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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 24, 28 January 1881, Page 2

[Special to the Melbourne "Age"] London, January 17. The situation in Ireland is daily deepening, and gloom and lawlessness, nearly everwhere, are triumphant, o utrages oi all kinds are frequent ; and the prevention of the sale of cattle and produce at fairs, domiciliary visits of masked men at night, maiming of cattle, &c, and all such acts of aggression, are believed to be generally incited by private vengeance or jealously, under cover of agarian and political motives | but the state of anarchy and terrorism, under which such outrages are possible, is mainly produced by the Land League agitation and violent speeches of the leaders. There are some signs now that the Land League feels that popular passions are getting|beyond control, and with a desire tocheck them a recent manifesto from the Dublin Central Organisation to its branches throughout Ireland, disavows these outrages, though at the same time it declares that there must be 710 compromise or partnership with the landlordism proposals known us fixity of tenures, or fair rent, all of which must be repudiated; The charges of judges to the grand juries in the various provinces all depict the anarchial condition of the country in the darkest color. The English papers are full of letters from the victims of the* Land League, some indignantly protesting against the robbery, tyranny, and violence to which they are subjected ; others making touching appeals for help in the extremities to which they have been reduced by the loss of rents, { their sole source of income. Public opinion in England is gradually favoring stern repression of dis r order, before any measures of land reform be introduced. The f t'esh Cabinet crisis which, occurred this week, owing to the renewal of demand by Mr. Forster for immediate coercive measures; has a^ain tided over. , It is now stated that the Ministry are yielding to Forster's repeated representations, and have agreed to include the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act among the coercive measures, but in regard to other provisions of the Coercion Bill, they will be regulated by events. Official inquiries will be conducted, mainly by English detective officers, and the Law Reform Bill will be presented at the same time as the Coercion Bill, and the Government are now elaborating it. Nevertheless it is a grave question still, whether the state of things may not compel the adoption of stronger measures, without waiting for Land Liw Reform. The last prominent instance of " Boycotting" is that of Brtice Jones, owning a large farm near Cork, who is being treated in the same manner as Capt. Boycot was, and has to be defended by armed men day and night. A bitter feud exists between Gambetta, President of the Chamber of Deputies and M. Eochefort. Gambetta is causing the publishing of several letters, which are most damaging to Rochefort's influence. It is stated that the North German Bank has resolved to forward the creation of a shipping line from Hamburg, via the Cape to Australia. It is reckoned that the voyage will take six weeks via England or Antwerp, Cape-town, Port Elizabeth to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. The Germans plainly are thinking seriously of the good they can draw from Australia, one proof of which is the zeal with which they have sought to recomend their wares to customers at the antipodes, through the medium of tlie Melbourne Exhibition. Callen, a discharged Government officer, has attempted to assassinate the Roumanian Premier, who, • however, was only slightly Avounded. The perpetrator avers that there were fifty others implicated. Twenty have been arrested, Bombay, December 30. The statement in the London Times to the effect of the Viceroy resigning caused a feeling of excitement throughout India, and though promptly contradicted at Allahabad, it served to bring out an expression of universal regret at his supposed resignation, from both European and native papers. News from Herat shows that Ayoub Khan is overcoming the difficulties which lately beset him, as it is stated that his father-in-law has been taken prisoner, which, if true, shows that the chief menace to Ayoub's position has been removed. Colonel Malcalen and Major Currie of the 2nd Horse will, it is rumored, be tried by court martial for their conduct at the Mainwanel disaster.