ANGLO CELT - April 28, 1853 - part 2 ------------------------------------------------------ GOLD IN NEW ZEALAND. -- The following is ...tract from a private letter: -- "I have just returned from the gold-field, having been there eight........ I was with a large party -- His Excellency Lieut.... Colonel Wynward, A.D.C., &c. The...... and Chief Justice also attended. There was a ....... meeting, including the chiefs, with their tri...... that part of the country where the gold was ... The meeting was rather tiresome, for the Maori are fond of making long speeches. However,,,,,,,,,, amicably settled, excepting with one chief -- a ...... troublesome subject. I send you the Gove ....... Gazette, to show the terms, regulations, and ........ ments with the gold-seekers. The country is beautiful ; the gold-field is in the Cowrie Forest ... plenty of wood and water ; one place is called ... Wynyard, the other the Grey Diggings. I ..... for, and got, a few specks of gold ; it is hard ...... the earth, you are obliged to stoop so much. .......... evening after our! departure, intelligence was brought to us by the Surveyor-General that a new place ....... just been discovered, where 40£. a day could be ........ by a party of seven who were working together...... ......... of the Auckland people offered 1,000£. for disco......... gold in that province, but many thought it would........... be found ; some who inscribed their names toward a reward now repent having done so ; a few ........ pay, to their shame, be it said. On our return to Auckland the vessel got on a shoal at high........ (transcriber's note: this article is cut off at this point.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPINIONS OF THE LONDON PRESS (transcriber's note: those many words are missing from these excerpts, they should still be enjoyable to read, I hope) The following extracts are taken from the London papers of Tuesday: -- (From the Times.) So the budget is to pass, it is said, by a large majority. The financial reformers think it so good they do not like to pick any holes in it; and the ....... members, notwithstanding the enormous bragging of the so-called Irish party, mean to support it in proportion of four or five to one. They really ....... modest enough to appreciate the remission of 4,000£. ..... or at least to think it worth their acceptance. If a body had a right to complain, it would be the high class of taxpayers in this country, but nobody expects them to complain unless they are under party en........ to do so. (From the Daily News.) This battle of the session begins to-night, and ..... probably last some days. To what extent a ............coalition may have been formed between the ........ Catholic party and the Derbyites, we do not undertake to say. But we record the numerical strength ..... rather weakness of the former, and can therefore neither by its own gasconade, nor by the affect...... of fear, somewhat clumsily assumed respecting...... certain quarters. The entire contingent that acknowledge the leadership of Mr. Lucas hardly ex..... score, and there are about as many who have given their adhesion from the outset to the coalition min....... The votes of some half dozen Irish Whigs ........... doubtful, but most of them will either stay ........ altogether or support the government. Adm....... however, that from sixty to seventy Irish memb........... all creeds and opinions concur in declaring that ........ do not wish to pay the same tax upon income......... for ten years has been exclusiv! ely borne by the ..........of England, how much nearer will that bring Forbes Mackenzie to his former post of Secretary of the Treasury? (From the Morning Chronicle.) There is no doubt that, however threatening opposition may appear, the budget, as a whole.......be adopted by the House of Commons. It ........ hoped that the majority will steadily resist the....... efforts of particular sections of members to ........ special remissions and exemptions. A surplus of a million is sufficient under the circumstances, .........will not bear to be tampered with. (From the Morning Herald.) The Irish people may, perhaps, be entitled to more pity, and be somewhat more capable of in.......tion. We doubt not that many of those who taught at the hustings to shout "Down with Mummery Russell," will be a little perplexed they discover that the patriots for whom they........had scarcely reached St. Stephen's when they ....... caught in the very centre of a nice little nego........ to restore the said Lord Mummery to power. Even grave John Bull, we suspect, may rub ...... with amazement when Lord John Russell is de...... in the very fact of sending billets doux to the ......band. it will not be forgotten that it was fr..... Russell section of the Cabinet that this negotiation ...ceeded. We have been already assured by a ........... the Treasury that between the Irish Brigade and ....... miserable faction who abuse the name of Pe...... closest and most cordial union existed. We........... we would have been slow to believe that the writer of the Durham letter would have been the author ..... embassy to catch the political alliance of the no......... of Cardinal Wiseman and the Pope. (From the Morning Advertiser.) We understand that ministers make sure of ...... able to carry their Budget, notwithstanding the..... pact entered into, as described in our paper .....turday, between the Conservatives and the........ Brigade. They calculate on a certain majority ..... and think it likely it may be nearer 40. It a............. that several of the more moderate Conservatives are so indignant at the monstrosity of the alliance, ........ had formed between the party and the B............. that they have determined not to vote at all. ............the ministerial assurance of a victory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DILLONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-CELT. As Mr. Wallace, proprietor of the Anglo-Celt, derives his maternal descent from the Dillons, Earls of Roscommon, and is a claimant for that peerage, he is respectfully requested to publish the following account of the origin of that noble name which has been collected from various sources: -- Their history is given in Lodge's Historical Peerage, the particulars being taken from records in the Tower of London, and ancient MSS. in the Cottonian and Lambeth Libraries, and a similar account of the Dillons is also given in Mac Geoghegan's History of Ireland. In the latter end of the 6th century, (A.D. 590 - to 600) Aodh Slaine, or Hugh Slaney, and Colman Rimidh, who were of the royal line of King Nial of the Hostages, became joint monarchs of Ireland. It happened that Lochan, a son of Hugh Slaney, slew King Coleman, for which he had to fly from Ireland, and having arrived in France at a time when the King of that country was at war with the Duke of Aquitaine, Lochan entered the! Duke's service, and by his valour greatly contributed to support him in his sovereignty, for which signal service the Duke gave him his daughter in marriage, and after he father's death he succeeded as Duke of Aquitaine. When in Ireland, Lochan had got the surname of Diolmhain, which signifies a soldier, or valiant man, and the name was variously written, Diluain, Diloane, Delion, and lastly Dillon. This valiant Hibernian chief of royal race founded a dynasty of Dukes of Aquitaine, and the house of Lochan-Diluain held the sovereignty of that province for more than five hundred years. There is a remarkable similarity between the fortunes of Loohan Diluain, and the Italian warrior, Jacopo Attendolo, who from his strength and valour got the name of Sforza, and became the founder of the famous family of Sforza, Dukes of Milan. The descendants of Lochan Diluain ruled as Dukes of Aquitaine till the 12th century, when they were dispossessed by William, a prince of the house of! Burgundy, who became Duke of Aquitaine. Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy, afterwards Henry II, King of England, having espoused Eleanor, Duchess of Guienne, daughter of William, Duke of Aquitaine, thought it prudent to remove two male children of the race of Lochan Diluain, lest they should become pretenders to the Dukedom, and with this view had them conveyed to England, where they received a suitable education. Their names were Thomas and Henry. The latter was knighted, and as Sir Henry Dilonne, or Delion, was sent to Ireland in 1185, as First Gentleman and Secretary to Prince John, Earl of Mortague, afterwards King John. Sir Henry got from his royal master extensive grants of lands in Westmeath and Annaly, or Longford, and became the founder of the noble family of Dillon. The territory they possessed was called Lord Dillon's country, and in aftertimes, they were created Barons of Killkenny West in Westmeath, Earls of Roscommon, and Viscounts of Costello-Gallen, i! n Mayo, and got Baronetcies in Meath and other counties. As the Dillons came from France in the time of the Norman kings, some writers have considered them a Norman family, but according to the above historical pedigree they are of Milesian descent, and of the same race as the royal house of O'Neill. The name of Dillon became very numerous, and of great note in the counties of Meath, Westmeath, Longford, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway, Dublin, and Kildare. Many of the Dillons became celebrated military commanders in the service of foreign states -- France, Spain, and Austria' and no name was more distinguished in the Irish Brigades. To recount the exploits of the Dillons, De Lacys, Brownes, Sarsfields, O'Brien's, O'Donnells, O'Reillys, O'Bradys, and other illustrious Irish warriors, in the service of the continental states, would require volumes. The Dillons formed marriage alliances with many of the noblest of the Norman families in Ireland, as the Fitzgeralds, Earls of Kilda! re, and Desmond ; the Butlers, Earls of Ormond ; the Le Poers, Earls of Tyrone, and Barons of Decies ; the Burkes, Earls of Clanncarde(?); the Nugents, Earls of Westmeath ; the Birminghams, Barons of Athenry ; the Barnwalls, Barons of Trimblestown ; the Plunkets, Earls of Fingall; and Barons of Dunsany ; the Flemings, Barons of Slane ; the Sarsfields, Earls of Lucan ; the Talbots, Belcurs, Cusacks, Daltons, Darcys, Delameres, and many others of great note ; and also with the princely families of the old Irish, as the O'Mores, Lords of Leix; the Mac Geoghegans, Lords in Westmeath; the O'Ferrals, Lords of Annaly, or Longford ; the O'Reilly's, Lords of Brefney, or Cavan ; the MacDermotts Roe, or Roscommon, and many others. The Dillons built many castles, and magnificent mansions, as at Drumrany in Westmeath, at Proudatown, Riverstown, Kentstown, and Moymet in Meath, and had extensive estates about Lismullen, Skreen, Tara, and Trim in Meath, and at Belgard, Co. Dublin. They fo! unded, and endowed several Abbeys, as those of Killkenny West, and Ardnecrana, in Westmeath, and a Franciscan Friary, in Athlone ; ad erected churches in Skreen, Tara, and some other places. Several of the Dillons were Abbots and Catholic bishops in various sees, and from the many religious foundations of their ancestors, the Earls of Roscommon, appropriately took their mot... -- Auxilium eb Alto. Many of the Dillons were eminent lawyers, and learned men ; but the most celebrated literary character of the name was Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, a distinguished poet, author of an "Essay on translated verse;" a translation of :Horace's Art of Poetry,: and other works, particularly a translation --- the best ever given -- of that sublime funeral hymn of the Catholic Church, the "Dies Irae," of which one verse may be given as a specimen. Dies Irae, dies illa, Solvit saeclum in favilla, Teste David cuin Sibylla. The day of wrath - that dreadful day - Shall the whole world in ashes lay, As David and the Sibyls say. Lord Roscommon died in London, in 1684, in the 31st(?) year of his age, and was buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey ; but whilst wandering through that venerable pile, I sought in vain for some monument to the memory of that illustrious Irishman. P. MAC DERMOTT, M.D. Dublin, April 25th, 1853. ==================================================== County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project