NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2189, 2 March 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

We take the following items from the Argus ” London correspondence : LORD STANLEY “BOYCOTTED.”

A now phase of “ Boycotting ” has been reached. At first, the landlord or the agent obnoxious to the Land T-eague was the victim; then it was applied to tradesmen and servants having dealings with the denounced persons, but now the system is being extended to obnsxious guests visiting at private houses. A special correspondent of the “ Standard ” reports that Lord Stanley of Alderley, an English nobleman, who has been spending the Christmas holidays at the house of a friend in Ireland, has been “ Boycotted.” Ennistymon-house, county Clare, is the residence of Mrs Maonamara, widow of the late Colonel Macnamara, and one of the most popular ladies in Clare. The Maonamaras are an old Irish family, whose sympathies have always been with the people, and until just recently no circumstance has arisen to interrupt this feeling of good relationship. Indeed, it is not even now so much the owners of Bnnistymon house against whom the popular movement has been directed, as against an honored guest of the family. L ird Stanley is neither an Irish landlord, nor does he live in the country; but ho has been guilty of the heinous crime of expressing his views on the Irish question in a letter published in a London newspaper. This communication not being favorable to the operations of the Land League, it has been denounced by the press organs of that organisation, and the author held up to public execration. In his letter Lord Stanley compared the Irish assassins to Thugs, and for this offence he was denounced at the weekly meeting of the local branch of the Land League, also at a public indignation meeting, while the parish priest, Father Newell, actually told the correspondent of the" Standard’’ that for exercising such freedom of speech in Ireland Lord Stanley “ would have been burned in effigy, and something more.” One of the speakers at the indignation meeting recommended that should Lord Stanley appear in the village of Enniatymon he ought to be hooted ; and the parish priest was vehement in condemnation of the noble lord. The natural result of this inflammatory speaking is that threatening letters have been written, and Ennistymonhouse has been menaced with " Boycotting. ” Several traders in the village received notices warning them of the consequences should they continue to supply their goods to the “big house.” So popular, however, is the Maonamara family that the traders, to their credit, have refused to respond to the menaces of the secret coercionists. “ Would Lord Stanley bo groaned at it ho appeared in the streets of Enniatymon ?” asked the correspondent of the priest. “ Ah, well, you know,” was the reply, “ there are a number of people in the village who might groan him, perhapsadding with energy, “But 1 think a man who libelled the Irish

I people as he has done deserves to be hooted. With this detestable and dangerous state of feeling prevailing, it was thought advisable to apply to Mr Poster for protection. Four constables are regularly stationed at Bnnistymon, and four more have been sent._ Thus, as the correspondent remarks, “ eight members of the constabulary are deemed sufficient to protect a district removed by a journey of several hours from any town or railway station, scantily represented by the Protestant element, and with national and religious hatred acting in conjunction with the desire to pay no rent, producing a league whose weapons are terror, denunciation, and outrage. OUTRAGES AND PLOTS. There are ominous signs abroad of a revival of Fenian activity. Stories of the most daring and diabolical attempts are coming in daily from ail parts of the kingdom, and the Land League appears to be calling to its aid the emissaries ‘of fire, explosions, and assassinations. Rumors have for some time been current that since the Land League was founded by the Fenian Davitt, acting in conjunction with another Fenian in New York, named Devoy, the secret societies in England connected with the “veiled rebellion,” have been galvanised into unwonted activity. The police, it is said, have long been aware of the dangerous position of affairs. Within the last week reports have come from Sunderland, from Leamington, and from Birmingham, of discoveries that attempts were to be made by Fenian conspirators to seize upon the armouries of the volunteers of those great centres. To allay public alarm, denials in two of these cases have been published, but it cannot be denied that the arms and ammunition of the Birmingham corps have been removed to the police barracks, and that extraordinary precautions are being elsewhere taken by the Government, It is notorious that arms are being extensively smuggled into Ireland ; occasionally seizures are made, as in the case of the steamer Juno a few weeks ago, but large quantities in the aggregate contrive to elude the vigilance of the authorities. A brisk secret trade in arms is carried on between Birmingham and Ireland. Great numbers of old Enfields were disposed of by the War Office early last year at absurdly low prices, and it is stated that they were bought up by the agents of the Fenian organisations in England. These weapons are being gradually converted into breechloaders at 7s Bd each, and secretly exported in small quantities to Ireland, where they are used for the propagation of the “ Irish terror.” It is felt that in the present crisis it is the imperative duty of the Government to take measures to check this export, especially as the buyers and sellers on both sides of the Channel are believed to be well known to the authorities. A Darlington correspondent telegraphs ; “ Special precautions are being taken at Sunderland in consequence of an anonymous intimation received by Major Reid, 3rd Durham Rifles, that an attack by a body of * Irish ’ upon the local volunteer armoury was meditated. In accordance with orders from the War Department a special guard has been on duty at the garrison all the week. The locks have been taken off the 400 rifles in the Volunteer stand, so that they would be useless if seized. Extra guards are also stationed at the regular barracks and at the training ship.” A dock laborer named Dynan, who was suspected of being an informer against the Fenians, was deliberately shot in his own house in Cork last Saturday night. Two men called about nine o’clock in the evening, and in answer to their knock Dynan went to the door, when, after the exchange of a few words, a revolver was fired at his head, dangerously wounding him. His de position has been taken, but he declares that he does not know his assailant.

Four arrests have been made of persons suspected of the murder, or complicity with tho murder, of Lord Mountmorres. Three were captured at Olonbur, bearing the names of Michael and William Burke and John Hanberry, and the fourth, believed to be the actual assassin, Patrick Hennelly, aged twentythree, was apprehended at Tipton, South Staffordshire, and taken back to Ireland. A clue to the identification of the murderer was furnished in a letter from young Hennelly to his father, which came into the possession of the police. After the arrest was made it was thought that Hennelly was the man who was wanted for the atrocious murder at Solihull, near Birmingham, but the identity has not been established. A Government reward of £SOO has been offered for such evidence as will lead to the conviction of the person who fired at the Rsv. Canon Fleming ns he was returning from divine service at Tully. An extraordinary gunpowder explosion occurred in Dublin last Sunday night at the house of aMr Aylmer. At the time there was a dance party in the drawingroom. Several people were thrown to the gronnd, and all the windows broken.

Collisions between the police and mobs, especially when the former are engaged in the protection of process-servers, are of daily occurrence in different parts of the country. In several oases the constabulary have been obliged to charge the rioters with fixed bayonets, and in one instance they were ordered to fire upon the infuriated crowd. A constable named O’Neill reports that as he was riding in the neighborhood of Swinford he met a party of eighty men armed with guns, who were driving cattle and sheep before them. The constable was fired at twice with revolvers.

A disturbance occurred near Foxtord, county Mayo, in consequence of an attempt to serve notices upon tenant-farmers to quit their holdings. The process-server, named Darkan, was guarded by a force of eighty constabulary, armed with rifles. About a thousand people assembled, and the two parties met at Bullyaghan bridge over the Biver May. The police held the bridge while Darkan, guarded by an escort, crossed. The people, however, went in pursuit through the water, and attempted to seize the process-server. To keep them back, the constabulary were compelled to charge with fixed swords. The people retaliated by flinging stones, and two constables were severely wounded. LOSS OF A SHIP AND EIGHT LIVES. [From the “ Overland Mail,” January 14th,] The West India steamer Para, which arrived at Plymouth on January 10th, brought news that the barque Fontabelle, Captain Nixon, which left Plymouth, in the West Indies, a short time before for London, was wrecked the same night, eight lives being lost with her. It seems that the strong current set the barque toward the reef off Saltmarsh, outside Falmouth, Within a short distance of the reef the anchor was let go. Hearing of the perilous position of the Fontabelle, Captain Hopewell, of the Medina, Captain Wooley, of the Dundee, both of which vessels were at Falmouth, and Captain Defriez, the harbormaster, went on board the unfortunate barque. Three more anchors were put out, but with no effect, for soon after a strong gale came on, when the Fontabelle dragged her anchors, and was driven upon the reef. Mrs Nixon, Captain Nixon, Captain Hopewell, Captain Wooley, and Captain Defriez, and the whole of the crew, were carried into the sea. Captain Defriez, Nixon (son of the captain), Mrs Nixon, Mr Martin (chief officer), Keeler, Thomas, Cardwell, and McNeil succeeded in reaching the reef in an exhausted condition. Captains Nixon, Hopewell, and Wooley, and seamen Dixon, Anbey, Canton, Ginder, and Murphy were drowned. TBRBIBLB GAS EXPLOSION. (From the “ Overland Mail,” Jan. 14th.) A terrible explosion occurred in Glasgow while a number of families were celebrating the Now Year. A large quantity of gas, which is supposed to have come from a broken main pipe, having accumulated underneath the flooring of the ground flat of a house in Henderson street, a comparatively new district in the north-west quarter, William McCulloch, an occupant of one of the houses, obtained the assistance of two police constables and a neighbour named Hugh Raid, a gasfltter, to see where the escape was. While they were thus employed the gas ignited, and there was a tremendous explosion, followed by two slighter ones. The bodies of William McCulloch and Hugh Reid was soon found amongst the ruins, but life was extinct. The mother of Hugh Beid, who had come from Kilmarnock to visit her son, was afterwards found and removed to a neighbor’s house, but she afterwards died. Raid’s little girl, Jeannie, sged four years, was carried out and taken to the Western Infirmary, and she died in the afternoon, while his wife, who was only found after she had been embedded in the ruins for nearly eight hours, died the same evening, making in all five deaths. The houses are so shaken and torn that they have had to be propped up, and upwards of twenty families have been made houseless, no fewer than eight having lost nearly all their furniture besides.