DISTURBED STATE OF IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7999, 18 October 1887, Page 2

DISTURBED STATE OF IRELAND.

O'BRIEN DEFYING THE LAW. CHAMBERLAIN'S VISIT TO BELFAST BAILIFFS CHARGED WITH MURDER. [keuter's telegrams.] London, October 17. — The Nationalist meeting, which was intended to be hold at Woodford yesterday, having been proclaimed by the Government, Mr. W. o'3ricn, who arrived there on Saturday evening, held a meeting in a private house at midnight afterwards in tho presence of a largo crowd, who burned the proclamation forbidding tho meeting. London, October 14. — A coroner's jury have found eleven bailiffs and Captain Hamilton, a land agent, guilty of the murder of Kinsella, who was shot in an eviction riot in Wexford. It is expected that tho Crown will enter a nolle proscqui in this and the Mitchelltown case. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking a Belfast, said ho was willing to concede a great extension of local self-government, but the distinct recognition of a separate nationality would amount to absolute independence. The ties that bind England to her Colonies without Federation are merely temporary, and any attempt to make Ireland like Canada or New South Wales would result in the creation of a separate kingdom, or perhaps a republic. Lord flartington publishes a letter in which he trusts that the Unionists, without reference to party feelings, will reunite with a view to maintain law and order in Ireland. Lonergan's funeral at Mitchelltown wns attended by 10,000 people, and was over half-a-raile long. He had been shot by the police on September 9lh. A friend of an English M.P., present at the lute Ilerbertstown evictions, was terribly beaten by tho polico. The Inspector, who afterwards apologised, said — "I mistook him for an Irish member. They pay uo out in the Houso of Commons, and we mean to pay them out in Ireland." While returning from a funeral at Mitchelkown on the evening of September 14, a mob of about 300 wrecked the houses of soveral obnoxious tenants in Galbally, who were compelled to flee for their lives. The police were stoned and compelled to take refuge in the barracks at Ballyporc. Mr. J. T. Brunei-, M.P. (Liberal), recently elected for Northwich, has given £1000 to start a distress fund for Ireland. Mr. Dillon remarked to an interviewer on the 18th that the outlook for the Irish cause was gloom}-. Mr. Balfour was determined apparently to bag all Nationalist leaders, nnd he (Mr. Dillon) would not bo surprised if, in a month or so, a majority o£ them, including himself, wcro found picking oakum. Representatives of tho Cork Constitution, and Brandon, of the London Illustrated News, wero roughly handled at the Nationalist mefting at Brandon, on Sjptouibsr 18th. Tho Speaker had to interfere.