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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 46, 14 March 1884, Page 25

The right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, has made another of those pronounced speeches of his which periodically disturb the nerves of the Tory party. This time he has chosen a Newcastle-on-Tyne platform from which to give expression to his opinions. His speeches, as usual, have much in them to inter jst Irishmen. The first of the series of meetings which he addressed in was held on Tuesday, 'when he spoke at a demonstration at which over three thousand people were presenl , In the course of his speech on this occasion he deprecated the use of language by the Irish national leaders which would, in hisopiDion. widen the breach between the English and Irish people. Passing from this subject, he assailed the Ulster landlords and their Orange dupes in vigorous terms. He described them as " self-styled loyalists who, with effusive professions of loyality to the Crown, insult and defy the representatives of the Crown in Ireland, and who break the law themselves while they pretend to defend it." Without any qualification he expressed his conviction that if at present there is any danger to the peace in Ireland, it lies in thejproceedingsof the landlord factionists, who, he declares, have been stimulated into a burst of unreasoning ferocity by the utterances of Sir Stafford Novthcote. From this it will be seen that Mr. Chamberlain and the Iri-h national leaders are aj: one as to who are -the real enemies oE public peace in. the Ulster counties. — Nation, Jan. 19. The Kerry has an article dealing with a doleful letter which Mr. Samuel M. Husscy addressed to the Times, in which letter Mr. Hussey pathetically appealed to the English Parliament to take the Harcnc estate off his hands. The Sentinel says in part : — Slight is the comment needful for Kerry readers of this doleful letter. To them every line of it is fraught with its own answer, for they well know the ugly features of the case, which is made to wear a guise so falsely fair. They know, and we know, that were it not for his meddling this Harenc property would be purchased at fifteen or twenty thousand pounds cheaper than what was paid for ii. They know and we know, and he knows now at last, that had it fetched fifteen or twenty thousand pounds less than it did, it would be more near to its real value ; and the tenants purchasing at that figure would now be buying off a thirty-fifth part of their farms every year with less than their present rents. Even bad the would-be purchasers refused to sell to the tenants without a profit, the sub-com-mission would still have room to reduce the present rents by fifteen or twenty per cent, without at all beggaring the purchasers— a thing they seem to be very chary of, from their tender handling of Mr. Hussey's Harenc rental. His exhortation to English capitalists not to invest money in Ireland is well worthy of the anti- Irish Irishman. Yet, if they take his advice, we must lcaru in this country to get on without them or him,