A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF IRELAND’S CONDITION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2816, 3 April 1882, Page 3

A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF IRELAND’S CONDITION.

The state of Ireland at the latter end of January is thus described by the correspondent of the “ S.A.Register : Irish landlordism must be bad indeed when announcements are made by the society papers that Lord Lansdowno has Jet his town mansion to Lord Roseberry for a term of years, and intends shutting up Boswood, his magnificent family seat in Wiltshire. Ho is to live in a smaller house till his Irish tenants think proper to resume paying their rents, I was present a few nights ago at an address delivered by Mr Gibson, the Conservative Attorney-General for Ireland, in the course of which he 1 T that ladies who had been

y brought up and been accustomed to consider their prospects in life secure, were at this moment ending their poverty in the workhouse. A friend of mine _ who is inspector of agencies for an insurance

I company in Ireland informs me that the state of the country 1 is works- than anything he has ever read of-Bulgatis, in its worst days of Turkish misrule. He writes to me regarding a tohr of several days which he has just made, in the Counties of Cork and Limerick. Of Limerick town he , says , that, it, -is splendidly built, with handsome, quays, but the dead and alive appearance of all he saw, combined with the absence of shipping, sickened him. A lapdr agent on whom he called, showed him: his six shooter, without which; he :never goes out, as his life has been threatened repeatedly. From Limerick he travelled by the night express to Cork, and in the same compartment were several , land-, lords returning from the Conference which had been held .that day in Dublin. They were all armed with pistols—mostly six-shooters—and-the next morning the first thing he read in the papers was that one of them had been shot et r Within| fifteen minutes of leaving the station.' In the same district in the week follow-

ing, an Episcopal clergyman was sum hi* three times on his way home from celebrating divine service. The only' con-, ceivablo reason for the attack was that after being warned, he had continued to deal at the shop of a boycotted shop, keeper. New kinds of, outrage are being committed to./dayj .adapted, as, one might say, to the character of the* district. In ■ Dublin,,, garotting-.: has; come into fashion as a safe and speedy! means of carrying on the vendetta. Two; cases Occurred in «ne night- last . week,, and the victims in both were so bally] butt that they had to be taken; to the | hospital. Process servers have been; virtually frightened out of their bhsi- ■ tees. The two poor fellows, father and; son, who disappeared in the vjcinity.of i Cbugh Mask, are as yet unavenged, - and no cine can bo obtained to their! murderers. Another process-server,who, had gone casually into a roadside beer: house, fell into the hands of a drunken mob returning from a Land League hunt, and was mauled within an inch of bis life. His assailants rushed upon him with their shillelaghs, and' those who had not sticks ran out for stones to nolf Kim with. ■ : Tin rp.nftived ' eiarht

frightful wounds .oh the head,'and his life is considered in danger, A process server named Abram was sitting in bis pwn house about IB o’clock,, when •; he was fired at through the 'window And mortally wounded. The same matt waS brutally assaulted not many weeks ago, and lost an eye. Near ' Ballyhaha', a member of the same! ‘ dangerous and unfortunate profession was fired at and wbundSd, but not fatally . There have been suspicions deaths among ; oardrivers who took employment from the police, or from tho Emergency Committee. Since Land League hnnts came into vogue, gamekeepers have found their duties more exciting than ever. Where they venture to object to 'the proceedings of the trespassers, they are! generally answered with a pot shot from a pistol. One keeper who was thus, fired at has judiciously declined to identify bis assailants. . . *