albay in defiance of Government
proclamation.--I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,

ALFRED E. TURNER.

"Rev. P. White, P.P., Miltown-Malbay."

On further investigation of his records, Colonel Turner found it
necessary to follow up this letter with another, a copy of which,
through his courtesy, I subjoin:--

"ENNIS, _10th September_ 1888.

"REV. SIR,--A slight inaccuracy has been pointed out to me in my
letter to you of the 6th inst., which I hasten to correct. It
occurred in transcribing my letter from the original draft. I should
have said that I told Mr. Hurlbert that you stated in open court, at
the trial of 23 publicans charged with boycotting the forces of the
Crown on the occasion of a former trial, that you had told the
people (I believe from the altar) that the town was to be made as a
city of the dead during the former trial; and that in consequence
the soldiers and police could get nothing to eat or drink in Miltown
that day.

"I also told him that this boycotting of the police was by no means
new, since on the 13th March 1887, at a meeting of the
Miltown-Malbay branch of the League at which you are reported to
have presided, in _United Ireland_ of 19/3/87, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:--

"'That from this day any person who supplies the police while
engaged in work which is opposed to the wishes of the people with
drink, food, or cars, be censured by this branch, and that no
further intercourse be held with them.'

"I regret that through inadvertence I have had to trouble you with a
second letter.--I am, Rev. Sir, yours faithfully,

"ALFRED E. TURNER.

"Rev. P. White, P.P."

[1] Vol. ii. p. 376.

[2] Vol. ii. p. 364-370.

[3] The exasperation of the local agitators under the cool and
determined treatment of Mr. Tener may be measured by the facts stated in
the following communication received by me from Mr. Tener on the 20th of
September. I leave them to speak for themselves:--

"POLICE BARRACKS, WOODFORD, _17th Sept._ 1888.

"DEAR MR. HURLBERT,--I enclose you _a printed_ placard found posted
up in Woodford district on Sunday morning the 9th inst. It alludes
to _tenants_ who had paid me their rent,--and broken the 'unwritten
law of the League.' All the men named are now in great danger. The
police force of the district has been increa