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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 9 “, 1875.—TRIPLE- SHEKT: O’CONNELL. ——~ Ireland Prepares to Celebrate the Cen- tenary of the Liberator. THE IRISH ‘GRACCHUS. An Ultramontane Coloring Given to the Great Event. CARDINAL ‘CULLEN'S CATSPAW. Sharp Comments on the Dublin Lord Mayor’s Invitations. Home Rolers, Fenians and English Liberals Dissatisfied, IRISH PROTESTANTS SADDENED. It Should Be National—It Is Sectarian. LOYAL AND DISLOYAL OFFENDED The Pope's Health To Be Proposed Be- fore the English Queen's. ATTITUDE OF THE ENGLISH LEADERS, What Disraeli, Gladstone, Earl Russell and the Marquis of Hartington Think, BISMARCKIAN COMPLICATIONS FEARED. -AGreat Man’s Memory the Sport of Intriguing Priests. GREAT PREPARATIONS IN DUBLIN. [sPmctaL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Lonpon, August 1, 1875. The coming O'Connell Centenary dem- onstration is assuming unexpected political and diplomatic significance, and becoming embarrassing alike to the liberals, the home rnlers ard the British government, AN ULTRAMONTANE PROGRAMME. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, acting, it is supposed, under instigation of the wily Cardinal Cullen, who is purely a churchman, caring nothing for O'Connell outside of ecclesiastical considerations, has given the proposed celebration an ultramontane char- acter which is equally offensive to the Irish and English liberals, the Protestant noble- men, the home rulers and the Fenians. WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED, The invitations which have been issued by the Committee of Arrangements in Dublin have been mainly addressed to the Catholic laymen and to bishops of the Catholic Church in England, France and Germany. INDIGNANT PROTESTS. This fact has drawn forth indignant pro- tests from many excellent Irishmen, One Irish Peer claims that the Lord Mayor of Dublin bas made an unauthorized uso of his municipal office to further the strictly Catholic purposes of Cardinal Oullen, the known enemy of home rule, who hopes by this means to divide, and, in part, destroy the home rule party. ‘ THE FENIANS STAND APART. The Fenians, who will probably have inde- pendent celebrations in honor of the memory of the Liberator, cannot co-operate with the ultramontane movement without endangering their political alliance with the liberals of the Onited Kingdom and alienating the Protes- tants who are now in sympathy with the home rule principle. THR HOME RULERS. Men like Professor Isaac Butt, M. P.; Mace Carthy Downing, M. P., and Mr. Sullivan, M. P., deplore the character which has been given to the affair. WHAT THEY DREAD, These public leaders fear that the national- ists will lose the support of the English lib- erals and Irish Protestants if they attempt to affiliate themselves with the ecclesiasttcal Catholic party of Ireland. THE POPE BEFORE THE QUEEN. The Lord Mayor of Dublin is considered to have acted in a very impolitic manner in re- solving to propose the toast to the Pope's health before that in honor of the health of Queen Victoria at the banquet which is to follow the outdoor procession in the Irish metropolis, ' THE ENGLISH VIEW. Englishmen, speaking generally for the educated ond substantial middle class would co-operate in a proper demon- stration in honor of O'Connell, the Liberator, whom they admire as having been the friend of civil and religious liberty and | Parliamentary reform; but they will not tol- erate ultramontanism or an open insult to the Queen. THE ENGLISA LIBERAL artrrups. Sir Henry James, Sir William Harcourt and many other advanced liberals are com- polled, sorrowfully, to oppose the Irish i thusiastioally by tho English people. demonstration. These gentlemen, aliiougn | admirers of O'Connell's career as a public man, do not desire personal or political iden- tification with an anti-Bismarck demonstra- | tion. ANTI-BISMARCK. They argue that if the Lord Mayor of Dublin, in the course of his speech to the processional assemblage, should express sym- pathy with the imprisoned bishops of Ger- many, it would afford Prince Bismarck a chance to complain that Englishmen were open sympathizers with a movement hostile to German national unity. GERMAN OFFICIAL NON-COMMITTAL POLICY. In this connection there is the significant fact that no one German Burgomaster | answered the invitation of the Lord Mayor of | London inviting the civil magistrates of the Empire to the banquet which was recently | given by the English municipality in Guild- hall. In this the German Hergomasters acted, it is believed, under the official directions of Prince Chancellor Bismarck. FRENCH OFFICIALS LIONIZED IN LONDON. The London city invitations were, on the other hand, accepted by the other Continental Mayors. ‘The greatest attention has been paid to the Prefect of the Seine by the people of London and by Englishmen generally. The French Prefect holds receptions in London just afier the fashion of those given by the Lord Mayor | himself. The band of the Garde Republicaine, while engaged in playing French national ‘airs at the Alexandra Palace, is cheered en- agi _| HOW DISRAELI FEELS. ~ ‘Premier Disraeli and ex-Premier Gladstone | ‘fare rather reticent with respect to the Cen- tenary celebration. It is believed that Disraeli, whom O’Con- nell once called ‘the lineal descendant of the impenitent thief,’’ would cheerfully join in a measure of proper tribute to the memory of the Irish Liberator. GLADSTONR'S THEOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY. Mr. Gladstone would accept an invitation to attend the celebration in Ireland and de- liver a eulogy of O’Connell, but that English statesman, having sided with Doctor Dillin- ger in his opposition to Papal infallibility and | vaticanism, must, to be consistent, condemn the ultramontane coloring which has been given to the affair by the Irish Mayor, the | Cardinal-Archbishop of Dublin and their en- thusiastic friends and followers. . HIS FEAR OF A VATICAN INTRIGUE. Besides this, Mr. Gladstone believes that Cardinals Cullen and Manning, acting in unison with other astute Catholics, have con- trived the O’Connell demonstration with the view and intent of making trouble with Ger- many, while,consolidating the Catholic feeling in Great Britain for ulterior use in the same direction, EARL DERBY'S VIEWS AS A CABINET MINISTER. Earl Derby, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, believes that the teeling which prevails on the Continent of Europe is favorable to the idea | of holding governments responsible for all acts occurring under their jurisdiction. He thinks that if German bishops introduced subjects relating to the internal politics of the German Empire in the course of speeches de- livered in Ireland it would cause bad feeling to spring up between the German and English newspapers, and thus originate a possible diffi- culty with Prince’ Bismarck. LORD HARTINGTON’S POSITION. The Marquis of Hartington, leader of the Opposition, takes an orthodox liberal posi- tion. He believes that not in Ireland herself is the Liberator’s memory more respected than among the members of the old English whig families, because O’Connell was the friend of civil and religious liberty, which has beef everywhere and always the cry of the British whigs and liberals, and that, as the Liberator of Ireland, he always assisted the English liberal party, both in and out of Parliament. LORD JOHN RUSSELL’S OPPOSITION TO THE ULTRAMONTANES. Earl Russell, the celebrated ‘Lord John’, of many former English Cabinets, says that he hasa great respect for O’Connell’s fame because he, Lord Russell, was intimately acquainted with him during the many years of his Purliamentary life, and, as a Minister under the Crown,’ gave several of O'Connell's sons government appointments; but, notwithstanding all this, he cannot sanction ultramontanism in any form or | shape—His Lordship thus adbering to the matured opinions which he has lately ex- pressed with respect to the dosigns of the Roman Church. THU IRISH PEOPLE rimM. The gnass of the Irish people applaud tho action of the Lord Mayor of Dublin in his preparation of the schedule of arrangements for the celebration. WHAT THE ENGLISH PRESS says. The English press almost unanimously de- plore the fact of the Lord Mayor of Dublin making the Centenary celebration a religious, instead of a national, affair. The London Evaminer says: —«‘Whoever is a friend of the Pope and’an enemy of Ger- many is welcomed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and thus the original, legitimate pur- pose of the Centennial is lost sight of.’ The writer expresses the belief that this fact has ‘‘well nigh rendered an alliance be- | tween tho Irish Catholics and the Euglish | Protestants impossible,” The London Telegraph says:—'No loyal | th | another striking illustration of the impossibility ; and the birth of the mighty and great Repubilc of . the most depraved ingenuity would seem to have Irish Catholic cau wee part in a proceeding i where tbe sovereign of the realm is denied the first place.’’ THE PREPARATIONS IN DUBLIN. DISTINGUISHED MEN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WoRLD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CERE- MONIZS——PROBABLY A MILLION OF MEN TO PARADE—CONCENTRATION OF ENGLISH TROOPS IN DUBLIN, Dubin, July 20, 1875. Ireland, from the centre to the sea, is deepiy | moved by the approaching celebration of O’Con- nell’s centenary, and ail eyes are turned toward tuls good city Of Duolin, that once more puts on some of the bustie and energy that belongs of rigut to every real capital. In ordinary times the city that hangs over the dark waters of the Lilley ofers few points of interest to the rest of the country, jor her manuiactures are well nigh dead and ber commercial superiority is a thing of the past. ‘Tue whole country turns its eyes anxtousiy toward “the City of the Dark Waters’ in expectation of the great coming event, And tokens are not wanting that outside ot this land thousands--aye, millions, the world over—are turning toward the old land with kindly Jeclings. Representatives of the scattered Irish people will be present irom all points of the globe, and from England and Scotland will’ come an urmy of expatriated Celts ten or twelve thousand strong. For the conveyance of the numerous delegates from the Irish societies of Great Britain a fleet of steamers has been organized, and with | all this preparation and foresight it 1s | feared that 1¢ will be impossible to accommo- date the thousands desiring to take part tn the ceremonies, which will begin on the eve of | O’@onnell’s birth and continue during three days. It 19 the most important social and political dem- onstration which has taken place in Ireland since the Englisi horse, foot and artillery pot an end to the jast monster meeting called by O’Con- | nell at Clontarf, And no doubt it will furnish of extinguishing an idea by the use of Jorce. sons of the men who were terrorized Clontarf may speak in po doubtful tele discontent with the Union openly express tbeir desire government—lor home rule, The Ireland of to-day 18 very different from the trampled province which O'Connell tried to arouse to a struggle for liberty of conscience avd treedom irom oppression. Butfew can accurately com- prehend the value of O’Conneli’s service to his country who cannot picture mentally the position of Ireland at the time of his birth and aiter the | failure of the great rebeilion of 1793 and the ex- Unction of Irish legislative independence, O’CONNELL’S AMBITION. Unless we endeavor to feel as Irishmen ald in that time it will be difficult to understand the sources of O’Conneil’s inspiration or to fathom “no springs of tiat policy which he made his own, and upon which he relied as being capable of accomplishing the most important political changes, Born in a year memorable In the world’s history, 1775—a year which witnessed the splendid | Liberty fight of a strong and young nation to assert its birthright—a year which witnessed the battle o1 Lexington, the fight on Bunker's Hill | The | at | tone and again for separate the West—O’Connell mignt be said to have in- haied at his birth the very atmosphere of Liberty as it came, breeze-borne across the Atlantic to his | mountain home. He was born within the sound | of the everlasting wave. His dreamy boyhood dwelt upon imaginary intercourse with the | dead of yore and tea his fond fancies upon the ancient and fast-fading glories of that land which preserved literature and Christianity when. the rest of the now civilized Europe was shrouded in darkness. From the birth of O’Oonnell, in 1775, until he made bis entry into public Ile, the history of ireland might be, condensed into a few words—cruel despotism and intolerable religious persecution. In devising laws for its government been exhausted, while in their administrauion every means calculated to render exceptiona, and heartless legislation more odious, more op- pressive and more humiliating was employed with lavish prodagality. The iaws, as enacted, were a disgrace—as administered, a public scan- dal. The reugion of the people was prohtbited. | q Its open profession was proclaimed. The solemni- zation of its rites was by law punishable, No buns, uo Christian Brothers, no monks, were tolerated. To teach a Catholic to read or write accompanied by the prayers of the emancipated mililions, taere ascended one universal supplica- tion tor Wwe dead one. But this grief and mourn ing Were not contiped to his native land—they permeated to the iurthest ends of the glove. ‘There were the distant echoes of that great {unereal 8 rolls its & od tide in majesty along; the Western water 4s bis keel grata on the ‘made the fisher sad in far off \ewfound- uy Where noble cities, by the broad &t, Lawrence the Beal ¢ 2ne lias his tribute from sad hearts and weep- And still turther off to Wertward, where is heard sub- “ lmnely grand, The thusai ara, the wonder of the land; And away in mighty forests, whieh the stalwart wood- man clears, The Pend One, in the lonely hut, found sympathy and Ars And away in other regions, where our starlight does not shine, And bii3 ouarn Cross beams nightly on the Lpoad Pa- elie brine— All the worid the meed of homage paid from every shore and clime. 6 O'CONNELL'S DEATH ABROAD, Wherever, tyroughout the habitable world, there was an Irishman capable ol appreciating Services great, permanent and numerous and of comprehending & genius brillant, and a charac- ter sublimely pertect in its entirety—there was sorrowing jor the death ot 0% expr 1 Conuel. This griet found ficting tue journals of the xpr The Evening Pac in day. the able organ of the Church ascengency party, laying aside the yu, declared “A acerbity of political conten great man has fatien in tspael,”’ @ Daily News, pronouncing him ‘the Lrisa Gracchus,’” observed— “O'Connell 182 Lame on Which We cannot write an epitaph and then have done with it. Day alter day it will recur, bound as it is with the late and the lortuues o1lreland, and will thus live in our urgunients a8 in our memories, years taking frou our antipathies, adding to our reverence, and Swellivg stil the magnitude ot his fame,” 273 ESTIMATE OF THE LIBERATOR. e contemporary press of Franée that We gatuer a proper estimate of O'Connell's character, services and tame. Those writers, un- bivssed by local feelings or party considerations, adjudged him solely by his public acts und his aculevements, And, 80 judging him, the Univers pronounced him—"A g.eat aud sincere Aposte of Liberty.’” Tne Constitutionnel said: fhe death or such event, Lut, In the present difficult situation of Engianu, and with famine desolating Lreland, the disappearance of the Liberator is a crisis’ @x- tremeiy luportant.”” Toe Gazetie de Lyons remarked that his had beea “a lite of ceaseless toil and matchless glory.” Le Rhode siid—He has leit behind him a rev- erguce the loveliest, the most beautilui, the pur- est, destined to live in the memory of man.” The Journal de Commerce declared—the great- est of th grieves,? And the Dédats proclaimed—“The greatest of Treland’s citizens, und perhaps her last hope, is gone. Jn the French Chambers Montalembert spoke his eulogy, in the Cathedrial of Paris that sainted Arehuishop, who aiterwards fell at the barricades, shot down while tryiug to dissuade tae people jrom tue lolly or resisting aby longer, announced the greatness of lrelana’s Kimancipator—and In St. Perer’s tue greatest of church orators, the elogueut Padre, Ventura, delivered @& mas- terly pategyric in the preseoce of an im- meuse tssemolage, wnicn inciuded eli the caral- ae archbishops and eminent persunages in the ptern, the néw law is gone.’ The tears of the Liberator haviow, ib accoldance with his last request, been dleposiied in Rome, his remains were conveyed to Ireland, ney reached Dabiin on Monday, the 2a of August, dud Were ut once brought to the pro- Vathedral, woere they lay in state until the lollow he World’s sons has departed—tae world oe lug Wednesday. Tbe culiin bore the inscription :— MadenreronrecicnroonephinenrebnsebeasstNennwrnrrtnean DANIEL O'CONNELL, by lreland’s Liberator, While on his way to the seat of the Apostles, Slept in the Lord at Genoa, g May the 15th, In the Year 1847. 3 He lived 71 years, 9 months and 9 days, Qa ne ne nene ect eetbLet ett NOM AOLEEEIELE ELE EE DOEE. THE ADDRESS TO THE IRISH PEOPLE, The following spirited address has been issued by tke O'Connell Centenary Committee, and 16 gives a live political significance to the celebra- tion which deepens tts importance, To The IRIs PEorLy:— Fellow Country men—The idea of celebrating the one huncredth birthday of O'Connell originated now ipcorporated with the present Centenary oficio members of tue latter. As the idea was in the noblest sense national, so the organization Which aims to mou:d it Into shape and form hus been Constructet on & large ana liberal basis, Sectionalism ana faction were excluded, but within it was reserved a place-for every wan, of in beiuz the countryman of O'Connell and wishes to houor Wis memory. The one idea which has lospited 118 every act and regulated its every | Movement 1s embraced in the ove comprehensive word “0’Connell’—v'Connell in the fulness of his | Character, the author of anew cra iu humanity, «he foremost champion o: civil and religious Nberty—O'Connell in the entirety of his lie, from the cradle in Iveragn to the tomb in Glasnevin. It ask ou Lo associite yourselves with us trom tue Hant’s Causeway to Cape Clear, and from Conne- mura to the Hil of Howta, in this glorious work of patriotism and piety aud love, that so tne three days set apart for the Centenary celebrauon, Thursday, the Sth; Friday, the bth, and Sarurday, the 7th of August, may be three days glorious for- fellow countrymen, that wi was a felony. The son of a Catholic was rewarded | for abjuring kis creed by the conferring of a legal | rigut to rob nis father. ‘The Catnolic trader could | not legally acquire tixed property. Parhamentary, | judicial, magisterial and municipal distinctions | were by law forbidden to the Catholic, no matter | how eminent his qualifications, Thus, the Catho- | lics of Ireland were, 1m fact, “aliens in the land | of their oirtn.” Such was Ireland when O’Con- | nell was crowing to manhood. HIS FIRST APPRARANCE. On the 18th of June, 1800, it may be said, be first | appeared in public life, The cecasion was a meet- { ing held in the Royal Exchange (now the City | Mali), to protest against the Union. Here he | made his maiden speech, and in it ae enunctated those principles of nationality ana the policy of national co-operation which in after iife formed | such distinctive features of his political teaching. Hxcessive taxation oppressed the community ; ab- | senteeism in agreat measure deprived the artisan and other classes of employment, and great ais- tress and universal discontent were everywhere. Under those circomstances the corporation of Dubin commenced the first agitation for “re. peal of the Union.’ O'Connell avatied himsell of the opportunity and heartily joined the municipal representatives in their efforts tor the restoration of the legislative rights of the country. This was | the beginning of that marvellous career which | was to moke nim immortal and gain for bim | the proud title of “Uncrowned King of Ireland.” | But though he wore no golden bauble his will was Jaw, and be ruled Ireland with an unquestioned au- | thority the sword could not procure, because he | was firstin the love of his people, The history of his | struggle for Catholic emancipation, and his uiti- | mate and glorious triumph, are known the world | over. In his struggie lor the restoration of tue | Irish Partiament he failed, and the growing infir- mities of age, combined with grief at tbe terrivie | ravages which disease and famine began to make among his people, broke bis heart, In the fulfil. | ment of areligious vow he was on his way to Rome when he was stricken down with a fatal sickness at Genoa. As a recent writer says ;— For a day or so be endured great pain, Then | utter and complete prostration supervened, , whien baffied the most skilfal treatment ana the most upremitting attention. He now never spoke, and that voice on whose accents thou. ganéds—nay. willlons—of his countrymen had hang tn rapture is husied, And those lips ir which had issued an eloquence tive as Woman's love—au eloquence winged like A cauticie, melanenoly like a psalm and varied jike udrama—are closed and mute. And there, in Genoa, oF wiorious historic reminiscence s, rising amphitheatre like, a¥ a thing of beaury, from the bine Meuiterranean, with its stradas of white marble pilaces, t'* promenades aud tis ters races, Interlaced With parcerres Of beautiul and | sweet snielling lowers—wiih ita Innumeravie and magnificent churches, each the memorial of some preat event—with the bare summits of the Apenmiues aud the tee-capped tops of ihe Alps, towertng, sentinel-iike, above—witn tts su: rounu: Ing citron and orange groves, and its gardens of mulveriies, and Pomegranates, and olives, in- tertwining their beaaves aud commingling their sweewness—here it waa that the spirit of the Greut Man of Ireiand—a soul once sralwart but now broken and iretted—fed from the body and went heavenward— | ‘The last Great Champion of the rights of Man, | ‘The last Great Tribune of the world, iy dead | | IRELAND'S GRIEF, | Grie’—unurteraple, inconsolanie—pervaded the land, When the death of the Liberuror Was ywn- nounced. The rst intelligence o; the aepiorable event Was conveyed t Treland by a« special courier from London. tt 13 neces- sury to descrioe fe extent and intensity of tne sorrow experienced by ali classes, but more especially by that cass which, through go. d aod evil report, bad continued unswervingly | faityiui to tee Liberator, ana whose allegiance to his principles never Wavered, A complete widow- hood seeined to have lalen on tie lund wod mourning covered it ike a pall, The association hela # speciat meeting, and adopred an address jorming the people, tu Uriel terws, OF their loos. , & had been summoned ior t once adjourned ior three | lal religious services Were fheid in dial, and irom & thousand altars, ever in the anuals of Ireland. On tuese days may we not hope the great soul of O'Connell will waik abroad In 1t8 majesty, infusing ttselfinto ever: artery aud limb of tue nation he loved so well, regulating the ardor of the young, whue rekind- ling in aged breasts the fires ot Tara’ He was liberty’s most powertul advocate, aud, therefors, | of leense and atsorder ing = 10e—we promise oren, ih peace coram, respect for jor persons and property, and the right to auffer, characterize the national celebration. Come Jorch in your Majesty and power, in peaceful avd orderly array, and, grouping around the majestic figure'os O’Connell, presentto mankind the spec- lacie of a self-reliaat, seif-respecting and uniced people. Kemember that your oanners will be re- flected in the Seme and the German Rnine-bank be a listener to your music—that, borne across the Atlantic, trom Derrynane to Caiforma, your cheer Willring through the great cites of the West, ‘nts Centenary will be the festival of the Trish race, and trom muilions of Ingn hearts throughout tue globe will go forth tne aspiration which O'Connell so loved to repeat — Ireland, as she ouzht to be, Great, glorious and free, First Hower ot the earth and first gom of the sea, By order of the committee. PETER PAUL MACS WINEY. Lord Mayor. James M. KAVANAGH, Houorary Secretary. JoHN KEEGAN, Secretary. NATIONAL COMMITIRE, MANSION Hovsk, Dupuy, July 20, 1875, A MILLION OF MEN IN LINE. It is announced that tue government intends to concentrate in Dublin early next month all the the for and most you, order Wnspar- bis chil and available troops from the Curragh camp, in ante. | The | promoters “expect, with the ald of contingents of | ipation of disturbances at the celevration, Inisbmen from Scotland, England, America and the Continent, that fally 1,000,000 men will take part in the procession throush the city.” Green emblems Jor the occasion are everywhere displayed, JUDICIAL AND CORPORATE HONORS. rhe Lord Justices of Ireland and the Bourd of Works of Dublin have granted the use of the parks for iveworks; the Commissiuners of Police recog: nize tkeit earnest efforts to conduct the coremo- nial in the most orderly manner, and the ratiroad and steamboat companies have afforded cheap and ample Jacilities for transit to the Irish metrop- olls. en THE DECORATIONS IN DUBLIN. Mr. Smyth, M. P., #8 chairman of the Council Committee of the centenary arrangements in Dublin, brougot up the report prepared, woicn mentioned that the police authorities of the city had promised due assistance during the celebra- tions in August to preserve order in tie streets and prevent obstruction of the route, which was stated fo be safe, and at certain of its narrowest points double precautions had been taken to pre- vent pressure, The fireworks wiil ye held on the nine acres of the Pneenix Park, kindly granted by the government Jor Saturday, the itn of August, The name o/ O'Connell andother devices will be emblazoned and lit with gas at etther end of the metal bridge and at the Concttiation Hall, with @ harp at the latter. Thirty pounds was voted for reworks and £r2 for the decoration of | the O'Connell coach and £75 tor the regatia con. test at Kingstown, on coudition that an equal sum was realized in that town, one of the prizes to be @ cup called the O’Vonnell Centenary Cup. IN KINGSTOWN, Mr, Crossthwaite, Kingstown, undertook tolook to the arrangements in his township, and advised that 4 challenge cup should be offered for annnal competition, and said it was the intention of the Kingstown people to have the cup engraved with the name of the Lord Mayor as well as with the name of O'Connell, Mr. Sullivan, on the ground of making the com- petition anuual on the 6th of Augast, proposed that the sum voted be increased to £100, and was sure tbat Kingstown would do tis own part ia helping the increas THE PROGRAMME is as follows :— ou URS DAY, The colebration will open with a solemn religious cere. & Man at aby UMe Would Nave been an iinportant | City, m which he said, “rhe Simon of | with the Navional Monument Committee, which is | Cowmittee, the members of the former being ex , every hue and shade and party, Wno eels a pride | ae- | constitutional authority, | monial, in the Cathedral, Marlborough street, at which | His F minenee the Cardinal Arehbisl ¢ Dublin wall officiate. and at which the Irisa and other Catholic prel- | tes will assist. Very Rey. Father Burke, 0. 2., will ‘oecusion, ORATORIO “RLIJAN’ vert Hall of the Exhibition hestra and chorus. Leader, &. M. Levey. a S CONCERT OF SELKCTED 113i MUSIC the Exhibition Palace, pa Robinson ;Loader. RM. Levey. Tn the course of the eveuing will be reclted TU CENTENARY OY, by Denis Florenee McCarthy, M. R. 1. A FRIDAY (THE CkNTSNARY). veral bodies to form the At ten o'clock th the City Mansion House will ussemble tn Stephen's aiter indi- ‘order. ‘Ihe route will 8 of the city, its termina. | from Green and other available. site cated, and join in their asst De s0 cust as to cover some i tlon being the SITE OF THR NATIONAL MONUMENT, Sackville street, where the ORATION ON THE ‘CENTENARY 11 be delivered. b wi In the evening there will be GRAND BANQUETS AND BALLS, SATURDAY. EXCURSIONS " from Dublin to the chief scenic and historical districts in the country will be arranged, BOAT LACKS ON THE RIVER, for which a valuable Commemoration Cup ant other | prizes will be offered tor national competition. j 4, ATHLETIC SPORTS OF VARIOUS KINDS, WITH PRIZES. At eight o'clock, in the Exhibition Pala GLOVER's CANA PATRICK AT TARA,” s with a sel of Irish music, nductor—Professor Glover. Banas will pertorm, and briluant displays of fireworks wiil be given at various parts of the city. A Reception Commitice will sit daily at the Mansion House and atford ail necessary intormation .o visitors torhe ceremonial. Signed on behalf of the Ni tonal Committee, ELER PAUL MSWINEY, Lora Mayor, Fresident. THE POPE ABSOLVES THE PAST OF THE CELEBRA- TION FRIDAY. [From the Irish Times (Dublin), July 20.) It has been asked since the centenary celebra- tlon was projected why a national banquet to ; O'Connell, which, if anything, should be promi- | nently Catholic, should be held on Friday, that day in the week which marks the separation be | tween Catholics and all others as regards the re- Striction of the food used at meals. A great fest- val, witn fish, meagre food and vegetables as the | ! chief viandg. 1s not a very tempting treat after the fatigue of long journeys und the evening lassi- tude supervening ou a procession, under an Au- gust sun, extending over seven miles of the city, and the reaction of intense excitement, cheering, dust, &c, We unaerstand that, to meet this difi- cuity, the Pope has suspended the law of absti- nence on that day in all Ireland, ‘im recognition Of the life and labors of O’Vonnell.”? ‘The oration will be pronounced by Lord O'Hagan, | | and the great Dominican Father Tom Burke will, if fis health permits him, deliver a sermon appro- priate to the occasion in the Pro-Catnedral of Dubin. Denis Florence McCarthy, one of Ire- land’s best living poets, has composed the cen- tenary ode. Among the distinguished persons present will be the great Bishop of Orleans, FELIX DUPANLOUP, as will be seen by his correspondence with the committee, which tollews: LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED MEN. | VERSAILLES, July 3, 1875, My Lorp Mayor—The invitation with which you have iavored me touches me more deeply than | can express, and greatis my desire to ve in Ireland at the day when she will pay to the | memory of O'Connell tne homage so justly due to the emancipator of his noble and generous coun- try. Itis a jong time since 1 wished to visit dear Ireland, and I cowfess that { could not have de- sired & more favorable occasion. IJ shall, there- fore, my Lord Mayor, do my best, notwithstand- | inz my fatigued health, to avai myself of your flatiering invitation, and to give to Irishmen that testimony of my lively and deep sympathy for themselves and tne great man whom they are avout to honor im a manner worthy of Ireland and himself. + FELIX, EY. D'ORLEANS, LORD O’HAGAN’S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. In reply to the invitation from the Lord Mayor te pronounce the oration on U’Connell the follow- ing letter was received ;— JULY 17, 1875. My Dear Lonp Mayor—I have been greatly gratified by your invitation, and Ido not ivel at . lubstty to decline the task wRick the kindness of my frienes would impose on me. [ know the aifll- culty and delicacy Of the task, and 1 would will- ingly. leave it in wortuier hands. Butl cannot sirink from uniting. With you, as you deem best, in the celebration of the centenary of O’Connell— | | the great political LeneJactor of his race aud the | Victorious champion of civil aud religious liberty— | with Whom in other days I bad relations of very “ cordial iriendship., The time, L trust, has come when people of evéry class aud creed, lorgetung the divisions of tne past and the controversies ot the present, may combine to do homage to the memory of an Irishman whose greatness they should prize #8 a National inheritanee. 1am, my dear Lord Mayor, yours, very faithfully, -OPHAGAN, THE EARL MARSHAL OF ENGLAND, Professor Kavanagh then stated that the sub. seriptions received since their last meeting amounted to £482 ids, 6d, This, he said, inciuged a subscription of £50 trom His Grace the Duke of | Norfolk, and subscriptions from the Kart ef Den- | bign, the Hon. Cnaries Langdale, the Bishop o¢ | Cloyne, the O’Conor Don, a. P.; Mr. Shell, M. | &e. 5) | ‘fhe following is the letter from the Duke of Nor- folk : | | | | SHEFFIELD, July 19, 1875, | Smm— beg to send you tue enclosed check as my coutributton to tne fund for the O'Conneli Cen- | tenary. 1 aim very sorvy that 4 canyot be present | | to snow the gratitude [ feel toward the man to | Whom all British Cathoucs owe so much, I re- main, your obedient servant, NORFOLK, ‘do James W. KavanaGi, Esq., Hon. sec. FROM THE EARL OF DENBIGH AND DESMOND. The following was received irom tue Earl of NEWNHAM Pappox, Denbigh and Desmond: LUTTERWORTH, July 17, 1815.) My Lorp—I_ had tully intende+! to do myselt the honor o1 assisting atthe requiem in memory of O'Connell, and 80 have testified by my presence to the sense of eternal gratitude which [ eel we English Catholics owe to Nim by whose unceasing anu persevering exertions our liberties were minly won. Within the last few days some important family complicaions have unlortanatey arisen, which necessitate mny presence in England daring ihe Who.e of tnat week, aud render it impossibie for me to avail myseif of your invitation to the ban- quet. I venture, however, in delault, to send a | smali offering toward detraying the expenses oj ‘tne celebration in token of sach sympatny, and | beg of you to accept with it the expression of my | sincere regret at my tnavoldxble absence. Lre- main, my lord, yours faithuily, } DENBIGH and DESMOND. | The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin. HON, CHARLES LANGDALE, | The Hon, Caarles Langdale, writing from Hough- | ton Hall, Yorkshire, said:— | My Dean Lonp Mayor—My residence tn vel- | bridge taugnc me lo undersiand the vastness of O’Connell’s services to lis countrymen; and in England [ caunot forget that it was due to nim that the Catholics 61 this country recovered the rights o1 English citizens, FROM THE BISHOPS. St, PETER’S COLLEGE, WKXVORD, July 17, 1875. MY D&AR LORD Mayor—I veg to enciose you one portion (£180 178. 6d.) Of the contributions of the pedple of this diocese toward the O’Connell Cen tenary Fuad, wod shall, in the ensuing week, jor- Ward (We next instalment, Lam, my dear Lord Mayor, very saithfuily yours, {'T. FURLONG, Diocese or Cloyne, QUEENSTOWN, Juty 18, 1875, My Dear Lond MAYOR—Aosence irom bome and pressure of offictal duties prevented me jrom Lnanking you svouer for your kind invitution vw the centenary banquet, as well as irom sending | my suoscription to tne lund being raised at pres- ent lo deitay che EXpenses OL the O'Convel Cen- tenary celebration. this doube debt L now beg | leave to discharge. 1 thank you very sincerely er the honor you have dove we in inviting me to the banquet, an honor which | hepe to ve able to avail | 01; and T herewith iicose @ check ior £3 ior the centenary lund, Witn the expression of my regret that tne money demands on me at preseat do vot permit me co seta you a Sum more commensurate With my feelings of veneration and ri 5 the meinory of aman to waom the Cat Ireland and ihe wuvocates 0: poiiuical ameliora- on bY COustiLullonal Means Owe & debt ol grate tude Waich it ts Impossible to over-estimate, [ aw, my Gear Lord Mayor, yours faith, | JOHN MacUARTHY. LETTHRS PROM GRAMAN MAGNATES, At the meeting of the O’Vonneil Centenary Commitree this evening the Lord Mayor said that the letters of the prelates and of the lay gentie- men Wh» accepted invitations would now be read. Dr. Danne read the following translation of let | ters received :— | The Count Schmising Hersenbroeck, of Baden, | f. Von tesseler, Landsgericorarn, memvers of the | German Keichstag, aud Baron Yon Wenat, aisoa | member o/ the German Parliament, wrote express- | fug the pleasure they wouid Dave i atrending the centenary celebravon, ani Mgr. Nardi, Prelate of tne Household of the Pope, wrote stating that he had asked permission of His Holiness to be present, and Le doubted Not Loat he would be permitted to | avall himself of the honor and p.easure of deing | present. Among those Who, whie expressing » wisu to participate in the celebraston, and to hover the memory of 0 onneil, made apologies for their inability to attend, owing either to oficial | or private duues, were;—Tha Bishop of Brages, | the Duke de Croy Dulmen, the Count von Bu gon, Dr, Auton Westermayer, of Manich, M. G. the Bishop of Rutvenburg, Count Hompeset, the Buhop of Hildesneia, the of isnoD of | acts of violence the | In his vest pocket, | been stolen and bis chain cut. | Wiham Brown, and said he resided at No. 3 Prince Arche Versailles, and Cardinal Rausche! bishop of Vienna, The following is the LEITER OP CARDINAL RAU: BISHOP OF VIENNA. My Loxp Mayok—‘here is 4 quite pecuhar Dlessiug on the work of St. Patrick. Green Erin deserved more than a thousand years agu to be PRINCE ARCH- calied the Island of Satnts, and there was never & people WhO preserved the energy of its iaith througn tue long and heavy persecutions ag the Irigh have done. For two centuries the yulers of Ireland put in motion txe execu. tioner and the law against the Catnolia faith, and when they beileved they had suc- din crushing it down by the exXtremers always found it again erect und unconquered. But to bo one are the Catho- lic Irisimen jore indeoted in the War for their Inostsacred riguts tian to Daniel O'Connell, It is to the power of his mind and werd that they owe the emancipation which from siaves im heir own country tude them free, and this emancipation he procured for them by legal ways, without aDy Vi0~ jence or shaking of social order, It is, therefore, With iuil rigtt that tue day on waich O’Counell Was born, a hutrdred years age, should be cele- braved. 1 make my fullest acknowledgment to tnis Champion of the Catholic cause and Of & DOw bie na ion which underwent long oppression, and I would be very bappy to avail imyseit of Your Lorvstip’s invitation, bat the many alfairs o: my arge, and, stil more, My advanced age, do not aioW me to undertake tne Journey to Dublin. However, I beg you to accept the expressio: of my Sincere gratitude, and remain, witn the most periect consideration, Your Lordship’s very de- voted servant, TOS OTHMAR, Cardinal Rauscher, Prince Archbishop of Vienna, A VOICE FROM POSEN. The following ts trom Prince Edward Redziwills Osrrowo, Posen, July 8, 1875. My Lorp—Ic 13 with a leeling of the most lively gratituae that I have the honor of acknowledging the reception of your letters of the 22d June, and of the card of the lestivity of tae Centenary of the immortal O’Connell. have taken care to send the precious docu. ments to his Eminence Cardinal Levocnowskt, and as I had yesterday the happiness to see him ia bis prison Lam able to cell you that your letter nag caused him the greatest satisiaction, aud inspired him with the deepest gratitude, His Eminence requests me, my lord, to be the interpreter of lis most joving jeelings, and to teil you tiat as circumstances do not allow him to answer by writing he will never cease to joi bis prayers with those of the noble Irism pespie, that all the good which the great champion of tue Catholic cause has tmaugurated in eis country ; May be developed and prosper tor the glory of God and salvation of the seuis, There rent me, my Lord, to express on my own Db. gratifivation lor the invitation with which you ave honored me, and it is for me a true happi- ness to be able Lo announce to you that 1 shall have tne honor to present myseli before Your Lordsuip on the 6th of August at Dublin, Arather sau circumstance has already put me under the obligation of golag to London. The comvents being Suppressed 1n Prussia, | was gouy to ace company to Eng.and three Sisters of the Convent of the Visitation of Ostrowo wnen your honorable invitation opened belore me the perspective to go und see the Island of the Saints and to witness oue of the grandest manifestations of Catholic lue. ‘THE BISHOP OF PITTSBURG’S DELEGATE. [From the Cork Examiuer, July 21.) Among the passengers who landed at Queens town this morning from the Inman steamer City of Chester was the Very Rev. William Pollard, who tse charged by the Right Rev. Dr. Michael Domenec, Bishop of Pittsburg, to represent him at the O’Connell Centenary. Father Poliard is a native of Kilkenny, and left St. Kyran’s College, Ktikenoy, in 1849, at the invitation of Dr. O’Uan« nor, first Bishop of Pittsburg, whom he joined im America, He bears the following LEITER TO THE LORD MAYOR. To His Lorpsmip THE MAYOR OF DUBLIN:— My Lorp—Tne many affairs with whieh I am loaded prevent me trom accepting Your Lordship’a kind invitation to dinner on Thursday, the Stn of August, The Very Rev. Wiluam Pollard, a worthy priest of my diocese, will present my sincere re- Bpects to Your Lordship, and he will represent the ajocese of Pittsburg, where there are so many soas and daughters of the Green Island, on the occasion of the Centennial of the great O'Connell, Your Lordship’s devoted in Christ, Xi a5 , DOMENEL, Bisnop of Pittsbarg. ISRAELITE TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY. (From the Jewish (London) Chroniele, July 20.) Great preparations are being made in Ireland worthily to celebrate on the 6tn of August next the hundredth birthday of “tne Liberator.’ We do not presume to sit in judgment on the life and Merits of the great agitator. History will pere form this task. But this much we may gay, that bis bearing in the question of Jewish emancipa« tion was in harmony witn the traditions of Ire+ land which boast that she nad never been guilty of any persecution of Jews. O’Connecll always voted for Jewish emancipation, O'CONNOR POWER ON IRISH HOME RULE. [From the London Times, July 22. Three home rule members of Parliament. Messrs, A. M. Sullivan, Biggar and O’Connor Power, attended a meeting of the Irish innabitants ofthe Tower Hamlets, on the subject of home rule, nela at St. Anne’s Hall last night. Mr. W. L. O'Neill Was in the chair, and several Roman Catholia clergymen were present on the platiorm. A reso- lution declaring that the proceedings of the Impe- rial Parliament relative to Irish affairs were un- satisfactory and demonstrated its incapacity to legislate in accordance with Irish opinion or for the benefit of the Iris people was moved by Mr. O'Connor Power, M. P, The honorable gentleman said that before he en- tered Parliament he believed it was incompetent to govern Ireland satisfactorily,and bis experience asa member of tne House of Commons had only strengthened that opimion. On the very thresh: oid of the present session they had introduced the question of home rule, and were met by the objection that It was a sentimentai question and that they would serve their country becter by dealing with practical subjects, They bad en aeavored to do so, and hardly one of the practical measures had been passed. Jn illustration the epeuker referred to the Irisn Franchise bill, and the debate oi yesterday on tne Irish Poor Ke+ movais oul, Which, he contended, was not a sen. tumental question, Mr. Biggar, M. P., in seconding the resolution, complained that the great want of the House of Commons, even On Boglisn questions, was a want of earnestness, The only earnest party was the Irish party, aud he bad the authority o: Mr. Faw cett jor saylug that the fight on the Coercion bill Was the best that had ever been made on an Iris question, He advised his conntrymen in England to adopt the programme of the Kuglish radical who, by their representatives in the House 0i Commons, had &upported the Irish party. But they could not adopt the English ragteal policy oa the question of education, for the Irish people ve- lieved, and believed rightly, that education and religion must go together. Mr. A.M. Sullivan, M.P., moved a resolution catling upon Lrishmen to support the principies of home rule. He dwelt particularly on the present position of the Irish population of Great Britain and askea how Was tt that the Jewish population, so small in number, was represented in Parla ment while the Irish population had no represen tation whatever? Their duty was to mobilize their power by the full use of their electoral faciil- ues. A CAR THIEF CAPIURED. For several months past Captain Allaire, of the Fourteenth precinct, has been contiuually in the receipt of numerous complaints from people whe have bad their pockets picked or théir watches stelen while riding on the cars of the Avenue O line, Captain Allaire had given Ris men strict or. ders to keep a sharp lookout, and, if possivle, to are rest the thieves, About ten o’ciock last night, as one of the cars was passing the corner of Prince and Crosby street, Mr. George Green, of No, 130 avenue ©, Who Was sitting on its rear piatform, elt the hand ofa man, who Was sitting next to him, He thenfound his waten had Oa discovering Greon caught hold of the map him over to Oficer Uoxklin, of bis loss Mr. and handed the Fourteenth precinct, who took him to the station house, whi he was searched. The watch was uot in possession, and it is supposed by th over to sume confederate police He gave bis aoe ien i Mott street, The prisoner was recognized by Detective Wade, at the station house, as Joh Brogan, Who, only & short time ago, Was arrested by the potice of the Teutn precinct for a aigaway rovbery. He was locked up, anu will be arraigned belure Judge O tenvourg at the Tomos Police Court this morning. . FATAL RUNOVER AOCIDENT. James Durty, aged thirteen years, who lived on Seventicth street, near Kighta avenue, a pedier of lozenges, was run over and = almost instantly killed yesterday afternoon, by car No 110, of the = Eigntu avenue line. Tho unfortunate boy attempted ta Jump on the front platiorm ot the car while the latter was ia motien, bat silj and fell aader over bis arre: he passed It the forward Wheels, wolca ‘Tho driver, Juha Deiane: tue action of tue Corona: