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Number 340,
NEW YORK—FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 2, 1883.
Price Five Cents.
LEIETERS EROM IRELAND.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
Dusty, May 12th, 1883.
The National League here has not been making much noise of
late, but, it is thriving nevertheless, The temper of our people is
hardening in proportion to the police terrorism exercised on the
tural branches, so that now officers of such branches keep on at their
work in spite of midnight searches by the constabulary and threats of
arrest under the Coercion Act.
Our patriotic kinsmen in Australia are forwarding £1,000a month
to the funds of the League in response to the appeals made to them
by that fine young fellow, Mr. J, E. Redmond, M.P., for New Ross,
who gave. up his home, at least for a while, to go
amongst them with the object of rousing them to imitate the Irish
in America in efforts for the liberation of the old land, His success
has been far beyond expectation; and the endeavors of the Orange
faction in Victoria to excite public feeling against him have failed
miserably. He has now no doubt that the Irish National League he
. is establishing in Australia will be a powerful faction in relaxing
England's grip on Irelarid’s throat.
THE PARNELL TESTIMONIAL,
‘The Parnell tribute, as I ventured to predict some weeks ago, will
not be unworthy either of the Irish people or of the man who has
made so many sacrifices and endured $0 much obloquy in their ser-
vice. One subscription to the tribute, made this week, is deserving
of special mention. It came from a tenant-farmer, Mr, John Allen,
of Oristown, near Kells, County Meath, and it amounted to £30;
which the doner in sending it explained to be £20 annual abatement
of rent and fro interest thereon for a very considerable period—
much longer, in fact, than Mr. Allen's probable life-time. This*is
the expression -of the gratitude of one tenant-farmer to Mr, Parnell
for his services in lifting the whole tenant class out of the condition
of feudal slavery in which they had been before the Land Act of 1881
practically converted the Irish landlor@s ‘into mere rent chargers,
But indeed the tenant-farmers generally, notwithstanding the ad-
verse circumstances to which I reported a few weeks ago, are be-
having very liberally in regard to the tribute wherever parochial col-
lections are being made.
Several of the bishops, however, do not favor those collections.
Some are inclined towards Whiggery in politics, and consequently
taboo, so far as they can, everything that partakes of the nature of
a nationalist demonstration. This is particularly the case in Ulster;
nevertheless the people there of themselves have made collections
and forwarded their subscriptions to headquarters quite irrespective
of ecclesiastical desires in the matter. Others of the prelates, sur-
rounded by poverty-stricken flocks, discourage parochial collections
for any other object than keeping the destitute alive; and who can
blame them for doing so? They would gladly aid in forwarding the
Parnell tribute at what they think might be a more appropriate
time, But here I must remark that bishops in whose dioceses desti-
tution largely prevails have themselves subscribed to the Parnell
fund; mainly, as I understand, in protest against the foul slanders
heaped on the head of the Irish leader by Forster and most of the
Cockney press.
IRELAND AND THE VATICAN.
‘There is yet another discouragement to the tribute which gives a
It is very generally
believed here that English influence at the Vatican has prevailed,
and that Irish national sentiment is nowhere at the Papal Court.
own career at
+ = You can meet scores of people in a day who will tell you that Dr,
* Nulty, the patriotic Bishop of Meath, has been silenced politically
» © from Rome, and who will quote a recent Jetter from him forbidding
Parnell-tribute collections at the church doors, as an illustration of
~ the muzzling to which he has been subjected by the Vatican, It
‘is a remarkable letter, certainly, considering the admiration Dr.
Nulty for years has evinced for Mr, Parnell. You can meet other
= scores of people who will tell you that Archbishop Croke has been
summoned to Rome to defend himself for having espoused the Irish
people's cause, and who will say to you that the county Tipperary
subscription of over £2,500 to the Parnell tribute was collected be-
fore Dr, Croke left Ireland, but was not forwarded to Dublin until
he was well on his way to Italy, Something evidently is wrong
somewhere, or such rumors would not be afloat; and alll can say
js that if it gets into the popular mind that English influence at the
Roman Court can cause patriotic Irish prelates to be gagged and
handcuffed Ireland will not long maintain her present reputation of
being 0.1¢ of the most Catholic countries in the world, This topic
js a most painful one to me, but I caanot wholly ignore it, =
’ KELLY'S FUDICIAL MURDER.
said in a previous letter that the second jury before whom the
youth Timothy Kelly would be brought would be more carefully
: elected than the first, It was; yet, as you know, a disagreement
was agai the result, But the third time extra care was taken to
e . re .
put the rope around Kelly’s neck, evidence or no evidence. _ A litho-
graphed circular was sent out to a certain number of special jurors
of ‘‘the right sort,” and not, the story goes, to other special jurors
on the same panel. The circular bore at the foot the name of the
sheriff—who alone could legally summon jurors; but it was a Castle
official, and not the sheriff himself, according to my information,
who affixed the sheriff's name to this document.
Now aword about the manipulation of juries. Chief Secretary
‘Trevelyan has several times been challenged in the London House
of Commons to deny the following statements, and has invariably
declined to do so, thus leaving the inference that they must be true.
A Mr. Welch, who is an official of the Tory Registration Society of
Dublin, and who in that capacity is expected to know what the po-
litical leanings are of every man who could possibly be a voter or a
juror, was consulted as to the jurors who might safely be allowed to
serve on the trials of the alleged Invincibles at Green street. The
party who secured the invaluable services of Welch was no other
than the Crown Solicitor, George Bolton, to whom I have made
rather uncomplimentary references before now, and who does not
shrink from trifles, The result of this patent method ot securing
convictions is that popular feeling here is entisted on the side of the
accused, because the sense of justice which always exists in the pop-
ular mind has been outraged, Complaint is made that the men ar-
raigned have not had a fair trial, because the tribunals had been
posted against them beforehand. I shall pronounce no opinion, one
way or the other, as to the innocence of any of the accused ; but I
COUNTY OF
DUBLIN
Zaghok Mir
Baranios thus COOLOCK,
Revined by PW JOYOR, LLD; MRIA.
decidedly say that not one of them has, in my opinion, had a fair
trial by a jury indifferently chosen,
FAMES CAREY, THE INFORMER.
A few words more about James Carey. He wishes that all the
bother of appearing at trials was over, so that’he could resume his .
position in society here,” He declares that his wife isin need of a
protector ; that he wants to look after his business; and that he is
being robbed by the tenants in his-tenement houses, who have re- .
fused to pay rent since his arrest. From all of which it would ap-
pearas if Carey had made up his mind to brazen it out’in Dublin
after his release ; and judging from portions of his evidence given
on cross-examination, I do think he means to do so. t
A friend of mine, speaking to a high Crown official’a few days
ago, lamented that Carey’s neck should be spared while the necks of
some of his dupes are devoted to strangulation. The high Crown
official aforesaid, whose name might be Murphy, Q.C., drily replied,
“Take care is his neck safe.” Make what you like out of that.
Cardinal McCabe has been pulled through the worst part of his
late illness, but I have it on good authority that he does not gain “"'
name of William Ewart Gladstone, is literally falling to pieces
Nothing short of a miracle can keep it together till even next year.
I hope that miracle will happen to give us in Ireland time to pre-
pare for a general election that can make the Irish party masters of
the English Parliament, THos, SHERLOCK.