Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-08-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

PARNELLITE DEFIANCE.  United Imlami, in an article on the attitude of the Irish people towards the new Government, said : " The Salisburys and Chamberlains themselves are shrewd enough to recognise in the unambiguous resolution which the Irish party earns to on Wednesday the death blow to any hope of paltering or shilly-shallying compromises. The greatest statesman of the age has pledged his life to the jtrstice of our demand for a naticnal Parliament such as a nation may pride in. 'The future of the whole British party of progress depends on its concession, as the first condition of progress anywhere to anything. To the great compact we remain leyally anchored. More than Mr. Gladstone's Bill offered we will meat certainly get less, no representative of Ireland dare ever accept or treat fee To that much England will make up her mini with more er less sullen gracelessness, after a .other dismal chapter of suffering, embitterment, ant wrong. Pending that day, the Castlereaghs who chose to try their hands at ruling the Irish people will have to do so by the force of bullets and gibbets." —The same paper, in another column, anticipates the reception of Lord Londonderry by a condemnation of his ancestor, and says : "It is a pity his Excellency should sink in the comparatively unknown title of the Marquis of Londonderry the historical and significant name of Castlereagh. We venture to suggest that lie should be known by no other title than Lord Castlereagh during his tenure of the Vicerovalty." In an article on the rent question, taking for is text the announcement that the Duke of Devonshire has granted abatements of 20 par cent. to Isis Irish tenants, United I retund says : Ile admits that one fifth of his rental must go by the board. If one-fifth of his, why not at least one-fifth of others in Ireland. His rents are not more cruel but more moderate; his lands not poorer but incomparably richer; his tenantry not more but iiifinituly loss poverty-stricken than on the average Irish estate. Upon what principle of human equity c el any civilised Government lend its armed cohorts to exact with writs and bayonets the 20 per cent, which the Duke of Devonshire gives over as a bad debt ? It would be rank hypocrisy to expect that the Irish tenantry would or ought to submit while this gigantic outrage is being perpi trated upon them. If three millions are to be idted, they will have to be lifted by main force, and those engaged in the thieving, be they rent warners or Cabinet Ministers, will hare no more ioral warrant than the highwayman. It is now for the Government to make up their minds whether they will madden and devastate the country in order to spare a couple of thousand cut-at-elbows extortioners the anguish of going through the bankruptcy c.iurt. To that it must come sooner or later. Nothing short of another Encumbered Estates Court tornado can clear the air, if the much more awful alternative of wholesale depopulation, devastation, and national bankruptcy is not to befall us. We cannot believe that in the face of action like the Duke of Devonshire's, Lord Salisbury will undertake the collection of infamous rents, in order that the rich speculators may reap inordinate dividends from wasted estates, and we are assured that a law cf nature is stronger than a fixed bayonet, that if he should try he wiil fail.  Patrick Kavanagh, ironworker, well-known as a dangerous character, was drunk and assaulting people iu the streets at '‘Vedneshury, when a policeman, named Noble, took him into custody. Kavanagh declared that he would murder Noble, and thereupon knocked him down and kicked him almost to death. Aeveral other poisors who retcued the officer were Also badly assaulted. Kavanagh bas beeu con:witted fur trial.