The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-19
REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND
Gladstone ScOred-COntfnua-
IiOn Of the BOycstfing.
Miscellaneous Matters from
Erin.

New York, 49, Worlds London: A
Portadown, to-day, body OF Orange
men attacked the Land League meeting
but beyond wrecking the platform ant
scattering the lesguers, did no harm
Meantime the Orsngemen are preparl
to meet and resist the leaguers 10 another
direction, and their grandmother, the
Earl Of Enniskillen, has, IN accordance
with q set plan. appointed vigilance
conn ittee 10 protect property rights IN
1.-The Island. The method Of operation
will probably be soon made known.
The state Of anarchy and fear which
now exists in Ireland is stsrtingly illus
trated BY the declaration to the bench
by the jury impanellsd in one of the
several murder cases shortly to be tried,
that they do not and thai DOT consid 7
as binding their oath TO give a verdict &C.
cording 70 their conscience, because q
verdict Of guilty would inevitably cost
them their liveS.
Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, the member for
south, who yesterday secured the con-
viction Of q fellow member, Mr.. Csllan.
to pay q fine of so for having libelled
him. left London tonight for Dublin to
prepare the defense of indicated mem bers
Of the league.
am informed that sensation j state
ment pub isbed By the DAILY Telegraph,
TO the effect that gcvernm- mt proposes 10
proclaim and eafOrce martial law In the
disturbed districts of Ireland, Is without
any foundation in fact.
O'Kelley, Irish member of Parlia-
ment, woo protested so vigorously TO
Forster q little over s week ago against
the orders issu TO disperse the Land
League meeting at Enniskellen, has
brought an action against Harvey, a
magistrate of BrUckboro for an alleged
assault committed while attempting to
prevent the league meeting recently at
that place.
The cattle Of viii am Bence Jones,
who is now undergoing e course of boy
cOtting" on his estate in Bsndon, near
Coz though different steamship line
ha several times refused to transport
then. have finally been shipped to Holy
he g.
Mr.. BOYD, Of New Ross, has just
pur- uaded his workmen, after their Ihrest
of Boycotting him, 70 make q new ar
rangement for the completion of the work
now in hand.
London, I8.-Time8' Dublin: Loyal
farmers and traders in many counties
hitherto undisturbed are yielding very
to the pressure put upon them
to join the Land League and to subscribe |
to its funds.
In coDsequerc e of the refusal of Glad !
stone TO asst Boycott, the English public |
will be appealed to for aid. The list of q I
committee will be published shortly |
which will organize subscription in AID |
of Boycott.
Times editorial: Governments last |
and unnecessary blunder ia Gladstone's |
reply to BoycOtt's D. mand for assistance |
by government, which is conceived in a |
spirit that will provOl much dissatisfac
I on. Public opinion cannot be offended |
by letter which is devoid of natural |
sympathy and conceived in a spirit of |
pettishness against Boycott for having
MADE necessary the employment Of
troops. UEsstisfac:Ory IS the action of
government is, snd unable as they are 10
agree, we must still retain them, if for
10 her reason than that we should not
change horses while crossing a stream"
It is to be hoped they will brace them
elves up when the time OF legislation
comes, however limp may be their atti-
ude as an executive government.
The London correspondent ofthe Edin-
)urgh Scotsman says the dispatch OF ur-
her troops to Ireland has no reference to
my expected popular outbreak. Govern
nent have in view the use Of military in
hose districts where magistrates dec are
hey can no longer depend on the police.
The same course was adopted in 1864