the Land-leaguers, against the police or against the people. Having travelled for one week with Mr. George, the celebrated author of Progress and Poverty, I naturally heard during that time more of the popular than of the anti-popular side of the question; and it is open to my critics to account in this way for my opinion that the Royal Irish Constabulary occasionally act on insufficient evidence, and work upon different principles from those which guide the English police. Some allowance may also be made for a victim of their excessive zeal. But when these causes of prejudice and partiality have all been discounted, it will hardly be denied that a considerable number of the landlords, while keeping within the limits of the law, have acted tyrannically towards their tenants; that this tyranny has had its usual result in agitation; and that without agitation the grievances of Irish tenants are never either noticed or redressed. The results of British rule in Ireland are very sad for an Englishman to see. October 3, 1882. ADVENTURES OF A TOURIST IN IRELAND. CHAPTER I. VISIT TO THE LADIES' LAND LEAGUE, AND ARREST AT LOUGHREA. HAVING Come over to Ireland with the object of seeing something of the working of the Coercion Act, I had not expected that the police would gratify my wishes in such a speedy and practical manner as has actually been the case. So extremely ready to assist me in my object did I find them, that I had not been three days on Irish soil before they arrested me as a suspicious stranger, and enabled me to judge by practical experience of the feelings of those who can only B |