IRELAND.

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IRELAND.

The crops in the ninth are reported to ramrd by the heavy rams. William Cuffe, a bailiff, who had made himself very obnoxious by hi.s cruel treatment to women recently evicted, attended mass in Belcarra Chapel on the 12th, when twelve of the women whom he had turned jut set upon him and beat him so un mercifully that his life was disposed of. The Albert Bridge, spanning the Ligan Rher at Belfast, collapsed on Septunber l")th, thiowing 20 peisons into the rivei. Pour weie di owned. (General Buller, the commissoner recently despatched to Ireland by the Gin eminent, has expressed the opinion m his report that the mass of tenants are unable to pay the rents and arrears demanded by the land loids. Ln the Hou^e of Commons on September 22nd, Mr Dillon, Parnelhte, urged the release of Father Fahy, imprisoned at Wood ford, the priest who, he said, lefused to give his bail because he thought that would amount to an admission ot misconduct on his part. Mr Hoi mot) the Attorney-General for Ii eland justified the act ion taken. Ho said he himself had no power to intetfeie after magistrate has ghen his decision. Mr Sexton said he was of opinon that Father Fahy would pimethe the most inconvenient prisoner the Governor ever had. Mr Tanner, Parnelhte, followed, and after being twice c tiled to older because of irrele\ant remarks, was ordered to cease speaking, wheieupon he left the chamber shouting '"Tni^ House is no place for an Irishman. I am disgusted with it." The Scottish Protestant Alliance met to discuss the reply of Lord Randolph Churchill to their protest against the appointment of Mr Henry Matthews as Home Secretary, which was brought on the ground tint he was a Roman Catholic. The lev. James P.ilton, duectorof the Alliance, has addressed a letter to Loid R. Chuichill, in which he says "You have penned an insolent reply to a, respectful public document. Although you aie now a Cabinet Minister we observe with astonishment and regret that you h.a\e not laid aside those weapons of abuse with which you tonnhawked your way to power. It is a national calamity when men, pitch foiked into high positions, aie destitute of decant mannftis." Mr Palton concludes his letter by saying that the Alliance founded its protest upon the same grounds as those upon which the exclusion of Roman Catholics is founded.