New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-15
THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
LORD LANSDOWNE AND HIS TENANTS.

| $1,000 600 WAS DISTRIBUTED
IPRoM TIE srECI,L CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBCNE'l
| DUBLIN. Aug. Ia few days ago came back
here from a TWO weeks tour in the County Kerry. ]
| spent fortnight in the search Tor good lrlsh
| landlord" of the class numerous-by repute-in
| England and especially in Parliament but who
eude your search in Ireland successfully as the
| fairies once so numerous--aso by repute-in this
| land of ubantoms and II famines. bad been &C
cused by the organs Of tho arstocIacy here, OF IN
dugng in a wholesale denunciatiOn of the Irish
| landlords" and desired to answer this accusation
| by describing the happy condition Of the tenantry
OH the estates of a noble Lord who had been Sc
ccted by the organs of the aristocraoy as worthy
representative of the virtues of the class they de-
| light to honor.
Lord Lansdowne had Just withdrawn from the
| Administration of Mr.. Gladstone because that wild
and reckless agrarian, aided and abetted by those
communistic and revolutionary Qnakers, John
Bright and Secretary Forster, bad introduced INTO
! Parliament a bil-aptly described by a Kerry man
as a little morse of justice to us"-embodyins
| the principle that property had duties as well as
| rights. and suspending. within limited area and
for short time only. the power, now held by every
landlord in the West OF Ireland Of iinglng out his
tenants into the roadside if they failed to pay their
rents for single year. "ln Lord Llnsdowne,"
said The London telegraph, d" the Ministry have lost
| IL
more important account Of IFS cause. For genera
| tons the Lansdowne estates have had high fame
rs models of management, the libcraity and justice
of the noble owners having succeeded in producing
what NAV be called English content Irish soil.
The retirement of a who has inherited and sus-
| tanned such traditions is not due to any want OF
sympathy with the tenants, but to belief That
| there can be no compensation for the dis
turbance' caused by the startling bill pro-
posed during the past month" TRUTH on
the other hand, attributed his resignation to the
Wing belief that there would soon be redistrlbu-
ton of parties and that matter OF fact this
Young gentleman" "painstaking, but not endowed
with marked talent" resigned Office on the ground
that the Liberal party is becoming too radical !"
merely as bid for a higher post in an administra-
ton that he iancies looms in tho future" However
this may be- it is certain that every Irish landlord
organ agreed that the Marquis of Lansdowne was
| not only a noble lord, but noble landlord.
THE "NUN OF KENMARE"
inst as was celebrating whether should 90 to
Kerry and visit the estates of this noble lord and
landlord | received from the most famous Irish
! woman of our day. "Sister Mary Francis Clare"
cordial invitation to visit the Convent Of Kenmare
The name of the nun of Kenmare is a house
| hold word IN every Catholic home IN Cbristendom
The nun incosed with her letter one or two printed
statements ulStitS' III htilD' OhO VI
them was a letter published in Tie Dublin Freemans
journal. and dated February II, signed by Mr.. J.
Sullivan in which he saws that the distress i'll its
very worst form is gradually sapping the lives OF
our abest bodied peasants and making them in APP
pearance animated skeletons I'm Kenmare! Now,
Kenmare is the property of Lord Lansdowne the
scene and centre of the estates in Kerry where The
London Telegraph had assured rs, the noble Lord
d" had succeeded IN producing what may be called
English comfort"
TERRIBLE PICTURE OF DISTRESS.
"About midday. in Kenmare' says Mr.. Sullivan.
" there were assembled some 800 to GOO men and
women, whose faces denoted want and misery. star
walton being too plainly imprinted Oh vsages which
i'll more prosperous times would have bloOmed with
the ruddy hue of health. This mass Of starv-
ing humanity rushed in evident frenzy to the
eral provision stores to get the dole meted out to
each individual by the gentlemen who form the
committee for DISTURBING relief; and woebegone,
indeed the expression of the face OF HIM, her,
who was too long Kept waiting for what seemed to
be a long expected meal Such a the writer
never witnessed before, although he has passed
through several towns where relief being DIS
trbuted. Distress seemed to have reached its Gull
mlnatng point here; and hard, indeed must have
been the hearts of landlords and agents who can
say no great distress exists when such scenes are
Now, sir, find on inquiry that the fund which
purchases food for this starving population has been
obtained solely by that most estmable lady. Tho
Nun of Kenmare.' The landlords or agents, with
one or two exceptions have not done anything TO
aid her in her noble efforts The poor starving peO
pie here have to depend almost entirely on the
funds obtained by that lady for relief. If
there was no Nun Of Kenmare' many a cold grave
would be filled through starvation ere this"
] remember that last winter the able Irish
missioner of The London Telegraph. think. or The
Standard and the special correspondent OF Dublin
daily journal had reported that there was no dis
tress around KenmaIe, and that this statement had
induced me to postpone till summer visit to the
southwestern counties of Ireland recalled that
Mr.. Trench, the agent of Lord Lansdowne had de-
MED that there was any distress and yet that some
months after this denial, he asked and got allO
cuton from the Duchess of MarlbOroughs COM
Inttee to aid emigration from this very district
ION account of the distress" / remembered that |
had read in American journals a euOgium of the
noble Marquis Of Lansdowne because he had sent
at his own expense, ship-lofnl of potatoes for the
relief of his tenantry in Kerry Why send potatoes
if there no dstressf
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN COUNTY KERRY.
This Kerry puzzle interested me more than ever
did the lannon's 13-15-14 spent two weeks in
solving it, Before tell the details of my studies in
Kerry let me arrange these blocks.
These miserable people spoken of BY Mr. Sullivan
were chiefly the tenants of the Marquis of Lans-
downe. The Nun of Kenmare is my authority for this
statement. The only landlord around Kenmare who
gave anything to the relief societies was the Mar
auis of Lansdowne. lie contributed the noble sum
of f2O-$100-for the relief of his starving ten
antry TO the Nun of Kenmare. He gave her f20"
SAID celebrated Catholic, because he know that
she would not hesitate to denounce him before the
world if he refused contribution. He is afraid of
herr
Tho reason whv the IN efronolitan journalists re-