IRELAND.

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 33, 16 July 1872, Page 2

IRELAND.

! Mr. Butt has written to the Amnesty As- | sociation, stating that, afier mature conaideraI tion, he will not bring forward any formal motion in reference to Home Rule. He further stated that he would accept the whole responsibility of the moremeof;. Water fold Harbor is to benaade a harbor of refcge and port of call undur the auspiccs of the Board of Trade. With this object in view JEBO,OOQ is to be spent in the removal of ; the bar. All veasels of above 250 tons entering | the port will be subjected to additional taxation.

j Mr. Butt, Q.C., has declined to undertake J the defence of Margaret Dixblanc, chargod : with the murder of Madame Reil. He has J also refhsecF to accept a nurub6r of inducements held out to him to practise at the English Bar. On May 6, at a meeting of the Municipal Council of Dublin a letter from the Lord Lieutenant's private secretary was- read, in which it was stated that the Duke of Edinburgh had appointed June 4 for his arrival in Dublin, and that he would open the Exhibition of Arts and Industries on the sth. A few nights ago a man named Egan, and his wife, when returning homo from Cloghreen, were attacked, robbed, and beaten in a most savage manner by two men. A portion of Egan's Head was fouud near the scene of the outrage, and the injured man alleged that it was torn from- him in the struggle. Twomen are in custody who have been fully identified. A dreadful fire took plaoe near Enniskillon on May 9, at a place called Gollyholm, on the premises belonging to Mr. George Weir,, a pretty extensive landed proprietor. Mr. Weir has evicted several tenants during tho past six months, and it is thought that some of these set fire to the place: Every effort was made to extinguish the flames, but though the dwelling-house was partly saved, all the offices, barns, with twelve head of cattle and other valuable property, were consumed. The resident magistrate is investigating 4ihe affair., The Synod of the Irish Church on May 1, got rid for a time of tho question of the Athanasian Creed, which has been for several days utidet discussion. Several resolutions and amendments have been made and lost, and the latest was one by the Arohbishop of Dublin, that the three days on which this creed is at present directed to be read should be increased to the six on which it had formerly been read. This amendment having been put and lost, the Ifyev. Henry Jellet moved the postponment of the consideration of the whole question of the A thanasian Creed till next session. The Rev. Mr. Longley seconded the proposition, which was declared carried by a large majority. The Dublin Amnesty Association have forwarded a memorial to Mr. Gladstone, praying for the release of tho political prisoners still in confinement. They rely upon some observations of the Prime Minister made in answer to a question put by the late Mr. G. H. Moore in the House of Commons, in March, 1870, and which they construe into a promise that the prisoners should be liberated on the return of a better state of things, consequent upon the Irish remedial legislation proposed by the present Government. The Amnesty Association now contend that tranquility and security prevail in that country, and pros* for the fulfilment of the hopes which they built upon the remarks of the Premier two years ago.