THE STATE OF IRELAND.
The condition of Ireland may be said to be still one of disturbance, tempered by suspense. The Land Commissioners are continuing their work, but the number of appeals is large, and there is great difficulty in carrying things forward to a practical settlement. Meanwhile outrages continue. One of the newest forms is the institution of Land League hunts, for the avowed purpose of killing game for the use of the imprisoned suspects. The “ Dublin Gazette” gives a return of agrarian outrages reported during December. They were 547, as against 420 in November, and 419 in October. The largest number is again from Munster. A sample from one day's news will best show the kind of mischief with which the Government has to contend:—“Tho emergency committee despatched a man by the mail train from Dublin with a bag filled with writs, which he was appointed to post up at the different police stations in the counties of Westmeath, Galway, Roscommon, and Mayo. The man was attacked in the railway carriage by a number of men, near Mullingar, who seized the bag of writs, and, after destroying them, threw him ont of the window as th* train was travelling along at a rapid rate. Three men have been arrested."
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2470, 7 March 1882, Page 3
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211THE STATE OF IRELAND. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2470, 7 March 1882, Page 3
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