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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 4 March 1887, Page 18

The Empress Eugenic has just paid a visit to Borne. It is reported that the distinguished lady, whilst staying in the Eterna Oity, was received in audience at the Vatican. Jas. E. Kenny, M.P., addressing a meeting at Kilrnsb, County Clare, said that " the Vandeleurs had been murderers ever since 1846." He spoke advisedly. Colonel Vandeleur was a rich landlord in the famine years and mercilesßly evicted every tenant who was unable to pay the heavy rents charged on bis estate. He wect even further, forbidding his tenants, upon pain of eviction, to give shelter to anybody evicted from his or any other estate. Sometimes he paid the passsage of poor tenants to America, but many of his victims died on the roadside ; he would not allow the solvent tenants to indulge in the luxury of chfirity to the poor. Mr. Kenny's characterization of each barbarity' aer murder ia none too strong for the occasion.