IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1700, 18 February 1888, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Dublin, Feb. 15.

The Mayor of Cork has been sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment for assaulting the police, who were engaged in stopping a display arranged by the Nationalists.

London, Feb. 14.

Frank Hythe, who escaped to France in 1883, has written to heads of the Penian organisations of New York, urging recourse to a dynamite policy, and suggesting the destruction of the Liverpool docks. The House of Commons passed a resolution regretting the indignity offered to Mr Patrick O’Brien, M.P. for Monaghan North, who was arrested a few days ago for Mr James Gilhooly, M.P., but by a large majority refused to refer the question of wrongful arrest to a Committee as a matter of privilege. Mr Parnell, in moving an amendment to the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne, reiterated the statement that Lord Carnarvon’s views on the subject of Home Rule were identical with his own. Lord Carnarvon had declared that an Irish Parliament was the pnly feasible concession to the Irish claims. Mr Parnell further declared that Mr Balfour’s assertion that good results were apparent from the policy of coercion was baseless. Coercion was only beginning in Ireland, and it was therefore too early for the Government to take credit for a policy, the results of which could cot yet be ascertained, Mr Sullivan. M.P., in a lengthy speech in the House of Commons, stated that he had come to the conclusion that the Irish people in all parts of the world were more friendly disposed towards England than was credited them.

The procession which marched to Hyde Park to welcome Messrs Sullivan and Harrington, M.P.’s, numbered from 15,000 to 20,000. The principal Radical members took part in the proceedings, which were very orderly. ' "New Yobs, Feb. 13.

The Fenians openly express disgust at the submissive manner of the leaden of the Irish party, and declare that the only means of forcing the English Government to appreciate the demands of the Nationalists is by the use of dynamite and the knife.