The accounts from Kerry show that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will
have very hard work if he is to restore the authority of the law there, even as regards the worst class of outrages. Even the Kerry Sentinel (Mr. Harrington's own paper) is alarmed, and spoke last Saturday of "the disgraceful outrages which have been almost nightly committed in this county of late," outrages which, it says, "have no intelligible cause," and which "have not been committed in districts where evictions have been most rife." "The farmers of the county," it declares, "are beginning to exclaim very generally against the intolerable prospects of the future!' "The fuller details," it goes on, "which have come to hand con- cerning the shooting of the man Convoy" (one of the cases of inflicting deliberate torture by shooting in the legs), "gave it a more atrocious complexion than it even at first wore. There was a callous cruelty evinced by the perpetrators of that deed which makes it rank amongst the foremost of those modern bar- barities for which Kerry has got a terrible notoriety." That is pretty plain speaking, and shows that the party which started the conspiracy against law is shocked at the evil things which come home to roost under the branches of the National League.
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