[140] There were certain other issues, chiefly as to alleged profligacy of financial expenditure, and as to audit and publication of accounts, etc., which need not be considered here.
[141] Their meetings in Dublin were constantly “mobbed” for some time.
[142] Not many months later the climax was capped by the triumphant return of Mr. Martin for Meath, probably the most Catholic constituency in Ireland; the candidate whom he defeated (in a stiff but thoroughly good-humored contest) being the son of Lord Fingal, one of the best and most popular of the Irish Catholic nobility.
[143] As this assembly has become in a degree historical, it may be interesting to give the following list (never before published) of those who attended it, and others added by vote thereat to make up a Committee on Resolutions. In nearly every case an indication of the political and religious opinions of the parties is now added. The list includes some of the largest merchants in Dublin:
The Rt. Hon. Edward Purdon, Lord Mayor, Mansion House, Protestant Conservative.
Sir John Barrington, ex-Lord Mayor, D.L., Great Britain Street, Prot. Cons.
E. H. Kinahan, J.P., ex-High Sheriff, Merrion Square, Tory.
James V. Mackey, J.P., Beresford Place, Orangeman.
James W. Mackey, ex-Lord Mayor, J.P., 40 Westmoreland Street, Catholic Liberal.
Sir William Wilde, Merrion Square, F.R.C.S.I., Prot. Cons.