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November 23, 1882.]
REDPATH’S
ILLUSTRATED
WEEKLY.
VERY REY. CANON CANTWELL.
The Manchester Martyrs!
To-day is the fifteenth anniversary of that
triple execution which took place on the walls
of the new Bailey Prison, Salford, at 8 o'clock
onthe morniug of the 23d November, 1867,
when the Manchester martyrs—Wm. Patrick
Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien—
died for Ireland.
on the 28th of Ociober, including in addition
to the martyrs, Maguire, a soldier, who was
afterward discherged, and Edward O’Meagher
ondon, now of Washington, whose sentence
of death was commuted to that of penal servi-
tude for life through his own exertions in
analyzing the evidence against him.
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Manchester, died on January 25, last year, at
Clonmel, County Tipperary, in his sixty-third
the mission in England,
whose zeal, piety and devotion to the work of
religion in that country bave shed a bright
lustre on the fame of the diocesan College of
Waterford. Canon Cantwell began his mis-
sionary life at St. Mary’s Mulberry street, the
oldest of the Catholic churches in Manchester,
in the year 1844, and after a short time, was
transferred to the large and important parish
of St. Patrick. His life there was devoted to
the duties of his calling. In the year 1847,
when famine and pestilence devastated Ire.
Reskell, Bishop of Nottingham, who had suc-
ceeded Father Hearne, and shortly afterward
was distinguished by his Bishop in being
chosen as a Canon of the Salford diocese. He
was a man of great executive ability, an elo-
quent preacher, and held an immense power
is oration, Canon Me:
General of the diocese of Nottingham, who
en born and reared in St, Patnck,
“Who can recount the graces and blessings
of God bestowed upon thousands of souls by
the long ministry of the good priest whore
tongue is now silent forever, whose eyes are
closed in death, and to whose soul we this
this day ask God to give eternal rest and to
let perpetual light shine upon him? In this
prayer will every one of his flock in Man.
chester heartily join. Grief will enter many
a home, and tears will flow from many eyes
when the news of his death reaches them.
They will remember the words he so often
uttered in asking their prayers for the dead:
‘Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least
you, my friends, for the hand of the Lord
hath touched me.’ After some further re-
marks, Canon McKenna concluded with these
and saints this day receive bis soul, and may
Jesus place upon his brow the bright crown of
everlasting life.’”
Saluting the “Sacred Carpet.” a
A few days after the entry of the British
iro, under Gen. Wolseley, the yearly
Arab pilgrimage left for Mecca, ‘The British
troops were ordered to draw up in line and
salute the ‘‘Sacred Carpet,” as it was borne
past, and offer their homage to the standard
of Mahommad!
vo of 21 guns was fired, and all the
soldiers presented arms. ‘This act on the part
of a power that prides itself on its champion-
ship of Christianity, and that subscribes
thousands to send missionaries and bibles to
the black pickenninies of Central Africa, cre-
ated such a scandal, that Granville was com-
pelled to publish an ‘‘ explanation.” It should
occasion no surprise. Religion, with the
English Government, has always been made
to subserve ‘British interests.” The same
ships that carry their bibles to India carry
also grinning idols of British mannfacture to
be sold to the heathen, and the British specu-
lator, with his rum and rifles, invariably ac-
companies the British missionary.
Commenting on this heathenish act, the
Illustrated London News approvingly re-
marks :—
“Tt was thought that the presence of two
thousand English and of some Indian Mo-
hammedan troops, thus showing respect for a
popular religious custom, might impress the
population with a favorable opinion of the
British authority so recently imposed upon
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The Protestant synods in Ireland seem to be
greatly ‘‘exercised” on the subject of the
homage paid in Egypt to the “Holy Carpet”
by British soldiers. In Armagh the act was
condemned by a formal vote, but in Dublin it
was ruled to be out of order to discuss the
subject at all.
St. Agnes’ Church Fair,
A fair was opened in the basement of St.
Agnes’ Church, in Forty-third street, near
‘Third avenue, on Tuesday. Under the direc-
tion of Father Harry McDowall the ladies of
the parish have for the past month or twe
been collecting funds and gifts for the fair,
which promises, so far as i intment is
concerned, to be one
the season. Inasmuch as a fair is held in the
parish but once every three years the ladies
have a chance of recuperating their energies
and they intend to make the present occasion
a8 profitable to the parish as three annual ba-
zaars wo ave been. @ hall in which
the fair is held has been tastefully decorated
with flags and bunting, and the five tables are
being set with the various articles of value
and beauty that are to form the attractions.
Among other things of value to are
half a dozen or more watches, several diamond
sets, a grand clock with a cathedral chime,
twelve or fourteen tea or dinner sets of china
and silver, a snit of parlor furniture valued at
$300, a number of Persian and Turkish rags,
BRET HARTE, OUR CONSUL TO GLASGOW.
a velvet carpet, various objects of art, two
water color sketches by Durkin and an abun-
dance of other articles for household use and
adornment,
The tables are named and governed as fol-
lows :—Rosary table, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs.
Murray ; Holy Name table, Miss Ryan and Miss
Canlfield ; St. Agnes’ table, Miss Mary Biglin
and Miss Brad, it. Vincent de* Paul table,
Mrs. O'Reilly and Miss MacMahon; Sunday-
school table, Miss Finnigan and Miss Nichol-
son; refreshment table, Mrs, Byrne; flower
booth, Miss Rose McElroy, Miss Dougherty
and Miss Lent. There is also a grand tombola
organized in which a number of valuable arti-
cles will be included.
Boss Ford's Pretensions,
A stranger would think, in reading the Irish
World, that it raised all the money that was
sent to the Land League at home, Mr. Egat
has received in all £244,000, of which only
£68,000 was sent through the Irish World.
It will be remembered also that for a long
time—after Davitt left America and the Land
de every effort to
destroy the national organization after it was
revived at Buffalo so as to remain the sole
custodian of Land League funds. Funds
raised by fairs and lectures, with which the
Irish World had no more to do than the man
in the moon, are now impudently claimed by
this conceited, would-be Boss as having been
raised by /is influence because they were sent
through bias.
unfounded are the claims of the
agents of the Irish World and of the Irish
politicians whom it patronizes in Ireland as to
its inflaence and circulation in this country.
Its authorized representative in Ireland had
the audacity to assert that it had a circulation
greater than all the other Irish-American pa-
pers combined, and that its circulation was
600,000 copies a week! Even so sensible a
business man as John Fergusun, of Glasgow,
a paper-dealer, believed this monstrous false-
. It is only by circulating lies secretly
that they get credence. @ Irish World once
had a circulation of nearly 90,000, it isclaimed;
but it never recovered the immense loss it
experienced after its attack on Cardinal Mc-
Closky. Its eirculation has fallen off greatly
during the last three weeks.
But, taking its circulation at the highest
figure, it could have publicly claimed at the
latest issue of the standard newspaper direc-
tories, the Irish World has not now a circula-
tion higher than one-seventh of the united
circulation of the Irish-Americon secular and
religious journals.
The Widow Walsh Fund. :
Our suggestion that Mr. Hugh King should
be appointed Treasurer of a fund for the re-
lief of the Widow Walsh, now on her way to
this country, was promptly acted on, and Mr.
King acknowledges the following subscrip-
tions as already received:
Hugh King, $5: James Redpath, $5; Ed-
ward Moore, $2; Thomas McGoey, $5; Peter
McDonnell, $5; Wm. J. Connolly, $5; B.
Clarkin, $5; Prof. John P. Brophy, $5;
Bingham, $5; Joseph Henley, $5;
James Carey, $3; James Lynch, $3; Francis
Crawley, $3; Patrick Donnelly, $3; M. Duffy,
;_M. McGarry, $1; Thomas McKeon, $1;
P. Fitsimmons, $1; Patrick Logan, $1; total,
65,
LD
we
It is to be hoped that this subscription will
be increased to $500, which wonld enable the
poor woman to begin life here in comfot
IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT.
Loxpon, Noy. 14.—In the election to fil the
seat in the House of Commons for Ennis made
vacant by the retirement of Mr. Finnigan, Mr.
Kenny, Parnellite, has been return: by a
vote of 136 against 95 for Mr. Reeves, the
liberal candidate.
Loxpon, Nov. 14.—In the Honse of Com-
e had been a treaty
from Mr. Yorke’s motion he should not object
toit. Mr. Yorke has since drafted another
resolution free from phrases likely to excite
controversy, and simply asking that the com-
mittee he desires appointed shall inquire into
the circumstances under which Messrs, Par-
nell, Dillon and O'Kelly were released from
Kilmaiuham Jail.
NDON, Nov. 14.—The House of Commons
committee on the case of the imprisonment of
Mr. Gray, me to consider its reports,
It is understood that three will be presented.
The first, drafted by the Attorney General
and favored by the majority of the comnit-
tee, states that Judge Lawson acted within his
jurisdiction in imprisoning Mr. Gray; the
second, by Mr. Dillwyn, remarks upon the
present state of the law of contempt; and the
third, by the the Irish members of the com-
mittee, suggests certain alterations of the law,
and reflects upon the conduct of Judge Law-
son, The Attorney General's report presented
to the committee to day, further stated that
Mr. Gray had been allowed to make before
the committee a statement, which was, how-
ever, irrelevant. Mr. Dillwyn, in his report,
After some discussion the com-
mittee decided that there was no occasion for
the House of Commons to take further notice
of the matter.
James Clarence Mangan.
sees the light of day for the first time.” This
statement is inaccurate. Mangan left an au-
tobiography, or, as he called it, his “ Confes-
sions,” behind him, and they appeared in
print fully a quarter of a century ago, in the
Sydney Freeman's Journal.
ward Hayes, editor of ‘Hayes’ Irish -
lads.” It was probably contributed by him to
the Sydney Freeman after his renioval to
Australi
The Pheenix Park Murderers,
Dunrax, Nov. 12.—The police admit that
the proclamation recently published
sued because they had received important in-
formation which, they say, they are now en.
deavoring to corroborate,