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Show UNITED IRISH " LEAGUE. (Wth compliments, diiectory Unite! Irish League,A29 Upper O'Connell street, Dublin. John E. Redmond, M. P., president. pres-ident. 24th May, 1002.) A great and enthusiastic meeting was held at Tourmakeady oh 18lh inst., in support of the-United Irish league candidate, can-didate, Mr. Patrick Tuohy of Ballin-tubbcr Ballin-tubbcr abbey, a representative of the United Irish ierne, as against Colonel Blake, C. B., ol Tower hill, landlord, for the position of county councillor for the Port Royal division. Whatever the local influence at work in aid of the landlord nominee may have been, the presence and the speech of Mr. O'Brien would seem to have disposed of it completely, com-pletely, for around the platform and throughout the day he was the hero of all nationalists, who on the 27th will have the decision of the ballot paper. On Mr. O'Brien's arrival he was greeted with almost a phenomenal welcome, wel-come, old friends and young friends gathering around him, vieing with each other to congratulate him on his return and his restoration, to good health and strength. The meeting was held at the most effective position in- the town of Tourmakeady, and bands attended from Ballinrobo (Michael Davitt Fife and Drum) and Killala. TROSECUTION IN COUNTY CORK. Whit-Monday. Today a coercion court, constituted by Messrs. Ulick Burke and McPermott, removables, was held at Miilstreet, County Cork, to try a charge preferred by the castle against the chairman (Mr. Corkerry, J. P.) and two members of the council (Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Rahllly) for the proposal and reception of a resolution resolu-tion dealing with the question of eviction evic-tion and the retaking of evicted farms. The case is the first in which the castle have prosecuted the members of a body constituted by statute for the proceedings proceed-ings of that body at their public meetings'. meet-ings'. . . The removables sentenced Mr. Fitzpatrick Fitz-patrick to two months' imprisonment with hard labor, and Mr. Rahilly to three months with hard labor. The case against Mr. Corkerry, J. P.. failing, fail-ing, he was discharged. Mr. I. A. McIIugh's appeal against the order of Judge Rofs, committing him to jail for contempt of court, by publishing in his paper reports of Union Irish league meetings, was before the court of appeal on the 15th inst., and was adjourned to next term, which, as the counsel for the receiver sorrowfull pointed out, will hang up the order and enable Mr. McHugh to visit Ireland during the Whitsuntide recess. Next day, the IGth. at a meeting of the Irish Journalists association, tnai. body unanimously elected Mr. McHugh as their president for the ensuing year. Sligo, Saturday. Mr. P. A. McHugh. M. P.. who had just arrived in-SUgo from parliament, much to the dismay of the castle authorities, who had anticipated an-ticipated having Mr. McHugh in jail, through the medium of Judge Rossj, visited Sligo prison-on: the 17th inst., and had an interview with the political prisoners now confined there. Messrs. O'Donnell, M. P.: John FItzgibbon, Patrick Pat-rick Webb and Denis Johnston. VISITS COERCION PRISONERS. Clonmel. May 16: Alderman ' T. J. Condon. M. P., mayor, arrived in Clonmel Clon-mel this morning from London, and one of his first dirties wa sto visit, in his capacity of visiting justice, R. A. Corr and the following fourteen coercion coer-cion uj-isoners at present undergoing sentences in Clonmel jail Messrs. P. Fanning, James .Sheedy, Philip Kennedy, Ken-nedy, Michael Cody, M. Delaney M. Gleeson, Con Greed. Thomas Burke, James Hennessy. Jim Gluhan, Con Burke, Thomas Hennessy, Michael la-guire, la-guire, and Edward Osborne. They were all in fair health and spirits. On 16th inst. two members of the R. I. C. entered the premises of a -local shopkeeper at Abbeyfeale, and seized some 700 ballads which had been j printed in connection with the land I right waged by the tenants on the estate es-tate of Richard Ellis. The seizure was made by Sergeant Boyle and Constable Collins under an order received from Dublin castle. This fight, which has now extended nearly twelve months, Is about entering on its bost acute stage. E iotion-made-easy notices have been served -On the tenants for the past fortnight. Ballaghadereen, May 17. The occasion occa-sion of the arrival home in Ballagna-dereen Ballagna-dereen of Messrs. Raftery, McMahon and McCormack, after their release from Sligo jail, was not such as to give the castle or the landlords any reason to believe that the spirit of the people was in any way damped. The greatest great-est enthusiasm was ' displayed, and around the hillsides for miles was a circie of fire which made the common enemy and weak-kneed friends realize the fact that the manhood of the district dis-trict "are ready for another fight and love their country still." The R. I. C. were, as usual, active. Members of the force were scattered round the streets, while at night the steps 'of every prominent man were dogged, and every street corner, cross road, or nook of any description seemed to have held one or two of the vigilant black-coated black-coated army. - ' '. Wcstport The Castlebar rural dist-trict dist-trict council on Saturday, May 16, unanimously adopted 'the following: "That in the interests of justice and fair play, we feel it is very unfair and unjust that the parish of Islandeady should be charged a rate of 3d in the for extra police while there are no extra police needed. We unhesitatingly unhesitating-ly say there is not a more' crimeless or law-abiding people in all Irejahd than these residing in Islandeady parish, and particularly that part situate in Castlebar union." It was against the imposition of this tax on the county that William O'Brien made a successful protest by refusing to pay the tax. . On Whit Sunday the public meeting convened under the auspices of the Inns Quay Branch United Iri?h league, to be held at Blessington Basin, caused ; a great deal of public excitement, owing ow-ing to the obstruction given by the police. The meeting was called by placard, pla-card, and the objects of the meeting contained therein, were to uphold the, objects of the league and to' advance the candidature of United Irish league candidates for local elections. ' The police attacked the people who had assembled, and would not allow any of the bands to pass through the streets. The parliamentary representa-ative representa-ative of the division College; Green), Mr. Nannetti, proceeded to the steps ourside 27 Blessingtonstreet, where occurred oc-curred another remai-feable, scene; Mr. Nannetti hs attempting -to;' address his constituents when' a force of police, under "Superintendent. Lanktree, beat the people right and left. ,They dragged Mr. Nannetti from his position, despite his violent protests. '-".He was so savagely sav-agely treated that after the proceedings he had to be attended by a doctor; He was knocked to the ground and rolled in the gutter, and was finally hustled to the corner of Dorset street, and took refuge in 48 Dorset "street, over the premises of Mr. T. Buckleys from the windows of which he again addressed the crowd, who were however, kept back' in a very violentvfasniori by the police. ' Among the persons injured by the assaults as-saults was a lady.. who was passing the corner of Lower Dorset street. She was seized by a policeman and thrown violently against a wall. Several other I citizens who were peaceably " going along the streets suffered injuries" and insults. . - Several" meetings were held at-different parts despitethe efforts of the police. po-lice. LAND WAR IN THE WEST. Castlerea Thursday, May 22. Mr. T. W .Russell, 'M. P.. accompanied accompa-nied by Mr. Douglas, M. P.. Lanarkshire; Lanark-shire; Mr. EmmottM. P., and Mr.' W. P. Byles, M. P., Bradford, arrived sa:fe on yesterday, en route, to the pt Freyne, Murphy and others of the asso- j ciated estates. Accompanied by Mf. Patrick Conry, M. C. C. they proceeded j by Loughglynn, where the western portions por-tions of the De Freyne and Murphy estates es-tates are, and interviewed "several tenants ten-ants and inspected- their miserable houses. In most cases they found the men and boys had gone to England, and that only the old men, women and children were left. "They were -impressed by the tactics of Lord ' De Freyne and his backers in deferring the taking of active steps against the ten- i ants till practically the entire manhood of" the district had gone to England to earn some money to enablue them to pay the rent and support their families. They then proceeded through a portion of the Dillon estate. - At Ballaghadereen the -party' pro-' ceeded through portions of the Dillon, O'Grady, Murphy and De Freyne estates, es-tates, where the -visitors got ample evidence evi-dence of the real state of affairs in the district. After visiting and itnessing many signs of misery ami wretchedness the M. P.'s returned to Castlerea. ' " Earlytthis morning they gaiii visited practically the entire portion of the estates es-tates not gone over yesterday. In cie most impoverished district, that ; of Meelick, where the women and children were wretchedly clad, and I he houses of the very worst class, a most amazing amaz-ing incident occurred. When the cars were seei approaching, one of the women, suspecting that they carried the sheriff's party immediately gave the alarm, with the result that every four-footed animal was removed to safe quarters, and the suspected enemy groaned, but when the besieged found that the party consisted of Mr. Russell and his English friends, the' cheers were long and loud, and every token of pleasure displayed, as from the oldest to the youngest you could her, "That's Mr: Russell, who showed up the lord before, and stopped the evic tions." The part ynext proceeded to Fairymount district, where, from certain causes the? same spirit did not exactly exist, and it was found that a few parties caught napping had '.heir cattle seized. But, as one tenant said, "It is all for the better, as it is separating the chaff from the wheat." -From there they drove through a highly congested and miserable boggy district, from which they emerged into FronOhpark, where stands the residence resi-dence of the De Freynes in the center of about 1,500 acres of splendid land. What a change hut only such as is to be-found throughout the entire west the good land in the hands of the landlord land-lord or grazier, the bog and mountains in the hands of the. serf. Mr. Cullinan, M. P., when joining the party, accompanied accom-panied bv his escort, was most gratified grati-fied to find that Mr. T. W. Russell And his friends had merited the attention of the authorities, and had their stops dogged throughout the day by five mounted .cyclists. Telegrams were Hying Hy-ing from barrack to barrack- to have the men held in readiness for the advent ad-vent of the invaders at different points. The visitors could not believe before coming to Ireland that such a state of affairs could have existed, and intend immediately on their return to the house of commons to draw attention to the existing state of affairs here. They declare unhesitatingly that the rents are most exorbitant, the holdings miserable, mis-erable, the living for large families disgraceful, dis-graceful, and that the tenants are jus-ti jus-ti tied in agitating to get similar terms to those now enjoyed on the neighboring neighbor-ing Dillon estate. ' Frenchpark. 22d May. Lord De Freyne and his agent, Mr. Flanagan, have commenced to make seizures on some tenants against whom civil bill ciecrees had been obtained on Thursday, Thurs-day, while the bishop of Elphin was administering the secrament of confirmation con-firmation in the parish church, and naturally the tenants , were taken by surprise, as no one dreamt that the dirty work would be begun on such a day. " ' " " - - - " CRIMES ACT IN SLIGO. -. On Wednesday, 21st May another batch of summonses under the crim-M act, in which eleven leaguers were c on- cerned, .was issued. The defendants all reside in the vicinity of Ballinafad, County SLigO, which is about four miles from Boyle. The names of the defendants defend-ants are: Henry McDermotroe of Bu-nadubbed, Bu-nadubbed, John Kunnane of Bunadub-ber, Bunadub-ber, John Coer of Bunadubber, John Sheridan of Corradoo, Thomas O'Gaia of- Corradoo, Dominick Burey of Cur-radoo, Cur-radoo, Thomas O'Gara of Ballinafad, John O'Gara of Ballinafad, John aGra of Corrickhorna, Patrick Scott of Kim-nagh, Kim-nagh, and James Coughlan o Lecar-row. Lecar-row. The offenses charged are unlawful unlaw-ful assembly and intimidation. . Birr, 21st May. County Court Judge J. A. Curran, K. C, in opening the j quarter .sessions court for the Birr division di-vision of the King's county, said - he was very happy to say that there were no criminal cases to be tried, indicating that the division was free from crime. His honor was then presented with a pair of white gloves by Mi. Richard Bull, sub-sheriff. " 22d May The released Clare prisoners, prison-ers, Messrs W. Reidy, president Clare Castle United Irish league: D. O'Brien, s,ecretary;.B. O'Brien. Bernard Lynch,! P. Clancy, Thomas Hennessy, Joseph Hickey, Marcus Harding, James Lynch, D. C, and W. Kelly, met with a magnificent mag-nificent demonstration of welcome on their arrival home on Wednesday night by the 8:45 train. At every station ihey were the recipients of a great ovation. On arrival of the train a procession was formed by those present" to Uiej number of close on a thousand, after the released leaguers had been warm- j Ty welcomed by the patriotic cur.ite, j Rev. Jn Nolan, rwhohad so closly identifled himself in their cause, and, j headed by about sixty torchlights and ! some immense tar barrels, the people made a circuit of the town, until tne i Fair Green commons was reached, where an immense bonfire was prepared. pre-pared. Hero .Mr. W. Harding, D. C, father of one of the ex-defendants, thanked those present for their demonstration, dem-onstration, j |