Telegraph writes as follows:—Lhe reports of the land agitation mootings are read with eager interest, and the character of the language employed at most of them, together with accounts of outrages, some of the most savage and Vrutal nature, which continue to reach Dublin, serve to i general feeling of alarm at the of the country. Two more murders have ocourred—one in Sligo, and the other in the county of Armagh—and although pears to have been prompted by agrarian motives, they are taken as a further ie it of lawlessness now peasantry. It was observed by the resident prevailing among. the magistrate (Captain Barry) at Mullingar, Ca, Weatmeath, on Saturday, when senteticing two men to six months' imprisonment witl hard Isbour, for sesaulting the police, that crimes in Ireland were of late a common occurrence, and that very few of the aggressors were brought to justice. It was to be regretted {he added) that such outrages should be com: mitted, especially by respectable per who ought to be the first sisting the police in the dete of crime, He wished it to be known that in any ca of the kind, when they con red a conviction proved, they (the magistrates) were determined to ict severe punishment, as the state of affairs in Ireland required such a course. Although the more moderate of the Roman Catholic clergy have at last decided to hold aloof from the agitation and to discount tenance the extreme doctrines of the Land League, their example has not as yet influenced any great proportion of their body. On Saturday, at Kilkenny, nearly fifty Catholic clergymen were present, and although they did not come forward prominently as speakers was understood to give sanc-expressed by the representatives of the Land League, The meetings
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