SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 33, 24 December 1880, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

r ' ■» _, — , • Subscriptions have been started to help the indicted agitators iv their trials. An outlino of their defeneo has been published, the main point of which is to be justification for oil speeches made. The Orange Lodge of Ireland has adopted a resolution to combat the agitation with all its power. At A^hlone, on Nov. 8, Parnell made a speech at a large meeting, condeiuuiug the Government iv unmeasured terms for sending the military and constabulary to a district where the people were starving. The ; whole assembly, some 20,000, seemed to be moved by a feeling of defiauco towards the authovities At Dublin, on November 12, tyirnell and r >■ his fellow prisoners were given full partioulars of the charges against them in the Court of Uueeu'a Bonoh, but no information of what evidence would be vouchsafed. O'Connor Power, MP., speaking at a public meeting in G-ulwav, said that when the objects of the laud league bhnll havtt been attained, Irish peopto will have a more noble course in view, natively, to wrench themselves from the ruleof Jj^ngland. Jolin Uiight, in a speech at Birmingham, on Nov. 15, strongly condemned the had •-, laws of Irelnndi which, l&'ifttdi Tirtailly' - "' * gave the londlords a monopoly of the lahfl/ • ' The World's specjuU sayj jt^t MotvtieH W of the Land League, apprehending seisuie: of their, persons and property byjbe falpy* eanmept, have investi-d the WotmroT ttaV iCI funda in foreign sccuritieß, and lodged them

id the continental bank. All their books and papers which might have been of imtnenje service tn-the Ooverr.ment in scouring their conviction, have beon icmovcrl to a place of safety, but whether tins plnco is in the British realms or on the Continent is amatter of conjecture. Account* received from various pavts. by agents for property* vepresent the state of the country as still more disturbed and demoralised Combination ft^ninst payment of tents 13 extending into districts hitherto . Btaceable, and the tworiam which foil nved in the wake of the Land League is *raadily broahing down the opposition of the law abiding classes. Tenants do not now pretend tq be unable to pay their rents to landlords, but defiantly refuse to pay more than two-fifths valuation, and in Rome cases decline to pay at all, or else demand arbitrary abatements. FRANCE. The ejectment of the Jesuits continues. The priests f6r the most part quietly submit. Many of the expelled Monks went to Spain, where they were hospitably received, especially at Madrid where the Nobles offered them their houses. Some of the Councils of different towns gave them old contents ■to lire in, and the King Had the Ministry authorised the Jesuits, and others to establiih themselves anywhere in the King* dom» . • - ■; PORTUGAL. The Jesuits bave attempted to re-enter Portugal, the Government has instituted various <ff jrts to striotly enforce the decrees of 1837, abolishing all religious orders.