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Gn appearance of subdued grandeur, for, as this is the geese of Lent, the splendid painting over the altar, with the crvss in front of the tabernacle, and the different the widow, and whieh loriniy, end intligent: | rang paintings around the walls, wore veiled with drapery. The | ty educated the people. (gorgeous furniture and rich cloths were removed from the | Shor calumny which Our —— grand alter, which was lighted with six towering tapers | land, involved all classes of the population. The nobili- and eighteen small waxcandles. From the moment the | ty were deprived of their titles and estates, and driven sctcpas byte velng oer of tv sib | {Sl oe tae weiner organ. Radetteapt orienta was formedin the | mountains and vestry room, and entered the church from the door upon | sia Died under the bau of human society. Did the the left hand side of the altar, in the following order -— persecution a d with sarplice and } could answer in the affirmative! But you know to the Four Acolytes of the as ere poe pry who has not read the bate of our Six Assistant Priests robed. Re and moral t tortures? ‘The laws of humanity, of , with cal , bearing Mass ivi |, were suspended throug! ut our AiPrignt in vestments, oe upon his breast region of the world, to weary, def; or deprive us of every ‘A Priest, similarly robed, carrying the Cross of the | means of carrying out of ins te. The Archbishop Hughes, = Jeeereatien, in order .oen our consent vad at + least our silence. And yet legislative acts and - dressed with a mitre upon his head, a surplice of mch tinnal systems, the ‘ilities oft jaca. upon his feet. His Grace wore a cross of gold suspended order to wear but our patience; e in- ; former, the rack, and the gibbet, were kept in ketio: from his neck, and bore a golden crozier in his right hand. | f°" por ce 5 ee vine ages I ‘He was followed by a long train of clergymen reer wholesale extermination of Cromwell, but the slower, | ing the “Exile of Erin,” the “Bold Soldier Boy.’ the ‘the imeonse and tapers. The Archbishop advanced tot wider and surer process of starvation. And yet all these | ‘‘Low-backed Car,” and some of Moore's sweetest melo- grand altar and made his memento, the attendant priests | Means did not frighten from their conscientiousness a | A lation whose only crime to be faith- being ranged around. He afterwards descended, and, | ful "th their baptiom and “thelr “God. pols tr gospel, his Grace sat down, having the cross means, even that of starvation, for not at one ; ery fore and the crozier borne to the front of | period only did famine in all its horrors visit I the altar, "The attending clergymen were also seated. | Coming in the wake of civil war or religious strife, i the reverend gentlemen we noticed the Very Rev- | was not only in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth i Reverend Mr. Starrs, pastor of St. Mary's, Revs > of St, Peter's, Reverend Mr. Carran, of St. An- | gagrng,pnich was regarded as wholesome to the land. i its, or to the partizan system of drew’s, Reverend Mr. Bacon, of Brooklyn, Reverend Mr. itical economy. But, my brethren, I ma: talk 3 ot Jersey City. Reverend Messrs. McCarthy, O'Niel, | to you upom those terrible epochs of persecution, for, at and @ large number of the Roman Catholic | th, t 1 h ob clergy of ‘New York, and the surrounding cities. The | her, from the frst: tyreccicel meusutee of tee eh Reverend Bernard (Rielly, of the Society of Jesus. and | Henry to our own times, not a single generation of Irish. Professor of Belles Lettres at St. John’s College, Ford. | men “has ever refused to accept the desperate but ham, then ascended the pulpit, habited in surplice and | glovious struggle in defence of our holy religion. sutan, and wearing a stole of green and white silk. The | ‘They were heirs to martyrdom, and they claimed, and reverend gentleman preaciid the following they won, and wear the hereditary honors. And yet, let SERMON. — sonaine that the mea oe those days were more The goapel of this day is taken from the 25th chaptor | Keinidlncen thn theis dencenderts: of die maton _ Of St. Mathew, commencing at the 14th verse:— age. In the reign of Elizabeth, as well as in that of the kingdom of hea who called his own servants, and deliv goods. dignation at seeing their native land thus d ve fivetalents, to another two, and | jaid waste— aN man according to his several ability; | snd merits; and old men, with one foot in the graye, he that had ived the five talents t and | after a long life of exertions and sacrifices to raise w) tented itt th = me, ena made Abend cueeive talenea, their country and their religion to another position, an¢ 17. likewise he that had received two, he also gained | the better to provide for their families, beheld that they BE . But he that had received one, went and digged in the ok earth, and hid his lord's money. s future and heavier chains ; but yet, notwithstanding this, these old men, upon the brink of the grave, with Se eek cee ne ree a tesan varvarste: cometh | 210 bent behing theme and Wie dread fahars betece hens, her talents, saying, Lord, thou dcliveredst | youth. Nordo we find that young men, although they vo talents; behold, I have gained beside them five Ihparta(tn foal enditw thick. Grac Gissentineed ask ore. rh Tord anid unto him, Well done, thou coed and worshipping at the graves of their martyred fathers. rvant: thou hast keen faith a will make thee ruler over many thin ter thou into the | upon days of rest. We of the prosent generation need all Joy of thy lord the energy of our fathers, the generous sympath Fae ‘niso that had received two talents camo and said, | of Christendom and of the ontire Gvilized world. We Lord, thou deliveredst w two talents; behold, I have lord aid unto him, Wel . rood anc servant: thou hast been faithfal 2 few things, Twill | is not finished yet. It was only the other make thee ruler over many things; euter thou into the joy of | day that every Catholic man throughout the whole th lord. . Thon he that had received tho one talent cameand said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an bard man, roaping where | thou bast hot sown, and gathering where thou hast not | WAY? Because need all the courage, and more than the courage, there was famine in Ireland, because | present. The dinnor was served in the sumptuous manoor ment of persecution was used'with infernal 1 ity | executed, and comprised sugar figures of Saint Patrick, | Brian Boroimhe, an Irish harp, and an Irish cottage. A | full length oi] painting of the good Saint was suspended lace, a cape of satin and gold cloth, and white silk sandals | persevering caluumnles of the tribune and the pulpit, were | behind the President seat. During the dinner a fine employed ‘and | band im attendance regaled the company with s | bowl was introduced. Mr. Stewart, the chairman, pro- be RY place at the left hand side, sung the mass, | strument broke in the hands of the persecutors | a Ae the , accompanied by the organ, the re- | and every means that his policy or his fanaticism could | sponses. At the conclusion of the reading of the devise, proved ineffectual to him and glorious to us. | def | ridiculous position, He then gave— ; umming, the Very Reverend Mr. Laughlin... centuries that saw that dreadful plague stalking through | nisasa man travelling into monarch whose bappy obstinacy gave the signal for | sn t seeing every career closed to their talents | left to their children and to their country only a darker | # he that had received five talents came and | were never uzfaithful to the creed end the homes of their | ithtar | Of our forefathers. The martyrdom of Ireland | world was commanded by the sovereign Pontiff to bend | his knee and to offer up to Heaven his prayers. And | member the Shannon and Liffy.”” Air—Sprig of Shil- she was prostrate in the dust, and because the enemy had | Mr. Doheny was frequently applauded during his lec- ‘ane st eheeaee Beye a very brief DINNER OF THE FRIENDLY SONS OF SAINT PATRICK. The annual dinner of this society was given last even- t the Astor House. The banquet came off in the ladies’ saloon. There were some seventy or eighty guests in which the proprietors, Messrs. Coleman & Stetson, do such things. The decorations of the table were well succession of the most admired Irish airs, includ- dies. After the cloth was removed, a magnificent punch- Posed the first regular toast, introducing it with some facetious remarks about St. Patrick. It was s subject he said, which is pretty much exhausted, and he was afraid if he attempted it he would find himself in a very “The Day, and all who honor it.” Drank with the wildest enthusiasm, the Band playing “Patrick's Day in the Morning.”” Be Mr. Jom B, Ditton responded—He sald that, in the outset, he must plead guilty to an Irish infirmity—he would rather drink than speak. He did not think it fair to be called on to speak at this unpropitions hour; he had but just tasted from the fount of which Irishmen usually draw their inspiration. They all knew the sort of practices by which their worthy orefather, St. Patrick, acquired his title to sanctity— t was by maceration, temperance, and ali that ort of thing; and if he were to speak American independence, young hearts beat high with in- | fst, Patrick now, it might well be asked howa saint was a manufactured in the nineteenth century. It wasa grati- fication to him to see such a number met together to do honor to their own old national saint. ‘They met here to- night as Irishmen, and if any wished to spread discord here he would be inclined to apply the principle of Saint Patrick— “It was he who brought the saints and toads To » sense of their situation.”” They were snake-killers by inheritance, and should therefore put down any attempt which might be made to sow discord or dissension among them. With afew fur- | ther remarks he concluded. ‘The Cuamaan then stood up to propose the second few things, I | 4nd weof the present day—we surely have not fallen | regular toast, but would Orst instruct the Secretary to read letters from their brother saints who had been in- vited. Among these were letters from Mayor, Wester- velt, the President of the St. David’s Society, and J. W. Girard. TheChsirman then gave— ‘The President of the United States.” Received with applause. Air by the Band. ‘The Chairman then gave the third regular toast:— ‘“Ireland—On the banks of the Hudson her ehildren re- lelagh. Judge O’Connor responded—On this day, wherever oS Kd I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent im the | seized upon that moment to make her abjure her faith; | scattered throughout the world, a hallowed reminiscenceis arth: ii : lo, there thou that is ine. and yet there was no such result. At the next moment 26. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked | the entire nd slothful servant, thou knowest that I reap where I | words addressed sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed | in the heart of Inshmen. There appears to be a festalday for ized world repeated with admiration the | every vation throughout Europe, when er gather round by Saint Cyprian to the martyrs, in the | recollection of virt the board to indulge in the which no se stewen third century :—“What praises can I bestow upon you? | tyranny could destroy. And why shoud there not be such aathgThomoushtest therefore to have put my money to the | By what words can I extol your faith? You have en- | aday?” Englishmen, on St. George’sday, assemble to do a dured the most excruciating tortures, until your glory is | justice to the present, and toruminate over the roast beef %. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto rfect. You have not yielded to tortures, for torturas | and plum pudding of former days. The Welch, too, have him which hath ten talents ave yielded to you.’” But not only does Ireland display 29. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he | i % shall have sundance bat from him that hati not shall he | eee eter gar Manag reel away oven that whic th. , and h ve And sast s{ythe anprottable vrrant into outer dark- | perseeutors, and butchers, but, Tappoal to you, Christian ‘moss; there shal] be weeping and gnashing of teeth. rethren, whether, during that long period of bloedshed their festival, when they a from their tombs’ their ancestors from the days of Adam. The Scotch, teo, on St. Andrew’s day, assemble to talk of the land of Bruce and Burns. St. Nicholas, too, brit his children to- gether. Nor must Brother Jonat! be forgotten, This is a gospel lesson set apart by the Church of God | snd famine. you sould impute toher the crimes of afew | for, though he has no saint in his calendar, he for this solemn festival of Ireland’s Patron Saint and | {oune'‘than the You de mot bate fae arene: Apostle. It contains much that can both instruct and | the knife of the surgeon. or the victim extended under | founds his recollections on the Plymouth Rock. But with no ple is the custom more honored than among Irit foeee and the scenes of to-night attest the console us. It eontains much that can instruct us, be- | the band of the executioner upon the “rack of his limbs, | love of Irishmen for their native land. On the banks eause in it we have the Divine assurance that whoso is pag ens tony ie bao cca faithful to the Divine trust shall have his reward sooner | for individual erimes of bloodahea by the assassin, when ‘or later, although a long period of absence and unre- | Boaced to ness at seeing himself reduced to star- quited toil and suffering may elapse before our Lord re- vation, and his children cast from their homes into of the Hudson, their onesie travel baek to the Boyne and the Shannon. On the Boyne there was a battle fought two centuries ago; but time has softened those asperities—the waters which then meandered in the strife have flowed on to the waters of obli- the midst of utter hopelessness by his landlord. | vion. From that time to the era of Grat- turneth—and return he surely will, for nations as well | In this nineteenth ceatury I claim for Ireland the glory | tan, Ireland drooped. But home parliament as for individuals. And there is much, very much, in it | of martyrdom; and admire, I beseech you, the greatness | : . of this prerogative—the purity of this glory. Think of all | ‘to Gonsole us in the reflection, that what God looks upon | the battles fought in the memory of man. It would be | here below upon the earth as most dear to him is the | « terror to those rapa abe are ae foremost in mili- Church, iny of tl] a i tery renown were a! men wi they sacrificed in " $4 = mee 0 a oe Sri on eee ds thelr contests for their ambition to start up and sccuse | treasures vation divinely entrusted to her, and to | them. Ob, France !—France, s0 dear to us—what would pommunicate them tomen. Sheisto be triumphant | be thine agony, if all the blood thou didst shed, from wer tie world by her very weakness, and to impart to | Buscaoto the plains of Friedland, were to rise up and, | pankind,in retura for thelr hatredand their abuse, what. | accuse theeif'all the vistisee of asd bat heroie frenzy | ever there is of supernatural grace ani divine life on this | were now to stand up and demand an account of t! | side of the grave. This fidelity of the Church to her mis- | immortal souls? There is not one single British porses- | sien, ia spite of the length of time, and in spite of the | sion in which the Irish are not to be found, and in which | ity of human passions and worldly opinions, is her | they do not by their sacrifices, how mueh they Ut le the greatest, isis the purest of all earthly | wi i to aid the progress of independence and their holy ‘and such, in time and in its own measure, isthe | religion. Christian brethren, gather now the moral glory of ic Ireland. Glory! Glory! and can Tin trath | from what I have been saying. If there is one lesson jod of the world with the most unfortu- | that you should bear home with a", from this sacred ‘gate of Christian nations? Most confidently—for I have | spot, it is that) you, young’and old, parent and child, | eonfidence in the presence of the august vict m should make, int | repens nb and the Cross, a firm life among us has been one long act of devotion | resolve to bemore than ever faithful to our religion, and | cand self uacrifice—the man who has been trodden under | endeavor, by voice and example, to follow and to propa- foot and buried in the bosom of the earth, that his divine | gate henceforth the virtues and the faith of Saint virtues might cast their eternal roots for fruit for ever | Patrick. Do so, altogetber—-do eo with united energy— ‘more in presence and during his mystic sacrifice. I feel | do so during the present year, and I can prophecy what , Christian brethren, in speaking to you of the | will be the benefit to the American Church from your share which Ireland bas had and still has in the glories | generosity snd perseverance. I know that St. Patrick's | -of Christianity, and keeping ourselves in this peint of | day may soon cease to bea day of religious celebration | view, and this rising above mere earthly considerations | in this land. 1 know it; but well understand me. A da} and worldly feelings, our hearts will be at ease. There is | may come, and may it soon come for Ireland's happi- net a Christian man in this assemblage that cannot tnus | ness, when Irishmen may no longer have oceasion to come ‘fally sympathise with the subject. The Scotch Catholics | and ‘seek their fortunes or liberty upon these shores; | ‘ean do so—the Scotch Catholics, whose forefathers kept | but I trust that the day never will come when the feati- their faith as pure as their own lakes, and as firm as | val of St. Patrick will not awaken pleasant and grateful their own mountains; and the English Catholics, in the | feelings throughout the land. I know that the American amidst of universal defection and faithiessness, emulating | Church never can, and never will, forget what she owes the heroism of their brethren in Ireland, they 'toosympa- | to the dutiful, trustworthy, and faithful children of St. | thise with us; and the American Catholics, whose ances- | Patrick. They oe ‘the Swiss mountaineer, when tora sought refuge in our forests, and who have kept | poverty compels him to venture away from his native 7 resuscitated her life. The imperial government thought in their wisdom that this parliament should no I ir ex- ist. Then arose the United Irishmen, and the Irish peo: ple were driven into rebellion. The-scaffold and the bat- tle field had their victims. The names of Emmet, Tone, Fitzgerald and Shears, have their sacred memory. Not | many feet from where I stand, under the shadow of St. Paul’s, stands the monument dedicated to the memory of Thomas Addis Emmet—the monument which marks the ve of Ireland’s noble exile; and there Irishmen stand bhp! the inspiration which marked the men of '98. If Ireland has been mark for blight and desolation, if her sons have been driven to exile, and famine decimated her population, she has never lost the trust in better for- tunes and in brighter days. The hope which nover dies is sure one day to be realized, and is iHustrated in her national color—our own imatortal The Cuarrman then proy the fourth regular toast— “The United States—A bond of Staves which the world cannot break.”” Air—Yankee r The CHarkMAN put to the vote whether the compan; should havea song or @ speech. The song was unani- mously carried, and the ‘Minstrel Boy’’ was admirably sung by one of the company. The CuamMan then proposed the fifth standard toast— “Civil and religious liberty. the world over.” Air—The Marseilloise Hymn. Mr. O'GoRMAN responded—The Saint who looks down on us has no reasom to be ashamed of his sons to- night; and he it is who a our Permit and gives ‘dignity to our mirth. liked this society, be- cause it was one of meré Irishmen—because, while it passes by and leave untouched the netile of dis- sent, it gathers and wreathes into a fair garland the flowers of brotherly love. No sentiment could be | more congenial to freemen tham that proposed: full | and free right to every citizen to act as he will, Slways provided that his act does net interfere with the same right in any one of his fellow citizens. Liberty their faith pure—illustrated with many a struggle— | mountains, as he arrives on the banks of the broad | of thought—liberty of worship, free and untrammelled— all of them can ex: as I recount to you these | Khine, near the Baltic, and gazes upon the majes- tic river, be recollects that it takes its source in his ious examples of ristiam fidelity. ‘hy, Saint from wo a own mountains, and pea? his own little csbin, and im- trick, that glorious saint, whose children we are, and the array of martyrs who surround him in heaven, can medistely his eyes are filled with tears, and his whole , look down with complacency and smile upon this assem- | soul convulsed with unaccountable emotion, and as he , and pour their holiest influence upon every mind | bends him down to drink the pure and coolin: iter, for Ihave to speak of their fidelity, and the | water he imagines that it is still fragrant wit! fidelity of their brethren. Therefore, Christian brethren, | the odor of his own Alpine meadews, and of the L aay, at once, that the glory of Ireland is in the glory of geen, bills he left about his mountain home, and | the Church, and it proce “es in being associated with her | be thinks taat every breeze thgt plays upon his bo- martyrdom, rticipating in her apostleship. You, | som brings him tidings of the wife tod children he left at you yourselves, honor fidelity to principle. You revere | home, and who now so anxiously expect his return. Let the man who is so much attached to principle that | us but do our duty in this generation, and a century | rather than sacrifice it he would lose everything. In | hence what a spectacle will the American Church present your eyes, and in the eyes of the world, there is glory in | to the traveller from Ireland. He will see her from the political martyr’s prison—glory in’ his cha‘ns. His | ocean toocean, flourishing and spreading in the city, and dea! glorious. His memory is held sacred, and his growing in the country, while everywhere time will have grave is a ha/lowed spot. What say you, then 'toanen- | proved her the truest (riend of liberty. She will then be tire people, who, during centuries, have mauifested their , looked upon With dread and hatred by nono, and with af. attachment to the highest of all principles, and m fection by all The traveller will visit our railwayaand fested that attachment by every possible sacri canals, and upon the spot where the poor laborers’ gene What meed of honor? What kind of glory will 1osity first erected a timed church, will then stand many accord to a nation, who, during three centuries, bore | stately piles. Many proud villages and towns will then every kind of suffering, degradation and death, ‘under | have raised themselves on the soil first consecrated by shape, rather than sacrifice or commit that Chris- | the emigrant’s foot, but the cross from,his grave will ba ‘ian freedom which that nation received from St. Patrick | seen on many a spire pointing in triumph to Heaven. n the fifth century, and at her baptism swore to main- , Thus, from the Canadian waters to the Atlantic shores, ‘ain ferever? To such a nation surely you will grant the will the pilgrim of Ireland find many consoling traces of ry of martyrdom. Yes, of real martyrdom—martyr- | the spirit of aformer sage. It may be that one will com» fae conscience sake,mattyrdom animated byeharity— | upon St. Patrick’s day to thank that Got whose provi he crown of martyrdom, where the blood shed in the vidence has been so merciful, so unaccountably mystori- jontest. was only her own, Martyrdom for conscience | ous, over our father land. ‘He will come to some glori- fake! [need not prove this, It is the cause for which | oun temple, of which this will not be’even a thadow, and de suffers, and not the suffering itself, which makes a his guide, showing him, round will say to nim, ‘This, too, ,and this is the rule laid down by St. Cyprian, is another monument left us by that noble hearted ge Now, the world tears martyrs tears nations, tears in¢ neration.”” 4 viduals in two ways, even as she tears the Church herse! The mass was then concluded, and the Archbishopie the withbolding of its good will, and by the persecu- livereda solemn benediction, after which the congrega, ‘ons of ite hatred; and the merit of the martyr, and the | tion separated. The Sisters of Charity, with the children glory of the Church, consist« in resisting this twofold «trending their schools, occupied seats under and upon persecution—and such has been the two-fold resistance each side of the pulpit during the services. of Ireland. Every thing here is matter 9 history—of | modern historv—and far be itfrom me to make asinzle as "1 sertion, or to bring forwarded a single fact, that cannot bear | LECTURE BY ME. DOHENY. the scrutiny of history; bat it is weil known and asserted | A large body of our Irish citizen soldiery, and a con- by Mstorians, publicists, philorophers, and literary men siderable number of others, assembled in the Tabernacle, p Bye i wos beateny i 7 at that at {he beginning of at half past three o'clock, to hear lecture from Mr. Bational prosperity, national glory, and national great. | Doheny upon the warsin Ireland, between William and Rom. At that period she discovery of the New World | James, and the events whieh subsequently led to the 07 merica and India to European civilization oy the apisit Of enterprise. England tobe iy ethat | foundation of the Irish Brigade, in France. On either side was the ruler of the Indies; but then Spain was | of the rostrum was displayed the American and Irish on gg ore ig" — re gg ally by omao$ | fidgs, the latter bearing on a green ground the harp, the Ireland. pain at t time was the first Euro; 9 i i tion. She was the mistress of Amerion—che gas | Dational emblem of Ireland, At the appointed time, Mr. jusen upon sea and land, and Spain h-id up the rights | Doheny made his appearance. He commenced his lecture nationality to Ireland, and acts of citizenship and | by « brief account of the wars of the northern chieftaln, ry ity, and honors, were lavishly bestowed \ | , Reeeiteman at a subsequent poried’ toned 8p9m OUT | Owen Roe O'Neil, againt the dominion of Cromwell, in were fast com on when the Chureh of Saint | Ireland, describing, In graphic language, the battle of Patrick was to upon to join in schism in reli fe ‘against the Holy See with England, or toforteit every | anburts im eceas meee stad y bard Tighstencar i nae Tenounce every worldy advantage, and | DUMeTOus and well-disciplined army of Knglish, under the be stripped of every element of national greatness and command of General Monroe. After a passing allusion to happiness. Not only was Ireland thus called upon to re- | the assassination of the gallant O'Neal, by the English mounce earthl; it, but we know that she was py ‘ faithfel in the temptation” ‘She put away from ker ax | /*otector, who, it is alleged, had bribed one of his atten- she puts away to-day the offers of wealth, of happiness, “ants to poison him, be gave a rapid sketch of the wara of equal laws and political liberty, and everything that which followed between James and William, and which, the world prizes and the world honors, in exchange for for a long number of years, deluged Ireland’ with blood her conscience. Now, Christian brethren, I will put this | He portrayed the dastardly conduct of the Stuart in its — home to yourselves. Three hundred years have true colors, and spoke of his treachery to the Irish peo. el since this persecution began. It has not yet | ple inthe most indignant terms, not forgetting also. to 4. Now, then, su. that, to-morrow, Ireland | condemn that foolish obedience which the Irish them Wore to exchange her faith for equal laws, equal rights, | selver wore ever too ready to render to royalty, and in political advantages, temporal prosperity, glory, and hap: | their devotion to which they had saorificed thal counte, pines, what would be the Joy of England, and what | and their lives. The unparalleled bravery of the people would be the joy of America? Ireland going 'to become | of Limerick, during the seige of that city by the Prince of Protestant? Ireland going to abjure the faith of Saint | Orange, and the indomitab! courage displayed by the Patrick? Ob! then, immense sums of money, coflected | Irish troops at the siege of Athlone, which took vithin the British empire, and even within the bounds of place in the same war, received, ax they de yur own republic, would be at once poured into the heart | served. a large share of the lecturer's attention. to testify the gratitude and the satisfaction of | ‘The valor the Irish exhibited during this contest, in which heentire Protestant world. But it may not be so. Not | they had nothing to gain and everything to love, was un. joly did Ireland then, but she does to day, diadain to re availing erm the power of England, and the treachery fin of even to purchase back her natural position | or cold indifference of pretended friends. The country Or even the very bread which can | was rent by intestine dissensions, religion was perverted pert children and Koay them from star: | from its asered mission, by being made the too! of the at the price of her conscience Not only then | government, and the people, after a desperate conflict, did she put away from her the prospect of temporal ad- | were reduced to the moat abject state of slavery. Those vantages, but allowed herself to be stripped of the that remained of the army the eountry and entered for this patriots and martyrs have died, and yet to most aations it is ‘+ Like Dead sea fruits, which tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lip.”” ‘There are two sentimests in the world. From one side | comes death, and they call it peace—the awful stillness | of massacre, and they call it quiet. From the other side comes the call of progress and liberty. From neither of these parties is there much hope for mankind. Arms may break the seeptre and overcome the throne, but arms alone never made a free people. The heroism of the pa- triot, the devotion of the soldier, may shed a lustre upon defeat, but if the spirit of freedom be not in the hearts of the people, the gleam is transient, and serves but to light the wreck of baflied hopes, and make more intolerable the intensity of the gleam. Liberty may be guaranteed by constitutions—liberty may be set under the protection of the laws; but we have seen that con- stitutions can be trampled upon by «armies, unless there are brave and honest men to enforce and to obey them; for constitutions and laws are but expressions of the will | of the people, and serve to stereotype their habits. civil liberty ‘can find its sure basis alone on tl cial virtues+independence of thought, perseverance, industry, vigilance, self-restraint—the same qualities which give dignity to individual worth are the qualities | by which civil liberty is fostered, enjoyed, and preserved. The spirit of freedom must be in the heads and in the hearts of the people before it can grow into life under their hands. Ibelieve ia my heart that social advance must precede political improvement. This progress may be slow, but so is the growth of everything good and great on this earth. Slow grows the forest tree— | slow from age to age sink its roots ever deeper into | the earth, lifting its head ever higher into the storm, and spreading ite branches far and wide, until, under its over arching shelter, a free and happy people assemble. Now, rir, shall I speak to vou of religious liberty?—or, indeed, is it safe to speak at all? In these days of extreme opin- | ions, sharp aud angry debate, it is hard for aman to speak without giving offence, and I desire to of. fend noman. (Applause.) Yet there is atime, perhaps, when it is not good to be silent. There is a time when over-deference to morbid sensitiveness must fail, and I honestly eonfess Iam giad of the opportu say & word on the question which lies at the root o questions affecting the welfare of mankind—roligious liberty. How, sir. could I—how could any man, with memory and thought—but be its firm and devoted sup- porter? Which of us have not Witter came to hate intolerance? Where is the man whose father has not suffered under its lash? Why, sir, since the aays of Cain men have bent the knee before intolerance, and when living sacrifices were offered on the altar of hell: born {fiends, they fancied that they were doing honcr to the all loving God. What came of it all? Why, always and ever utter defeat When did persecution aver make a true convert? When did persecution ever of human intelligence, branded Socrates as an infidel— called him a lawless dissenter—and for this Athens slew him, the best and holiest of her children; and now Greece | is dead, and the spirit and genius of her victim lives and | moves in the heart of man, and sheds lustre ever on the ruins of the great city which pid his devotion with death. Rome !—imperial Rome !—Rome in all the ful ness of her power, when her standard was planted on every land, from’ the Tiber to the Indus—Rome could not trample out the dangerous infidelity which began to Tork in palaces, and to{jwhisper in murmurs; and Rome pnt forth her’ great arm to cast tho lawlens disturbers of her peace to the lions, and + till broader and deeper into the arena flowed the Mving tide of mar- | tyrs, and still. came the triumphant death-song. proclaim- ing to the last the majesty of the Christian God! (Ap- plauwre) Where is the mighty city now? Fallen \nto utter decay, And Goth, and Vandal, and Gaul have watered their horses in the Tiber, and stabled them in the palaces of her nobles, and in tho very temples of the Gode of Rome. (Applause.) | Rome has fallen into ruins, and trom those halls who: once issued the edicts which governed nations ruin | holds undisputed sway, and the ereed which her philoso- | persecutors in their turn. Every sect, in its | hour of weakness, cried out for liberty, and) when | phy could not*comprebend, sheds ita increasing light on the world, Time wore on, and among Christians schisms arose. Orthodoxy met with heterodoxy and dis senters were punishes with arms, The martyrs be can afterwards grown into power, it claimed for if | the monopoly of truth, and the mission to exterminate ‘and revenues whieh supported, until that time, the service of Austria, France, and in whose ranks | others- At last, to crown the disgrace of moral incon- Frthoutburthen to the people, her min'sters, and she suf: | they fought their way to distinction. Sarsfield died | sistency even more absurd, the very men who made full fered her institations, her nunneries, aod her priest fighting in the cause in, his only et being that | freedom of worship the basis of their creed became in hood’s free seminaries, open to children of both rich and his life was not sacrifieed in the cause of his fatherland. | fected wivh the fatal malady, and with their own hands poor relations, to be taken away from her. She lost her | That portion of the Irish who enrolled thomselves under | sought to kill the vital principle from which thoir own life universities, to which, at one time, the youth of Europe , the benner of France were known by the proud title of , was derived. The KpYsoopalinn Claverhouse hunts the ‘we were born or res ‘They loved it all plause.) Under these penal laws, sir, my vous grie’ wrong. heard of was for Catho- tion. I was a child when the last fet- imal of the Irish Catholics. The phrase, “religious liberty,” was dear and fa. before I was old enoug! Since then I have learned fathers for many @ long year si tical struggle I ever ty, and to-da ishop, at tended ¢ had so much saintly blood been shed as in the State of New York, called the Empire State. It was an im- , before Europe had anything to do with ¢ Six Nations lived. who all the rest of the Indians. the Indiars of New England. Tho Ca- 8 went among these savage tribes, and shed their blood in this Stato as martyrs, sanctify soil. They were martyred both by whites and by sAnd was it that they saw such » spectacle to-day— fifteen hundsed armed Catholics paradedthe streets, and if it was intended to martyr a priest now it must be done in the Indians could not do it on any river rs of the State. What was the reason of the change? It was because half a million of Irish Catholics lived in the ‘State, and“twoj hundred thousand in the ity, rendering both half Catholic. The motto of ior,” which, for the information of the ladies he would explein, was “higher.”’ The Irish Catholic would rise stil higher and higher in the limpire 'e. reply to the toast of Pius IX., Rey. Dr. CumminGs was called upon by the Chairman, and received with most enthusiastic applause. lic sai applause showed how much a subject ennolled the man who took it in hand. He thanked them for the attachment they had shown to the name of Pins IX, He is so saintly, and so true to his principles, that really e deserves it; and, also, dence of deep-seated attachment to the Catholic religion. The assistance which God light which illumes it shines most Begeey ls, and the pulsation of the Cat! heart beats most distinctly near the tomb of its first bishop at Rome. Perhaps there is no error more inju- rious than the insidious attempt to separate the priest- hood of the people. In the name of progress and liberty, had been made, and it had been asserted that the priesthood were the enemies of the people. This was what he could not understand; for what motive could the clergy have against the welfare of the people. What could induce the priesthood to such a course? Is there anything in their principles or their interests to lead to such a result? Is there anything in their conduct that, in point of fact, involves such a conclusion? Are they not followers of Jesus Christ, who went about doing seeking not his own advantage, but that of the ? Did not these opponents even utter the blas- phemy that, if Jesus Christ lived now, he would ‘have gone further than he did 1,800 years'ago? It was im- riesthood could have any interest tof the people. Even those who, from the high standard of their holy religion, amassed lucre, did so by fiattering the passions of the Why was it that the priesthood had such in- © people that they could hold them back when rushing to the deadly conflict. He had never been in Ireland, but he had read much against the clergy o that country; and yet there the people were devoted to and listemed to their voice. It had been said that the people of Italy revolted against their clergy. He would venture to say that there was not one Italian who was at heart an infidel or a Protestant. During the irty Years War, the German people were preserved from error by the Catholic G38 ‘The chivalric heart of Old Spain snd Portugal when her free masonry, were saved from corruption by the Catholic France, notwithstanding what had beon said, ic; and the causeof Louis Napoleon’s suc- ceas wasthat he said religion should be le |, and that the godless plan of government pursued lanl repudiated. An attempt had been mi down the . But when it was consi- dered how they toiled, and that, on an average, they did not receive more than $1 perday, it would be easily seen how futile were such attempts. There was one proof of the attachment of the and that was their co-operation with them church- building, in which they might be said to be almost mono- In conclusion, reverend gentleman made an allusion to Kossuth, who, he said, had gone up like » rocket, and came down Alexander Smith. Mr. McMasrers, editor of the Freeman's Journal, on the | call of the President, then replied to the toast of the The reverend gentleman who had just sat down said they were monomaniaes in church peer They monomaniacs in other (tiny mg Celtic people were alway distinguished for their in this country scarcely a apot could be found where the activity of Celtic blood was not found in the newspapers. Franklin Pierce, the head of this august republic, had boasted, since his election, that Celtic blood flowed in his eins; and if he disowned it, the outlines of his face and ts dea that he -was led that the press had no power. He did not believe any such thi he the beef eaters and Engla: assembly, for the English would be more likely to agree with nim. But it was unfortunate that the interest of the press could be bought up to advocate anything for so many thousand dollars. It was, therefore, an instr mental, and not ano but a brute machin selfish interest, and was sometimes an ine of revo- lution, and sometimes of the oppression of the people and the extinetion of their rights. The great hope of any press was in moral principles that came from other Seating thee trot th ha portion of the people d the ; a ion 10 fove ‘Tisresren why he said s0 little for was that he felt his own imperfections and of all the other editors; he would agree to stop his and turn But since they employed falsehood, e telegraph and the mail to deceive the rtant that another kind of press should ter the error. Debauchery and slavder of private character were characteristics of the press; x than error in the press, as else- rtion of it that had the greatest epee, though it had the greater advantage, only affo1 dence of its coward heart. ly tothe ‘Judiciary of the United States,” LOVER respondei. He said he knew of no saint in the calendar who was patron of the lawyers, though he had heard of a lawyer who had become a saint after aban- dening his profession. (ites The speaker then went on to relate a legen three times around a number of statues, in order to stum-_ dle on the patron of the bar. On the bandage being re- moved he found himself in the enbrace of the devil. The speaker paid some compliments to Chief Justice Taney Campbell, the Postmas‘er General, who were both Catholics. After one or two other toasts, the company broke up about 12 o’clock. to comprehend its meaning. that it is @ principle, not true in one eorner of the world, or at one time, but always and every where, an inherent right to believe what creed tells him is the holiest and best, to worship in what form he thinks most acceptable to God, Grae kA ae and to ‘opagate, by every moral ani such matters. (Ap use.) And this to him, not because is Catholic, Protestant, but because he is a And all laws or edicts whit in xt, would restrict or restrain this right, whet in Rome or in Russia, in Tuscany or Sweden, in Engla or in New Hampshire, arealways and everywhere, ab- unjust, indefensible and inexcusable. believe that the days of intolerance are passi ‘They may not be dead yet, but they are ineura bled. (Applause.) They cannot stand before free discusion. ‘The press, the great inquisitor of th abroad, and no wrong can go undiv of justice. We have not becuuse he is a man. (Applause. within the border the State was * is age, has its spies d enough of penal laws, enough of torture for conscience sake. Enough of martyrs—too much of hatred. (Applause.) It is tolerance, what Christisnity can do. It has done much; it has mitigated the cruelty of laws, and even into the carnage of war brought the gentle spirit of chivalry; and I believe that against that strongho mus intolerance—it will in the end prevail. (Cheers.) work of dogmas will be attested by the conduct of those who profess them, and converta will be made, not by the fanatic zeal of the bigot, but dy the exercise of benevolence,of those kind acts which tell us that, no mat- ter what the form, the spirit of religion at least is there. “ For a’ that and a’ that It’s coming yet for a’ that, t man te man, the world o'er Should brother be for a’ that.’ Mr. ©Gorman resumed his seat, amid the greatest ap- time to see what of barbarism—reli- B ‘The CrarRMAn next “The City of New York—Her wealth is honestly earned and generously bestowed.” Air—“Buy a Broom.” Mr. Brunt responded—He thought the air was vory appropriate. If to the City Fathers the broom was to be applied, it would not be out of the way—if to the dirty streete, then he would say, God hel Dr. McNuvin sang the song, ‘Let the toast be dear compatible with The Cuarrman then gave— “Our Sister Societies—And one The President of Saint ‘Andrew dent of Saint Nicholas’ responded. The Cuamuan then gave the “Arm United States.”” Gen. Sanrorp responded, The next toast was— cheer more for Saint Co- Ser : and the Vice Presi- ‘and Navy of the ‘Air— Hail Columbias” y Mr. Raymon responded. The next toast was— “The memory of Washington’’—drank in: solema The Cnarman then gave— “The Irish Volunteers of ’82.’’ Air—‘“The Harp of Dr. ANTisei responded and proposed “The memory of Tone, Emmet, M’Nevin, and their co exiles.” The last toast was— “The Ladies,’” Which was suitably responded to. THE YOUNG FRIENDS OF IRELAND. Last eveningyghe Young Friends of Ireland held their tenth annual celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at the Apollo Rooms, Broadway. The attendance was large, consisting, chiefly of young persons of both sexes, The room was decorated with various flags and emblems. A. handsome green flag with a harp of gold was suspended from the orchestra. Atthe head of the reom, on the right of the chair, was a banner in green and gold, with the following inscription :— geeccccacccccceeccococDecDCS Youn Fruxxps or IRstAnp. nized, Dec., 1843. Bequeathed from Siseares Though baftied oft is ever won. wan stil Cathol 00002900000000000000000005 On the left was another banner, with a barp wreathed with shamrock, and the following inscription :— ©00000000000000000000 Friends of Irela ligious Freedom, By the Ladies of New York. 20900000000000000000000000 Mr. Wm. A. Nugent presided, and John D. Morris acted as secretary. On the right of the chairman, sat Mr. Me- Masters, editor of the Freeman's Journal, and Rev. Dr. Cummings, Rev. Mr. McAleer ; on his left, Dr. @. Hunt- ington, and T. J. Glover. Dinner was served at half-past seven o'clock, and at a quarter to ten o'clock, Rev. Mr. Cumming, returned thanks “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.—Amen,” ‘The following was the rogular list of toasts :-— 1. The Day we Celebrate—The embodiment of two great rinciples, religion and patriotism. Let them.ge hand in and, that the ardor and impetuosity of the one may be tempered by the calm, inspiri 2. Ireland—She shall come prorsion purified and refined; and her light shall ine the brighter for the gloom which now surrounds 3. The United States—The sanctuary of freedom, where the pilgrim from oppression, bowing before her shrine, {ul reverence, offers up the incense of his prayers, and lays upon her sltar the sacrifice of « grateful 4, The Irish Hiorarchy—Pillars of light, illumining the darkness of persecution, the pride of her country, and faith —Rey. Father M’Aieer. ‘ork—A model for her sister States. By adopting institutions similar to hers, they on themselves, and im return reflect honor upon her whose motto is ‘“Exeelsior."? inth—By Rev. bright Southern star, which glitters most vividl the storm, whose rays absorb the mists of anarc! whose effulgence casts light and gladness all around. 8. The wemory of Washington. 9. The Hierarchy of the United States—Zealous in the defence of truth, fearless in the exposition of error, ardent in patriotic attachment, constant in the practice of virtue, and rich in the wealth of intellect. 10, Ninety eight—A year in which was shed most pro- fusely, the blood of generous and most patriotic hearts; let their names be enshrined in our memory, that when the “dawn of freedom has arrived we may erect monu- ments whose tops shall reach the skies, in commemora- er000 to an honest calling. but truth was stro where; and the po: influence of the other, forth from the crucible of the ornaments of her hol; 5. The State of New will confer biessi 11. The Judiciary of the United States—Conservators of justice and faithful guardians of the law, may thoy pre- serve pure and unstained the bright name bequeathed to Storey and Marshall, .—Guided by morality and conducted in the best safeguards of our institutions, and the brightest ornament of man’s inventive genius. 13. Wowan —For our gayer homes she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and elequence of beauty, and she into our darker musings with a mild and healing pathy that steals away their sharpness ere we are The Preswupent then said, in rising to propose the senti- | ments which hay ever characterized the proceedings of the Young Friends of Ireland he needed their indulgence; {ter all, standing, as be did, amidst a party of en- hu-iastic Irishmen, he felt confident that what he had © ray would be cordially received. Nine yoars ago the were united—bishops, the sacred cause. priests and laity—in The Young Friends of Ireland ita faithful adherents. stricting the invitation we do not but have only acted becomingly to feos, and as masters of our own establish all know the ovil of disunion. The veners warned the people against disunion, is gathered to his fathers; and the young, rash, and if you will, the entha- siastic men, who seceded from him, have been dispersed. ‘And since they have fled and become dispersed, whore will they Gnd a centre of unity but in the Catholic chureb? Shall red republicanism ? No, Shall such doctrines go down with the people of Inthe Holy Mother Church alone is safety, and by that light which has shone for eighteen hundred years uided to happiness and liberty. The ius the Ninth, ia their only and guide, and the Irish people would never f strange doctrines of ancient and modern times, When the gloom of the present has passed away, and our country stands united as she hasdone in modern times, there may be an appeal to the strong arms of her sons, be necessary to draw the sword; he hi the untried swords on this side of the one doubted the existence of the Young nd; he hoped they wore here now, that they might see how the ghost of the peared. (Laughter.) He then propo: toast of the evening. | they continued still yet put down any creed. good or bad? (Cheers.) | Paganism long ago throve. Athens, the metropolis | ceeded by 8 "The regalia of the members co: green silk sash, the officers being distinguished white ones. Johs Farrell, Esq., the P socigtion, acted in the capacity of mounted on a white horse, He was assisted by several ‘About three o’clook the military, with the Shamrock and other civic associations belonging to this city, eross- ed the South ferry, and marching up Atlantic ‘street, through Court street, passed in review before Mayor Lambert and the Common Council, at the City Hall, whence the companies from New York and Williamsburg oceeded homeward by the way of the Vulton ferry. St. Patriok’s Scolety of Brooklyn, parted from ti main procession at the junction of Pai ton streets, and oceedings with a dine ing connected with the display in this oit passed off creditably, and to the entire satisfaction of the participants. tlantic would be Friends of Irel the first rogular The second toast waa Music—‘Exile of Brin. ‘The third toast was responded to Rev. Mr, ALgER, St. Columbus’ felt highly honored b: toast of the Irish hierarchy, w'ose raculous when they considered tho efforts made by the British government, for three hundred years, it out of the Irish it was enacted to be a Bishops to: asaumo their atriots England worked the do by Church. He said he being called on to respond to the istence was mi nal offence for the Iris Trish hierarchy were resplendent than ever, like the rock above. tie siren Seeley Stee ete ‘That tingui like for its learning and they have the confidence of the they attract the admiring gaze of the a oi world. And why should they not have the confidence of united as they are to them byfthe tyranny ion? (Loud applause ) next toast was responded to by rho said it was with pnfeigned diffi- to a toast which is dear. as it ought to be to him, as a native of the State of New York. He was taken by surprise, but at a ame time, apart from all triotic reasons for proud of inwl ne side, there are many things which endear it to the Catholic heart. The city of New York hasmany cht not to be forgotten on such an occasion as this. If it had not been recorded it would have been believed that a hundred and forty years ing mass in New York, st from coming near ded this law. What was the case bishop's see, with 200,000 inhabi- nigh ma shad boen celebrated by forty priests. No where The sight of a Mohawk Indian was ‘ing the indians. use it was an evi- promises the Church never lic heart was made rotten by id would be inthe United to the American priesthood, of learning, and his’ limbs, would refute the of ‘Saxon origin. Some tell it to nd than to that force; and, after all, it was it was often swayed by passion or ly to sustain it in the charity of evi- of a lawyer boing led blindfold THE BALLS IN THE EVENING. The Mitchell Guard, Company A, Republican Rifles, celebrated the evening with a splendid invitation ball at the Chinese Assembly Rooms, where dancing was kept up. until morning. The Young Men’s Roman Catholie Benevolent Associa- tion held their first annual ball last evening at Tammany Hall. The affair was asplendid one, ests were present. The supper, which was served by the proprietors of the hotel, was'an excellent one. The music being fine, the dancing was kept up with great spirit untila late hour. number of dis- THE DAY IN BROOKLYN. The anniversary was generally observed by the sons of St. Patrick in this city, and during the day the national colors were displayed from various public houses in honor of the event. Atanearly hour the military formed at the foot of Fulton street, previous to proceeding to New York, in the following order:— er Tandy Light Artillery, Captain Hogem. , Captain McCarty. Fmmet Guard, Captain Nugent. Brooklyn Light Dragoons, Captain Wood. ‘aptain Reardon. Captain Hennessy. nd of the 72nd Regiment preceded the division, which, with several benevolent sssociations, crossed the ‘The Laborer’s Union Benevolent Association, mustering nearly one thousand members, observed the day hers. They formed at their head quarters in Pacific street, at about nine o'clock A.M., and, after marehing through,tho principal streets, proceeded to St. James’ Church, im Jay street, where a discourse appropriate to the occasion delivered by the Rev, Mr. Cnssiday. After procession reformed and pro- circuitous route to the place they started from in the morning, and were dismissed. ‘The society carried a large banner bearing th their organization, with shamrocks. name of ound ited by ident of the As- rahal, and was 44 a huge harp wreathe: ton and Washing- led to Gothic Hall to terminal TELEGRAPHIC. THE DAY IN BALTIMORE. Bartimorg, March 17, 1863, St. Patrick's day in being colobrated hore by the Irish, ‘Tho weather ia wet and sleoty. WASHINGTON. Wasminatow, March 17, 1363, Our Irish citizens have been busily engaged to-day in celebrating the anniversary of their conuntry’s Patroa “Saint. PHILADELPHIA. Parapatraa, March 17, 1863. ‘The unpropitious weather had but little effect om the Irish in this city to-day. ‘They turned out im great aum- bers, and had a general merry-making, EVENIN' BANY. _ , eae ae March ‘17, 1853. ‘The Sons of Hibernia are duly honoring their patrom saint this evening. They have one of the most brifant concerts at the Cathedral, and will conclude with an an- niversary dinner at the Mansion House. Gov. Seymour, the State officers, large numbers of “all threo’ Houses of the Legislature, together with several distinguished visitors, are to participate in the repast. City Intelligence. FIRE—THREE PERSONS BURMED TO DEATH. About seven o’clock on Wednestey evening, a fire was discovered in the front room of the house No. 146 West Thirty fifth street, occupied by a man named Michael Ryan, and by which three unfortunate people lost their lives. It appears that Ryan’s wife left the premises for a few minutes, leaving two children and her mother at home. On her return she found the house in flames, and immediately gave the alarm, which quickly brought the police to the spot; but, alas, their aid came too late, for when the firemen had extinguished the flames, they found that the children and the old woman were either * suffocated or burned to death. The old woman, whose name was Celia Connoughton, was in the habit of smoking a pipe in.the bed, and it is supposed that she set fire to the bed clothes, which communicated to the furniture of the room. She was about fifty years of aj The child- ren, who were boys, were aged respectively 344 and 13¢ years. Captain Hannigan was early on the ground, ‘TAR INQUEST UPON THE BODIRS. Coroner Gamble proceeded to the spot yesterday morn- ing, and held inquests upon the three bodies. ‘The teati- mony taken in the melancholy case of Celia Connoughtoa applied to the circumstances attending the deaths of her unfortunate grandchildren. The principal witness was Celia Ryan, who deposed—I reside at No. 146 West Thirty-fifth street; yesterday, Wednesday, afternoon, be- tween the hours of three and four o'clock, I leftthe house for the perpose of feing into aint nese street, be- tween Ninth and Tenth avenues; { called upon Mrs. Keeley; I left my mother, Celia 'Connoughton, in the house; my children, James and John, were ‘playing around the room, and the Youngest was asleep in tig cradle; upon my return I found house ani the room on fire; I did not see the smoke until I opened the door; I gave an alarm; officer O’Connor came to my assistance; I put my hand into the door and drew the cradle towards me; the youngest child was in it just as I left it; Ido not know whether the child was dead or alive, I was so much frightened; when I left the house my mother was sitting on a chair, rocking the cradle; I do net know whether she was smoking or not; she was in the habit of smoking a pipe, and would sit in bed and smoke; she did not drink anything yesterday; sometimes she would take a little; 1 did not drink only one glass of beer yesterday; I did not see anything of the other child or my mother until after they were taken out from the fire; I donot know how they got burned. or in what manner the bed came on fire. Sergeant John O’Connor deposed to the alarm of fire, and the extinguishing of it by the firemen; the deceased (Mrs. Connoughton) and a e two children, James and Joh Ryan, were taken ou lead. ‘ Dr. Uhl made an examination of the body—It is so much burned I could not tell if the deceased was suffoca ted before burning; in Prcoginion her death was caused by burns received while bed. ‘The jury rendered a verdict of death from burns re- ceived, on the afternoon of the 16th March, at No. 146 West Thirty-fifth street, by. the bed clothes getting fire. In the cases of James Ryan, aged two years and six months, and Jobn Ryan, aged six months, the jury ren- dered a verdict of degth from suffocation by the fire at No. 146 West Thirty fifth street, upon the 16th of March. The children were born in New York and the woman was anative of Ireland. Tux Wearner.—It is no unusual thing for us to have rain on St. Patrick’s Day; therefore, it is unnecessary for us to give a lengthy account of the weather. Contrary to the expectations of a great many, the sky began to be- come cloudy about 12 o’c! but the rain did not de- scend until 2 o’clock, from which time up toa late hour last night it fell in light showers, The thermometer at the HERALD office ranged frem 40 to 50 degrees above zero, Fatal AccIDENT ON SurPBoaRp.—Yesterday mornit James Nolan, a seaman of the ship Safatoga, tying al ‘roma anchor off the Battery, and bound for Li: fel the foret nt 1g to the deck and was instan- taneously killed. Coroner Hilton held his remains. i fracture of skull, received by accidentally falling from the masthead of the ship Saratoga. The Jeocased wass native of Pennsylvania, and twenty-two years of age. Couzs10n ON THE Furron Ferrr.—aAt three e'clock yes. terday, while the ferry boat Union was on her way to oe a sloop came in cellision with poles eed about twelve feet of the ladies’ cabin. Fortunately no- body was hurt, though the passengers were very much excited. A portion of the procession was on board at the . time, which rendered the confusion still greater. Tae Lats CAMPHENE EXPLosiON AND Fire iN ORANGE lige Ri ees who was so dreadfully burned at this fire, died last ia great agony, Rdbs ity Hospital, from the effects of injuries received by the ex- plosion oi the eos lamp. This is the third victim who has died from injuries received at this fire. An in- quest will be held on the body to-day. Arreurt To Commrr Suicipx.—A man named Frederick Redroyer attempted to destroy himself on Wednesday evel , by taking a quantity of ‘arsenic. He was con- veyed from the store No 339 Bowery, the occupant of whic al teat he had swalloweda large dose of arse- nic. dd was immediately sent for and aminiered to the usual antidotes. ENT.—About four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, three men, Richard Punchard and his son ad Joseph Lee, fell from the scaffolding of a new building at the cor- ner of Twenty-ninth st: andj Seventh avenue, se- verely inate Pigeon ieee SS Ee sufferers were convey: tl residences lice of the Twentieth ward. i ih . ACowarp.y Asaauit sy 4 Huspanp on ats Wirr—At- ‘veMPT TO CuT HAR THROAT.—On lagen a dastardly assault was made on a married lady, residing in Thirty-third street, between Seventh and Kighth avenues, by her hus- band, ‘who inflicted a dangerous wound on the side of her neck with some sharpinstrument. After committing the deed he fied, and has not yet been arrested. Dr. Harman * was immediately sent for, who sewed up the wound. The reason assigned for committizg this murderous act is veiled in mystery. A Cuarrer oF AcctpEnss.—On Monday a mam named James Carrol, had his slog broken at pier No. 3, East river, by aloadof manure falling on him. He was conveyed to t rokd ee police. “ o men, named R, Eagan, residing at 37, street, and Charles Flynp, ey Mott street, were seriously in- jured on Monday, while tearing down an. old building at the corner of Washington and Alban streets, by a per- tion of the timbers fs "g on them. The ‘were conveyed to the City Hospital by the police of the First ward, About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning « gentleman, named Alexander Spink, met with a very sovere and strange ac- cident while getting out of one of the Kighth avenuc rail- road cars. It appears that as he stepped off tho car, another one was passing up at a rapid rate on the oppo- site track, which knocked him down, throwing him in front of the platform and pushing his body for some dis- tance along the ground before the car could be stop When taken up he was found to be injured in @ serious manner, as his head and body were greatly bruised and cut. He wasimmediately conveyed to the City Hospital by the police of the Sixteenth ward. On ‘tuesday evening a gentleman, while attempting to cross Broadway, noar the corner of Chabers street, was knocked down by the horses of an omnibus, and had it not bon for the expertness of the driver, who pulled up his horses, which prevented the wheels passing over his body. he would no doubt have been seriously and perhaps fatally injured. Tho ger tleman wasa little stunned by the coneussion, but quickly recovered. James Gaberal received some severe bruises Monday afternoon by an old building, situated at the corner of Goerck and Stanton streets, falling on him. He was ta- ken to his residence in a very weak state by the police. Fma —Monday night at 9 o'clock, « fire broke outin the house No. 260 Delancey street, but was quiekly oxtin- guished by the police with trifling damage. A German, named Michael Euste, was arrested Tuesday morning, charged with setting fire to the premises. Fire on Sraren Istanp.—The dwelling house of Mr. 1 ea- yitt, at Clifton, Staten Island, was destroyed by fire on ‘Tuesday afternoon, . 4 A Suanty Buren Dowy.—At eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, an unoccupied shanty in Forty-second street, near Fighth avenue, took fire and was totally consumed. Srapsinc Cask at Rocuester — Juventie Murper.—About noon yesterday, a case of stabbing occurred in this city, so sudden in its origin, and so dreadful in its effects, as to arrest public attention in a remarkable degree. The circumstances were these: On Joiner street, in the north-east section of the city, a few boys were gathered, among them Joseph Francis Crater, the murderer, and Paul Satterbee, the victim. Crater is a French boy, is about 14 = of age, came from France in ship Splendid, four years since, and has often been helped 4 the Poor Master. His parents reside here, and he is known as a very bad boy: Crater and a younger brother were peddling candy, when a dispute arose Lda a Pace AN on brother of the prisoner called for some larger boys, among whom was Satterbee, and one Caleb Cherry. These boys immediately intervened. We give the testimony of Cherry. He said: “I kicked the boy's brother, and pet (Crater) down: then he run at me with iis knife. (This wasa basp knife used by him to pry up_his sticks of candy.) I run behind a tree when Paul Satterbee went to the prisoner and told him to put his knife away; and if he did not, that he would kick him; when the prisoner stabbed him with the knife, striking a back-hand blow. Satterbee walked a short distance, said to Cherry that he was stabbed—fell and died.” Satterbee was about 15 pbc old. He has a mother, who lives with a seoond usband. Crater was arrested at the depot, and taken before Police Justice Moore, by whom he was committed. The case was sent before the grand jury—Rochester American, March 11. Domestic Miscellany, A fire at St. Andrew’s, New Beunswick, recently con- sumed eight stores and dwellings on Water stroot Amongst the occupants wore Measry D. Bradley, OK, way, and T. Wardell. @ property was insured for $15,000, Loss not scertalned.” sat om