Widnes Examiner. — 1882-05-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  Major Clifford Lloyd arrived at Foynes on Saturday, and proceeded by the gunboat Banterer on a tour of inspection.  The boy Meloly shot at Ballina by the police on the night of the 6th inst., during the affray there, died on Sunday morning. This is the only death. On Monday night, at Athenry, County Galway, the house of a man named Madden was fired into. He was wounded while sitting at his fireside. A Parliamentary return issued on Wednesday shows that during April last 519 families were evicted in Ireland. Of these 237 were readmitted as tenants or caretakers. Dr. Butler, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, has refused to sanction the reappointment of the Rev. Eugene Sheehy, of Land League notoriety, to a curacy in his diocese.  The Rev. Father Doyle, whose speech denouncing Dublin Castle as "a nest of vipers which should be burnt to the ground," and was referred to by the Irish Solicitor-General in Parliament, has arrived in New York.  The Feeeman's Journal says that the members of the Irish Metropolitan Police Force have during the last few days resumed their side swords, which were introduced some yEars since during the Fenian agitation, but were shortly afterwards dispensed with. They have not bcen worn since until .now.  The secretary of the Liverpool branch of the Land League has received a letter from Mr. Davitt, accepting an invitation to visit Liverpool in the course of the next two weeks. Preparations are being made by the League for a demonstration on an extensive;scale, to give him such a reception as they think him entitled to. The farmer.O'Donnell, who was found insensible on the railway line about five miles from Trate° four days since, died on Tuesday morning. He is believed to have been murdered from agrarian causes. Sticks bespattered with blood have ben found about 400 yards from the place. Tbree arrests have been made on suspicion. At the Dublin Police Court, on Wednesday, Thomas Caffrey was committed for trial for being concerned wr.1.1 three others in stabbing a young man named Duffy, who had given information to the police in reference to a shooting —••— in the citT. The men entered Duffy's room , and stabbed him.  On Saturday night an armed party visited Crag House ant fired at the caretaker, a pensioner named James •Forde. The men then decamped, but Forde fired after them and shot one of the party in the back. He then informed the police, who on Sunday arrested a shoemaker named John Tubbridy, who was found to be wounded, though not fatally. In Dublin, on Monday morning, shortly before six o'clock, a policeman on his rounds found a loaded gun at the door of Dr. Lyons, one of the members for Dublin City, at 8.5, Merrion,,quare West. The weapon was taken to the police station. It is supposed the gun was placed there as a sigtificant warning to Dr. Lyons, who is unpopular with the Parnel I ite section. .  A series of outrages on tenant farmers was committed on Tuesday in daylight at Ilighwood, near Boyle, by three armed disguised men. The houses of four men, named Mullany, Flynn, Coulon, and Connaughton were attacked. Mullany was so badly wounded that his life is despaired of. Flynn's family were going to dinner when the shot broke the pot on the fire into splinters, severely wounding Flynn's son. The men attacked had cattle grazing on boycotted farms.  A special correspondent in Ireland describes the condition of that part of Connemara which has been the scene of recent evictions. About 300 families have been turned out of their holding 3 within a fortnight. Many of the evicted tenants have been re-admitted as caretakers; but in a large proportion of cases there is neither shelter nor means of subsistence. The people would welcome emigration as an escape from their present miseries, which are due to a sheer inability to pay rent, owing to the poverty of the district and the badness of the seasons.  One of the results of the Phcenix Park tragedy may probably be the construction of a new detective force for all Ireland, the Metropolitan detectives' being absorbed into the extended constabulary department for the detection of crime. The Dublin Detective Division comprises only 44 !non, but the multinudinous duties put upon them leaves, at the outside, about a dozen at the disposal of the inspector for actual detective work. The proposition has been made to organise a completely new system, having a special director—a man of experience and position—and that a very superior class of men should be asked to join. _ A