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Show There is every indication that the British government is. determined to conduct a vigorous campaign against the United Irish. League, and Redmond's Red-mond's speech at Cork is taken to mean that -the league is prepared to defend itself. The situation in Ireland at present is critical, and seemingly the struggle between the law, representing repre-senting the landlord, and the league, representing, the tenant, which rendered ren-dered the early '80s historic, is about to be re-enacted. - Large numbers of mounted and unmounted police have been drafted into tfie Counties Clare, Mayo, and Roscommon, and out at Castlebar, County Mayo, the other day, Ccnnor O'Kelly. M. P.. one of the new members of the Irish parliamentary party, who was convicted of intimidation intimida-tion 'and illegal assembly and sentenced to' two months' imprisonment, was conveyed con-veyed -to jail under a strong escort of constabulary amidst intense excitement. excite-ment. - Other important prosecutions are impending, and there has been no such a quartering of police, on the present scale in the west of Ireland since the days of Captain Eoycott. |