The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

FROM A PASSENGER.

The ship left the dock about 11 o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, and after clearing the Bell buoy, bore away under con-
siderable canvas direct in a course for the CAI of Man and
the scene of the disaster, and at from 4 to 5 o,clock in the
afternoon the island was distinctly visible on the starboard
bow. Shortly after it set in to rain, and the wind increased,
the ship making excellent progress, and the passengers un-
commonly delighted with the vessel and her admirable
qualities as a sea-boat. Night then closed in, dark
and wet, and the wind gradually freshened into a
half•gale. The log was repeatedly taken. About half-
past 9 o'clock we were startled by a cry and active
movements upon deck, and a general fear prevailed that the
ship was in collision with some other vessel. The ship how•
ever had stranded. The night was dark and stormy, the
ship beat incessantly upon the sand ; the breakers repeatedly
breaking heavily over her, and one of the life-boats was car-
ried from its fastenings on the quarter. Alarms and cries
instantly pervaded the ship, and apprehensions were general
amongst the passengers that the ship would break up during
the night beneath the force of the breakers which constantly
burst over her decks. Throughout the emergency Captain
Hosken behaved with admirable self-possession and energy ;
and immediately after the ship struck went down below;
and, by his assurances, quieted the excited apprehensions of
the passengers. His efforts were successful. A portion of
the passengers returned to their berths and slept until
morning. The anxious hours of darkness being passed,
towards daylight preparations were made to land the pas-
sengers and their luggaage, and then it was discovered that
the chip had struck upon the soft sandy beach of Dundrum
Bay, near the watchhouse of Tyrella, a little to the west of
the Cow and Calf Rocks. Providentially the vessel
cleared these 'dangerous spots ; for, had it been otherwise,
it is more than probable that few, if any, would have escaped.
The landing of the passengers was accomplished between the
hours of 5 and 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and from
the protected position of the ship, and the nature of the
beach, with perfect safety ; and a number of them afterwards,
with their luggage, which was protected by the arrival of a
magistrate with a body of police, departed, and dispersed to
the neighbouring towns of Downpatrick, Dundalk, Newry,
and Belfast. Several of them have since returned to Liver-
pool by the channel steamers. The Irish on the spot behaved
hke savages.
The steamer is high on the beach in but a few inches of
water, in an oblique direction, heading north-east, and
would appear to have sustained little damage. No leakage
has been observed, and no particular injury is ea far known
to have been received, excepting the loss of her rudder and
the bending of her propelling fans. No effort will be made
until the next spring tides, early in October, to get her off ;
but meanwhile every effort is being made to render her
position as secure as possible. The absurd statement eireu•
lated in Belfast, that her " coals" were " floated out" through
her bottom is wholly. untrue.
These are the principal features of the disaster. Of the
captain and his vessel I and the passengers unanimously can
speak in no other than the highest terms. The ship, pre-
viously to her striking, displayed in the gale the most admi-
rable qualities as a sea-boat, and the captain, subsequently to
that occurrence, acted as well as man could act, placed in a
situation such as his. But the cause of the disaster we can-
not explain: and though many surmises and statements are
aloft, yet it would be wrong and injudicious to give these
unfounded statements credit.
The following is the agent's letter :
" Great Britain steamship, Landrum Bay, Sept. 23.
" Sir,—l reached here in consequence of an express having
been forwarded to me at Warrenpoint of the Great Britain
steam-ship being on shore off Tyrella, and close to the watch-
house. I have only time to refer you to Capt. Hoaken's letter
to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.—ln haste, &c.,
" LEONARD MARTIN.

" Mr. Court, Underwriters'-rooms."
The Great Britain's letter•bag was brought back to
Liverpool by the steamer Sea King, and will, in the usual
course of the Post-office regulations, be forwarded to New
York by the John, R. Skiddy, to sail on Saturday, unless
the postmaster receives instructions to the contrary from
London.

Gore's Advertiser, of this day, in a second edition, pub-
lishes the following account:—
" We regret to have to announce that a very unfortunate
accident happened to the steam-ship Great Britain, about
eight o'clock on the night of Tuesday last. The partit ulars,
so far as they have yet been learned, are extremely meagre,
but the facts we are enabled to pnblish have been derived
from the most authentic sources.
‘• It will be recollected that the Great Britain left Liver-
pool for New York at eleven o'clock on Tuesday forenoon,
with the largest number of passenger (upwards of 180) that
every crossed the Atlantic in any steamer. She sailed south
of the Isle of Man, the intention of Captain Hosken being to
run up the Irish Channel, and to reach the Atlantic by the
northern coast of Ireland. She made extraordinary way
after clearing the harbour of Liverpool ; indeed, all accounts
agree in showing that she went at the unusually rapid rate of
131 knots an hour. There can be very little doubt that she
steamed most rapidly, for in nine hours and a half after
leaving our quays she struck on the Irish coast.
" Many rumours prevail as to the cause of the accident.
Some say that the reckoning was badly kept, and others that
the light off Dundrum Bay was taken for some other light.
We believe, from what we have heard, that the latter was
the real cause of the disaster. Certain it is, at all events, that
at the hour we have mentioned (about 8 o'clock, p.m.) she
ran on shore on the main land near the Cow and Calf, as it is
called, in Dundrum Bay. This bay is situated on the eastern
coast of Ireland, and was the scene a few years since of one
or two dreadful wrecks. It lies almost immediately op rte
the southern shores of the Isle of Man, and is about halfway
between Belfast and Drogheda.
" The passengers and crew, we are rejoiced to say, were
all landed in perfect safety. By means of jaunting cars,
horses, carts, sad other conveyances, the maprity of them
reached Belfast, and several of them arrived in Liverpool and
Fleetwood this morning, by the Sea King sad Maiden City
steamers. More, if not all of them, are expected to reach
here to-morrow, sad in the mean time prompt communica-
tion will be had by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., the
Liverpool agents for the Great Britain, with the directors in
Bristol. The Sea King brought back the Great Britain's
mail bags, which will be despatched to America by the next
steamer.
" There was naturally a very great confusion and conster-
nation on board when the vessel struck, but through the
active exertions and timely counsel of Captain Hosken, all
fears for personal safety were quickly subdued, and the pas-
sengers, as we have said, were quickly landed, and with as
much expedition as the unexpected nature of the circum-
stances would admit of.
" The Great Britain, it is thought, will be got off, but as
yet nothing very positive on this point can be stated. A let-

ter from Captain Hosken reached Mews. Gibbs, Bright, and
Co., this morning, detailing the calamity, and bi ietly giving
his opinion as to the probability of getting her off. The sea
was making a complete breach over her after she struck, but
the situp was perfectly tight.
" The intelligence of the accident created a great sensation
on 'Change to-day, and those of the passengers who had
come over by the Belfast steamers were egerly sought after
to learn the particulars from them. We are happy to have
it in our power, by the publication of this edition, to satisfy
a multitude of inquiries, and to allay the apprehensions of
those who had friends and relatives on board.

" [There is no truth in the report which prerni!cd in the
town about an hour ago that Captain Hoskeu had anis cd in
Liverpool by the Newry steamer.'"

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
_ RAILWAY.

FARRINGDON, THCIUMAY EVENING.
This being the day to which the inquest on the bodies of
James Bonner and Paul Broome Sergeant, who w, re killed
near this station on Monday evening, was adjourned, the
Coroner, on the assembling of the jury at the Prince of
Wales public-house, at eleven o'clock, a.m., informed them
that he had caused a gentleman of great skill and experience
to he summoned, to give evidence upon those points which
the jury had expressed a desire to be informed upon. That
gentleman was Mr. Bash, of the firm of Bush and Beddoe,
of Bristol, engineers, and he would now go with the jury
to see the locality at which the accident occurred, and exa-
mine the carriage, van, &c., concerned in it. The wheels,
springs, buffers, and all other underworks of the van, were
piled together in a heap, several of them being broken,
while the body of the van, which was comparatively little
injured, was placed upon wooden supports. The pas-
sengers' carriage preseuted at one end a mass of
debris, the two first compartments having been en-
tirely destroyed. The edge of the broken roof was stained
with the blood of one of the deceased, who, as appeared
from the evidence had been absolutely decapitated. The
position of the carriages at the moment of the accident was
this—the engine and tender were detached from the rest of
the train, and were proceeding slowly to the platform of the
station, which i- about sixty yards from the bridge where
the shock and the accident took place. The van which had
been attached te the tender, not by chains, us in the ease of
the carriages, but by a screw only, was more perpendicular
than horizontal, the front part, or that next to the tender,
being on the ground, and the hind part so much raised as to
come in contact with the bridge ; while immediately behind
and under it lay the fatal carriage, containing the lifeless
bodies of Bonin!. and Sergeant. None of the witnesses could
undertake to explain the cause of the separation of the engine
from the train—once separated, it was easy to perceive that
the engine might iret a little in advance, be suddenly stopped,
and then be run into by the train, which still preserved its
progressive movement.
Oa the return of the jury the examination of the remain-
iug witnesses was proceeded with.
Mr. H. Stevens said—l am superintendent of the Farring-
don-road station. I was on the platform of the down line on
Monday evening when the train was coming in, and was
sufficiently near to see what happened. Just as the train
passed under the bridge, I heard a crash, and immediately
ran forward to the edge of the platform, saw the fire flying
out at each side of the train, and the luggage van raised
upon the first passenger carriage. The engine bad run about
twenty yards ahead of the train. I did not see it break
away at the moment of the crash, but I have no doubt it did.
The whole of the van, except the partitions, is composed of
iron. The entire body of the passenger carriage is made of
wood, having no protection but the buffers. The van con-
tained about fifteen cwt of bullion, judging from one box out
of ten which was left behind, together with passengers' lug-
gaee. It was nearly full.
Mr. R. Fuller, a dirk at the Farringdon station, was also
on the down platform at the time of the accident, and saw,
ut the same moment that lie heard the shock, something rise
in the air, which he afterwards ascertained to be the van, the
off sire spring of which was broken. The effect of that would
be to tilt the hind part upwards. Ile knew of •sothing which
could account fur the breaking of the spring. He was quite
satisfied that the entire accident, including the death of de-
ceased, occurred instantaneously ; and, without having any
erientifie knowledge of the construction of these vehicles, he
assumed, from general observation, that the breaking of the
spring caused the van to sink in front, and tilt up behind.
Ile could not say that that alone would raise it to the height
at which be saw it, being about six feet in the air. lie
should say that the bridge was about five feet higher than
the van, when in its proper position.
Robert Matthews, the policeman of the station, was pass.
ing under the bridge, to go to the signal post, at the moment
of the accident, but was so instantly enveloped in smoke and
dust, that he could not see, and could not at the time tell
what had occasioned the shock or the accident.

Mr. W. Barker, the surgeon who was sent for on Monday
night, said that Bonner's desh, whose body he saw in the
refreshment room, was caused by dislocation of the vertebra
of the neck. He found Sergeant in the passengers' carriage,
in an erect posture, with his back to the engine, his arm ex-
tended through the roof, and his head severed from his body
by a force acting from the front backwards and upwards, or
in other words commencing under the thin, and passing
thence to the upper part of the occipital bone. The head
was some distance on the outside of the carriage.
Mr T. Bush.—l am a partner in the firm of Bush and
Beildoe, of Bristol, engineers. I have examined the line
from beyond the bridge to the platform, and found for about
twenty feet a slight indenture in the permanent timbers,
caused by two wheels being off the line. I have seen and
elmely examined the passenger carriage, the van, its buffers,
springs, and iron-work, with the exception of one connection,
which more properly belongs to the tender. The front and
back of the van is iron, the sides wood, and it is similar to
many in common use on the line. Sometimes they
are meet: of all iron, sometimes of all wood, and
having generally, like this, only four wheels. I found
the springs and iron work in a sound state, and could
not discover any appearance of blow or old fracture.
The springs are composed of spring-steel, fastened in an iron
box in the centre. I did not observe that anything connect-
ing the spring. was broken. The axles attached to the
springs is wrought iron, and sustained no damage. The
I hangings which were broken are made of cast-iron, and are
often used in luggage vans and carriage trucks, but not in
passenger carriages. Wrought iron is no doubt safer than
east iron ; but I do not attribute the accident to the break-
ing of the hangings. If I were going to make a van of the
description in question, I would undoubtedly, if the expense
were not to be considered, make the hangings of wrought
iron. In the event, however, of the cast iron hangings or
brackets, as we call them, breaking, the only result would be
that the carriage would drop on the axle box and run without
springs free from danger. As far as lam able to judge from
the examination I have made, I would say, that the springs of
the van did not give way in consequence of the weight upon
them, but that from some cause which I cannot explain, and
could nut without having been present at the accident, the
screw connection between the van and tender gave way, the
engine and ender then went off together, and on being
stopped or checked, were run into by the train ; and as in all
such eases, the vehicles are likely to override each other, or
to rise just as would a stick if pressed equally at both ends,
so I can account in no other way for the van rising from be-
hind, and coming in contact with the bridge. I am
strengthened in this opinion by the apjearance of the springs
and brackets, as they have been broken by an action directly
the reverse of that which would have been used if they were
broken by the weight of the carriage or its contents.
1 attribute the whole accident to the breaking of the screw
connection between the tender and the van. Between all
the other carriages there are chains, but it has been thought
unwise to pat chains to the engine or teuder, as in the event
of its getting off the line it would drag all the carriages with
it. The van could not have got against the bridge unless it
had been tilted up as I have described, and the mere break-
ing of a spring could not have done that. If the engine had
been suddenly stopped just as it was coming through the
bridge it would not have sufficed to produce such an acci-
dent. How the screw was broken it is impossible for me to
say. Unless I knew the previous state of the screw con-
nection I could not undertake to say that it was purely
accidental. That connexion might have been broken at the
tine when the steam was first let off, and, on the engine
being checked at the bridge, the luggage van, with the train
of carriages, following by the force of their own weight and
impetus, might have run into the tender, and thereby raised
the van into the air so as to strike against the bridge and
produced the crash which has been described. How the
screw was broken it is impossible for me to say. It might
be done by the steam being suddenly turned on.
Mr. J. Gibson, of Paddington, superintendent of the car-
riage department, said that every carriage and van
is screwed up, greased, and properly examined at
Paddington, before the train starts. They are likewise
greased and examined at several stations on the line, by men
appointed for the purpose. The connecting link between
the tender and van would also be examined in a general
way, but is is not greased. If anything were wrong with
it, he thought it would have been seen at Didcot. He
agreed in opinion with the last witness as to the cause of
the accident, but wished to state in addition that in vans
and trucks having east-iron hangings or brackets, the axle-
guard is formed to touch the boxes at either side, and lead
or drag the wheels, so that no lateral or longitudinal strain
could come upon those cast-iron brackets. He wished
also to observe, that all the carriages of the com-
pany were of such a construction, that if every spring
were broken from under the company's carriages, they
would still proceed without danger, and only become less
easy.
The coroner having summed up the evidence, and express-
ed it as his opinion, the opinion, however, he observed, of a
man ignorant upon all railway matters, that there ought to
be some protection to the first carriage against the chance of
being thrown upon a heavy luggage van with iron ends and
sides. Even if, in this case, the passengers' carriage had
been fronted with iron, it might have resisted the shock.
The jury then retired, and in a few minutes returned a
verdict of " Accidental death."
In addition to the officials who attended on Monday,
there were presentto-day Lord Barrington (one of the Direc-
tors), and Mr. Gooch, superintendent of the locomotive de-
partment.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 23.

TAE CASTLE.—DEPUTATION TOHE LORD LIEUTENANT.
—A deputation, consisting of the Chairman of the Town
Commissioners, the Rev. Nicholas Power, and O'Brien
Dillon, Esq., waited on the Lord Lieutenant this day at the
Park, and presented a memorial for the construction of a
canal from Nenagh to the Shannon. The deputation was
most graciously received, and. as far as lies in the power of
the Viceroy, the prayer of the memorial is to be taken into
consideration. They afterwards had an interview with the
Chief Secretary, at the Castle, who promised that the works
remaining unfinished should be immediately resumed, and
that all other works presented for, should he carried forward
a with the least roads delay. The Board of Works recom-

mended that, if possible, the canal should be effected under
the Drainage and Navigation Acts, as thereby a special act
of parliament would be rendered unneceasury for the levy`
of tolls, &c.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. COMBINATIONS. The
following notification has been totted by the under-secretary;
lteport, hawing been laid before the Lord Lieutenant, from which
it appears that persons seeking employment on public works have
interfered with the management of such works by the °Meer* en-
trusted therewith, and attempted to dictate to them what number of
persona should be employed, what rate of wages ahookt he tetid, yid
who should be employed as stewards, ate., his Esc:lle:ley desires that
it may be generally known that he will not permit any sorb inturfer-
ence to take litu.r, and that, wherever it is attempted, the ~left CUR
only be to injure the misguided persons who rimy join in such im.
proper conduct, and to defeat the anxious desire or .7 .verniaent to
afford all practicable relief to the really destitute. lie, FAcelleney will
feel obliged to duvet that the WOlllll shall be stispendel where such
conduct shall be emevered in. Any Berson guilty of n,Us of intimi-
dation, directed either against the °lacers supenimailing the works,
or aainst the persona employed tinder them, will be moss., uteriwad
punished. (Signed) T. N. ItLIIINuTtIN,
"Dublin Castle, lath September, 1846."

RESTORATION OP REPEAL MAGISTRATEq. DUBLIN
CASTLE, Sept.l9.-The Lurd-Lieut. has been pleased to approve
of the following gentlemen being re-appointed deputy-lieu-
tenants, viz.:—Edmund B. Roche, Esq., fur the county of
Cork. The lion. Thomas Ffreneh, for the county of Galway.
John J. Bodkin, EA., for the county of Galway. Sir Valen-
tine Blake, Bart., fur the county of the town of Galway.
Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P., for the county of Kerry.
Morgan John O'Connell, Esq., M.P., for the county. of
Kerry. Thoinas Lloyd, Esq., for the county of Limerick.
And Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., fur the county of Mayo.

LABOUR HATE ACT.
Proclamations for holding special presentment sessions in
the following baronies, appeared in the Dublin Gazette of
the 220 d inst. :
A11V.4011.--Barony of Upper Fews, at Newtownh.uu
Barmy of Upper Shier, at Bullyhut, Oct. 2.
CAVAII.-11arully ufllyhuw, at Itallyeonnell, Oct. 3.
Lus.—Ltirony of luehiquin, at Coronet, Oct. 2.
COWL—Barony of lmuculy, at M,thtkton, Oct. 6 ; Ittrony of Kin-
Pule, at Kineate, Oet. 5; litrony us Barrynture, at New tiltnnure,
Oct. t ; County of the City at Cork, at Corp, Oct. 2.
Fauna...um. Barony of Clunkeliy, at Alagla.ravoely, Oct. 7 ;
Barony et Cilenawky, at Shanmuiligh, Oct. 2; liarcuy sit Lurg, et
Keith. Oct. 5.

Oct. 3 ;

GAawar.—Countyof the tow of Galwar at Galway, Oa. 2.
KCACT.—Barulay Ontaguiney, at Difit;te, Oct. 3.
Coctrtv.-I.l.wony of Clunlisk,,at tOntoronc, 0%1.1; barony
of liilootwary, at liars, Oct. 3; Barony of Itallybo, at Fr..uatont,
Get. 2. _ _

-
LIMIOUCK..—Darony of Lower Cowielloc, at ItatLkeale, Oct. 2,
Wrong of eubbleorten, at Patrick's-well, Oct. 3.
Lorca. —Barony of t'pper Dundalk, at thuttla!k, Oct. 2.
MEATII.-13.1rwiy of Lower Notou, ut Satan, (A L. t Barony of
Skretw, it NAVAII, Oct. 3.
. .

TllVE.KAllY.—ltarouy of Elickg.uty, at Thurtco, Oat. 2; ILtrony of
'.ilneutanatch Lower, at I)undrum, Oct. .5.

Warcur;ao. -Barony of liaultic.r, at CulagLanc, Oct. 5 ; Barony of
(Benahiry, of hannaoulaaa, (kt. 2.
WKATM.l.ll.—Barony of Nloyeasbel, at Mullingar, Oct. 2; Barony
of Moyproirl, at Itatlio u, W.. 3.
Wunroun.—Barony art ISargy, at Dwtcormac, 0.1. 7; Barony of
Gorey, at Gorey, Oct. 2; Barony of Shealkalier Wc,t, at Tarlanon,
Oct. 5.

kOtenie.—Coonty of the city of Kilkenny, at Itilkenny, Oct. ;
Barony of Ida, at Itodercont, Oct. 3,

CUItIi.—BEKEHAVEN.—The special presentment session
for this barony was held at Castletown on Friday. The
chair was taken by Lord Bantry, Presentments to the
amount of 36,86;3/. The by-play at the meeting was curious.
A great number of persons had collected at un early hour,
sad at the time appointed the Catholic chapel where the ses-
sions were to be held was crowded. The officer of the Board
of Works had just read his list of recommendations, when
Mr. Samuel Ilutchin, J.P., entered and objected so strongly
to binding the sessions in a place of worship that they were
adjourned to the Court-house. The list of the ottieer ei the
Board of Works having passed, the relief-committee of the
town presented a road from CasUctown westward through
Berehuven. Captain Reid, comptroller of the Berilitiven
mines, moved, as an amendment, the construction of u road
which would be serviceable to them, but would pass through
a scarcely inhibited country. Mr. Hutchins supported
Captain lteid, saying, " that, instead of making roads to
pass through village., the object should be to create new
villages." Captain Held and Mr. Hutchins were out-
voted by a large majority. A road was proposed
which, appearing to pans through Lord „Gantry's
demonic, was peremptorily objected to by him. '1 ke
line was altered to as to avoid the demesne, but
rejected ou being put to the vote. A presentment was applied
for to remove a bar at the entrance of a small inlet frequeuted
by 41 fihermen in the pariah of Boca, which had olten
occasioned destruction of these poor people's only property,
their boats, and sometimes loss of life. A statement signed
by the Bev. Mr. Sheahan, parish priest of Kilkaskin, was
produced in support of its utility. The application was
granted. At the moment the chair was vacated, and previous
to the separation of the meeting, Mr. Shea Lalur entered the
court for the purpose of eliciting u formal coudenination of
the act under which it was assembled. As, however, cir-
cumstances denied him the opportunity of delivering his
sentiments upon the measure, the reporter of the Examiner
was favoured with the subjoined computation, upon which
the geutleman intended to rely in the course of his speech,
and the use of which may be retired. it refers to the
barony of Biary.
Rent: I, according to the l'uor-law valuation
110114 fide ltvistal

/11,000
17,001

County Coss, adeuletal ulMul am swage a the lest
two years -yam
Probable increaw therm for the meintenanee of
new rowls, pawed, at 2 per cent 2OO
Interest at 3i per cent. Oil 20,(WIUL
kat anated Pour-law tax fig tne test year 5OO
Initalment upon the loon
Agency WWI LAW extrenues at h per cent
Prutrable 'rum allow:owe to the tenant.' bSO
Average intcrrut Oil incunibrances in the district 4OlO
IWLLI deduetwu Wont ikuital — 11,100

Leaving

i'S;JIU

MAYO.—emit:A.—The special presentment sessions were
held in Castlebar on Monday last, Valentine O'Connor
Blake in the chair. On the motion of Mr. O'Dowil, it was
resolved, us a prelimiuury, that 80,0001. should be granted.
The presentments were then gone into, and by the time
the meeting broke up (ten o'clock at night) presentments to
the amount of 7:),3b81. were passed ; leaving about 100 pre-
sentments unheard. The proceedings of the (lay opened
with an interchange of civilities between the Rev. Mr. Fleury
and Mr. Larmiini, the former gentleman stating that the
latter " had nut 'hunted the cards properly at the ballot of
the ceas payers;" the latter "treating such insinuations
with contempt." In the course of the day Mr. O'Dowd
proposed a road to the chapel at Casticbar. Mr. Ormsby
objected that it would be on the grounds of Lord
Lucas, which the ceas-payers had no right to inter-
fere ;with. Mr. O'Dowd rejoined that the town was
not Lord Lucan's, and called upon Mr. Brett to prepare an
application.—Mr. Ormsby was sure Mr. Brett would not do
so, and he was certain no magistrate or me-payer would vote
fur a presentment interfering with the rights of property, and
' force the carrying of a road through a nobleman's property
contrary to his wish.—Mr. Brett said, " lithe court directs
me I will be happy to do it."—Mr. O'Dowd • " Mr. Brett is
not the official of Lord Lucan ; he is our official ; and I say,
the tees-payer will vote for it, as they fear not the threat of
Mr. Ormsby."—Mr. Ormsby : " I say there was no threat,
sir."—Mr. Ormsby was assailed with groans and hisses. With
much-ado a vote was taken, when 16 voted for and 12 against
the road. This result was received with cheers, and groans
were given for the opponents of the presentment.
TIPPEUABY.—LowEtt 01010ND.—Tbe adjourned special
presentment sessions for this barony was held at Neuagli, on
Saturday last. The magistrates resolved to address the Go-
verment, calling upon them to continue the works pawed
last year, under the 8 and 9 Vic , under which act one-halt
the amount presented was given as a free gift from the Cen.
solidated Fund. The Rey. Mr. Nolan, a Roman Catholic
clergyman, thus remonstrated with them : "Are you to de-
viate from the usual course, or from that laid down in the
Act of Parliament? Will you permit the impression to go
abroad that you arc dilatory in carrying out the intentions of
Government, by throwing technical difficulties in the way
of administering relief to the people ? And should it, fur a
moment, be said that you are not determined to carry out
the spirit of the act?" The following resolution, proposed
by a magistrate, was adopted unanimously:

" That presentments for public works, pursuant to the let Victoria,
ch. 2!, and bth Victoria, ch. 1, having been passed under the Beadiest
and nioarnmendation of government, we conceive that the government
is fully pledged to the carrying out all these works, and that their de-
clining to do no would much shake the confidence of the pcople in all.
future measures propoecd for their relief, and materially impede the
effortil now making to provide kibour and food, and insure that tran-
quillity which is no necessary to mitigate the suffering,' consequent
upon the Impure of the potato crop in this district. We therefore feel
constrained most earnestly to the art...cam:et" under the let
Victoria, ch. 21, andntli Victoria, ch. I, and u that ounfidenoe in
the ettertli of government and the local authorities, with which it is
our ansieus endeavour to inspire the people."
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After a very strong remonstrance as to the price of Indira
meal and the wages contemplated to be given, from the Rev.
Mr. Scanlan and other gentlemen, the meeting separated, the
sum of 11,2;191. having been first voted for public works
within the barony.
IPPA AND OFFA.—The special presentment sessions for
this barony were held on Monday—the Earl of Glengall is
the chair. The county surveyor having stated that there
was 3,0002. available for instant use, presentments were passed
for 4,0001. more for new works, and the meeting adjourned
till the 23rd of October. Captain Osborne, M.P., in the
course of the proceedings, having used the expreasions " the
people must have food," was responded to by loud cheers.
Lord Olengall rose in a state of great excitement, and threa-
tened to dissolve the meeting if such indecorum was re-
peated. Captain Osborne apologised for having drawn down
his lordship's wrath on the meeting, and proceeded to deli-
ver a long diatribe against the gevernmentplan of relief.
LOUD ULENGALL, AND Me. JOHN O'CONNELL.—IIIe fol-
lowing letter appeared in the Moil of this evening :
"Glitz*, Sept. 22, ISO.
" Sir,—At the meeting of the Repeal Awaciation on Monday last.
Mr. J. O'Connell is reported to Live stated that at the Cashel
sessions at which I presided, no presentments for the relief of the
distremed, tee., were meted, Mr. J. 'Connell has been misinformed
a sum of 1,5010. was voted, in addition to the 3,2001. already in hand;
thus amply presiding for the wants of the poor of the barony for a
month. The sessions were then adjourned for a fortnight, in order
that the county surveyor niMht select and report on the most useful
works to be undertaken for the future. With respect to the °Mena-
i thins personal to myself which Mr. J. O'Connell was pleased to make,
I have merely to observe, that I trust I shall long continue to merit
the exceedingly bed opinion he entertains of me. I remain, sir, yoar
obedient servant, " 01.1.v05ia.."

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SiMuLTANEOCS Met:rms.—At the last meeting of the
Killarney Board of Guardians, on Wednesday, says the
Southern Reporter, Mr. J. O'Connell, in the course of some
remarks on the appalling condition of the poorer classes in
Kerry, suggested that the High. Sheriffs of Ireland should
convene their respective counties on a given day, in order to
devise measures for the prevention of outrage and perhaps
bloodshed, the probable result of unalleviated destitution.
There was nothing, in his opinion, to prevent the Sheriffs
from assembling together in Dublin, in order to give weight
and force to their united representations. In the event of
no immediate compliance with their remonstrances, Mr.
their requests ell sg
atested
the foot of a deputation to the Sovereign, to prefer
nglish throne. Me lug'