The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The Irish poor are enduring much misery, and extraordi-
nary privation. The Freeman's Journal of Monday last con-
tains the following afflicting intelligence • -
" As the season advances—now almost on the verge of May
—the severity of the weather increases to a degree wholly un-
exampled in this country. At half-past six o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon a heavy shower of snow commenced and con-
tinued to fall for upwards of an hour. At eight o'clock yes-
terday morning another snow storm came on, and lasted nearly
as long, covering for some time the earth in the environs of
the city to the depth of several inches. In the course of the
day lighter showers descended at frequent intervals. Not-
withstanding the quantities of snow and sleet that have fallen,
the cold of the atmosphere remains tine ted, and may almost
be said to be intense. The devastation created by this extra-
ordinary state of the weather and shortness of keep amongst
the lambs, in all parts of the country, is, we understand, to an
immense extent. The dairy men, cattle feeders, and in fact
evee7v person concerned with stock, are serious sufferers. The
markets !sere rise in proportion, so that the dearness of almost
every article in the provision way places it all but absolutely
beyond the reach of the humbler order of artisans and the la-
bouring classes.
The condition a the poor is appalling—disease, arising
from destitution, is daily hurrying off i victims in alarming
numbers. The efforts of charity appear to be wholly unequal
to meet the multitude of demands hourly increasing upon them."
Term was opened on Saturday with the usual ceremonies.
Amongst other business that came before the Court of King's
Bench was the following application :
WHITEPOTISM MACDONAGH applied to the Court on
behalf of Patrick Crawley, who resides in Prussia-street, and
whose stables were set on fire on the night of the 15th Fe-
bruary, when a great quantity of his property, consisting of
hay, straw, oats and potatoes, were destroyed, the aggregate
amount of which was estimated at 60/. The Learned Gentle-
man proceeded to observe that this outrage was the conse-
quence of a species of whiteboyism and combination, which
existed among the labourers, by which means they seek to pre-
vent the use of ploughs in gardens ; and Crawley having ex-
tensive vegetable and fruit gardens at the north side of the
City, near Cabra, was, of course, special object of their law-
less proceedings. On the 17th March last a quantity of cherry
trees was destroyed also, and although a great loss to him,
yet he did not include it in the compensation which he sought
for. The Learned Gentleman then read a notice which was
served upon Crawley, signed by " Captain Rock, and 5,000
men," warning him to desist from the practice Af using ploughs
in his gardens, else he should suffer. Crawley was then sworn,
and deposed to the facts stated by Mr. Macdonagh ; and the
usual notices upon the Churchwardens of the parish, as well as
the High Constable, being proved, the witnesses were sent be-
fore the Grand Jury.
In the Court of Exchequer the Tithe campaign was opened.
Phil. Ryan as well as Alphabet Smith graced the Court. The
Tithe rebels were numerous; several were committed after
having previously experienced the tender mercies of the law.
AGRICULTURE.—A noisy and warlike Meeting of the Share-
holders of the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland
was held on Monday. A difference exists between the
Northern Shareholders and the other proprietors. No ques-
tion could have called forth much more excitement than that
which burst forth at the tumultuous meeting to which we allude.
TITIIER.—YOUGHAL, APRIL 11, 1837.-1 am sorry to in-
form you that the tithe war commenced here this morning.
Six cows and four heifers, distrained under an execution for
tithes due to the Reverend J. Hingston, were put up to public
auction. Mr. Pollock, as the law agent for the Reverend
plaintiff, attended and offered a settlement to Seward, the
defendant ; but the poor man, to show his abhorrence to the
tithe system that would deprive him and his family of the
means of support, refused all interference with the cattle, and
told Mr. Pollock if he got them for one farthing he would not
bid for them. They were then put up, but no bidders could
he had higher than one penny. At last twenty pounds were
offered by the agent—a man in the crowd then bid forty
pounds, when they were knocked down for him ; but the cash
was not to be had for twelve months. A shout of laughter
was then set up, when Mr. Pollock ordered the auctioneer to
adjourn the sale till eleven o'clock to-morrow, which was im-
mediately done. The people retired, and shortly afterwards
the cattle were again put up, when at the second bidding one
of the bailiffs offered five pounds ten shillings, to whom they
were knocked down, though another offered forty pounds.
The cattle are still in the pound here, and poor Seward em-
ployed an attorney to take up the case for him ; he has been
advised that the sale was illegal, inasmach as the plaintiff could
not sell this day, the sale being regularly adjourned till to-
morrow. This is preaching the Gospel in nice style.—Cor-
respondent of Southern Reporter.
APRIL 19.—A change in the weather to-day is most salu-
tary, and will, it is believed, save the crops from that destruc-
tion with which they were threatened, and to which, indeed,
many have been subjected.
TEMPERANCE.—Mr. \Vhite, the Chairman of the Port of
Dublin Temperance Society, stated at the meeting at the
Rotunda on Wednesday evening, in proof of the advantages
resulting from the Society, that there was an increase of
200.000 gallons in the consumption of whisky in the year
1836, over that or the year 1835, the whole consumption for
the former being 11,381,000 gallons.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abcrcorn will
arrive in Carlton-terrace, from Woburn Abbey, to attend her
Majesty's second drawing-room on the Bth of May.
The new Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, the
Bishop of Oxford, will leave the Episcopal Palace at Oxford
on Monday next, on a visit to their Majesties at the Castle
at Windsor, and the next day his Lordship will hold a con-
firmation at Windsor. _ _ _

Lord Lyndhurst left Paris on Tuesday, for London.
We learn that his Lordship's daughter continues dangerously
111.—Galignani.
The Marquis de Pahnella has arrived at Paris from
London.

The King, we are infotmed, intends to preside in
person, at the opening of the New National Gallery, on the
28th.—Literary Gazette.
The Duke of Devonshire and a large party of
fashionables were present last night at the King's Theatre.
Amongst the most admired dresses at the Drawing
Room yesterday was that of the Duchess of Somerset, who
was presented on her marriage. It attracted general notice
from its extreme splendour.
His Majesty's dinner to the Knights of St. Patrick
is at present fixed for Monday, the Bth of May. It is uncer-
tain whether the Grand Master of the Order, the Earl of
Mulgrave, will come over from Ireland to attend the banquet.
No orders have yet been received at the Clarendon, where
his Lordship sojourns, while in town, to prepare for his re-
ception.
The Speaker will give a grand Parliamentary' dinner
to-morrow, on Carlton Terrace.
Sir Robert Peel will give a grand Parliamentary
dinner to-morrow, in Privy Gardens.
The Queen's tradespeople will dine together on
Thursday next at the Thatched House Tavern, in celebration
of her Majesty's birthday.
The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland gave a sump-
tuous dinner on Wednesday evening, in Hamilton-place.

Captain Bowles, brother-in-law to Lord Palmerston,
is the new naval Aid.de-camp to the King, vice Sir William
Howe Mulcaster, K. C. H.
We hear that Dr. Richards, late Rector of St.
Giles'?, has left, among other legacies to .various institutions,
5.0001. to the Royal Society of Literature.
THE ECLIPSE.—The moon was partially eclipsed
at fifty minutes past six last evening, attained its greatest ob-
scurity at forty-two minutes past eight, and came into the last
contact with the dark shadow at thirty-throe minutes past
ten, having been totally obscured one hour and a half. The
eclipse was visible, according to the dictum of astronomers, in
the Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian aa'' Pacific Oceans, be-
sides being either wholly or in part seen by the inhabitants of the
great continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
As, according to the laws of nature, it is imperative that the
earth should he between the sun and the moon in order to oc-
casion an eclipse, the sun ought then to have been Wow the
horizon, but in consequence of the refraction of the earth's at-
mosphere, the remarkable phenomena of the sun's remaining
in the western horizon while the moon rose eclipsed in the
the eastern, was yesterday distinctly seen. It is almost need-
less to add, that on this, as on every similar occasion, the dex-
terous corps of the swell-snob and pick•)ckets, indigenous to
the metropolis and its environs, were most numerous, ar.d
reaped a golden harvest from the unsuspecting moon-gazer:.
The Greenwich pensioners also were most industrious in prof-
fering the use of their portable astronomical apparatus with
pamphlets descriptive of the lunar phenomena.