owards the
cars engaged for them. At the cars, however, some difficulty occurred;
for the drivers absolutely refused to carry anybody but police. They
were not bound, they said, to carry Orangemen, and would not carry
them. This difficulty occasioned some little hustling, but the upshot
was that the Ulster men, a well-grown, powerful set of fellows, were
compelled to walk all the way from Claremorris to the infantry
barracks at Ballinrobe.

The march was inexpressibly dreary. When any sound was heard it was a
yell, and these expressions of disapprobation were repeated at
Hollymount, and with increased vigour at Ballinrobe, where the streets
were full of people. The Boycott Brigade was last night kept strictly
within barracks, not a soul being allowed to venture out of the gate.

The general aspect of everybody and everything in Ballinrobe this
morning expressed fatigue. The Ulster contingent, who call themselves
"workmen," were terribly knocked up by their walk of about thirteen
miles from Claremorris, a fact which hardly speaks well for their
thews and sinews, but in fairness it must be admitted that they were
obliged to undertake their march after a long and fatiguing railway
journey, at sundown, on a muddy road, and in alternate light and heavy
rain. They were also poorly fed, for their carts and implements
generally only came in here this afternoon, escorted by the Royal
Dragoons, under Captain Tomkinson, during part of the distance, and
for the remainder by a troop of the 19th Hussars; wherefore the Ulster
"workmen" hardly appeared to advantage this morning until breakfast
had been supplied them in the infantry barracks. Then they
straightened their backs and stood squarely enough to make a very old
soldier exclaim with delight, "Foine men, sorr, they'd be with me to
dhrill 'um for a couple o' weeks."

Poorly fed as the Orangemen were, their case was not nearly so hard as
that of the military. It is all very well to send "the fut and the
dhragoons in squadhrons and plathoons" to the fore, but it is not
clever to send them to Ballinrobe or elsewhere without tents, baggage,
or food. That furious Ulster Tories, "spoiling for a fight," should
leave everything but repeating rifles and revolving pistols behind
when rushing to possible fray is quite conceivable; but that the
Control Department should always blunder when troops are moved rapidly
is not quite so easy to understand.

By what appears almost persistent cl