The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duertx, MAY 21?.
There is in the 7Vpperary Vindicator a harrowing
account of the eviction, it is said, of 500 him= be-
ings from Toomavara, the property of Mr. Massey
Dawson. The Nenagh Guardian, a conservative
3oarsal, gives the numbers at 576. It appear that
Mr. Dawson never got any re:Voila:2 Toomavars,
and that the village wu a e for all the
evicted tenantry of the neighbouring estates. He has
Bog levelled the whole village, but intends to re•
bad it. This eviction, on such an enonnou scale,
will cause a vast deal of disunion and amtroversy
as to the real facts. Mr. Massey Dawnes
father we. formerly M. P. for Limerick, and
was Gee of the supporters of the late Earl of
=who used to boast tha named the
Ihr Cork, Ti , and tick counties.
The untlnew of l[r, lisaey Dawns by Chief

Baron O'Orsdy at an election, excited, it was said.
Lord Dios ston so powerfully that he b‘came a
lunatic. It is as for the Vindicator and other
popular prints to de:him sgainst the landlords, but
their condit'on is almost hopeless, and unless they
make some effort to clear their estates of tenants who
do cot pay, they must prepare for the workhouse
themselves.

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The Lister agitation against the rate in aid all
ends in smoke. Last week there) was a great public
veering of the chairmen and guardians of the Oster
unions, and the idea cf active opposition to the Rate
in Aid Bill was entirely given up, and the agitators
contented themselves with protesting against it. So
ends a moat ridiculous agitation.
Ennicrition proceeds with energy. The Limerick
Chruntek says that the quick demand for berths in
the emigrant ships bodes no good for the landlords.
It le much feared test, after the early harvest, many
41 the farmers would (hemp with the rents to Ame-
rica. Some instances are cited by the Limerick paper
of great di.hor.erty amongst the tenant, y.
Church robberies are very common through the
country. There were several cases of sa-rilege at the
Skibbereen sessions, in West Cork, and uwards of
400 crown oases brought before the court. Such facts
attest the misery of the population more than words
can describe.
Twelve months sines the deposits in the Cork Sa-
vings Banks amounted to 400,0001. In consequence
of the panic alma the security of such establishments
the deposits have declined to 264,0001.

LORD MONTEAGLE AND HIS LABOURERS.
In consequence of a violent outrage committed upon
the household and person of Mr. Loughlin Sharpe, a steward
of Viscount Honingle, at Mount Trenchard, his lordship
has suspended all the useful works upon his property, and
transmitted the following address to Cu ccnoemed :
" TO THE LABOURERS AND OTHERS IN THE PARTAKES
Or LOVGEILL, fiIIANAOOLDIN. AND ROBRETSTOWX.—A
barbarous and unchristian outrage has been committed upon
an honest and unprotected man, charged with the conduct of
meat works, undertaken by me with the sole object of less-
ening the sufferings of the poor in a time of calamity. This
crime was perpetrated at the very hour fixed for prayer to
God, and the *fleet of the cruelty was an unoffending
stranger. It was perpetrated, too, at a time when every
heart was bound to be grateful to the Almighty for the
removal of the scourge of cholera, which, but for the Divine
mercy, might have swept away the people in thousands.
In the better times of Ireland, religious feelings, as well
as the hospitable kindness of the Inch heart, would have
' rude each a crime impossible. The criminals who have
been concerned is this abash- able radius are known to
God, and may, and I hope will, yet be discovered and
punished by man. Lock round your neighbourhood and
,ompare your past condition during these years of scarcity
• ith that of Skibbereen, IE, notate, and Seariff, where
hundreds have perished, and where the corpses have laid
unburied. Is an attempt to murder an unprotected granger,
whom only off nee was the desire to act honestly by his
employer, a fitting return for the efforts made to provide
you employment, and thus to keep you from destitution ?
I am compelled, meat reluctantly, to break up my works
and dismiss all the labourers. I cannot carry on employ-
ment where it produces bloodshed and crime. For this it
is not I, hut the criminals wlto so brutally treated Mr.
Sharpe, who are answerable. If you lose the wages which
were distributed among you, if yin are left withcut the
work which I had lard out for year benefit, it is those
(Theism's, whoever they may be, who are responsible for
your sufferings. They must, and will be, brought to jus-
tice, and punished for their misdeeds. You all know the
number of Irishmen who seek and find employment in this
country and in Scotland. How loudly would you condemn
the acts of a gang of anemias who should, in this country,
break into the house of an industrious Irishman, and in-
flict cruel wounds on himself and on his wife at the time
he wee going to his devoion. Ac's like this will make
your name abhorred in every country on earth. You wil
be repelled from America and from Aus'ralla, as well as
hunted down in Europe. Have you ever known those who
commit or connive at these mimes come to good ? The sen-
tences of judges and the verdicts of juries will answer the
question. You tarn away from you the hearts of those who
neck your good; you indispese them from finding medicine
for put sickness, education for your children, labour for the
able-bodied, end industry for yur wives and daughters.
You prevent them from assisting others to join their relatives
who are prosperous and happy emigrants abroad. Above
all—when you compare a barbarous act like this with the
principles of a holy religion, which teaches you to do good
to all men, and to love your neighbour as yourelf ; when
you call in mind how contrary is such conduct to the lessons
taught you by the pious and good clergymen of our parishes,
will indeed find reason for shame and sorrow. A curse
will be brought on your land. It is with grief I write this
letter ; I am ashamed to meet men in the street who ask me
whether it is /ramble that eo unprovoked and cruel a aim
can have been committed in a neighbourhood where, though
the people were poor and in distress, I still considered them
to be hoemt good Irishmen, losing their country, and true
to their religious duties. " MormfAcui.

AN EVIC I lON SCENE.

[Prom the Tipperary Vindicator.]

If was a pi trona spectacle on Thursday, in the
midst of the pouring rain, to see children led by their parents
out from their houses into the street, to see mothers kneed
down on the wet ground and holding th, it children up to
heaven, brie relief from the Almighty, sod strength to en-
dure their afflictions. The cries of 'bereaved wcmen and
men running half frantic through the streets or cowering
from the rain end wind under the shelter of their poor fur-
niture piled confusedly about, were affec' lug in the extreme.
To see amid all this misery ten or twelve burly ruffians
from Nenegh assailing the houses with crow-bare, and to
bear their cries of exultation as a wall yielded to their as.
smith or a roof tumbled down with a crash, the spectator
should be callous that could avoid being greatly affteed by
Ns scene. It was altogether as deploreble a spectacle as I
have eve r beheld. But let me give you a detailed account of
the day's proceedings.
Having heard that the work of ejectment was again put
off from Wednesday, I proceeded from Neaagh at an early
hour on Thursday morning, and arrived in Toomevara at
nine o'clock. The sub-sheriff's deputy, Mr. Samuel Game,
was there before me, sad Mr. Charles O'Dell, of the police,
with about 40 of the constabulary. The scene as I passed
through the western end of the village will not soon be
sewed from my recollection. The entire range of houses
from the cross at the Rev. Mr. Messily, P.P.'s house to
M. Hill's mockoffice, had been tumbled down;and all
were roofless with the exception of three. The wretched
creatures who bad inhabited them were sitting on the road
alongside their little effects, or were busied erecting buts with
the timber of the roof against the ditch at the opposite side
of the road. Sow of them huts, or shanties, were erected,and
here they were huddled In groups. Beds, bedclothes, plea,
boxes, chain, and tables lay scattered about in dire confusion.
It was scarcely ;Possible for one to peas without being blinded
by the clouds of soot and dust. Heaps of sooty black straw
obstructed the way, and several small can were loading with
the timber on the roofs, whilst others were rolling away in
different directions. The inhabitants of this part of the
village, I understood, were tenants of a Mr. Long, and had
thrown down their houses by arrangement, in anticipation of
the*sheriff's arrival, as I heard they were promised the
timber and thatch. Passing en through the village, I
reached the upper end, or Chure.hwreet, where the sub.
sheriff's deputy, some police, John Donohue, the driver ow
the estates, and a posse of bailiffs, had already commenced
the work of ejecting the wretched people from their houses.
Only two houses were taken down in this street ; twelve
families were turned out, and the doors secured by driving
staples into the jambs. The way was covered with furni-
ture and beds ; and many of the wretched czeaturee, as they
staggered about the road, poured out sad lamentations, and
showed feebleness and extreme misery. They made loud
complaint of want to the sheriff's man, Mr. Clasen, by
whom they were referred to the relieving officer, Mr.
O'Leary, who was present, and who, he stated, should re-
lieve their wants, or get them shelter in the poor-house, if
they could Sad ao saw Ilene ef refuge. Poising out of
Churth4leeet. the party ef Wills seemed what is called the
Main-steeet, where, limbs gemi through the usual legal
formality of taking pommies el NOM untenanted houses,
still more pitiable eeraNwON prematal Ikea I had witnessed
in either of the two kraftlarialltfais. Some of the houses Is
this street coMaineil bar eel lye familiar, all In great
destitution ; they were someely half clad, and many of them
bad apparently got up hem their miserable pallets of straw
to go out on the road aid lay their bodies in the dash. In
one instance a wretched looking creature named Gleeson,
with gaunt and fleshle's jaws, and of most unnatural
in and hideous wildness, was pushed from the house by the
bailiffs, greedily devouring some repulsive looking eaboisaar
like paste from a metal pot which he held in his arma. The
goer type of humanity, as he grasped the vessel which em-
Mined his disgusting meal, looked a perfect tenon of
King Famine. !Mks engaged in the tomato
at this side of the street a sound of the • of windows
was heard higher up, when the bailiffs bad not yet arrived.
I repaired to the spit the noise proceeded from, and perceived
a strong and estble bolting men carryiag articles of
furniture out of a hem whisk woe painted neatly, and pre-
sented an air of isemhee in emporium with the other houses
in the village, TM mem Seed sad lookiag around at the
Waiters pal Wilds the deer, he caught up a hammer,
sad esmummai making the wfwiews, from which, however,
be dodstad ea We wain up of Mr. deem and the attendant
WNW He add Wanly, and minim to the crowd made a
lasesatales eempialat He held a bake hones and six acres
of laid, sal NW he wee doing well la the world. While
mualMs he wet else& a blow oa the month by a basher
email Disebee, when lds house, I understand, was in-
turelol. A shout waslims mind, several sea rushed forward,
sa be h Mss, sad the enlist was likely to terminate dime
aware it set he the bawdiness of ohs polka. A Hula
this, at ths lose eta mils asses& Brides*, a 'WI sera
sera* leek pins. The hems was a essolieltild
'Steams of two Mails high, the windows will
sad babe Biking sad kis wide lath dad mairrim.
dew la issm The IMMO held a dad hi her areas, sad
a litlb sem bre bold roultrir. The anima she
oriel Wisely. As the buildipprembeillhdisee palled
I WWI M. sod, throwing limit ea kis Mee maimed,
while the Isere seureal isms bb dads sad Ws
Wart bused 'Sib sektiletisa ci Woos
sr—bers his wife threw het saws woad Won, estrattod
Wm sot to mos, sad kasallag dews handl ea the wet
sad bolding Mr alba uteri buses ohs said,
! Fsrglia, do set tens, bet bilis& el is sad as &Siren