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AN GAODHAL.
MONSIGNOR CAPEL.
Monsignor Capel was born in England, Oct. 28,
1836, of humble Irish parentage: Showing con-
siderable ability, he was placed in the Hammer-
smith Training College by Count de Torre Diaz,
where he remained, for a time, aa teacher after his
training was over. He was ordained a priest by
Cardinal Wiseman in 1860. During several visits
to Rome he delivered courses of English sermons
in that city by the express command of the Sover-
eign Pontiff: While he was laboring at Pau he was
named private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX. in
1868, and in 1873 he was made domestic prelate.
In 1874, by unanimous vote Roman Catholic
Bishops, he was appointed Rector of the College
of Higher Studies at Kensington.
It is said that the right reverend gentleman in-
tended to avoid publishing until he was forty years
of age, but the attack made on the civil allegiance
of the Catholics led him, as a born Catholic to write
“A Reply to the Hon. W. F. Gladstone’s Political
Expostulation."
Protestants as well as Catholics throng the church
where he discourses. He is a man of decided pow-
er, fully six feet tall, and built in proportion. He
has a rich, musical voice, which, united with his
earnestness of manner and the cogency of his ar-
guments, makes his accomplishments in the work
of conversion almost phenomenal.
His bearing is that of a man of the world rather
than a member of a priestly order, his language is
polished, his manners courtly and winning.
The publication of a journal in the Irish Lan¬
guage has created a sentiment in the Irish mind
to which it has been a stranger for the last seven
centuries. Irishmen are no longer ashamed to pro-
claim their nativity, and they welcome the revival
of their language with sentiments similar to those
which greeted the recovery of the prodigal child
There is one thing more to be desired — it is that
those who speak the language should learn to read
and write it. These people would then take a
greater pride in it, because they would have a lear-
and cultivated knowledge of it, and in at least
twelve months they could do so. We were agree-
ably surprised the other evening when the Hon.
D. Burns informed us that there are locations in
the US where very little but Irish and Welsh Gael¬
ic are spoken today,. — namely. Seneca Co. and E.
Florence in Oneida Co. in this state. We are well
aware that in various parts of Pa. Mass. and Conn.
Irish-speaking persons prevail. We met a party
who was born in Mo. who can can speak as good
Irish as we do. It requires but a little exertion
on the part of the Irish-speaking portion of our
countrymen to scatter the written language broad-
cast among the people and by so doing they will
elevate their own social position fifty degrees high-
er than if each one possessed Vanderbilt's wealth.
CHRONOLOGY
1227.
The Tartars under Zngis conquer Asia.
1302.
Mariner's compass invented by John Goola
a Neapolitan.
1330.
Gunpowder invented by a monk of Cologne.
1440.
The art of printing invented ; W. Caxton
first English printer.
1453.
Constantinople taken by Turks:
1492.
Columbus discovers America. Algebra
first known in Europe.
1517.
Martin Luther's Reformation in Germany.
1539.
1st Eng. translation of the Bible.
1566.
Potatoes brought to Ireland.
1591.
Institution of Trinity College.
1597.
Watches first brought to England.
1608.
City and Co. of Derry incorporated by Jas.
1611.
Present translation of bible finished.
1620.
New England settled by Puritans.
1631.
Newspapers first published.
1640.
Massacre in Ireland.
1642.
Civil war in England.
1649.
Chas. I, deheaded.
1654.
Cromwell assumes the Protectorship
1660.
Chas. 11. restored.
1665.
Plague rages in London and carries off 68,
500 persons.
1666.
Great fire in London, destroying 13,000
houses and 500 streets.
Tin used in England.
1680.
Penn settled Pennsylvania:
1688.
Great revolution in England, and abdica-
tion of King James.
1690.
Battle of the Boyne.
1691.
War in Ireland ended by the surrender of
Limerick.
1693.
Bank England established.
1701.
Battle Blenheim.
1706.
Complete union England and Scotland.
(To be continued.)
HOME RULE NEAR AT LAST.
Sir Charles Dilke's great speeches delivered
during last week, in Glasgow on Tuesday, in Pais-
ley on Wednesday, and another at the inaugural
meeting of the Greenock Liberal Association, ap-
pear to us like the first notes of the chorus that
will be raised by the Radicals and advanced Liber¬
als in the Parliament of the coming year in favor
of home legislation. He plainly shows that the
mind of British legislators has advanced in its
views regarding the rightfulness and the necessity
that exists that Ireland like other nations should
have her own legislature. He does not go in for
county government: Such a project would be in
adequate as a means ; it would never meet or sat-
isfy the wishes of the Irish nation. The tactics
and policy of the Irish National Party have been
therefore successful. In union with advanced
Liberals and with plucky perseverance there is no
doubt that ere two years will have been passed
Home Rule must be gained for our poor country.
