The Blackpool Herald. — 1880-11-19 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE IRISH DIFFICULTY.  The excitement consequent upon the murder of Mr, Wheeler, junior, has not up to the present shown any signs of abatement. At all the Boman Catholic churches in the district on Sunday the priests, in the strongest possible terms, denounced the murderer or murderers. No arrests have yet been made, but the police are actively engaged in endeavouring to trace the assassin. The northmen resumed work on Captain Boycott's farm on Monday morning under the protection of the military and the police. The Byeott difficulty has entered upon a new phase. It is the intention of the tenants at Lough Mask this week to pay a visit to their landlord, the Earl of Erne, at Crum Castle, Newtownbutler, county Fermanagh, with the object of inducing his Lordship to discharge his agent, Captain Boycott, with whom they decline to have any dealings. Lord Erne, however has expressed his determination not to consent to any arrangement that would ignore the position of his agent ; but the tenants think that if they approach him in a body and tender their rents in full he may be induced to give away. A telegram states that the visit to the Earle of Erne has been abandoned.  The Cabinet held another prolonged sitting on Wednesday. An unfounded report was circulated early in the day that Ministers had decided to summon Parliament on the 6th of January. Many reports were current of dissensions in the Cabinet, and it was said that Mr. Bright and Mr. Chamlserlain would resign their seats at once if the majority of their colleagues decided on asking Parliament to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. The report of serious dissensions among Ministers does not appear to have the slightest foundation in fact. Lord Erne writes to correct some misapprehensions due to inaccurate statements respecting the position of affairs on the Lough Mask estate. Captain Boycott, he says, has been his agent for eight years, during the whole of which time not the faintest rumour of such conduct towards hi a tenants as is described by a correspondent ever reached his ears, nor was it until after "the policy of isolation was entered upon," instead of before, as would appear from the "popular version," that he received the memorial on the subject. More outrages are reported. A. report reached Limerick on Tuesday evening that the house of a farmer residing near Rathkeale was fired into the previous night by a band of armed men. At King William's Town, near Kanturk, the house of a farmer named Jones was forcibly entered by a body of armed men, who removed June's wife and children in a state of nudity to the roadside. His offence was that he had removed his son from a farm, and the men reinstated the son in possession. Notices have been posted on the property of Mr. Robert Borough, West Clare, threatening with serious consequences such tenants as hall in an underhand manner pay their rent, and calling upon all not to give more than Griffith's valuation. A. Tralee correspondent telegraphs that a number of armed nien with blackened faces visited houses on Lord Ventry's property at Cordal, and forcibly carried away all the arms they could find.