SEIZURE OF A NEWSPAPER IN DUBLIN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2775, 14 February 1882, Page 2

SEIZURE OF A NEWSPAPER IN DUBLIN.

A Dublin telegram in “Daily News” of Dec. 16 says The “United Ireland" .was-seized this evening at 6 o’clock. At that hour Superintendant Mallon and two Inspectors entered the offices in Lower Abbey street, having first taken the precaution of placing twenty policemen outside. They seized all the copies of the paper that were in the office, [but did not touch the plant. The “ Irishman” and the “Shamrock" are published in the same office, and belong tp u she same proprietors, but they were not seized. The copies of the paper 1 vsro conveyed in floats to the Lower Castle yard. A large number of copies bad been distributed throughout the city during the day, as although the paper is dated for Saturday. in each' week it is always issued and may be had from the newsvendors on Thursday morning. Large numbers were also despatched to England and Scotland by the mail trains and steamers this morning. For some time past the column of “ leader” page has been in blank with a mourning border, and the words “ Freedom of the Press in Ireland in 1881"; but within the last few weeks tha r succeeding columns have contained leading articles under one general heading of “May one still hunt?” The first article of the suppressed issue had the sub-heading, “ That the war is entering upon a new phase." It is an attack on the Property Defence' Fundi • At has the following passages The starting of the London Mansion House Rilna pats the issue quite clearly beforethe world. It is whether the will of the Irish people or the will of their enemies shall prevail in Ireland. It ceases to be a struggle or class against class; it is the Irish nation against the English "garrison, supported by sixtjr thousand English soldiers, and subsidised by English malignity, and it is a war to the death." The only persons belonging to the staff of the “United Jlreland” who were on the premises at the timpof the seizure were the recently appointed subeditor. Mr Arthur o‘Keefe, and a clerk named Henry Barton, formerly employed in the Land, League offices. Both were arrested and conveyed tfo Eilmainham Prison, on warrants charging thcmwith intimidation. All the staff of the suppressed journal, except the foreman printer and manager, whoßave evadedarrest, are now in-cus-tody. ;Mr Leamy, M.P., and Jsetsefll members of the Ladies’. Land League, wpre in the office of the,"United,.lreland "at the time of the seizure. The grounds upon which the “ United Ireland "was seized are that its article amounted to a ’ no-rent manifesto, that part of it directly incited to murder, and that it was generally a seditious publication. The copies of the paper on siso throughout the country will be seized by the police to-morrow. Mr Patrick Egan was telegraphed to to-night of the seizure of the paper, and instructions were asked for. , ■;?. 7? A telegram from Cork says that there the detectives entered the premises of every newsvendor in the city and seized any copies of the “ United Ireland" newspaper which they were able to fihd after careful searches. Close to, Me thousand copies were in this way carried off almost as soon as the vendors Rad received their consignment s from D'ibllh. Owing to the|arrangements made by'tho 'authorities, it is believed but very few hate got into circulation. r ' !