NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1674, 17 December 1887, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

- The British Cabinet has resolved to continue its present vigorous policy in Ireland, especially as regards speeches at proclaimed /nosings. The Queen has officially thanked the mayors of the municipal towns throughout the kingdom for their zeal, loyalty personal exortion, and sacrifice, which contributed so much to render ber jubilee an historical event. At the annual conference of the English Liberal League, held in London on Nov. 16th, a programme was adopted approving of Home Rule, colonial federation,' triennial Parliaments, free education, manhood suffrage, interaational arbitration, and female franchise.

Mr Bilfdur, Chief Secretary for Ireland attended the first annual meeting of the Midland Conservative Union at Birmingham, on November 4th. ' He was aconinpanied by a detective and the chief of the Leamington police. At Birmingham armed detectives were posted at the depfit to waicli for suspicious characters, Mr Balfour during the day gave assurances thut Government was resolve*! to proceed boldly and firmly with the work they had laken in hand in Ireland, and bring it to a good conclusion. At the meeting iu the

town iball he said that during next session, of, Parliament, England and Scotland would get,fi fair.shareof ..legislation. Still the Irish question wou'd remain the fore-, most problem in tho minds of every one who took an inferest in the fortunes of this country. The question was not whether Ireland was to be governed by her own or an English'Parliament, br.t whether she was to bo governed at all in accordance with any of those principle) which havehitherto regulated the action of every civilised State in the world. The remainder of his speech was principal v devoted to a defence of the action of the police at Mitchelstown and attacks on Mr Gladßtone's policy. Truro Cathedral was opened on November 3rd by the Prince of Wales. This is the first cathedral built in England since the Reformation by the Established Church. Many distinguished people attended the ceremonies, which were of an imposing character. An explosion of fire-damp occurred on November 3rd at a lead mioo at Malton, Derby. 25 men wero in the pit at the time, five of whom were taken out dead. Baron Wolverton, a , staunch friend of Mr Gladstone, aod the purse of the Homo Rule party, died at Brighton on. November 6th. He was a firm partisan, and gave £IOO,OOO towards the expenses of the: Home Rule candidates in the Parliamentary elections'of 1886, and proposed to Bp»nl a like amount at next general election. His death is said to be a severe blow to the Liberal party in general and to Mr Gladstone in particular.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

! A Medical Committee at Tullamore have adppted a : resolution expressingsympathy ..with O'Brien, and urging,the. local and visiting justices to ireat humanely the eight political prisoners in gaol.' ! ";'':

Including Mr Hayden, of the Westmoath Express, thirty persons were summoned uhderthe Crimes Act, "in 'Ballytannis, on November 3rd,' to answer charges; in connection with evictions. The mnjority of ; those summoned were young girls. Messrs, Pyne andQilbooly,' Nationalist members' <>f Parliament; have.beeD summoned. Twenty-one persons charged with obstructing evictions at Ballykerrog have boeu sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. A party, disguised as moonlighters, forced an entrance into a house near Tralee, County Kerry, on tha night of November Bthi and shot the owner, Quirke, in the presence of his family. At a meeting of landlords in Counly Armagh, November Bth, resolutions wore adopted declaring that landlords did not wish to se 11 their property.

A warrant having been issued for tho arrest of Mr Pyke, ; M.P., for .inciting resistance at evictions on 9ih November, he ensconced himself in his Lisf-rvey Castle, which he had provisioned for a siege of six months, and defied the police to enter.,

Fifteen members of the National League >were sentenced at Kilrush, on November 12th, to one month's iuapriscnwith hard labor.

Tho city of. Limerick was' proclaimed On November 14th under trio Criineß Act.

A reception was given Mont>ignor Persico, Papal Envoy to Ireland, at Conliffe College, Dublin, on Nov. 14th, and an address presented : by the clergy and municipal authorities. The Envoy in his speech of thanks Baid this occasion was a demonstration of loyalty and fidelity to the Papal See. " 'I .The Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, quashed the verdict of the Coroner's jury at Mitohellsto«»n in thecase of tho police shootingon November 19th. The verdict of wilful murder against George Freeman apd eight emergency men for shooting an old man named Dengella at Coo'gream, County Wexford, on Sept. 28th, has been confirmed. The tenants on the ■ County Down estates of Lord Londonderry, Lord Lieutenant, have declined to accept an offer of 50 per cent reduction in their rents, and will carry out their determinate ontor the Land Court.