THE CONDITION OF IRELAND.

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 329, 23 June 1874, Page 2

THE CONDITION OF IRELAND.

Tin: Dublin correspondent of the Times writes that the roports from the assizes continuo to attest the general improvement in the moral and social condition of the country. In oponing tho commission in the city of Limerick, Mr Justice Fitzgorald remarked that it presented a very satisfactory aspect, there being, in fact, only one case for trial. Although that was one of a serioua character, it did not tarnish the credit of the city, which was the more remarkable after the heat of an election contest. Up thought tho people should be proud to live in what might bo appropriately designated the 'happy land.' Mr Justice Barry opened the fommisMon for the county, and in his address to tho grand jury obsened that as to its general condition, there was no reason to feel any uneasiness or an\iety ; but there were portions of the country, and especially one district, in which faction fighting was still carried on, though they hoped it had disappeared a few years ago. He deplored its origin—drunkenness. Everything had been done to stem the tide of intemperance, but without effect. It appeared from the conslabnlary roportt that fifty-three pessons had been sent for trial for demolishing a dwelling-house erected on a piece of land to which two Eoman Catholic clergymen laid claim. An old man named Condon, who was sick in tho house, carried out and left in an open field, wbero he died, and it was alleged that his death had been accelerated by exposure to cold. J3aron Fitzgerald opened the commission for the County Tyrone in Omagh, and remarked that the constabulary returns showed tli.it the number of serious cases amounted only to 21, which showed a great improvement compared with tho returns of the lust assizes, and did not «<*om lnrge conbidcrui" the extent of the counU. The cases, fa' tiial weie oliidh fjr puity nolb and unlawiul u&acuibhi's