IRISH AFFAIRS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 95, 22 April 1881, Page 4

IRISH AFFAIRS.

The " New York Herald's " Dublin despatch says :— " The coercion net is hauling in its victima from the sou'b ond west at a rate which must be highly satisfactory to the authorities. To-day some of the most prominent Forster • " viljage tyrants" were deprived of their liberty. It is a rematkable fact that all arrests hove been {fueled so far without any local distuibance sod with little excitement. The most notable arrest is that of the • celebrated Scrab Naliy, one of the defendants in the State trials, who was I taken at bis fUhcrVhouse in Balla. I Nally recently wenUo London, .intending to go to the . Cape and join i\§ Boer*, but be changed bis mind, and is I now assured comfortable quarter*- fot«; 'eighteen months. —None of tb^piiaoD--sera so far hate ever acquired more; than j a local reputation, except Boy ton, | Walsh; ,aftd; Nally, 'The fort flamed j gentleman, wbose .-sge^hes.s.w.ere, nojtoriooa for their reebromena'fttioni to | give the r^odlorfh ,' piJls/ i recently fh.»d. i bis photograph taken standing betide. » i ditch, wijh.his rifle in [land ana\B,pile jof cartridges at his feet. The picture I was labelled " Nelly> Pills," I *J<?Ue& |the prisoners in gßoPto-day, and du °^ | them lodged in cejla on., the .second range of tbo three storeys comprising the buildings. They are very liberalJy- ! treated, and express themselves .well jsatiefied with the courtesy and kindness iof the governor. Their meals, wine or beer, are sent in from a neigV* ■bouring hotel. Srioking is allowed,^ and for six hburs each day the prisoners may; associate for conversation and, jezeroise. Two large common roomß, comfortably furaished, are devoted to the prisoners for meeting! their friends and transacting business. Boy ton said jhis quarters reminded bioa of a stateroom onboard a steamer. As he had ileft bis stiDg behind him in Kerry, he was not unhappy in his imprisonment but still he described bis street as a violation of bis rights as an American citizen. Boyton has had his hooks and engineering 4Baps taken to Kilmainham and placed in his cell. Nally reached Dublin last night by (ha ten o'clock train from the West. The platform Wbß crowded when he wqb put into the cab. Ha shouted * For every man arrested let one be laid proßtrate.' At jKilmainham gaol he cried "put 'An eye for an eye 1 ' 'A tooth fdr ft tooth! Botbi exclamations were loudly cheered. | The latest arrests reported'are three at Clsremorris, J. P. Quinn, J. Gord<Hii and D. A. 'Hern, all member a of the ocal League Branch. There is. eon-, liderable - expitement at Dublin tolight, but the whole proceediogs are jeaerally viewed as a good flaCject ior ipqrt/'

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