The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-01-08 00:00:00

VIE' LAND AGriATiON IN IRELAND.

A Land League meeting was held last Saturday at
Anghrim. county Galway, the Rev. John Keigne presiding.
Is his opening remarks he denied that there was a sUrplus
Population, and that the only remedy for the condition of
the country was emigration. He complained of rack-rents
as the great evil. Resolutions were passed expressinr ap-
proval of the programme and policy of the Lste, League,
and declaring that no settlement of the lank question would
be satisfactory that did not make the tllters of the soil the
owners of it. The Rev. J. Fahey, in seconding the first reso-
lution, said there was no poet on earth which could stop
them on their road to vietery, if they kept up their agitation
Peacefully. Let nothing be done to bring disgrace on the
movement or give Offence to anyone. The Rev. P. F.
Flanagan, who ~Yroposed the second resolution, observed
that if the Attt;rney-General had stated that everyone in Ire-
land would 1-;e, satisfied with the "three F's" he denied that
statement, but said that if the Government had given the
"three 'r"s" in 1870 the people would not now be agitating
as tiny were.

A large force of military and police was drafted into
ilanturk on Sunday for the purpose of suppressing the Kan-
turk meeting, according to the proclamation issued by
GT:ernment. A troop of the 3rd Dragoons, from Bailin-
exdlig, a company of the 60th Rifles, and a large force of
police were on the spot and surrounded the platform where
it was contemplated to hold the meeting. Though it was
known the Government had determined to stop the proceed-
ings, a large number of people from the surrounding districts
crowded into the town. A procession, accompanied by
bands and banners, was formed and marched through the
town, but made no attempt to reach the platform. The
Bev, Mr. Buckley addressed the people from the stens 0f
the hotel, declaring that, although they were not iarnwed
to bold their meeting, they had gained a gre:24, victory in
the demonstration of the day. He counselled them to dis-
Perse quietly. As the Dragoons were leavlng in the evening
they were hooted and pelted ,wit.l;, mud, but no confliet tie.
eurre d.
The practice of Bot(ing is still carried On extensively.
At Mountmellick a;a011,,,n was
Day Mx, Humr_ll-wes posted that from New Year's
Smith, th extensive trader in the town,
was Boycott and fellovr-coUntrymen were called upon to
rail! ro.,til the Bag of the Irish National Land League. Mr.
B,o,...tfirdoing a large retail business in the King's and Queen's
i.'ouretaes and Kildare, is also a`butter and cattle dealer, who
has frequently obtained prizes at agricultural shows. The
reasons allestd for Boycotting him are that some time ago
he took e. farm from which a former tenant had, been
evicted; that he is now in treaty for another largthfarrn,
and that he refused to join the Land League. The police
are now watching his establishments.
The Chief Secretary had a novel interview last week. A
Tuam paper stated that Mrs. Bodkin, of Roseberry (says the
Dublin Correspondent of The Times) waited upon him at
Dublin Castle to represent the sad condition of affairs upon
her property and of the country generally. She informed
the Chief Secretary that as the landlords seemed, in such
cases to be asleep and apathetic, if not afrad, to defend
their interests, it was the duty of Irish ladles to show that
they had not the same craven spirit. It is thought that Mrs.
Bodkin will organize a deputatin, OI landladies to the Chief
Secretary. Mr. Forster has ^,'ten her no encouragement, but
expresses sympathy witl:4-fier injured class. ,
A demonstatlon.
-was held at Youghal on Sunday, attended
by 20,000 peo
lions wert :de and 2,000 farmers on horseback. Resolu•
passed condemning the present system of land
tenure. fli Ireland and supporting the principles of the land
Le. in every way possible. A large body of police sur-
rounded the platform, and a number of soldiers were in
readiness at the barracks, but were not called on. Great
excitement prevailed in the town. All the principal
merchants and traders of the town joined the Land League
through fear of being "Boycotted."
Three hundred men marched in military order on Satur-
day to a farm near Milltown and built a house for a man
Who had been evicted, and thence to an adjoining farm
Where another house was erected.

several Land League meetings appointed to be held on
Sunday were stopped by proclamation. At Drogheda the
Leaguers resolved to meet on Eaturday, and the meeting
Waa in progress when the magistrates appeared on tne
Scene and ordered that the people should separate, which
Was done.

One of Lord Digby's tenants at Killeign, near Tullamore,
has received a letter threatening him with death for having
PAR his rent.

On Sunday night a patrol of police from the Ballisodare
station, in the county of Sligo, came upon an armed party of
men who were about to surround a farmhouse, and were
tiring off shots. The police called upon them to surrender in
the Queen's name; but they refused and fired on the con-
stabulary, who returned the flre. One of the party is sup.
used to have been mortally wounded. The night was,
wever, very dark, and the men succeeded in getting off.

A farm belonging to Mr. Owen McLoughlin near Clare-
Morris was (as it is termed) "stripped "the other night, all
the cattle and sheep being driven off the farm. The cows
were also driven off several other farms, and no one but the
owners themselves can be found to assist in recovering
them. All the herdsmen in the district have given notice
that they will not be accountable for anything that may
tlaPpen to the cattle, and several of them have left their
emPloyment, having received threatening letters.
_The Reverend William Raymond, Protestant minister at
1111tInn, near Tralee, has been "Boycotted." Some time
Mr. Raymond was part proprietor of the Kerry Eventny
1-08 t newspaper, and the action of the peasantry is attributed
to that fact. I

Slaking at a meeting at Tempo, near Enniskillen on Sun-
day, Mr. O'Kelly, M.P., said that was the last public
guisembly he would attend before Parliament opened, and
when he returned he believed he could say he represented
tie wishes of the men of Ulster better than the representa-
tives which Ulster had returned. If the people of England
°IIIY understood the Irish landlord system, which was
'Nita different from English landlordism, they would not
tolerate it. A. company of infantry were present at the
ttletting, but there was no disturbance.

In Ballyshannon, county Donegal, a force of sixty sobliers
aild three officers of the 47th Regiment have arrived and
taken up quarters in the military barracks there, which have
not been occupied for the last twenty years.
On Monday evening a party of the Army Service Corps,
with horses and Waggons, arrived by special train at Castle-
Ea_r, for the purpose of conveying an iron hut for constabu-
ro
Y to Kilbree, near Westport, to be erected on a farm be-
nging
tO Mr. O'Donnell, agent to Sir Roger Palmer, who
been recently "Boycotted."
On Monday afternoon a special meeting of the Dublin
torporation, convened on a requisition signed by fifteen
*members of the Council, was held in the City Hall. The
requisition set forth that the meeting was called "to take
Into oonsideration the laws now regulating the tenure and
Proprietorship of land in Ireland, and taking all necessary steps
upon or in relation to a motion to be submitted by Mr.
16/ray, the ex-Lord Mayer." The chair was falcon at 1 91 by
the Itignt lion. the Lord Mayor (Mr. Moyers, LL.D.). The
roll was called, and thirty-four members answered. The
minutes having been read, Mr. Gray, M.P. moved: "That
a petition be forthwith adopted, sealed with the city seal,
and presented in state by the Lord Mayor at the bar of the
House of Commons on the 7th prox.—before the presenta-
tion of the petitisni of this Corporation on the franchise
question—calling attention to the laws affecting the tenure
and proprietorship of land in Ireland, and their effect upon
the general condition of the country, and to the necessity of
a radical reform of these laws. After a discussion the
Motion was adopted.
The Dublin Correspondent of The Times says :—" Fifty
alien of the Rifle Brigade and a strong force of police have
been brought in from Tuam to Milltown, county Galway,
Where great excitement prevails. A tenant is to be evicted
Who was reinstated on Saturday. Some roofless houses have
been re-thatched preparatory to an attempt to reinstate
evicted tenants, and it is supposed that in furtherance of
Borne new law, the people intend to make a new division of
the land among themselves."

The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation
OM the Lord-Lieutenant, offering a reward of £5OO to any
rVrson or persons who shall within EIX months give such in-
rmation at shall lead to the conviction of the person or
Psrsons who fired at the Rev. Canon Fleming when return-
from Divine service at Tully, near Clifton, county Gal-
On Sunday evening, the 26th ult.

The Local Government Board have authorized the holding
o.f presentment sessions at Tullamore and 0-eashill in order
r,O provide relief works for the employment of a large number
of labourers who have been thrown out of work in con-
Bequence of the rents not having been paid on Lord Digby's
estate.
„A notice has been posted at Ballycastle, county Mayo,
'areatening with death any shopkeeper, trader, car-owner,
ar other person who may have any transactions with Miss
u_ardner. A horse belonging to her was destroyed a few
lughta ago, and all the grazing cattle driven off the land.
viLParty of 200 men, with blackened faces, visited the
,_.—mitge of Battinglen, and swore the tenants not to pay the
Zacindlord more than Griffith's valuation. The tenants on the
i°lllleg property were also visited and the same pledge
exacted.
The mutilation of cattle is not confined to the West and
aeuth, but is finding its way into the North. A fine heifer,
‘9e Property of a farmer 'near Portadown, has been mali-
Veuslv killed, after being subjected to a barbarous mutila-
.,_,L The owner's offence is stated to be that he is a Con-
..rvative and does not sympathize with the Land League.
vbitelligence has reached Clonmel of a singular scene which
vAls witneBs,4 last Sunday near Thurles. On a farm from
or eh a tenant had been evicted 36 years ago a large number
t,..people assembled with bands, flags, and banners, and,
ZsLing marched seven times round the farm, marked out a
rmen to be given up on Thursday to the widow of the
at tenant.
v‘,..r,he weekly meeting of the Land League was held in
-rjeliti on Tuesday night, and was attended by many of the
:Ljuill members. Mr. Parnell was not present. It was an-
feluiced that since the last meeting subscriptions had been
feceived to the amount of £1,792 for organisation, and £716
aor defence purposes.
1,4 Lend League meeting having been'announced to be held in
.7agherafelt on Thursday, and a counter fleeting also an-
ipnced. the magistrates issued a proclamation pro:
uathlliC both meetings on the ground that information on
the an iu h beea made to the effect that a serious breach of
„,.e Peace would occur if they were held. A meeting which
i'ear, used to be held in Castlebar on Sunday next has also
e 23 Prohibited. An account has been received of an irn-
U'rng military display at Castlebar on Monday. An iron
to be erected on the farm of Mr. O'Donnell, whose
_ erds have been "Boycotted," was conveyed there by
i:Nons of the Army Service Corps. It was guarded by a
of Dragoons and four of the constabulary with fixed
..!Y?nets. The cavalcade attracted considerable attention
.I.t Proceeded through the town for Kiltree, Westport.
pfzerong party of
police also left Castlebar for the same

• THE "THREE F's."

rhe T.
1,4 vines has published the following letter :
alitap-Diro. You allow me to say a word in reply to what
three
thi -.7,. Y serious difficulty in the equitable working of
"ea
to many of your correspondents? They
Liar that the landlord who has made the improvements on
tiowPrn°P"ty Will be placed at a disadvantage, and they ask
sYsteM of valued rents can secure to lam the money
8 '8 Bo expended.
t_leiet!7lY the answer is plain. The Court in estimating
rilstorya - rent " 'would have to take into consideration the
portantaxld circumstances of the farm. One of the most im-
d beenreurnstances would be whether the improvements
"wprove
Mad° by landlord or tenant. The farm, with all
have „„ Tents, is worth a certain rent; if the Improvements
peen made by the landlord he would be entitled
keprovwhole rent ; if, on the other hand, some or all the
*maid tinents have been made by the tenant, the latter
to Da,.
__e entitled to a set-off, and the rent he would have
the_tg would be somewhat smaller. If under the third'
1 F"
tell iunlTt's interest came to be sold, this lower rent would
higher. 8 faVOUr by making the selling value of the interest
l'lnui th
dent it e more the question is considered the more. e.vi-
era be0c,,,,._
-leB that to produce a complete and working
sully 4 the •
i, ' three F's '' are all required, and are neces-
tOgothei"n
1 dont on each other. They must stand or fall
a'a. Sir, your obedient servant,
011ie, Dee. 10. ,
..._ GEORGE ERRINGTON.

lIIIE RITUALISTS AND THE LAW.
2 t 1;11:134110P of Lichfield in a New Year's address
--e clergy of his di l'lßlnit'es within the Church ' "The real points a
tssue," he sa,ys ^Cese refers to the present
, "may fairly included under two_
keads---first, the limits of toleration in matters of
rtu.al ;, and secondly, the authority by which suchit
lunits are to be defined and maintained. I believe
Is almost needless for
sityf me to say to you that, for my
°Yril.Part, while I fully recognise the absolute iieces-
Churchmen
or some controlling authority which all faithful
yet will respect and all must loyally obeY,
toleration iti
rnY e'irn desire is 'on the one bar, I, for a larger
Clearer rec h' Matters of' ritual and on the other, for a
this it
c'llition of the spiritual jurisdiction of the,
Chuch as distinguished from thelStatetvdatorlittihan
Prejudgeis not desirable for the present to say, or to
counsel questions which demand not only the united
into the past of our rulers, but also the most careful inquiryhistory
WW of Ohur
as well as the present cum- II tht ih. =