The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-10-22 00:00:00

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THE Ar.RESTS IN IRELAND.

The Correspondent of the Standard has had an interview
with Mr. ParnelL The Correspondent says :

A good-humoured waideffThearing his keys of office,
and an official whom I took to be a secretary or under
secretary of the Governor, were present during the
interview, but behaved with the fullest respect and
consideration towards the prisoner. Mr. Parnell was
deadly pale. He was, as usual, carefully dressed,
and wore a small round smoking-cap. He appeared
to be cheerful, and I may at once say that throughout
the interview he abstained from any expression of hos-
tility or resentment against the Government, or any
member of it.
The room into which he was removed is that lately
sceupied by Father Sheehy, and is about the best and
most cheerful at the Governor's disposal. The ladies
of the Land League and others have filled it with
books and bright-coloured furniture. A bright fire
was burning in the old-fashioned fire-place, and before
this we sat. Mr. Parnell told me that he had expected
,ever since reading the Premier's speech at Leeds to be
arrested, and that he had received certain intelligence
of the determination of the Cabinet on Wednesday
evening. He had not attemnted to evade capture, as
he was aware that it would have been almost impos-
sible. I mentioned to him the excitement of the
old retainers at Morrison's Hotel, who knew Ms
People well and some of whom had oarried him into
the hotel when a boy in their arms. "Yes," he
replied, smiling, 'somebody proposed that I should
get out of the back window, but I declined, as I knew
the approaches were watched." He said that Super-
intendent Mallon had behaved with all possible polite-
ness. Although troubled with a slight cold, he had
In no way suffered from his imprisonment so far, but
he anticipated that any long-continued imprisonment
Must have a very prejudicial effect upon one of his
lively constitution and active habits. He thought it
Probable that he would be kept prisoner for some con-
siderable period. The arrest, or, as he preferred
to describe it, the return to the policy of coercion,
Was, he thought, due to the misinformation of
the Government, who were under the impression that
the League would prevent tenants with really good
cases from going before the Court. On the contrary,
he said, the League had taken up great numbers of
cases of every description all over the country, and
his only object had been to prevent the farmers from
indulging in needless litigation, when, by watching
the decision of similar test cases, they would be able
to judge of the views of the Court about their own
cases and make agreements accordingly. He affirmed
that he had not committed the offences named in the
Warrants, and denied the legality of these documents.
"I defy them ! " exclaimed Mr. Parnell, "to show
one speech of mine made within the Dublin district,
the districts named in the warrants, in which I have
given such advice to tenants. I believe that Mr.
kiladstonet by returning to this coercion policy, has
seriously injured the prospects of his Act. The
tenants will not after this go into Court so freely as
before. And if they go, there are, after all, great
defects in the Act I told you a week before
I was arrested that even if the Government seized
me there would be no fear of disturbances, and
I am still of that opinion. One effect of the
...course taken by the Government will be that every
-trish voter in England will vote against them for the
future. If I am released in time to attend the next
Session of Parliament I shall support, and even, if
Possible, extend and improve the Bill lately deter.
mined upon by the Farmers' Alliance for England.
Jsq, in the meantime, I shall practise in gaol carpen-
tering, or some occupation of that kind. I was always
rather inclined to mechanical operations for relaxation.
Thanks' to the Ladies Land League, I am, as you see,
?fell supplied with books, but I have not as yet come to
Lae determination to write any work."

The clerk of the peace for Wicklow county has
rived the Lord Chancellor's writ of supersedeas
striking Mr. Parnell's name off the roll of magistrates
O f the county.

The arrest of Mr. Parnell was followed up by the
arrest of Mr. Sexton, M.P., and Mr. Quinn, the
assistant secretary of the Land League, who was
arrested at seven o'clock on Friday morning in last
;Zeal; at his residence, 2, St. Vincent-street, by Mr.
....11uPerintendent Mallon and another officer of police.
v,..4,r. Quinn was in bed when they called, and after
ing allowed sufficient time to breakfast and
ra. ake some arrangements he was driven in a cab
141 Kilmainham. Eight or ten other detectives
were placed near the house as a precaution, but
°Wing to the early hour ot the arrest the fact was quite
ullknown in the locality. Mr. Quinn's brother, who
ras secretary to the Claremorris branch of the
-1-league, is also an inmate of the gaol. Mr. Sexton
t'aB arrested at his residence, North Frederick. street,
Y Mr. Superintendent Mallon. He is regarded as
c'ne of the most prudent and one of the ablest leaders,
tnd had taken charge of the organization after Mr.
lon 's arrest, but was about to relinquish the reins
to Mr. A. O'Connor, M.P., and proceed to the Con-
141ent to recruit his health. A warrant was also out for
O'Connor's arrest, and the superintendent called at
;fst_ Imperial Hotel and made significant inquiries,
uut was informed that he had left after breakfast.
M Healy, M.P., was also on his way from London,
ut 'was stopped, it is stated, by a messenger sent over
BPeCially to Holyhead for the purpose.
The determined action of the Government was fur-
cher. shown in the issue of proclamations, which
aPPeared in the Dublin Gazette on Friday night, and
!f_ere extensively postei throughout the country.
--uhe first was as follows
"BY the Lords Justices General and General Governors of

Ireland.

"Money.
"Edward Sullivan, M.R.
v tnt".rter.eas in many parts of Ireland an organized system
tmtdation is practised, whereby divers of Her Majesty's
Inakjects, under apprehension of violence to their persons or
PZ,Terties, or deprlvation of the necessaries of life, or loss of
y"4lnesB. are coerced—
"To give up their lawful employment;
To abandon their lawful occupations and pursuits;
To abstain from the payment of rents lawfully due by
or the fulfilment of other their lawful engagements,
To become members of or subscribers to the funds of an
gooiation commonly known as the Land League; or
d: To abstain from doing what they have a legal right to
' to do what they have a legal right to abstain from
doing:

tice;°,o, We do hereby warn all persons that all such prae-
Q„ of midation are unlawful and criminal, and that
ta Person engaging in any of such practices, or inciting
„et°, 41 liable to be arrested and imprisoned.
Dated at Dublin Castle this 14th day of October, 1881.
" By their Excellencies' command,

...
"W. E. FORSTER."
t There were also proclamations prohibiting meet-
in—
Ka announced to be held in various places.

The Government renewed its attack on Saturday
with unabated determination, and one of the first to
feel the force was Mr. O'Kelly, M.P., for _Roscommon,
tho was arrested at nine o'clock in the Imperial
alotel. He was in bed when the police called. When
he left the hotel he was cheered by a large crowd
nieh bad assembled outside; having heard of the
ft of the police officers, and guessed its object. The
I:'°lfoe had called at the hotel between seven and eight
o'clock, but Mr. O'Kelly was then in bed, and it was nine
o'clock before the arrangements were complete. Some
°f the crowd were disposed to handle the police roughly
Ithe Was leaving, and he asked his friends to disperse
it.e,ro but without effect, One of the offiders was
tieKed in the legs, and it was with some difficulty
r„• ,O'Belly was got into the cab. He proceeded
S
-;,ratlY into it and did not respond to the rather
e tut manifestations of popular sympathy. The
ha was driven off rapidly to Kilmainham, followed
car on which were half a dozen constables. Mr.
arrest was followed by that of Mr. O'Brien,
,tu.:o3l' of United Ireland. the Land League organ.
w ut eleven o'clock on Saturday morning he was
~alldrig down Sackville•streat in company with other
ve•es-rnen when he was met by Inspector Kavanagh,
Zho showed him the warrant for his arrest, and
called a cab had him at once conveyed to Kit
`44,llham.

44: ByeCial meeting of the Privy Council was held at
lin Castle on Saturday afternoon, and this was fol-
lowed by the re-arrest of Mr. Dillon, M.P. His
rr_i"st was quietly and quickly effected. Preparations
'4g been made in expectation of a popular display of
jeited feeling, and a large force of police and military
•Vrad taken up their position in front of the " Imperial "
ft' otel, but Mr. Superintendent Mallon, in whose
'lands the warrant had been placed, passed it over to
tjlose of Inspector Kavanagh, who, meeting Mr.
union in the Land League offices, arreeted him forth
With, and he was removed to Kilmainham shortly
ll,fter four o'clock, before the fact was known to the
lice or the people in waiting before the hotel. This
rest, when it became known, created some commo-
ton among the populace, and knots of people assem-
led in the streets, discussing the events of the day.
Dillon was allowed to proceed to his house in
rorth Great George-street, and was thence removed
ill„a cab by the police. Cars conveying constables
owed the cab, and several of his admirers from the
vuPulace took cars and followed the cortege:

There can be no doubt that the Government are
talt" fully determined to put down disorder with a
brOng hand and stop the sources of it (says the
a üblin Correspondent of The Times). No meetings
all have set the country in a ferment will any
he permitted to take place on any pretence,
itThif any resistance to the authorities be attempted
of vill be sternly repressed. Precautionary measures
inn,t,43 most complete kind have been organized by the
""LrY to meet any possible contingency that may
re. The city of Dublin has been divided into three
ittriets each of which ha,.s been intrusted to the
Ihra•N,e of a magistrate specially appointed, and there
irle i
"Ying columns ready to act at a moment's notice
—"Y Part of the country.

A. •
h. "eting to express sympathy with Mr. Parnell
ga,33g been summoned in the City of Limerick on
i"„viay, it was prohibited by the Government.
f
pe";"'llthstancling thie proclamation thousands of
th-,B°llB assembled, stones in vast quantities were
thra.—wn at the military and the police, which charged
teil,PeoPle several times, the constabulary at last
wk,"Qng to their barracks. One section of the mob
84.48,_ured upon, and several of the rioters were
‘ed• At the height of the disturbance slates
oast from the roofs upon the heads of the consta-
'rY, and several houses were wrecked.

kp.l- Reuter's telegram, dated New York Monday,
_.
:—Meetings of Irishmen were held on Sunday'
„eu' „Beveral places to express indignation at Mr. Par-
iB arrest. Mr. T. P. O'Connor and Mr. Dillon
',Fan held a reception in the Steinway Hall of that city.
'no hall containing seats for about 2,500 people was
aiost densely crowded; besides which ten thousand
Persons were unable to find admission. The names of
all I,
e Land Leaguers arrested were received
WithL vociferous cheering by the meeting, while
thxrat of Mr. Gladstone was loudly hissed, Both
—4-r• O'Connor and Mr. Egan delivered speeches, in
which they asserted that the Land League was irre-
Prle. Mr. Parnell's mother also spoke, and met
rithessib an enthusiastic reception. She said that her
s°ll'B imprismunent was, in her opinion, almost the
C°l2lRunznation of his laboura and aims, and would


materially benefit the Irish cause. She would go to
Ireland to keep her son eompany in his confinement.
Several other speeches were delivered asking for
subscriptions in aid of the Irish cause. Resolutions
condemning the arrests were passed by the meet-
ing.