STATE OF IRELAND.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 633, 8 February 1870, Page 4

STATE OF IRELAND.

; .The'iiewsifQinfirelandJs atill of a very nnsatisfactory character. The return of O'Donbvari Rossa for Tipper;iry has been celebrated in many parts of the south with popular rejoicings, torch-light processions, jwith bands and banners, and fireworks. The " national" journals speak of the Election as "an epoch in Ireland's history, a natiiftial ; :rt»surr.eptit>n > /and ;the-; death iwarrantl- of a«id..c(>nstitutional agitation " On Sunday night a constable was tired at at Stmdone, in the poimty of Cavan, and on Monday two men .wers remanded at jthe .same place oiv .a charge of conspiring to murder the Protestant rector. A few evenings ago a water jbailiff near Mallow fired a pistol loaded with I flank; cartridge at some men -fishing for salmon; in tl c ißLackwal^r, an.brder to jauirm them " arict 7rig|i!te|r'tKeiis' away! A ritie'shbt was instantiy fired : at him : f rPm : jthe opposite-si<le : iof ."the river 1 , with such true and deadly aim that the ball-graced; jhis face, .carrying away his upper .lip and ja ppiiiori;,of thegliin. iTlfe; man.: fell into jtEe liver'ari^'was "carrted down the stream' for some distance before he was rescued iby his companion. The poachers remained iat their work nntil they completed it, }D?hen^ tlieySiijokl their Jdepattprej in a ileisurdy manner. In the neighborhood of Kanturk, not far from the scene of this ioccurrence, there were no fewer than three ; incendiary fires on Sunday morning, the :property destroyed belonging, it is said, ■tober|6^VKp hßa^fefiVsed'or neglected Mo joiii in KBe rejoicings foi 'the^return of |O'Donovan Rossa. At Duridalk on M.on- : :day a. tenant-right meeting, presided over |by Loyd B'ellew, was abruptly brought to ■ a close}: by the arrival of "a Fenian [ mob, | who 'iaojki; possession of the 1 court-house, \ and drowned the voices of "the speakers by ; cheeian.Sf"'. "vociferously for "the Irish Republi^"^d " O'Donovan Rossa." Two peac4abr«?r .'tenant-right nieotings have| howev4ri.>b'een held, one at' Tnllamore, at which : Si;r. Patrick O'Brien; M.P., arid Mr David Slierlock, "M.P., were among the speakers, and another in Rosc6irimbn : , presided over by the high sheriff, r and.at which the O'Conor Don, M.-R, and tafe PJrbf gstani De^ri ot'iEb;)ljin spoke; L^Reso^ lutions in favor of ' ' Hxity of tenurfeV were ; passed atj.both meetings.