The Irish standard., 1892-11-19
NEWS FROM OVER THE SEA
ANTRIM.

NEWS EkUM .UHE laE OEA.
ANTRIM.
The new Lord Lieutenant has declined
to accept an address OF welcome from
the committee on privileges OF the Irish
Methodist church. The address, which
was signed by the Rev. William Gorman,
yice-president of the conference and the
Rev. James Donnelly, secretary OF the
conference, was drawn up by the com-
mittee some time ago, and included the
phrase "staunch supporters of the Union"
or words to that effect. The copy was
sent to Dublin in the ordinary course,
and on the: following day Lord Hough-
son's secretary wrote that the address
could not be received on the ground
shat it contained contentious matter.
The COMMITTEES reconsidered the subject,
and declined to alter or strike out the
alleged controversial sentences and the
matter dropped. Nothing has been
done regarding it since. 49,.
4..5... CORK.
Official information has been received
in Middleton that over twenty more ten
ants on the Ponsonby estate will be i'm
mediately handed over possession OF their
evicted holdings, and that the Land
Commissioners have finally completed. in
respect of these cases, the negotiations
~sor the purchase by the tenants OF the
p ee simple of their holdings. Thirty
tenants out of 10 who purchased are al
ready in possession, SO that nearly halt
the number have been fully restored to
their original homesteads. For the first
five wears the annaities payable to the
Purchase Commissioners by the tenant
will, be equivalent to 80 per cent. of the
annual value Of their holdings, and the
annual value has been fixed at the old
rent. which was payable by the tenant
at the commencement of the purchase
naootiations. All the tenants who pur-
chased have been officially informed that
Il is withinstheir power to call upon the
Land Commissioners to readjust or re-
va,ue the annual value of their holdings;
and the tenants have been advised that
= anch a procedure will diminish the
xmount of the annuities in case the an
nna, value is decreased. A large num-
har Of the purchasing tenants have
availed of the above CONCESSION by serv-
ing at once legal notices on the Land
Commission calling upon the Commits
sioners to readjust the annual value OF
their several holdings.
DONEGAL.
Mr., Arthur O. O'Connor,..M M. F., is at pres
ent engaged in making tour through
some Of the widest and most poverty
stricken localities in Donegal. He will
have presented before his eyes many
tokens of the crisis which threatens the
people of that district. The condition OF
the peasantry there, is never, under any
circumstances, enviable, but now, what
with the blight, which has ruined many
of the crops which we're short time
ago most promising, and with variety
ne other causes of local and general
character, the outlook for the peasantry
is most gloomy. &
DUBLIN.
Another badge and token ofscoercion
has been hauled down and flung away
since John ..Morley's accession to the
Irish Secretaryship. On Dot: 18th the
Judicial Commission for the city OF
Dublin was opened with all the ancient
and formal ceremonials, and the Lord
Mayor, as chief Magistrate, occupied his
old place beside Ethe Judge. It will be
remembered that this privilege Of the
1 Lord Mayors was first withdrawn when
!, RI. Z. D. Sullivan lthen CHIEF Magis--
rate Of the citY), determined that he l'
would not submit to the attempted gar
rottine of tho oT Tresa and was sent to
n,rison, MI under the Coercion Act. 1T Was
lipht III ana fitting that thin piece icf petty
!. ~ nlatdal spite should be pronptl redressed
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