The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

OUTBREAK ay Tvartzmotte.—The Aenagh Guardian
contains the following account of an outbreak at Temple-
more, in the same county :—On Monday last, as the steward
employed under the Board of Works was about to place 15
men, an accordance with his list of instructions, on works at
Carriglougbmore, near Templemorc, in this county, a body
of about 150 persons assembled, and prevented the others
being employed, unles• work was gisen to them all. The
steward consequently was obliged to abandon his post,
and left them there. The police from Templemorr, under
the command of Head Constable Patterson, were on the
spot, and no breach of the peace occurred. During the
absence of the police from the town, a mob of about 100
persons plundered a bread cart of Mr. Joseph O'Keetfe,
a baker. Shortly after this the police returned to their
barracks, when another attempt was made on a bread
cart from Clonakenny, when the men who had just returned
from a fatiguing and harassing duty, rushed outhalf dressed,
and succeeded in bringing in the cart of bread to their bar-
rack yard. The mob, amounting by this time to nearly 300
persons, commenced flinging stones at the constabulary,
whose forbearance was very praiseworthy, one of them being
struck with a stone, which inflicted a severe wound on his
head. The head-constable then sent word of the riot to the
next magistrate, who ordered out six companies of military,
but before their arrival the mob, which had increased to
upwards of five hundred, rushed to the shop of a man
named Ryan, where they were again met by the five
gallant policemen (the entire force of that town), under
head,constable Patterson, and succeeded in forcing them from
their position, at the point of the bayonet. Stones were
also :thrown at the police but no injury inflicted. The
greatest coolness, intrepidity, and forbearance being shown
on this occasion. The mob then went to the house of Ellen
Ryan, where they broke four panes of glass. Here again
the gallant constables were to be seen, and having gained an
entrance into the shop, expelled the intruders, and closed the
door. A young woman minding this shop, received a blow
of a atone an the head, but is not much injured. On the ap-
pearance of the military, accompanied by Sir H. Carden,
Bart., Captains Hartford and Webb, magistrates of the
county, peace was restored, but not before one of the soldiers,
receiving a blow of a stone which cut him. The riot lasted
for about two hours. Six :of the ringleaders have been
arrested.

ROGUERY OP ARMS AND MONEY.—The same paper re-
cords that on Sunday last a party of armed men attacked the
flaking lodge of the-Very Rev. Dean Holmes, near Nenagh.
The housekeeper, who was alone in the house at the time,
was ordered on her knees, and one of the Terrys was placed
over her as sentry, with a loaded pistol on' full cock at her
ear, and threatened to blow her brains out if she moved to
the right or left; they then asked her where were the arms
kept ? She said she did not know, upon which they commenced
ransacking the cottage, smashing open cupboards, presses,
chests of drawers, a workbox belonging to Mr. Holmes,
and every other place they thought arms or money
likely to be concealed in; and after a long search they suc-
ceeded in getting 13s. in silver, belonging to the steward, and
the stock and barrel of a duck gun ; the lock they could not
find, for the steward, before going to mass, had taken his
gun asunder, and hid the lock-barrel and stock in different
places. There was another gun and pistol in the house,
which fortunately they did not find. They then set off the
way they came, by water, and pulled up the lake towards
Curraghmore.—On Sunday night last, about 9 o'clock, three
men, two of them with their faces blackened, and armed
with pistols, entered the house of Edward Nowlan, of Fir- I
moat, Tipperary, and robbed him of 101. 15s.—The residence
of the Rev. Thomas Moylan, P.P., of Castletown Arra,
Tipperary, was enteredi on Friday night last, by &party of
men, who took his keys out of his pocket, opened his desk,
and took therefrom the sum of 711.
Awrtu. Stars or NENAGH.— The number of families
on the relief list of the Nenagh Committee is, says • local
paper, six hundred and seventeen—the average number of
each family is six ; thus making. three thousand seven hun-
dred and two destitute persons in the town of Nenagh re-
ceiving meal under first cost. There are in the Nenagh
Union Workhouse at present between seven hundred and
eight hundred persons; the number is augmenting every
week ; and with the present prospects, we should not wonder
if the house were crowded beyond the number for which it
was built; namely, one thousand, within three or four
weeks. Meanwhile starvation presents its fearful appear-
ance is many districts; and the wail of despair is commenc-
ing to be heard !
EMPLoYMENT.—A Waterford paper states that on Tues-
day morning upwards of 100 men were put to work near
that city, under the Labour Rate Act.
DANGLE or DELAT.—At a meeting held in the County
Tipperary on Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Heffernan said
there was such delay in respect to the works under the
10 Vie., that he would not be accountable for the peace of
his locality.
CORK.—Moat DEATH/I PROM STARVATION.—The sub-
joined letter is from the Protestant rector of Cahersgh,
Skibbereen, in the west of Cork :
"Caheragh, Oct. 24.
Sir —I have read with attention the able statement of your special
reporter, concerning the state of things in this district, and have to
, bear my testimony to the strict accuracy of every particular, with the
exception of his statement that there are 392 persons on the Caheragh
road; there see only 300, and 400 more wanting work, besieging my
house to know when they are likely to be employed. No order has
arrived, op to this moment, to open any other road, though three or
four have been granted. But what I chiefly wish to inform you of,
for the information of the government and the public is, that a man
died on the road this morning of exhaustion from want of food. He
had been weak these two days, and fainted yesterday, and though ad-
vised to go home, and not work this day, he washed to try and get this
day's wages, which would then amount to a fortnight's, all of which
was due to him; the same wages, viz., a fortnight's, are due to every
man of the 300, and on my going into Skibbereen to-day I found the
gyaicnizerk
.bads wunottheone farthing to pay *h
and knowing oer.: Our amwoauticommit share itz
same fate as Maenedy, the poor man who died oyn the road today,
through the khidnem and humanity of the excellent Manager of the
National Bank of Skibbereen, P. B. Griffin, Eq.. got from that gentle-
man 301. in silver, which was immediately sent up to the road to pay
the men 2a each, to keep them alive till the pay clerk should be in a
potion to pay them what Is due. lam quite sure that 100 well fed
labourers would do more work than the 300; but it is because these
300 are unable, most of them, to do a half day's work from exhaus-
tion. Have said hem the beginning, and lam quite sure of it, that
it would have been good economy to have paid the men s week's
wages in advance for the first week, and then exact a good day's
work. Is it not monstrous that our fellow-crestures, under present

circumstances, should be perbblng around and a krtniglat's wages
due to them' I bare heard also, this day, tram the Rector of lltllan.
that two or three deaths occurred in the I.Lind of Merida from want
of nourishment. Apologising for trespassing upon vour thee and
space, I am, Sir, very faithfully, yours, Rieman tunas Wu;
'Lector of Caliersgh."
AN ILLUSTRATION OP TILE DESTITUTION OP TILE Pools.
—On Monday, says the Southern Reporter, a poor maw,
M named Daniel urphy, was seen to fall down intim street by
a number of persons who immediately came to his assistance.
He was borne to his wretched room in Long-lane, when
the Roman Catholic clergyman on duty for the South parish
was immediately sent for. On arriving, thcclergyman:inquircd
the cause of the man's sudden illness. He learned that the
poor creature bad fallen exhausted from extreme want, hav-
ing been several days without tasting any substantial food ;
the only food he had tasted that day consisted of a couple of
spoonfuls of weak porridge. The clergyman seeing the ex-
treme destitution of the poor man, gave him such relief as
rescued him from the probability of immediate death.
DUSGAItVAN Rtors.—On Monday an inquest was held at
the Dulgarvan Ponr-house, by the coroner, Thos. Dennehy,
Esq., on the body of Michael Fleming, who received a gun-
shot wound in the late clots in this town, which took place
on the 25th September last, and who died at the above esta-
blishment last night. The evidence was voluminous, hut
detailed facts which, as they have already been made public,
need not be repeated. The verdict was as follows :
we find that Michael Fleming was one of a riotous mob who were
throwing stones at the lot Royal Irish Dragoons, on the 25th of Sep-
tember last, at Dimgarvan, when he received a gun.shut wound in
the thigh. We also Bard that said Michael Fleming died of disease of
the heart, accelerated by said wounds. We (the Jurors) farther And
that no blame is to be attached to the magistrate in command of the
• military acting under Mtn, who used every forbearanx towards the
' rioters on said occasion."