The Troubles in Ireland.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1200, 18 December 1880, Page 2

The Troubles in Ireland.

Eight thousand rifles have been received in Ireland, from Italy, Attempts have been made by Land Leaguers to tamper with troopß in Ireland, with more or leas success, but the constabulary remain loyal. A keeper of a farm, near Limerick, from which people have been evicted,-! waa shot dead on the night of November ■ 18. The indicted Land Leaguers will enter, pleas traversing their indictment as soon as possible, ' •}.:.•• :,,", Mr. Gladstone, on Npvember 20fch, authorises a denial of the. repprt of dissensions in the Cabinet on the Irish, question. Reports from Ireland up to the morning of November 21st, represent the country aa still more demora'iaQl Combination against the payment of

rents is extending into districts hitherto peaceable, and the terrorism which follows land-lengtieism is breaking down the opposition, of law-abiding people, October 24. Parnell addressed a Land League meeting at Galway, and in the presence of 40,000 people said the Government was responsible for the assassinations that had been committed, and maintained that, the only remedy was the. autonomy of Ireland. The same day the law officers bf the Crown held a meeting at Dublin, where it was resolved tn remove the fcr.'als of agitators to London ; and it was further resolved that Charles S. Parnell, John Dillon, Joseph T. Bigger, Thomas Sixton, T. D. Sullivan, James O'Kelly, W. H. Sullivan, Arthur O'Connor, and T. P. O'Connor, all members of Parliament, should be prosecuted. Besides these, the officers of the Land League and James Redpath, of the New Yoric Herald, were also included in the list of names against whom the Government would proceed. The next day (October 25) Parnell, at a banquet in Galway, said he was convinced that Ireland could obtain trained and organized assistance from America if there was a fair chance of success in breaking the British yoke. The London Times commenting upon FarneU's speech at Galway, said : "It is impossible to mistake the meaning of such an argument, or the purpose of the man who uses it. The condition of Ireland, and the temper of the men who are criminally misleading the people, calls for immediate attention. . " J On October 27th, at a meeting of the Land League in Dublin, a resolution was adopted calling on Irishmen throughout the world to form resolute organizations, and requesting Michael Davitt to remain in America to direct the movement there. A military system of signals by flashes is carried on at night by the League, particularly in the neighbourhood of Templemore and Thurie3. An additional regiment of infantry has been ordered to get ready for instant departure from England for Dublin. The magistrates of Ulster forbade a meeting of the League at Dungannon on Nov. Ist, because they feared party disturbances on account of it being near the anniversary of the landing of William HI. and the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. Parnell spoke at Limerick on October 31. He was escorted into town by an immense procession, including the Corporation officials. In his address he said Parliament would not reduce rents ; but he said France and other countries had got rid of great land proprietors, "and why not Ireland?" ' McValley, an agitator indicted for conspiracy, in a speech at Tuam on November Ist, recommeuded the use of dynamite and gun cotten against landlords. Parnell, Brennan, and O'Sullivan were served with copies of indictments against them on November 2nd in Dublin. On November 3rd Charles S. Dudgeon, of Longford, County Magistrate, was fired at near the place. Subscriptions were started to help indicted agitators in their trials. An oubline of their defence was published, the main point of which was to be justification for all speeches made. On November 7th an announcement that the Channel Fleet was ordered to the Irish coast caused, much excitement in Ireland. A Leaguer's meeting at Shanagry was dispersed by a powerful body of farmers and labourers, led by a man named Walsh, a-former member of the League, after a desperate fight. The Grand .Orange Lodge of Ireland adopted a resolution to combat the agitation with all its powers. The Orangemen's March. Mr. Boycott, agent of the Earl of Erne^at Lough Mask, near Ballinrobe, County Mayo, was banned by the League for fidelity to his employer, who had? caused several evictions. No labourers were allowed to help him gather hia harvest, and he had to move about his own place armed. To help him out of his difficulty many Orangemen volunteered to assist him, which aid was accepted, and the Government promised to protect the volunteers, the latter to go unarmed. However, the terms were accepted, and a large number of Orangemen started from the north on November 10, under escort of 300 soldiers and 150. constabulary for Ballinrobe, whereabout 750 more soldiers were concentrated. Along the route the Orangemen were hooted at, but no personal assault was attempted. Several thousand armed Leaguers concentrated at Clare Morris, but the presence of some 2000 military and; constabulary overawed the crowd, and no breach of peace occurred. The Orangemen arrived at Ballinrobe at 10.30 p.m., November 11th, and after a night's: rest, ; marched to Boycott's Place, in heavy rain. They were under escort and not molested. They at once began gathering, Boycott's cropsj a work that will require eight or ten days to finish. After harvest, Boycott, fearing for his life, will throw up his lease and leave the country, At Athlone, on November Bth, Parnell made a speeoh to a League meeting condemning the Government in unmeasured terms for sending military and constables to districts where people were starving. The whole assemblage, some 20,000, seemed to be moved by a feeling of 3©fi»Tio« *<» *« authorities, : Mr. Forater, Chief Secretary for Ireland, arrived at Dublin on the 10th. Before leaving London he attended a Cabinet Council, at which it was decided to reinforce the troops already in Ireland. Mr. "JVJrster's policy favours an immraediate and overwhelming display of power to silenoe the Land League agitation in its violent form. At Dublin on November 11th Parnell, and his fellow prisoners were given full particulars of the charges against them, in the Oonrt of the Queen's Bench, but no information of what the evidence -was vouchsafed them. Near Aol», County Limerick, a land agent, named Wheeler, was shot dead by unknown parties. The Channel Fleet arrived at Qqeena-. town on November 12.th, The steward of Colonel Cooper, of Dublin, ;was shot and . wounded , at, Dunboden by an unknown boy. The Pope of Rome openly disapproves the Agrarian movement in Ireland, and and desires to help the British GdYernment, if possible. ' i

The announcement that the Earl of Bessborough had joined the Land League is regarded as an important event in London. He holds 36,000 acres of land in the counties of Carlow, Waterford, and Tipperary, and is brother-in law to the Duke of Portland. A large number of rifles have been received in the county of Galway from America, and on- the 17th the troops were sent theret o maintain order. John Bright, in a speech at Binning ham on November 15th, strongly condemned the land laws of Ireland .which, lie said, .virtually gave landlord a monopoly of the land.