IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1655, 3 November 1887, Page 1

IRISH AFFAIRS.

London, Oet. 29. The American Dynamiters threaten Mr Balfour if O’Brien is imprisoned and the loss of life at Mitchelstown is unavenged. The Clan-na-Gael programme included outrages at Liverpool, London, Glasgow, and Cardiff. A dozen members assisted Melville at Liverpool until the activity of the police forced them to fly, Oct. 80. Sir H. Holland addressed a meeting at Hampstead yesterday. Referring to Mr Gladstone’s utterances on the Irish question, be said be was practically preaching the rebellion- of the Irish people. The effect of the speeches was most dangerous, because a larger sense was attributed to the meaning than the actual words warranted. Notwithstanding Mr Gladstone’s agitation the Government have determined to act firmly in their dealings with Ireland. Many farmers in the County Clare want the money subscribed for the plan of campaign lefunded, but the organisers want the rents received from this source for their own use. Oct. 81. O’Brien, speaking at Kanturk, declared that 30,000 tenants had given in their adhesion to the plan of campaign. At Middleton Wm, O’Brien tried to leave the Court pending the issue of the warrant for his committal. O’Brien, Dillon, and Lane, M.P., roughly handled the Recorder, who ordered Dillon’s removal for disrespect, Nov. 1. Lnke Patrick Hayden, the Member of Parliament for Leitrim South, has been convicted and sentenced to two montl s’ imprisonment with hardj labor on a charge of inciting tenants to disorder at evictions in Ireland, The bearing of the appeal case of O’Brien was brought to a conclusion this afternoon, the full court confirming the sentence of three months’ imprisonment passed upon him by the Mitchelstewn Court. Upon judgment being delivered, O’Brien strongly resisted the attempt of the authorities to errest himand a scene of uproar, with a gteat amount of scuffling, took place within the courthouse. The prisoner was ultimately taken into custody, and at once removed to Cork gaol. Mr R. Cox, Nationalist member of Parliament for East Clare, is to be summoned under the Crimes Act for attending a meeting which had been proclaimed by the Government.