The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-10-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GREAT LAND MEETINGS.  A great land meeting, under the auspices of the Irish Land League, took place on Sunday at New Ross, twenty thousand persons being present. The Rev. T. Doyle, Ramsgrave; presided. Mr Parnell, M.P., replying to the resolution thanking him, and that section of the Irish party who supported him, for his efforts to bring about a general settlement of the land question, after some introductory observations on the injustice of the organisation against the tenant farmers of Ireland, said that the land question had for the last for-teen months agitated the country. Had it not been for that agitation the people of Ireland would have been exterminated, as they were in DWI and subsequent years. The Irish people, however, I were still in the land, and the task before them was to secure themselves in their possession of it.—Speaking on the suggestion lof some members of Parliament, that to I adopt the I later system all over the I country would lead to a general settlement, the Chairman strongly differed from that view, believing it useless for the present emergency. The Ulster system did not deal with a reduction of rents, and perpetuated a system of landlordism in Ireland which destroyed the country. The system that could alone meet the demands of the Irish people was the system that would for ever put an end to the whole of that class. He alluded to the system of land-holding in France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium, and asked them to compere the iniquitous land system in „Ireland with, those countries. He agreed with John ' Bright, M.P., that the right of ownership should rest with the tiller of the boil. He would agree with a system of fixity of tenure at fair rent, at the termination of the period the tenant to be the owner of his farm. He denounced such crimes as the New Ross murder. He also denounced the Liberal Government for following in the footsteps of their predecessors, and said nothing but thel abolition of landlordism would lead to a satisfactory settlement °Mho land question. A land meeting was held on Sunday at KU. rush, County Clare, about ten thousand persons being present. There were two excursion steamers from Limerick, laden with passengers, and accompanied by bands. Resolutions were passed urging the necessity of a peasant proprietary, pledging themselves to take no land from which any tenant had been evicted for non-payment of exorbitant rent, and advising that branches of the Laud League b 3 established in every parish of Clare. Father O'Mara, who presided, Mr Finnigan, M.P., and other speakers I denounced the present system of landlordism, in illustration of which it was pointed out that the landlord in the district who some eight years ago purchased a farm now exacted a rent of .£3O, as against £l2O at the time he bought it. The assembly was then asked by a Mr Cicely to I take off their hate and vow before high heaven to keep the terms of the resolution respecting the non-taking of a firm from which a tenant had been evicted. This WAS accordingly done, those present repeating the words after Mr Cleely. The meeting passed off without any disturbance. Government reporters were present. . _  On Saturday afternoon an open-air demonstration was held at Bodell's Hill, near Partadowa, to support the Rev, Rutledge Kane, rector of Tullylish. in the views which he expressed on the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of Donacloney Orange Hall, and also to denounce Mr PeTneol and the leading men of the Land League. A large number of Orangemen,drease I in their regalia, and accompanied by drums and a brass band, were present. A resolution was passed to the following effect :--That on behalf of thousands and tens of thousands of the stalwart sons of Ulster, we hereby ca,l upon the Government of this country to make no terms with rebellion, whether veiled or open, local or general, but to put it down. Another resolution averred that the impunity with which murder is being committed in many a:stride of Ireland, and the all but universal 53 aapathy with the murderers existing in  those districts, render trial by jury a mockery, and imperatively call for some more effectual method of trial for murder. The Rev. Rutledge Bane said he would not retract a single 'Nord of what be had said at Donacloney. He had said that the game of lead was a game at which two could play, and they, the loyal men of Ulster, could pay hack with interest whatever mode of attack their opponents adopted. The speaker was greeted with rounds of applause.