Year: 1870

KIsCELLANEOUS IRISH NEWS.


(Our summary of Irish news is made up for the mos
| part from the Nation]


| The Late E1ectons.-An indignation meeting


was held last Sunday outside the town of Tip
perary, under surveillance OF considerable
force of cavalry and police. As at the crisis of
authorities were given pretext for interfering


with the meeting or arresting single in


diyanal Dr. cah,aan Of TppsrarH toG6 the the


election had been conducted by fraud, and they


We're resolved to upset the return and make an
exposition of all the circumstances. Mr.. Gill
charged suppression of kilograms of the last
importance; the tearing down of Mr.. Kick
hams placards by the police; personation of
living and dead electors; illegal voting by paid
agents and solicitors, and systematic use of the
usurer and the money-lender. Subsequent
speakers, whose assertions deserve the greater
weight from the courteous moderation of
their allusions to those who had taken the
other side at the election, emphatically de-
clared that if it had not been for the
manipulation of the telegraph in regard to
two specific messages, one hundred additional
and fifty moro in Thurles. could have been put
upon the roll. The filing of petition" said
MIR. OConnor, of Lafana, requires a large
amount Of money! but we viii be equal to the
securities could be readily procured, and one
shilling from every true man in the county
would make up the entire expense" The
resolutions declared Mr. Kickham lawfully and
legally elected, and recommending the fOrma-
tion of aid committees We are Slad to make
record here of the popular testimony of the
great forbearance of both military and police
in the trying time of the election but it is
with deep sorrow and Indignation we have to
say that an opposite course of conduct on the
part of the police has led to SERIOUS conse-
quences in Killarney. Several policemen have
been seriously injured, o number of young mon
are committed to the assises, public feeling is
embittered, and the quiet town of Killarney. 10
crammed with armed men, because the police
authorities chose to interfere despotically with
a scene of harmless rejoicing. and SO excite the
popular spirit to retaliation. Tt is said that
the occurrence has given weieome chance to
the informer to ply his trade. In Waterford,
where the ordinary calendar is almost blank,
about dozen persons have been sent for trial
assault, and the claims already lodged for
damages done to property are stated in the
charge of Mr.. Justice Morris to amount to
many Thousand pounds" Ono of the most
recent exhibitions of popular feeling is in the
case of a young man named Clancy, whose
prosecution for some occurrence at the late
election has gained him the honor of a seranade
by o band Of music.


The Land Bill or RepeaL-Tbe Westminster
Gazette reviewing j. G. McCarthy's work on the
Irish Land, says But there are two remarks
that we venture to make, and which are con-
trmed by the volume before In the first
place, we feel sure that even a good land bill



go great way to do so, it will give the people
security i'm their tenures; it will make them
like to stay at home; it will enlist them on the
side of order; it ewilI teach them both self
respect and self-relance. But serious evil
will still remain to be remedied-the evil of
absenteeism and of a foreign proprietorshp.
1t is painful to go through Ireland, and to
notice what vast estates are in the hands of
men who never even visit their properties.
This evil has vastly increased eince the Union,
and the tendency is for it to increase still more.
Tr,,t1 10 yr,tn mot
have fair chance. And we feel certain that
removed it must be in time. Interested per-
sons, and those who usually obstruct all solid
progress, will resist long as they can. But
since all parties see the necessity of elioratng
the condition of the country, it is now impOs
sble to etop half way and we are, therefore,
the evil of absentecism will be abated and no
other radical cure for this great and lasting
wrong will adequately meet the case, except
that which shall make it the interest of the
landed proprietors to legislate at home for the
country to which they belong. That it will
come to the restoration of domestic legisla-
ture, whatever may now be said to the contrary,
appears to us an inevitable necessity.


An irish Judge on the Jury System.-Lord
Chief Justice Whiteside in opening the Fer
maragh assizes on Monday, made some
reference to the working of the jury system.
He remarked upon the state of the country,
and referred to the difficulty of getting jnries
to agree in certain cases. How Che asked)
could these failures of justice be avoidedf
Many people say that unanimity ought not to
be required from a jury, but that a majority
should serve the same purpose. 1 myself"
said his 1"rdship, do not wish to change from
the old panel system under which our fore
fathers lived and worked and which has been
handed down to us. 1 have been Informed that
certain persons have applied to be upon the
jury panel. In all my life 1 never heard of
that being done before. have frequently
heard applications TO be put Off the panel and
have had to fine gentlemen in Dublin for re-
fusing TO act, but never received snch an
offer. 1 have since learned from officer i'll
the south of Ireland that such applications
have been made there also." His fordshp
went on to show bow the jury system was
worked, and expressed the wish that in crim-
nal cases superior jury should he calied-as
good jury as is usually to be obtained in civil



The DrumaIoor Murder.--We can not say the
acuuittal of the DiumaloOr OrangeHien,
charged with the murder of Edward Morton,
has taken the public by surprise. The as
tonishIng, strange, and wonderful thing wonld
iis il they snys cone Of them had been
victed. 1t would have been quite an unprece-
dsnted occurrence. Experience has taught
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