The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1875, Page 3

y NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1875—WITH SUPPLEME THE O'CONNELL © CREDBRATIOW, Full Details of the Centenary Fetes in Dublin, , EXCITING SCENES. How Dublin Was Fevered to the Verge of Revolt, STORY OF THREE BANQUETS. A Brilliant Catholic Gathering at the Mansion House. The Echo that Astonished Mer. Nardi.’ JOHN OF TUAM’S SPEECH The National Banquet at the Ex- hibition Building. “HOME RULE” AND CONFUSION. A Wild Conclusion to the Trades Dinner at the Rotunda. THE ROW IN THE PROCESSION. Dvunris, August 7, 1875, festival is over; but are all the results reached? This is the question that is now occupying the thoughtful part of the community. Every man here who is not blind acknowledges that for a week past Ireland has ‘een like a sleeping volcano, There have been matter- ings and murablings of the smothered political elements, The internal fires have giyen uncomfortable warnings, and the most sagacious have not been without serious apprehensions lest the thin covering that veiled the slumbering political fires might prove too frail and al- Jow them to burst forth in all their intensity and horror. THE SLUMBERING FIRES, I wish it were in my power to say conscientiously that the excitement is ended, that the danger is past. ‘What I have seen of the Irish people during a brief week renders it impossible to form a rational opinion as to the end. Ihave found men of the eminence of Car- dinal Cullen—a cool, shrewd, sagacious ecclesiastic, who talks with the slowness of ono who believes his words of consequence to Church and people— asserting that everything politically and socially in his native land is as calm and peaceful as a bright Tho 0’Connell ‘summer sky, and yet I have found, when the real test came, those storms and lightning flashes of popular ex- citement that seemed to indicate deep-seated discontent and unhappiness. Ihave heard it asserted that all the rumblings and warhings were deceptions, the idle in- ventions of political adventurers, who, at one time, were | arrayed against the great O'Connell, but who now sought in vain to stir the popular passions for their own selfish ends, reckless of ways and means, but at the game time powerless to work evil. And yet I have found the great day of Ireland, the centenary of the illustrious Liberator, successfully used by these same so-called political adventurers, spite of the efforts of priests and government, to agitate to the very founda- tion the unconquerable yearnings of this strange people FOR HOME RULE AND SELP-GOVERNMENT, Thave found a demonstration concocted and devised by a Catholic Lord Mayor, with the sole view to turn it to the advantage of his own Church and interest, wrenched from his grasp and used for a purpose alto- gether foreign and abhorrent to.the original design. The «| aim and object of the originators of the 0’Connell cele- bration was to give the affair such an inclination as to repel all the home rule elements; and yet the masses of the people not only seemed unwilling to sympathize with this scheme, but. when the proper moment came sided with the home rule element, enabling men like Butt, O’Connor Power, A.. M. O'Sullivan, McCarthy Downing, and others of the same class, to assume con- trol of things, and twist and turn everything into what I ‘am obliged to consider must be the natural channel, How, therefore, cap any one say that the end is yet— that the trouble is over—that this extraordinary O’Con- nell demonstration will not LBAD TO POLITICAL RESULTS that its concoctors never dreamed of, and, perhaps, would little relish? I was very much struck during a brief conversation I had a few days ago with His Eminence Cardinal Cullen, at the cautious and gingerly manner he dealt with ‘the subject of home rule. When I asked him what he thought was the popular fecling on the question, he answered, evasively, that some men were of the opinion that, even were it secured, it might notafter all be for the best interest of the people. Therefore, Iam tempted to write that, perhaps, the concoctors—for the distin- guished Cardinal was admittedly one of them—may regret the results to flow from their own handiwork, But descending from these generalizations to the more specifio EVENTS OF THE CELEBRATION. The centenary proceedings commenced in sunshine and ended in rain; opened in brotherly love and closed in disharmony and bitterness. We have had no less than three banquets, a monster procession, econcerts, church ceremonies, speeches, a free fight, and the end is, thus far, at least, a general disharmony among those who have taken part. Never did a festival promise to be so interesting as this, and we made the journey hither in the expectation of sending home only pleasant accounts of our sojourn and the féte; but it is very difficult to write at all. We have memories of the beautiful cere- monies in the cathedral, of the grand numbers collected in and to see the procession, of the brilliant gathering at the banquet in the Mansion House on Thursday night; while, contrasting with this, we have the unhappy end- ing of two other banquets, the unpleasant conclusion to the procession and the present conflict of political par- ties in Dublin. ‘WHO 18 RESPONSIBLE? T have been twice the guest of the Lord Mayor of Dub- Jin, and the acceptance of hospitality demands that wo shall not speak ill of our host. But journalists must be exempted from this rule, A kind-hearted, generous, courtly gentleman, Lord Mayor MéSwiney bas won our sympathits on many occasions during the recent festivi- ties; but shall wo withhold the truth in speaking of the political aspect of the fetes, for which he alone is re- sponsible? He must be held accountable for the immi- nent danger in which Dublin and Ireland stand to-day— the danger of riot and bloodshed, of civil strife and mili- tary interference—knowing as he did how easily the passions of the Celt are aroused, and knowing, too, that while the banquets were in progress and the great pro- cession moved its slow length through the streets, the troops of England awaited in their barracks, silent, armed and momentarily expecting to be called to quell the outbreak. ‘THE YESTIVAL was to have been in honor of Daniel O’Connoll as an Trish patriot, as the great Liberator, who procured for the Catholics and the Protestants, too, of Ireland that civil and religious liberty of which they had been long de- prived, It was to have been such; but bas ft been cele- brated as a grand Irish national festival? It has been a grand religious display, confined, first to last, to only ono clement of the population—the Catholic element. We have had a brilliant gathering of prelates, an inter- esting display of religious devotion, a wild ebullition of Political feeling and an attempt to transfer the Hyde Park amnesty demonstrations to Sackville streot. “Amaesty and “Rgmember the prisoners” were the leyenda flaunted before your face on every banner insteaa of ‘“0’Connell the Liberator.” The Irish delegates from London came prepared rather for a free fight than a national festival. They came armed with revolvers instead of common sense, and inthe barracks waited the troops, and an order had been issued that on the firing of the first shot the military would have arrested every amnesty man in the procession, and all who were found with arms in their hands would have been summarily dealt with, CARDINAL CULLEN'S “INVORMATION,”” To-night was to have seen the conclusion of the festi- val—a display of flreworks in the Phoenix Park; but the Lord Mayor, dreading further disturbances, has just issued a proclamation postponing the exhibition on ac- count of the weather! Fortunately it has been raining and the weather furnishes a good pretext for the pro- hibition of the fireworks, But the real reason, I happen to know, is this:—Some one well informed com- municated to Cardinal Cullen the fact that the darkness of to-night would be used to pre- cipitate a disturbance, The secret armed men were ready for bloody work, and intended to have it. The good Cardinal deemed it his duty to convey this infor- mation to the Lord Mayor. Accordingly His Eminence was found closeted with the Lord Mayor early in the day, and the result has been a postponement, The fireworks will not go off. Let us hope, also, that the passions of the hour will be held in check, and that the next great gathering—to-morrow or Monday—will not Prove that the storm has only been postponed, ‘THE LORD MAYOR is primarily responsible for calling out the ebullition of political feeling. He chose to give the O'Connell festi- val a very prominent religious tinge by failing to invite to his banquet prominent Irishmen who entertained other political views than his own; by excluding the home rulers and Protestants, and by declaring that the first toast to be given at the banquet in the Mansion House should be to His Holiness Pope Pius 1X. The festival was thus made a religions demonstration against Germany and a religio-political demonstration against England, in 1avor of what? This is difficult to say, though it was only too clear that the character of Daniel O’Connell as an Irish patriot, as the friend of civil and religious liberty, was almost entirely overlooked, For at the Lord Mayor’s banquet we had only the Church and clerical supremacy ; at thé second banquet, home rule and confusion; at the procession, amnesty and the shillelah; at the banquet in the Rotunda, chaos and drunkenness. TALE OF THE THREE BANQUETS. The three banquets were the most characteristic fea- tures of the festival, and, unhappily, two of them most unfortunate, The first, given by the Lord Mayor in the Mansion House, was indeed as brilliant and pleasant an affair as one could have wished, notwithstanding the fact that it bore too decided a religious tinge, I hardly need discuss the question as to whether or not the Lord Mayor had the right in his official capacity to propose the toast of His Holiness the Pope before that of Queen Victoria, The result, however, I can say, was that all persons connectetl with the government kept away from the banquet, and that the Lord Mayor brought upon himself the censure of the entire English press and of many Irish statesmen, both Catholic and Protestant, Quitting this question, however, I can con scientiously congratulate the Lord Mayor on having gathered to his halls some of the most interesting and distinguished persons, represent- ing the religious life of Europe. There was His Emi- nence Cardinal Cullen, clad in the scarlet robes that told us of his dignity as a prince of the Church—a pleasant featured prelate, whose face reminds one’ at times of the Pope himself; at other times of ‘he Car- dinal Premier, Antonelli. There stood, clad in dark flowing robes, Mgr. Nadi, tall, commanding, his breast bearing decorations given to him by his master and father, Pope Piux IX. Mgr. Nardi is Auditor of the Rota, the Supreme Court for the trial of ecclesiasticai causes in the Roman Curia, and the editor of the Voce Della Verita, the uncompromising ultramontane journal of Rome, THE CLERICAL GUESTS. There is Mgr. Rinaldi, Under Secretary of the Roman Congregation of Propaganda, a man of pleasant address and evidently mild disposition. There is Dr. Matthew Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst, in New South Wales, a man of about fifty-five years of age, a native of Ireland, of most unpretending and charming manner, It is said that he is a most successful administrator of his diocese, beloved, of his clergy, and most popular among his people, It is said that he has but to lift his finger and money is at once forthcoming for any diocesan work. There is Archbishop MacHale, “the Lion of the Fold of Judah,” as O'Connell named him at the great meeting of Clifden, the first of the ‘monster meetings’? which were a leading feature of the repeal agitation in 1843— “John of Tuam,” as he is familiarly designated among Irishmen wherever gathered—wearing tho burden of his eighty-seven years of life and fifty years of episcopate more lightly than others would carry: half the number, His massive head and clear gray eye would be sure to single him out anywhere, A stranger who watched his elastic step would have justly scouted the notion of his having so long outlived the allotted span. There ts, Archbishop Croke—just promoted from the See of Auckland, in New Zealand, to the metropolitan mitre of Cishel—a man of about fifty years of age, above the middle height, keen intellectual features, and seems to be a man who can think clearly and reason out quickly almost any subject, and express himself upon it with equal precision and felicity. There is Dr. MacEvilly, the Bishop of Galway, ashort man, about sixty to sixty-five years of age, evi- dently a clever man. He is the prelate who first em- ployed in Ireland the form of “suspension” of a trou- blesome priest, known by the name ex informata con- scientia, which has become so notorious in the O’Keefe case, It is generally assumed that Dr. MacEvilly will be the successor of Dr. MacHale as Archbishop of Tuam, Indeed, there are archbishops, bishops and dis- tinguished clergy and laymen from all parts of IRELAND, ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT, There is the Bishop of Nantes, small and flery of speech; Bishop Lachat, of Basle, banished from nearly every canton of Switzerland and here to give utterance to hig faith and his wrath. One of the noblest figures in the many groups of prelates and clergy was Prince Ed- ward Radziwill, the young friend and counsellor of Car- dinal Ledochowski; a prince he is of the German Em- pire, a near relative of the Emperor William, who has renounced the military glories of the German Empiro for the tonsureand the crucifix. Besides these I mention of those present the names of the Earl of Granard, the Most Rev. Dr. M. Gettigan, Primate of all Ireland; the Bishops of Kilmore, Clon- fert, ‘Ardagh, Noftingham, Ross, Down and Connor, Galway, Northampton, beside others, and many Irish mayors, Asan Irish journal temarks, “France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, England, Ircland wore represented by some of their best and noblest blood; never before was such a gathering seen within the walls of the Mansion House; never, probably, will it be given tothogo who witnessed it todo so again.” ‘And at seven o'clock the Lord Mayor led His Eminenco Cardinal Cullen to the hall of the banquet, ushering him in in truly regal fashion. Were one disposed to be ir- reverent, the good Lord Mayor, clad in his robes of of- fice and bearing in his left hand along white wand, might be likened to poor Polonius in “Haralet.” The other guests followed, and, taking their seats at the tables, the feast began. Lot us while the feast is pro- gressing take a HASTY GLANCE AT THE BANQUET HALL itself Itis an immense circular apartment, built in the year 1821, especially to entertain George IV, A long circular gallery, some fifteen feet above the floor, runs around the hall, and on the walls above this gal- lery are to bo seen the coats-of-arms of all the Lord Mayors of the Irish capital. The arms of Daniel 0’Con- nell are over the main entrancé to the hall, on one side, while on the other are the atms of Peter Paul McSwiney, the present Lord Mayor of Dublin. It provokes a smile from some, for the good Lord Mayor’s emblems are a lion above and a wild boar below, with two battle axes in the middle, Thero are whispered jokes about McSwiney, swine and the wild boar, but I will not boro you with any puns on the subject. In the gallery is a brilliant assemblage of beautifully dressed ladies, in- cluding the Lady Mayoress and her beautiful daughters, Next Mme. McSwiney sits a stately old lady; Mrs, Fitzsimon, the only living daughter of the great Liberator, looking down, as it were, from the dim past upon the present generation honoring the momory of her illustrious father, long gathered to his rest, where she, too, must soon follow, A bright light is in her eye, a glance of proud satisfaction is visible as sho Jooks around on the brilliant gathering, And well sho may be proud, for, though the assemblage does not in- clude every shade of politics and religion, she sees be- neath her distinguished men in Chareh and State, men from the Rhine and the Seino, from the far Austra. lian colonies, from Canada, from England, from Amer- ica, from every part of the world, Next her sits Mrs, Hayes, » granddaughier of sho Liberator CAED MILLE PATLTIE, A hundred thousand welcomes gaye the host to his guests after the champagne had been uncorked, and then he proposed the health of ‘That venerable man who has occupied the chair of Paer for over thirty years, Wicked deeds be remembered only to be exe- crated, while his name will be held in benediction and handed down from generation to generation with imper- ishable fame to the end of time. Pius IX., the infulli- ble expounder of the Word of God, the Vicar of Christ.”” ‘The greatest, wildest enthusiasm was called forth by this toast, to which Mgr. Nardi rose to respond. Un- fortunately for this distinguished gentleman he occupied ‘a seat immediately opposite to a MOST REMARKABLE RCHO, apparently concealed in the wall of the banquet hall, It was a curious phenomenon and not observed with any other speaker, It made a bewildering effect, confusing alike to the speaker and his hearers, “I pray you par- don my scanty knowledge of your tongue,” began Mgr. Nard. “Your tongue,” answered the echo, dis- tinctly, from the opposite wall. “I join in the outburst of your joy at this glorious day of the man who was like a new Moses to Ireland.” ‘To Ireland,” responded the invisible echo, with weird distinctness, and the stately representative from the Vatican seemed Somewhat disconcerted. “I speak no _poli- tics here,” he continued, and the answer came as if ironically meant, “no polities here,” so that the speaker started visibly. “The mention of the Ro- man Pontiff thrills through all our hearts.” (‘All our hearts,” responded the echo.) “Let me thank you for having asked me to share the joy of this day’’—(-‘of this day”)}—“and to ask your countrymen and all your friends”’—(‘all_ you friends,” said echo)—‘to cheer again the response to the good Lord Mayor’’—(‘‘good Lord Mayor’’)—*to cheer again for my dear father?— (‘dear fatner”)—‘‘and ever faithful friend of Ireland” — (“of Treland”)—“Pius IX."—(Pius IX.,” shouted the echo, and the people joined in with enthusiastic ap- plause), Luckily for the Monsignor his sentences closed more fortunately than that of the German Burgomaster of Oberwesel, on the Rhine, who could only get one response from the echo to his own assertion that he was “the Burgomaster of Ober- wesel;”? and that was esel, which in the German tongue signifies ass, : ‘THE QUEEN AND HOME RULE. Then the Lord Mayor proposed the toast to the Queen, which was inost enthusiastically greeted by all ‘The teaching of the Catholic Church,” said the Lord Mayor, “all over the world has been to inculcate the duty laid down by St. Paul—‘Be subject to the higher powers.’ Loyalty, therefore, is not only a sentiment, but a prin- ciple which we are all bound to obey.” A glee party formed by priests and laymen then sung ‘God Save the Queen” in an excellent manner, the guests joining in the refrain, The toast to the memory of Daniel 0’Connell was drunk in solemn zilence, and was responded to by Mr. Daniel 0’Connell, a grandson of the great Liberator, The Archbishop of Tuam also responded to the came toast. The Archbishop of Tuam resembles the late distinguished Archbishop Hughes, of New York, pos- sessing the same fine classic head and delicate intellee- tual refinement of expression in features. Very like him, also, in boldness of expression and uncompromising adherence to what he conceives to be right and truth, A small man, of slight figure, with a lion heart and purity of character, eighty-seven years of age, but hav- ing the snap and determination of a man of forty, THE ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM’S speech was one of the most interesting of the evening, anda plain demand for self-government for Ireland. He said:— . The most welcome inauguration of the hundredth year of the birth of O'Connell, the illustrious benefactor and Liberator of his nation, I hail, in union with you and tens of thousands of the children of Ireland, as one of the most significant and cheermg presages of its ap- proaching autonomy, exercising the right of ‘self-gov- ernment. which no people ever lost to any extent with- out being ina corresponding degree treated as slaves, To this invariable law Ireland has not been hitherto an exception, nor can it ever hope to be an exception, as long as its incontestable right to self-government continues to be so exceptional and so unjustly with- held. It is on account of his extraordinary and heroic exertions to realize the blessings of self-government for the country of his birth that O’Connell has so endeared himself to the Irish people, who have given proofs of the immense value they set on this self-government by thus honoring its devoted champion with such a mag- nificent national celebration, * * * THE EXAMPLE OF O'CONNELL. How propitious the influence of noble examples in training men to the performance of important services we have a striking example, among many others, in the eminent writer of ancient Greece, who, when yet ayouth, was present at the grand general assembly of the Athenians, at which he heard the history of Hero- dotus read and honored with the applause of the Athe- nian people. The honor bestowed on the father of Grecian history by the assembled States made such an impression that, in his laudable desire to excel in the same departinent, Thucydides became the eloquent historian of the Peoplonnesian war. The distinguished honor you have this day bestowed on the memory of the Liberator will raise up ahost of young men ani- mated with the ardent desire of treading in his foot- steps and following his example, and with what success- ful results we have sufficient data to calculate from that popular rule of arithmetic familiarly known by the name the of “rule of three.” If the energy of one man suc- eeeded in lifting the inert mass of a nation out ofa state of torpor and infusing into it the life of freedom, felt by thousands of its children, who can calculate the magnificent results to the people’s prosperity when those thousands of freemen are placed at the starting point in the new race now to be run to reach the goal of the complete legislative autonomy of Ireland? A HINT FOR ENGLAND. Isit not astonishing that Englishmen, with any knowl edge or recollection of their own earlier history, should feel, or affect to feel, surprise at the determined resolve of our countrymen to assert their legislative independ- ence? In those times, not as yet of remote antiquity, when England formed a dependent province of France, was she content patiently to submit to the foreign yoke, or was she not, to her honor, restless and impatient, until re- leasing herself from this alien rule she asserted the un- controlled exercise of her native insular freedom? By what strange violation, then, of all the rules of logic ‘as well as right does she condemn in the Irish people the same identical line of conduct in which she herself glories as forming one of the brightest pages in her own annals? We have been accustomed to hear tho men and times of '82 held up as objects of eulogy to the admiration of tho Irish people. Far be it from me to wish, much less to endeavor, to pluck one solitary wreath from the rich garland that encircled the brows of the honored men of the celo- brated year of Eighty-two. But was the policy of those times such as was calculated to command reverence, or to call forth any zeal for its maintenance or resuscita- tion? No doubt there were zealous, ardent advocates for liberty. But what kind of liberty, we may be per- mitted to inquire? A narrow, selfish, jealous, crippled and one-sided sort of liberty, such as prevailed among the little tyrants of ancient Greece, boasting of the free- dom of a few citizens, but making no account of the miserable slaves by whom they were outnumbered, calling that state by ‘the name of freedom while them- selves were free. This was not the kind of freedom which could find favor with O’Connell, nor didhe make any effort for its restoration. No, he was too intellect- ual, a8 well as too humane, to relish that anomalous sort of mulish liberty, a cross between licentiousness and despotism, and, like all such extraordinary entities, always incapable of beneficent propagation. No, the liberty which O’Connell advocated was of a purer and simpler kind, flowing from a higher and diviner principle, ‘doing to others as you would wish to be done to you,” imbibed in his infancy with his mother’s milk, as it 1s drawn from the Church, his mother, by every Catholic child, growing with his growth and expanding and strengthening with his maturer constitution, Though some affect surprise at O’Connell’s zeal for liberty, their surprise must proceed from ignoranco, of the love of liberty cherished by the Catholic Church, PROM EMANCIPATION TO REPEAL, Having succeeded in breaking the chains that bound the Catholic, he could not view with a tranquil indifference the Protestant or Dissenter of whatever kind, whose tenets were pot subversive of social order, excluded from tho protection and honors of the State. Thus, from being tho eloquent and triumphant advocate of Catholic emancipation, he became, by a gradual and con- sistent development of the sound principle, the advo- cate of the freedom of tho entiro of the human race, If you wish to find the first sacred fountain from which genuine and wholesome liberty is seen gushing, you ‘will find jt in the beautifal prayers of the priest blesg- ing the holy water on Sundays, represented by the fountains seen by the ‘prophet issuing, not from the palace of the prince, but from the precincts of the temple, refreshing the world ag it rolled, and bringing health and strength and benediction to every living thing that was touched by its waters, (Great ap- plause, ) THE TOAST TO THE FOREIGN PRELATES was responded toby the Bishop of Nantes in French, “The greatness of France is necessary to the well-being of the world,” said the venerable prelate and the guests seemed to believe this assertion, judging from the ap- plause they awarded to the remark. Cardinal Cullen replied to the toast “The Insh Hierarchy,” and in con- clusion proposed tho health of the distinguished host, the Lord Mayor, which was drank with great enthusi- asm and was followed by the singers rendering that good old song ‘For He’s a Right Good Fellow.” The Mayor’s response was a very happy one, He spoke again of Daniel O'Connell and the rights of Ireland, and then up rose Dean O’Brien, of Limerick, alone ayd courageous, and struck up the tune ‘So Say We All of Us,” expecting the singers to join him in his effort, But they were unprepared for the out- burst of the Dean’s enthusiasm, and cer- tainly not prepared to sing in the note which the Dean happened to strike. The energetic old priest gave a look of indignation at the singers by his side, and sung the refrain through courageously, rewarded at the end with immense applause and laughter. The first banquet ended in a yery becoming and harmonious manner, Not so the second, the, NATIONAL BANQUET proper, at the Exhibition Palace, where likewise the Lord Mayor presided. The management of the affair proved, however, very unsatisfactory. When the guests arrived all the turn-gates were locked except one, and through this the 600 guests were compelled to file, although there wero six turn-gates that could just as well have been used, The wildest confusion prevailed; many jumped over the barriers, while the police ap- pealed for order. The doors of the banquet hall were closed, and the hungry guests battered at them and threatened to crush them in. ‘Lit the woild bastes in- soide,” shouted a voice ironically. And when the doors were finally opened there was arush and scramble for places that must have been very edifying to the ladies in the gallery andto the foreign prelates and guests. The feeding commenced, the wine flowed freely the tongues of the speakers were loosened, and the ners grew excited with wine and patriotism, There were the usual toasts and replies; the usual enthusiasm when O’Connell’s name and deeds were mentioned, The Bishop of Nantes responded to the toast, “THE FRENCH NATION,” and the people stood up to hear him and crowded up to the place. where he spoke, “Sit down! Sit down!” was the cry. “Sit down yourself, Get me achair to sitdown on, then,” were tho answers, ‘Ah, make a shorthand note of that im your head,” said a priest to the reporter of a Dublin paper, after a brilliant sentence by the French prelate, Count O'Neil de Tyrone likewise responded to this toast in French. Prince Radziwill responded to the toast, “Our Foreign Guests,” saying that he was there to bring the sympathy of the Polish members of the German Reichstag to the Irish people. Then occurred a scene in the great banquet hall that almost defies description. The next toast was “THE LEGISLATIVE INDFPENDENCE OF IRELAND,” to which it had been arranged that Sir Charles Gavan Dutly would be called to respond. They met it with a clamorous demand for “‘Butt! Butt!’ The Lord Mayor ‘attempted to speak, but the cries for “Butt!’? compelled him to pause, Nevertheless he took advantage of a lull in the uproar to call upon Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to respond, Duffy tried to speak, but the noise was so great that he could not be heard, One party cried out “Butt !”’ the other “Duffy !”’ and it became evident that the ‘devil was loose” in the hall, Soon Butt was on his feet also, and there stood, side by side, Butt and Dufly, the representatives of two different views of legis- Jative independence, It was the first time since '48 that Daffy had attempted apublic speech at a public dinner in Treland. In the midst of the disturbance the Mayor of Cork, David Nagle, who had been sitting at the principal table, vis-d-vis of the Lord Mayor; rose, and, gesticulating furiously at Mr. P. T, Smyth, M. P., said, “I hold you accountable for all this.” ‘What do you mean, sir?” asked the member for Westmeath, in a tone decidedly suGGEstive or PifroLs, “You, sir,” responded the Corcagian; “it ts you who arranged those toasts.” It is false |”? was the rejoinder, “You lie, sir!” ina most menacing tone. Fortunately there were no’ missiles within reach, and a herculean ‘Tipperary priest flung his arms around Smyth, seizing him with a grasp which defied resistance, CONFUSION. The scene, viewed from immediately behind the Lord Mayor’s chair, was intensely interesting—the Lord Mayor vainly essaying to make himself heard; in front the Mayor of Cork and several others exclaiming and gesticulating with unusual vehemence. Among them was conspicuous the now notorious member for Dundalk, Philip Callan, formerly the friend (2) and champion of Chichester Fortescue, and then his merciless denouncer, His voice rang out above the din, yelling “Butt! Butt! we'll hear no one but Butt!” Next the Lord Mayor sat the Catholic Primate, Dr. McGettigan, who seemed half puzzled, half content with what was passing around bim,* which so well illustrated his own views on the tactics of the homo rule agitators, Next the Primate were Baron von Wendt and Prince Radziwill. The Baron is the man who read the Papal Encyclical amid a similar uproar in the Prussian Land- tag, and ais face now, and the queries he seemed to address to some one who stood behind him, showed how, under his phlegmatic calm, he was deeply inter- ested. Prince Radziwill was eagerly scanning the coun- tenances of the angry mob in front, and his frequent glances at the Lord Mayor. proved his sympathy with His Lordship’s position, although evidently unable to divine the true meaning of the demonstration. Tho other members: of the German Parliament who were present looked on, plainly bewildered at the excitement and contrariety of opinion, so different from the har- mony that characterized the proceedings of the previous evening. ALL THE PUN OF THE 221K, At one of the side tables a stout man was seen jamp- ing upon it and kicking over a claret jug, crush- ing it under foot. In another quarter a tall, powerfully built man had jumped ppon his table and harangued tho people around him with an energy and noise which con- tributed a fair share toward the tumult, Again, in an- other part of the room, a man seized a cham- pagne bottle, and, dealing for the nonce with the glasses on the table as so many ninepins, made a clean sweep of all on it, Another excited individual in attempting to join in the disturbance fell across one of the tables and smashed a number of tumblers and glasses, receiving severe cuts from the fragments, Ohe man seized an apple, and, taking de- liberate aim at one of his antipathies, sent the fruit whizzing through the air, striking his human target in tho right cheek. A young priest, wearing glasses, was plainly visible, uttering words but little calculated to calm the tumult. Whether ho was a home ruler or not Lam unable to say; but, when expostulated with by ‘a brother priest, he turned sharply around and in a vorce of passion and ecorn cried out, “Be quiet, sir, and mind your own business. Iam a man of nature. You area slave, I am @ freo man.” In tho midst of it ail tho fiery little, Bishop of Nantes stood on a chair, and, waving his hands alof& in a gesture intended to calm the tumult, appealed to the excited throng in his native language. But his words were idle, The passions of the assemblage were let loose, and no more respect was paid to the man of the mitre than to the unfortunate stewards who were to be seen at different points striving to restore order, Al- together it was a scene such as has rarely been wit- nessed, and, looking back at it all now, one marvels that blood was not shed as copiously ag the wine, ‘THE GAS PUT OUT, Luckily there was one cool-headed man present—an inspector of police. When the inspector saw the apple fired, tho glassware smashing and the excited looks of all present, he quietly turned off the gas, and the throng departed in darkness as best they could, WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF ALL THIS TUMULT AND EX- CITEMENT ? It is said that thero was some difference of opinion among the committee as to the toasts to be proposed at the banquet. It was gonerally consigered to be scarcely fitting an O'Connell celebration to omit all reference to Irish nationality ; but it was also plain that the form in which this reference would be made might give rise to serious differences of Opinion. At the last moment, only a week before tho celebration, some leading mem- bers of the “Homo Rule League,” an association which had steadily kept aloof from the céntenary drganization, came into the Ceremonial Committtee and demanded a sirict roviow of the toaste, Now, it was plain that the 8 words “legislative independence of Ireland’? would mean one thing in the mouths of men who are content with such a meagure of “independence” as, while con- ceding to an Irish Legislature control over the purely domestic affairs of the island, would still preserve to an { “imperial” Senate supreme control over all matters of general interest, military service, navy, customs, for- eign affairs, &c, It would mean a different thing with men who sought to re-establish the form of government which existed previous to the union with England. It is this latter view, however, which can appeal to the au- thority of O'Connell for countenance, and so would best harmonize witha centenary celebration, In any case it was evident that the proposer of the toast and the respondent to it might easily give to it discordant interpretations, Some members of the committee pro- posed to cutthe difficulty by omitting the sentiment altogether; but they were outvoted by a large majonty, who resolved that the toast should be retained, Fram that moment it was apparent that there was no little danger that the good humor and harmony of the mect- ing would probably be disturbed. The Lord Mayor, to do him justice, gave notice that he would speak to the toast in the traditional sense of O’Connell’s policy, of which he had always avowed himself a supporter He was urged to allow Mr. Butt, the home rule leader, to respond, but this he declined to do, alleging that it would be ridiculous for one man to propose and another to second @ toast in totally different senses, and also that he home rule version of the sentiment was one Which was not only opposed to O'Connell's views, but had been expressly repudiated by him so far back as 1844. It is easy to understand the Lord Mayor’s view; but it is equally plain that Butt and his party could not willingly allow that the only view of Irish legisla tive independence to be held up for popular support was one which they had abandoned. The outbreak when the Lord Mayor called upon Duffy to respond to the toast instead of Butt was inevitable. It was not di- rected so much against Dufly as against the Lord Mayor, for putting him in the place which the dissentients considered ought to have been assigned to Butt, At the same time it ought not to be forgotten that Dufly’s old prestige has been much dimmed in popular eyes in Ire- land by his having accepted the honor of knighthood from the Queen, No man loses caste in Ireland so quickly as a converted rebel who becomes a “loyal” man, And yet it is said if they had only allowed him to speak they would have heard no uncertain sound on the national question, and they would have found that “Sir Charles Duffy”? had abandoned none of his old views on Irish politics, 4 BAD MANAGEMENT, Probably, also, the disturbance was not a little in- creased by causes which ordinary care on the part of the managing committee would have obviated, Thus, the printed list of toasts was circulated some time after the dinner had actually begun, instead of being placed on the tables beforehand. Besides, the list contained no indication of who were tobe the speakers of the night, so that many in the room knew not whether Butt was to speak at all. _ At the Lord Mayor’s banquet, the previous evening, the printed list’ gave the names of the speakers; and the omission of similar information from the list at the national banquet was a grave oversight on the part of the committee, the more so because the discussions within their own body had, given them ample notice of the likelihood of disturbance. It is possible that if the meeting was aware Mr. Butt was to speak to the next toast we should not have to record the actual occurrence of disturbance, It is not easy to say, arguing back from what happened; but there cannot be a doubt that many persons honestly believed Butt was not to be allowed to speak, and that the committee had so ar- ranged it, lest he should say things unpalatable to the British government. Many people have viewed this Centenary Committee and its proceedings with great distrust, looking upon it as a revival of one of the worst of the old excrescences on O’Connell’s policy—a sham patriotism—which, under cover of seeking to advance the redress of Irish grievance, was, in reality, tending only to/promote self-interest, The Irish people have been so cursed by the unprincipled proceedings of place hunters that it was not unnatural some of them should suspect tne honesty of some, at seast, of the commit- tee, And so occasion was taken by some to represent the movement as one for the resuscitation of “whig- gery,” or “Gladstonism,” and the supposed omission of Butt from the list of speakers was viewed as tanta- mount, not 80 much to an honest reassertion of O’Con- nell’s old repeal policy as to a denunciation of home rule, which claims to be the legitimate representative of O’Connell’s policy. THE THIRD BANQUET. But let us to the other banquet. Long before the events we have just described occurred in the Exhibi- tion Palace equally disgraceful scenes had taken place at the banquet of the metropolitan and provincial trade bodies in the Rotunda, The greatest irregularity pre- vailed, and the festivity became at last a complete orgie. The toast to The Queen, Lords and Commons” was received with some hissing; the toast “Ireland a Nation’ was received with great applause, and T. D. Sullivan replied, Another toast, proposed by the Chair- man, was “The Restoration of the Irish Parliament as Proposed by O’Connell,”” to which Dr. O'Leary, a mem- ber of Parliament, responded. When the Chairman proposed the toast, “France, the Shield. and the Sword of Civilization, Our Ally and Our Friend,” a scene of great digorder ensued, the guests calling on Mr. O'Connor Power to respond, while the Chair- man refused to break the arrangements which he had already made, O'Connor Power after much difficulty obtained a hearing, and called upon the trades to assemble on the following day to take part in the home rule and amnesty meeting to be held at Glasnevin, Gradually the audience grew careless about hearing any more speeches, and, filled with wine, amused themselves by singing and shouting and quar- relling. To make a long story short, the proceedings terminated in the utmost confusion, and the incompe- tent Chairman, an operative named Keegan, after a struggle with a defiant guest, left the hall with his dress coat torn round the collar and minus a sieeve, This ended the third banquet. ‘THE PROCESSION, ‘The procession of the various trade societies, confra- ternities and civil dignitaries was a very interesting and successful part of tho fete, though even this was marred at times by the conduct of the amnesty men, who were apparently dying for a fight with some one. Some 90,000 persons took part in the procession proper, and 500,000 were on the streets to see it pass, ‘This part of tho festival presented here and there some characteristic features. Especially interesting were the gorgeous banners of the guilds and confraternities, the costumes of the Order of Foresters and the inscriptions borne by the amnesty men, It was remarked that nota single English flag was borne by the processionists, while the French flag was appa- rently quite popular, and the Stars and Stripes were carried by at least a hundred bodies taking part. I was especially interested in the many banner paintings sym- bolical of Ireland's past—Erin, with her harp, weeping; the wold dog, the round tower and the rising sun. Ban- ner paintings, with religious symbols, were there by the score. Among them were carried the banners of the amnesty party, with inscriptions such as “REMEMDER THE POLITICAL PRISONERS,” “God Save Ireland” or the simple word “Amnesty.” The part taken by this party was, to say the truth, dis- graceful, Their chief objects were, first, to get the lead of the procession, and second, to get their men packed, round the temporary platform which had been erected at the head of Sackville street, near Carlisle Bridge, on the site of the proposed monument to O’Connell, and where Lord O'Hagan’s address was to have been deliv- ered, either by himself or by proxy. They bad origi- nally intended to march with mufled drums ang crape banners, but they contented themselves, finally, with a piece of ribbon bearing the motto “Amnesty” tied round the arm and banners bearing the inscriptions rocorded above, They gota good start, however, and roached Kingsbridge before their place in the procession was contested, A Dublin jourbal thus describes the conflict :— ‘The Amnesty procession went slowly along, bet on reaching the point indicated, the head of the other pro- cession came upon them, and then ensued, for fully a quarter of an hour, @ hand-to-hand fight for premier position, ‘The coal cart drivers, who were mounted on their flery steeds, rode to the front at a pace greatly in excess of the highest speed they attained before their predilections to run over people were curbed by the judges. The Amnesty men sent the carmen, who were also mounted, to the rear, and the two squads met, In the encounter the poor horses were sadly treated— indeed, the contestants seemed anxious to spare each other, but they did not on either side spare their ant- «| mals, After repeated charges the coal-carters and quay men got to the front,-then they were passed again by the Amnesty men, but finally they got the position and quarter of a mile behind the foremost ranks on enter- ing Capel street, This advantage was gained by a bold stroke on the part of the coal porters, who, led by Mr. P. J. Smyth, M. P., attacked the amnesty dray bearing the big ban- ner and cutting the traces of the carnage. Some rough work was imminent, but the Amnesty men, anx- jous to maintain their places in the procession, pro cured ropes and a'score of them dragged the vehicle the remainder of the distance, . . THE SCENE IN SACKVILLE STREET during the afternoon was intensely interesting. Every window, every roof, the gallery of Nelson's mpnument, were crowded with spectators and 500,000 people gathered at one time between the bridge and the Row tunda, At two o'clock the head of the procession reached the rendezvous, but not until @ quarter to six did the Lord Mayor's equipage heave in sight. Another characteristic scene occurred here. A Dublin writer! thus describes it:— The first of the processionists to arrive was “O'Con- nell’s Body Guard’? (the coal laborers), carrying theit® banner, with a full-length portrait of O'Connell. They took up a position to the east of the platform, and after” them came the carmen of Dublin, on horseback, fol lowed by the Amnesty procession, which defiled to the west—the latter dragging their vehicle, containing their banner, &c., with ropes. Hitherto all had been quiete ness and order. The few persons who obtatned places on the platform congratulated each other on the good order and discipline of everybody, but the arrival of the cavalcade of “jarveys’’ soon put all, idea of order out of their minds. The carmen, it appears, received direction to defile to the right and left of the structure, but whether the horses objected to the position or the riders’ were unable to distinguish between right and left is aquese tion, as they all insisted on remaining right in front of the platform, blocking the entrance and making @ hideous din. The animals kicked and plunged, whiia their riders cursed and abused each other. Commities men waved their staffs and broke them against the un- yielding flanks of the stubborn horses, until at length» after a quarter of an hour's most persuasive coaxing, the horsemen were induced to take up the place allotted tothem, The utmost confusion, however, prevailed. Fresh bands arrived all playing different tunes, and, of course, all playing out of tune, Committee men gesticu- lated wildly, unable to make themselves heard, while high above all was heard tho ear-splitting blast oi brazen instruments and the reverberating roll of scores of huge drums. ‘The “body guard” were called on ta preserve order, and this they set about with more zeal than discretion, for several hand-to-hand encountera took place between them and refractory bandsmen, which was only quelled by the interposition of soma priests. Meanwhile, notwithstanding the strenuous op position of the priests and those in charge of the plat form, who implored them for God’s sake not to disgrace Treland, a large number of men, wearing Amnesty badges and carrying banners with such mottoes as “Remem~ ber the prisoners in chains,” “Don’t forget the political prisoners,”’ “‘Amnesty,”’ &c., forced their way on the platform. From the top of twoof the banners were suspended iron manacles, which the bearers shook and rattled violently. Cheers were demanded for Rossa an@ Luby, and given. Cries of “Down with whiggery and flunkeyism” were raised, and to wind up the outburst the mob joined in singing, “God save Ireland’? with much energy, several of the bands in the vicinity joine ing in. THE LORD MAYOR was enthusiastically greeted by the throng, and Mgr. Nardi, who sat in the official carriage, was the re« cipient of a tremendous ovation, Cheers for the Popa were given and the people crowded around the carriaga to see the Roman prelate as they had crowded around the carriages containing the Bishop of Nantes and tha Bishop of Basle, Finalty the Lord Mayor arrived at tha platform, and having ascended the table he met a ruda reception. The Amnesty men greeted him with shontq of ‘God save Ireland” and defiant yells of “home rule,’* “the political prisoners,” “Butt,’”? “remember the pris= oners,” &c,, &c. The priests who were on the platforny addressed the turbulent mob and endeavored to quell the disturbance, and for a while with some sutcess, At last the Lord Mayor, during a pause, said:— When you have become a little quiet I shall endeavor to say afew words to you, (‘Hear! hear!) Eleven years ago I was proud of the conduct of the people of this city and this country on account of your order when we were laying the foundation stone of O'Con- nell’s monument. (Cheers,) But if I were proud then T have greater reason to be proud and thankful for the magnificent demonstration of this day. At least half amillion people assembled in Dublin to witness the grand procession we have just brought to a close, Cheers and counter cheers.) I was observing the con-. duct of the people from my carriage on each side of the street as I passed, and I have seen nothing approaching to the smallest disorder or that would require the inter- position of a single policeman. (Cheers, and a voico— “What about the ruffian, Smyth?” Loud groans and tumult.) If you permit me there is a subject on which L have a few words to say before this magnificent assem- blage separates, Your glorious procession of to- day was, as stated, to have been concluded by an address which was to have been delivered by Lord O'Hagan, (Prolonged yells, groans and hisses.) Un- happily Lord O'Hagan is unable to be present, as serious ilness—(“‘No! Bah !"?)—has stricken @ member of his family, and on that account he bas deputed me to read the address.if I choose to do so. (No, no!”? and loud cries of “Butt! Butt!) When the selection was in- trusted to me by an orator who could handle fitly this great theme, I naturally turned to Lord 0’ Hagan—(groang and hisses, and shouts of ‘We will have no 0’Hagan!””)—~ who was the attached friend of O’Connell, and who con- cluded his brilliant career by becoming the first Catholic Lord Chancellor that sat on the woolsack since the days of William I11.—(cheers)—who seemed to have crowned the glorious movement inaugurated by O'Connell. (Cheers). Lord O°Hagan would have charmed us by his oration, and would, if possible, have ratsod more in our estimation the great hero O’Connell, (Loud cheers and cries of “Butt! Butt!” and the tumult became so great that the Lord Mayor was unable to make himself heerd more thana few feet away. He then addressed himself to the reporters, to whom, although they were in his immediate vicinity, he was at times inaudible.) His Lordship, who appeared very much agitated, in continuation said:—I hold in my hands an address which Lord O'Hagan prepared for delivery,, and which will be given to you to-morrow morning, through the columns of the public press, (Cheers and interruption.) (The remainder of His Lordship’s speech— only a few sentences, however—was lost in the uproar which ensued, Loud cries of “Butt! Butt! We willhave nobody else!” ‘The political prisoners!” &e., were raised.] ‘The Lord Moyor was understood to say thathe had an address from Canada (holding up,a roll of paper),. but he did not proceed any further, A passage was formed. with great difficulty for His Lordship, and he drove away" amid loud cheers, Confueion followed for some mo- ments, but order was ultimately restored by the ap- pearance of Mr. Butt at the front of the platform. Him appearance there, was (he signal for adeafening outburst of applause. For some time, however, it was useless for him to attempt to address the crowd, as the op- posing elements—the amuesty processionists and the coal laborers—bad como together, and matters looked) very threatening. Angry words, followed by blows, were exchanged, 1 it required great efforts on the part of the leaders to prevent a regular collision. To add to the confusion that prevailed, one of the carmen’s: horses became restive, and 1% rider, who was either drunk or totally unable to manage it, made it kick and plunge in the midst of the dense crowd. The crusty was tremendo’ «i the excitement became something painful, and it was a relief to every one when the rider was unhorsed aud the animal removed. THE END, ‘Thus closed the procession. The banquets crowned the disgrace, On Saturday, fortunately for Peter Paul McSwiney and the good namo of Dublin, the rain fell in torrents and the mass meeting of home rulers and amnesty men which was to have taken place at Glas+ nevin was postponed, as was the pyrotechnic display which was to Lave taken place in Phoenix Park, RECAGING THE JAIL BIRDS. STEVE BOYLE AND CHARLES WOOD RETURNED TO! SING SING, Special Officer Titns returned from St Louis pi day with two notorious characters, Steve vb and! Charles Wood, who escaped from Sing Sing with three! others on an engine some two months ago, Titus saya the capture of these men by the aed cpa | more a piece of good luck than anything el ad nter ving in the outskirts of tho city found in hist Barns trunk containing a/set of beet | tools, He; reported the case to the police, who o1 him to the implements back where he had found them. He did 80, and when Boyle nd Wood _reemans: St ier velkarmed-oMicors a they found six welbarmeod ween te Oilicer retained it, the head of the Amnesty columa being a acknowledged that they were about to on the Fourth National Bavk of St Louis. Titus (ook his birds uo to Sing Sing last evening, ’