Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-16

Irish arrears of rent bill. It provides that
 either tenant or landlord can make applica- | tion to the land commissioner to clear arrears
 of rent The measure is not to operate
 above e2O rental under the Grifiths valua-
 ton. The tenant must pay years rent from November, 1880, to November, 1881,
 and must give proof before competent tri-
 bunal of his inability to pay other arrears
 and late assistance is not to exceed one years
 rent or one half the amount due. The total
 amount of arrears for the compensation of
 landlords is to be drawn from the surplus of
 the Irish church fund.- and failing in that
 from the national consolidated funds. Ar rears are to be extended to the 3Oth of June,
 1883. The Irish church fund is calculated to yield million and half pounds sterling,
 while the applications for clearances of ar- rears of rent it is estimated, will amount to over two millions sterling. The reading of the bill was received throughout with cheers from the Irish mem bers.
 It is now reported from Dublin that 12 persons were engaged in the Phoenix Park tragedy, and it is believed the assassins in- tended to murder eight persons. It is thought that in the cab which stood near the scene of the murder and lettering under the trees were armed men ready to effect rescue in case the real assas- sins were surprised. The government has offered $500 reward for the arrest of any person harboring the assassins.
 Advices from Dublin this afternoon state that the police have made no further prog ress toward the discovery of the assassins. The report of the arrest of three men at a hotel at Cork was untrue. The man Rush. who 1t was stated drove the car containing the murderers, is 8 car owner. He was ques- toned by the police as to whether any of his cars are missing, but his inquiry was without result. The man James McGrath who arrested at Shrewsbury, Eng, on suspicion of being concerned in the murders It has been found had no connection with them. He, however, has been held on a charge of theft. A man named Robert DoW- dali WAS arrested at Cork to-day on the arriv- al of the mail train from Dublin on suspicion of being concerned in the Dublin murders Ills face was scratched.
 The fund started by the corporation of Cork, Ireland, as a reward for the apprehen- sion of the assassins of Lord Frederick Cav endish and Mir. Burke now amounts to e1,- Quo.
 Thomas Power OConnor, member for Gal way, who has just returned from his Amerl- can tour, attended a meeting of the Parnel- lte members of the House of Commons to- day. Considerable division of opinion exists pmong the Parnellite members on the subject of the new coercion bill, several being in favor of withdrawing from the parliamentary discussion of the measure altogether.
 The contest tor the seat in the Commons for the northern division of the west riding of Yorkshire, made vacant by the death of Lord Frederick Cavendish, has begun, Mir. Holden being the Liberal and Charles Ga- thorne Hardy the Conservative candidate.
 The Queen has written Miss Burke, daugh- ter of the late Under Secretary Burke, a very letter condoling with her over the recent murder of her father.