The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Dec. 12.—1 n consequence of the feel-
ing of alarm produced in the northern portion of
the King's County, by the extent to which crime
and agrarian outrage appear to be spreading, the
Earl of Charleville has addressed the following let-
ter of advice to his tenantry and dependents on the
estate of Grogan Hill :
"I have heard with very great pain that there is an
appearance of a bad spirit rising up in your neighbour.
hood. As your landlord, wishing and anxious for your
prosperity, I feel it my duty to give you my advice. Be-
lieve me that crime is always punished, even in this
world. The law of the land, framed for the protection
of all, the poor as well as the rich, is stronger than those
evil•disposed persons who wish to put down your pre-
sent prosperity. If you take my advice you will act
with wisdom ; if you do not, you will bring destruction
on yourselves and families. You probably will be prose-
cuted by the very villains who bring you into wicked.
ness. You will have a large body of police brought on
you, who you will have to pay out of the sweat of your
brow, and you will forfeit your own respectability and
the confidence that is now reposed in you by your land-
lord, and by all other persons whose good opinion is of
value. I therefore warn you not only to desi,t from
crime yourselves, but to prevent others from going into
it. lam informed farmers' servants—and I fear some of
the younger branches of your families—are to blame.
Take care of them. Make them avoid nightly meetings.
Prevent them from indulging in spirituous and fermented
liquors. Keep them from bad company. Show them
that they should not turn the gift of God (a good
har-
vest) into an instrument of evil. If you take my advice
you will be happy; my anxious wish and prayer is that
you should ; but if you will not I have the pleasure of
thinking I have raised my voice for your good, and the
fault, the misery, and all their consequences are caused
by yourselvera.—l am your sincere well-wisher, landlord,
and friend, " CHABLEVILLE.
"Charleville Forest, Dec. 1855."
The expected conference of the Irish Tenant
League took place yesterday at their council rooms.
The attendance comprised the following Irish re-
presentatives—viz., Mr. T. Kennedy, M.P., Mr.
J. F. Maguire, M.P., Mr. P. O'Brien, M.P., and
Mr. M. Corbally, M.P., together with a large
number of the Roman Catholic priests, Dr. Gray,
Mr. J. M. Cantwell, Mr. C. Hosey, Mr. Brodigan
(of Piltown House), Mr. Algernon, &c.—Mr. R.
Bafmwell, J.P., in the chair. The proceedings,
which occupy some nine or ten columns of the
Freeman's Journal, assumed an angry and discor-
dant tone from the commencement, and the tem-
per in which the conference broke up may be
gathered from the following concluding portion of
the report. Dr. Gray, commenting on some obser-
vations that had fallen from Mr. C. Hoey, of the
Nation, said—
I tell Mr. Hoey that it is not the first time he has
seoffed and sneered here at my reference to the sufferings
of the people ; and you, sir, his colleague (pointing to
Mr. Sullivan) had to comment on it.
Mr. Sullivan—l beg your pardon. (Chair, chair.)
The Chairman—l appeal to the meeting. (Cries of
"chair.")
Mr. Hoey—l appeal to the chair. (" Order, order,"
—" chair, chair.")
The Chairman—l will leave the chair if lam not sup-
ported. (Hear, hear.) I must say this is going beyond
anything I could bare expected.
Mr. Cantwell—Those kind of expressions are not to
be borne. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. Hoey—l appeal to you, air, did I use this lan.
guage (Order, order.)
Mr. Cantwell—l think it was impossible to mistake
either your language or your intentions. (Hear, hear.)
Dr. Gray—You did sneer at what I said. (Hear )

Mr. Ho:y—l did not. (Chair, chair.)
Dr. Gray—You did, sir. It is false, and I repeat it.
(Cries of " Hear, hear—chair, chair.")
The Chairman—This is a most unpleasant termination
of what a few hours since promised to terminate so
quietly.
Mr. lloey—l did not intend to sneer at the sufferings
of the people, either this day or any other time, when
spoken of by Dr. Gray. (Hear.)
_ _

Mr. Cantwell—This express disclaimer of Mr. Hoey
is such as I think Dr. Gray ought to be satisfied with,
though I must repeat that I thought with Dr. Gray in
his observations that he bad been improperly sneered at.
(Hear.) But now lam bound to say, as a gentleman,
that when Mr. Hoey says he did not mean it, we must
all say to Dr. Gray that ought to be enough. (Hear.)
Dr. Gray—lf Mr. Hoey had assured me he did not
mean it, and said that he did not mean it, I would not
have used language which now, under the circumstances,
I withdraw.

Mr. Hoey—The charge made by Dr. Gray was that I
sneered at the sufferings of the people. (Cries of " Order,
chair.")

Dr. Gray—No ; but of what I said of the sufferings
of the people. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Hoey—l said no such thing ; I said that while I
heartily sympathised with the people, I thought the in-
troduction of the topic irrelevant. (Hear, and order.)
Mr. Cantwer—Dc. Gray did not complain of that.
Dr. Gray—lf Mr. Hoey withdraws the statement
tbat he did not intend it, then I stand by what I have
said—(hear, hear, and " order")—that is, that be did
use language which could be interpreted by ne sane man
into anything but a jaunty sneer at what I had said.
(Hear. hear.) If Mr. Hoey says he did not mean it,
then there is no I inguage I could use would be too
strong to show my anxiety to withdraw it—(hear, hear)
--but if he does not say that, the matter stands as it
was. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Hoey—l wish that some gentleman who was not
directly concerned would state his opinion whether the
language I have used could by any possibility convey
such imputation.
Mr. Maguire—l am sorry I was not allowed to rise
before. My impression of what Mr. Hoey said was, that
no doubt the people did suffer, and that he sympathised
with it, but that it had no connection with the present
question. I do not think he could be so far discourteous
as to sneer at Dr. Gray—(hear)—which would be a very
great per-onal insult. (Hear, hear.) I think that wal
never meant by Mr. Hoey. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. o'l3rennan—l have stated that Mr. Hoey did
sneeringly allude to the observations of Dr. Gray.
The litia airman—You are not throwing oil on the
troubled waters. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'Brennan—But this calls my veracity in ques-
tion, and I repeat it. I say that Mr. Hoey did sneer at
Dr. Gray's observations.
Mr. Cantwell—l think the statement of Mr. 'Joey,
that it was not intended—no matter how it appeared—
ought to be quite sufficient for Dr. Gray, and there
ought to be nothing further about the matter. (Hear.)
An action for libel, which has excited some inte-
rest here, was concluded yesterday in the Court of
Common Pleas. The plaintiff was Colonel Henry
White, D. L., of Woodlands, and the defendant Mr.
Tyrrell, of Kildare-street, an attorney and solicitor,
and the alleged libel arose out of an application
from the defendant to the plaintiff for a commission
in the Longford Rifles for a friend. The applica-
tion was made at a time when the family of Colonel
White were in great domestic affliction, and was
therefore neglected, and the angry letters of Mr,
Tyrrell written under feneliangpsaomfpdhilsaetpsphoaipnett,nceount,
i
and published by him
stituted the ground of complaint. The jury gave
taiff.
verdict of 300/. damages and costs for tho plain-
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severity.

The Viceroy of Egypt, wishing to take part in the
subscription for the benefit of thowonnded and the widows
and orphans of the army of the East, has presented to
Prince Napoleon, through M. Jomard, member of the
Institute, all the articles sent from Egypt to the late
Exhibition.

A. Paris letter, in the independancc of Brussels, an-
nounces that several members of the Institute arc about
to be raised to the dignity of senator. To the namo of
Anber, the distinguished composer, are added those
of M. Alfred de Vigny, member of the French Academy,
and MM. Ingres and Delacroix, members of the Aca-
demy of the Beaux Arts.
MELANCHOLY EvENT.—The A fricain, of Constantia,
of the Ist inst., gives an account of a melancholy event
which had just occurred in the neighbourhood of that
city. Eight men belonging to the engineers of the 99th
Regiment wore exigaged in making an excavation for a
large reservoir, and had already reached to a depth of
about 15 feet, when a vast quantity of the earth at the
side suddenly gave way, and buried thorn beneath it.
An alarm was at once given, and prompt means were
resorted to for their deliverance. Two of the men who
were at work at the edge and fell in with the earth were
released in a
.short_
,without any very serious in-
jury ; but the others, who were at the bottom, were not
got out nntil two hours after. One of them was still
alive, and though seriously bruised, is not considered in
danger, but the other five were dead,