Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 13 January 1893, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

( Weekly Freeman, November 26.) Mb Labouohlebb, M.P., speaking at Chelsea on Monday, said if a subservient House of Lords carried out Lord Salisbury's threat to throw out the Home Rule Bill, he would like to se e a sufficient number of stalwarts added to the peerage to carry that Bill, and then to vote for the total abolition of that obnoxious body. The rumour that Mr John Morley is examining the musty political records of Dublin Castle for a new book on the Union, is, says the Globe, not quite accurate. We are informed from Dublin that the Chief Secretary is actually engaged at this work, but his object is to present some of those documents to Parliament as State papers concurrently with the introduction of the Home Rule Bill. An extraordinary act of heroism has been investigated by the committee of the Boyal Hnmaae Society, which has unanimously conferred its silver medal upon an Irishman, Thomas M'Dermott, chief boatswain of H.M.S. Swallow, for saving Charles Lawford of the same vessel under the following remarkable circumstances : ! —On September 9, at six p.m., the sailing cutter of the Swallow, while cruising off the south end of the Zanzibar Islands, anchored off Uzl Island, when half the men landed, leaving Mr M'Dermott, John Sadler, H. Payne, Charles Lawford and W. Bendle, A.B. seamen, in the boat. Lawford and Payne jumped overboard and were bathing, when a large shark was seen making towards Lawford. The shark was only four or five feet off when, without hesitation, and not divesting himself of any of his clothes, M'Dermott plunged into the sea, " right on top of the shark," and with the splash he made frightened it away for a short time, while the men were quickly drawn into the boat. M'Dermott suffered nothing from the immersion and but for his prompt action Lawford must have lost bis life. Recently a force of forty police accompanied an eviction party consisting of Mr Jackson, Lord Dillon's agent, and four bailiffs, who proceeded to Brußhfield, a place about two miles south of Charles-

assembly the most gratifying and notable to me was 1 the perfect unanimity of the delegates. One of the most eloquent proofs of this was the reception of tha old leaders. In these sad days, when no service, no suffering, no proof of disinterestedness renders a public man safe from the imputation of the basest motives and the most dishonourable, one never knows what reception will be given, even in a friendly assembly, to men who a few years ago ware the idols of every Irish heart, It was, therefore, with some anxiety as well as curiosity that I watched the reception which was accorded to such men as Mr Davitt, Mr Dillon, Mr Sexton, Mr Healy, and Mr O'Brien, and I can say distinctly and emphatically that the reception of these gentlemen was as warm, as loving, and as enthusiastic as it ever was in the course of the last twelve years. For the time, at least, it looked as if all the sadness and division of the last two years had disappeared as a spectral nightmare of bad, evil dreams, that we had got back once more to the good old days when every Irishman belonged to the same party, believed in the same means, and loved the same leaders. Mr Frank James has been turned out of Walsall on an election petition. In the short summary of the judgment, just to hand, the specific and technical reasons are not very technically set oat. Bat from the reports of the evidence of the previous days it is quite plain that the Licensed Vintners on behalf of tha OoercionUt saturated the constituency with drink. The malpractices fortunately were brought home to the agents of the successful candidate. In Bait Manchester the drink argument was also largely offered and eagerly swallowed. But it was found impossible to bring it direotly home to the oandi> date, Mr Balfour, or his agents. There is good hope ot winning the vacant seat, and thus counter-balancing the lobs of Oirencester and bringing the Home Bule Government back to its General Election majority of forty. The seat was strongly Liberal. In 1885 it was carried by a Liberal majority of 1,677. In 1886 the Home Buler was returned unopposed. At the bye-election of August, 1891, there was a Liberal majority of 539. But in 1892, to the surprise of all who were not in the " know," the Coercionists secured a majority of 817. The mystery is now entirely explained. Mr James was the;reprjesen«

such a statement was given by the Irish Party, and required by the Irish people, should silence the Tory slanders against tbe honesty and business capacity of both, and in tbe second place Irish members were expressly enjoined by resolution to be in their places throughout next session, not merely to support the Home Bale Bill but to further English reforms.

town, for the purpose of carrying out evictions on Lord Dillon's estate. A man named Tfaos Farrell, who has a wife and five children, was evicted. His holding is eight acres in extent, the rent being £4 2s. The tenant is suffering from paralysis, and has not been at work for eight years. For most of that time he was confined to bed. The eldest of the children is aged 12 years, and it has been a hard struggle for existence for the family for a number of years. The furniture was thrown into the yard. The bedstead was broken before being removed. The evicting party, who came provided with crowbars and hatchets, Beemed inclined to proceed to raze the house to the ground when possession had been taken. They took the crowbars and hatchets off the cars, but desisted when they were informed that police protection would not be afforded them in the work of demolition. In eight other cases settlements were arrived at. CharlestowD, Wednesday.— To-day the evictions on Lord Dillon's estate were continued at Leecarrow, in Carracastle parish, two miles from Charlestown. Fifty police accompanied the evicting party. A settlement was made in three cases. In the case of Michael Doherty three half-years' rent was offered but not accepted. The house was cleared, the bedsteads cut down with hatchets, and all removed. Orders were given to level the house. The poor fellow begged time to search for money from a neighbour, but returned to find the walls of Mb house shattered by the crowbar. The next case was that of Frank Gavaghan, whose rent is £4 3s, the eldest of his family of five being only eight years. He could only offer three half-years' rent, which wonld not be accepted. The house was ordered to be levelled. Everything was removed in a broken state from the house, the crowbars being driven into the walls, and in five minutes the roof fell in, and ths house was rased to the ground. It was lamentable to listen to the screams of the children when they Baw the roof falling, and the mother standing by with an infant in her arms. Indignation was manifested by the neighbours standing by. One ot the evicting party presented a revolver and swore that he would shoot them if they did not desist. Mr T. P. O'Connor contributes a highly graphic and interesting account of the great Qonveation in Dublin in yesterday's Sunday Bun, Io the courte of it he says :— " Of all the features of the

tatirs of the beer barrels, which, though they have no votes themselves, are a cause of voting in others. There should be little difficulty in a Home Ruler aeain recapturing the seat. The result of the petition and the two prior elections plainly show that the «<msti« tuency in its normal and sober condition is Liberal. At the next election the beer barrels will be banged up, and this stimulus to Coercion being withdrawn, the Ooercioniet is in the gravest danger. There is good ground for hoping that next session will be brilliantly inaugurated by a Home Rule victory at Walsall. The Speaker, in the course of an article on the Convention, say 8 : — The great Convention of the Irish National Federation on Tuesday last comes at an opportune moment. Mr Redmond's magazine articles and his spectacular poses have blinded many Englishmen to the relative proportions of the two sections of Irish Nationalists; Like Mr Keir Hardie, Mr Bedmoad has been too much talked about. It is time to recall people to the realities of Irish life. There are seventy-two Nationalist members and only nine Bedmondttes. Ths leader of the nine may absorb more Parliamentrry time next session than the leader of the seventy -two. The leader of any section whose action is uncertain will always be listened to with more attention than is due to either his speeches or hia following. But small sections are not so novel as they once were in Parliament, and the interest in Mr Redmond's speeches will gradually decline when it is once understood that the permanent forces of Irish life are with the seventy-two and not with the nine. The convention of delegates which assembled on Tuesday represented these permanent forces. The farmers were there in great numbers. Ireland is, and probably always will be, an agricultural country, and the men who till the soil must therefore be a ruling element among the industrial classes. The town labourers of Ireland, though their patriotism is fervid, have never given the same steady force sud direction to the movement. There are Bedmondites in Dublin just as there arc still Bonlangista in Paris, bat the peasant in each country has given np the roses and raptures, and has become reconciled to drab-coated Parliamentarianism. Tht party presented to the convention a fall audited account of all the funds raised since the split. No other political party has ever given inch a complete financial statement, and the Dust that