THE TABLET A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r i e f of H is Holiness P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t Ju n e 4 , 18 70 .
V o l . 61. No. 2236. L ondon, F e b r u a r y 17, 1883. P r ic e sd:, by P ost, 5% d .
[R e g is t e r ed a t th e G en e r a l P ost Offic e as a N ew spaper.
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•Chronicle _ of t h e W e e k :—
The Dublin Assassins—The Carman as Approver—Corroborative Evidence—The Attack on Mr. Field—Further Arrests—Mr. Trevelyan on Ireland—Another Legal Fiasco—The Senate and the Proscription—Close of the Debate— Release of Prince Napoleon—Fall of Another Ministry — Further Action of the Committee of the Chamber — Reformed London— •Statesmanship at Cannes—Pacifying Egypt—Trial of Professor Palmer s Murderers—The Boers and the Natives—Death of Sir Salar Jung—The Tournai Scandal —Mr. Benjamin’s Retirement . . 240 •Pe t e r P en c e ..........................................24 1 L e a d e r s :
Russia on the Danube . . . . 237
CONTENTS.
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L ead ers (continued) :
The Decay of Anglican Protes
tantism .. . . . . . . 241 Compulsory Education in Ireland 2^.2 Convocation in the Royal Univer
sity ...................................................243 The Regulus of the Third Repub
lic .. . . . . . . . . 244 The Transit ofVenus and Madagas
car . . . . . . . . . 245 N o t e s .......................................................246 R eview s :
Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn
Stanley . . . . . . . . 249 The Month . . . . . . . . 249 S hort N otices :
Tales from Twelve Tongues . . 250 Compendium of Irish Grammar . . 250 The Gamekeeper’s Little Son . . 251
S hort N otices (Continued) :—
The Immaculate Conception . . 251 Magazines for February . . . . 251 C orrespondence :— Rome r —(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 253 Paris :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . .. 255 Dublin . . . . . . . . . . 256 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :—
The Glastonbury Thorn . . .. 257 The Organisations of Irish Prosely-
tism—The Reformed Romanist Priests’ Protection Society . . 257 Catholic Army Chaplains—A His
torical Statement of their Case 258 Education of Soldiers’ Children in the British Army.. . . . . 259 Irish Distress .. . . . . 259 A Suggestion to the “ Tablet ” . . 260
Pace
M oney and T r a d e ............................ 261 Obituary ......................................... 262 I m peria l P a r l iam en t . . 262 Social and P o l it ic al . . . . 263
SUPPLEM ENT. Decisions of Roman Congregations 269 N ews from th e S chools.. . . 269 E ngland :—
Pastoral Letters for Lent.. . . 270 Westminster . . . . 272 Southwark . . . . . . . . 273 Clifton . . . . .. .. 273 Hexham and Newcastle .• . . 274 Salford . . . . . . . . 274 Liverpool . . . . . . . . 274 Nottingham.. .. . . . . 274 S cotland :—
Glasgow . . .. . . . . 274
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
TH E inquiry concerning the Dublin murders and the conspiracy which assassins. organised them is becoming more thrilling in its interest with every ap
pearance o f the prisoners in Court. I t was known that on Saturday fresh evidence o f great importance would be tendered, and there was a great press for admission. T ickets, however, had been carefully distributed and only orderly persons were admitted. The openin g o f the proceedings was delayed till half-past twelve, as the Crown Prosecutor, M r. Murphy, Q.C., had to reply in another Court in the case o f the Crown v . Mr. O ’Brien and U n ite d I r e la n d , but at the hour named eleven prisoners were placed in the dock. These were Jam es Carey, the Town Councillor, Joseph Brady, Timothy Kelly, Daniel Delaney, Edward O’Brien, Jam es and Joseph Mullett, Laurence Hanlon, John Moroney, M ichael Fagan, and the cab driver Fitzharris, known as “ Skin the Goat,” or “ Skin.” Patrick Delaney, condemned to ten years’ penal servitude for the attempt on Mr. Justice Lawson, was brought in in custody, and with Thomas Doyle placed below the dock in front. The prisoners greeted each other and looked uneasily for some o f their companions, and when Michael, otherwise Myles, Kavanagh, the carman, was led in and mounted •the steps to the witness-chair, the effect was electrical, consternation and rage being depicted in their countenances. Mr. Murphy, without preface, elicited the narrative which we are about to condense. Brady, when his name was men
tioned, looked like an animal at bay, and, hissing out a curse, buried his face in his arms, the only other in terruptions coming from Fitzharris and Doyle.
The carman’s evidence— we follow the order the carman 0f events— was that before May he was brought approver into a secret society by Doyle, that Tim K e lly swore him in, and that the next evening Doyle told him that he would have to drive the men to boats or anywhere they would have to go to. That he was employed several times by them, and that on the day before the 6th of M ay he was at Wrenn’s public-house in Dame-street. H e was there also on the 6th, and afterwards drove to the R oyal Oak in Parkgate-street. H e left that place with Brady, T im K e lly , and two others whose names he did not know on the car. One o f these he identified as Patrick Delaney. T h ey entered the park, drove along the road which skirts it on the north, turned down round the V iceregal grounds to the Phcenix monument, and drove back along the main road towards Dublin. One o f the men observed that they had seen nothing o f “ Skin ” yet. The car stopped a little way before it reached Lord Gough’s monument. After a while Fitzharris appeared, driving a cab from Dublin. The four men about that time got off the car. The cab passed the car, and pulled up some way beyond with the horse’s head towards Dublin. Kavanagh then saw Patrick Delaney, who had been on the car, sitting on a seat by the side o f the pathway, and on the seat on the opposite side o f the road, facing him, Jam es Carey. About this time he turned his car so that the horse faced away from Dublin, instead o f towards it, and drew up close to the bank. H is mare was feeding. The other men walked on towards the Phoenix, Brady telling Kavanagh to wait till he was wanted. Kavanagh then went over to Delaney and asked him what the business was, and was told that “ it was the Secretary,” or they were “ watching the Secretary.” A gentleman then passed and spoke to Carey, and Delaney came across the road and told Kavanagh to look sharp. H e took o ff the nosebag, took up Carey and Delaney on the car, and drove on towards where the other men were standing in a group by the side o f the road. On his way he met a carman he knew named Noud, driving a gentleman named Nolan, o f Chapel-street, and exchanged greetings with the driver. H e also saw two or three bicycles. Soon he perceived two gentlemen walking arm in arm along the left pathway from the direction o f Dublin, one greyish and much taller (M r. Burke), the other shorter (Lord Frederick Cavendish). The taller was on the inside, next the grass. As the car passed them one o f the two men on it, Carey or Delaney, raised a white handkerchief. When the car reached the men who were waiting, Carey and Delaney got down, and Kavanagh heard some one say, “ Mind, it is the tall man.” He was told to drive on a little further, and did so. H e then heard one o f the gentlemen exclaim, “ Oh ! ” and looking round saw the grey gentleman lying on the ground— [ ‘ ‘ the roadway,” he said, but Mr. Burke’s body was undoubtedly found on the pathway.] The other gentleman was standing in the roadway with an umbrella in his hand. He did not see him fall. Then the four persons he had driven into the park got on the car, and he drove as fast as he could down the Fifteen Acres, out o f the gate, turned to the right, then to the left by the bridge over the Liffey, round towards Inchicore, Pat Delaney directing him, to Roundtown and to the place where the Palmerstown Park trams stop. There T im K e lly got down, and the car drove on to Leeson Park, where, at the first pub'ic house past Leeson Bridge, they all got down and had a drink. Brady
N ew S e r i e s . V o l . XXIX. No. 743.
