Yesterday week the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland witnessed the evolutions of the troops at the field-day in Phoenix Park under General Sir Thomas Steele.—Receiving a deputation of the Royal Dublin Society on Monday, his Lordship observed that it was to the steady and intelligent exertions of societies and individuals that they must look for the advancement of useful arts and science, and for the development of the material resources of Ireland.—The Lord Lieutenant has addressed a circular to the resident magistrates throughout Ireland, asserting that the state of the country necessitates for the present the continuance of special resident magistrates in certain districts, and explaining their respective duties.
Cardinal M'Cabe has issued a pastoral denouncing the horrid deeds of vengeance which are making Ireland a byword amongst civilised nations, and describing secret societies as the direct enemies of the Church and her children. It is reported in Dublin that a conspiracy to assassinate the Cardinal has been frustrated by the devotion of his own flock, not by the vigilance of the police. His eminence received a warning several weeks ago that his life was in danger.
More murders are reported. About noon on Thursday week Mr. J. H. Blake, agent to the Marquis of Clanricarde, was riding on a car with his wife and a servant named Thady Kane, near Loughrea, in the county of Galway, in the same district where Mr. Bourke was murdered, when shots were fired from behind a loopholed wall. Mr. Blake and Kane fell dead, and the assassins escaped. Mr. John M'Causland of Belfast, was the same morning attacked near Ballyclare, in the county of Antrim, and killed with a scythe; his servant, named Larkin, being also seriously injured. A farmer has been arrested and examined on the charge of being connected with this crime. An inquest was held at Loughrea yesterday week on the bodies of Mr. Blake and his servant, and a verdict of willful murder against unknown persons was returned. The medical evidence showed that several bullets had entered the body of Mr. Blake, three having been extracted during the examination. His wounds appear to have been of the most terrible description. The murder of a constable named Beatty in King's County, is reported; Mr. Ballard and Mr. Geraghty, returning from Athlone on Wednesday last Meek, were fired at by some persons behind a wall, but neither was hurt. A farmer named Murphy, residing near Tralee, reported to the police that he was fired at on Sunday while returning home in company with a boy named Reidy. Murphy resides on the property of Mr. F.B. Chute, near Tralee, and since he went into occupation of his present holding, from which the former tenant was evicted, he has been under police protection. He was returning from mass on Sunday in company with Reidy when shots were fired at him. He escaped, but the bullets struck Reidy, without, however, seriously injuring him. One arrest has taken place. On Tuesday morning, at a very early hour, a labourer, named John Kenny, was murdered in one of the streets of Dublin. A man named Poole, in whose company Kenny had left his house immediately before the murder, has been arrested. The crime is attributed to Fenianism. A considerable number of arrests, under the Coercion Act, was made at Loughrea on Tuesday morning. The persons in custody are suspected of having been concerned in the murders of Mr. Bourke and his escort, and Mr. Blake and his servant.
Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.39