, 1881-01-26

The Lord Lieutenant of ireland prohib-
tied by proclamation--a meating which
was to have been held at Cullohill, near
Durrow. 10 Queens County, last Sunday,
10th Dec), on the ground that " the said
meeting, or assemblage. has been called
together for the sake of denoancing and
iutimidating certain OF her Majesty's sub.
jects, named in or described in the pla-
cards summoning the meeting, and deter.
ring them from exercising their legal rights"
and though an attempt was made, Ia, spite Of
this proclamation, to hold the meeting, those
who made ii we're dispersed by the soldiers
and police, aud the meeting was not held.
That was 8 very salutary exsrtiou OF authori.
ty, rendered possible without any change tn
The law, by the specification of illegal objects
in The placards summooiUg the meeting. In
general, however, the Land League has been
wary enough to snmmon It's meetings for os.
tensibIy legal objects, and then devote them
to the advocacy Of purposes which the Gov.
eminent of Ireland believe to be both illegal
and pernicious,
Most disqui citing news has been received
from the Cape. The Beers 10 the Transvaai
have carried ont the threat made through Mr..
Joubelt a month ago. have held q mass meet.
ing at Heidelberg, attended by 5000 men,
and have proclaimed a Republic. They Intend,
they say, to defend their rights by force, have
opened the mails, aud have cut of commanders
ton between Heidelberg aud Pretoria. They
reck on upon the embarrassment OF the Govern
ment with the Basuto war, and upon the
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Governor of Natal and High Commissioner, has
Immediately started for Pretoria, and will DO
able TO collect about two thousand British
troops, who, however, cannot move rapidly.
Il is possible that the Beers. who proclaim
Mr.. Ktiiger as their leader, may accept soma
compromise in the way of self-goysFnmenfY or
may decline actual fighting but at present
affairs look most s~erio1s, and the Government
has sent out a regiment FROM GibralsaFsa and
stands prepared for much larger Feinfor9smsnts.
No one wants to Cypress the Boersn VIZ ere
very ignorant, and anxious only togo thsir
own way but if defances of this kind are not
accepted as challenges, the Empite will go TO
pieces. So far as known, the. Boers havs no
griev vance except the loss other Independence,
10 which, while the Zulus were formidable
they acquiesoed.
The French Senate, ON Tuesday, gaze ths
Government q sharp rebuke. Nd. Herpids
Protect of the Seine, thought himself entitled
under the law,ito remove all crucihxes and
religious emblems from the elementary schools
OF Paris. With that Indifference toFthegreli.
gious feeling of others which is the most Often
sive specially of the French Radical, he sent
the police to take them away during the school,
hours; the police We're very rough, and en-.
blems considered sacred, at all events By all
the children's mothers, were Carted away 90
lumber, and some broken in the process. ID.
Buffet, who led the attack, demonstrated, and
though M. Hsrold explained that his
orders had been Observation-Disclosures
passed a vote of censure by 1910 S6sA n.
Herold resigned, but his resignation VIII not.
it is believed, be, accepted. The Incident die.
plays a spirit of laundering intolerance, and
will only increase the impression among
Frenchmen that the schools, Of theFfQiHre are
not to be neutral, bnt Observation-Disclosures.
The cruci6xes did no more harm till the
crosses on ~steeples do in England, 1ind19tsr-
fered no more with religious 1ibsrtgss 4oEtAe
physicists, if they ever get . majestsstel4 b
of thought -
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