The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-01-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TEE STATE OF IRELAND.  A Dublin correspondent telegraphs :--The arrest, In the city and the discovery of arms are the engrossing topic:, and fresh intelligence is eagerly enquired after. The law-abiding class feel reassured at the vigour of the Government, and it is accepted that the arrests were not precipitate, but the result of careful deliberation, grounded VD information in the possession of the authorities since June last, and confirmed by the revelations at the enquiry held under the Crimes Act, at which several of the prisoners now charged with conspiracy to murder were searchingly examined. It is believed that the inner circle of the evil-disposed or Dish Nihilists, has been pierced, and that acting on information from some of themselves, the police are on the right track. This is strengthened by the efforts to get rid of arms and ammunition which have been found in the streets. On Tuesday morning a breechloader, of the latest pattern, was picked up upon the roadway in Cork Street, Dublin. Due.-4 the forenoon a blacksmith named Michael Fagan (30), of Buckingham Street, was arrested on a charge of conspiring to murder certain Government Officials and others. Having been brought before the chief police magistrate, he was re manded. On Tuesday the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, consisting of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Barry, and Mr. Justice Lawson, commenced the trial of T. M. Healy, M.P,, Michael Davitt, and P. J. Quinn, on summonses requiring them to find sufficient sureties to be of good behaviour towards her Majesty the Queen and towards all her Majesty's subjects, and that in default of finding such sureties they be committed to prison for such time as the Court should seem fit, for certain speeches which they had delivered at public meetings. Mr. Healy, M.P., and Mr. Davitt were not present, nor were they professionally. repro'minted; Mr. Quinn was defended by Mr. Adams. The Attorney-General said he had to apply that Mr. Mich.iel Devitt, the defendant, may be required to enter into sureties for his good behaviour under the circumstances stated in the affidavits of Mr. Charles Seymour, Bub-Inspector of Gimstabulary, and of Constable Bernard O'Malley. He stated that although there might be some difficulty in maintaining an indictment for sedition on this kind of speech, yet it caused a mischief which it was the bounden duty of that Court, as the supreme court of criminal jurisdiction in this country, to prevent—if there were any preventive power possible for the Court to exercise. He asserted that the Court had jurisdiction, that this was a case urgently calling for the exercise of it, that the ordering of sureties would do injustice to nobody, and would be easily complied with if there were no intention of breaking the law, and, therefore, he asked their lordships to make the order sought for.—A similar course was adopted with regard to the affidavits and speeches in the case of Messrs. Healy and Quinn. On behalf of the last named, Mr. .Adams contended that it was perfectly plain that the jurisdiction of the Court had reference only to a case in which a man came in and swore he was in bodily fear and terror. Mr. Murphy having replied for the Crown. the Court reserved 'udement. A senous affray is reported as having taken plate on Tuesday, between Emergency men and Sherffi's baliffs at Cappawhite, on the borders of the county Limerick. The Sheriff with a party of bsihhi arrived there to evict a tenant flat Led Thos. Dowling, but some Emergency men who were on the farm watching other farms from which the tenants had already been evicted, prepared to assist Dowling, and for that purpose they armed themselves with pitchforks and other weapons. A free fight between the parties ensued, and Dowling was stabbed in the hand, sustaining a rather dangerous wound. There were several casualties on either side, and the Sheriff had to postpone the eviction. Mr. Marshall Lloyd Apjohn, a landowner in the New Pallas district, applied on Tuesday at the Presentment Sessions for a sum of close upon £llOO compensation for the malicious flooding of his lands and the destruction of pr .perty to that amount. Mr. Apjohn had recently evicted some tenants. The presentment was rejected by the votes of farmers, but it is understood the Grand Jury will ultimately pass the amount claimed. A Limerick telegram says :—lt is understood that the police have obtained a clue to the whereabouts of the dynamite that was stolen from the Ballinacurra magazine. It is believed to be in the possession of persons connected with the Fenian society which has Mr. O'Donovan Rossa for its leader.