Violent as are the Fenian agitators for an amnesty, they
seem to have fairly lost the support of the tenant-farmers and of the most influential part of the Roman Catholic Church. The Limerick Tenant-Farmers' League has openly quarrelled with the Limerick Amnesty Association, and at Tralee, Dean Mawe has taken the field with great energy and vivacity against the Fenians, who in their violence have christened Mr. Gladstone "the Gaoler," and have declared in the Irishman that when Ireland again sends a demand across the water "it must be supported on the bayonets of a hundred thousand citizen soldiers, or at least armed citizens." Dean Mawe, thoroughly well as he is himself abused in the Irish papers miscalled "national," loads the agitators not only with con- demnation, but ridicule. He laughs at their treasonable demon- strations, says all the farmers held aloof and a great proportion of the town population also, declares that many times the crowd could have been got together at Tralee for any ordinary piece of fun, apologizes to Catiline as a really formidable conspirator for having called the leaders of the revolutionary meetings "the Catilines of the Fenian faction,"—and, in a word, pours over the Fenian press and agitation a flood of sincere contempt. With a good Land Act and a few more Dean Mawes in Ireland, we should soon have an end of this noisy and absurd party.
