doubt of the wisdom of this policy. A
small force, insufficient to overawe the country side, only provokes
the resistance it is unable to overcome, but a strong detachment of
redcoats thoroughly cows the adventurous spirits of the most mutinous
localities. What threatened at one moment to become a civil war in
Mayo was put down without the loss of a drop of blood by an imposing
military force, and the lesson so well illustrated at Ballinrobe is
hardly likely to be lost in other rebellious districts. Yesterday, the
affair at Pallas came to such a pitch that extraordinary measures were
resolved upon. A bailiff had been shot because he, in the execution of
his duty, occupied the dwelling of an evicted farmer, one Burke; hence
it was decided that a police-hut should be built on the ground lately
occupied by Burke, but, as readers of the _Daily News_ are aware, the
Palladians actually struck against the police, and proceeded to
"Boycott" those "myrmidons" after the most approved manner. Not only
did Pallas refuse to aid in conveying the materials for a police-hut
to a short distance from the railway station, but prevented the police
from doing their work themselves. Yesterday, the whole border-folk of
county Limerick and county Tipperary turned up at Pallas, and the
conduct of the crowd was such as to lead persons by no means of an
alarmist character to expect an ugly morrow. The authorities had
determined that a police-hut should be erected on the spot chosen, and
the populace had equally made up their minds that although "the
makings" of a hut had been brought to Pallas railway station, they
should remain there, and never be allowed to defile the land of
Burke's farm. The police, despite their barrack, which looks strong
enough to bear a siege, were obviously unable to quell the people, and
it would hardly have been politic to let the latter enjoy a victory;
consequently it was determined to employ the military to convoy the
police-hut, or rather its _disjecta membra_, from the railway to its
proposed site.

It was pitch dark at five o'clock this morning, the hour for parade at
the fine new barracks at Tipperary. The air, too, was keen, and the
detachment of the gallant 48th Regiment ordered for service at Pallas
paraded in no very affectionate spirit towards the Palladians. The
ill-humour of the 48th is easily accounted for. After twelve years'
service abroad no regiment would be cheered by the announcement that
instead