The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-11-05 00:00:00

DEIIONSTRATIONS.

The Recorder of Cork at Midletou Quarter Sessions
on Monday confirmed the sentences of three months
and two months respectively upon Mr. Wm. O'Brien,
M.P. and Mr. John Mandeville, for having on Aug.
10 and 11, at Mitchelstown, used language inciting
the people to resist process of law. The appellants
did no prosecute their appeal, and were not repre-
sented by counsel. Mr. O'Brien stated that after
the language of approval attributed to the
Recorder in reference to c,.rtain published state-
mints of Lord Bramwell ha did not think any
good would av-til by prosecuting his apnAr.l. After
the Recorder confirmed the conviction of Mr. O'Brien
an extraordinary so-no occurred. Mr. Harrington,
M.P., asked that while the committal of Al: r. O'Brien
was being made out be might be permitted to kayo
the court. At first the Recorder said he ciuld not
accede to this, and suggested that Mr. O'Brien could
go into the magistrates' room and see his friends
there. lhe matter was further pressed on the Re-
corder, and he said, "I am anxious to treat Mr.
O'Briin with consideration, and not to have
him suffer any indignity. I don't know
ti at there is any warrant filled yet, and I
think that uutil timt is done Mr. O'Rrien may be per-
mitted to go out." (Cheers in court,) Captain
divibional magistrate, bore came forward. Address-
ing the Court, he ssid he would take the responsibility
of detaining Mr. O'Brien, and at once ordered his
arrest, which was effected by Inspector Crearsh.
A most unseemly wrangle then ensued. Mr.
O'Brien resisted arrest, and claimed that he
was free until the committal was made out.
Several of his friends got round him, who were
again surrounded by the police, and the lot were
bundled out of the court into a narrow passage.
Here the struggle continued for several minutes, Mr.
O'Brien and his friends struggling to get through
the outside door, while the police prevented them.
Finally the warrant for O'Brien's committal was pro.
duced, and the prisoner submitting on seeing it was
at once conveyed to the Brideivell, which is under the
same roof as the Court House. The case of Mr.
Mandeville was then proceeded with and disposed of
in a short time. Both prisoners were taken to the
Cork County Gaol by road, being driven in a covered
carriage escorted by Hussars. Both were lodged in
the gaol at five o'clock. The streets of the city were
crowded, and a great deal of excitement prevailed.

NATIONALIST DEM.ONSTRATION AT
LIMERICK.
SPEECH BY MR S. D. WADDY, M.P.
The National League demonstration in Limerick on
Tuesday was, from the Home Rule point of view, a
great success. Contingents from the counties of
Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary attended in large
numbers, and the vast assemblage which met in the
enclosure alongside the Limerick market, were ad-
dressed from two platforms, at one of which Mr. H.
J. Gill, M.P. for the city, presided, the Mayor filling
the chair at the other. The English members of
Parliament who took part in the proceedings were
Mr. Waddy, Q.C., and Mr. H. J. Wilson. Those pre-
sent included the following members of the Irish
party; Messrs. John Dillon, W. Abrahams, J. R.
Cox, J. Finucane, J. Stack, and G. O'Brien. Mr.
Waddy, in company with Mr. Cox and Mr. Abra-
hams, travelled especially from London, arriving in
the city at eleven o'clock in the morning. Owing to
his having to return by the 2.45 p.m. train it was
arranged that the hon. gentleman should speak from
the window of the Mechanics' Institute before the
procession through the city and the demonstration at
the market took place.
The Mayor, who was received with cheers, informed
the gathering that before the meeting was commenced
in the ordinary way the committee had decided that
an English member of Parliament who had addressed
the people of Limerick previous to this should speak.
(Cheers, and cries of "He's welcome.") No words
were necessary to introduce Mr. Waddy to an Irish
audience, for his services in the cause of Ireland were
well known. (Hear, hear.) He stood by the people
at the battle of Bodyke, and had spoken on their
behalf in Ireland and in the House of Commons.
Mr. Waddy was greeted with prolonged cheering.
His duty that day was not, he said, so much to speak
as it was to hear and to see. He bad journeyed to
Limerick to see the people assembled in vast numbers in
order to do honour to their member, his personal
friend, and above all to show their loyalty to that great
cause for which many of them had already suffered
so much. (Cheers.) He desired to see them—the rioters
the people who could not be trusted in public assembly
—the people assembled from Clare and from Kerry,
which were proclaimed counties—the people who were
supposed to be, and he had no doubt were, a fair
sample of that country which some people told them
was never to be governed by love, and was always to
be held down by force. He had come to see if they
could conduct themselves as their friends said they
could, and as their enemies denied they would.
Hereafter he would testify that when that one
element was withdrawn, and when no sign of
force on the part of the constabulary was present,
then there was peace, order, and law. The policy
that the Government were pursuing, perhaps unin-
tentionally, was a policy of exasperation and a policy
of violation; and if the people either there or else-
where in Ireland committed deeds of violence he
warned them that they would be only playing into
the hands of their enemies. (Cheers.)
Mr. John Dillon, M.P., condemned the imprison-
ment of Mr. William O'Brien as an outrage on the
Irish race, and said the Government were never
rightly in hot water until they arrested Mr. O'Brien.
So long as he had liberty and life he would preach
war on landlords until they opened the doors of his
prison. Mr. O'Brien was brought before partisan
judges, who confirmed the decision of the court below,
and the scene which followed astonished even those
accustomed to the mockery of law in Ireland. If Mr.
O'Brien's friends had force enough they would have
tried the thing out as the men of Mitchelstown did,
and bring Mr. O'Brien out of court, cost what it
might, but they were overpowered. If the landlords
Wanted war the people were ready, but if peace was
to be established it must be peace on honourable
terms. Mr. H. J. Wilson, M.P., Mr. Mercer Wright,
of Hastings, and other speakers also; addyessed the
meeting, and the resolutions were agreed to--At
No. 2 Platform Messrs. Gill, M.P., Abraham, M P.,
Wilson, 31. P., Cox, M.P., Finucane, M.P., and other
gentlemen spoke, and resolutions similar to those
adopted at No. 1 Platform were unanimously agreed
to. There was a banquet in the Atheneum in the
evening, under the presidency of the Mayon