TRAVELLING IN IRELAND.

Patea Mail, 30 March 1882, Page 3

TRAVELLING IN IRELAND.

Mr L spbbiit Gladstone, who has been travelling in Ireland,-is od k» have said i’> a late speech of.his delivered at Manchester“A gre.t numberof my iriends nave s: id (o me, ‘We are very glad to see yon back again,’•—as if it was a very dangerous tiling to travel ini Ireland. Now, I will say this with all confidence—that,, for a stranger, Ireland is a place to travel in than England . Although the people in every case knew who I was, and might not have been disposed, as yon may imagine, to welcome one who has supported a policy which they had disapproved, I received from no man .or woman the smallest incivility during the four weeks I was there.” lint as to tne danger that really exists for travellers and inhabitants, Mr Gladstone supplies the following raodificatiop*‘l,,was the. other flay iri Kerry, which" is' supposed to be one of the most, disturbed counties in Ireland. A most intelligent snbinspector of constabnlary' gave me two instances which I thought were instructive. On a certain.. Friday night a certain landlord, who on the succeeding day warn about to collect his rents, ;was astonished iby receiving reports of no less than twenty-two cases, of firing into houses in . one single district. He enquired - carefully into it, and he satisfied himself that nearly all, if not all, of the cages were ?shamsi The tenants themselves had fired "into their : own houses, and into each other’s houses, in order to have an excuse for :not paying rent. That is a thing which, I can assure you, is by no means uncommon at the present time.* - I will give yon another instance; He received a report one morning of six cases of firing into houses. He made, a most,careful examination of the statement, and found- beyond doubt that mischief was meant in one case, and also found beyond, doubt that shots had been fired into the other houses by the 'men who had committed the outrage in order to avert suspicion from themselves. I give’you these instances jnst to show you that you must be careful of drawing ybnf conclusions from the number of socalled ontrages which yon see in the newspapers.”