Show I IRELANDS COSTBEBBTIO ITo I-To tlifc Exciting News of the Day Government Developing Some Backbone New York 18The Herald Dublin Great excitement prevails in League circle tonight in consequerco of the announcement of the prohibition by the government of several land meeting which had been arranged tomorrow The me tine thus proscribed as for as at present known are those announced f IT JUilegbrophy and Callohill both in Queens County Howth in County Dublin Dub-lin Nobbertrim in County Meath No official proclamations have been issued up to midnight but there is little doubt of the truth of the above statement It is considered extraordinary that the government gov-ernment should proscribe the meetings at this hour as it may cause i collision between be-tween the people and the police in consequence r conse-quence of insufficient notice The Leaguo officials consider that the government de sires to provoke a row in order to secure the passage ofa coercion act London 19A Land League meeting was held at Mullinger County West meatn today Ten thousand persons were present The town was decorated with flags A mob of 20C9 persons attempted on Saturday to wreck the residence of Mr Downin justice of the peace at Bonni caoian County Mayo after he had served writs of ejectment on eooie tenants Police opt the people back at the point of the bayonet JJowning escaped on a car w Ballina where ho took tho train for Dublin Police now occupy his reidence New York 19lVorlds London A most profound sensation was caused today to-day in London as well as in Dublin by the news that the Irish privy council at its meeting at the catla last evening had proclaimed against land meetings only In Queens County Privy counselors share OConnArs fears of a bloody Christmas evident as I am informed that their action wa based on a dread of the results that might follow the Callo hill mcetnjjj notices of which were posted > thii morning To enforce the counsel decree a force of 1500 troops soo from the Curragh and 700 from Dublin was dispatched during the night As a result three meetings which were to have been held today were abandoned without an attempt at resistance sistance Captain Boycott is Boycotting Glad tone and various flops in the process are watched with equal amazement by the Liberals and Tones Gladstones cool reference in his last answer to Boycott to what the government had already done the LL L nL one for captain and the snub conveyed veyed to him in Gladstones allusion to the exertions made by the government to I enforce tho existing law through the court have led Boycott to address a third letter to the premier in which ho explicitly asks for J2t5000 us the repsra thin due to him from tho state The amount asked is considered by impartial persons to bo small in comparison with vast Boycott has actually lost by his do parturo from Ireland Tories intend to mako all the capital possible not only out of Boycott but out of all the victim > of Boycotting and intend to press the matter in n special grievance against government rnment Heralds Dublin A very significant movement is on foot with regard to tho land agitation which may have an important I im-portant influence on the final settlement of the question I refer to the altitude suddenly adopted by members of tho Irish landlords both liberal and conser vative favoring what are called three f meaning fair rent fixity of tenure and free sale Tho landlords opposition to these measures has been sensibly leaning lea-ning in many quarters for some time The first public expression given to them was during last weak at a Monaghan Orange meeting presided over by Lord Rossmore This meeting made the three fs its platform This action shows on the part of tbe yoang nobleman and the other landlords associated with him a public fpirit and wisdom far in advance of their class Some Armagh landlords have done the same thing Many prominent men English members of arliament have also spoken out clearly on this point Furthermore the London Times which has heretofore opposed concession and favored An out and out policy on the part of England toward Ireland printed on Saturday a remarkable remark-able article arguing vigorously in favor of the fixity of tenure and toe other fs saying the correct way to establish a peasant proprietary is through that plan To properly understand the im > ortince of this change of atitude it must be remembered that fixity ot tenure was denounc everywhere a year ago as utterly inadmissible Anyone propos i g it was considered a madman Of curse the three fs do not satisfy the Land League but if the landlords should gen I orally adopt them they would be going half way in concession to the league Dublin 19Bruce Jones has plenty of I proviions He has received a letter from an official of the House of Commons stating stat-ing that London is teething with indig nation at governments inaction Members of the Land League at Dublin Dub-lin seem to think there is good ground fir believing Davitt will be arrested for not complying with tho coaditions of his ticket of leave At a league meeting in urragh Davitt made a speech Greit diversity of opinion exists among prominent Land Leaguers in retard re-tard to the course to adopt if government govern-ment introduce a Tnd bill which though falling short f f the programme of the league would ubitantially bene fit tenants borne are in favor of fighting it out to the end Others say to reject a good bill would be to incur great responsibility sibility The extremists say if a partial meaure is accepted the quo tion would be dormant for ten years or more and the work would have to be began afresh I and there are now bOO branches of the Land League Sullivan MP speaking at a ilul ngr meeting said their fathers had faced the sword and bullet for Ireland ard Irishmen were not now to ba flight aced by the suspension of the habeas COryU8 act or the proclamation of martial law lawThe The report that government interded 10 prohibit all Land League meeting in Queens County was incorrect The prohibition only applied to the meeting at Callohill which was convened for the purpose of denouncing A landlord who sought tho assistance of the bankruptcy court to recover his rents Two hundred hussars 400 infantry and 100 constabu ary arrived at Calohill on > aturdav with ambulance wagons The promoters or the meeting issued a rctice abandoning abandon-ing the projected meeting at Callohill but > afterwards issued a plaard convening a meeting a few miles off The tro p however arrived on the ground A resident resi-dent magistrate forbade the meeting and slid he woud disperse it with buckshot or whatever was necessary The meet lug was then finally abandoned At a meeting at Curragb two hussars stationed tioned close to tho platform carried on signals with the camp which was close lit hand There were also fifty poicemen in ambush A battalion of Scots Guards Joe to Ireland tonight The troop shipHima lava is expected at Portsmout today It his been ordered to disembark a bat talon of the Hide Brigade at Queentown Bruce Jones denies that he bad a quarrel quar-rel 1 with his laborers and attributes their departure to threats He also utterly dee de-e that he had a dispute with his tenant ten-ant Iii has telegraphed to Chef Sectary Sec-tary Forster for twenty marines and this request has been complied with Lordon 19Tho News in a leading article says Captain Boycotts extrnor dinary claim for compensation should be seriously considered It shows how des perilto are the ventures which are prompt id bv the overm storine desire to die credit political opponent London 20 David R Plunkelt member of the House of Commons for Dublin University speaking at a conservative con-servative meeting at Cheitrficld yesterday yester-day sid government was boand to face while deploring the outrages in Ireand lIe asked his hearers to Ute iuio account the influences which are brought to bear on his countrymen by agitators seeking 10 serve their own purposes James Stansfield radical member of the House of Commons for Halifax speaking at Somerby Bridge said as a member of the commission on agriculture ho had spent some time in Ireland studying the Irish question They bad low he said to face a great crisis and ho believed a remedy for the state of things would be found The Times says Lawabiding citizens have to submit to terrorism which not only defies but supplants law and after ojking long and anxiously for help nova government they have begun to resign all 1 hope and no longer venture to resist tho dictation of the Land League The i cases in which the police are able to convict seem to become daily rover and even when a trial is cured witnesses fear to speak and jurors are afraid to COT vict It is to deliver the peaibntry themselves them-selves as well as the upper and iniddl clashes that the vindicaum oftirci lay becomes imperative Dublin 20The country is drifting nearer to the rocks and nothing u don to save her Jhe wave of agitation sweeps with greater force through the province an l although it is met will a check In Ulster nobody can tell how long the barrier which lOyal 1 feeling in I Ulster impose will be able to withstand the repeated shocks at Parnells hands Coercion ba triumphed while tbe government < gov-ernment shrinks from any attempt to counteract it The Irish land commission is expected to report on Thursday It is rumored that Ii majority of the commission are agreed on the outline of a scheme the principal features of which are the extension exten-sion of tho Ulster tenant riijnt to thH whole Ireland witb the alternative llf compuIfOy purchase with tho view tu the creation of a class of peasant p pdt trs in the event of owners objecting to the extension of the right It is i understood under-stood that Kavanaugh and the OConnpi Don dissent from the proposal and wi1 1 make a separate report The freemans Journal says the sup presion of the meeting at Callowhill on JjnturJay win one of the gravest intrusions intru-sions on public rights and liberty ever committed and a ewes overumnt of postponing tho announcement < f its 11 ontion to > uppress the meeting to the last moment so as to provoke a c jllision with troops |