IRISH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 257, 7 February 1889, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS.

IMMENSE MEETINGS IN IRELAND. SYMPATHY WITH WM. O’BRIEN. London, Feb. 4. Mr Thomas Sexton, M.P., has returned the levee cards sent to him from Dublin Castle. Immense meetings have been held atDublin and other centres in Ireland, protesting against the treatment accorded to Mr O’Brien. i (FEB MAIL STEAMER] Gladstone has recently written a letter to the Home correspondent of the Tablet, denying that he has at any time recommended that the restoration of the power be made a subject of international arbitration.

The Freeman’s Journal (Dublin) asserts that the Times sent a man to Pueblo, Colorado, to induce Sheridan to testify before the Parnell Commission, promising if he proved satisfactory he would be paid £lO,OOO tor his testimony, after his examination, but that Sheridan declined, saying he did not desire to share the fate of James Carey. Sheridan is President of San Luis, a valley at a point 240 miles south west of Pueblo, on the other side of tha mountains, He is regarded a* a typical Irishman, A witness named Beeves, agent at Cork for several Limerick papers, was sent to gaol on January 14 for contempt of Court in refusing to testify before the Parnell Commission from notes taken of Parnellite speeches. Two sergeants of the Royal Irish Constabularly were elected members of the National League at Mitchellstown on January 14. They say that their action is a protest against the employment of the military in making evictions. The number of policemen detailed to protect Mr Balfour was increased on January 7 in consequence of a report that the Invincibles were planning to murder him.