THE REIGN OF TERROR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3020, 1 March 1881, Page 4

THE REIGN OF TERROR.

Tho following extracts from a private ' received in Bristol from a friend in leto. 0 £ Ireland shows the exciting theSoiu. " life in Ireland:—" .. ■ • character oi - on com ing, I ought to Before you decicu. - 4 s j na frightful state toll you tbat Ireland *.. -i ty many that just now, and it is *' : o n . . . . we are on the evo of a rebelu- retiring The lawlessness of the people is sou. - i n dreadful, and we have had sad work - Kilfinane. The family had all to flee I for their lives out of this, and there is no one in Spa Hill-house except Mrs , , and her two nephews, who are now under Government protection. They have a guard of police in the house night and day. _f r _ as been burned in effigy in several places, his bailiffs rolled in the mud, and his cattle pelted out of the fairs. His family and all who remain in his employment have been Boycotted by the Land League. No shop-keeper is allowed to sell them anything ivhatever, no smith is allowed to shoe their horses, no tailorgto make their clothes, and even no one allowed to speak to them in the street. This is to persecute them out of the country. . . . The tenants say that they will never acknowledge Mr as agent again, nor pay rent to him. . . . The country could not be in

a worse state than it is. People are robbed, pillaged, and plundered in tbe most barefaced way—there is no protection now for life or property, and the Government doing nothing. ... We lie down in fear and terror at night now, and it is no wondor at all.

A gentleman sends to a London paper the following extract from the letter of a friend : —" I assure you we are reduced to the most extreme necessity by the dishonest and defiant refusal of tenants to pay rent. Those who have other resources than land must, as a matter of charity, assist friends who have not. We live in a state of utter terror; no one is safe. You can scarcely realise the position of a Boycotted gentleman. Fancy all one's servants being ordered out of his house and at once going! Cook, housemaid, butler, coachman, groom, all off; no tradesman daring to supply the commonest necessaries of life. And all this tinder British law ! A friend of mine (a sufferer) lately observed to me, ' Better for this country to be coupled as one of the United States —the Yankees would soon stop such ruffianism as is rampant here. May God grant that some remedy is near! We seem to be deprived of all protection from the law, simply because we are loyal subjects anxious to uphold the law of the land."

The Dublin correspondent of the Times, reviewing the events of the past week writes ; —"Another week has passedy .and the country is.drifting nearer to" the rocks, while nothing is done to save her. The wave of agitation sweeps wi'.h greater force through the provinces, and although ifc has met with a check in Ulster, no one can tell how long the barriers which the loyal feeling and honesty of Ulster now present will be able to withstand its repeated shocks. In the central and southern countries no attempt is any longer made to refuse the demands of the Land League. The people whose political' conviction and moral principles are most strongly opposed to it feel themselves powerless to resist it, and they surrender their wills to its dictation, alid lament the hard necessity which constrains them. Having waited in vain for the intervention of a strong and resolute Government to deliver them, they sco that they have no choice but to enrol their names arid give their money to the recruiting sergeant and the tax-collector of the ruling power."