Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 20 January 1893, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

(WeeJily Freeman, December 3.) WB understand that the newjelection in South Meath cannot take plaoe until next year. The judges will report to the Speaker of the Home of Commons, who will issue a writ aa soon as Parliament meets. Parliament will meet on January 31st. The next election will be fought on the register which comes into force on January Ist next. The recent revision was stiffly contested and the Nationalists claim to hare largely improved their position. So far there will be three coßtesta— Walsalf, Hexham, and South Meath— owing to election petitions. -East Clare and North Meath are still pending in Ireland and several are pending in England. The anniversary of the execution of the Manchester Martyrs was celebrated in Tipperary by an imposing demonstration organised by the William O'Brien and the Sarsfield Fife and Drum Bands. The people marohed in procession to St John's Cemetery, where Mr Hendel B. O'Brien, P.L.G., delivered an eloquent oratioo. The people then returned to Dillon street. New Tipperary, where a magnificent meeting was held. The chair was occupied by the Rev Dr Humphreys, who delivered an eloquent and spirited, stirring speech. After referring to the heroism of the brave Manchester Martyrs, he ■aid the time bad come to erect a suitable memorial to their memory He would start a fund to raise such a memorial and would himself give a contribution of £3. Mr Wm London, of Kilteely, a '67 man, having also addressed the meeting, a committee to carry out Father Humphrey's suggestion was appointed with Mr J. V. Burke, 0.8., as secretary. A splendid Nationalist meeting was held on Sunday at Balcarra, lour miles from Castlebar, The principal business of the meeting was to discuss the impending evictions on the property of Miss Pringle and other landlords of the coanty. Father Colleran, CO., Balla, presided. Mr Crilly, M.P., attended and delivered a stirring speech. Mr Deasy, M.P., was announced to attend, but a telegram

void. It was a case of Primrose teas. Notwithstanding that whitkjf wa9 thrown in with the " high tea," Mr Clayton's majority was only 82. Hexham was one of those constituencies that Home Bule did not frighten in 1886. In that year the Home Bale majority was 957 — enough for anything. It probably led to the Liberals treating tbe ten ptrty with contempt. Now that six montbi have gone by since the feasting, the way is clear for the advocattt of progress and reform again. A majority of 82, with its foundation laid on cnrrant cake, should not be difficult to demolish. Now that the cake ba» been paid for, conscience may receive its dne. The usual weekly meeting of tbe council of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language took place on Ynaiday, 29th November, Count Plunket, 8.L., M.R.1. A., in the chair, Miv Ellen Hoban, assistant-teacher of Leitra Female National Sohtol, Glenamaddy, Galway, wrote :— " I beg to inform you that, as a tVK.it cf the annual examination held last July in special subjects, I havt Obtained a certificate for teaching the Irish language, and, as this is aft Iriihspeaking locality, I purpose to be able to bring up about twenty pupils in Irish for whom I expect to obtain results." Mr Michael Keating, of Kilbaba National School, Carrigaholt, County Clare wrote stating that he also had obtained a certificate to teach Irlifc, Mr James O'Sullivan, of Lisgoold National School, Midleton, County Cork, and Mr D. O'Sullivan, of Shelbourne National School, Kenmare, County Kerry, wrote concerning the National Board's programme in Irish and Irish publications. Mr Charles M 'Car thy, of Killeagh, County Cork, forwarded a communication in Irish and a copy of s> poem in Irish which he found in an old MSS. Interesting letters, dealing with the study of Irish and the promotion of.Celtic literature, were read. A correspondent writes :— On Thursday evening when they bad their day's work concluded as on the previous days at 6 o'clock, the officials of tha parties working the Achill line lighted torches and. asked the men to work till 7 o'clock, or if not that they would be liable to dismissal. They should work 70 hours per week at the Bame rate of pay . Tbe men ceased working tfcen and said they were willing to wors 60 hours at 2s 6d per day, or else work by the hour as in.

Was received from him announcing that he was unable to do so owing to the illness of his mother. Mr Wm O'Brien, M.P., wrote regreting his inability to attend. Resolutions were passed requesting the Congested Districts Board to purchase either voluntarily or by compulsion the large grass farms in the county and migrate to them tbe Occupiers of the congested districts, calling on the landlords to recognise the depression of tbe times by granting substantial abatements and abolishing arrears, and expressing the willingness of the tenants on the Pringle estate to leave their case to arbitrators, om arbitrator to ba selected by Miss Pringle and the other by the tenants. At the meeting of the Armagh Board of Guardians on Tuesday — Major Stronge, J.P., presiding— Mr Robt Dobbs, Unionist, mentioned that at the laßt meeting of the Board a resolution from the Mountmeliick Union was adopted, but by an oversight no directions were given to have it sent anywhere. He now moved that copies of the resolution be sent to Mr W. E. Gladstone, Mr Herbert Gladstone, Mr John Morley, Mr E. M'Hugh, M.P. ; Mr T. W. Rus-ell, Mr Barton, and Col Baunderson, M.P. 'a Mr Henry Williamson, Unionist Beconded the resolution, and in doing co said that if the rents were not reduced the farmers would have to resort to combination. The resolution was adopted. This (Tuesday) afternoon a public meeting of tenant farmers waß held in the Temperance Hall, Banbridge, " for the purpose of asking tbe landlords for a reduction of rents for the present year owing to the wet season, failure of crops, and low prices of cattle." Rev J. D. Martia, Presbyterian minister, of Moynaity, was called to the chair, and there also present, Rev James Scott, Rev Joseph Demp■ter, and Rev J. M'Key, who all spoke in support of the resolutions. A letter was read from Rev John Barnett explaining his absence and expressing sympathy with the objects of the meeting. The resolutions urged upon the Government the necessity of reducing the judicial rents on a scale proportionate to present prices, as in the Act of 1887, with the addition that the amount of produce be taken into consideration as well as prices. Anffher Tory has been unseated for corrupt practices. On Tuesday Mr Clayton, the member pro tern for Hexham, was declared guilty through this agent, and accordingly his election declared

England and Scotland. The officials refused this, and the workingmen went on the waggons as usual to be carried homeward as far as the locomotive was going, but they were refased this privilege and had to walk home. Some of them had to go twelve Irish miles. The men working on the above railway ate all the poor tenants of the place, and have no other way to support themselves but on the railway, aa there are no prices for cattle and they had such bad harvests and potato crops. The calculating cruelty and greed of the conspiracy of extermination in which the Irish landlords are at present engaged is indignantly exposed in letters from Mr William O'Brien and Mr John Dillon regarding the evictora' campaign in Mayo. In the history of landlordism there is nothing more infamous than this last performance. It is a piece of cold-blooded inhumanity in which stupidity is but the secondary motive. From the moment the Coercion Government was driven from office at the command of the people of the Three Kingdoms, the Irish landlords at once made \t plain that their game was exaction and disturbance. As it is well put by Mr William O'Brien in his letter, their calculation seems to be this : Either the tenants will submit and the landlords will gather in their undiminished rackrents in what is almost a famine season or human nature will rebel and the Home Rule Government will be overwhelmed with taunts of disorder in Ireland. Even while he is writing comes proof how justly he appreciates the situation, Mr Goschen gloats over the evictions in Ireland, and tannts the Government with being compelled to grant protection to the landlords' inhuman campaign. In very truth the Irish landlords are tha arbiters of outrage and disturbance in Ireland. Now, crime and di«» turbance are wanted by the Coercionists in Ireland, and, though nek expressed in words — hardly, perhaps, acknowledged in thought tb* landlords are expected to create disturbances in Ireland and tha expelled Coercion Miaisters are to exploit themselves in England. Low? Sligo, by the heartless evictions in Mayo, supplies the material fo f the lurid periods of Mr Goschen in London, The conspiracy isstmpd j as it is brutal, it gives the English people credit for too much duUne d 8 and insensibility. Mr William O'Brien and Mr John Dillon are lig n t, in their belief that the facts of the latest campaign have but to De

known in England to evoke a barst of indignation that will bring the evictors and their abettors to their senses.