AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 4, 30 May 1883, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

(Per Mail Steamer) At the Phoenix Park trials a sensation was created m the Court when Patrick Delaney and Thomas Caffrey were arraigned on May, 3rd. They pleaded guilty to the charges made against them, and both were sentenced to be hanged on June 2nd. Before 1 Caffrey pleaded he was informed that the Crown gave no hope for a mitigation of the sentence of the death which would be passed upon him. When De'auey pleaded,, he added, "I was brought into this at first foolishly, not knowinsr what it was; and I was forced from my work to go to the Park v , We had to obey the orders of the Society or take the consequence. When I got into the Park I could not get away, X saw the murders committed but took no part iv them. The murders wero committed by Joe Brady and Timothy Kelly, and by nobody else." When Caffrey was placed m the dock his face wore a smile. The consequence of pleading guilty was for a second time explained to him m open Court, but he persisted m his plea, and noon being asked if he bad anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, he replied. " All I have got to say, standing on the brink of the grave, is that I did not know what was going to happen until ten minutes before the murders were committed. I was bound to go the Park under pain of death." These confessions have strengthened the hands oi the Government and carried dismay to the agitators. The sympathisers m the United States are wholly dispirited. .In Carey's examination by Joe Brady's lawyer during the Phceuix Park murder trials, Brady's connsel elicited that Carey, while plotting the murders with the other men, was a member of a society which receives the v Sacrament at stated periods, tie bad for 16 years been working for wages averaging £2 per week, and m 1882 bad 90 tenants occupying his va/ious houses. Finally he said he. had been informed by Mallow, the chief of detectives, that if his evidence should be freely given to the State, and be confirmed by others, he and hie i brothers would be pardoned. i The Dublin Freemans Journal says that the dynamite <plofc' .Was betrayed te the British Consulate m New York, and .the name of every conspirator who came to England, »nd the ship on which he sailed, cabled to England directly after the vessel left .New York, and the police ; watched the conspirators from, the moment they landed m England. Ihe Journal adds that members of the Governing Council could alone have given Butih information. The Parnell testimonial fund reaHsedJc(AprU'3oth, ;£HOQ. ,■ Lady Mountmorris and Mrs Bake have been awarded. £3ooo each, com-* pensation for; the. murder ot -their husband^.. . v . , „; \ ■ The. Irish 5 : "NAjtionalist League, : , m London r are raising a fund for the -relief, of. the families of those, who have fled the country or, been arrested; m cpnnection with; murders: m Ireland. 600, families are said to be destitute. : i jjiTheipplice have evidence: that James Garey was implicated^ m the murder of .XajLbot ;the, : police, informer, ■ Clark the Fenian informer, and the attempted : murder of Murphy, broker, of the Irish (people. . , : . ,