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over the land. This dsposes of the talk about
coniiseation and the taking of what belongs to
aIlntber

over the land. This disposes of the talk about
coniiscation and the taking of what belongs to
another.
RESULTS UNDER THE NEW REGIME.
CoRREspoNDENr-Suppo the people pos
sessed the,land, would there not be a new race
OF landlords in few years tmel
Mr. BIGGAR-No. The first instinct of an
Irishinan is to keep all the land lie can work
He would never sell unless obliged to- OF
course there would be exceptions, but, rs a rule,
there would be but few landlords. One great
reason for rachrGnting Is that the tenants may
be kept from increasing the size of their hold
ings. This was not always so. About thirty
years ago the landlords thought it would be
most profitable to let the land in large farms,
and thus obligeth bulk of the population to work
as farm laborers. But this plan caused such
great increase in wages that large farms did not
pay on account of the cost of working them,
and to-day farm of twenty acres, which may
be worked by a farmer and his family, will sell
for much as farm twice the size, because
the latter necessitates hiring laborers.
BIGGAR IN SYMPATHY WITH PARNELL
My idea of settlement of the land question
follows:-I would first fix the yearly value of
the holdings giving the tenant credit for all i'm
provements l would deprive the landlord of
the power Of eviction so long rs the rent was
paid. Furthermore, would give the tenant the
option Of buying up the land in a fixed number
OF years, after which the tenant would himself
be the owner.
CoRREsPoNDENr-What do you think would
be the effect Of such plan!
Mr.. BIGGAR-A prosperous peasantry and the
productive power of the country doubled
CoRREsPoNDENT-You plan differs from Par
nelrs.
Mr.. BIGGAR-Only as regards detail. In prin-
ciple we agree. Parnelrs plan is perfectly
feasible, however.
CONSEQUENTLY what extent does the agi-
tation depend on Parnell!
Mr.. BIGGAR-Almost entirely. The people
need leader, and heIis emnently fitted for
such post.
CoRREsPoNDENT-Do your Home Rule prin-
ciples and sympathy with Parnelrs crusade
affect your business9
Mr.. BIGGAR-No; although know of three
cases, one in Ireland, one in England and one in
Scotland, where my agents were rebutfed on the
ground, as one dealer expressed it, that Home
Rule hams were not wanted. American COM
petition, however, is making itself seriously
felt in the provision trade throughout Great
Britain.
After a few moments further conversation
the HERALD correspondent withdrew. Mr..
Biggar it should be stated, is the owner OF
large provision establishment in Belfast. The
celebrated Home Ruler is a short, spare man, ap-
parcntly about fifty years of age, and in appear
ance and accent Scotchman rather than an
Irishnan
A land meeting was. held yesterday
at Nenagh, county Tipperary, at which
5000 persons were present Edward
Dwyer GH and Patrick James Smyth,
home rule Members Of Parliament, were
among the speakers. Resolutions were passed
calling for abatement of rents and for peasant
proprietary.
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GRANTS VISIT TO CINCINNATI

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1879.
The executive committee for the reception of
General Grant next Thursday have perfected their
arrangements. and will proceed to Louisville next
Wednesday morning. to return with tho citys guest
on tho following morning.
At the public landing triumphal arch will bear
the words "The Gates of the City," where tho
party will DO welcomed to Cincinnati in an
address by Bejamn Eggleston. and a large
floral key. wherewith to open the
city gates, will be presented by two little girls.
The procession will then wind through the city to
Music Hall, where Mayor Jacobs will deliver Sec
ond welcoming address.
Mrs. General Grant is not to be forgotten in the
honors paid to her illustrious husband. While no
Is banqueting at the Grand Hotel and listening
to after dinner speeches with only gentle
men around him reception for Mrs.
Grant been arranged to be held at the residence
of Mr.. Washington Mclean, proprietor of the En-
qurer at which the leading ladies' In Cincinnati So
cisty will be present.
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Historical Development Of the
Irish Landlord.
THE HERALD AND THE AGITATION
Parnell and Finigan to Sail for
New York.
AID FOR E r I N.


LONDON, Dec. 4, 1879.
The Times publishes this morning a second
edition giving the following cable despatch from
its Philadelphia correspondent
''The copious reports on Irish political affairs
published in the United States deeply interest
Irish-Americans. but no important movement
has strong article counselling the Irish in
America not to part with their hard earnings to
aid Parnell's schemes The HERALD says:--
eff Parnell could carry out his crazy pro-
gramme the mud cabins would be as numerous
ten years hence as they were in 1S41. What
we say, therefore, to the Irish of the United
States is, "Not one cent for Parnell and his
crowd, but millions to help emigration to this
country" Here is room enough and to spare
for all who come. Here are cheap and fertile
lands, and every Irish family may easily, with
but common industry and economy, own it's own
acres Here is work ut good wages. Here are
no landlords and no bailiffs. But let us have no
Fenian nonsense; no proposition to 'free Ire
land" by professions three thousand miles off.
That does no good; it only fills the pockets OF
adventures and demagogues."
The Times correspondents continues 1.-THE
HERALD rightly represents general American
sentiment on the subject. No probability ex-
lists Of Irish-Americans contributing any consid-
cradle sum in aid of Mr.. Parnelrs scheme.
PARNELL TO SAIL FOR NEW YORK.
1t is announced that Messrs. Parnell and
Finigan expect to start for New York on the
18th inst. The former gentleman has also
issued letter in which he states that the Sligo
prisoners would be tried at Carrick-on-Shannon
subscriptions to defray the expenses Of the de-
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THE CARS ESCAPE.

SAVED by CHANGE IN THE TIME TABLE
CLEMENcY TO N1IiILIsM FOUND uNAvAIL-
INa--ALExANpER AT ST. PETERSBURG.
ra(By CABLE TO THE HERALpl
~4F LONDON, Dec. 4, 1870
The Times Berlin correspondent, discussing
the recent attempt on the Cars life, explains
that the Cars railway journeys are generally
made with two trains--one for himself and suite
and the other for the servants and baggage
Hitherto it has been customary to allow the lat
ter train to act as kind of tclairesr. On the
present journey this order somehow became re-
vcrsed and the imperial train took the front POI
sition. Unaware of this change, the assassns
calculated upon tho Czar being on the second
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BIGGAR.
THE CELEBRATED HOME RULE MEMBER IN
COMPLETE ACCORD WITH PARNELL--HE Ex-
PLAINS HIS IDEA OF SETTLING THE LAND
QUESTION IN IRELAND.

[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD
BELFAST, Dec: 4, 1879.
1t has been rumored that Mr.. Biggar, M. p,
who was Parnells first obstructive lieutenant
in Parliament, was not in complete sympathy
with his chief. The reason why the rumor
gained ground was undoubtedly because
Mr.. Biggar has taken so little active part in the
recent agitation. DESTROYS of ascertaining
from the renowned Home Ruler the true state
of feeling between himself and the Agitator,
the HERALD correspondent called upon Mr.
Biggar. In response to my questions Mr.. Big
gar expressed himself as being in complete sym
pathy with Mr.. Parnell's agitation. He said
that there was no limit to his belief in the rights
of the tenant farmers as opposed to the land
lords.
The Correspondent asked him why he had not
taken more active part in the agitation.
Mr.. BIGGAR--I have business needing my
constant attention, but 1 hope to retire next
summer, and then shall devote myself entirely
to politics and the interests of the country.
RIGHTS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.
CoRREspoNDENr-What is your idea of a set
Element of the land troubles of Irclandi
Mr.. BIGGAR--In the first place / dispute the
absolute right to the land which the landlords
claim. The history Of land tenancy in Ireland
cannot be ignored as Englishmen ignore it.
The original grants to the landlords from
English kings did not give them the
rights which they now claim. Tenants
then had us much interest and participation in
the land as the landlords, who only managed it
for mutual benefit. The only right which the
landlords have is prescription, one of the chief
provisions of their grants being the engagement
to furnish certain number of soldiers. The
landlords gradually assumed absolute owner
ship and exercised the right to depopulate
estates ut will. Moreover, the English kings
had no right to give grants extending beyond
their own reigns claim, therefore, that Queen
Victoria's Parliament has the right at the
present time 10 usposc vi 'hls property as III
may think best for all classes. If you allow
that the landlord has the absolute right he
claims to turn off the population, as the
Duke of Sutherland did in Scotland, you
have only to logically extend the argument
in order to prove that he has the power TO rent
his land to the French government, to allow
French engineers to erect Notifications
thereon and to populate IL with French sol
diers to the constant menace of England.
The landlords assume that their absolute
ownership of the land was acknowledged. This
is not so. Parliament did not acknowledge it
when, In 1888, il passed the Poor law and
forced the landlords to pay half of the poor
rate, though previously the landlords had not
paid penny to support the poor. Gadstonc's
Land act was another attack ON the right
claimed by the landlords. The ex-Prcmier him
self last week acknowledged tarlaments rights
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GRANT AND THE PARSONS.
IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. !

[By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
CHICAGO. Dec. 4, 1870.
General Grant received the ministers of tho
various denominations at one clock this afternoon
The day being ino there very large attendance
Rev. L. p. Goodwin behalf of the ministers. de-
lvcrcd an address. to which General Grant replied
briefly. thanking tho gentlemen for their welcome
He referred to the recent war. saying he had no
doubt it was punishment for wrongs committed
He thought the Gospel would unite tho nation and
insure its pcrpotuity to generations to come Ho
closed with an apology for the informally OF his
speech, not having prepared reply.
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SYMPATHY WITH THE IRISH.

MONTREAL, Dec. 4, 1879.
AZ meeting of the st. Patrick's Society last night
a committee appointed consisting of four men,
bers, presidents Of Irish societies. to wait upon the
clergy and obtain their consent to collect money for
the distressed in Ireland.
The St. Patricks Society has called mass meet
ing for Monday night. at which resolutions will be
offered condomnatory of the conduct OF the peria
government in arrcst ting the three agitators
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ATTEMPTED ARSON.

An attempt was made to burn the frame dwelling
No. $40 East Eighty fifth street. owned and
occupied by Patrick Coffey. at quarter-past
twelve O'Clock yesterday morning The fact
discovered almost Immediately and policeman
tlnguished the flames. A woman named Bridget Null
doom, was arrested on a charge of setting the
house on fire. Coffey and his family asleep In
the building at the time.
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SUSPICION QUIETED.

Sr. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec 4. IsIU
Mrs. Alice Darnbrough, who has been in jail as
Bcllevilie, H., the past two months. on
charge of poisoning her husband. about
year ago. was discharged to-day. DIR. Dean. of this
city, who subjected her husbands stomach to chem
ical analysis, having reported that he could ma no
evidence Of poison Ia that organ.
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A BOYS CRIME.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO TIE HERALD. |

BALTIMORE. Md, Dec. 4, 1879.
Lewis A. Miller. fourteen years old. convicted
Of manslaughter at Hagerstown to-day. In
June last he became involved in trih.
ing dispute with companions among
whom was Charles o. Norris. about his
own age After warning the latter desst from his
taunts, young Miller went to his home, procured ..
shotgun and returning fred at Norris. killing him
INSTANTLY.
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jority, because nobody knows how to replace it.
Whenever it can be replaced the Cabinet will
fall
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THE OBJECTS OF THE LAND LEAGUE Ex-
PLAINED-MEssRs. PARNELL AND FINIGAN
ABLE TO PAY THEIR OWN HOTEL BILLS.
To THE EDITOR THE HERALp:-
As one of those who have solicited subscriptions
from the Irish in America to support the Land
League recently established in Ireland hope may
be permitted to say a few words in defence OF that
body In the first place. my brother. MIR. Parnell,
who is president Of the League intends to pay his
own hotel bills IL he comes to the United States.
From tho fact that Mr.. Finigan is gentle
man who commands a handsome income,
think 1t likely that he will do the same.
With respect to the general misrepresentation of
funds which you predict. need only say that the
League is public body and must give account
OF its expenditures. Should it fail to do it would
be in the power of the meanest subscriber to prose-
cute the exec utive for embezzlement.
A famine is beginning in Ireland although
the majority of TO people have enough to live on
during the coming year. The Land League takes
up the position that the cultivators of the soil
have a right to keep enough out of their
own earnings to buy themselves Indian meal to eat
and fuel to cook it with The English government,
on the other hand, asserts that the landlord must
have all his usual rent and it it is not paid troops
will be eject the tenants from their holdings
and seize their money and stock Consequently
those who do not pay their rent must die by tho
roadside but those who do will have the privilege
of dying under roof This is exactly what took
place thirty-two years ago. This murderous pro-
gramme the Land League hopes to battle by
developing tho enormous power of passive
resistance which people situated like the Irish
must have. You, by your article of the 3D. Decem-
Der, deliberately incitc the English government
to destroy. by cold and hunger. hundreds of
thousands of unonending men. women and
children. Your talk of bringing 100000 of people
from Ireland this country during the next three
months is an absurdity. The working people Of
this country know that another Irish famine would
cause an immense rush OF starving wretches to
these shores. and proportonatc fall In wages here.
therefore imporo all those who live by labor in
this country help the Irish Land League and save
themselves from misery and Ireland from ruin.
Yours faithfully. ANNA PARNELL.
TRENTON. N. j., Dec. g. 1879.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Sherman s. Rogers, Of Buffalo, and Burton O.
Cook of Chicago are at the Windsor. Thomas
Swinyard, OF Toronto. is at the Brevoort. Ex-Con-
gresham John d. Alley. of Boston; Professor j. W..
Churchill. of Andover Mass; William I. Minor. Of
Hartford; Colonel II. S. McComb OF Delaware. and
II. @. Mccormick at the Fifth Avenue. Judge
Charles s. Lester of Saratoga is at the Park Avenue
General Thomas b. Keogh, Of North Carolina. and
John F. Mines. of Utica, are at the Metropolitan.
Ex-Congressman John NJ Davy, of Rochester. and
f. K Hart of Albion, N. Y, ut the Gilsey. State
Engineer Horatio Seymour, Jr., Of Utica. IL the
Brunswick.
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PARNELL DEFENDED.

NEW EXPLANATION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
IRISH EMIGRATIoN-PoLITIcALM MOTIVES uN-
MASKED.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
I have always been told that Americans pecu-
liarly generous and disinterested race. but
fully realized the fact till / read your editorial of
this morning the Irish question. In this you.
taking the same happy view Beaconsfeld. suggest
emigration the only remedy for Ireland's woe.
Between the lines read. "Send us u couple of
million of Irishmen in order to swell the democratic
vote and fill the democratic pockets" Fortunately.
the present leaders Of Irish opinion do not think
that the best way to help Ireland is to depopulate
her and transfuse her life blood into the veins of
America. Our people have right to happiness and
prosperity in their own country, and please God.
spite of the opposition of American politicians,
they will yet have it. Yours, sincerely,
BoRDESrowN. N. j.. Dec. 3. 1879. +. PARNELL.
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General Thomas b. Keogh, of North Carolina, and
John F. Mines. of UTICA at the Metropolitan.
Ex-Congressman John NJ. Davy, OF Rochester and
E. X. Hart. of Albion N. Y. ut the Gilsey State
Engineer Horatio Seymour Jr., OF Utica. IL at the
Brunswick.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

RICHARD ARKwRIGHT, of England,
hair-dresser, invented the spinning
frame in 1768, by means of which AN
are spun with very little hand labor.
WIRE rope for mines, elevators and
the transmission of power is now being
made of the comparatively-new alloy,
phosphor bronze. These ropes are said
to retain their pliability after long use,
and to resist the action of the corrosive
waters found in mines.
AN unusual scene for Europe-that
of the sun not setting, but shining
through the whole nights to be wit
messed from the summit of Mount
Aavax, in Finland, near Torneo, at &c
deg. northern latitude. Every year, on
June %, multitu lie of people of differ
emit nations visit that mountain to wit
ness the interesting spectacle.
The process of making cigars is SIM
pie and easy. A sound piece of leaf,
shaped like one of the cores of globe,
is placed on the workbench. A bundle
of fragments of leaves is placed across
the center of this gore and rolled up in
it by placing the hand fiat over it. The
point of the cigar is shaped with pair
of scissors, and secured by means of a
solution of gum and chiccory. The
cigar is next placed against a gauge,
and a portion of the broad end cut off.
A GERMAN journals speaks of the de-
scription of storm that is often found
in novels in more or less varied terms,
but usually somewhat like this: The
waves rose mountain high over the frail
vessel, threatening every instant to in
gulf it. Then suddenly they lifted it
to the clouds, only the next moment to
let it sink again into watery abyss,
etc. This is poetic, but by no means
accurate. Careful scientific observations
have established the fact that ocean
waves seldom attain to a height of
twenty feet, and never rise higher than
twenty-seven.
A BALTIMORE inventor has patent for
s,lit of flying clothes. BY working the
arms the man In the clothes mounts
heavenward. Waterproof pantaloons
and jacket are in one piece. To this is
fastened a reservoir made of oiled silk,
and stretching from shoulders to waist.
To each arm is attached wing made of
silk, with steel ribs. After the mortal
has essayed the flight of bird, and is
high in the air, he hoists sail. A mast
four feet long is jointed with his back,
and triangular sail is set SO as to be
regulated by his feet When the sail is
raised the arms are motionless, and the
gentleman in the air booms along like a
center-board yacht under spanking
breeze.