Unhappy Britain.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 1

Unhappy Britain .

London, January 16. Bishop Moorhouse, in the course of a sermon on 'Sunday, declared that the ifear of the military alone averts a bloody Socialist revolution.

London, January 15, A general rising of the crofters in the Highlands is feared. ,

London, January 16. The tithe disorders are again imminent in Wales, but up to the present disturbances have been averted, owing to the presence of the military. The crofters at Lewis Island are still making raids against the farmers, and are destroying the fences on the farms.

1 Edinburgh, January 17. j A number of crofters arrested at I Lewis for deer raiding have been tried in this city, and were acquitted by the iurv.

Glasgow, January 17. A force of police attempted to effect the aurest of a number of crofters enfaged in the recent disturbances at jewis, but the crofters assembling in force, succeeded in routing them.

London, January 12. The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at Liverpool, stated that Mr Gladstone, .in trying to prove Home Jbiule necessary, was making Ireland ungovernable. He further said that the prospects of the Conservative party had greatly improved. The "Chronicle" states that the Pope condemns the revolutionary spirit which, is manifesting itself in Ireland, but fearing schism, he cannot publicly disavow sympathy with the agitation. .. Mr Thomas Healy, M.P., has been sentenced to a fortnight's imprison- . nient for stoning the police at Trftlee,

London, January 15, A number of moonlighters have been tried nt Cork, and have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five to eighteen years. ■ The case Osborne v. Morgan, involving the possession of the rocently-discovered gold mine in Wales, has been heard, and judgment has been reserved. Eleven Moonlighters and eight prisoners, charged with being concerned in political outrages, have been convicted at Cork. Mr Wilfred Blunt has resisted the endeavours of the gaol officials to make him wear prison garb. The gaoler succeeded in removing his overcoat from the cell. Mr Blunt declared to the Justices who visited him that Mr A. 3. Balfour, Irish Secretary, had told him that the Government intended to solve the Irish difficulty by # imprisoning the leaders of the National Party, and treating them as criminals. Already six of those now imprisoned are reported to be in ill health, and it is alleged that some of them will not survive the treatment they are subiected to in prison.

Rome, January 16. The Irish Bishops who were present at the celebration of the Papal Jubilee have had an audiefaco 'vrifch" tho Pope. His Holiness exhorted them to . use their influence in restoring respect for the law in Ireland, at the same time pointing out tha,t violence would never succeed in attaining the end desired.

s - London, January 16. : Continued interest is being manifested in tlie mission of the Duke of Norfolk to the Vatican. It is rumoured that he has been parleying for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and England, on the condition that the Pope will intervene with respect to" lreland. Mr J. Al. Balfour, Cliiel Secretary for Ireland, emphatically denies that there is any truth in the rumour.

Dublin, January 17. A monster meeting has been held at Achill, an island off tlie west coast of Ireland, County Mayo. The police were stoned by the mob; and were ordered to fire, but by the efforts of the priests, Dr. Tanner, M.P., and Mr John Deasy, M.P. for. West Mayor bloodshed was prevented with difficulty. \ \ , N Mr Sexton, M.P., is" now recovering.

, - - London, January 17. * • It has transpired that Mr Jasper Pyne has effected his escape to England. Mr Pyne, who is niember for Wedt Wittfrfotd^ was' cfcar^d withinciting resistance to the SHerifF, ; Jlnl I orae*' iq preve^i; being arrested,' fortified his, residence, Lisf arny Oastle, ' and after holding out for some time \^Up~ Kwn'ell ; deqlares., fchafc . it . Will be • politic to facilitate English legislation jrather than to retard it, for then the

vises an agitation for a reduction of the term of judical rents to fiv« years.

Durban, January 17. Mr Michael Davitt corroborates tha statement made by Mr Blunt, that the Government were imprisoning the i Nationalist leaders to assist them in. i solving the Irish difficulty.

Dublin, January 17. Mr Shaw Lefevre states, in a, letter, that the Marquis of Clanricarde dared not allow evictions to continue, despite coercion, on the £ace of 1 the facts which have been revealed.

Loxdon, January 18. A statement by the military official* at Berlin proves that tKe Russian forces on the frontier greatly exceed those of Germany and Austria.

London, January 18L It now transpires that General Iguatieft* and Prince Nifcika, of Montenegro, were concerned in the raid on. the Bulgarian town of Bourgas.