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GROVER CLEVELAND.
me Gubernatorial Candidates.
e give portraits of Mr. Folge
publics candidate, and of Mr, Cleveland, the
the Re-
Governor of New
same cut once be-
Weekly. Mr.
Pemocratic candidate for
Yor! Folger’s is the
fore " publishe in Me
Cleveland’s is a new picture.
Tke Dublin Horse Show.
Our Dublin correspondent furnishes vs with
a number of sketches of this important show,
0
The sketches explain themselves.
o. 1, Saluting the Lord-Lieutenant; No.
2, The Judges’ Stand; No. 3, Weighing the
Riders; No. 4, The Winner; No. 5, The Race,
The comic cut on the last page is taken
from ‘“ Pat” (Dublin).
Rey. Dr. McGlynn.
This eminent and eloquent divine will de-
liver a lecture entitled, ‘Some Moral Aspects
of the Irish Question” for the benefit of the
Irish National Land League, Under te aus.
pices of the Manhattan Branch, anday
evening, October, at the Lexington arenes
Opera House.
James M. nae dy.
ds of Mr, Lyddy will be interested
by the following telegram which @ appeared in
the Cor: Examiner of Sept. 9
Timerick, Friday.
Mr. James M. Lyddy, of the New York Bar,
who is on a visit to his ‘friends i in this city, de-
livered a very interesting lecture before a large
reciative audience xt the Catholic
Literare Institute, the subject of the discourse
being ‘The Issues of the Day.” The Mayor
presided.
Mr. Lyddy, in the course of his observations,
said thae there was a marked difference in two
important respects between the criminal law
in this country and that which was in opera-
tion in the United States. He alluded toa
charge involving a mau’s life, and a charge
affecting his liberty, the latter being consid-
effect of British law as regarded personal lib-
erty, oe farnished by the case of Mr. Edmund
Dwyer Gray, one of the most esteemed, en-
Telloncd and patriotic journalists in the
United Kingdom. [Applause.]}
Commenting on tne decision of Judge Law-
son, he said that if a court of appeal existed
in Ireland, as it did in America, he entertained
no donbt thit the jadgment of Mr. Jus-
tice Lawson would be instantly reversed. At
all events the deprivation of any man’s liberty
under similar circumstances would vot be tol-
erated in America, what was more, it would
not be attempted by any judge of the land,
Adverting to the case of the young man
mes, Mr. Lyddy said it was a melancholy
instance of the absence of discrimiuative jus-
tice in Ireland. ‘The flimsy evidence upon
which young Hynes was convicted would not
tand the test of five minutes’ investigation
feore an American jut
He hoped, however, tha: the day was not
far distant when the power of a judge in Ire-
Jand with regard to contempt of court and
3
fined, and that the jury system would 50
rectified that no similar instance of injustice,
either with regard to life or liberty, would
take place.
A hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer
brought the proceedings to a close.
John Dillon’s Withdrawal from Politics,
John Dillon has announced his intention to
lon’s withdrawal is due to his disapproval of
Mr. Parnel’s policy. The Irish papers to
hand contain Mr. Dillon’s speech, wherein he
Gecloxes that he is compelled to retire tem-
poraril ily on account of ill- ryealth, and that he ig
in perfect accord with the Parnellite Party.
“Mr, Haunston that he v
REDPATIVS ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
Patrick J. Meehan.
3s D. Downing writes from Savannah,
Ges “September 22, to the editor of this
jour
o Peraoit your renders in this city to thank
you, through me, for your sketch in the past
week's issue of the Weekly on the hte aud
character of Patrick J. Meehan. Written by
one whose fidelity to principle and oulspoken
honesty are 60 we the language used
is conneqrently the more Phi ighly appreciated.
wever, it is but a ju: t tribu te to a man
whose truth to his boutley and countrymen is
felt and approved of by all Irishmen who do
Wishing you all success, T
an very truly yours,
“Tomas D. Dowstxa.”
John Finerty for Congress.
The Chicago Tribune says thatif John Fin-
erty would run for Congress in the 2d District
of Illinois he would probably Le elected. ‘* His
friends,” says the Tribune, “are doing Chi-
cago a service by urging him to take this
course. He scems to hesitate about doing
so just now.” .
Better go in and win, John.
Jury Packing in Ireland,
Abbe Perraud’s history of jury packing in
Treland is concluded in our columns this week.
The reader must not, however, conclude that
the infamous system so graphically described
by the eloquent Bishop of Autun is a thing of
the past. Jury packing is as much a part of
the English ayotem in Ireland at present as it
ever was. Lord O'Hagan’s act has been
evaded and neutralized, and the old trick of
packing the jary with rue blues still con-
tinues, as was shown a few days ago in the judi-
cial murder of Francis Hyves, Was not the
jury at tne Special Commission in Dublin an
exclusively Protestant jury? Did not that
have opportunity of intercourse with
outsiders at the Imperial Hotel in Sackville
street during the course of the trial? Is it
not maintained on affidavits, as yet unrefuted,
that certain members of that jury draok them-
selves drunk while they were actually holding
the balance of life or death in their hands?
it not a fact that the jry a8 CO! nies in
writing by one ot number, jected
unanimously to stopping at the ‘Imperial Hotel
on the grounds that it was e
house,” thereby clearly brunsing vat the they
were i ly influenced
prepossessions lay? Pithily expressed, the
e reduced ‘is—that
and prejudiced body.
these imputations be correct, it ought to have
been more than sufficient to invalidate the
verdict. But these imputations were neces-
sary quulifications for an Ex glish jury in Ire-
land.
Warning Dublin Castle.
The Corporation of Dublin have politely
warned the Castle crew to cease posting their
little short of treason.
be the theatre of flankeyism, is redeeming it-
self of late.
none Setting the Example.
Swift counseled his countrymen
oan everything that came from Engl
except the coal,” and John Mitchel a century
later advised every Irishman to wear nothing
but what was of Irish manufacture, and to
follow the example of Bryan O’Linn and wear
an Irish sheepskin cont, ** the woolly side out
and the skinny side in,” rather than the best
kind of coat o' English manufacture. Mr.
0 be of a like opinion. He
W. Dennehy, of Cork, to
make him a bat like those he exbibits at the
Daublin exhibition; and a Dublin contempo-
rary, commenting on the significant fact, apt).
remarks: ‘Would that every one of the hun-
dreds of thousands who will pass through the
Exhibition derived as practical a lesson and
applied it as promptly! Every man who
ears a hat, or coat, or boot, or stocking, has
to
pends a pound on foreign goods that he can
get at home is doing a no less mischievous
thing than voting a Whig into Parliament or
presenting @ illuminated address to a land-
grabber. dayne few men have votes to
expen man has a head to be
fined aed a Sack to be clothed.”
Egypt and Ireland.
English law i Treland and Egyyt is much
the same, An A we are told inan Eng-
he paper, “has “ust been flogged for excit
ing persons in the native quarter by sayin;
that the Bedouins arecomivg.” This was the
only cause for this brutal punishment.
Anda case of intimidation in Dungannon
was treated leniently, we read, by the local
it was the first i in Ulster!
taking that farm. imprison-
ent was the lenient punishment for this
drendtal crime
Abusing the Plaintiffs Attorney,
one presa, w!
n the absence of argument, English journal-
ite pour out a deluge of vituperation and
abuse on every one who dares to deny the
Englich stereotyped slender that the Irish
Peasant is a lazy, improvident vagabond, or
shes to portray the villainies
of fhe landlords and their minions.
latest victim of this system of abuse on
the part of t the e English press, is Mr. Joyner,
assistant m at Eton, England, who hed
the ‘temerity t to “jescribe ia the ‘Times his ex-
periences while traveling in Ireland. His re-
cent arrest, in compaoy with Mr. Heury George
and the petty persevution and the” indigni-
ties he was subjected to by the Castle authori-
ties in Ireland are fre-h in the minds of Ameri-
For making the resit of his
observations known on his return to England,
he is now the best abused mau in the country,
The Saturday Bevew will be satisfied with
nothing less
‘Tt Me. Joynes had taken the other
side and described tha landlerds as a much-
enduring and self-sacrificing class. intent only
on the welfare of Ireland and its people and_
the peasantry as a class of semi-savages who
may perhaps be tamed, but never can be
civilized, he would undoubtedly be held up as
akeen observer of men and things, and in-
stead of being assistant master at Eton, he
would probably be promoted to head mas-
ter at that famous fount of learning.
The Cruiskeen Lawn.
The following version of the Cruiskeen
Lawn, from the pen of Mr. T. D. Sullivan ap-
pears in the last number of the Dublin Nation.
It is supposed to be sung by Judge Lawson's
drunken jury who hanged the boy Hynes,
while they were guzzling their ‘eight bottles
of beer, one sherry, three clarets, one bottle of
champagne and forty two whiskies.”
[A new version, epecially written for a special occa-
sion.)
1.
Now the trial’s nearly done,
Let us have a bit of fun,
Ere we finish up our job to-morrow morn,
n we'll hit a man or two
Wit hy a verdict ‘good and true”;
So we'll take & little cruiskeen lawn, lawn,
Oh! we'll take a a littlo cruiskeen lawn!
CHORUS.
Gra machree, ma cruiskeen,
Slauntha, gal mavourneen !—
Keep it up, my boys, aati the dawn!
Call for what you wi
Sure the crown will bay the bill
For our “intling little cruiskeen lawn !
on! the lew i is very dr ry,
r box was close and high,
vtech sherry and champeene,
And a pruning little cruiskeen lawn, law
Auda smiling little cruiskeen lawn !
cuorus—Gra machree, &c,
mm.
And when at ten o'clock
waiter gives a knoc!
And says tbat to the court we should be gone,
We'll say, ‘‘ Get out, you knave,
For the the judge will give us leave
To take another cruiskeen lawn, Jano, lawn—
To take another cruskeen lawn !”
cHoRUS,
Gra machree, ma cruiskeen,
Slanntha, gal mavourneen !
Keep it up, my boys, until the ¢ dawn!
Call for what you wi
"Tis the Castle pays the bill
For our darling little cruiskeen lawn !
Representation in the English Parliament.
The register of _fatliamentary voters in
England and Wales now contains a total of
2,501, 402 voters, o a population of about
enty-five million, Thus Englichwen are
practically without representation in Parlia-
me the assertion that England has a
repreneutative form of government is but a
silly pretence. Darliament represents the
aristocracy and the great manufacturing and
financial interests alone. Ireland is stilt worse
off; the county of Cork, with its 900,000 in-
habitants, tor instance, not having as many
voters as ‘several towns of 50,000 inhabitants
in England. In this connection the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, in a letter to the Leeds
Mercury, gives a few facts as to the privi-
leges accorded to the inhabitants of the Irish
metropolis which could not be made too pub-
lie. ‘Those facts are, that with close upon
800,000 people Dublin is allowed only 5,000
municipal electors and not more than 8,000 or
‘ 000 parliamentary rated occupiers; so that
ens of thousands of men who would have a
vote in England or Scotland are not sllowed to
exercise the franchise in Dublin. The result
is as might be expected. ‘The municipality of
Dublin isa sham, It has no share in ordinary
magisterial functions; it has no control over
the police, or over hackney coaches or sani-
wy matters. Yet Ircland is an integral por-
tion of the United Kingdom!
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Irishmen but Not Celts,
“Irishmen are doing good service for Great
Britain just now Dufferin, Admiral
Seymour, Sir Garnet Wolseley, and Lord
Beresford are «ll Celts.” So sagely remarks
the Boston Advertiser. Our esteemed contem-
orary is conspicuously inexact in the state-
ment that the four gentlemen above named
are Celts. Ouly one of (hem, Lord Dufferin,
isa Celt. Admiral Sir Frederick Beaucbamp
Paget Seymour is a fient consin of the presen
Murquess of Hertford, and is descended from
6 famou a Protector Somerset in the
reign of Edward VI. ‘fhe Seymour family
was origivally St. Maur, and i is Norman. Sir
Garnet Joxeph Wolseley belongs to one of the
mort 8 3 of Staffordehire, and is
of Nermuan or “Anglo o-Norman origin. He is
descended from Sir Charles Wolseley, who
represented the county of Stafford in parlia-
ment in the reign of Charles I. Lord Charles
Beres‘ord, whom our contemporary elevates
to the peerage under ‘the title of Lord Beres-
‘ord is a brother of the present Marquess of
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family, but they come fro
Beresford in Stafford. They are Normans, or
Anglo-Norman, and the first one who came
to Ireland was Tristram Beresford. He went
ont to Ireland as manager of ‘‘The Society of
the New Plantation in Ulster,” in the time of
James I., and then settled in Londonderry
It should be borne in mind by our New Eng
land contemporary that the terws Irishmen
and Celts are not synonymous,— Sun.
England's Great Victory.
Now that the Jingo fever is beginning to
abate, some of the London journals, notab!
Truth, ridicule alike the despatches of General
Wolseley, and his prcfessional correspondents.
The General's reports are called ‘‘sentimental
twaddle,” and attention is called to his account
of an engagement in which there was “ heavy
firing for several hours,” the troops “bebav-
ing admirably under a hail of bullets”—and
the result was one man killed, and twelve
womnded.
n the ‘‘great victory” of Tel el-Kebir
was ‘no battle at all. Itis now said that Arabi
had but two regiments of regulars all told at
the ‘‘ battle,” the rest being i,
And undoubt
i with muskets” applied tothe
well as to the fellaheen. Wolse-
t the w preat battle,” lost only about a
wogdted and fifty men. During o ur Jate war
there were scores of skirmishes, flies deemed
with
the field more men than Wo
ed at Tel-el Kebir. And we thought lightly
of it. What must the Russians, Germans,
French and others think of the ridiculous
boastings of the English press over a “ war”
that scarce attained the dignity or danger of
on ordinary street riot ?
Iseley command-
Eugenie and Cetewayo.
“The ex-Empress Eugenie has bought a
cbateau and park in Styria for $300,000, and
it is no secret that she quits England in anger
at the attentions khown to Cetewayo, whom
she hates for the death of her son in Africa.”
To bate Cetewayo on this account may be par-
doned as an amiable weakness on the part of
‘x-Empress. But what could she expect
frows Cetewayo? Young Bonaparte went out
to Africa, where he bad no business whatever,
to assist the English in murdering the Zulus
and destroy’ their couvtry. The Zulus
caught him and killed him, just as other peo-
ple a ordinary burglars. Young Bonaparte
s much of a pirate as Captain
Kida, rand met the fate he deserved.
Gladstone at Home.
Mr. Gladstone is still guarded by a special
police force, two of whom accompany him in
his walks through his grounds aud elsewhere,
Hitherto his bodyguard have been provided
simply with the ordinary baton, but since his
recent arrival at Hawarden tre authorities
have fnrnished the men with revolvers and
twenty rounds of ammunition each. Nobody
is threatening Glad~tone now more than in the
past, but a thief seesa foe in every bush. A
consci_nce calls up avengers.
An English Picture.
The J.ondon Daily Telegraph draws the fol-
lowing pretty picture of English villainy
Robbery, it says, is reduced to a regular sys-
tem. “ Opportanitios | are watched and intel-
ligence procured with a degree of vigilance
similar to that which marks the conduct of a
skilfal general, eager to obtain an advantage
overanenemy. * * * Houses intended to
be entered during the night are reconnoitered
and examined fur days preceding; and it fre-
quently happens that the burglars make their
contract with the receivers on the evening be-
fore the plunder is obtained, so as to secure a
ready admittance immediately afterwards, and
before daybreak, for the purpose of instant
concealment by melting plate, obliterating
marks, and securing all otber articles, so as to
place them out of the reach of discovery. ”
And this robbing, murdering nation denounces
Irish crime, and thinks it is decreed by Provi-
dence that it should rule others than in the
ways of virtue and righteousness,