Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 25, 12 October 1888, Page 9

Irish News.

Annagh.-Thf Catholic Primate at Armagh on July 22 denied that the hope a'tempfrd to interfere in politics. His Holiness only desired to keep the movement within the bounds cf jus-tice and charity and Christian law. Instead of throwing any impediment in the way of the people obtaining their political rights he 6imply wanted to secure for them (be co-operation of all fair-minded men.

The evictions which have been going on on Mr. Hamilton's estate at Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh, were concluded on July 28, when 11 evictions took place. About 2uO hundred people were present, who groaned for the police and Balfuur, and cheered for Gladstone, etc, but no attempt at resistance was made. The tenants in each case offered to pay rent and costs, but this was refused on the ground that they had endorsed the Pl«nof Campaign. There was a force of about 80 policemen present to protect the Sheriff.

Antrim.— The Marquis of Salisbury has sent to the Ballymena Orangemen an acknowledgment of a resolution approving of the Government policy. The Premier says the expression on the part of a great number of persons, and the immense weight wbich such an expression must carry with it, have impressed him greatly, and he Talues very highly this testimony of approval.

Clare.— The Bey. Father Buckley, Kilrush, announcel after Macs on July 29 that the tenant farmers had decided to combine and erect huts at Carandola, near Kilrush, for tbe tenants evicted by Capt. Vandeleur, and said the people would be sustained if it took twenty years to triumph over the land ords. He repudiated the statements of Mr. Balf ur that the priests ordrred the tolling of the chapel bell, or that they forced the tenants to join the Plan » f Campaign. The evictions <>n the V«ndeleur i state were continued at Montasta, near Kilkee, on July 31. Four tenants were evicted, but only in onr case was there any e'esperate fighting. At the house or Thomas Bermingham a battering r m was used to make a breach in the wall, and the tenant's wife and chillren showered boiling water on tbe besiegers. When a breach wai made the police charged, and the tenant was brought out stunned and bleeding, having made a desperate fight. After his wou«<is w°re dressed he was arrested. The evictions will now be suspended for a month.

A very interestine and instructive ceremony was performed on August 2 at Killimeer. about five miles from Kilrush, when the Most Rev. Dr. Dinan, Vicar-General of the diocese, laid the first stone of the first of the houses which are to be erected for the use of the Vandeleur tenants. Cleary and Cornell. The Vicar-Gentral was accompanied by the Rev. Father O'Meara,P.P,; Bey. Father McKenna, C.C., Kilrush ; and Rev. Father Scanlan.C.C. When the ground had been prepared, the Vicar-General read prayers appropriate to the time, and laid and blessed the first stone. Addressing those present, he said the duty he had to perform was one that raised to his mind sad and painful thoughts. He felt deeply moved to think of what had been done in the past few weeks. He could no% bring himself to speak of it. He prayed the blessing of Providence on what they did that day, believing, as from his heart he did. that it was a holy and sanctified cause in which they laboured.

Cork.— Several arrests were made at Fermoy on July 23 for alleged resistance to the police in connection with the collection of the Leahy tax.

The crops of every description in the Skibbereen district are said to be healthy and nourishing, and with every prospect of a plentiful harvest ; but it is also stated that in the district of Schull the potato blight has made its appearance, and was becoming pretty general. The potato blight has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Durris, in West Cork, and is spreading rapidly. Mr. Raleigh, a Nationalist, has been elected Chairman of the Mitchelstown Beard <.f Guardians.

The boiloii g of the new paiish church, so badly needed in the parish of KillorgliD, will si on commence. The pastor, Rev. Thomas Lawlor, hbstained from undertak'ng the work until he had collected a considerable part of the funds, so that now he is in a position to go on with the work. The old church is rapidly going to ruin, and it iB expected that afer next winter the congregation will have experienced the end of the misery and danger wbich worship in the preient church entails.

William N Leader, landlord, Currus, has served notices of eviction on the following tenants on the Currus estate : Timothy Connors, Patrick Egan, Denis Fitzpatrick, Michael O'Brien, John Field, CorneliusD. O'Connor, Matthew Bluett, and Cornelius B. O'Connor. There is every probabi.ity that mining speculation on a very extensive scale will be resumed in the district cf Schull and Ballydenob at no disttmt date. A number of English mining capitalists have been i- vited over by Mr. Arthur Oriel S. Cave, of Rossbnn Manor, on which property some of tho=e copper ore and barytes mmci are, and they have examined them very carefully and apparently approvingly a'Be. Since their return they have sent over a mining engineer in the person of Mr. Edward Jones, C E., of Tokenhouse Yard, London, who is at present engaged in making a most careful and searching examination of the shafts.

Derry.— A meeting cf the Diapers' Company tenants was held on August 1, at Daperstown, when it was lesolved to offer 18 > c rs' purchas' for th 'ir farms on certain conditions.

Donegal.— Father Stepb<ns arrived at Du r f inaghy on July 26, acc>mp*niel by an eec rt of 20 vt hicli s, 100 horsemen, and 3.000 pe-jple on foot, with six bands and b.nueis. A preat niLeting of prople waß held i> the tnarke*. Tn« picrr^s of F.ithi r S epbens fn m Letterkcnny to K-lcarrag' J^as a senei- o! magnificent ovations. lb'- roads were lined wi'h thick crowds (f people, and far and rear bonfires burne<l. At Tarmon, the reverend gentleman addresed a crowd of several thousands.

Dublin. — The Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola was observed with great solemnity at the Jesuit church, "Upper Gardiner street,

Dublin. Father Delaney, 8.J., late of the University College, preached tbe panegyric of the saint.

One of the noblest buildings in the city of Dublin, the Phibsborough Catholic chaprl, had a narrow escape from being badly damaged during the thunder-storm which prevail- d in that city on July 31. The church was struck by lightning, and were it not for the lightning conductor, the damage dune would probably hate been very considerable

A return to the House of Lord?, showing for each year since 1870, the number md amount of loanß for agricultural improvements in Ireland applied for and granted to landlords and tenants, was publi^he 1 recently The loans aoplied for oy owners, numbered 7 741, and the amount was £4 172 511 ; and those granted numbered 6,381. the amount being £3,051 628. The loans applied for by tenants numbered 1 1 950, and the amount was £1,454,489 ; and those granted numbered 9,021, and amounted to £752,378.

Gal"way»— Rev. M. O'Donoghue, writing from Arran, says : " There are abutb >ut 450 families in receipt of public relief most of which has been supplied by the ' Dublin Relief Committee ' ; but as I under* stand that their funds are now well nigh exhausted, I ftel myself called on in the interest of suffering humanity to break silence, and to earnestly exhort the charitably disposed, who have hitherto abtained from forwarding assistance to do so at once, and thus enable tbe committee and myself to continue much-needed relief to my poor people.

Addressing the Galway Grand Jury recently, Mr. Justice Gibson said the amount of business was extremely small, these being only nine caa^s on which they wen asked to find true bills. They ware of an ordinary character.

Mrs. Hanra l.ewia sto the front again. On behalf of this l»dy, five famileß numbering 27 perFons, werecast out of their homes near YVooi ford on July 24. A troopof dragoons and about sixty policemen under theco-nmand of Removable Tynte, took p^rt in this martial operation, and as their victims offerfd no opposition, their triumph was an easy one. It is stated that the wre'cheJ tenants each owed only one year's rent. More evictions were to have be^n carried out on ihe same property next, day ; while there are ominous rum mrs of the intentions of ihe shamelegj Olanricarde in the same direction.

Limerick.— The Rev. Laureate Gilligan, 0.C., and Mr. John Molony, I\L.G., sentenced to a calendar month's imprisonment each for tak'ng part in a proclaimed National League meeting at Labasheeda last May, were released from Limerick Goal on July 20. Father Gilligan and Mr. Molony were met outside the ga <\ by the lociim tenens for the Mayor, the Visiting Jus 1 ice, Mr. John Guinanne and Alderman Riordan, the City High Sheriff, Mr. Stephen O'Siara, and a great gathering of citizens, who were headed by two bands. A force of constabulary, under Police Inspector Jennings, were drawn up some distance'outside the Igaol, but they did not interfere witti the proceedings. Arrived at Cruise's Hotel, an addreis was prevented to Father Gilligan who, with Mr. Molony, subsequently left for home. Louth. — Sentences Tarying from seven days' to a month 's imprisjnment wers recently passed on the persons charged at Dundalk with unlawful assembly on the occasion of Mr. John Dillon's appeal.

Mayo. — The wretched poverty-stricken tenants cf Achill Island are now threatened with eviction. Sixty tenants hare been noticed to quit, while several hare already been evicted. About a hundred police and bailiffs are engaged in the business. These miserable people are annually saved from starvation by the charity of the world, and yet the Government support the infamous demand for rent for land that will not even support existence in return for the toil of the tenants.

Meath.— The patriotic Guardians of theNavan Union took an opportunity at their meeting ou July 1 of passing a resolution condemnirjg the murder of Mr. Mandeville.

Dlonagnan.— Colonel Evanson and Cnplain Pregton were placed in a very ridiculous position by the Crown at Carriekmacross ou July 20. A bny of fit een, named John Markey, was brought np under the Coercion Act for intimidating a boy of eleven, named James Smiih. It appeared that over a game of marbles a discussion arose about different schools, and Markey hit Smith. The magistrate staff d that the case was not serious, but bound Markey to be of •' good behaviour." Mr. J, P. McCraith, solicitor, of Dundalk, appeared for the defence, and protested against the application to such a case of Ihe machinery of the Coercion Act, as calculated to bring the law into contempt.

Xipperary.— By his will dated May 7, 1887, the Hon. Bowes Dalv, late of Kil'.ough Castle, Co. Tipperary, J.P., D.H., Higk Sheriff for County Tipperary, 1864, who died at Ream's Hotel, Dublin, a few weekß since, aged 73 years, appoints as executor his brother, the Hon. Skeffington Daly, of Kildare Street Club, Dublin, and the Hod. Robert Daly, of Folkestone, and bequeatheß to the Irish Society for promoting the Spiritual Instruction and Religious Education (tie) of Irish-speaking People. £150; to the Church Education Society, £250; to City of Dublin Hospital, St. Mark's Opthalncic Hospital, Convalescent Home, Stillorgan, and the Hospital for Incurable*, Dublin, each £200.

Dr. Croke broke a long continued silence by a brief address on the occasion of laying the corner stone of a new presbyttry at S iloghead, near the Limerick junction, and introducing tie new P.P., Rev. Thomas O'Dwyer, to biß paris ioners on July 29, Hit GrPC' 1 said to the people — '• You may count in the future, ai you did in the past, upon my willing co-operation with you in all yonr It guimate aims, and thus united, no power on earth, no psin or p-nalty whatever — neither the gaol nor the gibnet — can ever deter v* fn m thp pursuit of that measure of independence to which we are entitled, and t > th • attainment < f which we are irrevocably pledged." The {.TeiU'st enthusiasm p-evailed. "Waterford.— The Waterford City Grand Jury met on J»ly 23, and the following resolution was moved by Alderman Redmond, and passed :—" That we, the Grand Jury of the City «f Waterford, assembled on the 23rd July, 1888, entei our solem protest against the

conduct of the Government and tbe prison authorities of TuPamore Qhol, for the brutal, inhuman treatment of the late Mr. John Mandeville, and beg to say that such conduct is a disgrace to a Government professing to rule a people under the common principles of Christianity." Westmeatlt.— Stephen Hanery, of Creeve, near Mount Temple, on July 23, evicted his brother. Battering rams, bailiffs, and policemen were bro ght into requisition to effect it. Mr. Cooper, a Protestant farmer, was evicted from his 50 acre farm near Kavanagh Port, on August 1, by the agent of Lord Ardilaun. "Wexford.— On August 3, Pat Codd, Littlegraigne, County Wexford, accompanied by half a dozen policemen and two bailiffs, attempted to evict a labourer named James Pender and his family, living at Oldhall. Mrs. Pender, who is a delicate woman, at the sight of the agents of tbe law, fainted off, and continued in such a slate of nervous prof-tratinn tha- the eviction had to be abandoned. Very Rev. John Parker, P.P., Barntowa and Glynn, has just erected a splendid set of the Way of the Cross in Glynn. They are of a unique and chaste design of quarter f oile outline with figures in basßo relief set in cement panels. The colouring, which has been done by Messrs. Murphy, Wexford, is of the most superb kind. — Ten men were sentenced to a month's imprisonment on July 28 at the Wicklow Assizes for resisting eviction near Bathdrum. The Loughrea conspiracy cases were to have commenced at the Wicklow Assizes on July 30, but after an adjournment had been refused to the defence by the Attorney-General, counsel for tha prisoners challenged the array on tbe ground of misconduct by the Sheriff in respect of the panels returned. Judge O'Brien quashed the panel, and ordered a new one to be prepared for August 16. This entails a)6O tbe postponement of the cases arising out of the Belfast Insurance frauds.