The Portland daily press., 1881-05-23
FOREIGN.
Excitement in Ireland over the
Arrest of a Priest.
SALISBURY'S SPEECH ON THE LAND
BILL CONDEMNED.
Conspiracies and ConspiratOrs in Russia.

New YORK, May PA Dublin despatch
says:-The Government has taken bold step
in arresting Catholic priest. This morning
the Rev. Father Sheehy. parish priest of Kili-
mallock, was taken into custody under the CO.
ercion act ON the charge of assembling with
others and unlawfully attempting by threats
and menaces to compel divers of Her Males
tvs subjects to Quit their lawful employment.
the aforesaid being an act calculated to inter-
fere with the maintenance of law and order
Along with Father Shelby were arrested
Henry Gilbertson, auctioneer and farmer,
Jno. Collins, farmer, and Michael MCCARTHY,
farmer. All are members of the local Land
League. Not only in the county of Limerick,
but throughout the whole south of Ireland,
Father Sheehy has taken a leading part in the
land agitation. He was always a bold and
popular leader. He attended tho land confer
ences at Dublin and took main part in the de-
bates condemning the land bill -Four years ago
he gained notoriety by Kissing the Queen at a
banquet given by Mr.. Parnell down the Shan
non. and since the passing of the coercion act
he has frequently challenged the Government
to arrest him. On the occasion of Miss Par
nell's visit to Killmallock Father Sheehy, by
some pointed remarks, preoipitated popular
outbreak and dangerous demonstration against
a sub-inspectof OF police and another officer
who were in the crowd listening to the speech
es. The excitement caused by this unexpected
action Oh the part of the authorities is very
great. kilograms from the south represent
the relations between the people and author-
ties as very strained indeed There is no limit
to the complications which may arise out of
the arrest of priest; who among mis- order has
certainly taken a most prominent part in
spreading and sustaining the most advanced
developments of the land agitation. Father
Shelby and his fellow prisoners were conveyed
at once to Mas Jail under a strong escort.
Great excitement prevails at New Palas. The
flying columns, with two guns, left Limerick
to assist the sheriff in making seizures for rent
in the district This is the first active service
undertaken by one of The five flying columns
at present organized in Ireland.
Exciting Debate in Parliament on Shee-
hy's Arrest.
A London despatch says the debate in the
Commons on Father Sheehy'S arrest continued
till midnight, and revealed remarkable agree
ment among the various sections of Irish liber-
al members in condemning the action of the
Government in refusing to give a full explana-
ton of the causes which led to the arrest On
reasonable suspicion" The moderate mem
bers predicted that worse results would follow
from an act which would be regarded ss an in
suit to the religious sentiment of the Irish ma
ton, in CHASING the priest as "village ruff
fam" The Governments offer to hold a
morning sitting on Tuesday to discuss the ar
rest is condemned as illusory and worthless,
because ministers would not pledge themselves
to give full information of the specific act on
which the warrant for the arrest was based.
They would only produce general charge,
WAtuOue dlIOIuiuS OIL opportunity W tI6 IOuS6
or the country to examine into the evidence
on which the charge is based. The discussion
was carried Oh by the Irish members with
great acrimony, and seemed to distress Mr..
Gladstone very much. One of the members
said that the chief secretary would henceforth
be known in Ireland as priest hunting Fors-
ter.''
G onspiracies and Conspirators in Russia.
LONDON, May 21.-The Times despatch from
ST. Petersburg says important arrests continue
almost daily. Hessy Helfmann, sentenced to
death for com plicity in the murder of the
condition, has been delivered of still-born
child. Another conspirators' den, containing
a large store of arms and dynamite, has been
found near Warsaw. The occupants had pre-
viously deserted the house.
Lord Salisbury's Speech on the Land
Bill Criticised.
The Standard sharply criticises the speech of
It says:-"The attitude prescribed for the
House of House of Lords may be heroic and
spirited, but it is not practical craftsmanship.
There was no reason why he should mention
the land bill at all, and many reasons why he
not, but that, on the very night of the division
on the bill in the House of Commons, he should
have dismissed the whole subject as an ebulli-
ton OF communism, too contemplate and ri
: diculous to be seriously discussed, is much to
be regetted."
uo OdIy Autograph also COuQ0mnS IOrQ
Salisbury's speech, but anticipates that his &C
ton will be wiser than his words.
The Spectator, referring to the speech, ex-
presses fear that the risk of the rejection of
the bill by the House of Lords has been griev-
9usly increased; Nothing more serious to
The Saturday Review says the battle over
the land bill remains to be fought. The dis
cussion over its second reading only indicated
more or less precisely the locality and condi-
ton of the.fght.
Protesting Against Hessy Helfman's
Execution.
PARIS. May 22-At private meeting, organ
lied by the Irreconciliabes, to protest against
the sentence of Hessy Holman, after num-
Der of inf1ammatory speeches. resolutions were
passed consuming the acts of Russia, blaming
France for crushing the right of asylum, and
hoping that the revolutonists of Russia would
triumph.
The Kaffirs Defeated by the Beers.
LONDON, May 22-The Standards dispatch
from Durham says the Beers have defeated the
Kaffirs. They lost 10 men killed.
Abdul Bey Condemned to Death.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 22.-Dispatches say
Abdul Bey, ex-Chief of the Albanian league,
has been courtmartialed and condemned to
DEATH
Jews Leaving Moscow.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 22.-Many rich Jews
in Moscow have received threatening letters
and have abandoned their country villas which
were hired for the summer. The number of
arrests in the Kieff district for attacks on the
Jews since the 18th inst, is 1,227.
Tunisian Affairs.
LONDON. May 21.-Further correspondence
relative to Tunisian affairs is published Earl
Granville, foreign secretary, in dispatch to
M. Challenel Lacour, French ambassador
here, dated yesterday explains the views of
the government in regard to the action Of the
French in Tunis and the treaty with the Bey.
He states that the government does not wish
to lay too much stress on the inconsistencies of
language in conversation or on the various
reasons given at Paris and Tunis for French
intervention, but he says it can hardly be
doubted that the treaty with Tunis goes far
beyond any question of security to the frontier,
and amounts practically to protectorate,
which her majestys government understood to
have been disclaimed. Earl Granville adds,
in order that there may be no misapprehen-
sion the general convention of July, 1875,
between Great Britain and Tunis is, and re-
mains, in force. Their convention secures to
British subjects, vessels, commerce and navi-