The Portland daily press., 1880-12-06
EUROPE.
Various Schemes for the Relief of
Ireland
ANTI-LEAIUEM MEErINGS BY ORANGE
MEN.
Tenants Bulldozed by the League.


NEW York. Dec. 4.-Cable specials state that
the Lord Chancellor has in hand a land bill in
tended to enable English tenants occunvino
farms to convert their terminable tenures into
perpetual tenure on certain conditions and
subject to a modified rental = -
Nine meetings were held in various parts of
Ireland yesterday, for the purpose of orgap,z-
ing branches of the Land League. Similar
meetings are held every day Many landlords
are accepting Griffiths' valuation. A Bowie
correspondent says Lady Louise Tension. Lord
De Freyine, Col. Folliott and other Roscom-
mon landlords are giving in and accepting the
Government valuation, also the Earl of CloA-
MEL Sir John q. Garden and William Burne
in Tipperary.
a baillnamult correspondent says the house
OF a man named Lonergan was visited at Q
O'Clock yesterday morning by thirty armed
men, who, after smashing the windows, called
on Lonergan to COME forward, telling him f
he did not he would be cut in quarters and
buried in dunghill. He appeared at a win.
dow and was obliged to give his solemn word
that he would surrender his farm. The former
teIent nad given it up to the landlord, as he
considered the rent too high. Then Lonergan
took 1t. The party fired several shots about
the house and then went away, giving Loner-
gan week to surrender the farm.
The tenants on Wilson's estate, in county
Armagh, went into Newry Thursday, refused
reduction of two per cent offered by the
nths valuation, which was declined, and left
WITHOUT paying any thing
trim
>; Anti-L eague meetings ere being initiated in
Ulster The first one was held in county
Down, and resolutions were adopted to hold
antl-League meetings wherever the Leagu @
meets. The Grange Lodge of Orangemen hal
endorsed the ani-League movement in coun v
Down IN the following resOl ;iton:
Ora nd Opaura 7 IA.
~ approves OF the contemplated action of the
loyalis's of county Down to counteract the
working OF the Land League, and earnestly
recommends all true Orangemen to aid in the
movement Polling manifests, to which are
attached the names and addresses of upward
of 10000 persons, representing ali classes have
been issued within two days to the loyal men
of Down. nv"
DUBLIN, Dec. 4.-ln the Evening Mail case
orders Tor attachment We're made absolute, but
the Court ordered that no attachment shou Id
Issue. The effect of this will be to prevent
similar publications pending state trials JUS
lice Fitzgerald said he would be inclined to
make no order at all. The position of the
traverSers, he said, would have been different
II they themselves refrained from eAdeavoring
10 throw the odium of the prosecution on the
Land League. IF the Attorney General bad
moved for an attachment he feared the ConrI
would have had to attach these same trayers-
erS.
LONDON, Dec. 6.-There was an immense
Land Leegue demonstration at Waterford
Sunday. Parnell was presented with An adj
dress OF welcome by the corporation. The nro-
cesrion. which included various societies with
horsemen, escorted Parnell to the place Of
meeting The houses and shoDs were deco.
rated with flags and streets triunphally arch
ed: Four hundred police and two hundred
infantry and 100 cavalry were drafted for the
town. Speeches were of the usual Character
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-The Tribunes London
special says:-The present Irish outlook points
to the probability that a maintenance of order
measure may precede a land measure Anarchy
and terrorism are on the increase, while the
laad scheme slowly lags as tho difficulties de
velope. Wv
The Worlds special says:-Lord Chief JUS
tlce James, OF the Court of Appeals, recon-
mends fixed tenure at fair rent, to be cal.
Gu at ID on scale of from 20 to 25 per cent
above the famous valuation of Sir Richard
Griffith, with the provision that landlords who
are not satisfied with this may call upon the
Government To take their property off their
iands at a twenty-five year purchase. Some
such scheme as this will probably be the basis
OF the ministerial measure to be introduced AZ
the next Session. Lord Clarina has recentlv
threatened 10 take lesli measures against de.
Iauitlng tenants on his estate of Elm Park.