The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

IRELAND.  Two more men have been arrested on the charge of complicity in the murder of Lord Mountmorras. Their names are Patrick Heffernan and William Sptheer. Heffernan is a plasterer at Clonbar, and recently married. He was arrested at his house show eight o'clock on Monday night, and his house was searched. Ile is believed to be one of Gannon's principal witnesses. Spencer is also a married man, of middle age, and is steward to Lord Arddaun, at Ashford. He was taken from his bed at midnight. spencer, it is stated, was drinking at Clonbur, in company with some other men, and left with hia mouth on a car about the same time, or a little before Laid Mountmorres, proceeding in the direction of Ebor Hall. Spencer, like most of Lord Arclilauxes ii.vvants, carried a revolver, and as he is rather unpopular and considered himself in danger, he frequently displayed his firearms for the purpose, it is supposed, of intimidating those present. It is sail that he would long since have been arrested had it not been for the post which he holds. Both prisoners were conveyed by ateamerfrom Congon Tuesday morning and lodged in Galway Gaol pending the inquiry."'" As an illustration of the state of feeling amongst the laeeilords in those parts of Ireland where the present agitation has taken the deepest root, it may be mentioned that a Birmingham manufacturer a day or two since received from the vicinity of New Ross an order for a coat of mail for a landlord resident in the neighbourhood. The letter containing the order stated that the applicant had been endeavouring to obtain the article in question in several quarters but had failed to meet with anyone who could supply it. The firm has accepted the order.—A meeting has been held of the Liscaney branch of the Land League, when about 100 farmers were enrolled as members. Several of the latter spoke from the platform, stetting their rent to be double and treble the Government valuation, and announcing their intention to pay no more than that valuation in future.— On Tuesday night ens of the houses on the land League holdings at Ballintaffy was set fire to and consumed. Decrees were obtained at Ballinsabe Quarter Sessions against tenants in occupation. The police are investigating the affair—At a meeting of the Land League held on Tuesday, Mr. Dillon, M.P., presiding, an important discussion took place on the pastoral address on Sunday by Dr. M'Cabe, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, to the people of his diocese, in which he censured in strong terms the Irish land agitation as conducted by the League, and blamed its leaders for neglecting to condemn the deeds of violence which have lately occurred in the country. In the course of along speech Mr. Dillon mid it was a most ill-advised thing for the Archbishop to write anything that would serve to strengthen the ery that the Land League was responsible for the murders in Ireland. The Archbishop had accused them of making proposals of land reform which no practical statesman could entertain. The principles advocated by 100,000 of the Irish people were not those which practical statesmen could refuse to deal with. Attempts had been made to sa.ddle the League with the responsibility of the two murders which had recently been committed. He had no fault to find with the Archbishop for protesting against murder, bat why should he allude to those two murders more than any others ? There were other things which cried to heaven for vengeance—the tears and curses of the unfortunate people who had been murdered during the last twenty years. Were they to conclude that the murder of two landlords was of more consequence in the eyes of the Archbishop of Dublin than the murders of thousands of poor people in Ireland? Mr. Sexton, M.P., also condemned the Archbishop's attack upon their body. The proceedings afterwards terminated.—lt is rumoured in Dublin that the Royal Irish Constabulary have put forward a requisition for 67,000 additional rounds of buckshot cartridges from the Ordnance Store Department of Dublin. It is also said that the military authorities have fears of disturbances in the West, and all barracks are tabs prepared for additional troops.— Lord Plunket, Bishop of Meath, speaking at the Christian Convention, Dublin, condemned the existing agitation in Ireland, and warded the people that if they listened to agitators they would become demoralised, and the country would be a bye-word and a sham among the nations of the earth. This socalled patriotism set class against class, stirred up fratricide, strife, and if not actually applauding, yet certainly palliating the cowardly act of him who skulks behind a hedge for the purpose of taking away a fellow-countryman's life.