CONDITION OF IRELAND.

Patea Mail, 1 February 1881, Page 3

CONDITION OF IRELAND.

Heater’s summary telegram dated London 17tli December, states:—The situation in Ireland is daily deepening in gloom, and lawlessness nearly everywhere is triumphant. Outrages of all kinds are frequent. The prevention of the sale of cattle and produce at fairs, domiciliary visits of masked men at night, maiming of cattle, &c., and all such acts of agression are believed to be generally incited by private vengeance or jealousy, under cover of agrarian and political motives; but the state of anarchy and terrorism, under which such outrages are possible, is mainly produced by the Land League agitation and the violent speeches of the leaders. There are some signs now that the Land League feels the popular passions are getting beyond control, and with a desire to check them a recent manifesto from the Dublin Central Organization to its branches throughout Ireland, disavow these outrages, though at the same time it declares that there must be no compromise or partnership with the landlordism proposals known as fixity of tenures, fair rent, &c., all of which must be repudiated. The charges of the Judges to the Grand Juries in the various provinces all depict the anarchial condition of the in the darkest color. The English papers are full of letters from the victims of the Land League, some indignantly protesting against the robbery, tyranny, and violence to which they are subjected ; others making touching appeals for help in the extremities to which they have been reduced by the loss of rents, their sole source of income. Public opinion in England is gradually favouring stern repression of disorder, before any measures of land reform shall be introduced.

The last prominent instance of “ Boycotting ” is that of Mr Bruce Jones, owning a large farm near Cork, who is being treated in the same manner as Captain Boycot was, and has to be defended by armed men day and night.