IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1137, 21 August 1883, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

The following items came hr the 'Frisco Mail, which arrived at Auckland on Saturday last:— Jas. Carey, the informer, was declared a bankrupt on July 9th, owing to failure to pay- Ids rates. The report that he had left Dublin was confirmed on the Bth. The Government refused to give him any reward or a wiitlen pardon. On the Monday preceding a detective called on him with an order for his delivery and drove with him in a cab into the city, having been given the alternative ot being turned unprotected into the street or given a passage to London, and thence to some colony in the Eastern hemisphere. He accepted the latter. His family had already gone (o London presumably to avoid suspicion. Carey’s house in Dublin is completely coated with mud thrown by passers by and an attempt to burn it was made on Sunday the 15th. , . Another Irish informer has been at New York. James McDermott, a Brooklyn newspaper proprietor and Republican politician, was shot dead on July 22nd by James Gaynor, who said, as he raised his revolver. ‘ McDermott, von traitor, I have followed you three thousand miles to kill you, and I’ll do it now.’ It is asserted that McDermott was shot by order of the Fen ; an Brotherhood. He had turned informer, and it was on his evidence Featherston, Dalton, Deary and others were arrested for conspiracy to murder. Gaynor was one of two members of the Brotherhood who had followed McDermott from Ireland to slay him.

A despatch from Cork, dated July Bth says a detective had exhumed at Ini«higgagin 6000 dynamite cartridges, pirt of the proceed* of the dynamite rohhery in that city two years ago. The knowledge that a larce quantity of dynamite was in had hands since the rohhery has been the causa of continued anxiety to the authorities. Cardinal McCabe, of Dublin, received the clergy on Bandar, July 22nd, when ho condemned the 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, ho said, incurred the guilt of heresy. The result of the election in County, Monasrhan on June 30th gave Healey the Home Ruler, 2226 ; Monro, Con--»rvative, 2011, and Pringle, Liberal, 270.

Mr Redmond, a Parnellite, was elected M.P. for Wexford Borough, to take Healey’s seat, on July 17th, against O’Connor Don. The Liberal vote stood 3019 for Redmond, and 166 for O’Connor Don- The latter had to drive along the main street under an escort. He and his friends were hooted and pelted hy mobs, and the windows of his Committee-rooms smashed in. Thirty policemen were injured, twelve severely. Healey and Sexton finally restored order.

The pauper emigrants returned to Ireland by order of the American authorities, on the steamers Lunnesse* and Spain, were landed at Queenstown on July 10th. AH accounts agree in describing them as a wretched I >t of people. One family, consisting of a man and his wife and five children, were left lying on the wharf for three hours before the officials, who had not bean advised as to their coming, provided for their wants.

The report of the Committee of the Honse of Lords on the Irish Land Act was submitted on July 9th. It finds that the emigration clauses of the Act have failed ; that valuations of land aw unreliable ; that the relations between landlords and tenants have not been improved ; that tenants have become demoralised, and maintain a hope that fresh agitation will bring about the passage of a new Act. At a meeting of the Catholic hierarchy in Dublin, on July sth, a motion was adopted condemning State aid to emigration, and pointing out that there were large tracts of land in Ireland which, if cultivated; would maintain a surplus population. A national meeting was held at Belfast on the night of July sdi, to celebrate tho declaration of American Independence. Sexton, JBjggar, and Sullivan cent letters of regret (or tfaoir " J

absence. Rer, Mr Itylett (Presbyterian) denounced the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whose name, he said, was more detested by English people than was that of Carey. - The Parnell fond had reached . £17,065 on July 4th. The Cork Industrial Exhibition, covering 8£ acres, and including British, Continental and American exhibits, wan opened by Earl Bandon on July 3rd, in the presence of a vast crowd. Some trouble was expected, and police were posted among the people, but per feet order was mantained. A large procession of trades, with bands playing national airs, marched to the building. Mr T. D. Sullivan and Mr E. Dwyer Gray, and the Mayors and members of many City Corporations were prenent.