IRISH AFFAIRS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1571, 8 July 1885, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

; • ' . Bir Charles Dilke, while in Dublin on a visit to Earl Spencer, refused to attend an official breakfast given by the Lord Mayor (Mr O'Connor) oij account of that official's insults to the Prince of Wales in inciting riots at Marlow and Cork during the royal visit. The purpose of Sir Charles Dilke's visit to Dublin was to consult with Earl Spencer regarding the Irish Crimes Act. The Pope had two hours' conference with the Irish bishops at the Vatican on May 25, during which he lectured them strongly with regard to their animosity to England. Archbishop Oroke returned to Dublin from Rome on June 3. He deprecated any political manifestations and addresses, having declared that he had vindicated the cause of the Irish people at Rome, and stood firm to the faith and fatherland. The Archbishop, in reply to an address, advised sinners not to put themselves in the power of so-called, but really shsra, friends of law and order. Such addresses, he said, where useful as showing the unity of priest and people. He Was anxious to see the sold land restored to its pristine grandeur, Orangeism broken down, and all classes working loyally together. The fund noW being raised in Ireland for the benefit of James Stephen, ex-Fenian head centre, recently expelled from France, amounts to _7, 000. When the Bill is introduced in Parliament to provide a royal residence in Ireland for Prince Victor of Wales, it will be opposed by the Parnellites, on the ground that Ireland, has more than enough of viceregal pageantry now in Earl Spencer's Court at Dublin Castle.