I have only to add that I have from time to time reported fully the foregoing facts with regard to the persecution of this poor man and his aged mother; and I regret to say that boycotting and intimidation never prevailed to a greater extent here than at present.

Connell's safety is being looked after by patrols from this and Spanish Point station." Three things seem to me specially noteworthy in this tale of cowardly and malignant tyranny.

The victims of this vulgar Vehmgericht are neither landlords nor agents.

They are a poor Irish labourer and his aged mother.

The "crime" for which these poor creatures are thus persecuted is simply that one of them--the man--chose to obey the law of the land in which he lives, and to work for his livelihood and that of his mother.