MORE FENIAN "BOUNCE." APPEARANCE OF A FOURTH COMET.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 57, 6 September 1881, Page 2

MORE FENIAN "BOUNCE." APPEARANCE OF A FOURTH COMET.

THE SATURDAY REVIEW ON VICTORIAN POLITICS. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE IN IRELAND [SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AROUS.J London, 14th August. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on Sir Gavan Duffy's address in an article headed " Timely Words," expresses the opinion that he has spoken well and opportunely, and eulogises his remarks as admirable, concluding by advising every householder throughout the Kingdom to read his eloquent appeal. O'Donovan Rossa, the editor of the United Fenian Journal, published a t New York, has published a proclamation which intimates that an organisation exists to destroy hundreds of English bhips by means of dynamite. The Cobden Club has expunged from tho list of members the name of Joseph Redpath, the special correspondent in Ireland for several New York papers, who has recently made himself notorious by his inflammatory harangues on the Irish land difficulty. A comet, distinct from tho ono which was recently seen in Fngland and the United States, is now visible both from London and Alexandria. A false prophet is exciting the natives of Soudan by his preaching, and 150 Egyptians residing in that country have, in consequence, been massacred. The Government, giving way to pressure brought on them, have agreed to grant .£IOOO to Edmund Galley as compensation for his wrong detention in a penal settlement at Western Australia for a crime of which he was innocent. 28th August. The Saturday Review deals fully with the political situation in Victoria. It takes notice of tho teaching of Professor Pea -son, which it describes as calculated to excite tho selfish passions of the working classes. Few demagogues, it declares, have succeeded in producing more discord in a community than haß Mr. Berry in Victoria. His demand that the second Chamber should be composed of men nominated for five years by the Government of the day was audacious, as such a House would have represented merely himself. The fall of the Berry Government must be an immense advantage to the colony. It expresses the hope that the new Ministry would be, at any rate, le-s mischievous than their predecessors, and trusts also that the example of New Soutli Wales, which flourishes under a free trade tariff, will promote sounder economy. 30th August. The Conference of members of the National Land League of Great Britain has been sitting at Newcastle. Addresses in favour of land reform in England were delivered by Joseph Cowen, Radical member for Newcastle, and Justin M'Carthy, the Home Rule member for Longford. A disgraceful outrage has been perpetrated at Rathcoole, a village about nine miles from Dublin, where a number of tenants, who had assembled to celebrate the wedding of their landlord, were fired at by a band of miscreants while the rejoicings were proceeding. Many were wounded.