IRISH UNREST (1828).

=Source.=--_Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel_, by Stanhope and Cardwell.

London, 1856. Pt. I. p. 35.

_Irish Police Reports, January and February, 1828._

_Sligo._--Generally quiet; 1 murder; 7 outrages.

_Mayo._--Perfectly quiet; 1 murder; 1 outrage.

_Roscommon._--Rockites rather busy; apprehensive of their

extending their operations; 2 murders; 11 outrages.

_Clare._--Quiet; apprehensive of Ribbon spirit extending; 9

outrages.

_Leitrim._--Much disturbed; the sway of the Rockites

formidable; magistrates supposed to be deficient in energy; 36

outrages.

_Galway._--Perfectly quiet; 1 murder; 6 outrages.

_Antrim._--Disturbed; robberies of fire-arms; not

insurrectionary; 3 murders; 7 outrages.

_Armagh._--Quiet; 1 outrage.

_Cavan._--Strong political feeling ready to develop itself; 9

outrages.

_Donegal._--Not tranquil; 2 murders; 4 outrages.

_Down._--Quiet; 2 outrages.

_Fermanagh._--Tranquil; 6 outrages.

_Londonderry._--Generally quiet; 1 murder; 4 outrages.

_Monaghan._--Disturbed; party violence runs high; 1 murder; 6

outrages.

_Ulster_ may be considered tolerably tranquil, with the

exception of some baronies in the counties of Donegal and

Monaghan.

_Tipperary._--Whiteboy system prevails very generally; no

organized insurrectionary system founded upon political

feeling; 4 murders; 75 outrages.

_Cork._--Generally quiet; 1 murder; 4 outrages.

_Waterford._--Quiet; 3 outrages.

_Kerry._--Quiet; 3 outrages.

_Roscrea._--Dissatisfied spirit excited by inflammatory

speeches.

_Limerick._--Satisfactory state; 9 outrages.

_Wicklow._--Western division disturbed; considered necessary

to increase the constabulary force by ordering three men

to Dunlavin, and three more to another disturbed point;

Talbotstown the most disturbed; 3 outrages.

_Kildare._--Nothing to notice.

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