SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2034, 14 November 1883, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

IRISH AFFAIRS. A ballad singer named Hyneg was arrested in Limerick on October 4th, and imprisoned for one month for singing praises of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, and calling on all Irishmen to act towards informers in the same way. Joseph Smith, one of the Phoenix Park informers, who was not permitted to land at Melbourne, arrived at Marseilles on October 3rd. He was recognised, and immediately left the steamer. It ia believed he has takeu passage for China. Five thousand persons assembled at a National League meeting at Tipperary on September 30th. About a dozen priests were in attendance. Messrs. Kenny, Mayne, <-nd Laery, members of Parliament, made speeches. Mr. Crotty, a landlord, was shot dead on September 28 at his residence in Lennury Park. He had been wounded several times previously. In the approaching trial of a suit for libel, brought by Police Inspector French, of Dublin against the United Ireland, for the statement that he had absconded with money belonging to the secret service fund, the newspaper promises startling disclosures. Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to an address at Strahan on October 9th said : "We are fighting a great battle for the maintenance of the Union. The tendency of the present Government is towards separation. All loyalists must unite in the prevention of what would destroy the country s interests." , Laurie, an informer, was committed to prison in Dublin, on October 10, the authorities learning that he was about to leave the country to avoid giving evidence against ins brother-in-law Poolc, who is to be tried tor the murder of Kenny. Laurie has already testified that Poole gave him a full account of how the deed was done. ■ Another agrarian outrage is reported. Un | October 14 nine men, armed with knives, were arrested near Killarney for murdering a boycotted farmer named John Diuneu. too | savage was the assault that the victim was i disembowled and otherwise mutilated till the body was beyond recognition. \\ lien She murderers were caught they still had the bloody knives with which they did their work in their possession. Dmnen died shortly after the attack. An Irish National League meeting wan held at Charlesvillo, County Cork, on bunday, October 14. There were 10,000 persons present. The parish priest refused to allow those under his immediate charge to attend. Haines, who witnessed the murder of Lord iMountmoms at Ballimobe in 1880, lias turned informer. , , , On October 7, a largo stone was hurled through the window of a railway carriage m which Sir Stafford Northcote was sitting while being conveyed in the Duke of Abercrombie's train to Baron's Court. Xhe assault was made between Dungannon and Omagh. Lady Crichtoa received a. dangerous wound in the back from the missile. An Orange procession, while returning from a meeting at Belfast after listening to Sir Stafford Northcote, was attacked by a Catholiomob. A desperate (ight ensued, many

persona being wounded. On the same night some Orangemen smashed the windows of a convent and two newspaper offices. A lady who was sitting near the conveni was injured and died the following day. The foundation stone of a new Orange Lodge was laid at Belfast on October 6th by Col. King Harraeu, M.P. for County Down. The assemblage of Orangemen w*B tho largest that has ever been seen in twenty years. The stand collapsed during the ceremonies, injuring several persons. The preparations that are being made tor a con ven 1 ion of Irish Nationalists indicate that it will be the greatest demonstration of the kind ever held. Under the advice of xMr Parnell, a programme of moderation is proposed. The committee of delegates of the American lodges announce that no American delegates are expected. | Cardinals Manning and M'Cabe are going to Rome to meet the American bishops, and they will use all their influence to obtain a declaration against Irish secret societies in America. Mr Errington will be despatched by Mr Gladstone as special envoy to watch the proceedings. A Dublin correspondent says that an Invincible Vengeance Committee has been formed to hunt informers, and that the committee ha 3 paid spies throughout the British colonies and in North and South America. The Exhibition at Cork closed on Saturday, October 13. The affair was a complete success. During the closing ceremony, the National Anthem was received with cheers and hisse3. The police interfered to prevent a fight. Moody and Saukey opened in Cork on October 16. A mob gathered outside the building, and hooted the persons who entered. The crowd was dispersed by the police, but large numbers of roughs continued to assemble there nightly. John Dillon will refuse to make speeches during his visit to America, and no political significance is attached to his movements there. Sir Stafford Nortlicote closed his campaign in Ireland on Oct. 3 with a speech at Lome. He said that in order to develop her resources Ireland ueeded order and repose, and a firm and steady Government ; not offers of a bribe one day and sensational legislation the next. He deemed that the Land Act was a beneficial measure if justly administered. There should be no compact with national disturbers who would seek Home Rule through the new measures for local government, and he warned Conservatives to guard against them. By some Sir Stafford Northcotc's Irish tour is regarded as a hugo political and personal blunder. The Parncllite leaders already show signs of a change of front in Ulster.