IRISH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2425, 15 November 1892, Page 4

IRISH AFFAIRS.

London, Nov. 8. Evidence* has been given before the Evicted Tenants' Commission, showing that 239 eviction' 1 * had taken place on Lord Clanricarde's estate, in thirteen years. Messrs E. Murphy, and O'Brien, members of the looted Tenants' Commission, have withdrawn, the last named because he has been appointed to the Land Commission. Mr Justice Mathews warned the tenants that they had no power to reinstate. All the Commission could do Avas to report to Parliament, and he advised them not to be over-sanguine as to the result of their applications for reinstatement. Nov. 11. Lord Salisbury in an address to the Nonconformists' Unionist Association earnestly entreated the Government to retain Uganda and kill the slave trade. The Empire was on the verge of a most critical period. The Nonconformists in Ireland were exposed to the greatest danger that Protestants in the British Isles were ever exposed to, and had a commanding claim to sympathy from their coreligionists in England. Archbishop Walsh threatened to obtain absolute dominion over the Protestants, despite the unfailing virtuous optimism of Mr Gladstone. Referring to the Evicted Tenants Commission, he said he attached no serious importance to the decision of its partisan president and the packed commission. Home Rule would produce a saturnalia of insolent debtors, bringing disaster and woe on all minorities in Ireland, financial, political, and religious. Mr Chamberlain wrote to the Association advising Nonconformists to reconsider their support of a Gvernment whose poliey was one of surrender, and of

those who trusted the British honourHe eondemecl the Irish policy in scathing terras. An impression prevails in Dublin that the Evicted Tenants Commission will speedily collapse. It is stated that Mr Roche, one of the members, is also likely to withdraw, leaving only Mr Justice Mathews and another on the Commission. Mr Murphy explains '.hat he has resigned as he objected to the tone of Mr Justice Matthews' opening address. Father Fay has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of intimidating a witness at the hearing of the petition against the return of Mr Patrick Fullman, Nationalist, for South Meath.