The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

ANOTHER THREATENING NOTICE.

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The campaign against the landlords is opening with
increased vigour and upon an extended scale (writes
the Dublin Correspondent of The Times on Oct. 21).
To-morrow the tenant-righters will meet simultaneously
at Castlebar, Ennis, and other places, and Navan is to
pronounce on the question on the let of November.
The agitation has already had the effect of unsettling
the minds of the tenantry to a serious extent, and the
prospects of the coming winter are very discouraging.
Landlords must exercise their rights with a full know-
ledge of the increased risk they incur, even where they
ace supposed to be popular, from the spirit of re-
sistance, of which we now see some premonitory
svmptions. An instance is furnished in isainection
with the property of Count de Jarmo; a resident pro-
prietor, who has hitherto been regarded as a favourite
,if the people. A few days ago he received the follow-
ing warning :
"Take Notice. If you are determined to bring about an_
other Ballycohey aface mall be met with by Is watchful aft
moaaixt, IVIIO Will Illlint at you lath the barbed steel and-
lay you prostrate upon Thostown plain. Take this masaoii
U' you value poor days in thm life.
"To Count farnac,Thadolon."
Conscious that he hail done nothing to deserve the hos-
tility of any man, and trusting to the intellience and
justice of the people, he assembled his tenants, herds-
men, and labourers on his estate at Tlaomaatown Castle
on S iturday
DR. LIVINGSTONE. said : morning, and after reading the letter,
°lt may lie supposed that this letter has been sent to me
The following is the text of the letter (dated August in connexion with the holding in Thonmatown Alloge which
:11, 1.11411) received by the L'orubay lloverinneut from has fallen in by the death of Thomas Burns, the lost life in
Dr. Kirk, political agent at Zanzibar, relating to the the le:nse. Though the circumstances of this tenure are
supposed arrival of Dr. Livingstone at lij.ji : well known to most of you, I have had a snort statement of
Sir,— I have the honour to report for the information of the them prepared, which I will also real to you"
Right 11.1 e uratle the Governor in Domicil that an Arab C,iitit de Jarnac then read the statement, from
carav on ar,ivtd here two days age from the interior bearing wilich it appeared that the lands— about 14 acres
a letter from Synd Majbl'a agent at Unayayenibe, In the stalute
I'''''' measure—had been let on lease for lives in
country of Anyaniwi, ez address., to his brother at Zanzibar, ~,,• 'Ti e last life, that iif Thnnas Burns, died in
in a BS to which the arrival of Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji is
mentioned. I forward a copy If this extract tit translation. America on the 24th of Novemher, PAK A farmer
iam informed that the native messenger who saw Dr. Living- panned Itylan had tilled tne laud and lifted the crops
stone at l'hil was oim month on the way to Anyayerabo, amt for the two prrei ding :tm.irs, and on hwing asked to
that thereh we this information is at least a few months .hi i gi, 'op pos.,,ion t,f the laiel, he at first refued,
i understamt that a eariv.iti is etiniefeil ins the C":01t iii Mout , imt ultimately promised to do so, on condition that
a month, a hot We ma) possy ceive further news of the
if,eat etplOrer. The road betweenre the coast and l'jijt is at he ishiitdd be allowed to take away the third year's
Present iipen and safe even to small bodies of Men.—t have Sr p. After he had removed the crop to his own
Stir honour, itc., J. Kim:, Political Agentand It. Ma. consul, lame, however, he still declined to give up posses-
-2 ...war. 1 slum, and an action fir ejectinent was brought. lie
(Translation) i went on to state that 'in the I Bth inst. Ryan called on
postscript—Be good ottough when the slave returns to send . the agent and stated in substance that he would not
a iew of brandy similid to that which cone for the white I give up possession. On the following morning the
as one of which was broken on the way, so that none xi. was received through the post. Count de darnac
remained. And he (the white man) haa bed!jiji and I
'nay Dana this way and on his coming we will give it to him. earnestly exhorted the people, for their own sakes, to
Ito not neglect this, assist in putting down such disreputable practices, but
Dated 4th ltabill eIiAVIIIII2O6 (June 12. IS6M, it does not appear that they gave a satisfactory
response, although they listened with attention.

place.

The inquest on the body of Mr. O'Brien showed
that he was killed by a sharp instrument, probably a
kind of dagger. Several deep wounds were inflicted on
the head, face, and neck. The jawbones were b..th frau
-tored and the chest completely forced in. Tio• short
ribs on On, left side were also broken. The jory re-
turned a verdict that deceased was "brutally mur-
dered by some person or persons unknown." Ten
men are in custody on suspicion.

THE "NATIONAL" PRESS ON MR.
GLADSTONE'S LETTER. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE lENIAN
The Irish ' natiiinal" papers atitct great anger at PRISONERS.
the refusal id the Government to release the Fenian The following letter has been addressed by Mr.
prisoner:. The Nation say o the &cid,. "is not only Gladstone to Mr. Butt, Q.C. :
',Allard, but shoclting." 'No amuesty !" it exclaims. "Ilawariltia Chester. Oct. 23, ISM.
"This cannot be the end of that appen.l which has so ' Sir—l have the honour to a knowledge the receipt
missed the heart of Ireland. Far otherwise it is and of an address adopted at a great meeting of the citizens of
must be. A momentous issue has been raised today
thodie and others, on the lesti current, which expresses a
r strisig desire tor the velem. of the per Aill confined in
at i.l the Irish ye ii will not shirk it " Ireland on account of podtical offence& With respect to the
The Flag "thanks England for the lesson. It is the general purpose of the address, I have respectfully to refer you
last constitutional appeal that will come from this to a letter addressed by me, on the idth, to the representative
land. of a meeting called whira similar object at Limerick.
The Iriehman beads it article, " The Oppressor's 'eta:en! 111 t
amsriecdilt%ahn7Zlrf!t7 rliZeetoaa rbtlii°e'a‘gintlol
Reply." It is only (it says) a " declaration of govern- n.—ihie in the year ISSI, with regard to the politic' al prisoners
ment by terror, a defiance of the Irish nation. ' If in the Kingdom of Naples, and which constitutes a puticu-
this be the tide of Government in Ireland for the lar and personal appeal. it is desired that I should bring to
future, as it has been in the Pasts we have reason to the cotaideration of the lately pending Irish question' the
thank Mr. Gladstone for reminding us that, thank IMMO strong sense of justice which has induced me to raise
God, 'Feniliali 'Di is not extinct either in the United initiwout till b,elitlyt
jo.tatza ptoolituivpl rise
no r‘tyers
esi; itcao:,hatrielaontts,i'.
Kingdom or in America.' In its existence we have rising or desiring that a Feverer measure of justice
some means of opening the prison doors, and of deliver- should be applied to my misguided, yet, I hope, not
ins our people from Government by terror snit torture." irrecoverable fellow couutcynien, than I was led to
The same journal hays :—" We listened to his (Mr. ask on behalf of any persons suffering elsewhere
Gladstone's) promise. We offered him a test. We Permit me, however, to obrerve that, saving the fact that
asked for the restoration of the victims as a sign of the ti, n:,,,h,Z;:,,ji:,:rp,T,otTec=ecrlia:e'i,, 7,:rre:itc,',l,fieg,7ift
abantionment cif the p olicy to which they were sacra- tine . ours° of justice, as Ural by the law of the Lind, the
ticed. We accepted Mr. Gladstone's justification of rentin prisoners received a free and open trial under alas-
their conduct. We demanded from bim an atonement fir! Government, and they were tound guilty by juries of
for the crime which he acknowledged his nation had their tellows-coontrymen. The prisoners to the Kingdom of
committed against the Irish race. The policy of con-
Naples were arrested and laiprisimeil without due legal pro-
quest has been unly abandoned to give Idace to a reign , ww.:l,,,a,„„vorporogivi.,tztlytrietly aet alLiamil whennot
b xcept mut ,
of terror." regular triiimials. When they were condemned, they were
The People of Ireland declarer that " the English condemned, not by the tree verdict of a popular body, Ind
people have elected to give the lie to all their profess by sentences of judges dependent on the Government for
a ons of sympathy with struggling nationalities and to their bread -on a Government, moreover, of which the title
virtually say to Kossuth, Garibaldi, Mazzini, J'effersiou rested on a flagrant breach in the most solemn oaths, and of
Davis, allld the other exiled revolutiimists whiim they talinee
.7, r.iltrteVieggilg:istitu.t,to,:i
iltitaeli"a‘Tl,riy..toTeyhe.ag4ajireit:
feted and Nattered, Our professions of sympathy with in addition to your many other distinctions, renders one glad
the oppressed of all nations were holliiw :Maws.' " T hi" to have the opportimity of addressing to you this reference
refusal (it adds) "has taught the Irish people, for the to the facts —I have the honour to remain, sir, your very
ten thousandth time, the lesson which they are always faithful servant,
. "IV. E.GULDSrositi.
" .
forgetting—that they have no voice in the Government Isaac Butt, Esq'
of this country, and that the Isle of Wight has more
influence in deciding the policy of the English Cabinet
than Ireland has." "He (Mr. Gladstone) has defied
Ireland. We await the reply of the Irish nation."

TILE PRESENT LORD DERBY.
(From The Times)
Lord Stanley is now the Earl of Derby, but it Will be long
before we can ass, elate that familiar title with a character
so unlike his celebrated father's. Seldom has an illustrious
family been represented so eminently in two successive
froneratiors ; never, perhaps, was hereditary genius trans-
mitfed wile ao little visible admixture of hereditary tempera-
ment. Lord Stanley. as we must 4W call him, is commonly
regarded as the very antithesis of Lord Derby in nearly all
that constitutes identity. The one rota ried the fire and
dash of )ooth unbroken by faitll.g he:it'll beyond the ago
of seventy; the other exhibited in he fleet Parliament:ll y
effort, at the age of twenty-four, a premature gravity
and Judicial caution which sugared ill, in the opinion or
Collie, for his capacity of Inture development. Lord
Derby fully appreciated this amusing diversity of disposition,
and would often playfully remark on the apparent reversal
of the natural relation between his son and himself. The
contrast, however, which has been no marked In their
political
careers was not wholly due to an original diffurence of tastes
or animal spirits. It was partly the result of the different
times in which they were boin, and partly of the different
modes in which they were educated for Parliamentary life.
Lord Derby entered the Rouse of Commons as a mein youth,
with a very email capital of knowledge, during the "pre-
scientific" tille of politics, when spirited deoating was
the great qualification for idleness, and men like
llusklason posed for mere doctrinaire politicians. Lord
Stanley took his seat, after a careful training at
school and college and a tour in America, when
the Corn Laws were already repealed, and the agent econo-
mists had fairly set M. Just as Pith mould have found it im-
possible to maintain his pi/40m with the rhetorical
weapons of Coatliam,po Lord Stanley would never hare been
aide MO win a reputation for striesumosnipi with an little
study 88 Lord Derby, even if, like him, he could have become
the "Rupert of debate." Those who call discern structural
lineaments below the oUtwarit features may, perhaps, reoog-
nize a family likeness between them hidden from casual ob-
servers. The advocate and the judge do not always repre-
sent antagonistic types ; condescending gaiety and grave re-
serve may equally spring Isom a deep aristocratic pride.
Lord Stanley, with all Me culture and habit of methodical
thought, has yet to show himself possessed of that popular
fibre which is so essential in governing a free people, and for
want of which, as well as of statesmanlike insight, his father's
life WiCi a hrilliant failure.
Two courses now lie open before him, either offering the
prospect of *splendid political reverse n, yet either leset
with such difficulties and dangers as may well induce him to
pause. flare cs he little Medd that Lord Manley would
bo 'copied, in spite of Ws suspected heresies, as the Oppo-
sition leadcr to the Rouse of hoofs, did that Loot Cairns
would concede to hint without leluctance a position
ill
suited for the divine), of Ms own characteristic powers.
Neither lord Salleiney nor Lord Caroarvon would he likely
to dispute it with bins, especially as neither could act in
harmony with Mr Insraelt, and he would rally round hou
marly Mt the 'monger Conservative Peers. The sec-
Oseaton to Co influence which his father Inherited from the
Duke of Wellington Is indeed, a tempttng prize,
but it is only to ho retaMed by a statesman of progressive
views at a ruinous sacrifice of all that can gratif, nchle
ambition. Lori. Stabley may possibly la. it I a ewe
he is eertain iv /101 a intilillerindiVii in any realloloono
the term. On foreign politica on religions politic* and on
social politics he is believed to hold opinions more distress-
ing to a true.bred COnseirative, like Mr. Cathorne Hardy,
than Radicalism of the vulgar kind. Mr. Disraeli, 111, true,
has shown the cloven foot of cosmopolitan scepticism In at
beet an equal degree; but, though Mr. Disraeli successfully
" educated " hie party to follow lanneelf, with Lord