IRISH TROUBLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 19, 20 December 1883, Page 2

IRISH TROUBLES.

No public meeting of the National League was held anywhere ih Ireland on the 28th October, tho Government haying fordidden them. Some disorders occurred at Castle Lyon, County Cork, ' where the police, with fixed bayonets, charged upon, a procession, breaking it up arid capturing banners and musical instruments. When the police withdrew the military meeting- was held, and the purpose of the League m parteffected. ... Michael Davitt has expressed privately and publicly his dissatisfaction with tie want of support that Irish people are showing towards the National League, and states that neither Mr . Parnell uor his following are .making any serious efforts to carry the resolu- • tions into effect that were passed a year ago* -*by the National Conference held m Dnblin, The Londonderry Hall, m which the Lord Mayor of Dublin was. to' deliver an address on Ist November, was taken possesion of by Orangemen, who held it. Upon the arrival of the Mayor m Athe city, he was driven to his hotel, his escort carrying 'green banners and the liands playing Bish national f airs. During tbe passage of the procession a man and a boy was shot. The Orangemen planted the Union Jack on. the roof of the City Hall. Later^ they vacated the building ..and withdrew from the vicinity. The Mayor of Londonderry issued a proclamation appealing to the people to refrain from violence and, retaliation. Tbe chief originator of this rowdyism was Lord Ernest Hamilton, son of the Duke of Abercorn. The Times and. Tory journals applaud the Orangemen, arid Radicals call for their prosecution. The whole business has immensely strengthened the National party m Dublin. The Lord, Mayor's visit has caused the Irish Government much uneasiness. The disorders incident to the Lord Mayor's visit did not cease on his departure. Hostilities between National* ists and Orangemen continued, and the breaking of windows was general. A Nationalist was stabbed on the 3rd. Several hundred factory -"women went on strike on the same day because tho proprietor refused to discharge a man m the factory who moved m the Corporation to rescind a resolution granting permission to the .Lord Mayor of Dnblin to lecture/ m the Town Hall. They paraded the streets* crying " (xod save Ireland." They were attacked and stoned by a mob, which they fought desperately until they werfe finally dispersed by the police. An investigation into the cause of the disturbance will be held. ' A) bailiff was shot dead on /Ist Nov. ih a house at Castle - Blarney, Galway, The Archbishop and priasts of Tjiam have come out fiercely against "assisted" emigration, and Government announces that not more than .£50,000 will be spent for this purpose. The Cabinet having hinted to _Jarl Spencer that tbe policy of proclaiming League meetings, on the : assumption that they will be attacked by Orangemen, cannot be approved, the LordLieutenant, has takeu great umbrage, and threatens to resign if his policy is interfered with. There is great excitement throughout Lough rea m consequence of the wholesale system of evictions pub into operation there on the 9th November, and the result has. been the revival, of feuds between Orangemen and Nationalists. Lord Spencer's prohibition of the Orange and Purnell meeting- m Dublin on the 12th November, is bitterly denounced by the National' 'Press m ♦Dublin and London as a su- render to' the Orange-faction. . c. L THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY* t EXPLOSION. xyX-iiyy. About 8 o'clock.of thSie'vefiing of the 30th October a terrible explosion occurred near tho Praed-street Aunderground station of the Metropolitan Railway, London. A cable., message, describing the occurrence says : — On the first alarm a strong cordon of police* were summoned to preserve order, to > keep the way clear, and convey the wounded, people to. the hospital. Passengers on the train at the scene of the explosion say it was suddenly a loud report like a cannon ; then suddenly darkness, the gas HgJitss from the rear of the train being put out. * Glass was .broken, and splinters of wood flew about the "cars,- cutting arid W6*_hd_i^ l many passengers. AboVe the din were heard the shrieks of the injured and panicstricken people. All this occurred m a moment, aud for a while confusion reigned supreme. The train, which J was crowded, contained principally country visitors returning from the Fisheries Exhibition. After leaving ; the station the train- 'travelled steadily [ ahea->-although the concussion smashed i nearly all the lamps m the I*raed*strest station, and caused much damage to ; the permianent wayy When i! the *' train reached the next station*'* Edgeware- ! road the first effort was made to rescue , : the wounded "_. 'ebine -were dreadfhlly ' * burned, but'iriore were prostrated' by, frigtttL The first- impreSsioti 'waa » -that : an explosion of gas caused the disaster, buflater enquiries "tend'tb sbo* malice. '■ Two near 'carriage. %ere damaged thej most; Jhey wero iflere skeletons. Ibis; believed thttt -about forty persons were! injured, some s*Briously. : a Almost simtiltane-iisly "Witb thei Praedrst*reefc affair,' a violent explosion} occurred on tbe underground railway*

I between Charm* Cross and Westminster stations. The windows m the signalling stations m the tunnel were i shattered, ano\ at Charing Cross the glass roof of th-station partly collapsed. The report is described as being like that of artillery. The_offects were similar to those $f the Praed-street explosion. „. Carnage-lamps, windows, .&c, fte-rb smashed, and all traffic was Suspended for a while. The* explosion- at Cfcfrifig Ofim* * occurred at a distance of 200 yards west of the station. ; There was no -train thereat the time. Tlfe^^WSTfcrof' the tunnel were shattered, but the rails w^ve not displaced. At Praed-streot . the force of the explosion was terrible. The tunnel was not destroyed, but a deep hole; was excav&ed IriLtßefjfpVdq bed ; bricks were blown oHitr^*_k^as- v pipes and telegraph lines broken. The refreshment store was wrecked^ and* (fie windows m the other room of the refreshment shed broken. Alt the persons injured were m the last "two carriages. Twenty-eight were wounded and taken io St. Mary's Hospital. Both explosions were about 8,10 p.m, By searching closely the detectives of '• -the Metropolitan poljce force found fragments of* glass shells; about the size at a pigeon's egg, that had been charged with nitro-glycerineA the police ha<f warned the railway oflicials three months ago that 'their advifces froriil America threatened .such danger and had advised precaution. &