Widnes Examiner. — 1887-11-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

IRELAND.  Three National League meetings were held at Macroom on Sunday, and were addressed by Dr. Tanner and Mr. Giffin°ly. Three warrants have been issued for the. arrest of the last-named gentleman.  Mr. Balfour. Chief Secretary for Ireland, left London on Saturday evening for Dublin. Mr. Balfour returned from visiting Lord Salisbury at Hatfield only just in time to take the Irish mail from Euston at 8 20. By an explosion, on Saturday, in the stillroom of Mr. Cossidy's distillery at Monastervan, near Maryboro, Ireland, one man was killed and several others injured, one of whom has since succumbed.  The Dublin Queen's Bench on Monday granted the application of the Crown to remove the place of the trial of the men charged with the murder of Head-Constable Whelehan from Cork to Wicklow.  Fifteen young men were sentenced at Kilrush, on Saturday-, to one month's imprisonment with hard labour each, for offences against the Crimes Act The prisoners, after being sentenced, cheered for Mr. O'Brien and the Plan of Campaign. - - •  Constable Thomas Thompson, having served eight years in the Royal Irish Constabulary, on Saturday evening handed in his resignation to the officer commanding the Limerick district, as a protest against the prison treatment of Mr. O'Brien, M.P. Mr. Wilfred Blunt has taken proceedings in the Superior Courts against the Chief Secretary, Mr. Byrne (divisional magistrate), Inspector Ward, and Sergeant Walpole, for assault and false imprisonment. Lady Anne Blunt sues the Chief Secretary and Mr. Byrne for assault. The Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Dublin have countermanded invitations to the Mansion House ball fixed for Friday, as it would be repugnant to the feelings of the citizens of Dublin to engage in any festivities, considering the peril in which Mr. O'Brien's life is placed. On Sunday, a meeting in furtherance of the plan of campaign was held at Liscilla, on Lord Dillon's estate. Mr. Fox, M.P., and Mr. Conway, M.P., spoke. It was stated that all the tenants on the adjoining Murphy estate had paid their rents at Bs.. 6d. in the pound reduction.  • It is stated on very good authority that the Government has decided to abandon the Press prosecution against the Lord Mayor of Dublin, M.P., and Mr. O'Brien, M.P.. for having, with a view to promoting the objects of the National League, published notices of certain suppressed branches.  Intelligence from Cookstown, in the north of Ireland, on Saturday, states that a Roman Catholic priest, on intetfering with an orange drum and fife band, which was marching to Lissan House, at the invitation of Sir N. Staples, by kicking a drum and striking ane of the drummers- with a stidk, was attacked by an •excited crowd, who gave hien a severe thrashing. In the Queen's Bench Division, Dublin. on Saturday, Mr. Carson, for the Crown, applied, under the ,Crimes Act, for an order for a special jury in the case of three men charged with a murder in Longford, arising out of a private quarrel. The order was granted. A similar order was granted in an assault case in King's county. These were the first applicationsnf the kind made.  Lord and I.cly Edward Cavendish, whoare at present staying at Lismore Castle, county Waterford, spent a considerable time in visiting various places of interest in the locality on Monday, including the new cathedral, towards the cost of the erection of which the Duke of Devonshire subscribed £l,