ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1075, 20 August 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Jas McDermott, Brooklyn, a newspaper man and republican politician, was shot, in the head on July 22 by Jas Ga3'rior, who said, as he raised his revolver, “ McDermott, you traitor, I’ve followed you 3000 miles to kill you, and I’ll do it now.” It was asserted that McDermott was shot b} r order of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had turned informer, and on his evidence Featherston, Dalton, Deasy, and others were arrested for conspiracy to murder Gaynor, one of two members of the Brotherhood who followed McDermott from Ireland to kill him, James Carey, infotmer, was declared bankrupt on July 9 owing to his failure to pay rates. Government refused to give him any reward or written pardon. On the Monday preceding the detective called on him with an order for his delivery, and drove with him in a cab into the city. He was given the alternative of being turned unprotected into the street or a passage to London and thence to some colony. He accepted the latter. Carey’s house in Dublin is completely coated - with mud thrown by passers-by, and an attempt to burn it down was made. At a meeting of the Catholic hierarchy in Dublin a motion was adopted condemning State aid to emigration and pointing out there were largo tracts of land in Ireland which, if cultivated, would maintain the surplus population. Judge O’Brien addressing the Grand Jury at Limerick on July 5 declared that the diminution of outrages since last August amounted to. a ; Social revolution. A national meeting was held at Belfast to celebrate the declaration of American independence. Messrs Sexton, Biggar, and Sullivan sent letters of regret at their absence. The Rev Rjdett denounced the Lord Lieutenant, whose name he said was more detested by English people than that of Carey. The Parnell fund reached £17,065 on July 4.

Cardinal McCabe, Dublin, received the clergy on Sunday, July 22. He condemned those false teachers who asserted that the Pope, in issuing his late circular, was exceeding his legitimate sphere and authority, or had been influenced by secular motives. Those disobeying the circular, he said, incurred the guilt of heresy. Dennis Field, foreman of the jury which convicted Hynes of murder, is in constant receipt of letters threatening him with injury, and his wife and children are often insulted in the streets of Dublin,. An attempt was made to enter his house, but the marauders fled when Field fired on them.

Parades of Orangemen on the 12th were unusually large, and with one exception peaceable. Mr Sexton, M.P. for County Sligo, made a speech in Dublin on July 12, in which he said England had learned by her short encounter with American politicians on the paupers emigration question that if there was to be a clearance of Ireland it would not be Irish people who would have to.go.

The Committee of the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act finds that the Emigration clauses of the Act have failed ; that the inodes of valuation of land are unreliable ; that the relations between landlords and tenants have not been improved ; that tenants have become demoralised, and hopes that fresh agitation will bring about the passage of a new Act. At Sligo assizes, two parties were found guilty of conspiracy to murder, in attempting to blow up Weston House, Galway, on 19th March last. If they had destroyed the house and killed the inmates they were to receive £SOO, and failing to take life were to receive £3OO. Five pounds of dynamite were exploded on a window sill, but little damage was done owing to the conspirators’ lack of skill. The Bill for legalising marriage to a deceased wife’s sister was defeated in the House of Lords. The Despatch says that the Bishops were so alarmed by the storm of criticism evoked by their opposition that they have prepared a reply in their justification explaining their motives The Despatch says further that the Royal Family are much vexed at the failure of the measure which puts the intended marriage of the Princess Beatrice with her widowed brother-in-law as far off as ever, that project being said to explain the warm advocacy of the Bill by the Prince of Wales and his brother.