Widnes Examiner. — 1888-10-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SECOND DAY.  The Commission resuinell its sittings at half-past ten on Tuesday morning.  The Attorney-Ge-neral at once appealed tor a day's delay in answering an affidavit, handed him on Monday, as to the "particulars." _  Mr. Lockwood said be did not appear for Mr. Biggar, who represented himself; and Mr. Biggar asked The Times counsel for a copy of the 'Teethes referring to him, as he was not in a position to get a verbatim report. The President said that Mr. Biggar should have the same facilities as the counsel for his colleagues. • The Attornev-OPneral said that, when possible, copies should be banded over to him. Sir Charles Russell said that as the reports of the speeches relied on by the Attorney-General were taken by constables, on Government instruction, it was necessary he should have full reports. and not extracts. The Attorney-General said that the speeches were obtained by the solictors for The Tithes in the ordinary way, and netlltrougl___l the Government. Sir Trecnarct webster sairequently reautnea ore on behalf of The 7'ime.4, and said he should later on deal with the "no rent" manifesto, which purported to be issued by Mr. Parnell, from Kilmainham, in 1881, and was signed by Mr. Parnell and others. He then proceeded to deal with speeches delivered by the Irish members in the county of Kerry, in the same way as he yesterday dealt with Galway; first calling attention to a. speech made made by Mr. Parnell in May. 1880, at Beavemont. Mr. Parnell's remarks on that occasion were violent, and he said. that if the Legislature did not interfere to prevent people being evicted, the agitation must go on. This and other speeches were reported, and United Ireland and the Freeman's Journal spoke of murder and incendiarism as incidents in the warfare between the League and the landlords. The learned gentleman next alluded to speeches by Mr. Biggar and Mr. A. O'Connor at Castleisland, and to one made by Mr. T. Harrington at 13osna, one result of the last-named gentleman's speech being. that a tenant alluded to had his house burnt. Then Mr. Flarrington was on the platform at Barradough, when a Mr. Boyton advised the tenants to put an end to landlords. In fact, the Land I,eague, of which Mr. Parnell was the head, was powerless without tyranny and intimidation. The Attorney General then dealt with a number of speeches delivered in Cork—a county in which many 'steeple bravely resisted the orders of theaLeague. After quoting from numerous speeches, the Attorney-General said he should, at a later sage, call their lordships' attention to ether speeches delivered in 1885 and 1888, under the auspices of the National League, which was the direct successor of the Land League—having the same objects and the same sources of income; and, in this case also, the same results 'followed the delivery of League speeches. Indeed, no Parnellite member had ever suggested that there was any difference between the two organisations. He had in this county to report a large number of outrages—some of them fatal. In one case the wrong man was killed; in another a man had his right ear cut with scissors, because he had paid his rent; a man, named Leary, was shot for giving information to the police; and a" land grabber" was shot through the right thigh, after a meeting at which land grabbers were denounced. It would be his duty to lay before the Commission many other speeches, and many subsequent outrages, but now he would pass to the last of the counties he intended to deal with, viz., the county of Clare. At a meeting at Ennis, Mr. Parnell told his hearers that farmers could do no good by attending to give evidence before a Land Commission, and he sueeested that men who took evicted farms should be sent to "moral Coventry." and isolated as the leers of old ; and the only inference the court could draw from that advice was that any steps were to be taken which were necessary to compel land grabbers to give up the farms. Other speeches, similar in tone, and often more violent, were delivered. What was the result? From January to July, 1882, there were six murders and 12 attempts at assassination; from January, 1882, to November, 1883, there were six attempts at assassination. There were also numerous cases of boycotting, and of houses being fired into.  '