The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

:11BER.

OBER.

NES,

RACING FIX T

Newmarket C 2l
Bishop Auckland 2l
Catterick Bridge

u.
Newmarket F S 5
Cheater Spring
York Spring

- •
Epsom Summer 3
Chelmsford ll
Manchester
Ascot

Jll
Odiham ..
Bibury Club
Newton
Stockbridge 3
Winchester
Newmarket
Worcester
Liverpool

Atri
Radcliffe 4
Brighton 5
Brighton Club
Lewes 8
Wolverhampton
Reading
Wenlock l5

EEPT
Devon and Exeter 2
Derby ...........
Great Yarmouth
Plymouth
0xf0rd......
Warwick 9
11
Leicester

OCT
Bedford . ...
Newmarket S 0 l3

1.175 T.

Doncaster
Richmond
Walsall
Monmouth 2,5
Manchester 26
Newmarket F 0

Gloucester
Newmarket H

NOYDIIHER.
Woreester ........
Hereford lt, I Istreasotoulry...
18

IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 18G2.
APRIL.
Athlone
skerzies
Yells

Cork MAY.
1 ! Galway Hunt 2O
Nonagli
Howth and Baldoyle .... 14

JrNE.
Wegtmoath .. 3 i Curragh June .. 21

-
Bellowatown
AUGUST.
Heath
Wicklow ..

_
SHPTNIIMBIt.
Curragh
Carlow lO Jonkinstown Park 24
Londonderry . .

OCTOBER.
Limerick...,
Ourragli
NOT/MERL

Armagh . ... ........... 6

]il?.
MAGUIRR, .211. P., AND THE DIS-
TRESS 1N IRELAND.

The hon, member for Dungarvon has addressed a
letter to a Dublin journal on the alleged distress in
Ireland. After stating that the debate on Sir
George Bowyer's motion respecting Italy had
necessitated the postponement of the question of
Irish distress till the 2d of May, Mr. Maguire con-
tinues :

"My object in now writing to you is to impress
upon the friends of the afflicted the necessity of
communicating to me such well authenticated facts
as would truly represent the condition of their
several districts, and, above all things, of not lead-
ing me astray by exaggeration or overstatement.
From my own knowledge of the state of the South
I can easily understand the sufferings of the people
in other parts of Ireland, especially the Nest; but
I have to convince others that the condition of large
masses of the people of our country is so deplorable
and so urgent as to demand the serious attention of
the Government. From the first, the Government
have denied the existence of more than ordinary
distress. Indeed, I must admit, the Government
—I speak of the Irish Executive—find themselves
placed in a false position, in consequence of their
repeated and ostentatious laudation of Irish pros-
perity, and their congratulations upon the wonder-
ful progress which we have been making—making
in imagination, I am sorry to say, and not in reality.
They are now only consistent in denying the
misery and wretchedness which prevail in many
many districts of this country, and that there is
any reason for apprehension in the months which
usually precede the getting in of the harvest. To
meet this systematic denial, this official incredulity, I
we, who are compelled by the presence and pres-
sure of the evil to hold a different opinion, must
have facts—if possible, facts demonstrated by sworn
evidence. Deaths have been traced to want of food;
but the Government are prepared to assert—indeed
have asserted—that these deaths were not attri-
butable in any degree to starvation. We believe'
that death has, in several instances, been either '
caused by actual want of food, or accelerated
thereby; and this is just what the friends of the
poor must assist me in proving. I would, therefore,
earnestly request that those to whom cases of death
from want of food are known, or may be known
between this and the end of this month, will kindly
communicate with me—addressing their letters to
the House of Commons—and will state such case
as simply and as circumstantially as possible. I
shall only add my respectful advice that inquests
should be held in every case that unfortunately may
occur ; for, as we are met by reiterated denials--
denials which, coming from the source they do,
blunt the edge of sympathy, and close the half-
opened hand of charity—we must avail ourselves
of every just and lawful means of driving convic-
tion home to the minds of men. We must satisfy
those, at least, who are not officials of the Irish Go-
vernment, and who have not committed themselves
by triumphant proclamations of prosperity and
persistent denials of the existence of distress, that
the appeals which have been made on behalf an
afflicted people were but too well jnstified by the
real state of the case."

THE BILSTON EXPLOSION.—The total number
of deaths up to yesterday morning was 26, and several of
the survivors are in a very precarious state. It has been
ascertained that the diameter of the boiler was loft. Gin.
Its construction and adaptibility for a high-pressure engine
will be an important matter for inquiry before the inquest
closes.

THAMES EMBANKMENT.—TheDuke of Northum-
berland, who holds property along the river side, has peti-
tioned the house against the bill for the Thames Embank-
ment, and prays that he may be heard, by himself, counsel,
agents, and witnesses, before the committee appointed to
consider the subject, in respect of any provisions contained
in it prejudicial to his rights and interests. The Metropoli-
tan Board of Works and other bodies have also petitioned
to be heard against the bill.