cility to build a house elsewhere, and to supply you with
materials, and the means of removing them, with his own horses and
drags. It has been said that this desire of his might have suggested a
motive for the murder; but when the evidence comes to be given, I find
that you and your mother, instead of expressing displeasure, expressed a
readiness to give up the house after harvest." Here is a man murdered
for merely proposing change of locality, which must be accompanied, as a
matter of course, by better accommodation. This is his only crime, and
yet it is sufficient to secure his destruction. What a grateful people
are the Irish!--how patiently they endure wrong!--and what a picture of
their morality do the details of this horrid assassination afford!

But it is not alone the landlords who become obnoxious to the peasantry,
when they seek to do them good by giving them profitable employment. The
same hostility is extended to others who attempt the same object, if
they endeavour to get "a fair day's work for a fair day's wages." Mr
M'Donald, the superintendent of the Killaloe Slate Quarries, was shot at
and desperately wounded in the presence of three men, who refused to
arrest the assassin, for no other reason than because he endeavoured to
have justice done his employers; and the following extract from the
report of the Irish Mining Company of Ireland, contains the particulars
of as wanton an outrage as can well be conceived:--

"At Earlshill Colliery, possession of which was recovered on 4th of
April last, considerable progress had been made in sinking two
engine-pits, one of which was sunk forty-four yards, the other
twenty-six yards, on the 20th October, when the steward in charge
of the works, Martin Morris, was shot at and severely wounded on
his return from the colliery to his house; and although large
rewards have been offered for information that might lead to the
conviction of the authors and perpetrators of the outrage, they
have not been made amenable to justice. And your board having
reason to believe that the outrage was contemplated with a view to
impede free action by your agents in the proper management of the
works, and having been satisfied, on minute inquiry, that there was
no cause of complaint on the part of the men employed against the
steward or manager of the works; and some of the men employed on
contract, subsequent t