SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2429, 30 December 1880, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

■London. Nov. 5. The persons against whom criminal informations were filed by the Irish At-torney-General on November 2 are Messrs Parnell, M.P. ; John Dillon, M.P.; J. J. Biggar, M.P.; Timothy Sullivan, M.P,; Thos. Sexton, M.P. ; Patrick Egan.bon treasurer land league, merchant, Clontarf; Thos. Brennan, secretary land league, mercantile clerk, Dublin ; Mahlchy O’Sullivan, assistant secretary land league ; Patrick Gordon, of Claremorris, shoemaker; Matthew Burris, of Falway, road contractor; John Nally, Mayo ; John Walsh, Balia, shopkeeper ; P. J. Sheridan, of Tubbercurry, publican. The information is exceedingly voluminous, and covers over 100 closely-written pages. The venue is laid in the county and city” of Dublin. There are nineteen counts in the indictments. The charges are generally of conspiracy to defeat the payment of rents and to prevent the letting of farms from which tenants have been evicted, and to excite ill-will amongst her Majesty’s subjects in Ireland. Mr .Parnell is the only man of any social standing among the accused. Savcral other prominent supporters of, Mr Parnell in Parliament expected that they would have been also prosecuted, and much anger is felt among the extreme Irish party at Mr Parnell beingcoupled in the indictment with individuals of small importance, whose utterances have been the more vehement in proportion to their obscurity, and irresponsibility. It is expected that the defendants will organise for the defence, and it is stated that they intend calling Mr Gladstone. Mr Bright, and Mr Forster into the witness-box, besides numerous landlords. tenants and farmers.

: The best legal talent in Dublin is already retained on the Government side. 1 Meanwhile the state of Ireland grows more serious, outrages continue, and the Land Leaguers are growing- bolder. Many-landlords are leaving the country. ‘ Mr Parnell distinctly declared on several recent occasions that the abolition of landlordism is merely a preliminary to Irish legislative independence, with which to remedy Irish grievances. In a speech delivered at Birmingham, Mr Chamberlain said that the Government, under any circumstances, only proposed to apply the ordinary law in Ireland.

At a meeting of the representatives of lladical clubs held in Loudon, resolutions were adopted deprecating agrarian outrages—for which the landlords were held mainly responsibleurging the restoration of the laud to the Irish people, and declaring the prosecution of the leaders ef the Laud League unconstitutional. Eighty socialists have recently been expelled from Hamburg, or 20 families altogether, under the operation of the state of siege established there.

The Conservative campaign against Irish and Eastern policy of the Government was, actively commenced on the 26th-ult. by a speech from the Marquis of Salisbury, in which he accused the Government of allowing Ireland to drift helplessly into anarchy and charging Mr Gladstone with alienating England’s allies in order to commit England to an alliance with Russia, after the destruction of Turke} r . A great battle is now impending at Geok Leppi {sic), where the Turcomans have concentrated their whole force, •numbering over 36,00 a The greater portion of the Russian army has crossed over to the north eastern slope, and encamped near Bali. A serious difficulty has arisen between Austria and Servia, owing to the refusal of the latter to fulfil the obligations under the Treaty of Berlin by placing Austria on the “ most favored nation’' footing in commercial relations. Austria has peremptorily demanded that Servia shall fulfil her engagements.

A letter from Mr Labouchere, recently published, declares that the English Radicals cannot support Mr Parnell unless the Land League distinctly disavows certain of the means employed for accomplishing its objects. The expulsion of unrecognised religious orders from France continues, in spite of the protest from the Pope.