Tuesday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 22, 21 September 1883, Page 11

Tuesday.

Juror Field sold his furniture and his house in Dublin on August 16, preparatory to quitting Ireland. An attempt was made to boycott the sale. At a meeting of Land Leaguers on Saturday at Carriek-on-Shannon. which was attended by 50,000, a resolution was carried that the Irish people would never rest until they had a Parliament of their own . While a party of evictors were approaching Mr. Rensbaw's house, Oounty Down, a volley was fired by the parties inside, and a constable and policeman were dangerously wounded. A dispatch from Dublin says che assassinated informer James Carey, early in 1882, sent two men to London to shoot William K. Forster, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, but their courage failed them. Dispatches from India, dated August 21, mention the growing unrest, and dissatisfaction at the attitude of the resident English towards reform measures. Their hostility against the social advancement of refined and highly-educated Indians, the arbitrary and tyrannical imprisonment of an editor for a harmless and unintentioned libel, and the unexplained refusal of redress to him by the higher tribunals at. Home, all tend to promote this ugly feeling. ~ Captain Webb's widow came to Niagara to receive her husband's .^sody. She was taken to the fatal whirlpool where he met his death, and is leported to have made light of the difficulties of the undertaking. " Poor Mat," she said, "must have struck a rock in diving, or else he wonld have been all right. Why, I could swim that myself." Several towns in the State of Minnesota were visited by a cyclone on August 5, with most distressing results. The places were literally wrecked, and many of the inhabitants killed. The wind also demolished a railroad train, lifting the cars bodily from the track and reducing them to splintered timber. One hundred passengers were killed. When the news of Carey's murder reached Ireland the wildest delight was manifested. Mobs entered bouses and seized bedding, furniture, and other articles with which to make bonSres. Effigies of the dead informer were burned, and mock funerals held in various Irish towns. Eight enormous bonfires blazed around Carey's old residence, also fires in other streets in Dublin. A band marched through the city playing national tunes, followed by crowds of people cheering as they marched. The murder continued the sole subject of conversation for days, but no word of sympathy was elicited for the informer's fate. Serious rioting occurred in the town of Coatbridge, in Lanark, Scotland, on the 19th, between Orangemen and Catholics. Twentysix partisans were airestcd ; two police-officers being wounded in quietening the row. Fighting was resumed on the 20tb, when a

number of Catholics, armed with picks and hammers, paraded the streets of tbe town in search of religious antagonists, and resisted the efforts of a force of police sent out to disperse them. Subsequently the police, being reinforced, scattered the rioters. In the evening the Riot ArK was read, and the police again dispersed the mob. There are 60 rioters arrested . A number of Catholics severely beat two Protestants to the point of death. — The Protestants, of course, beat nobody, and were not in the least to b'ame 1 They never are. In the House of Commons on August 16, during the debate on the Bill for the payment of expenses of the Land Commission in Ireland, Mr. Parnell declares that unless the deficiencies of the Land Act were speedily remedied, he would lead a deeper and more desperate agitation than any yet witnessed. The new agitation threatened by Mr. Parnell is supposed to refer to a denaand for peasant ownership, with or without compensation to landowners. Mr. Parnell finally declines to visit the United States this year, and the members of Parliament in favour of his views discussed the expediency of sending a delegation thither in aid of the cause. The great national demonstration proposed to be held on Mr. Parnell's estate in Wicklow on Sunday, August 12, was suddenly abandoned. The authorities intimated that the gathering would be suppressed, A button of smelted gold weighing 18dwt. was shown at the Christchurch Mining Exchange yesterday by a miner, who said it was the result of a week's work at Ninety-mile Beach. Mr. John Lundon, formerly member for the Bay of Islands, writes from Samoa that a great deal of discontent has prevailed there amongst both Natives and Europeans with the nature of the government, and that a petition would be generally signed praying that the island should ba annexed to New Zealand. The matter has been laid before Sir George Grey, who recommends that a form of petition be drawn up under the Annexation Act of last session and forwarded to Mr. Lundon to obtain the signatures of the islanders. Charles Fletcher, butcher, at Mercer, Auckland, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Mangatawhiri Creek on Saturday. He had been drinking heavily, had been suffering from rheumatics, and was in Decuniarv difficulties.