The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-05-27
IRISH NAIL NEWS.
Dublin Nation, May 5th J
THE TIPPERARY ELECTION.

Fol- the vacancy in Tipperary four can
didates in all, up to tie time we write,
have come before the public. Mr.. +. II.
O'Donnell was fret in the field he stood
as "a Home Ruler. Then came M. DWyer
Gray, also as Home Ruler after him,
Mr. Peter Paul MacSwiney, as a Repeater
and finally, Mr.. j. S. Casey, "the Galtse
boy" and the writer of the remarkable
letters regarding the management of the
Mitch elstown estates-who professed, of
course, extreme Nationalist principles.
Two of the four, however, have since
withdrawn from the contest. NJ. O'Donnell
retired in favor of Mr.. Gray, in cOnsidera-
ton of the declaration of the latter to cup
port a more determined policy by the
Home Rule party in Parliament for the
future while Alderman Macs winey found
ont on Tuesday in Cionmel, and practical.
iy admitted, that, notwithstanding his ALI
ance with Mr.. =. j. Smyth, and his denun
citation of the Home Rule programme as
not being sufficiently advanced. he had no
greater chance Of being elected for his
"native county" than he would have if he
were a supporter of the Government.
Mr.. Gray and Mr.. Casey are, therefore,
the only combatants left, and of those gen.
Sunday by the delivery of speech in
ThurIes, in which he gave full expression to
his political principles. He declared him
self, as he had done in his address, in
favour of Home Rule, fxity of tenure for
tho Irish tenantry, denominational educa-
tiop, and other Irish points of the popular
programme; and what he had rot prom
lsed in his address-he pledged himself to
urge on the Home Rule party in Parliament
the adoption of a more vigorous policy
than that which they have hitherto pursued
in the campaign for the recovery of their
national rights. We may add that MI.
Gray's journals-the Freeman and FUentny
Tele1raph-aave this week gone still fur
ther III this direction by giving support to
the policy of obstruction.
(Last week we gave the telegraphic re-
port of the result of this election, showing g
the return of MIR. Gray by vote of 3 s52
against, ,344 for Mr.. Casey.-ED. starr
THE LAND QUESTION.
The Irish Land Question has been the
! subject of two more discussions in he
House of Commons. On Friday week, The
O'DonogbUe mo red a resolution in favour
of taking further steps to protect Irish
| tenants against rack renting and eviction,
supporting the motion by a heightened
speech, in which he spoke of landlords in
terms of severe censure, and gave instan-
| css to prove that tho tenants improve
ments had been confiscared by the simple
and familiar process of rent raising. On
| the same side there spoke Mr.. Errington, !,
Mr. Mitchell Henry, Mr.. w. H. O'Sullivan.
Mr.. Kirk, Mr.. Butt, and some other Irish
memb while the landlords case was,
as usual, pleaded by Mr.. Plunkett, Mr..
Gibson, Sir NJ. H. Beach Mr.. BIuen, and
| others. The debate, in fact, was contin :
nation of that on Mr.. Butts bill last month,
| and, as on that occasion, 80 on this, the
advocates OF Tenant right proved their
| their case to u demonstration. Neverthe =
| less, and Notwithstanding that the great
| majority of the Irish represen ratives were
| in favour OF the motion, the House decided
the other way, and added one more to the
| long list of cases in which the vote of
Ireland has been overborne by the intru-
| sion of hostile British majority.
The second discussion to which we have
| alluded arose on a motion by British
memb Der, Mr.. Saaw Lefevre, for a select
committee to ioquire into the working OF
the so-cal-d Bright clauses of the Land
Act of 1870 If We do not istake, a simila Ar
motion, when introduced last Year or the
year before under Irish auspices. was
frowned out Of the House; on Tuesday il
met with support from repre- esentatives oi
all The various parties in the House, and
with some evident reluctance, WAS accepted
by the Government without a division
The concession does not mean much, bu
the discussion was useful in showing that
even when a good measure 10 passed fol
ireland by the Is .itish Parliament the good
is taken out of 1T by the public bodies tt
" which that same Parliament has entrusted
the carrying oot OF 1t into execution.
CONVERSION OF MR. BIGGAR.
For some time past the probable con.
version of Mr.. Bggar, MP, has formed tho
subject of occasional paragraphs in the
newspapers. 1t is now definitely stated
that the hon. gentleman has joined the Ca
tholic Church.. He was received into j
some time ago by the Rev. Father Farrell!
of Belfast, and confirmed shortly afterward
by the Most Rev. DR.. Dorian, Bishop o
Down aud Connor.
THE oBsTRUCTIoNIsTs.
On Tuesday night Mr.. Biggar was teter
rimG caUsa belli to the assembled senators
On the nomination of the Cattle Plagu,
ommittee, the Irish party proposed to in
F crease, the number of members from 90 tc
27, aud to put on three Irishmen-namely
Mr.. French, Captain King Harman, ant
; Mr.. Biggar. The Government agreeC
. to the proposal, except that for the membe
, for Cavan Mr.. Biggar they resolved t.
susbstitute the member for Clonmel. tn,
j, "obstructionists they would not have
q and their conduct embodied some of thei
- 1;,h rol II.