General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3919, 21 July 1881, Page 2

General News.

The condition of Ireland is becoming daily more serious, and rioting of a most formidable character has, laken place throughout the past week. uresu baronies have been proclaimed, ana numerous arrests made. The military are concentrating at various points tor the preservation of order and the prevention of outrage. Several serious encounters have taken place between tne troops and the people. No evicting can now be carried out unless the law officers are supported by a strong military torce. Agrarian murders are increasing, ana bailiffs, process servers, care takers, ana anybody, in fact, obnoxious to tne Land League daily fall victims to attacks of the most savage character. At Scariff, county Clare, a murderous affray took place on the Ist 'Jane in connection with the service of writs of ejectment on the defaulting tenants. Hundreds of persons armed with pitchforks and other weapons obstructed the officers, and finally fired several shots at the constabulary, who charged several times with their bayonets. Subsequently several volleys were fired at the police by concealed assailants. The police returned the fire, killing one and wounding several rioters, twenty of whom, armed with rifles, were arrested. At New Pallas. County Limerick, a number of Land Leaguers, who have actively resisted the police ia carrying out evictions, obtained possession of an old castle; and destroyed the approaches to it. A flying column of engineers, artillery, and infantry left Dublin last night with orders to demand the surrender of the castle, and attack it if refused possession. The County people are armed to an alarming extent. The soldiers and constabulary, who daily receive serious, if not fatal, injuries from the rioters, are growing exasperated at. not being allowed to fire, and if the provocation continues, it is feared the soldiery may break put of the barracks and avenge themselves on the populace. There is too much reason to fear that the cupidity of the agrarian classes in Ireland, too, is excited to a degree that the Land League would be powerless to restrain them even if it gave evidence of any sincere desire to exercise a moderating influence. The resistance among the Irish members under the dominion of the Parnellite faction, however is growing stronger. The breach has been widened by a scene in the House of Commons this week, when Mr Mitchell Henry drew attention to a breach of privilege, by the publication in the " Freeman's Jourual" of a letter written by Mr Egan, secretary of the Land League, residing in, Paris, denouncing all Irishmen who did not follow Parnell's lead as place hunters, a curse, and cowards, &c. O'Connor Power severely condemned the Pardell policy, and produced evidenca of prominent Land Leaguers having solicited posts from the English Government. In view of the terrorism and incendiarism now carried on in Ireland, the total; suppression of the Land League is being strongly urged by many London papers. Someone a while ago found out that there was iron in the sun. Somebody in later years has discovered that the first somobody was wrong. W hen we come to. look into the matter it is not at all difficult to discover that the earlier scientific investigator was wrong. We are told that " the presence of iron in the sun was surmised from the similarity of wave lengths and intensity existing between the Frauenhofer lines of the solar spectrum and the bright lines of iron." This theory, however, is upset by researches of Lockyer, who, "after a most painstaking investiga^ tion, is led to conclude that there is ncr iron in the nucleus of the.sun, but only its constituents, and that these exist at different levels in the solar atmosphere, and produce more complex forms by condensation." We are rather pleased at; this than otherwise, for had the least suspicion been allowed to escape that there is iron in the sun, we should have had a limited liability company to carry on the busiuess of working it out in. less than a month. :