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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 42, 14 February 1874, Page 13

Another of these painful scenes, a forcible eviction, has beon carrioJ out on tho estate of Mr Nicholson, of KelU, in the county of Moath. The evicting party were accompanied by no less than 100 men of tho Irish Constabulary, under a sub-inspector and a company of infantry, the whole force of which was under the command of a resident niagUtrate. There appears to have been little need for this formidable display, as we are iuforined the tenant gave up possession in a peaceable manner. Crime in Ireland. — Dr. Hancock, in his tenth annual report on tho judicial statistics of Ireland, states that between iS64 and 1872 them was a diminution in the yearly aggregate of indictable offences from 10,866 to 7716 cases. Against this, however, ho has to place an increase in the number of riots and of crimes against human life. The very erudite author of the " Scotifchronicon, 1 ' the celebrated Rev. Di\ J. F. 3. Gordon, has written to Father John O'Hunlon, espressiu,j his gratification with the first number of the " Livea of tho Irish Saints." The testimony of Dr. Gkmioa will do much, we hopo> to extend the circulation of tha g*e:»t vov'i, which is undoubtedly destined to transmit the nair.e and repu'aioa of its author to ait posterity.