The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1880-10-09 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  The sale of arms is spreading throughout OR country to an enormoue and alarming extent, a leading firm in Dublin having within the last fortnight sold 1,400 Snider rifles, and in a northern paper there appears an advertisement from a house in Belfast offering Remington rifles with sword bayonets, the " etand " werth £4 Is., for 16s. each. A reducticm is promised to those who take four " sten& " on more at once. These circumstances, the murder of Lord Mountmorres, and the minor outrages intended to intimidate tenants from paying their rents, or taking evicted lands, have excited a feeling of terror among the landed gentry, many of whom, it is said, are preparing to leave the country-, but ethers disilay a spirit of resistance which, if developed, as some of them propose, may lead to a war of c .—The bailiffs in charge of a farm at Tullamon, near Clonmel,havebeen fired at,aome of the shots taking effect and wounding them. The former tenant of the farm, named Sooty, had been twice evicted. After the first eviction he regained possession, it is stated, by threatening the bailiffs, who went away leaving Sooty and his friends at the farm. Legal proceedings were then instituted, and Sooty again put out. A Clonmel telegram states that nine men have been arrested on the charge of firing at and wounding the bailiffs in charge of the farm. The magistrates at Fethard have held a protracted inquiry into the ease. One of the bailiffs, named James Donohue, is seriously injured. —A farmer named Keane, living at Ballyglass, having attempted several times to settle with his landlord, who had obtained a civil bill decree against him for arrears of rent, by offering him half the money down, and the remainder tea fixed period, and, finding his offers refused, called on his neighbours to help him. Some 40 tenant farmers responded to his appeal by arriving at his farm with horses and carts, with which they removed the whole of the crops and stock, leaving nothing to meet the decree. A similar proceeding was resorted to at Loughrea, where the neighbouring farmers cut down and carried a crop of oats on the land occupied by a man against whom an eviction writ had been Waled. —A man named William Murray, who recently took land near Westport, which a tenant had surrendered on the ground of excessive rent, and who subsequently received a letter threatening him with death unless he gave up the farm, found a valuable colt of his in a dying state on Tuesday. It had received six wounds from some sharp instrument, and has since died. Mr. Middleton O'Malley has received a letter threatening his life, because it is alleged that Murray obtained the holding through his influence.—Mr. Parnell, at a dinner in Cork, referred to obstruction, quoting a passage from a speech of Frederick Lucas, editor of the Tablet newspaper, and author of what was known as the "independent policy" in 1862; which (said Mr. Parnell) the Whigs broke up as they are trying to break it up again. Mr. Parnell claimed to have fully forty members ready to carry on Lucas's plan next session if necessary, which seas, he added, "disorderly, disorganising, interfering with every business that may be transacted in Parliament as far as is expedient or feasible; " " decided, unrelenting, persevering, troublesome opposition to any Government." —On Tuesday morning six men were conveyed to Clouted, charged with being of a party armed and disguised who, on Sunday night last, attacked a number of bailiffs or caretakers in charge of a house and farm near Tullemaine, county Tipperary.