The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-14


the Court OF Queens Bench in order that the trial might
take place elsewhere The chief ground for this motion,
Mr. Heron sad the fact that there not six Amer
leans In the whole city of Sligo and therefore it would be
impossible to select mixed jury at this moment George
Francis Train, who happened be in Sligo rather
before the court and volunteered to become
one of the American jurors. The offer was declined
The London Times has editorial the trial of General
Nage The writer strongly argues the Abandonment of the
prosecution saying the point of law involved is to say the
least, questionable.
DISCOVERIES RELATING TO OZONE.
Dr. Andrews of Belfast has made series of very inter-
eng experiments says the Scientific Reve prove that the
body which acts in the atmosphere really
and that there other substance in the air breathe
that has similar characteristic properties Still later Dr.
Emerson Reynolds of Dublin has found that has most
curious action upon the Photographic mage that upon
the image before it developed In submitting the latent
image to the action of image could be afterwards
developed the plate upon which second image could in
fact be obtained when it placed in the This
goes far prove that the change operated by the SUMS
upon Photographic film is not mechanical in the first
instance many have supposed but of strictly chemical
nature.
The Pail Mall Gazette gives table showing that the pro-
portion of the Irish people dwelling in mud cabins with
room has gradually diminished The proportion AZ per
cent in 1884, % in 1851 and Is in 1861
The Gazette might have added that the Irish people in
general have gradually diminished to the immense graca
ton of the Gazette and other journals of its lk Not fast
enough however, to any peaceful sleep for England
for time to
cUPARFIFE scoTLAND-UN1TED PRESBYTERIAN PREsBY-
Terry AND THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.
An ordinary meeting of this Presbytery held in Cpar
on Tuesday-Mr Henderson, of Lathones moderator At
previous meeting committee appointed to draw up
series of resolutions in reference the Irish Church. which
Mr.. Rankne the convener submitted Tuesday for the
Presbyerys approval The resolutions that the estab
shment by the State of the Episcopal Church in Ireland
not only in itself unscrpura and unjust but that the evils
thereof immensely aggravated in consequence of that
Church embracing in its communion only fraction of
the people of Ireland and being regarded by the great
of the inhabitants of that country badge of their sub
ugaon to, and oppression by, England The resolutions
also state that the only satisfactory settlement of the question
must include the dsendowment of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, the withdrawal of the Regium Donum from the
Presbyterans and the abolition of the Maynooth Grant
the Roman Catholics and with due regard to existing in
terest the appropriation of all these to national
and secular purposes The resolutions unanimously
sustained and agreed send copy to the member of
Parliament for the burghs and the member for the county
THE BELFAST PRoTEsTANTs AND THE IRISH CHURCH.
At numerously attended meeting held at Belfast on
Saturday, it resolved:
First That the present arrangement of ecclesiastical
dowment in Ireland of the worst possible combining
the evils of ndiscrminate endowment with those which
arise from exasperang inequality and secondly That
the partial total dsendowment of all religious bodies in
Ireland the true solution of her ecclesiastical difficulties
LOUIS BLANC ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
The land question the English call it's unfortunately
what England find the way sove if she wish gain
the heart of Ireland, supposing that be possible.
say unfortunately because the land question in Ireland
is connected with remembrances which make the satisfactory
solution of the problem doubly difficult
We must forget in fact that generally speaking, the
propretors of the soil of Ireland conquering and
that the cuvaors of conquered And thetwo
face to face together
The Norman conquest in Ireland only produced
after ALL but itgated results it left the native clans in
session of of the soil and as for the rest the
Anglo Norman lord only established himself in the place of
the Celtic chief adopting the ancient laws of the country
and living like patriarch rather than as feudal baron
The great grievances of Ireland connected with later
periods with the reign of Elizabeth and hetwo first Suarts
with the time marked by the rebellion of the Earls of
rome and Tyrconnel with the invasion of Cromwell and
the conscaon of vexhs of the island with the violent
system in of which, after the revolution of $685.
the twelfth part Of the soil changed masters second time
and lastly with the atrocous laws which, in Queen Annes
reign prohibited Catholics from either buying land
ing it for more than thirty-one years.
To Cromwell appertans the frghtul glory of having OPP
pressed and paged Ireland the most What Ireland could
Rahmnes; of the 18th of September at Drogheda of the
OIL md Of no