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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4339, 27 November 1882, Page 3

Kot withstanding the effects of the Irish Land Act the •▼iotioif still go on without diminutioti, will! all the^cruelty and Wrbwic' auttoundings mhwl ' dis«raoi.our SuXraun^ciTilisation. The PaH Mall Gazette Myg>-"From Donegal, Tippersry King* County, and Limerick ooumw

simultaneously the same dismal tale of evictions, carried out in wholesale fashion by police, soldiers, and emergency men The details are, as usual, sad enough, but the condition of the Limerick tenants of tho Eev. Go»yngham Ellis (of Oranborne Vicarage, Windsor), appears to be the most pitiable of all. Among tho evicted were the sons of two old women, and the latter were allowed in as care-takers, only on tho; express condition that they would not shelter their own children even for one night. For two nights one of these poor creatures had the miserable spectitcle Vefore her of.her son, his wife, and eight, children huddled together in a ditch. According to the Shpriff. the tenants were industrious, but terribly poor, They had tagged to bo allowed to go into the Land Court, but were refused because they had leaser; and all their offers for an arbitration had been rejected. Will the Arrears Act, or any other measure, put an end to this state of things? Yet so long as these doings prevail agitation will continue to exist.'*- .-.-.'■'.'