The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-24


4 The La~d BiH.-Now the Coercion Bill
no longer stops tho way, Parliament il
again ebout TO devote itself to the LAND
Bill, which passed into committee on Mon.
day. The bin entered that fiery furnace 3
bold, comprehensive, but futile and IN
satisfactory attempt to settle the great
question of the day. What will it be when
1t emerges from the ordeal Will it, like
the Coercion Bill, come out almost as il
went in, or will it, spite of the Irish men,
oers, Oe put another monument of the ut
ter inability or unwillingness of the Eng
!1sh legislature to make satisfactory laws
j for this country, or will it's Objectionable
provisions be removed, and whatever good
it possesses be brought forth and fully de-
tenure " to the occupiers of the soil On
the result depends the future of Ireland.
perhaps Of the, empire.-Freeman.
a Case IN POint-The valuation of the
townland of Derrew, Port Royal estate, is
ESQ 2s I'd, revised in 1855 only s49, it's old
rental Ell 1s Sd, while its present owners,
the National Land and Building Invest
ment Company, have raised it to E134 lbs
I'd, according to the evidence Of Mr.. Brett
himself, the engineer and valuator Of the
company. In other words, the new rental
Is 135 per cent over Grifath's valuation
| In other cases the excess is 60 and 20 per
cent in advance Of the valuation. What
vancing his rents to the came high figure
| And who will say that the absence Of any
provision to meet such cases as these is not
| radical defect in the bill Father Lavelle's
Letter to Mr.. GLadstone.
The Minority on the Land Biu. The
We1ford People, in II sensible article on the
division on the Land Bill, says: +" Mr..
Bryan, Capt. White, Sir John Gray, Mr..
Darcy, and the other Irish Liberal mem
| bers who voted in the minority upon the
second reading of the Irish Land Bill,
have, so far az their limited strength could
avail, saved the character of the country.
The course adopted by them has to COM
mend it the aspect of consistency, sincerity
and manful advocacy of principles and
rights, whilst that adopted BY the Tenant
right members who voted with the govern
ment leaves them open to the charge Of
being braggarts on the platform and span
iels in the Senate.
Dissolution Of the Tippera,y Tenant League
the Tipperary Tenant League, held in the
town of Tipperary recently, it was resolved
that, inasmuch as the Government Land
Bill was delusive measure, and all at
tempts to bring it up to the requirements
OF the people were resisted by the Govern
ment, any further labors for its amendment
on the part of the League would be per-
fectly useless. 1t was agreed that there
was nothing now left for the people but to
agtate for the Repeal of the Union. The
Rev. DR.. O'Neill, President of the League,
delivered very impressive speech on the
subject, in which he strongly denounced
the traitOrious conduct of the majority of
the Irish members, and he concluded by
declaring the association, as a Tenant
League, dissolved.
The Philipstown Murder Case-The hear
ing of this case, in which a brother and
sister, named Lawrence and Margaret Shiel,
fnf1i tod for Id r,,1
trick Dunno, on the 26th of February last,
was resumed at Tullamore before the Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Mr.. |
Molloy addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoners in a most able and argumentative
speech, occupying over two hours in it's de-
livery. Some witnesses for the defence
having been examined, Mr.. Curran spoke
to evidence on behalf of the prisoners. The |
Attorney General then replied on behalf of
the crown. Both prisoners were found |
guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the |
9th of May next.
A Threatening Letter.-Capt. Adams, the |
agent for Lord Donoughmore, Clonmel, re-
Gently received n threatening letter. A |
coffin and revolver were drawn on the I
letter, which was written in verse, and the |
substance of which was that the recipient
was "tyrant," and that vengeance"
would be taken of him. The letter is sup
posed to refer to an ejectment alleged to
have been served on i widow on the estate,
who is willing to pay rent if accepted. No
allusion, hOwever,Awas made to the case in
the letter, and this is merely supposed to
be the cause of the cowardly and abomi-
nable missive.
Mr.. Mcguire, N. Z. and the Coercion Bill.
Mr.. Mcguire has written letter, declining
to accept any public compliment for his
opposition to tho Coercion Bill stating that
while he opposed many clauses, he consid-
cred others of much value in the present
and while resisting pro-
visions aimed at the liberty of the press
and freedom of opinion, he is not to be u4l
derstood as having the slightest sympathy
with license or violence.
Mr.. Robert Young, to whom the late
Lord Derby granted a pension of E4O a
year in recognition of his literary services,
was found dead in the Derry Asylum, with
lis head immersed in a bath. Deceased
lad been an inmate of the asylum for two
months. He was about seventy years of ]
'ge.
Destructive Fire in Clonmel-Reidy's dra-
,ery establishment, the most extensive in
he town, was completely destroyed, to-
,ether with large amount of property,
" fire recently. The cause of the fire is
lot known. The property lost is estimated
It $4,000. The premises were insured.
twenty assistants were asleep in the estab-
ishment, but fortunately were saved.
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