The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-03-09 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE YARNELLITES AND IRISH DISTRESS. A correspondent of a London paper poirts out that while the British taxpayer is again urgently called upon (by those who are never tired of stigmatising him as a singuine oepr dwor) to relieve Irish distress, no public subscription has been started in Dublin or elsewhere to relieve the alleged misery. And what, he adds, are the agitators doing? "Why, instead of relieving distress, they are amusing themselves by getting no testimonials of money for one another! Dine, a Rev. J. Kavanagh sends £lO for a testimnni .1 to Mr. Parnell, as a sort of compensation for his wounded feelings, now that, as Mr. Forat has told us, he and his followers have been ' found out' Again, when Mr. Healy is released in a few months' time, he. too, is to be presented with a testimonial— money, of course. Mr. Sexton has already received a cheque for £550. The Avoca branch of the National League has set on foot a testimonial for Mr. Parnell. ' Subscriptions are Ftill pouring in for the Egan testimonial. The Rev. Harold Rylet t, N stional ire candidate for Tyrone, has received a puri.e of sovereigns. And so on. And in the face of this. Mr. Parnell's party Come whining ti Us for money to relieve distress, and if we are slow in giving it will, no doubt, soundly denoirco us. It has been said that the Irish are either beggars or bullies. At present they appear before us in both capacities."  --The pristiners charged with the Phcenix Park Murders will be tried bv special juries at the ordinary Gimmission. of Over and Set-miner. commencing on April 9th. The same junior Counsel will he retained fir the defence, but of course Dr. Webb, Q.O ,will be assisted by other Queen's Counsel. The trials will be very protracted, as it i 3 taken far granted that the prisoners will not join in their challences. Mr. Field. who was nearly stabbed to death in North Frederick-street, has so far recovered from the wounds he received that he was able the other day to go to the polling booths and record his vote for C lonel King-Harman. He will be examined M a witness at the appro ching trial of the t went) -one alleged conspirator.. He ears that he will not be able to identify his assailants, owing to the suddenness and violence of the attack, and the fact that his assassination was attempted in the dusk of the evening. He, however, thinks that the form of the prisoner Joseph Brady ion-inch resembles that of one of the men who stabbed him in the street. The search for the knives used upon the occasion is still continued in the Ringsend Canal Id 0111, where they are said by the informer K °tanagh to have been thrown by the fugitive assuming, hut success has not rewarded the exertions of the nolice. The informers, who for safety are kept in Kilmainhana Gaol, maintain their cheerfulness. The food is supnlied from a neighbouring publichouse, the same place from which the food of the suspects was supplied. and is carefully guarded lest means might be found by certain persons to gain access to the dishes and introduce poison into the food. It is a remarkable fact that since the arrest of the "Invincibles " aseaults on the police in Dublin have entirely ceased. The exolanation given of this is not that the men who have been arrested w.ire in the habit of committing such assaults, hut the language used and the sentiments given utterance to by them in the publehousee which they were in the habit of frequenting demoralised the roughs and rowdies who ouititulOl their audience.