ardly a creature dare do his
duty or speak his mind except the judges. In Court to-day the man
O'Halloran, whose being sent up for trial at the Assizes here
occasioned the riot at Tulla a few days since, was tried for appending
a threatening notice to a chapel door. It will be recollected that the
prisoner was brought before the magistrates at Tulla rather than at
Ennis, in order to avoid a tumult, but that on its being known that he
was committed for trial an uproar occurred, which ended in the
bayoneting of three of the rioters by the police. The man was tried
here to-day, and he will be tried again to-morrow before another
jury.

I may not express an opinion on the evidence of the police; it will
suffice that the jury of to-day did not agree, and that this absence
of result provoked some severe remarks from the bench. Great blame is
thrown upon Lord O'Hagan's Act for frequent miscarriage of justice in
this country, but the truth is that the outside pressure is too strong
for any but a "packed" jury of independent, that is to say
non-resident, persons to withstand.

That terrorism has prevailed not only over landlords who are flying
from the country, and agents who are at least putting their families
in the few places in which some semblance of order prevails--that is,
within the shadow of a police barrack or under the wing of a
garrison--but over merchants, as was proved the other day in the case
of Mr. Bence Jones's cattle. I hear of a similar occurrence to-day.
Mr. Richard Stacpoole, of Eden Vale, county Clare, wrote a few days
since to a firm in Limerick for twelve tons of oilcake, not an
insignificant order from a responsible person as times go. The answer
was that the firm in question had not a pound of oilcake in store, but
that the order could be transferred to a firm in Cork, who would
direct the cake to some other person than Mr. Stacpoole, "to be left
till called for" at the Ennis Railway Station, and that if the
purchaser would send somebody else's carts for it late at night or
very early in the morning, he would probably get it home safely. It
may be imagined that Mr. Stacpoole declined to receive oilcake as if
it were "potheen" or other contraband, and at once closed his account
with the firm in question.

This instance is quoted out of many to show that the art of
"Boycotting" is advancing from the proportions of a mere local strike
to those of an almost national combination against any person who h