IRISH AFFAIRS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 9

IRISH AFFAIRS.

m. xT Tho Noß ©nt Agitation. lhe National Convention of Irish Nationalists at Liverpool on the 7th November is reported to have been large as to numbers and imposing in influence. John Dillon, M..P., reports that many of the largest landlords have recently shown a disposition to acfc far more reasonably fchan in 1880, although a number of thorn refuse reduction, and pr*,ss tunanfca for rent. Some Of the members of the Parneil party are also pushing their tenants remorselessly. Among these are Sir Joseph Nealo McKenna, the member for South Monaghan, and Win, J. Oorbetb, M.P. for tho Bast I,'ivKon of the County Wicklow. The^e Paruellites, and scores of smaller landlords of the same party, vie serving writs and evic iug by wholesale, resistance to which i* growing sLrongor and stronger in all part? of" Ireland. The contemplated dismissal of Sir Robert Hamilton from the Tormanent UnderSecrotaryship of Ireland, because of his known Home Rule view?, has created some stir in lrieh eholoe. It Ik thought troublo will ensuo in Ireland it the purpose be carried into effect.

ARCHER'S SUICIDE. The well-known jockey, Fred. Archer, committed suicide at Newmarket on November 7 by shooting him»olf with a pistol while deranged from the t fleets of typhoid fever, aggravated by weakness due ro the restricted vogimeu which ho had adopted to reduce his weight He was in the house of his sister at the time ; tho Piinoe of AVales sent her a teltgram of condolence. It is reported that Aichor left an e^-tuto valued at £250,000. The " Sporling World " eulo-gi-es the dear] jockey in a way that may do called extravagant. Tho funeral took place at Newmarket on the 13th, when business was suspended in i ho 'whole town. Among the mourners wero Lord Groavenor, Barou Alliu^ten, Lord Uarderuss, tho Meeors Tatierfaall, and a large rmuibc- of persons interested in the turt. One hur d-.ed wreaths were placed upon tho coffin.

INTERNATIONAL BOAT-XIACE. The International Handicap Double sculling Sweepstakeß took place on October 30, on the Thames. The raeo consisted of two trial-heats and a final contest. It was rowed over a courbe from Wand 'worth footbiidgetoa point a little below Hamuiersmith bridge, a distance of about, two miles and a half. The first heat was between G. Perkins and Have Godwin on one aide, and Wallace Revs and G. W, Leo on the other, Tno ioimor hud tho Smiey sLalion, aud tha latt<u the Middltsox station. Unhand Leo started from the scratch, while Pet kins and Godwin had 12 iroconda' htarb. The latter a;ol a lead of nine length" in the time alluvvod thorn. Kora and Lee, after they Kai-f.ui, gained steadily, and at Putney budge, :\ mile Irom the start, only four iengtha fceparated the boata. Kos« and Loe continued to pull a stroko which placed them nearer their opponents, but when Walden'd wharf was reached they were only two lengths behind. Despite the ground which the Americana had gained, bets at odds of 6 to 4 on the British team ,yore made. The latter were rowing in good form, and good _ bits of sculling foil iwcd. The Americans, however, did not head Perkins and Godwin, wuo w<m iho heat by 11 length^. The second hpafc was batvveen John Tcbnier ar d Albert Ham en, who hid the Middlesex station, and G. Buboar and Enst, who hod Surrey j-tition. Be bear nnd Easb had twelve poconda' stait of thfir oppojients, who starttd from the scratch, but Tecm^r M'on the heac ea->ily by sevo»\il lengths. At the oursei of the" final heat, Perkine and Godwin got an advantage of seven length', but Teemor and Ilamm overcame thin in fine style, and pulling strong, crossed the Ywq easy winners by several lengths. The prize tor t>ie crou^ of tho fii\«t beat was 30, and foi that of rhe eecond boat £40.

LORD MAYOU'S D.iY. London deep itches ot Koserabpr 9(.b siv Lord Mayor's Diy opened gloumy at.d dark. Tho display of bunting and decorations usually aiade oo thn occasion was almost generally omitred, and the authorities and populace seemed imbued with a sense of oppression. This condition was due to anxiety as to tho result ot the threatened gathering of Socialists. ° At an early hour crowds of roughs begn.n to emergo from tho slums and made theic way toward the section where tho Socialise had arranged to assemble. Battalions of police, proceeding to diil'eient points, received hearty cheera from the people. The streets in the We3t End pttsor.ted a re markablo appearance. All rho shuttors of tha shops wove drawn and baricaded, and the iron railings were boarded with stout timber. The banks aud other buildings j were pocured in a similar manner. The suburban police and reserves woro posted at prominent points, and a largo military force and all the household troops were in readiness in cane their assistance was needed, At 11 o'clock the force proceeded to the north side of Trafalgar Square. The shops in its vicinity were closed, and the doors and windows ot jewellery establish naents were heavily barred. Hundreds of students, armed with sticks, gathered about the equare. Crowds of loafers arrived, and were allowed to proceed to tho entrance oi the equare. They were noet by a double line of polico and turned into the Strand A trifling encounter occurred in Trafalgar Square about noon. The mob, some bOO strong, and marching in a body, was hailed by the police and separated.' The police then cleared the equare and pushed tho crowd toward the Thames Embankment. There (ho mob halted and hooted and groaned at tho officers Three hundred medical students, marching five abreast and armed with bludgeons, proceeded along the Strand to aid the police. Tho Lite Guards, in passing through Victoria-street, were saluted with groans by a small knot of roughs. The procession started at the usual hour, and proceeded over the' deeignod route without anything happening beyond the Ufual horseplay incident to the occasion. The police dispersed the medical sfeudonts, and refused to allow them to occupy Trafalgar Square. One thousand policemen were posted at the Square. The Sects Guards ware mustered at St. George b barracks beI hind the National Gallery. The crowd about Trafalgar Square at 1 o'clock had grown colossal, the rough element predominating. When the procession passed Trafalgar Squaro it met with no demonstration ou the part of the crowd, except unorganised cheering and hooting, the latter being especially directed at the Lord Mayor. After the show had gone by, the mob at once surged over into the equare, and soon formed, a dense throng ibout tho Nebon monument. A number of men mounted the pedestal at different times. Some of these waved red flags The square soon became n scene of excitement. Uecognised Socialitsic leaders managed here and there to gather around , them groups of men ready and willing to listen to speeches,

Among the speakers who addressed the groups was Williams, the Socialist leader. He declared that the populace would show that they could hold an orderly meeting to let the public know the distress that at present existed among the working men of England. Another speaker said: "All the power of the country was invoked to prevent us from assembling. Our reply to all this is that we are here. We want food, work and dwelling-places for all, and we will have them." Resolutions asking the Government to provide work for the unemployed, aud to reduco to eight the number of hours constituting a day's work, were carried amid loud cheering, and the group whioh adopted them, and which had by this time absorbed noarly all the multitude remaining in the square, dispersed, cheering for the promised social revolution. A number of anti-Socialists attempted to hold a counter-demonßtration in Trafalgar Square. They wore atfcacked'and roughly handled by their opponents, and driven from the scene. The police and Life Guards interfered and cleared the square. The work was not difficult, and but one arrest was made. A section of the crowd went from the square to the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury and attempted to mike a demonstration. They were, howover, dispersed easily by the police. At the West End the crowds promenaded until a late hour in order to view the illuminations. There was no disorder. The report numerous oases of injury during the day, including sevoral eeiioub

cases, The Banquet. Lord Salisbury, at the banquet in the evening, said the Government was encouraged by the growing proof" of advancing prosperity in Egypt, Her finances were more promising than they had over been, although they had not reached a point that would enable the Government to declare its task fulfilled. Further, England could not leave Egypt until the latter'a independence ol foreign interference had beon secured. Referring to Bulgaria, Lord Salisbury said the (sympathies of the English people were arou?ed by the spectacle of the struggle for indopondenco, and that the language of diplomatic menace used toward Bulgaria by Europe had caused the deojocet regict. The injustice of tho deed "was aggravated by forei'^u diplomacy having mado use of conspirators, an act of interference which caused the lamest reprobation throughout Europe Bulgarian i ights wero assured by the Beilin Treaty, on r, hich the salvation of Europe depended. English iutoreafc in that treaty was not an isolated interest. The other powers wore also interested in the vindication of tho troafcy. He v,ns euro that if tho majority of the signatory power* recognised tho fact that it was thoir duty to enforce the treaty, England would not be found backward in co-operating with them. Ho trusted thai, peace would not be disturbed, and that umL v rho influence of public op. nion tlio infant liberties of Bulgaria would not be iinpaiud. Speaker P«-et, responding to the toast "Tho House of Commons," congratulated the mombeie upon the fact that "the third set^ion itt 18SI5 would not ba needed. Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralily, replied to the toast, "The Navy." Ho said he hoped tho naval reserve would soon be formed that would be equal to all emergencies. The usual toasts followed. Several of tho speakers referred to tho regularity of the day's proceedings. Salisbury's speech is suid to have strati "Ihentd the position of Count Kalaoky, aud the feeling in the Huny,aridu delegation is becoming composed, and the members appear loss distrustful. The Migyar delegates exprees the Hope that the speech portends a fresh grouping of the Puwuru, similar to that which Audrassy evoked at the Berlin Congress.

THE LATEST ABOUT BULGARIA. A. London telegram of "November 21 pays : "Tho Bulgarian question is coming into a more regular position, as General Kaulbara now withdi<iws, and there eeeins to be nothing fco prevent the early re-assembling oi tho Conference, as proposed by Lord Iddosioigh, The objects of tho British Government at this Conference will fijpt be to establish suuh harmony as vany be possible * among the Power*, and to maintain the obligations of the Ba lm Treaty, subject to necessary mo:]iticatJon, made necessary by the Bulgarian absorption of Eastern Rournelia. .Russia proft ssea no eerioas objection to the plan oi unification ; but it may become a question with her whether she will as&enb to this after the recent statements at Buda Poath that Phe can be allowed do supremacy in that quarter. If Russia gives way on thi* point thc-,re ought to t»o no diftiuulty in fiodinec a candidate suitable to her. Whiio iho Powers now labour for a conforence, a great though tilent j struggle is Pure to urie-e between tho peace j and war partie? in Rub*;a The latter has already begun to assail Germany aa the cause of ail tho ttouble, and to demand the punishment of Bulgaiia ; but it is believed the Czar now recoynjsea General Ktulbars' mission to ba a liat'co, and has decided to follow tho pacific leadership of M. do Giers.

THE SEBRIGET DIVORCE CASE. This caso was brought up for preliminary hearing in London on November 12. The action is brought by Mrs Artnur Sebright, who apked to have her marriage declared void on the grounds that ehe was induced to consent, to ha% T e the ceremony performed by fear, ami that the marriage has never beon consummated. The plaintiff is a daughter of Lady Scof-t, of Southampton, and ih noted for her beauty. The defendant is a well-known London clubman. Tho plaintiU's friends assert that the defendant, coveting her private fortune of £40,000, managed to "inveigle hor into financial transactions which finally fell upon hor ior settlement at a time when she had to choose between refusing to p*y and bo com promised, or escaping by marriage with the defendant and permitting him to liquidate. Ac the hearing, Mrs Sebright'*} counsel admitted the marriage, which he said was performed at a Registrar's in laat January, He contended, however, that no marital relation hod ever taken place, and that the p&i ties had never lived together, and that there had baeu no impropriety in any financial transaction which had caused their marriage. Mr Sebrigbt had induced the petitioner to accept certain bills, and ehe ! had boen led to believe that a marriage ceremony between hor and the respondent would relieve her of all financial liability incurred. The judge said he thought that under these circumstances it would be impossible to nullify the marriage, and announced that he would hour testimony with a view to deciding it there was sufficient reason to grant a divorce. Mrs Sebright was called to the wifcnesß stand, and teatified that through her father she had inhorited in her own name £26,000, in addition to a reversion of £30,000 on the death of her mother. She had mat Mr Sobright when she was only 15 years of age, and tiho acquaintance had been continuous. He proposed mavriage, to her after they had been acquainted a ahorfc time only, but her mother declined to permit an engagement. Mr Sebright continued his visits to the house, however, and was received on terms of friendship. Finally Mr Sebright induced the witness to

engage herself to him in marriage unknown to her mother. After thia ha persuaded her from time to time bo .*\cr a bits of paper which ho supplied. Eventually shaascertamed that; s bo had appended her name to notes and bills and had !?o orn er^l f liab f e for sumß amounting to ±.rf,2ou. When they were served upon her she appealed to Sebrigbt. Ho said tha only way m which *he could save heraelf from ruin was by marrying him. Thia witness said, she retired Mr debright next requested tha witmws to m*>t hW alone. She did so, and ho took hor to a. place unknown co her, but which she learned was a regist-y uffioa She wished to leave the room a moment and thus found where ehe wa* Count B.*ih<*mey, a friend of Setmght, who wat present, blocked the door, and dobrighc feaid to her that he would shoot hor f ahu dared to show that she was not acting *itn free will inth© marriage which ha wan about) to have performed between them. He then forced a ring on her finger, which aim threw off. an& again tried to leave the roam, fciebright beized her by tho arm, forced her back, and made her sign rhe regwiw. Witnesa said she did not hoar the ftegigrrar road tno form of a marriage, nor boa*- him wy anything, *• 1 was ton upg-^t and too d>-eadfull\r frightened," bhe •leulorod, ■' to hear anything at the time. " Toe Registrar deponed that v/hen Mra Sebright waa b^for^ him t,ho vi as agitated, but that she reacted her inttrriuge doclaratiooa without any licj-Latio.i, and aiso tha marriage form when Sobr.ght, took her hand. Eo ad ied thufc nub-ibquenfcly the lady threw the marriage ling on tha floor, but signed Uie r^gi-tr^ wiihout hesitation or demurring. Lady Scott, Mr, 5 Sebiu'hi'a mooher, and two doctors, te-Lifiurl th+t tho petitioner was completely broke, n d ,wh rnt-nt^Hy aa^ physically, aft^r the ceiou^ny, a .id was always tremulo-^ a.r<cl "',"'•';'•, find ia constant levror. 'ihe hem ing was refeu-otd on tho 13tb» The Judge eaid n« cvh.^nc < r md b. en adduced to sustain he Cwiigo t^iat Sebright had for. 'ml '] q plfti.utlT r,; marry him, MtH >B"bn^ „*'-■ v , , in , f j t ;hore(ore withdiew tho iUugnti-t., >v,hih S>bri«ht declared w^ a - m : „. Judgment wafe lendeverl on Cho lo h, v'k/.-, -,be marriago was declaim) 0 »«-.i., ; .„ (-v. o r -round that the pluiut.tT L ,->,', »r 0 üby fear. On the sumo day dc-ij -jit" »\ - on ( qaa e d ». bankrupt. " to

CBAUPXOK BUUJ^PJU MACS. Tho four-oai-ni -hm- ;., > . •■/lv j Haalau, Teetner, f-i-vaiu, *„ > . ... V vk, ia on© bor.t, uud Le<>, Reed B- 'i 1 .n { Fencing in the other, v.a-, , ( ,- t , , ; r , c rhi»nea oa November S.,h. T.m tii>''-» now won. liaco for £100 ;t si.:<i '('» „-=o -"a from tboßatlersot nj-i i.'.,, . „. , 1M Hagboat? moored opposi'u '> <' V/ynne's ongineerin^r wo.k- ■ i. »n "cr^raitb, Tho fianlan crgn n. ■• i, • M O i,«tr start, and soon h»ci Urn i>- -• <_ i» a- This was increased miL , '.., 4 . „<_ "d:3b halfmilo to two oifin., i . - . , ..- lengths whou PatiJt. vri- ),. • ». . Jci ''-crew won easily. J1..1. , . „,i, tv row no more race-i in Kn,!.,,-. . m..,n p.-L.aenfc saJison. Rosa wid i_ i; I<v - tj^ordingjy abandoned ih»j idv-.tuf -■ .-t <,'< , « t ii lima and Tenoyck.

GEN"F,SAL *j._ v - > 't,Y Right Hon. If-jn-y /,,!- , „,,, m '',111 a speeca on t-ov mc . ,> „ ii} . t Qnant farmers anrl 3a'.j'*r , lin ..5 '~s, proponed protection «. - w>^ . - ( , „*„ . present depression in Kn<r'. ; , . «!urj and manufactures, Experimoi/hl p• * U *> K. , , incuts for the tranßpiVTt ;»> 1 r h- Mr n..«a-> rnaila have been made m- r fl , ';,.,,,.„ j jVbrameafc with the In man, Ooio 1 ,i<- " /i. th Gorman Lloyd steamship mi 3- ' l t i - , ..nt.-a tis for thvea monthcS ouiv A meeting -jf 1« t f m(, ,■„■ • t eh.sbeea called, to at^embiu in , ; ; w *in]] ij On . don, on lbe2.tid in.-r ,*, , »„ p , , lO , t a i ne t the action i-f ihw Th 0 ■--) Tu-f , vjioh tried and sentenced S pi ■■' tju «•■-...,■ . t his colleaguee, Hou. Ani-um H^im.,. b,.»ther of the Earl of Vnin to c*„»i 4 .;> ,u ifJty pre _ side. George Thomas jo.;. II /'., .•M i ., AV ar and painuer, died m ; o»-i n, 17aged nenrly 87 ycji Churchill ha*, cm.,,-.,,] :i m.v • id',us sansation by d.^imu'C". tiu- , ! , mu-ou Corporation. He told tho m- .ob „- ■!. >(-,. although seeking control ... ;hj „.„„; , )Jo ii J( t{j ey represented, in fac l . *u\ •>, ,!:n ! tiv, >tion of its population, cJjhj 1 rnu^Lid : ),»r [,ac beeb solution of the A'U:,' i^'n-n difficulty would h t - ,i ;r n:.>t^- a power to a central rapivsen«#»>.i ,u boi'v T'.i^ is considerod another m.no rhnv.fili to'puab himself forward ><n i,ne < t -^ -<He of ths Piime Mitiistor. The London J>eal (Jovor.iaie)it Board, ia ita reply on Nov^inhr- l.'Uh •, :; i^cter recently addre=?^<i to *1 by <he Social Democratic Federal ,na c J'jnc .i> ler.tion to an alleged ino of^o oC p«u-p-is, gays tikft. percentage of puup.^/Mn in Cht^h^r, ISB6, Mas 22 to the l,ol>o ur i,»?r. population, while in the cam.> iaur!li of I GfiS the percentage waß 42 <o ovp-y ij}\)<) Among the not (bio drn.-bh of Ih e niontl*are (November 12)- ?,iiu--or Jordan, of KonigPberg; Rtv AViJil«i.i "onney, E.C^ Archbishop of « for-: 5 P»-of^ -.r - <-''?hibat& Alexander Hod^e, )KV\ { I,L f*.. f Princeton Collego, Now ,Kjt-o,y 5 l H r fossor Obroicht, of the Cuir-r», (jycoiur,, .-.hir cloaine a_window in the ir.Mr.u^, iou «n- r, and died on the spot. Lord Chario-s Bore-fovd h:-i offered to nnd and coinuir'nd »' rul n^eor ,-v- toman a ship to be atwk.'j with vo^.k! -hs. Ho has no faith in tlu ( .vpaijo «\ j' t<l jij Advices wore ;it, rinniuth o» November 14 Ihu<- «io Cihino^ ■»-amshipK Tatakuman wa? bu o^d .-vhSle iunnwsf underpreesuie -: !( u g r .] e O .T M\ . Ja, a »S that ninety cix p.. i"oa^ who v,„ -board perished, includs-jj: tho oliu'e- \..q were Englishmen. A French police n»^unb m-i >.o 1 >tro and a wine merchant, r-Jeu>\<e?, wet w ,-;>?( od aft Ars-sur-Mot<eUe on ?'oVc*"<»4u h • 'tecorabing the tombt. of Fru'jchnu « „ - f ell io bhe Franco- Prussian way. T>- , Sonera were taken on a wain ?o Mcla, . « ; . heered ill along the vvui.o, wiih sm ■'.'i. .i wbea ihey arrived ai Uioir ilcitf » o -■ Prince BLohenlohe har arivu-cd tho B 1' i s uvernn«?nt to reloapo MlO m«n Princo Bocp'i"-ioviue IJon-^r < . imtait;ed suicide in Room on i\ lt vi>,, _ i.jth by shooting hhavolf with a r'U",_. The jrince had been v/unndnu v, h ' . -> > /ing in Ponquin, and had Utoly •>)i.\\, , j/ n s of n?anity. It is now saio! <ho ( >hovy of >' 1 „',■:, der of" ?ount de Ueuk-vo by IUmC/.u , , j mmenk if paaaion or v>hils 'apptvh^' f,; . »ttack, insnotthe ?H;:h>>Bb fimnd»"- . 5 ,<t is a. Ie from beginnnifr to ond "N • , persoa .s the Count da Keutern >. in tho /zar's household.