The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-04-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  There is no foundation for the statement that has been in circulation during the past few days relative to a postponement of the trial of Joe Brady for complicity in the Phoenix Park murders. The trials will commence on April 9, and Brady's will be the first case at hearing. The defence is to be .of a most elaborate and, indeed, complicated kind. The counsel for the prisoner will endeavour to set up an alibi, and the contention will be that the prisoner was in Rathmines at the time the murders were committed. Amongst the witnesses for the defence will be a carman and a lady, and the evidence will be of a startling nature. The trial wilt probably occupy nine days. The Freeman's Journal says there is good reason to believe that a draft proposal has been submitted to the Government, drawn by some of elle sub-commissioners under the Land Act, for faciliteing the decision of cases both under the Land and Arrears Acts. It is thought that if it were adopted the whole of the cases under those Acts would be disposed of within two years. The Government is disposed to take it into consideration.  A public meeting, presided over by the Mayor, and attended by several Roman Catholic clergy, members of the Corporation, Sm., was held at Limerick on Tuesday, to inaugurate a public subscription in aid of the Parnell Testimonial Fund. A considerable sum was subscribed in the room. A Government shorthand writer, attended by two detectives, took notes of the proceedings. It was announced that the Roman Catholic bishop of Limerick (Dr.lßutler) has forbidden collections for the testimonial within his jurisdiction. On Tuesday, the prisoners recently convicted at the Belfast Assizes in connection with the Armagh murder conspiracysase were conveyed to Dublin, where they were lodged in Mountjoy Prison, preparatory to their removal to Spike Island to serve out their sentence.  A Cork correspondent says the enquiry, on Tuesday, respecting Henry Morgan, who was arrested on Monday night, was conducted in private. Psisoner was remanded. The authorities are unusually reserved with respect to their investigations ; but a gentleman, who has the means of knowing, states that a conspiracy of a most formidable character is being unveiled. Important evidence has been obtained as to the ramifications of the organisation; bat it would not be disclosed at present, the authorities being engaged in maturing their plans for more extensive measures. Documents which have been discovered go to show the connection between this and the American dynamite party, and evidence is also forthcoming of the receipt of money in large sums from the other side of the Atlantic. The prisoner O'Herlihy received £2O from New York, but the donor was stated to be a relative. The police have for some time directed their attention to a temperance society holding meetings at a club room at Lavitt's Quay. O'Herlihy has been president of the society, regular meetings have been held for the promotion of temperance, and well-krown clergyman have assisted. Outwardly, the objects of the society were innocent enough; but there is now a suspicion that under cover of a laudable and legitimate organisation a few persons carried on a conspiracy. The prisoner Morgan lived in the house occupied by this society, of which he was a member. Thesuspicious substance foundinhisrooms has not yet been submitted to analysis, and there is some doubt as to whether it is an explosive. The young man Barter, for whom the police were looking ou Thursday night, has not yet been found. He had been in the country collecting rents for his master that day, and hearing on his return that his lodgings had been searched he disappeared that night, and the police have not been able to ascertain his whereabouts since then. Great importance is attached to the arrest of Featherstone, who is believed to have been an active agent of the dynamite party in the south of Ireland. Featherstone was born in Cork, but left the country when young. Denis Deasy, who was arrested in Liverpool, was formerly a chief porter in the service of the Cork and Macroom Railway. It was in consequence of the company he kept that he first came under the notice of the police. The police at Balllimaloe on Tuesday made a search, lasting two hours, of the house of Mr. Mathew Harris, one of the most prominent officials of the Irish National League. It is not known if any treasonable documents were found; but the police took possession of the whole of Mr. Harris's private papers and correspondence.