IRISH AFFAIRS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1754, 31 January 1888, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS

(PHR PB_.*B ASSOCIATION.)

Loir oon, Jan nary 29. The Liberal and Radical Unions bave made arrangements to give a re* ception to Messrs W. O'Brien and Sullivan, late Lord Mayor of Dublin. The programme drawn up includes an im mense procession to Hyde Park of sympathisers and supporters • f the Irish agitators, and a banquet m honor of Messrs O'Brien and Sullivan will be given m the evening. The day fixed for the demonstration is Monday, February 13th.

Dcbltn, January 25) Mr Cox, M.P., has been sentenced at Ennis to four months' hard labor for being concerned m a meeting which had been "proclaimed." Notice of appeal was given.

Disturbing news has been received from Donegal. The peasants m some of the vllages where evictions are about to take place threaten to destroy the bridges m order to impede the march of the police.

Mr Hayden, editor of the "Westraeath Advertiser," has been convicted on a charge of inciting, and sentenced to three months' ha*rd labor.

Mr Wilfrid Blunt, since his release from gaol, has been under medical treatment for rheumatism, but has now almost recovered.

The charges against Father McFadden and Alex Blame, M.P., for making speeches m favor of the Plan o' C .mp*ign at Queedore, have been partly hcird ancl po^tp mcd. Stringent p-CiU!i'>iary nvMsur.^s were taken agii.'s jo imtbu-ak, ani 750 military ard polio, were mass-d ai Dunf.n. hy, wher-' gr l; at excitement previibd. Thf miti ary excluded (he peasantry from the town during the trial.

KDiM-nKOH J u»ry 3* Dr Tanner, M.P. for Mid-Cork, is a C d n dressel STS* addresses on Home Rule. "■"———■ — — —