Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IRELAND.  Mr. Pickersgill, M.P., and the other members of the English Home Rule deputation left Limerick on Monday for Tralee. They were cheered on departing. On Monday, the Granny Bridge National School, between Kildysart and Kilrush, was burnt to the ground. It is alleged that there is ill-feeling against the teacher in the locality. The Freeman's Journal suggests that Mr. Brunner's proffered thousand should be declined. It does honour to the donor, and Irishmen will appreciate his goodness, but ,they are not mendicants. They crave no favours. They only ask Englishmen to assist them to obtain Home Rule. Claiming to be a nation, they cannot accept eleemosynary assistance save in the presence ot famine. Just before commencement of mass, on Sunday, at Anglesborough, about four miles from Mitchelstown, on the arrival of the police from Glenacurrane to take their usual seats in the gallery, the whole of the people in the churcn left their seats and deserted the place. At Gall. batty, about five miles from Mitchelstown, the National School, which is kept by the wife of a constable, has been boycotted, and is stated to be closed. Ten men were charged under the Crimes Act at Bal. linasloe, on Saturday, with having obstructed the police in the discharge of their duty. They were each senteribed to two months' imprisonment. An appeal was entered. ./kt the Cork Police-court, on Saturday, John Barry was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for threatening Mr. Gardiner. R.M., on the occasion of Mr. O'Brien's arrest, when a crowd threw stones at the military and police. Mr. S. J'. Burke, a tenant of Lord Clanricarde's, at Clondegeff, was very cleverly evicted by the sub-Sheriff on Saturday. The building had been barricaded for some time, and twenty men had been told off to defend it when the Sheriff approached, but the Sheriff and his party came up the Shannon on yachts, and landing at six o'clock in the morning entirely surprised Mr. Burke, the eviction being completed in a few minutes. People came running in from all quarters directly afterwards, when horns sounded and the chapel bell was rung, but they were too late to affect the result. At eight o'clock 3,000 people had gathered. Mr. Henry Whiting, of Lavender-hill, Wandsworth, I.ondon, has forwarded to Capt. Francis Welch, resident magistrate, a cheque for £25. to distribute between the widow of the murdered Head-constable Whelehau and the constables engaged in the-fatal affray at the house of the man Sexton in County Clare. He also stated that if it is proposed to place the bead constable's children in an orphanage he will willingly help. Captain Welch, replying to Mr. Whiting, says it is proposed that the constabulary shall start a fund of their own. It has been asserted that the Clare authorities most providentially obtained information which enabled the police to save the lives of Mr. Sexton, his mother, and servant, who, beynd all doubt, were doomed to death had not the police been there to intercept the assassins. Poor Whelehan was specially despatched from Ennis to ensure the successful issue of the precautions taken for Sexton's protection. • MR.