et us know, so that we may see you
off. 4th. Are you any way comfortable? Don't be uneasy in your mind:
we'll take care of you. Down with the landlords and agents. God save
Ireland." Such communications as this are agreeable and amusing enough
when addressed to a distant friend, but are hardly so diverting when
directed to one's self. It is also disquieting to hear people say, as
one passes, "He will not hear the birds sing in spring."

Next to open and secret enemies, indiscreet friends are, perhaps, the
most disagreeable of created beings. Unfortunate Mr. Boycott, who
wanted a score, at most, of Northern men to get in his crop, has been
threatened with an invasion from Ulster. The opposition of the
Government to such "Ulsterior" measures, as a Galway man called them
to-day, has at least had the effect of moderating the rancour of the
relief expedition. Only fifty, with baggage and implements, are
announced as on the march, but even this number is a hideous
infliction on Mr. Boycott. He has nowhere to lodge them but in a
barn, and has assuredly not the wherewithal to feed them, so that
their help and sympathy are somewhat overwhelming. Three hundred men
of the 76th Regiment have been sent over from Castlebar to Claremorris
to keep order, with Captain Webster's squadron of the 19th Hussars to
furnish escort to Hollymount, where a troop of the Royals, under
Lieutenant Rutledge, and 200 men of the 84th Regiment meet them. To
Lough Mask House itself a squadron of the 19th Hussars and 100
infantry have been despatched to occupy the ground inspected and
selected this morning by Colonel Bedingfeld and Captain Tomkinson
during my visit to Mr. Boycott.

BALLINROBE, CO. MAYO, _Friday Night, Nov. 12th._

The march of the Ulster contingent last evening commenced smoothly
enough at Claremorris. The dismal little country station was lined
with troops, and perhaps made a more brilliant show than at any other
period during its existence. After the manner of this part of the
country the train due at 2.41 arrived at 3.30 P.M., and it was almost
twilight before the well-guarded procession commenced. Perhaps two
thousand persons assembled at dreary Claremorris, but the small
representation of the country side made up for the paucity of its
numbers by the loudness of its voice. The groans which announced the
arrival of the train were repeated again and again as the sixty-three
officers and men of the Ulster contingent made their way t