I may mention that the parish priest is one of the trustees for the money which is thus being used for the purpose of preventing settlements and keeping the place in a continual state of turmoil.
"Judge Currane, at the January sessions held at Killarney this year, ruled in about fifty ejectment cases on this estate that tenants owing one and a half to nine years' rent should pay half a year's rent and costs within a week, a quarter of a year's rent by June 1, and a quarter of a year's rent by October 1; arrears to be cancelled.

Some of these, owing to non-compliance with the Judge's ruling, may have to be evicted, and their eviction will be what is termed the unrooting of peasants' houses and the ejectment of overburdened tenants for not paying impossible rents.
"I confess I am at a loss to understand how Mr.Parnell's Arrears Act would have improved matters or have averted what one of your contemporaries calls a "painful scandal."-- I am, Sirs, yours, &c., "D.

TODD-THORNTON, J.P., Land Agent.
"Glenbehy, Killarney." NOTE G.
HOME RULE AND PROTESTANTISM.
(Vol.ii.p.

68.) I fear that all the "Nationalist" clergy in Ireland are not as careful as Father Keller to avoid giving occasion for this impression that Irish autonomy would be followed by a persecution of the Protestants.

But a little more than three years ago, for example, the following circular was issued by the Bishop of Ossory, and affixed to the door of the churches in his diocese.