Widnes Examiner. — 1882-09-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  Applications tinder the nerr measure are coming in daily to the Land Commission in Dublin from landlords and tenants.  The military at Limerick have been strengthened by 100 men, in anticipation of disturbances on the occasion of the execution of Hynes. Lord Spencer has refused to b°Twit a reprieve to the young man Hynes, who was convicted of the murder at Ennis. The execution will take place on Monday. Ten of the prisoners arrested for the murder of ::the Joyce family, at Miamtrasna, were on Wednesdaylevening-committea for trial at the next Special Commission in Dublin. Captain Blake has intimated his intention of contesting Ennis, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Finigan, on Land League and advanced Nationalists principles. Captain Vake will issue his address in a few days. Two farmers, named Horan, were waylaid and shot at on Sanday night, near Parsonstown, by a man named Barnewell. They disarmed him, belaboured him severely, and left him. He was found by the police patrol, and his depositions having been taken, the Horans were arrested. The Freeman's Journal mentions that the freedom of six places have been conferred on Mr. Gray M.P., sine- his imprisonment, and accepts it as a protest from the Irish people against the system under which he was sentenced, and a pronouncement in favour of an unfettered Press. Mr. E. D. Gray, M.P., in a communication to the Town Council of Cork, has intimated that he cannot think of entering into the securities required by the decision of Mr. Justice Lawson. In that event he will remain in prison till February next, unless previously released by the LordLieutenant.  On Wednesday afternoon, at the Dublin Police Court, William Terrie, Richard Terrie, and William Terrie, junr, , were sent for trial on a charge of having wilfully murdered Ellen Terrie, the wife of the former and mother of the two latter prisoners. It is alleged that the accused kicked the deceased to death in the course of a drunken row. Mvlimn.— Information was received on Wednesday afternoon by the Athlone constabulary of the murder of a man named Thomas Quinn, at Edenderry, King's County, some miles from the town. Quinn was in the employ of a man named Gill, and was driving along in his cart, drawn by an ass, when shots were fired with fatal effect, the man being killed at once, and the donkey also being shot dead. As far as is known at present, no cause can be assigned for the outrage. Tuesday night'sDubl in Gazettecontains a return of the number of agrarian outrages reported to the constabulary last month. There are 8 cases from Ulster,29 from Leinster, 39 from Connaught, and 89 from Munster—total 165. The offences are classed as follows :—Murder 1, firing at 7, aggravated assaults 2, assaults endar.gering life 1, incendiary fires 16, robbery 1, killing and maiming cattle 11, riots 1, threatening letters 83, intimidating 10, injury to property 26, firing into dwellings 1.  The Orangemen of the district of Armagh, in the neighbourhood of Portadown, have held a demonstration to inaugurate the Pertadown Orange Hall. Mr. E. W. Verner presided, and a resolution was passed in which the Orangemen expressed sentiments of horror and indignation at the d sgrace brought upon Ireland by the murders and outrages committed by a disloyal section of the community in other counties, and pledged themselves to uphold law and order to the utmost of their power, and to resist any attempt to sever the union between Great Britain and Ireland.  At a meeting held in Saintfield, county Down, on association has been formed to be called the Saintfield Farmers' Union, the object of which is to secure to the people generally the utmost possible benefit from the Land Act, to protect farmers from excessive legal costs, to aid farmers in putting their cases before the Courts, and to seek such further reforms in the Land Law as will make the farmers owners of their farms on such terms as will be mutually advantageous to themselves and to the country. All the police constables who have been dismissed were on Wednesday afternoon summoned to the Riding School, Dublin Castle, at three o'clock. Over Dv attended. The men were marched one by one from the Lower Castle Yard up to the archway leading to the Upper Castle Yard, and here each man advanced and was interrogated by Captain Hamilton, secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and Mr. Jenkinson, inspector of the new Detection of Crime Department, as to their names, numbers, and whether they had attended any of the meetings. They were then dismissed and informed that their case would be considered.