LORD STANLEY "BOYCOTTED."

Evening Star, Issue 5610, 2 March 1881, Page 4

LORD STANLEY "BOYCOTTED."

A maw phast of " Boycotting " has Veen revoked, At fir*t, the landlord or tho «gaat obnoxious to the Land League wag thi rictim; then it was applied to tradeemen and serrants having dealings with the denounced persons; but now the system is being extended to obnoxious guests Tisiting at private houses. A special correspondent of the 'Standard' reports that Lord Stanley, of Alderley, an English nobleman who has been spending the Christmas holidays at the house of a frieud in Ireland, has been " Boycotted. " Ennistymon House, County Clare, is the residence of Mra Macnamara, widow of the late Colonel Macnamara, and one of the most popular ladies in Clare. The Macnamaras are an old Irish family, whose sympathies have always been with the people, and until just recently no circu»stftnoQ haa arisen to interrupt this feeling of good relationship. Indeed it ia not even now so much the owners of Ennistymon House against whom the popular morementhaa been directed ha against an honored guest of the family. Lord Stanley is neither an Irish landlord, nor does he lire in the country ; but he has been guilty of the heinona crime of expressing his views on the Irish question in a letter pubj liahed in a London newspaper. This communication not} being farorable to the operations of the Land League, it has been denounced by the Pros* organs of that organisation, and tho author held up to public execration. In hia letter Lord Stanley compared the Irish assassins to Thugs, and for this offence he was denounced at the weekly meeting of the ltcal branch of tke Land Laague, also at a public indig»«tioa meeting; wkile the parish prieat, Father Kewall, actually told the ooneapondent of the 'Standard' that for exercising such freedom of speech in Ireland Lord Stanley «« would hare been kuraed ia aifigy, aad" aomething more." Oa* af the speakers at the indigß«ti<m meeting recommended that should I#rd Stanley appear in the Tillage of Emnisiymon ke onght to be hooted ; and the pariah priest was rehemenfc in condemnation of the noble iordi The natural reault of this inflammatory speakiug is that threatening letters hay© been written, and Ennistymon House has been menaced with "Boycotting." Several traders in the Tillage receiTed notices warning them of the consequences should they continue to supply their goods to the " big houso." So popular, however, is tho Macnamara family that the traders, to their credit, have ref u*nl to respond to the monaces of tho B(.crut coercionists. " Would Lord Staalej be groaned at if he appeared in the streets of Ennistymon V asked the correspondent of tho priest. " Ah, well you know," was the reply, " there are a number of people in the village who might groan him, perhaps •" adding with energy, " But I think a man who libelled the Irish people as he has done deserves to be hooted." With this detestable and dangerous state of feeling prevailing it was thought adviaftble to apply to Mr Eorster for protection. Four constables aro regularly stationed at Ennistymon, and four more have been sent. "Thus," as the correspondent remarks, "eight members of the con| stabulary are deemed sufficient to protect a district removed by a journey of several hours from any town or railway station, scantily represented by the Protestant element, and with national and religious hatred acting in conjunction with the desire to pay no rent, producing a League whoso weapons are terror, denunciation, and outrage."