So the bells were violently rung till the butler and footman appeared.

To the first she said simply, "There is a mad woman in this house--go and find her!" "The man looked at me," she said, "as I spoke with a curious expression in his face as of one who thought, 'yes, there is a mad woman in the house, and she is not far to seek!'" But the lady insisted, and the men finally went off on their quest.

In the course of half an hour it was rewarded.

The mad woman--a dangerous creature--who had wandered away from an asylum in the neighbourhood, was found curled up and fast asleep in the lady's own bed! Fancy a delicate woman going alone into her bedroom at midnight to be suddenly confronted by an apparition of that sort! BORRIS, _March 3d._--After a stroll on the lawn this morning, the wide and glorious prospect bathed in the light of a really soft spring day, I had a conversation with Mr.Kavanagh about the Land Corporation, of which he is the guiding spirit.

This is a defensive organisation of the Irish landlords against the Land League.