, 1881-12-28

received by MeSSrs, Ransom and B0uyerie,
Pall-mall East, London Messrs. Robarts.
Lubbock, and Co.. Lombard-street, Lon
don Messrs. Cunlide, Brooks, and Co..
Manchester; and MeSsTs. Ball and Co.,
Henry street, Dublin.
The principal operations Of the ~associa-
ton are as follows Sending agents to at
tend sales Of farms and cattle, to serve
writs, attend evictiOns, make seizures, and
perform all the ordinary duties of SheriffS,
bailiffs, and procesS-ServerS, the state of
terrorism in the country being such that
local men are afraid to act placing care
takers in houses from which tenants have
been evicted or in nous 8 in which the
owners, being under the Land League ban,
are afraid to reside; procuring for tenant
farmers purchasers for goods otherwise
unsuitable through combination, and sup
plying labourers, herds, and other farm ser
wants where those previously employed
have left their service through intimidation;
saving crops i'll every part OF Ireland for
landlords and tenant-tarmerS who have
been for various reasons . boycotted,"
FITCH crops would have rotted in the
ground had it not been for the labourers
sent by the association and giving legal
assistance, which has uniformly resulted in
othe payment OF compensation to those
aggrieyed. AS regards the sale Of farms
and cattle, in over 2,0O0 eases the agents CT
the association have attended, and in the
great majority of instances the tenant has
purchased the interest in his farm by pay
ing the rent due with all the costs. The
first of these sales al which an association
agent was present WAS an auction Of cattle
aG Dunnarvan, which VAS attended by Mr..
Goddard, enc OF the founders Of the assoc
citation and a member OF the executive
committee. All previous sales Of this
description had proved abortiye, as, owing
to the Terrorism prevailing, it was iHpCsSi-
BILE to secure the attendance Of purchasers.
The leaders Of the Land League having
gone cut Of the town 10 hold d meeting,
returned to ind that The cattle had been
purchased by Mr.. Goddard and were On
their way 10 Dublin, and Tie tenant
admitted that the teaching Of the Land
League had cost him &400.
as may be naturally supposed, the at
tendance at s&&A sales has been since a.
matter of mach risk and danger. AT
Castle Connell III. Goddard was pelted and
80 much injured that lie was obliged to
draw his revolver iii 5eliae1ence, although
100 infantry and 10 police were present.
At Clonmcl the HlSS9rs had to charge Il G
mob four times. At Char!evilIe two Of The
Property Defence agents were turned out
of the hotel by the proprietor in the middle
OF the night, and Obliged to take refuge in
the police barrack. IN spite Ct al these
difficulties at the sales Of stock, the entire
amount cue has been nearly always real
lied, the exceptions being where the seizure
was not sufficient, Or the cattle were bought
far below their value by the associations
agents, the people evidently thinking that
it would be impossible to remove the cattle
in the face of the opposition shown but
the cattle have been always removed and
s Id at a profit. To give an instance Of tie
ruinouS expense in which the Land League
teaching involves the tenant, in the county
Cork a landlord, in the month of, June,
asked his tenants to pay $3.50, which by
the advice of the Land League, they refus-
ed to do. In the month OF August they
paid at a sale attended by a Property De
fence agent $1,000 to their landlord, Of
which &100 were for legal expenses.
In serving Writs and attending eyictions
terrible hardshipS have had to be under
gone, one case may serve as an example.
A party under the command Of Mr.. Far
rell, an agent Of the association, started to
attend an eviction near Bantry. On arriy-
ing at G"lengariff. some IL miles from Ban
try, in the middle of the night, the party
were refused ears by the car-owners in
Glengariff. Mr.. Farrell and the men start
ed on foot and, with nothing to guide
them but the telegraph poles along the
5. road, arrived at Bantry at 3 O'clock in the
morning. Cars wei. there waiting. which
conveyed the party under police escort, to