The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-08
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.

lor6ing Star and Catholic Messenger.
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nscEILAHEous irish NEws.
Sudden Death of G.. II. Moore, M. P=l
London, April 12.-Mr. Moore, an Irish
county of Mayo, dropped dead in the House
tonight.
George Henry Moore was born at Moore !
Hall, county Mayo, in 1911. He was edu- l.
Gated at Oscott College, and snbsequenf
at Christ's College, Cambridge. he O.
l647, and voted as u moderate Conserva-
tive. When ireland revived from the poll |
teal tOrpor into which she had fallen after
the revolutionary movement OF 1913, MT.
Moore took q prominent part in the Tenant
Right agitation which followed, and largely
contributed to it's Importance by his skill
and ability. He occupied prominent
place in the Independent Opposition party,
which was formed to wrest liberal measures
from the Government by opposing all poll
ticaf parties in the British Parliament who
refused to mako Tenant Right Cabinet
measure. Unlike those who, by their
treachery, fastened the inevitable disrup-
ton of this body, Mr.. Moore remained firm
and Incorporating. He continued to
. represent Mayo until 1857, when he was
nnseated on petition. He remained from
that time retired from public life, except
ON . few occasions, until two years ago,
when he was elected to Parliament from
tho same county. "a
The Land Bill and the Ministsy.-If Mr..
Gladstone ever hoped that the Irisn
erciOnl Bill would make smooth the way
for the irish Land measure, he has by this
time fully learned his mistake. The Co.
ercion Bill ran easily into law, but the OBJ
stacles in the way of q similar consumma-
ton of the measure SO boastfully heralded
and 90 lavishly bepraised are multiplying
ct every step. The last substantial ma
iority for the Government was on the
general question of the occupancy right of
the tenant, and since then, notwithstanding
the frequent concessions made by Mr..
Gladstone to the demands of the opposition
party, and notwithstanding the threat that
the Bill would be thrown up if the amend
ment of Mr.. Fowler, an obscure Conserve
tive member, were carried, it is neverthe-
less the fact that the Government, in the
division on that amendment had only
majority of thirty two in a house of nearly
five hundred members. So close victory
defeat. A Cabinet Counsel sat for several
hours ON Saturday, and it is said that the
Government is losing heart, and that
secaves" are being formed among their
followers. Among the Irish members, Sir
: John Gray condemned the shifting changes
the Bill, and MI. Downing, who has Ia
bored assiduously throughout, expressed
himself quite dispirited. The English
papers severely criticise the Bill, the
Saturday ReUie,C SAYING: 0against the
claim of the tenant the landlord is to have
we have the very mischief perpetuated
which the bill was once supposed to be in
tended to remove" The Telegraph pictures
Ireland between hope and desperation"
while distractions are chattering away in
London; and the Pail Mall Gazette de-
claring that it would have been better to
take the simple and straightforward means
of prohibiting eviction in definite cases,
asks gravely if the Bill can now be carried
Mt all. The answer to this question will be
more visible after Easter.
Murder fn Ilpperary.-Some short time
after dusk on Monday night an old man
named Patrick Kirwan, who was herd and
bailiff to landlord named Clarke, of
Graignoe Park, was murdered at o place
called Glenbaw, near the village of Holy
cross, in the County Tipperary. He had
left his house to close the gate of a field at
some little distance, and the statement is
that, when his heightened absence became
remarked, some members of his family
went in search for him, and found his body
not great way from the house. His head
. had been beaten in, as it appeared, with
some heavy weapon, and life was quite ex-
tinct. Some OF the daily journals have
already rushed to the conclusion that this
murder is unquestionably agrarian." 1t
is, we believe, quite true that an ancient
and respectable family of people who had
always paid their rent, and who were
willing and ready to do it still, were
evicted, old and young, not many weeks
ago, from q farm on the estate of Mr.
Clarke, which their families had held for
centuries, and that in this eviction, which
was attended by circumstances of peculiar
hardship, and in other legal acts of the same
kind. the murdered man had been, by his
position upon the estate, concerned. But
though this be true, it is not conclusive in
= the sense imputed to It. There is grave
/, and general mention of the circumstanct
that the provisions of the Coercion Act hole
out q premium to a certain sort of murder
and that the relatives of the unfortunat,
Kirwan may derive a money benefit from
his death. This fact being SO, a ready
vigorous, and full inquiry is due to all tn,
parties, and TO the public. We sugges
that it be ascertaincd what members of hi
family lived with Kirwap, what persons
We're in the house when he went out, VIII,
discovered the body, who went to seek it
and that minute inquiry be, for the public
satisfaction, directed to this portion of til,
case.
TIE Monaghan AsSi-es.--At the Mon
Afghan adjourned Assizes, last week, owe
sixty persons were convicted of riot, befor
Mr. Justice Keogh. Eleven prisoners ha,
nj been tried on Tu, sday, but only six foun,
guilty and on the following morning IL.
Judge. on coming info cnurt aoid ba hnpa,