Irish Troubles.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4666, 18 December 1883, Page 2

Irish Troubles.

(by special telegbaph.)

London, November 27.

A bailiff was shot dead on November Ist in his house at Castle Blaney, Galway. ■ X

The trouble in Ulster has given rise to a proposition to form a constitutional organisation apart from Orangeism, and uniting Catholics and Protestants for the country at large. The Archbishop and priests of Tuam have come out fiercely against " assisted " emigration, and Government announce that not more than '£50,000 will be spent for this purpose. Daniel Lucy, a bailiff, was found dangerously wounded at Mushera mountain, on the 21st. Ib is a wild district, near Macaron, County Cork.

.The Cabinet having hinted to Earl Spencer that his policy of preventing League meetings, on the assumption that they will be attacked by Orangemen, cannot be approved, the Lord-Lieut, has. taken great umbrage, and threatens to resign if his policy be interfered with.

Great excitement existed in Loughrea in consequence of the wholesale system evictions pat into operation there on November 9th, and the result has been to revive feuds between the Orangemen and Nationalists.

Lord Kossmore, Grand Master of Orangemen, writes to the newspapers ou October 21st, to the effect that if the Parnellite League and other disloyal meetings are allowed to continue in Ulster, there will be blood shed, and perhaps a civil war. The restraint of the' Orangemen cannot be reckoned upon. -SCENE IN DERRY. - The Londonderry Hall, in which the Lord Mayor of Dublin was to deliver an address on November Ist, was taken, possession of by the Orangemen, who held it. Upon the arrival of the Mayor ia the City he was driven to his hotel, his escort carrying green banners, and bands playing Irish national airs. During the passage of the procession a man and a boy were shot. The Orangemen planted the Union Jack on the roof of the City Hall. Later on they vacated the building, and withdrew from the vicinity. The Mayor of Londonderry issued a proclamation appealing to the people to refrain from violence and retaliation. The. chief organiser of this rowdyism was Lord Ernest Hamilton, a son of the Duke of Abercorn. *" •

The Times and Tory journals applaud the Orangemen, and the Radicals call for their prosecution. The whole business has immensely strengthened the National party, and in Dublin the Lord Mayor's Tisifc caused the Irish Government much uneasiness.