The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1873, Page 4

Session, eepecially in so far as it bore upon Irish d a 4 ‘HOME RULE. Grand Political Agitation Through- out Ireland. ALL CLASSES AROUSED. A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. BE.Fast, Nov. 8, 1873, If the last 12th of July were allowed to pass over fn comparative quiet the sth of November—anni- versary of the mysterious Gunpowder Plot—has not Deen permitted a similar immunity from riot. The anniversary 1s not one on which there is now gen- erally much outward display among THE ORANGEMEN of the North. In Belfast many of the brethren danced over the recollection of Guy Fawkes and | his subterranean powder barrels; they spent the evening most sociably in soirées, tollowed by bails. Others, of the graver sort, listenea to sermons, | Specially prepared and appropriate, by two local | ‘clergymen. In Portadown, however, they proved less sociable and more outwardly demonstrative. On the 23d of July last, while a party of Orangemen were returning to Portadown from assisting in re- ceiving the Canadian deputation in Armagh, a row occurred as they passed through ‘The Tunnel,” the name of what is known as the Roman Catholic quarter of Portadown, Whether the Orangemen remembered this and decided to be revenged I know not; but it is satd that, some time before the Gunpowder Plot Day, the police became aware that it was intended to have a procession, and to march through “The Tunnel.” Extra police, to the number of 100, were drafted into Portadown, and “The Tunnel” was caretully guarded on the ‘morning of the 5th. Towards the afternoon a long procession of the brethren—sald to be half a mile in Yength—with drums and fifes and many banners, came on towards “The Tunnel.” They were cour- teously but firmly told by the Resident Magistrate that they could not pass that way; that he had sworn informations that a riot would be the result. The main body retired, but a portion of them only did so to make a flank movement on the police from another quarter. The constables contested the passage. Stones were thrown; there were great excitement, yelling and shouting. The police, who had stood there with Oxed bayonets, began to use them. The excited crowd threw more stones; they came, it is said, as thick as showers of hail. THE MOB REFUSED TO RETREAT. Many were wounded—the civilians with the bayo- net, the police with stones. The fighting raged long and fercely, and in the ena the Riot act was read and the police were ordered to load their | rifles; but they did not fire. This, it seems, was not necessary, for the rain fell, and the excited crowd, who remained compact in the face of bayonets and loaded and threatening rifles, dis- persed when the rain began to wet them. The town was andisturbed, but very greatly excited during the night. Some severe bayonet wounds were inflicted. The police barracks in the evening presented the appearance of a temporary hospital. Rows of bandaged heads and bleeding faces met the spectator’s eyes, whose ears were at the same time assailed by groans and mournful complaints from men bruised and broken in many parts of the body. It was a dolorous sight, but it is very eatisiactory to Know that the wounds and bruises resulting from this doughty battle have not proved 80 Serious as they at first seemed. All the wounded, with the exception, perhaps, of one civilian, who received a severe bayonet stab, have either already resumed duty or will do so in a very short time. Fourteen arrests were made, and after prelimi- nary magisterial investigation the prisoners were remanded ior a few days. Portadown, Ipthink, is now likely to oe pretty quiet for some little time to come. County Longford has been distinguished during the past week by two “outrages,” agrarian, as | was supposed—a species of crime which has pot been very prevalent in Ireland for at least several years past. The first in point of time of these two OUTRAGES, however, seems likely to have a somewhat lu- dicrous termination. It was painted at first in pretty strong colors. A peaceful farmer, at Lanes- borough, named McDermott, was sleeping with his wife one night, when he and his spouse were sud- denly awakened and grievously alarmed by a rap | and rattle at their bedroom window. They got up, not quite sure apparently whether they themselves had really been shot or not, but certainly con- vinced that a shot had been fired at them. There were holes in the shutters, The glass was broken. The police were duly informed of this outrage, and next day the telegraph flashed the awful intelli- gence to all the newspapers in the kingdom thata terrible outrage had been committed on a respect- | able farmer and his wife. Ido not think that any o1 the accounts actually killed either the farmer or | his wile, but short of this no element of the enor- mity of the business was left unrecorded. It was the theme of much comment and speculation. One man was arrested. The magisterial investigation came on, and on Tuesday last we had what seems to be tive truth of the matter. Nobody, it seems, heard the portentous shot but McDermott and his wife. Neither their son nor daughter, who slept in the house, nor a young woman who was also sleeping there, heard the ‘shot.’ It is true there were holes in the window shutter, but holes exactly correspond to the prongs and ring of an old pitchfork found lying in the farm yard. The prisoner arrested sed. It is now believed that the had been fired trom the ancient pitehtork aforesaid by some rude inebriates returning ‘rom @ wedding or some other party. Tothem it seemed a joke, and, perhaps, a good one. It was, no doubt, most reprehensible, but itis consoling to be relieved even in this way from the DISGUSTING SUSPICION Of another mysterious bu horribh agrarian out- rage." ‘The other outrage to which Lbave occurred near Carrickglass, in the same county, where @ ver named Fee had been fired at in his room, pe tenants ha been evicted from a pi of iand, ay it was suspected Fee intended taking the bit of und, This is the alleged mo- tive for the crime, But Fee was not hurt. No |} Blot or ball can be anywhere discovered in the | room, It has been suggested that the gun or pistol had been loaded with biank cartridge, and | that the thing was only meant Fee not to take the land of 18 Dot stated Whetne a warning to | icted tenants. It teutork has been | found iying near tu ut the magisterial nVestigation has not yet taken piace and no | arrests were made. Wohtle ov outrages, | may note | What seems a very bri r, Just reported | from county Sligo. The vic had been at the iair o} gone intoa tent Jor refre accosted by two men, Vwyer and Piynn, who ac- cused hun of coldness. On his Way bome that night he was waylaid by the same me tabbed in several places, and brutally lynched. before morning, and Dwyer and Fiyns ve been committed ona charge of wilial murder. As {f there was @ kind of jever in the business, 1 bave to add the report of another outrage on a Jarier named Kearne, near Listowel. Shots seem to have been fired into his bedroom, but he was nov in Occupation at the time, and therefore escaped the fiery attentions of bis unpolite frieuds, who unfortunately escaped. MK, BUTT, M. P. for Limerick—the “Father of Home Rule,” as he ‘was called by the Mayor in introducing lim—ad- dressed his constituents on this day week. Strange to say, the spectacie of a member of Parliament addressiog his constituents is a rare one in Ireland. In England and Scotland the custom 1s thoroughly recognized and established. In these countries a Parliamentary representative would as soon think of havitnally absenting himself from the House of in the session as of not going to bis constituents in the recess, and giving au “account of his steward ship,’ It is looked for as the performance of @ duty; and ne who would attempt to shirk it must either be very confident of his seat or very care- Jess whether or not he lost it. In Ireland, ho ever, which is certainly not as a rule, indifferent, evento political oratory, it is quite otherwise. Here meinbers of Parliament, except at election times, very seldom meet their constituents. ‘they regard themselves as stewards at ail they do mot seem to consider it necessary to render any count of their conduct, A few weeks ago the GrConner Don did meet his constituents at Kos and reviewed the whole business of last Naugie, who | ldwin, aod had | ts, Here he was common, thongh tint and sagacians addres& sir these | He died | Commons | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. William Verner, M. ?. for Armagh, took the op- portunity of his presiding at an Orange soiree tn Lurgan the otner day, to deliver some very sharp strictures upon the conduct of the Gladstone gov- ernment, Butin his case he only indirectly, ad- dressed bis constituents; he did not really go to meet them, Mr. Butt has acted differently. He has addressed his constituents, and a very arpesls and enthusi- astic gathering was the meeting in Limerick at which he spoke. He had fag 2 returned from a somewhat extensive tour England, where he bad addressed numerous meetings on the subject of home rule. He wished to stir up the minds of the English people on this question. He wished to convince them that it was, after all, not 50 ter- rible a thing Jor Ireland to ask for AN IRISH PARLIAMENT to meet in Dublin to legislate for Irish affairs. How jar he has succeeded 1¢ 18 not for me to say. The question of home rule is, however, now freely als- cussed in England, and, while there are some who support it, there are many who oppose it, and not & few who find it extremely dif ficult to make up their minds about it one way or other. This question formed the thread of Mr. Butt’s discourse to hiscovstituents, He was con- vinced that it was impossibie for the Parliament, constituted as the Imperial Parliament was, to overn Ireland wisely or legislate for it well, in proof of this he referred to_ the lateness of the hour at night at which all Irish questions were introduced into the House of Commons, and the consequent physical tmpos- sibility to give them that full and sair and delib- erate discussion which they demanded and ought to receive. He referred to the anomalous condi- tion of the Grand Jury system in Ireland, by which the High Sherif nominated 23 pepsemen to, conduct the whole fiscal business of the country, As a proof that the imperial Parliament had not the necessary time to devote to Irish affairs, the Grand Jury system was acknowledged to be bad. Thirty years ago a royal commissioh had recom- mended certain alterations and amendments epee Chief Secretary after Chief Secretary had been obliged to confess that he had not had time to carry out these recommendations. Mr. Butt did statute passed ior Ireland ‘patched up and mended and darned afterward: a homely illustration which seemed to evoke loud and sympathetic laughter from the meeting. He believed the system of go" ernment since the union had been correctly de- scribed in the phrase recently used by Mr. in reference to the Gladstone administration. was one of “plundering and blundering.” Ireland, Mr. Butt continued, had NO REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY to control its administration and bring it practi. cally into unison with the national sentiments and Jeelings. 1t was impossiple for the 105 Irish repre- sentatives to do that in the English Parliament, Ireland had no representative assemblage and could not have tt without @ Parliament of its own. ‘Then Mr. Butt referrea to the coercion laws, the renewal! of which last session he had most strenu- ously opposed, and which for severity he charac- terized as “unparalleled in the legislation of the most despotic State in Europe.” He touched on the education question, condemned anew the Irish University bill of tne Gladstone administration, which would not have satisfied the wishes of the Irish people, and declared his concurrence with the opinion of the English Attorney General, that a free people must be allowed to decide upon its own system of education. Mr. Butt did not mean to hana over the children to the control of the Roman Catholjc clergymen, He had no compact with them to support dendghinatjonal educa- tion in retarn for toeir support of homé rule. He would resist their having command over @ Single Protestant child. he would resist their having control over even the children of Roman Catholics, unless the parents voluntarily conceded it. The people must be free to choose their own kind and manner of education. But these and other things could omly be securea by the concession of home rule, by the establishment of chree federal Parliaments to legislate each for tue local and internal aifairs of the three separate arts of the United Kingdom. And, having finished, Mr, Butt received a unanimous vote of confidence. You may pernaps think that Lhave dwelt at too great length on this speech of Mr. Butt. But re- member that he is the ‘Father of Home Rule,” the chief and most distinguished exponent of tts doc- | trines, and that this subject is pretty nearly the leading question now discussed in Ireland—l may even say, in the United Kingdom. It is heara of everywhere. There have been meetings innumer- able to forward THE AGITATION. These have taken pa chiefly inthe south and | West, but even in the cold north there have been | gatherings and demonstrations not a few. ‘‘Home rule” has become a party cry, just as ‘no home rule’ has become to the Orangemen as kindling to enthusiasm as the oid familiar phrase, of “No surrender !*? dn Belfast, the chief home of akg expressions, where their indulgence has jong been an expensive pastime, and has now be- come a serious inconvenience, punishaole with imprisonment, the cries of ‘Home rule |’? and ‘‘No home rule!’? have for a considerable time given variety to the police court proceedings. They relieve the monotony of the cries which heretolore have had a monopoly in the consideration of ine- briated enthusiasts—the curses, both lond and deep, Which have been me on the neads of Pope and Orange King at the rate of 40 shillings and costs for each offence. The prisoners, each | alter his peculiar political or theological taste, | seemed to like the enthusiasm or excitement of these party expression ebullitions, and in the | large majority of cases the fine was paid. The hardship of imprisonment, however, 18 not so easily overcome, Sull the fever works. ‘Home rule’? and “No home rule’ has each its devotees, and each sends its quota to be dealt with by the long-suffering po- lice magistrate. There may not be many Home Rule associations in the northern part of the | island; one was established in Belfast and held | several meetings, but for some time has made no | Outward sign, bat it has a certain hold of the | Minds of men even there, To the Urangemen it | seems an abomination not to be reasoned with, @ | thing merely to be execrated whenever men- | toned. Mr, Johnston, of Ballykilbeg, has received | no more enthusiastic cheers trom his opponents | than when he was denouncing home rule. But it | herrea advocates, cspeciaily among what are | calle THE HUMBLER CLASSES, even inthe North. In the South and West it is be- coming powerful. In Dublin we have the head | and guiding association, which meets weekly. On Tuesday last it held a special meeting, ke hyre 4 convened for the purpose of denouncing the local overnment board—the controlling authority of | Doaras of guardians—for having indirectly pro- | hibited these bodies trom discussing the question of home rule. Many boards of guardians had done so; and the local government board sent out a communication to clerks of unions, in- forming them that they might regard letters soilciting the support of their boards to a home rule movement as addressed to themselves per- sonally. It was this that the home government association met in Dublin to condem and they | | Bass, seconded by Mr. A, M. Sullivan and sup- ported by Mr. Cullen, M. P. for Dundalk. The con- | duct of the local government board was broadly denounced as uaconstitutional and unjust. IN THE SOUTH, at all events, the home rule agitation is interfer- | ing with the tenant farmers’ absorbing attention to the question of land tenure and the security of his tenancy, This, I need not inform you, isa | question of very vast importance, to_a large and most important class in Ireland. When, in the session of 1869-70, the Irish Chureh Dis- | | estabdilgshment bill was introduced, it was | felt that, however desirable that measure may have been, the Land bill which was to follow was even more important still. this much, I believe, is pretty generally admitted— it insured compensation for capricious eviction | and for unexnausted improvements made by the tenant; but it did not absolutely prohibit or pre- | venteviction. This seems what the tenant farm- ers of the South, and, to @ large extent, of the | North also, demand, They ask not only security, | but fixity of tenure, at a fair rent. In the North j the tenant farmer ‘wishes absolute possession of | his tenant right—to hold as long as he remains on | the farm, and to dispose of it to the highest bidder | when he leaves. To this the landiords are vehem- | ently opposed; but many of them are aiso strongly | opposed to the whole provisions of the Land act, | Indeed, I fear the conduct of those DISCONTENTED LANDLORDS— I don't know that they are a majorty in | Ireland—has had much to do in_ rousing that dissatisfied Had among tenants wita t Land act even while they may acknowl- evge its substantial benefits, These landa- lords have taken every opportunity of condemning the act. They sacceeded m Lehi J a hostile com- mission appointed by the House of Lords upon it, though it has come to nothing, Such proprietors as Lord Leitrim, in Donegal, for example, have repeatedly appeared in the law courts with what Seemed purely vexatious cases of prosecution against tenants; and the more completely they | have been beaten the more loudly and petulantly | do they complain of the evil provisions, as they | consider, of the Land act. Now, the tenants, seeing and hearing these things, have bestirred themselves in many quarters. In the North the; have many tenant rights associations; in the Sout | they have numerous farmers’ clubs. A contest for the representation of county Tyrone some Months ago proved their strength when they chose It aid much good— | to exert it. They almost carried their own man, | MP. Macartney, and, possibly, had the objections pte fortunate candidate, Captain Corry, son of | le previous member, been prosecuted, | | have been unseated, Beene eee tp MEETINGS were held, addreases were delivered, there was a | geueral conference in Dublin, and it was enerally believed that at the next election the tenants would endeavor to make a stand on behalf of their 4 own rights by voting only for those wh to support them. — The farmers’ clubs of fhe South ‘ | were much 0, the same mind, They passed resoiu- | | tions to that effect and hot work seemed to be pr paring among the tenant farmers for the general flection, which is expected to take place prohanly | in the autumn of next year, But ‘the Clare ant Limerick Farmers’ Club, at their meeting @ fe | days ago, slightly changed their tactics. They de- | clared that a representative, to be satistactory to | | them, must be, first and above ail things, @ sound home ruier, This club is not the first winen nas | passed such a resolution, Several others preceded | | it, so that a portion, at least, of the farmers | scom prepared to sink the urgent and im- mediate consideration of land tenure in order | to devote more energy to the home government movement. Whether these 5 the majority of the farmers I have no means of knowing. Ihave just jearned, however, that for the present, at least, the Cork Farmers’ Club seem to deciine confining themselves merely to the Lome rule guesuon. This Course Was sumgested to did so unanimonsly in a resolution moved by Mr. | | the mnembers for Dublin, and o them at their meeting on Wednesday, out tne communications on the subject were simply taid on the table. The proposal, however, to start ten- ant farmers’ candidates for the oun, was hate pm entertained, was referred to a committee and will be iully discussed at the next general meeting. ‘The Mallow Farmers’ Club also goes tn for tenant jarmer representatives. ‘The home rule movement, however, must not be understood as being universally favored. lt has been the yee ot of public debate at seeinriage University between Oxford and Cambridge ju. ates and was certainly al ty SOP ed, but the de- bate has not yet finished, Lord Portaritngton, too, who may bly be taken as the representative of a not inconsiderable section of Irishmen, ee this cannot be asserted positively, for you see the opponents of the agitation, in Ireland at least, do not say much, has written very strongly against it. Mr, Butt, at Limerick, declared that no peer or necclesiastic had been asked to sign the requ!- sition for THE MONSTER HOME RULE CONFERENCE which tg to be held in Dublin this month—that the Archbishop of Tuam had adhibited his signature, but had done so voluntarily, Lord Portarlington, how- ever, in a letter which has just been pub- lished, asserts that he had been requested to a the document, and replies that he would not do so on any consideration. He will none of it. He regards home rule as a scheme for the virtual separation of Ireland from the United Kingdom; and thinks that, ita ministry were found rash enough to propose it, or a Par- lament rash enough to grant it, it ‘would deal such a biow at the rising credit and prosperity of our country as it would never recover, if ever, for a century to come." On the other hand THE CATHOLIC CLERGY have recently been giving in their adhesion to the home rule movement in considerable numbers. Those of Tuam led the way, headed by their Arch- bishop ; Clare followed; and only yesterday were published strong and emphatio resolutions on the subject by the cler; of Ennis, They do not mince the matter, I assure you. They declare that Ireland has an undeniable right to sell-government; that the ‘Act of Union was an act of corruption fraudulently forced upon the people, from which dates the annihilation of trade and decline of our country’s prosperity.” A(ter this we are prepared to find these clergymen declaring that they will support no candidate for Parliament who is not in favor of home rule, de- nominational education and a satisfactory Land here 18 a rumor, but whether well or ill founded, Thave not yet been able to ‘tain, that Sir Charles Gavin Duffy is about to leave Melbourne and to take up his residence in Ireiand. Of his past connection with some stirring times of modern Irish history I need not speak. It is sufi- ciently well known. He has risen to a very promi- nent position as a statesman in Australia. On re- turning to Ireland, if he do return, his friends sem to anticipate that he wil aly Apres with the Home Rule party. This remains to be seen. TUE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS of the Roman Catholic Church, at a recent meeting in Dublin, resolved on inaugurating @ complete system of Catholic university education. With the failure of the Irish University bill of last session they seem to have given up all hope of State aid, and have, therefore, resolved to suppiy the existing wants themselves. Every Catholic school and col- lege throughout Ireland is to be aMiliated with the Catholic University in Dublin. Its endowments are to be increased ; its teaching and examining powers improved; scholarships are to be founded, and de- | Sad granted to all who are worthy of them, and ave been educated at amiaced ree The step 1s an important one. It has giveh a considerable impetus to Catholic education in this country, more especially in Dublin. Subscriptions have already begun to fow in. Lord Gremard at once promised £1,000, Others have offered smaller sums, and arrangements for opening and reorganizing Jesuit and other schools and colleges have already made considerable progress. St. Vincent’s School, Cork, and St. Mary’s school, Dundalk, have just been affiliated with the University. The Rey. Fatuer O’Keetle, of Callow, bas again come to the iront. He has been much before the Bpbto during the last two years. His name has een prominent in the press in Ireland, England and Scotland, and often heard 1n the debates of the House of Commons. He has, indeed, beea the special subject of at least one discussion in that assembiy; and for a time his course seemed likely to damage the Ministry itself, He has been cen- sured and suspended by his Bishop. He has re- vived actions for slander against his curates, actions for wrongous pension against his bishop—a portentous trial, in which Cardinal Cullen was a leading witness and long under ex- amination, But at present Rev. Mr. O'Keeffe comes forward as suspended manager of several national schools in Callow. When suspended by his ecclesiastical superior tne Board of National Education reiused to recognize him as manager of these schools. He protested, but his pro- test had no effect. le =wrote = to the papers; the papers wrote about him and his cares. Members of Parliament took up the cry; and thus it came to pass that the Rev. Father O’Keeffe found himseif the object of much attention in the House of Commons. The National to precedent in retusing to recognize a suspended priest a8 a school manager. They had nothing whatever to do with the righteousness or other- wise of that suspension. A!committee of the House of Commons investigated the matter, the House itself debated it warmly, and finally a rule, sug- gested by the Irish Chief Secretary, the Marquis ol Harti yn, Was approved by the Commons ana accepted by the National Education Board as a rule of conduct—that no manager would be dis- missed from his school without investigation as to | the charges which might have been broughs against him. The rule was to have a retrospective effect, 30 as to cover FATHER 0’ RERFFE'? CASE, and the question was regarded as good as settled. But an inspecter was sent to Callow and has pre- sented his report to the Buard, the nature of which has not transpired; and on Tuesday the National Education Commissioners decided, by nine to Seven, not to remstate the Rey. Mr. O’Keeffe in the } Managership of the Callow Schools. The University | have entered a strong protest against this decision, declaring it to be an evasion of the rule sanctioned by the House of Commons and accepted by the Board, There the question rests for the present. It will certainly be heard of again and again. Mr. Gladstone has just written another reply to @ memorial in favor of releasing the prisoners still in custody jor complicity in the last Fenian rising. He has had to write several letters on this subject recently, for we have had many amnesty meetings in all parts of the country. Tue last was heid in Limerick on Sunday, and was attended by about 20,000 people. OUthers—large and enthusiastic, too, they appear to have been—have been held in Dublin, Drogheda, Newry, Ormdulier and many other towns. There are still 20 prisoners in jali, 16 of whom are soldiers. The Premier de- clines to accede to their liberation. The soldiers he regards as being in an exceptional category. The crime Of insurrection in them is more heinous than in ordinary civilians, who may have been carried away by the heat and passion of the mo- ment. The case of each prisoner, Mr. Gladstone | adds, must be considered on its Own merits; but Jor the present all have been released whom the government believe themselves justided in reieas- ing. | Thave already alluded to the GRAND JURY LAWS | of this country and the dissatisiaction which exists | with their operation, The chiel cause of discon- | tent is that, while Grand Jurors are all iandowners and are selected by the High Sherif, tue farmers | have still to pay the county cost, without having the smallest voice In tts imposition. Where there 1s taxation there ougat to be representation. This is their demand. It has been made repeatedly in | the North during recent years, aud 1 observe that the Southern Kerry Farmers’ clubs have taken it Club The at up. fully discussed it their desire, perhaps I should say determination, to have something to say as to the fiscal burdens which were to be imposed upon them. If the home rule agitation does not become too absorbing the Grand Jury laws must certainly receive a good deal of attention and probably be the subject of very radical reiorms—some day. We are aot al- ways, however, in a hurry witu reforms, Several projects have recently »een discussed for the opening up o! NEW LINES OF RAILWAY in Ireland. The latest Is for branches of the Mid- jand Company from Edenderry to Maynooth and from Edenderry to Enjleld. In Belfast, | observe, they had the other day a visit from Lord Cairns. This is now a rare event, He represented the town, of whicn he is virtually 4 native, having been born only a few miles trom it, for many years; but when ly came Conserva- tive Lord Chancellor, and therefore a member of the Upper House, he seldom visited RBel- Jast or took any interest in its affairs, He has now, however, been presiding at the annual meeting of one of tts excelient local insti- tutions. But as the local political leaders are busy with preparations for the next Parliamentary con- test in the borough—and the contest will certainly, to all apperances, be a severe one—perhaps His Lordship’s visit to his old constituency has a political object. We snail sec. Whatever its political prospects or feelings, Bel- fast certainly continues to prosper with a wonder- ful prosperity. At the last meeting of the Haroor Commissioners ore were under consideration for the construction of two new graving docks, at a cost of £160,000. For years these Commissioners have been building and opening new docks, and yet the trade of the port seems always to keep anead of the accommodations provided for it. ‘There are other indications of the prosperity of trade in county Antrim which I may reier to in another letter, The national teachers of Ireland are very gravely discontented with the salaries paid them. These are said to be, on an average, not more than between £30 and £40.a year—of cpurg® besides fees. A little has beeadaed by A GOVERNMENT GRANT paid im proportion to the reguits of the scliool ex- amination. But the teachers plead tor more— for residences or an equivalent, and pensions when old age comes upon them. They held a large conference in Dublin last Saturday, when their cause Was warmly advocated by tie Lord Mayor, who presided; by Sir Dominie Corrigan and Mr. Pim: t Parliamentary representatives, t has been proposed to remodel the Baldoyle Tacecourse and to establish thereon a grand metro- politan meeting. Valnable stakes are te vided—sumticient, It Is hoped, to Induee som English sportss en toenter the lists us competitors. Racing has, certainty, looking up for some in Iretand, ‘The have be- come famous, having be the pres- ence of the Prince and Princess of ea, Trieh | coursing hus alag Board declared that they acted strictly according | 4 meeting a lew days ago, and left no doubt as to | ,The poor man lived until Friday, when very successful meetings at Raghlan, near Lurgem, under the fostering care of Lord Lurgem. One of those EXTRAORDINARY PANICS which occastonaily seize on large assemblies with the sudden appearance and least alarm of danger occurred in the Roman Catholic chapel at Kilorglin on Sunday last. A portion of the roor fell during mass—very little apparently, but enough to create a panic cry that the roof was falling. The whole congregation scampered to the doers a! once, trampling on those too weak to support themselves in ugly rush. Those tn the gal- leries dropped down on top of the crowds beneath, some scrambled out of the windows, and terror had hold of all, in spite of the reassuring exhorta- tions of the priest and his curates, who perceived that there Was no real danger. It waa some time before the people recovered their right minds and senses, and when this was accomplished it was found that several had been a deal hurt, but, fortunately, nome had been killed, which was al- most miraculous tn the circumstances. Death by burning is a horrible death under any conditions, but it bas overtaken Patrick O’Rorke, & larmer, residing near Longford, under circum- stances of exceptional horror. He returned home last Satura: geod drunk, and lay down on a heap of turfand fell asleep. Some lucifer matches he had about him took fire, the turf was soon ina blaze, and the unfortunate inebriate seemed doomed to be burned to a cinder. His wife was too old torender him assistance. His drunken com- panion, though in the house, was too intoxicated to understand that assistance was required. For- tunately some one passing on the road observed the fames and extricated O’Rorke, but not until his chest and stomach were frightfuily charred. e qed in at agony. ene general arrangements for the monster Home Rule Conference, to be held in Dublin on the 18th inst,, have been completed. The requisition for the Conference has received some 000 Signatures, and it is expected that the Con- ference will be attended very vast crowd, No prepared resolutions 1 be submitted for adoption, nor will there be any fixed or sternly prescribed order of proceeding. It will be in the strictest sense a conference, and will probably last for three or four days, From 25 to 30 members of Parliament have signed the requisition. Dr. Hancock's carefully compiled STATISTICS OF CRIMB in Ireland, 4872, have just been published. It is @ very bulky volume, and I nave only time to give the lead figures. These statistics are, on the whole, satisfactory. Notwithstanding the pinching nature of the season—for the harvest was anything but good—the number of outra: ported the police show & falling off compared with the previous year. crimes and political offences had largely fallen ot The agrarian offences specially reported by the constabulary had fallen from 1,329 in 1870 to in 1872; 630 ‘‘treasonable offencts” Were chronicled in 1867; 37 in 1870; in 1872 they had entirely disappeared. This fail off extended to the “proclaimed” districts; ina word, Dr. Hancock is enabled to state that there was less serious crime of every Kind in 1872 than in any year since he had first entered on his sta- tistical iabors in 1861, In 1864, ior example, the num- ber of indictable offences stand at 10,865; in 1868, at 9.0905 in 1870, at 9,517; im 1871, at 8,155; in 1872, ati, } There Is not much stir in ecclesiastical affairs just now. The Episcopalians of the Disestablished Chureh have been holding their diocesan Synods, in which the question of the revision of the Prayer Book has occupied & prominent place. The Pres- byterians are devoting their energies to the in- crease of the contributions to the Sustentation Fund from £24,000 subscribed last year to £30,000 perannum, They seem to have good hopes and prospect of success. PENNSYLVANIA. Revival of Manufacturing and Mining Industry at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, Nov. 24, 1873. ‘The labor outlook for this week is decidedly more cheerful than it has been for several months past, and there are fewer laboring men with downcast countenances seen on the streets now than for- merly. The cheerful hum of revolving machinery was heard this morning for the first time in many weeks at the Penn Cotton Milis, in Alleghany City, which afford employment to some 300 men, girls and boys. This is the largest concern of the kind hereabouts, and its example, itis expected, will be followed by all similar establishments by the first of next week. The’Penn Mills have a full supply of orders to enable them to run far into the winver months, and the company have no fear of being obliged to close down entirely again, no matter what comes or goes. GLASS MANUPACTORIES. The depression in the glass business still con- tinues, and, owing to certain flint glass manufac- turers having piled up @ vast quantity of manao- factured material, they are compelled to aoe operations temporarily. The tactories of Bake- well, Piers & Co., and that of Ripley & Co. closed yesterday, throwing out of employment quite a Dumber oi men and boys. However, this suspen- sion will not be of great duration, as both firms expect to resume in @ couple of weeks at the furthest. ACTIVITY IN COAL. The coal business is quite active, all the river mines being run to their full capacity; and there is ample work for all miners during the entire winter. The reduction in the wages of the miners has enabled the operators to compete more suc- cessfully with those whose mines are in closer oe. to the Western and Southern markets, ‘he great fleet ot coal barges that have lain along the river shores for months are now being filled, preparatory to their voyage to Southern ports, THE IRON INDUSTRIES also show a marked improvement over a few weeks ago, when trade was almost in a state Of stagna- uon. The orders flowing in upon many of the large manufactories have in a nutnber of cases necessitated the running of double turns, and, of course, the workmen that have had a season of holiday have again returned to their furnaces and rolls. LABOR MOVEMENTS. PEP ie RT Ses. There is a well organized mechanics and labor ers’ relief association in Harrisburg, Pa. The steam planing mill of Traver & Son, at Hud- son, N. Y., is running on three-quarter time, The mills of S. Slater & Sons, at Webster, Mass., have started up again on fall time, with a reduc- tion in wages, F H. S. Libbey has shut down his woollen mill, at Warren, Mass., and thrown 40 hands out of em- ployment. The numerous mills of the Grosvenor Dale Com pany, at Webster, Mass., have resumed operations | ona scale ef prices 20 cent reduced, Purz Brothers’ cotton manufactory, in Wilming- ton, Del., whien closed up in October, has com- menced operations again with about half the usual number of employés, The paymaster of the Erie Railroad has not passed along the line since the September pay- ments were made. The employés are getting a little short of funds, John Watt, manufacturer of cotton checks, ging- hams, &c., running 48 looms and employing 50 hands, in Philadelphia, tas closed doors. The cotton goods manufactory of Robert Paul, which usually runs 120 looms and employs 100 hands, in Pui'adelphia, bas ceased operations en- trely. The proprietors of iron works in Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Tennessee, Portsmouth, Covington, indianapolis and Chattanooga lave, by concerted action, dectded to reduce wages after December 1 from 10 to 25 per cent. The telegraph stated on Tuesday that the great Harmony Mills at Cohoes, N. Y., had again put to work its 5,000 hands, but the despatch failed to say that their Wages were reduced 12), per cent, which 18 the fact. The milis had been ciosed four weeks, The table published on Tuesday, giving the pres- ent condition of some of the works in and around Troy, N. Y., contained only the iron interesta. The following figures show the standing of some of the other manufactories ;— Hands Umally At Present Employed. Employed. eeuree a 13 » 7 0 20 sive 100 » 20 % Ly 125, Brass founders... 109 Wood workers... ra Other manutactories and mi 400 on It must ve borne in mind that nearly all the above establishments are working on reduced time, with wages materially cut down, SHOCKING DEPRAVITY, Instances of shocking human depravity occur- ring on the great east side come to light very fre- quently at the Essex Market Police Court. The Jast case of this sort was that of Henry Simon, of No, 126 Third street, @ tall, burly fellow, of about 35 years, accused, before Justice Otterbourg, of out. raging Eva Robig, of No. 124 Third stres ehild of eight y: Simon, the police say, 18 an infamous charac who has been guilty of several offen similar to that with which he is now charged. Justice, upon the evidence produced, committed Simon to answer in default of $1,000 bail. Justice Otterbourg had no sooner sent him to prison than a kindly-looking oid German called in to see Simon and upon being allowed to see hit, tdentified him Pu Kept in tue soreirgnt hy We Los ome Who Wad Cuuned die dau ede | THANKSGIVING DAY.| FRANCES MILITARY DICTATOR, Devotion in the Churches, Charity at the Various Institutions and Provis- ions at the Markets. ‘This being the aay appointed by the President of the United States for the general annual Tbanks- giving, there will be services in all the churches throughout the city. Im the public and private institutions, the charities and prisons, there will be rejoicing ana festivity, for dinners have been prepared for the inmates, and everything that can conduce to make the day pleasant has been done by the managing committees, The charita- ble have come well to the front in this season of penury and privation, and, therefore, but few even of the poorest will find themselves minus a sub- stantial dinner onthe day of praise and general rejoicing. The weather is clear, bright and appe- tizing, so that there is every prospect of the com. munity at large enjoying themselves thoroug! All the theatres in the city will be open; there w be matinées in the afternoon and the usupi pro- grammes at night, THE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, At the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island; at the Bellevue, St, Guke’s and other hospitals; at the institutions upon Ward’s, Randall's, Hart's and Blackwell's islands there will be good cheer pro. vided for all, Relief for the widows and orphans of the war will be extended by the Ladies’ Union Relief Association, at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory, in Fourteenth street, At the Five Points House of Industry there will be a free dinner to all who come at two P. M.; and also at St. Vincent's Home for Friendless No. 53 Warren street. The children have not been forgotten. A dinner will be given to them at the St. Barnabas House, No, 304 Mulberry street; at the Home of the Friend- less, No. 32 East Thirtieth street ; at the Sheltering Arms, Tenth avenue and 129th street; at the Prot- estant HalfOrphan Asylum, No. 65 West Tenth street; at the Colored Orphan Asylum, 143d street and Tenth avenue; at the Church of the Holy Com- munion, No. 330 Sixth avenue, and at the Home for Little Wanderers, No. 40 New Bowery. The newsboys will be teasted in the evening at No. 49 Park place. Diners to aged eople will be given at St. Joseph’s Home for the zed, No, 207 West Fifteenth street, and at the Home for the Aged, No. 330 Sixth avenue, The girls will be regaled at No. 27 St. Marx’s place, at the Home for Training Young Girls, Seventh ave- nue and Thirteenth street, and at the Wilson Industrial School, St. Mark’s place and avenue A. while the girls of the Midnight Mission will be well cared for by those interested in their welfare at No. 260 Greene street. The markets yesterda; pees the animation customary on the eve of Thanksgiving. Aimost be- fore the tisual business hour had arrived the cars were laden to their utmost capacity with shrewd Rousekeoners, who thought the early bird principle inculcated during their youthful days a good one to be acted upon on this occasion. So they came in swarins, and besieged the stalls of the poulterers and the butter men and the vegetarians, snapping up the best of every kind of PROVENDER THAT THEY DEEMED necessary adjuncts to a ehankselving: dinner table. They imagined tney got the best; but sales- men are but human, and ee were ojten careful to keep some choice viands out of sight until well- known regular customers entered an appearance. From noon until three o'clock was the fashionable time for ladies who attend to their own cuisine to make purchases, but the real rush of business did not begin in earnest until the lamps were lighted. Then came the jam, THE HEAVY CRUSE and rush, that can only be found in a New York market on the eve of some great festival of food. It was a scene wortny of the pencil of Hogarth or his modern prototype, Gustave Doré. The gas jets flared and flickered over the rows of fowls of every description that hung on the hooks above the stalls, the sharp ring of the butcher’s steel as it glanced against the knife it sharpened, struck upon the ear in strange contrast to the usy hum of voices that were preter cheapening, seeking custom or wrang- ing. ie élite of society had departed, making way for the sturdy wife of the mechanic and the buxom spouse of the laboring man, while the boarding house mistress was visible here, there and everywhere. Hard times and convenience were the reasons for the lal ig Classes doing their marketing at a late hour; BUT MERE SORDI was what induce the landiadies to defer making purchases until nignttime. The digestion o/ their unhappy boarders mattered little to them. If tur- key were not on their tables to-day they knew there would be mutiny in their domiciles, and fowl would not be cheap enough until close upon closing time. So they seemed to take a savage delight in buying the toughest and stringiest-looking birds, doubt- less thinking that the bones and thews and sere left would make a capital potpie on Friday. ‘ne DISPLAY OF POULTRY in the markets was generally extensive, but the birds were very poor. The majority of the turkeys and fowls were miserably small, poor and scraggy ; indeed, most of them looked as if they had been sul- fering from pip, aggravated by a bad attack of the mange. For the meanest ofthese scions of the turkey-gobbicr proper TWENTY CENTS PER POUND was asked; for the finest birds, ana they were “no great pumpkins,” 80 cents per pound was de- manded. Chickens, which looked as if uhey had been raised in Shreveport and had only just recovered from the late epidemic, were quoted at from 22 to 25 cents per pound, and ducks that could never have seen a pond larger than a pavement puddle brought 17 cents a pound. The game, of which there was a goodly exhibit, was much finerin quality. Plump artridges cost $110 per pair and quail $275 per dozen, For squirrels and small birds there was not & very great demand. The butchers’ stalls were noticeable for a very fine show of flesh meat, the beef looking juicy, succulent and ruddy, THE MUTTON SWEET and the pork daimty. Sucking pigs looked tempt- ing and cost 18 cents per pound. Of the fish and vegetables there is but little to be said, except that the celery Was so green that it was evident it had been taken too early from its little bea. The marketinen themselves said that they had never seen a poorer lot of poultry come into mar- ket on the eve of Thanksgiving, though the prices were so high, However, all good Americans must eat turkey to-day or they would consider them- selves in danger of being ostracized; therefore, poulterers reaped rich harvests, and have doubt- iess played unconsciously into the hands of the medical profession. Thanksgiving is an institu- tion, hevertheless ; and, therefore, it is to be hoped that ail good citizens Will heartily enjoy their din- ners, even though the turkey does turn out tough j and the young chickens a delusion and a suare. THANKSGIVING IN BROOKLYN. ess Preparations Made for the Observance of the Day, ‘There will be a general ovservance of the time- honored custom of giving thanks and eating turkey in the city of Brooklyn to-day. The most extensive preparations were observable yesterday upon all sides. Fowls of every description were led into captivity by the voracious public, who are bent upon devouring them in honor of “the day awe celeprate” at the festive meal to-day, The churches will all be open in the forenoon, and the pulpits will give forth flowers of rhetoric and praise to the Almighty for the blessings which He has vouchsafed to bestow upon this land during the past twelve months, Prayers will be offered to the Divine Ruler to enlighten the minds of the great councils of the nation in the present crisis, that the hor- What a Four Years’ Presidency Might Have Done. WASHINGTON, MMAHON, GRANT Panis, Nov. 10, 1873. The French royalists, having failed in thetr efforts to restore Henry V., are now trying to re-establish Owsarism by prolonging Marshal MacManon’s term of Presidency for 10 years. Liberals who ha@ looked upon the Count of Chambord’s coulapée as & great victory for their party are beginning to think they were mistaken, and that republicanism might have been better served in the end by a few yoars? regular monarchy than by the grim military dicta- torship with which we are mow threatened. It i said that, in the first panto which followed the “publication of ‘the Count of Chambord’s letter, M. Thiers was in favor of prolonging the Mar- shal’s powers—or, rather, letting them continue, which is not quite the same thing—until the disso- lution of the present Assembly. Supposing this dissolution to have occurred in spring, after the new constitution had been voted, the country would then have glided quietly out of the visorium by the channel of a general elt Nothing could have been better than such an ar- rangement, for M. Thiers could not himself have commanded s working majority in the Assembly a8 at present constituted, whereas, after a gen: eral election, when the sense of the country would have been taken on the question, “MONARCHY OR REPUBLIC ?"" he could have returned to power backed by a clear majority of members pledged to establish not merely a nominal but a liberal republic. Marshal MacMahon held from the Orst another idea, which was this:—He said, ‘Prolong my term of office fora fixed period of two or four years, in order that my government may have some stability and that I may not be compelied to resign at any sudden moment by a capricious parliamentary vote.’ This idea, thotgh quite opposed to M. Thiers’ views—which are that all definite election of @ President should be adjourned till the constitu tional bills have been passed and until a new Assembly has been summoned—this idea was not antl-republican, for if MacMahon had been appointed President for the four years only, and had, at the end of that term, loyally resigned, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC WOULD HAVE BEEN VOR: TUALLY FOUNDED, It would have been an tron-handed sort of Ep public, no doubt, The Marshal would have handled the nation like a fractious regiment; the press would have been gagged, courts-martial would have flourished, and there would have been much less freedom on the whole than under a con- stitutional royalty. But, on the other hand, twa great facts would have been demonstrated :—First, that a king or emperor is not absolutely indis- pensable in France tothe maintenance of order{ and, second, that @ soldier who has presidential power entrusted to him will not always, as & Matter of course, follow Lonis Napoleon's example and strike o coup d’état to get him, self crowned. AS a result of this, the numbet of royalists would have largely decreased; republicanism would have lost much of its terror in the eyes of those sceptics who refuse to believe that supreme power can ever be transmitted quietly trom one President to another; and Marshal MacMahon’s successor, inheriting from him 8 gov- ernment well consolidated, could, without danger, » have inaugugated a policy more liberal. But a 10 years’ presidency will demonstrate or establish nothing. It will only illustrate again what every- body knows—namely, that if dictatorial powers be confided for a long period of time to an energeti¢q general, that general will keep a tight curb upon disorder and avert revolutions. But the obvioud inference which the popular mind would draw from this is that every successive President should be an energetic general, appointed for 10 years, And thisis not republicanism; it 1s Cesarism, and worse than Casarism— IT IS PRAETORIANISM. M. Thiers is naturally alarmed at this prospect, and has appealed to all partisans of a free republic to oppose it. Unfortunately Frenchmen attach too great an importance to‘words and too little to the rors of war may be averted honorably and that the blessings of everlasting peace and prosperity may | dwell in the land, The poor have not been iorgoi- ten either by the benevolent, who have always a | considerate thought for the less fortunate in the | possession of the good things of this world. At | St. Vincenv’s Home for Boys, No. 7 Poplar street, | an onslaught on turkey will be made between | seven and eight o'clock this evening. Opposed to | the attack, which will be overwheiming, will be a | reserve of pies, cakes and other commodities | Nd have a tendency to make the boys’ mouths | At the institutions of the Children's Aid Soc! No. 61 Poplar street and No, 139 Van Brunt cir, | Sie and tarkeys will be placed on the banquet ‘The Soctety for Improving the Conditio1 Ronercean ed Pyingston street, will 'reoeite c » The demand ver reat at present, upon their treasury is © Industrial School Association and I Destitute Children will open a fair in the foretioce and they request the patronage of the pubite, ‘The Society for the Relief of Respectable, Aged and Indigent Females, De Kalb avenue, corner of Washington, will feed the venerable inmates With fowl and cranberry sauce. ® The Society for the Ald of Friendiess Women and Children, No. 20 Concord street, will give @ good dinner to the boarders at the Home. At the Industrial Home, South Third street, BE. D., the Church Charity Foundation Society, Albany Avenue; the Sheltering Arms Nursery, Atlantic avenue; the Helping Hand, Bond street; the Negro Orphan 'Asyinm, Troy avente, and the other orphan eayiomas, the inmates will all be fed to their hearts’ content, ‘The Thanksgiving chimes will be played on the bells of St. Ann's, on the Heights, All the courts, tunicips and public schools will rema closed, mpanies and ragamu(tins—such as the “Finnigan Fusileers,” ‘Good-Enoughs," “Narrow-Backs and “Genvlem@n’s Sous’—will parade, sense of words, 80 that there are numbers of so called republicans who think that, provided MacMahon be installed President of the Republic, and not regent or emperor, it is immaterial whether his term be for five years, ten years, or even a life tenure. These politicians hold little to liberal principles; they even dislike them. For them the main point is that postage stampa should bear the effigies of ‘Dame Republig;” that the motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” should adorn the facades of public buildings, and that there should be no royal or imperial family te maintain, They argue, not without shrewdness, that their opposition to royalty was based on the conviction that a government styling itself repub- lican can nowadays deal much more vigorously with radicals than a kingcan, “Under a king or emperor,” say they, “every rogue who springs up as an advocate of republicanism becomes a politi« cal hero whom it is perilous to molest. He may be ignorant, idiotical, blasphemous; all that does not lessen his popularity, and when a@ revolution happens he gets pitchtorked into the highest office of state. But under a republic we can say to sugh men:—‘You have a republican form of govern ment—what more do you want?’ and if they preach communism wecan class them in theit proper category as criminals who desire to prey simply upon society.’? ‘These principles, which, under the name of ‘‘conservatism,’’ have become a new and significant element in French politics, are just of the sort which commend themselves most readily to the intelligence of the timid mid- dle classes of France and the still more timorous peasant population, The growing ten- dency among the people is to recognize only two parties in politics—that, is the “partisans on order,’ men who have property of some sort, funded or landed, and the “communists,” men who have nottung and want to confiscate the goods of their bettéfs, Tell a prosperons French’ tradesman ora peasant With an acre of land of his own that the radicals have any object except plunder and he will not believe it, Freedom oj speech, freedom of the press, immunity from arbitrary arrest, are all words that ring holiowly in his ears. He will always betieve himself free sq long as he js the citizen of a republic, and he will cheerfully lend his sanction to the persecution or suppression of all such radicals as may endeavor to convince him of the contrary. Therefore the royalists, who are now setting up MacMahon at President for ten years, well know what they are about. Under cover of the Republic they will grind down liberty as ste¥iily and pitilessly as ever the Napoleons did, and they will have, in short, A DESPOTIC MONARCHY IN DISGUISE. Americans, who are already discussing the ques tion as to whether General Grant will be renomt- nated for a third term of office, will do prudently to keep their eyes on France and watch what will be the effect of a long term of power in military hands. Washington was aware how pernicious these ef fects invariably are to the cause of freedom, and he patriotically declined a second re-election. Mac+ Mahon might have emulated the example of Wash- ngton by accepting only the American term of our years, and then establishing the precedent o, honorably resigning. He has preferred to take pattern after those camp-bred Cmsars who ruled Rome in her decline—men whom the soldiery raised to power, gorged with honors and got rid of when @ more popolar captain arose, It 18 possible he may live to rue the day when he consented thus to be made a tool of. Perhaps he himself will never be cast down by an insurrection; bat other generais who may hope to follow in his foot- steps will assuredly be leas fortunate. The com- mercial and peasant classes will not believe for ever that lbefalism is synonymous with plunder” The day must come when truth will force itself. ont, and on that day there will be an explosion, probably @ prelude to many explosions. Mean. while it 18 melancholy to think that, instead of reaching the end of her political troubles, France has only entered upou new And More troublow vluase of then