IRELAND.

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IRELAND.

:•■■■' .. 0 — A REVIVAL OF LAWLESSNESS. MY TELEGRAPH— MESS ASSOCJATION—COrVniGOI London, April 8. , Lawlessness is in Ireland. The majority: of: .the.- farmers, in ' tho. County of 'Leitrim aro patrolling , nightly. 'In order to protect thoir stock. ' ~ Cattle-driving was denounced by Cardinal Ijogno and other of the Koman Catholic clergy in Ireland, and was reported to havo decreased. A rovlvi\l of disorder , will, no doubt, be bracketed \Vith the advent to power, of Mr. Asquith. who has expressed himself against Home Rule during lifetime of the present Parliament. But opinion!) differ as to the inner motives of tho cattle^driving movement. In tho House of* Commons in Februarv, Sir. W. If. Long, who occupied the position of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the last Unionist Administration, said that, though cattlcdriving had been cheeked, it was not as the result, of. vigorous administration, but of some compromise/between the Government ami the Nationalists, lie dwelt on the incrca.se in shooting and agrarian outrages, and emphasised the fact thai: there was terrible, boycotting. Vet, he said, the Government sat with foh}ed:lmnds when it possessed an effective instrument in the shape of the Crimes Act.