The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1881-05-28 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  A large meeting, composed entirely 'of women. has just passed resolutions at Loughrea condemning the Government for recent political arrests, and advising a universal strike against rent until Father fobeeby and Mr. Dillon have been liberated. _ _ _ _  Mr. John Dillon, M.P., writes from Kilmainham denying emphatically the statement that the reason why he requested to be removed from the prison infirmary to his former quarters arose from the fact that other Menus were lodged there with him, and stating that it arose from quite other causes. Mr. Dillon still continues in poor health. At the meeting of the Land Leagae, on Tuesday,, Mr. Harrington said that every effort of the Exe. inane to suppress the present movement would, only add vigour and energy to it; and the Government that attempted to crush it by arrests and by exasperating the people only played into the hands of the Irish people in bringing about that consummation to which they had been so long looking forward. Mr. E. J. Hoare, of Castledermot, alluding to the recent arrests, said that though the Government visited the Irish patriots with the honors of penal servitude, or even of the scaffold itself, all the persecution they could indica would not break down the indomitable spirit of Irishmen. or turn them aside from their determination to trample landlordism to the dust.  At a special meeting of the Cork Corporation on Tuesday, s resolution was passed condemning the action of the Government in arresting Mr. Dillon. Only twenty-two out of fifty-six members attended. The meeting pledged itself, in ease Mr. Dillon died in gaol, to inscribe on monuments to his memory the names of the three principal members of the Government as his murderers. The mayor, who presided, was groaned at when leaving. On Wednesday summonses were issued for a special meeting of the Executive of the Land League of Great Britain, to consider the urgent condition of affairs in Ireland, and to concert immediate measures for obtaining an expression of English public opinion on the subject. All the Irish members connected with the League are summoned to attend.  Two hundred police went to Doon, King's County, on Wednesday, to guard an attorney's clerk, who was serving writs. Half the police had to walk twelve miles, ears being refused. Two were injured by stones thrown at them by women. No service could he effected, the houses being deserted. On Wednesday a body of a hundred police pro. eeeded to Seven Churches and Ballinhowen, near Ballinasloe, to protect pro3eBB.servere. The police were met at all points by crowds of people and had to retire without serving any documents. It is stated that the military will be sent from Athlone to aid the police. At Boyle, on Wednesday, a bailiff, named Burnett, who went to serve processes, was chased by the people into a house, which he barricaded. He was taken out, his processes torn, and he was nearly tilled, but escaped on swearing not to serve any more writs, His dog was impaled on pitchforks; people threatening Burnett with the same fate. On Wednesday upwards of 1,000 men assembled on the estate of Mr. Hamlett Thompson, near Banagher, to prevent the sheriff and bailiffs from serving writs for the non-payment of rent. The bailiffs, who were unaccompanied, were forced to return without effecting a service.