A MOMENTOUS ANNOUNCEMENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 20, 6 September 1889, Page 11

A MOMENTOUS ANNOUNCEMENT.

-♦_ ( United Ireland. July 13 ) Mb. Pabnell authorise* us to announce thai a Tenant's League ivill be firmed immediately to protect the tenants against the Combination of the Landlords This League mill be the official act of tlw whole Irish Parti/, and will shortly be established at a Convention. The announcement which we make above is perhaps tbe rcnst important that has ever emana'ed from the illustrious Irish Leader. It will bring joy to-day to the huts and cab'nt of Irish tenants evicted or trembling on the verge of eviction in erery corner of the country, and terror to the organised camp of the evictore. Th> rackrenters have brought their ft'e upon themselves. They have ace >pt°d the leadership of Mr. Smith-Barry. They have entered into a league and a conspiracy with him to crush, if they can, the tenants whose devoted struggle has saved the remainder of the Irish tenantry from rain. Not content with leaving individual rack-renters, eupuor.ed by Mr. Balfour's battering-ram armies and drum-head Coercion Courts, to carry on their own obstinate war upon the combination wnich was protecting tbe unhappy tenants on certaii isolated estates, they have organised the whole forces of landlordism into a vendetta for the purpose of aiding and inching every rack-renter in the land to exterminate d outrance. They have sought for funds amongst tbu enemies of the Irish people. They have advertised a programme : The ■ atholic tenants are to bi swjpt away ; " Loyil Pro.estants," as in the days of James and Williim, are to be "panted " in their places ; and one estate after the other is to he proce ded against, so as to Fap the union amongst the tenants which is their only source of strength. They have selected Mr. Smith-Barry as their leader, and they have pointed to his intetferenoe on the Poosonby estate as the model of the course of action they propose to pu sue. We do not deny that this is a combination as formidable as it is wicked ; and if the threatened tenants were left alone to face it, there might be reason for anxiety on their behalf. But Mr. Smith-Barry and his friends have reckoned without their host. If tbe Irish landlords have determined to "stand or fill together," they have now to learn what it means for the Irish tenants, as tbe corollary of that resolution, to oome to a similar determination. They have now to learn, what apparently did not occur to them before, that, if they propose to array all the organised might of landlordism as?aicst a few groups of tenants, it is no longer a few groups of tenants they will have to deal with, but the organised might of all the tenantry of Ireland, with the leaders of the Irish people fit their head, and the treasury of the Irish race at their back. The announcement of Mr. Parnell which we publish to-day iB the reply to the declaration of war which the head of tbe Ponsonby syndicate made to the deputation of the lipperary tenants last week ; just as a no less important announcement, the trumpet-blast of the great Archbishop of Casbcl, was tbe answer to the first operations of the syndicate battering-ram amongst the bom is'eads of the Ponsonby estate. The Irish people have reason to be thankful for the blind malignity of their enemies— to be thankful for the dementia with which Providence has eeiß'd them. It is in these extraordinary conjunctions of affairs, resulting in consequences uif jreseen by all partws, that one beholds the manifestations if an Intelligence above th) intellueuce of men. Mr. Smuh- Barry's action in vindictively interfering between the landlord and the tenan's on the Ponsonby estate at the moment when tbe tenants' representative and the landlord's representative were on the point of ratifying a settlement, ba* suddenly ere ited, as if by a touch of mag c, a situation which it would pass the wit of tbe greatest politician to devise ; a situation in which it is possible for the leader of the Irish people with the whole Irish party at his back, to construct acombinvi >n which br.ngs the cause of the Irish tenant exactly on a parity with the cause of the English Trades-Unionist ; a situation whicli removes the last crux of mi understanding, the last shade of dissimilarity, between Irian and Bnglieh defensive combinations ; a situation which simplifies everything tj the densest or the most reluctant understanding, which solves into a single clear issue all the complicated qnestionsof a previous state of things ; a situation which fixes th s attention and excites tbe imagination of tbe world, and which completes the solidarity of the Irish people, while pla ing their enemies in tbe wrong beyond the aid of sophistry and falsehood for evermore. We btaall do no more to-day than publish tbe above announcement. It is news big enough for many heraldingp.

As two Little Sisters of tbe Poor were passiug through the Central MaTket at Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago, they stopped in front of a huckster's waggon and asked the proprietor for a contribution for their home, The huckster, a vile, bigoted wretch, deliberate'y spit tobacco juice in the face of one of the Sisters. Tbe good Sister mil not resent tbe insult in any wav, but calmly took out her handkerchief, and wiping the spittle from her face, remarked to tbe brute : •' You have Riven me this for myself, now please give me something for my poor." The bystanders, witnessing the ruffianly conduct cf the huckster, and the Christian charity and humility displayed by the Sinters, in right ems indignation spilled tbe contents of bis waggon over the street and drove him with imprecations from t ho. market, and thi* other hucksters in toe vicinity lotded tbe Sisters' baskets to overflowing. A vein of iron ore, nine miles in length and an average thickness of seventeen feet, has been discovered near Birmingham, Ala.

Tbe Governor of Missouri has signed a bill which prohibits music, cards, dice, billiard-tables, bowling alleys and boxing gloves in saloons after July 1.

Mrs, Mary Brady of Vanhorn street, Jerfey City, is a common scold, according to a verdict retd--red by a jury in the Hu isoc Oourt of Sessions lately. It is the first time in that county, if not in th ; State, that a jury has pronounced a woman a publ.c nuisance hocnu=e of the volubility of her tongue. Under the old common law tbe penalty was ducking in a pond, but (he present state law prescribes imprisonment not exceeding two ycara or a fine in the discretion ot the Court,