The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-02


tho rents were, believe, paid up. Keliy's
mission gradually revealed itself. It was
very special. He was an envoy extraordi-
mary, from Mr.. Payne, to the tenantry, to
announce that Z" in fact, their rents had
been raised."' He carried a document re-
terms therein detailed. Fancy the poor
Dursey man standing at his own door, his
wife with the last baby in her arms, and
the other little ones looking cut in amaze
ment at the powerful stranger in the name
Of Mr.. Payne! To be sure he signed the
document, as he now says himself, scarcely
knowing what he was doing. One stubborn
fellow, more stupid than his neighbors, re-
fused at first to sign it. But he soon
learned submission when in the name of
{" Mr.. Payne and of the law q stereotyped
all-powerful phrase equal to spell on the
property-he was told then to give pos
session forthwith" Didn't the poor fellow
make haste to put his hand on the pen
Kelly's work was we'll done, and he carried
off himself and the precious document, of
which the Dursey people have a faint
reminiscence, but which, no doubt, is
treasured in some iron safe" to give
testimony against the poor fellows at q
future fatal day. Thus the Dursey women,
swept by the all-powerful Kelly out
into the Atlantic, with their little chill
dren. This was in 1869. 1870 brought the
Land Bill, which Mr.. Payne had Thus an
ticipated. In 1870 they came from the
Dursey to pay rent at Castletown. 'Twas
the old rent. They came again. The new
rent, as it was called, was demanded, and
they were reminded Of the document. But
that evening long ago and " Kelly" and the
" document" were but as one of those
Nightmares that come in dreams in the
&c melancholy ocean" that surround Dur
sey. They said their rents were too high
al 5u off fha 01A t.
would not be accepted. They went home
with their money and doubtful hearts,
awaiting he great Land Bill. This week
they were invited to take their rents to
Castletown again. They brought the for
mer rents and rendered them. No. They
said "give US the compensation allowed
by the Land Bill, and You can have the
Durseys to yourselfto morrow" Mr.. Payne
said no. 81 will eject you for non-pay-
N1ent of rent at the next sessions, and you
will have no benefit from the Land Bill"
Here We are, sir, in 1871, with the Land
Bill at the Durseys. But we don't stop
O'sullivans, tie last Of the Bere's of Bere-
haven, reverted into the hands of the
owner in fee, Lord Clinton, Opp, an alb
sentee, and at the Bantry Sessions last the
occupying tenants were elected, as a mat
Ter Of form, it was understood, there being
mo- idea OF evicting them. Now there has
ancies, and Mr.. John Hampston, one of the
oldest and most respectable tenants on the
holding, awaits but the arrival of the sub
sherif to be evicted forthwith.-Nation.
Our readers will remember that in recent
issue of this journal we asked the indig-
nant notice of the Irish public to central
ising move which has just been tried in
London, of course at the direct and sole
expense of Irish practical rights and inter-
ests. The design was not levelled against
rights or interests of the first importance
to the country, but its audacity was quite
intolerable, and the very pettiness of the
aggression very probably intensified the
disgust which it inspired. The fact was
that an Eglishman named Greg, who is
Controller of the Stationery Office in Lon
0on, and who may or may not have been
IN this affair the mere catspaW of some gu
perior official, struck his little blow at the
manufactures of this country by laying
down design for the abolition of the Office
OF Examiner of Paper Supplies in Ireland,
and the establishment of o rule by means
Oh which the Irish paper makers seeking
or holding Government contracts would be
&Tst compelled to send their goods to Lon
don before they could be used in Irish de-
partments, and would eventually be shut
ont entirely from any competition in this
branch OF manufacture with the favored
English houses. The clever official follow
ed mp this tentative move by one of o more
decided character. He actually issued a
circular Withdrawing from an Irish house,
and transferring to an English firm, with
out any just apparent reason, an order for
some paper required for use in the Office of
me l1sh Census Commissioners. But
though Mr.. Greg has it ali his own vav in
enc columns of the Pail Malt Gasefte-
though he may blacken English paper from
day to day with the fouiest faisehoodt
against the Irish people, and with the mos
skilful taunts administered shamelessly t.
= English fear Of Ireland, and English preiu
Of absolute success, and to and that h,
eOuid not, just at present, play the Control
Ter TO such a degree as to drive the few
Irish paper makers out of their natural AT,
proper market, in order to swell out TIN
Plethoric purse of some English merchan