the ascendancy in the district. At Monasterevan there was a hostile demonstration, led by Father Hughes, a local Catholic curate, as The Irish Times reported, but this was minimised by the adherents of Mr. Parnell, who fell on the “ Timhealyites,” as The Freeman states : and Father Hughes and another clergyman were engaged in endeavouring to separate the belligerents as the train moved off. At Maryborough all were in favour o f Mr. Parnell. Both Mr. Parnell and Mr. Harrington addressed the assembly. At Thurles a similar state of things prevailed, sticks and rebukes being freely indulged in. Father Mat. Ryan, locally known as “ The General ” from his action in reference to the Plan of Campaign, was badly beaten ; but Colonel Caddell, Resident Magistrate, and the police restored order. Limerick was reached at 7 o’clock p.m. Here the party put up at Cruise’s Hotel. Subsequently a meeting was held at which speeches were made, the Mayor presiding. After these, a vote of thanks was proposed to the Mayor, Mr. V. Scully proposing it and Mr. Parnell seconding it. The proceedings then closed. On Sunday morning Mr. Parnell received deputations from the surrounding counties. The Reception Committee presented an address, which was read by Mr. Lalor, one of the secretaries, and signed by Mr. Riordan, the Mayor, and others. Other addresses followed. Mr. Parnell then spoke, going into the whole controversy. He laid particular stress on the four cardinal points of the understanding with Mr. Gladstone, and he proceeded to denounce the nature of the concessions proposed by Mr. Gladstone. He then took up his view that the independence and integrity of a section of the Irish party had been sapped, and he attributed it to the fact that himself and his followers had fallen into touch with Mr. Gladstone’s Bill of 1886 due to the magic and the glamour that surrounded Mr. Gladstone’s name. He then stated that, owing to the Hawarden interview, the load of responsibility was taken off his shoulders inasmuch as the concessions of the 1886 B ill had been whittled down. Mr. Parnell then drew a picture of the first Prime Minister of Ireland of the future, “ my esteemed friend, Mr. Justin McCarthy, I suppose,” taking his place in the Irish House of Commons without any real power save that, perhaps, of founding a Catholic University. He told his hearers that such a position would have been intolerable. Mr Parnell then dealt with the differences of recollection between himself and Mr. Gladstone as to what really took place at the interview at Hawarden, and he pointedly supported his contentions of the accuracy of his remembrance by reading to the meeting extracts from a letter which he had written to Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the present Prime Minister of Cape Colony, in March, 1890, and which Mr. Rhodes had sent him on being communicated with by wire. Mr. Parnell said this was within three months after the interview', and when he had no reason for misrepresentation or suppression of the truth, much less deliberate invention. In this letter Mr. Parnell dealt specifically with w'hat he had stated in reply to the observations of Mr. Gladstone, and he informs Mr. Rhodes that he objected to these propositions forcibly in many points. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Parnell said, stated that at the interview “ not to one of my suggestions did Mr. Parnell offer any serious objection.” Mr. Parnell then said it was preposterous for Mr. Gladstone under these circumstances any longer to withhold from publication the Memorandum which he says he has, and which deals with' this question. Mr. Parnell then dealt with the breach of confidence aspect of the matter, and he went into all the circumstances from his point of view in regard to that episode. He then took up the split in the party, and expressed his confidence that, if there were no inter-meddling the division would yet be healed up and the Irish party would w'ork unitedly. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Parnell w^as loudly cheered. A deputation was then received of the Amnesty Committee. In the Market-place another meeting was held, presided over by the Mayor. Mr. Parnell addressed the meeting at great j length, and at the conclusion he left Limerick for Dublin, j With wonderful and successful audacity, Mr. Parnell still ! ignores in all his public utterances the true cause of the pre-
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