Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-13
Ireland.

The Dynamite PlOtters-An Attempt to
Rescue ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the Cork
Distrtcts-A Very Unsettled Feeling.
LONDON, June 13.-Bt daybreak on Sunday
morning constable on duty near Walton
prison in Liverpool, where McKevitt and
McGrath, the men under arrest for attempt
ing to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall, are
confined, saw body of three hundred men
marching in the direction of the prison. He
at once rushed before them and gave warn
ing to the wardens, who at once left their
beds and armed themselves. SEEING this the
men fed. Their object was to rescue the
prisoners Armed patrols have now been
placed outside the jail and military assistance
has been asked for.
DUBLIN, June 12.-The military force at
Skibbereen has been reinforced. The district
is proclaimed and all meetings are forbidden.
The inhabitants however are tranquil.
Cork, June 12-I have Just returned from
a visit to the most disturbed districts in the
south of Ireland, and I find the opinion gen.
orally expressed that the time between this
and the passing of the Land act will be criti
cal for peace and prosperity in this part of
the country. Landlords everywhere are
forcing executions and eviotions in order to
get the arrears OF reuG Which, II Is CA peCtcO
they will be deprived of by one of the most
important of Mr.. Parnell's amendments. It
is now or never with them, and they are
collecting rent at the point of the bayonet.
These evictions, coupled with the arrest of
many popular local leaders, have been the
sole cause of the recent violent scenes at
Scull and Skibbereen and elsewhere. This
part of the country is doubtless in a most
lawless state, and has been SO for months
past; but the fear is that the example of
successful violent resistance to the law which
has already been set the people may throw
legal authority entirely to the Winds and re-
sort to even moro extreme measures.
to more than rioting no one here
believes for an instant. The people
will attack any small body of police who are
carrying out evictions or arrest1ng leaders,
but they will dispense to their homes as soon
any large body of military arrive and wait
the next favorable opportunity. If this plan
is universally carried out it will be more eff
fective than armed rebellion.
Heretofore the telegraphs had an immunity
which was strange. AS an inspector OF police
said to me a week ago, ssIt is a wonder that
they have not yet discovered the telegraph as
means of aggression They have now
discovered it. We shall doubtless hear of
much damage to wires and poles in the more
distant parts of the country. 1t is safe
mode of destroying government property
and<it is very annoying. There is much
gross exaggeration in the newspaper accounts
Of the late riots in this country. This is
because the English and Irish papers are
obliged to depend for their news in the small
towns of Ireland en- local correspondents,
who generally are more than usually clever
farmers sons and shop assistants, whose
only hope of getting kilograms published is
that they shall be spicy and exciting. Every
rumor is converted into fact and fancifully
colored By the time the special correspon-
dents arrive the mischief has been done. Sir