General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3908, 8 July 1881, Page 2

General News.

Archbishop Croke, at Thurles, made an appeal to Gladstone to stop farther evictions. Eviction had a peculiar meaning in Ireland. It meant the depopulation of the country; the degradation of flying to foreign lands, carrying a spirit of vengeance against the greatest Empire in the world, which has 'treated Ireland worse than ever Empire treated depend, ency. He would therefore say to Gladstone, "If you value the friendship of Ireland; if you value the good name of England; if you value.the lives of our people ; if you do not wish to perpetuate the national feud and the sanguinary traditions that have ruled in this country for ages, blot out from the statute book the name of eviction, and let no man hence* forth be turned out from his land unless it is quite clear that the money which shotiid have met his engagements was wastefuUy and. foolishly dissipated. It was oojiy the other day that a venerable parish print of Maycarkey told me that when he bWknvi priest to that parish it contained 1300 families. There are at present only 400, Let me ask, Mr Gladstone, what his become of the 800 families, happr in. their humble homes, who have diup. peared from the parish ? They have gone into the grave, many into the workhouse and many to the Great Republic of the west, bearing with them a« undyinr , hatred to the country tl}»t banished then? from their native land. At the same time if evictions are to go on, *I would advise you how to act. . Do not bring yourselves into collision with the authorities. They are too strong for you. If not even for the sake of expediency, if not of principle we must act on the defensive. We mask offer passive resistance to those opposed tous.andin that way,they will g»t tired of the contest, because a whole united people have never yet been defeated. Lecture upon the Rhinoceros.—-Pro* fessor: I must beg you to give me youe individual attention. Itis absolutely in. possible that you can form a true idea of this hideous animal unless you caa keep your eyes fixed on me."

It is perfectly proper to speak of a man s magnificent dome of thought, or bis Websterian brow; but When you spealt of a red-headed gentleman as the man with the gilded dome, or as hematitehaired, tea chances to one he will not feet Sftttered,