but all attention
is diverted from this and other important subjects by the terrorism
which has, only just recently, extended to the county of Kerry.

KILLARNEY, CO. KERRY, _Thursday, Dec. 9th._

The eviction--of landlords and land-agents--is going on bravely. Mr.
Hussey, Lord Kenmare's agent, left Kerry a short time ago, and the
Lord Chamberlain himself left Killarney House yesterday morning, not
in a paroxysm of indignant "landlordism," but "more in sorrow than in
anger." Lord Kenmare, who is a downright resident Irish landlord,
_s'il en fust oncques_, confessedly leaves Ireland with great regret,
and bade his people "Good-bye, for a long time" with no feigned grief.
But he finds the country uninhabitable, while indignation meetings are
held almost at his gates, and the very labourers whom he has done so
much to employ make common cause with the farmers against him in
paying no rent. The improvements going on here for some time past are
stopped, and about 200l. a week of wages lost to the neighbourhood.
The causes which led to Lord Kenmare's departure have but recently
sprung into existence. The _jacquerie_ only reached Kerry the other
day, and already the county is revolutionised. Thanks to The
O'Donoghue and other Land Leaguers, Kerry is now in as unsettled a
condition as Mayo, Galway, Clare, and Limerick. The flame was long in
reaching this remote region; but when it came it fell among
inflammable stuff, as will be gathered from the almost ridiculous
circumstance of farmers and labourers combining together against a
supposed common enemy. Farmers who a fortnight ago talked scornfully
of those who "held the harvest" have, to my certain knowledge,
subscribed to the Land League within the last few days, and I am
informed that those who have hitherto held out will be members before
another week is gone. It is true that additional allurements are held
out to them. The three "F's" no longer satisfy the more advanced
spirits who emulate Mr. Parnell's magnificent vagueness, and declare
it quite impossible that any measure likely to pass the Houses of
Parliament as at present constituted will satisfy the people of
Ireland. Meanwhile terrorism is upheld as a legitimate weapon of
reform. If it were possible to be surprised at anything taking place
in Ireland at the present moment, I should have been surprised at a
farmer to whom I was talking a couple of days ago, and who farms
between two and three hundred acres under an