Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-07-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STATE OF IRELAND.  The funeral of Mr. Blake has taken place, and wan attended by twenty or thirty people, some on horseback. The remains were interred in a graveyard near Gent. No demonstration of a hostile character whatever took place. A collision has occurrel in Listowel between the police and the people. A large crowd had gathered to hear airs. Moore, of the Dublin Ladiee' Land League, at an improvised meeting. The people were dispersed by the police, under the orders of Captain Massey, N.M. Subsequently Mrs. Moore attempted to addresa the people near the railway elation, and the people refusing to disperse, the police tired upon them with revolvers and used their batons. Amongst those injured is Mr. Edward Harrington, a reporter on the Kerry Sentinel, who received a deep wound in the temple from a policeman's baton. His brother, Mr. Timothy Herrington, editor of the Kerry Sentinel, who was recently released as a suspect, was arrested and conveyed to the police barracks. The greatest excitement prevailed, awl the military and police continue to patrol the town. The Irish labour movement is coming to the front. A meeting to promote it has been held at Castledennott, county Kildare, and a meeting on the sante subject was also held in Dublin. Mr. William Henernan, a suspect of drone, Frankford, King's County, has been unconditionally released from Naas Gaol, after an imprisonment of over five months, and a enepect named O'Driscoll has been transferred to Kilmainham. It is stated that the Government are in possession of information that large conaignments of arms and ammunition of all kinds have arrived in county Clare, and been distributed by means of agents among the peasantry. An accident eta melancholy character has occurred at Monte, near Athlone. A Mrs. Maria Dixon was making the bed when a revolver, which had been secreted under the riIIOWS, VMS, by the disturbance of the clothes, made logo off, end the contents entering Mrs. Dixon's breast, caused almost instantaneous death. Mr. Dixon was under police protection, and in consequence of threats made upon his life he kept loaded firearms in dif. ferent parte of his premises. John Colitis and Thomas Curran have been committed for trial at Boyle on the charge of being concerned in the recent murderous attack upon the fanner Henry East, of Curraghtrench. Both prisoners have been identified by East and his wife. Several other persons who were in custody have been discharged. Downpatrick Orange and Protestant Hall was recently inaugurated by Brother Lord Arthur Hill, M.P., In the pre...mice of a large assemblage of Orangemen of county Down. A series of resolutions were adopte I, stating that eta time of great peril and danger, when fundamental principles of religion and morality are openly setat naught, and crime end outrage prevail throughout Ireland, those present desired to record their attachment to the Throne and those principles of civil and religious liberty which were after a bloody struggle at last triumphant under William, Prince of Grange; also that when crafty conspirators, aided by the credulity or connivance of the Executive, seek to bring shout the dismemberment of the Empire, the meeting renewed the expreesion of their firm determination to resist every demand to destroy legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland, and pledged themselves to uphold the integrity of the Empire and the honour of the Crown. The Chief Court of the Land Commission has given judgment in the Londonderry Court-house, in the application of Manua Olime v. the Mercers' Company, at Kilrea, which WU a test case. The Court affirmed the judicial rent, which was the same as that put upon the tenant by the company. In nearly all the other cases the judicial rent fixed by the sub-commissioners was affirmed, except in the cases from the property of Sir Hervey Bruce, whose reutalwaa further reduced by £l5 in the aggregate.