The resistance to the law in the west of Ireland
still continues,. and leads to most distressing scenes. It is necessary, under the present system, that notices of ejectment for non-payment of rent should be fixed to the doors of the tenants' houses, and the people assemble in large crowds to prevent this being done._ The women are put in front, and the process-servers, of course,. are beaten ; and when the armed constabulary support them, the women close up. The constables must then either retire defeated, or charge; and if they charge, some of the women are certain to be injured. At a place called Knockrickard,. for example, near Ballyglas, 400 or 500 women impeded the constables, who charged through them, inflicting, it is said, many bayonet-thrusts. Every such incident, of course, increases the excitement, which can lead to nothing but violence and bloodshed. The correspondent of the Times recommends that the notices should he sent by post, as was done in the tithe riots, and we may add that mounted police ought to be employed. They can charge, as all experience proves, quite effectively, without bayonetting women.
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