IRISH NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 4

IRISH NEWS.

Mrs IMacNamara, one of the tenants evicted at Boodyke, lias gone mad from the bufferings and fright she experienced at the hands of O'Callaghan's agents. James G. Blame, the American Presidential candidate on the Republican side, now travelling in Europe, has declined a banquet proffered by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Evictions •were being continued with vigour, August 12, on" the Mitchel&town estate. Several shopkeepers in the town who had been put out, made the most dctei mined efforts to barricade their places of business. At the Limerick sessions, August 17, three persons -\\eie sentenced under the Crimes Act, two of them to six months, and cne to four months' impiisonnient, for J.-B-sisting the sheriff. "United Ireland" urges Iri&h Inndlmils to accept Home Rule as inevitable. A riot occuired at Kenmare, County Keny, August 19. The mob attacked and stoned the barracks where the police were quartered. The police charged wuioh draw n swoidsuoon the rioters, injuring imany of them and urrcbting quite a inunbuv. A groat meeting to protest against the proclamation of the Land League was held in Dublin on the -"2nd August, presided over by Profc-sor Gaibraith, a Protestant. It vras one of the largest demonstrations — not ovecpting the OVonnell-Steele grftbering at Clontaif— ever held in Ireland. The delegation of English members of the Hoimo of ( ? ommons consisted of Jacob Bright, Manchester ; Richard Burden Haldnne, lfaddington ; John Edwaul Ellis, Nottinghamshire ; Charles Fenwick, Northumberland ; and Angus Sutherland, Sutherland. This deputation is said to be only an earnest of -what the Liberal English members are prepared to do if the Coercion Act is going to be worked with vigour. The mombets are going to Ireland later on to address meetings bo present at evictions, and sit ab good lookers-on in courts "where cooicion magistrates will excrcij-e summary jurisdiction. At the meeting on the 23rd int>t. M P.'b achised tenants to double their demands. The Loughrea and Armagh brancliPß of the National League met yesterday and resolved to continue work notwithstanding the proclamation of the League. Parnell's piCbCnce in Fans has no significance.

Tko Land Bill. In the House of Lords on the evening of August 11, on motion to consider the House of Commons amendments to the liish Land Bill, the Duke of Argyle warned the House that the bill in its present form was an immense development of the Gladstone Land Act of 1881, and was calculated to footer among the IrMi, not industry but la/me? 1 -. It would give tenants the privilege of regulating rents to such an extent as to enable them, however lazy and ignoiant, to remain on their holding*. The bill "nas a violation of lecognized truths. If political reasons forced the House to accept a portion of the amendments, he hoped some of the members would have the ejurago to 1 eject others which .simply proposed the robbery of the landlords. Earl Granville admitted the bill was imperfect, but it was a compromise measure, and the best obtainable under the circumstance, and it was therefore advisable that the House .should approve of it without discussing the measure on abstract economic principle s*.5 *. Lord Salisbury said he felt that the Duke of Argyll's criticism of the bill was undoubtedly the consequence of the Liberal Government's land legislation, in which a clepartuie was made from the principle of freedom of contract ; but it was only a temporary measure preceding larger proposals, by which the Government would try to mitigate the evils of previous legislation. The Goverment had not accepted the amendments without an anxious consideration as to what the result of their rejection would be. The abandonment of the bill was an alternative, and the Government could not accept that responsibility, therefore he urged the House to recognise the difficulties of the position and accede to the amendments. Earl Cadogan moved that the revision of the rents be based upon the differences in price in 1887 as compared with the prices from 1881 to 1885. This motion was canied, but the remainder of the Commons amendments were adopted. In the House of Commons Parnell strongly denounced the amendment, declaring it would diminish by one-half the value of the bill to tho Irish tenant. Earl Cowper wrote to " The Times," on August 15th, urging the Government to firmly support Earl Cadogan's amendment. To accede to the wishes of the Opposition, he says, would mean a revision of all rents fixed during the last five years, which would inevitably tend to block the land court. The Cadogan amendment was adopted in the House on the 18th. The House of Lords amendment relating to town parks was also carried, and, on Balfour's motion, three others sent down by the same body \\ ere rejected. On the morning of August 20th the House of Lords adopted the Irish Land Bill as received from the Commons.

Tho National League Proclaimed. The Government proclaimed the Irish National League on August 19th. The Marquis of Hartington and Chamberlain alvised the Government that such a step Avould be impolitic till the effect of the new Land Act was seen. Among the immediate consequences are the severance of Chamberlain and J. W. Bussoll, the Unionist champion of the Ulster tenants, from the Liberal-Unionist party. Gladstone has declared the proclamation unjust and imprudent. Balfour, in announcing 1 the proclamation, said the League was proclaimed as a dangerous association, under section 6 of the Irish Crimes Act Amendment Bill, recently made a law., (Cheers and counter cheers.) The Government had thus taken the power conferred upon them by the statute to prohibit and suppress the League. Continuing, Balfour said : " There arc two subheads of the sixth section of the Act mentioned in the proclamation which declare as follows ; 1 Whereas, we are satisfied that there exists in Ireland an association known as the National League, which in parts of Ireland promotes and incites acts of violence and intimidation." (A voice : " It's a lie. No branch of the League is engaged in such work. ") Sexton asked whether the sole ground for theproclamation was that the League simply was an Association tending to interfere with

the execution Of the law. Balfour in reply read the terms of the proclamation. Harrington asked whether Balfour wafc aware that nearly all the branches of the League were engaged in registration work; whobher he knew that the League was the only Association opposed to the Conservatives' work, and whether the proclamation was intended to paralyze the offorts of the League to the advantage of the Conservatives >on the new register. Balfour replied that no branch of the League whose work was confined to registration would be impeded in that work. Replying further to Sexton, he said until the Viceroy issued an order regarding a particu lar district the proclamation would have on "force. In order to emphasise their indignation, a number of Liberal members of the Commons 1 have decided to join the League, and many Irish papers appeared with black borders. The announcement of the proclamation was received quietly in Ireland.