The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 26.
Something like a reign of terror still prevails in
Tipperary. Mr. William Scully, brother of the
member for the county of Cork, travels about on
business accompanied by two armed policemen, who
keep a sharp 100k-out at cross roads, short turns,
and in the neighbourhood of walls and hedges.
Ho always carries arms, and takes care that the
road he is to take is not known. He mistrusts
every one, even the postman who is obliged to
Place Mr. Scully's letters and papers on the ground
before be comes within pistol-shot. It has been
suggested that it would be more pradent for this
gentleman to change his residence than to be ex-
posed to such tremendous risks. It will not be easy
to evade the persevering, patient hatred of his
enemies ; but it sometimes happens, even in Ireland,
that " threatened people live long."
A medical gentleman residing in Carrick-on-Suir
has been threatened because, on being summoned,
he gave evidence at the inquest on the remains of
Michael Maguire, who was murdered for taking a
farm from which another man had been evicted.
The medical gentleman marked out for assassination
because he told the truth on his oath is said to be
remarkably humane, giving his time and medical
skill gratuitously for the relief of the poor. Thus
the best benefactors of the people are doomed by
this horrid system of assassination.
All the landlords in the Glen of Aberlow have
received notice, by a placard posted on the gate of
Captain George Massey Dawson, of New Forest.
Hayes, son of the notorious Michael, has had the
audacity to send a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant,
praying that be may be released froth prison, on
the false pretence that he is in a dangerous state of
health. It is supposed that his object in malinger-
ing was to get out of prison in order to assist his
father to evade the police. In the same neighbour-
hood a man was 'charged with having in his posses.
sion a " pike" of the true Mitchell stamp, said to be
a relic of '4B, which he kept "for the protection of
his kitchen garden." He was deprived of the wea-
pon, but, in consequence of the good character he
received, the magistrates did not punish him farther.
In the county of Longford the constabulary have
collected 50 stand of arms from the people, some of
them in fine condition. They consisted of guns,
pistols, swords, and bayonets. In the course of their
search for arms they found a set of mail bags lost
so far back as October, 1859, and which contained
money to the amount of £lOO. They were found
in the house of a farmer named Murphy, and they
are in a good state of preservation.
There is a set of young
women in the South
Dublin Union workhouse who are incorrigible
savages. They have been imprisoned several times
for outrages, and nothing seems capable of reclaim-
ing them. On Sunday night the mistress of the
probationary ward locked up. the girls es usual in
their dormitory at the regular hour, 7 o'clock, when
there was no sign of anything wrong. Between 10
and 11 o'clock they piled up the beds and bedding,
set fire to them, and, having escaped through a
window, they looked on from the yard at the opera-
tion of the flames. Property to the amount of £4O
was destroyed before the fire was discovered, and
had it not been extinguished in time a number of
lives would have been lost. They confessed the
crime, and seemed to exult in it with the most
brazen impudence. It is surely an abuse of the
poor-house system to be pampering such persons in
idleness and vice