The Portland daily press., 1880-12-11
EUROPE.
The Land Leaguers to be Tried by
Special Commission.
PARNELL TO BE INDICTED FOR HIS
WATERFORD SPEECH.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1O.--A Dublin dispatch says
the grand jury at Cork found true hills against
Mr., Healy, NJ. p, and MIR. Walsh, for the in
simdation of Cornelius Manning, after the
Judge had given strong directions to the jury
The irish Times gives prominence to
statement that the Land Leaguers will be tried
by special commission issued under the
Queens patent, in order to remove any cause
of complaint of an unfair trial in consequence
ef Chief Justice Mays speech.
Petitions are being circulated throughout
Duelin, addressed to the Lord Mayor, in the
following terms: 1--WE, the undersigned,
Request you to convene meeting of representa-
tive Irlsamen in Dublin to give expression to
the universal feeling of indignation g ltertain-
ed by all who respect the impartial adminis-
tration of justice against the partisan and un-
justihable pronouncement OF the Lord CHIEF
Justice on the occasion of the recent motions
with regard to the State trials
The Sco;stown Orangemen's meeting was
postponed till next week, after Lord Rossmore
consulted with Major Blair and others. There
was large number of Orangemen In town
who dispersed quietly after addresses by Lord
kossmore, Sir John Leslie and Archdeacon
Stack. Subsequently band of music escort
ing Land Leagues passed the Rossmore Agency
office, when the Orangemen groaned and
caused manifestations OF hostility, but no
violence occurred and the Leaguers proceeded
on their march. The whole police force OF the
county, with bodies from Armagh and Louth,
detachments of the Second Dragon Guards
also went to Scotstown. Messrs. Dillon, Big
gar and O'Kelly addressed the meeting, which
was largely attended. Mr.. Parnell did not ap-
pear.
Gormely, the Cookstown murderer, was ar
rested at his own house while changing his
clothes preparatory to his final fight, he hav-
ing returned home just before. An inquest
was held and a verdict of willful murder rem
dered. The prisoner was sent to Omagh Jail.
The inquest revealed the fact that Mulholland
had taken the gun from Gormeley, but on a
promise that he would not use it, returned the
gun. ThereupOn GOrmeley raised 1t to his
shoulder and fired.
There. -sreas-oxsltosaent at Castlebar,
owing to visits on Wednesday night of party
with blackened faces to the houses of several
herdsmen, whom they compelled to go down
on their knees and swear that they would
leave their employers. Shots were fired and
the occupants of the houses greatly terrified.
In one case the daughter of a herdsman was so
overcome that she is in precarious condition.
Several herdsmen obeyed the demands.
Similar midnight visits are reported from
various parts of the country.
The inquest on Kavanagh at Wicklow shows
that when he was brought out of his house on
the writ of eviction he begged one of the
bailiffs not to put him out of the house. but to
shoot him, as he could not bear to leave. He
cried bitterly, and complained that after being
fifty years in Earl Fitzwilliam's employ he
should be turned into the road to die.
A cable special says the enemies OF Mr.. Par
nell in Waterford have brought his recent
speech, made in that city, to the notice OF the
Grown Prosecutor in the county, and 1t has
been decided not only to indict Parnell in
Waterford but to furnish information to the
Attorney General at Dublin which will be
new evidence in one of the counts of the in
dictments which makes the agitator party to
the State trials.
It is stated that the Marquis of Harrington
the Lord Chancellor, Lord Selborne, the Ear
of Kimberly and Earl Spencer, will join Mr.
Forster at the next meeting of the Cabinet to
urge coercion in all its ferns upon the
Premier.
LONDON Dec. 10.-Judge Fitzgerald, Baron
of Excheauer of Ireland, has received 9
threatening letter saying that he will be muir
dered unless he charges fairly on the Limerick
cases.
LONDON, Dec. 10.-The Times says: The
issue of the circular to the magistrates by
Forster, a month after Gladstone's speech in
the Guild Hall, in which he stated that the
obligation to protect every citizens life and
property might compel the government to act
with an increase of power, proves that in the
Judgment of the government itself matters
have grown worse. lit proves, also, that the
existing means for repression are OF no avail.
If. in the face of the existing terrorism, the
magistrates aud police have not ventured tc
enforce the law, will they be strengthened tt
do so by Forsters reminder2 The authors
of sedition and its abetters will laugh at this
tardy attempt to use obsolete weapons fol
auelling lawlessness whose growth they have
entirely failed to cheeck. Such being the case
it m ~ we'll be asked whether the contingency
has not arisen at which Mr.. Gladstone poin