Mar, 24.
'A correspondent, who has recently spent some considerable time in Ireland, sends us a copy of the ''Irish Independent' for January 22 last, the comments of which, he says, on two then recent outrages—the attack on the Drombane police station near Thurles and the murder of Mr. Redmond, Assistant Commissioner of Police in Dublin—appear to him correctly to represent the opinion held by the majority in Ireland. On the former of these events the ''Irish Independent" says Raids on barracks and attacks on policemen like these which have happened in Tipperary and other places are very deplorable, and- we ask can any reasonable-minded man see what useful purpose can be served by them. We are sure all sensible persons disapprove of them. Not only are the lives of attackers and defenders endangered, but the lives of innocent persons living! within the zone of fire are also Subsequently to the attack it is alleged that "the armed forces of the Govern-mont turned out a quarter of an hour afterwards, and practi sacked a large quarter of the town, breaking windows and firing indiscriminately into the houses of, unoffending citizens."
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