The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-21
lRELAND,s CoNTRsBUTIO
To the Exciting News of the
Day.
Government Developing Some
Backbone.

ioficial Uroclamations have been issued
luo to midnight, but there is little doubt
Of the truth Of the above statement. Its
!; considered extraordinary that the gov
eminent should prescribe the meetings at
: this hour, as It may cause collision be-
tween the people aud the police in cORse-
i quence of insufficient notice. The League
officials consider that the government de-
sIres TO provoke a row in order TO secure
the passage Of L coercion act.
London, ia Land League meeting
was held at Mullinger, County West
meath, to-day. Ten thousand persons
were present. The town was decorated
with flags.
A mob Of 1000 persons attempted, on
Saturday, to wreck the residence OF MT
Downing, justice OF the peace at BONN,
caDlsn, County Mayo, after he had served
writs of ejectment on some tenants. Ponce
kept the people back at the point OF the
bsyonet. Downing escaped On car to
Ballina, where he took the tram Tor
Dublin. Police now occupy his residence.
New York, l9. Worlds London: A
most profound sensation was caused to-
dsy in London, rs we'll as in Dublin, by
the news that the Irish privy council, at
its meeting at the castle last evening, had
proclaimed against land meetings only
IN Queens County. PriVy counselors
share O'Conner's fears of a bloody
Christmas, evident as am informed
that their action wa based on dread of
the results that might follow the Gallo
hill meetings, notices of which were
posted this morning. To enforce the
counsel decree q force OF 1,50O troops,
500 from the Curragh and 700 from
Dublin, was dispatched during the
light AS a result three meetings which
were to have been held to-day, were
abandoned, without an attempt at re-
sistsnce.
Captain Boycott is Boycottiug Glad
stone aud various steps in the process are
watched with equal amszement, by the
Liberals and Torres. GlsdsIone's cool
reference in his last answer to Boycott,
to what the government had already
done for the captain, and the snub con-
veyed to him in GlsdstOne's sllusiOn to
the exertions made by the government to
enforce the existing law through the
court, have led Boycott to address /
third letter to the premier, in which he
explicitly asks for So, 900 as the Tepsra-
ton due TO him from the state. The |
amount asked is considered by impartial |
persons to be small in comparison with |
what Boycott has actually lost by his de- |
parture from Ireland. Tories intend to !
make all the capital possible, not only |
out of Boycott, but out of all the victims |
of Boycotting, and intend to press the |
matter in o special grievance against gov |
eminent
HeraLd'S Dublin: A very significant |
movement is on foot with regard to the |
land agitation, which may have an i'm |
- a. q, |
of the question. | refer to the attitude |
suddenly adopted by members of the |
Irish landlords, both liberal and conser-
vative, favOring what are cal ed three |
f., " meaning fair rent, fxity of tenure |
and free sale. The landlords opposition
to these measures has been sensihly les |
SEEMING 10 many quarters for some time. |
The frat public expression given to them |
was during last week, at 8 Monaghan |
Orange meeting, presided over by Lord |
Rossmore. This meeting made the three |
fs its platform. This action shows on the |
part of the young nobleman and the |
other landlords associated with him, |
public spirit and wisdom far IN advance |
of their class. Some Armagh landlords |
have done the same thing. Many |
prominent men, English members of |
Parliament, have also spoken out clearly
on this point. Furthermore the London |
Times, which has heretofore opposed |
and favored m out and out |
policy on the part Of England toward |
Ireland, printed on Saturday 8 remark
able article, arguing vigorously in favor
Of the fxity of tenure, and toe other is, |
saying the correct way to establish q
peasant proprietary, is through that |
plan. To properly understand the i'm
portsnce of this change os attitude it |
must be remembered that fIity OF tenure |
was denounc d everywhere a year ago, |
as utterly inadmisssble. Anyone propos-
i. q it was considered q mailman. Of |
course the three f. do not satisfy the Land |
League, but if the landlords should gen. |
orally Sdopt them, they would be gong
half way in concession to the league.
Dublin, I9.-Bruce Jones has plenty of |
provisions. He has received a letter from |
an official of the House of Commons stat |
ing that London is soothing with indig |
nation at governments inaction.
Members of the Land League at Dub
lin seem to think there is good ground |
for believing DsYitt will be arrested for |
not complying with the conditions of his |
ticket Of leave. At league meeting in
Curragh Davitt made speech.
Crest diversity Of opinion exists
among prominent Land Leaguers in re-
gard To the course to adopt If govern
ment introduce q lind bill which, |
although falling short the programme |
of the league, would substantially bene-
fit tenants. Some are 10 favor of fighting |
it out to the end. Others say to reject a I
good bill would be to incur great respoa-
sibility. The extremists say if a partial /
measure Is accepted the question would !
be dormant for ten years or more and /
the work would have 10 be began afresh, |
and there are now 500 branches of the /
Land League.
Sullivan, MP, speaking st q Null |
lingAr meeting said their fathers had |
faced the sword and bullet for Ireland, |
ard Irishmen were not now to be fright |
ened by the suspension of the hdbeGs |
corpus act or the proclamation of martial |
law.
The report that gyyernment interded ]
to prohibit all Land League mee:ing> in |
Queens County was incorrect. The |
prohibition only applied to the meeting |
at Callohill, which was convened for the |
purpose of denouncing landlord who |
sought the assistance of the bankruptcy |
court to recover his rents. Two hundred |
uusshIes 1OO lLldLLFy huu 1Uu cOlSldDQ- |
larry arrived at Cal'ohill on Saturday |
with ambulance wagons. The promoters |
of the nesting Issued a rotice abandon |
ing the projected meeting st Callohill, |
but afterwards issued a plsl ard converting |
s. meeting few miles of. The trO D., |
however, arrived on the ground. A resi- |
dent magistrate forbade the meeting, and |
said he won dispense it with buckshot
or whatever was necessary. The meet !
ing was then finally abandoned At a |
meeting st Currsgh, two husssrs, sta
toned close to the platform, carried on |
signals with the camp, which was close |
at hand. There were also fifty policemen
in ambush.
A battalion of Scots Guards goes to |
Ireland tonight. The troop ship HIND
LdyG is expected at Portsmout to-day. |
1t hss been ordered to disembsrk a bat |
TALON Of the Rife Brigade at Queentown.
Bruce Jones denies that he had quar- |
rel with his laborers, and attributes their |
departure to threats. He also utterly de- |
mes that be had dispute with his ten
ants. H. has te'egrsphed to Chief Sec
reisry Forster for twenty marines, and |
the request has been complied with.
London, l9.-The NeiCS, in leading |
article, says: Captain BoycOtt's extrsot-