AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 1 July 1881, Page 4

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

brenxan's speech. Nkw York, May 24.— The following m> the salient points in Brennau'g spmh m Ireland, for which he was at»*sto,<l at Dublin yesterday: "We seft now the landlords proving true to theiv past traditions, as enemies of the people,^ by the way in which they are showering notices of ejectment throughout the country. I ask you if such proceedings ever took place in any other country, say England ? ■ ■*' If 200,000 people in England were threatened with extermination from their homes, what do you think would be the result? [A voice—Revolution.] Mr Brennan— Yes, revolution. (Cheers.) The very ground would be stained with blood, aud the English people would hurl from power any Government that attempted it. (Cheers.) Let us have no more nibbling with this question, but let every man in Ireland who pays rent, only pay rent when he is forced to do it, at the point of the bayonet. Let them bring their bailiffs, sheriffs, and soldiers. These hired mercenaries who are recruited from the slums of England and brought hero to shoot down the Irish people. (Groans.) Allow rent only to be collected when they have put all their machinery in force. You should do this with regard to all writs for the recovery of rents and for the recovery of possessions and notices of ejectment." Dublin, May 25th.— The troubles in Killmallock district have been aggravated by the arrest of Father Eugene Sheehy. For two years past he has devoted himself to thwarting ejectments ordered by Mr Coote, agent of Sandor's and other estates in the neighborhood. Of Coote the priest said at a recent meeting, "" Why, the man's name smells of blood;" (this was in reference to atrocities committed in the old days by forces under Sir Charles Coote), " and, although I am as much opposed as any servant of the good cause can be to murder, I deem it no crime to resist the oppressions of which this man is guilty." He then advises the peasantry in Coote's employment to quit work and let the sown crops rot in the ground.

LONDOK PRESS OH THE SITCATIOS.

- Chicago May 29 — A Times London cable special of the 28vh Bays : The situation in Ireland begins to excite most serious apprehensions among all classes in England. The Ccnßervatives' organ last evening said. « At no period io the history of tbe land agitation has tbe situation in Ireland beet) inoie deplorable than at present. From one end of the country to the other law has no abiding place. Every form of leg*l process or legal executioo is openly resisted and deliberately defied in whole districts. The operaticrf of the law of the land is suspended, and tbe law of the L^nd League is enforced in its stead. Whenever individuals more courageous then the multitude attempt to resist the service of summons for rent, it can only be effected by a species of guerilla warfare. Tbe sale of a farmer's cow nnder a legal execution is made the occasion for a local civil war. Process-servers are waylaid, beaten, Etripped naked, bunted like wild animals, shot at like ▼ermiD. Police btr.acks are besieged in open day by thousands of persoce summoned by blowing bores from hilltops. Nine pol.'csmen were thus attacked at the barracks of Mallow because they refused to give up to the people a low messenger who claimed their protection. The barracks were shattered aad several of the garrison injured before tbe overwhelming force of military constabulary could raise tbe siege. The hardships and sufferings of tbe Royal Irish Constabulary are indescribable, and tbe honourble members who called for the return of tbe CBBualiies of this force during the lsst twelve months would elicit startling statistics. Tbe constabulary are of course an armed force.''

A BAKIFF STRIPPED BT WOMEN AKD

TABBED AND PEATHEBED. New York, May 30 —A cable special to tbe Herald from Dublin of May 29 says : — A bailiff went to serve writs on the property of Mr Hutching, near Mallow, County Cork, on Saturday. Some women gathered round and seized him, destroyed the writs and then stripped him naked and threw him into the river. They ctuuht him as be came out and thrashed him with fojza. The unfortunate man, more dead, than alive, was then tarred and featherei, snd bunted through tbe coontry. A party of police went out from Mallow to rescue him, bat after scouring tbe country they were unable to find him.

O'CONNOB, POWER ATTACKS HIRED DEMAGOGUES.

John O'Coanor Power, replying to a letter from Egaa to Brennae, wherein Egan abases Power and McCoan for voting for the second reading of the Land Bill, Uunts Egan whb skulking in Paris, and. warns his countrymen that if they allow themselves to be goaded into unarmed iniurreotion by the scresming of hired demagogues, -who have already shown the white feather, they will be abandoned and betrayed in the boor of trial. McCoan also taunts Egan with biding in Pariß, and bints ibat Egsn s letter was inspired by other?. The Daily New* sajs that the Conlervatives openly express hopes that the agitation will take such a form of rebellion bb will compel the Government to stamp the Irish into obedience by a bloody war. IHS CLOKMEL SIOT.— FIGHT BETWEBN THE HTJSSAKS AND THE MOB. New York, Jane 1 —A cable to ihe Herald from Dublin of May 31 says: The most intense excitement prevails at Olonmel to-day where the sales of farms bad been announced to take place. At an early hour in the morn. Jog several hundred well-mounted and diiciplined horse-meo, wearing green sashes, preceded by bands, and followed by ao immense procession of people paraded the towD. All tbe streets leading to the Coarthonse were lined with police end military. All shops end bnsineßß places were closed. The ealea pia^cl c 5 quietly, and things went well pptttilowwd o'clock, wbeß ft cry w»b

raiV<! i bat n lccal clergymen had been Brrrsted. A ehout went forth to reecue the priest. A rosb was at once mEde OQ the police, but was repelled. Ihe Riot Act was then read, and !be boss&ra olarged end lecbarged the ffiob, who hurled volley after volley of s.enes at the military, itfliciiog upon many of them serious injuries. Several palicemen and civilians wtre also ae*e e!y icjursd. The injuries in the case of one or two of the constabulary wil ! , it io feared, prove fatal. The people afterwards gathered in the lower pait of the town, where they were addressed by representatives of the League. No arrests had been made up to this eveuing. AHCIIBIBOP CROKE'B CAMPAIGN. A STEONG 6PEECH. Dublin, June 2.—Archbuop Crcke, at Tbums, yesterday, concluded o most extraordinary ecclesiastical campaign. Ha made an appeal to Gladstone to atop further evictions. Eviation hsd a peculiar meaoiog in Ireland. It meant the depopulation of the coontryj the degradation of flying to foreign lands, carrying a spiiit of vengeance against the eresteet Empire in the wcrld, which hag treated Ireland worse than ever Empire treated dependency. H? would therefore say io Gladstone, •• [f you value the friendship of Ireland ; if you value the lives of our people; if you do not wish to perpetuate the national feud sod the sanguioary traditions that have ruled in this country' for ages, blot cut from the statute bock the came of eviction, and let no man ftencefoith ba turned out from hU laod unless it is quite clear that the money which should have met his engagements was wastefully and foolishly dissipated. It was only the oiber di>y that a venerable parish priest of Msycaikey 'old me ib.it when he became priest it contained 1200 fami i.-s. There are at present only 400. Let me a^k, Mr Gladstone, wbath as become of the BCO fiiniiiis once happy in their humble tjome?, who have disappaared from the parish ? They have gone into tbe grave, many into the work-bouse, end macy to the Great Republic of the west, bearing an undying hatred to the country that banished them from their native larjd. At tbe same time, if evictions are to go od, I would advise you how to act. Do not bring yourself into collision with the auhorities. They are too strong for you. Bat even for the Bike of expediency, if not of principle, we mnst act on the defensive. We must offer passive resistance to those opposed to ua, and in that way they will get tired of the contest, because a whole united people have never yet been defeated. In the evening his Graoe entered fully into the preeent position an J aims of the Land League. He declared that agitation was not due to Davitr, nor to Parnell, nor to their followers, but to the fact that there was a n>i_hty grievance, and that the Irish people at last contemplated it manfully, and were determined to remove it. Without the priesthood of Ireland, it would have been imposßible, said his Grace, for the movemenrto have reached he present mighty dimensions. The Archbishop declared authoritatively •• we must proclaim, at all events, oor wantf, and claim that we will not be eatitfied until we enlist on our behalf, not the . «words, nor the guns, nor the cannon of France, Spain, Italy, or the United States, but the intelligent opinion of all the intelligent nations of the world. This is not a revolutionary movement, nor ii it an irreligious movement, but it is conducted by the most religioui people in Ibe world, and barked by the best, moat holy, most sacrificing:, most faithful, sad most uncompromising priesthood in the work. It is not an unjust movemept, calculated or designed to do itjury to anybody. We repudiate that charge; we sty (hat we do not intend to do icjury to any mortal man. We recognise tbe rights of the owner of the toil, but we recojniza our own rights at the same time; and while we give to Caijar the things that are C»3sr's, we wil! assert for ourselves the thiegs that are ours. What we want i«, a chance for our lives in our own country, and we will forget the past. We will forget the numberless tyrannies of England, all the tears we have ehed, the muiacrea tbst have been committed, the extermination of our race, and the downfall, co far as it was possible for them to accomplish it of our dear coontry, and we will begin a new score with the dominant country. We will let them see that we are not ! only able to flourish abroad, but that in oar own land we cannot be suppressed, I hear of disagreements among the leaders of the people, but these things are exsggerated. Our phalanx is unbroken, our spirit is unsubdued, and the result is, therefore, as clear as day— We must succeed." BEBVING EVICTIONS. On the estate of Captain Maxwell Fox, near Tallamore, a large crowd i assembled, and stones, were thrown at the police. In each caso the doors were removed from tbe bouses, and the entrances were blocked up with stones but these were removed; and ihe processes were posted in conspicuous parts of the tenements. One hundred police and two troopers of the Thirtyseventh left Kilkenny foe Ctomatento auke scores. Even cm. of private gentlemen were forcibly seized for the

conveyance of the military. The police were accommodated with enahulances and wagons. Notwithstanding the threatened fine of twenty poundi, several car owners placed their horses j out of reach. Consequently, some of tbe ooi'i'ary had to walk 15 miles to the scene of action. To-nipht the fly* iog column left, tbe King's bridge terminus in a specie! train at ten o'clock. The column consists of engineers, artillery, infantry, and cavalry — in all, three hundred men. A resident magistrate, well acquainted with the country, will accompany the expeditioo, its destination being New Pallas. The resident magistrate received his instructions personally from Mr Forster. Tbfi column, on their arrival at New Pallas, will proceed to " Quinlan'i Castle," when carriage will be resumed, and the Btroogbold taken if necessary. SERIOUS BIOTfI AT MITCBELLSTOWN. New York. M«y 28tb.r-The Heralds sresial from Dublin s*yi :-~At Mitchellstoren, County Cork, s serious affray occurred yesterday (May 27th) io conßfquence of an attempt of tbe Sheriff of that county to evict five tenants on an estate of the Countess of Kingston. Tbe Sheriff was assisted by twenty-five policemen and by the miliUry, including a frorp of dragoons, but the resistance of the people was so determitel tbet the work was only pirtly accomplished. The c'apel bell at Mirchellstown began ringing at 9 o'clock in the, morning to warn the country people that the evictions were about to begin. The r ews spread rapidly, and tbe chapel bells for ten miles around took up the refrain, oalling Ibe population to as semble, Tbe police attempted to stop the bells ringing, but did not succeed. Ten thousand person? assembled in less thf.n an hour. A large number gather ed around the police and military^ While tbe first eviction was proceeding, egg?, stones, and other missiles were thrown at the Sheriffs and his assistants. Three evictions were carrie! out, but to exeeotetbenifrxt two-it^ wail necessary to paBS through , the tojwn. Three 1 bands of music-, Bid ; orgamzadbodus carrying banners, had npw ; arrived, and" the strains of" The martial tread bf Ciare'a Bragooca" encouragedpeople to retistance. They obstructed the streets, and sent showers of stones into the : midst, of ■ the constabulfiry. Then the cavalry charged and drove them .back,- but- 'they ; only, returned, in greater force, and ,wi,tfi v ne w ■ Jdarjng, ; While passing ayard, behinX wjiicii '„*.. large number of rioters were concealed, a heavy volley of 4tooea, waai,de,livered,. . One of the cavalry ,bor,sjas was killed the police charged through the yard acd dispersed the ansaihnts at the point of tbe btyonat. Oae man's jtw war cut open. Twelve^Qldiers werastrtick, and msny of the" people were alib injured. The Riot. A_ct was.r,ead. witbogt effect,. »nd^ in cbnspq oenrce of resistfrice it waadecided not to proceed .further with tba work of. eviction.: The, excitement ; laited till late into the night, but there was no further disturbance. Mr Eastor, a magistrate, *»«i;g,ru<k;by * stone, »td had ft- not: heebr for the itffortis of the local clergy, the; results of the riot would have bepn most disastrous. ! On Saturday morningithe: head af tire i dragoon 'tJior*e, which was killed in the fijf.t at Mitchellatown on Friday, was cut off and fixed on top of a pole. The pole was decorated with green papery and crape streamers were appended to the head, and io tbe boree'j mputb wa* placed a piece of paper bearing, the following wordi:—" Here'i your rent." The Herald correspondent «aw this zkttllfL sppctacle; ©irl^ ott > S»torday i morning. It was, then surrounded ; by « crowd of women and children, who, Responded to the c,H of taoid fellow for 11 three- cheers for- the English heW en ; ;an Irish stick.'* The be«<J- with ft* .appendage^ was-Nk%npo»eiiipn of by^ the: poHce^a-od-brou^h* td tbe-blirracke.