Sues Mail News.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4350, 9 December 1882, Page 4

Sues Mail News.

■--■ ■ ♦ . MICHAEL DAVIT! AT WEXFORD. At an open air meeting held io Wexford a few days ago, Mr Michael Davitt made a, long speech, in which he expressed his regret at the results achieved by the Land League, which he said had been ar- ■ rested in. its career of success by coercion. There, had, he said, been a mountain of agitation, and only a mouse of a land measure.; - The entire Irish people throughout the world, ho maintained, rallied to the cry of "Down with land fordism, the land for the people." His remark that outrages had been instrumental in suppressing the Lard League elicited groans from his audience. He .denounced the Land Act as valueless to the Irish tenant, and said it was passed to defend landlordism, remarking that Mr .Gladstone had done nothing to solve the Irish social problem. He added, that ho ■jf hadetrustworthy authority for stating that ' Mr Gladstone did not intend to bring forward any measure, for Ireland iv the . f next two sessions.' :

MR T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P., ON CRIME. Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., in a recent

speech, said crime in Ireland should be put down, but not by crime. The man who. shot, his landlord from behind a hedge was a foul assassin ; but the Court of Justice which, by packed or drunken juries, Bent a man to the gallows was not he thought, in the eyes of heaven, much removed from the skulking assassins. (Cheers). Conld any impartial and sen- -■ sible . man- deny that there had been in Ireland ■, within the last three or four weeks jury-packing so gross, open, and shameless that similiar practices in Eng* land two centuries ago would have brought down the immortal hate and contempt of Englishmen J

A NEW NATIONAL LEAGUE. A meeting of the National Conference, 1 called to deal with Irish questions, and to establish a new National organisation, was opened in.Dublin on October 17. A large number of ex-suspects and members of the Irish Parliamentary Party took part in the proceedings. A letter from Mr Patrick Egan, resigning the Treasurership of the Land League, having been ; -read, 'Mr Parnell proposed the formation Cf tfce Jrisb National league, whose object was, be said, to make a dean, sweep of the present system of Government, winding up with the abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy. The following 13 the substance of the constitu- "'. tidn of the new organisation, which was submitted to-the meeting by Mr Parnell: —That an association be formed to attain - for the. Irish people the following objects: —1. National self-government. 2. Land law reform. 3. Local self-government. 4. Extension of the Parliamentary and " -municipal franchises. 5. The develop--1 ment and encouragement of the labor and industrial interests of Ireland. That this association be called "The Irish Na- : $ional League.'' The objects of the league include the restitution to the Irish people of the right to manage their own affairs in a Parliament elected by the people of Ireland.;, the creation of a peasant propriet- -tary; the substitution of local for Imperial control in the appointment and management of the police ; the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; the extension and assimilation of the Irish Parliamentary and municipal franchises to those of England.

..-. ... MUEDERING BAILIFFS. „-'■ A correspondent telegraphs from ,Clonbur that the constabulary have ]U9t made an important arrest in connection with,the - murder of the Huddys, Lord Ardilaun's „ .bailiffs, .whose bodies were found in Lough ' Mask. The prisoner's Dame in Patrick Higgins, and his house is situated near the path or boreen which leads to Kerrigan's house, where it is supposed- the Huddys were murdered. '> : A <-magisterial inquiry into the case was -.m held :the next day, when Kerrigan, « ;'the' approrer, and his wife were the ..principal, witnesses. Their evidence has not,been-made public, but it is understood that, it was to the effect that the elder Huddy was 'suddenly stnnned by a blow from a stone as he was serving his last * ejectment process, and was then severely "■ kicked. ,'A' woman who was present advised him to pray for mercy on his soul, when' one of the assassins stepped forward and fired four rounds from a revolver, killing the poor man on the spot. When young Huddy saw his grandfather murdered he ran for his life, but was captured, seized by the neck, and his head dashed against, a heap of stones. He was then. shot, in the same way as the elder victim. A crowd of villager was standing ,by,- but,none interfered. Two , sack«_were procured, the corpses placed in them, and taken to Lough Mask. On the way the assassins met a man, who is now one of the Crown witnesses, and they made him lend. a hand in carrying their ' dreadful burden; It is believed that the principal participators in the crime are two men now in gaol.