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dared to warn the victim or give notice to the police. 

 The poor man was killed the moment he passed the shelter 

 of the wall, when he got opposite the iron railings that 

 guarded the entrance to the church ; and no one ventured 

 to lay a hand upon the wretch who committed the deed. 

 Armenian atrocities caused a just thrill to sweep through 

 England, and yet crimes every whit as savage were daily 

 being committed within almost a stone's throw of England, 

 and actually under her Government ! Let it not be for- 

 gotten that it was the publication of the " No Eent 

 Manifesto," issued on 19 th October 1881, and signed by 

 Mr. Parnell, Mr. Kettle, Mr. Davitt, Mr. Brennan, Mr. 

 John Dillon, Mr. Sexton, and Mr. Patrick Egan, that at 

 long last led to the suppression of the Land League on 

 21st October. But the mischief had long been growing 

 up under the very noses of the Government, and was 

 already done ; and, phcenix-like, the National League 

 sprang from the ashes of the Land League, and carried on 

 its career of crime and misery. The Catholic Archbishop 

 of Cashel, Dr. Croke, all honour to him, hastened to issue 

 a pastoral on 20 th October, repudiating the teaching of 

 this manifesto, but it fell on the unheeding ears of men 

 tempted by the greed of gain. The Archbishop of Dublin 

 took even more vigorous measures to enforce his pro- 

 hibition of clerical interference in favour of the Land 

 League, and when one curate in the diocese of Dublin 

 ventured to defy the archiepiscopal orders, he was promptly 

 suspended from his clerical functions. The moment the 

 Government at last showed a resolve to enforce its 

 authority, the great bulk of the people, landlords and 

 peasants alike, were only too glad to rally around it, but 

 up to this point Gladstone had only coquetted with 



