The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 24.
The County Kerry has responded to the appeal
made to it at the recent meeting to limit its charity
and make it sectarian, by remitting £4OO to the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, as a first instalment to the
Lancashire fund, which was acknowledged at y'es-
terday's meeting of the Mansion-house Committee..
The 36th Regiment, now stationed in Ship-street
Barracks, in this city, have subscribed £3B for the
relief of Lancashire distress. Every officer in the
regiment contributed a day's pay, which amounted
to £l6 13s. The remainder is made up of the sub-
scriptions cf 641 non-commissioned officers and men.
A. private subscription bail held in the Rotunda has
produced £4O. The Presbyterian congregation at.
Rathgar have contributed £3O for the same object.
A Lancashire Relief Association at Sandymouth
has sent in £5O as its first instalment. The Right
Rev. Dr. Gillooly, Roman Catholic Bishop at Sligo,
has written to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, express-
ing his admiration of the humane exertions of the
Lancashire Committee, and wishing them -the
largest amount of success, but regretting that he is
unable to send any contributions, owing to the
overwhelming distress which prevails among his
own people in that part of the country, crushed
with the accumulated debts of the last three years.
Lord Piunket has enclosed to Mr. Napier a cheque
for £456 165., the amount of collections made in his
united dioceses, with donations. -He states that in
Connemara and Erris the people are very poor,
and have been during the last three years in much
distress. When the circumstances of the district;
are considered, it must be admitted that the com-
paratively small population of Protestants have
given according to their means, and in some
reasonable proportion to the necessity of the oase.
It is right to observe here that the Bishop
of Tuam was the first bishop in Ireland to suggest
congregational contributions for the relief of the
sufferers in Lancashire, as an expression of grati-
tude for the liberality of the English in the time of
the Irish famine. Mr. Henry Todd, in handing ie
the contribution from the Presbyterian Church,
Rathgar, stated that arrangements had been entered
into that would produce from that church £4O a
month for the next four months. Mr. Todd, who.
is the head of one of the largest establishments in
Dublin, and has been in the habit of sending clothes
free of cost to Manchester, stated that he had re-
ceived information to the effect that they were
received by the people with the utmost gratitude.
The committee passed a vote of thanks to Mr
Crosbie, high sheriff of Kerry, for the remittance
of £4OO from that county. Upwards of £5,000 has
been received by this committee during the lest 15
days, and the twelfth thousand has been remitted
to Manchester.

The new Lord Mayor, " having found it impos-
sible" to accommodate the committee with a room
in the Mansion-house which has hitherto been a
sort of home to those public charities, several gen-
tlemen eagrly offered apartments to the evicted
committee, including Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, Mr.
Gresham, and Mr. Parker. The committee have
accepted the offer of the Ouzel Gallery Society,
whose arbitration-rooms in the Commercial-build-
ings have been placed at their service.
A meeting of persons interested in the corn trade
was held at the Corn-exchange yesterday to con-
sider the Weights and Measures Act, which is to
come into operation immediately. The meeting re-
solved nem. con. to adopt the hundredweight of
112 pounds, and to recommend that the country
towns should adopt the same in order to secure
uniformity, which would be a great convenience to
the farmer, and would prevent much confusion in
weighing and measuring. The speakers were Mr.
W. Haughton, Mr. Leathern, Mr. Macken, Mr.
Tottrell, and Mr. Sheeleton.
The interesting ceremony of distributing the
Crimean prizes in the Royal Hibernian Military
School took place yesterday. They are money prizes,
amounting to £3O a year, the interest of £l,lOO
stock, the remnant of the Crimean Banquet fund,
and this annual sum is divided into rewards vary-
ing from 30e. to £B. On this occasion the boys
were strictly examined by Dr. Newell, of the
National Board. The Lord-Lieutenant, as usua4
distributed the prizes. There was a large number
of distinguished visitors to witness the ceremony',
The hall wee adorned with flags, arms wrought into
curious devices, trophies from Sebastopol and
elsewhere, evergreens, mottoes, and decorations of
various kinds. The boys looked healthy, checrful,
and:happy. Colonel Wynyard, the commandact,
made a statement givicg a very satisfactory account
os the boys, who number nearly 400; they are dis-
ciplined like a regiment el soldiers, and their con-
duct seemed to be admirable. Colonel Wynyard
said he would not desire to hare a more dutiful or
honourable set of boys under his goutrol. Major-
General Ridley observed that he had often seen the
boys going into town and coming out, :tnd he had
never noticed the least impropriety in their cOnduet•
Lord Cbrlisle spoke in eloquent terms on the
advantage of having such an asylum for the orphert
sons of our brave soldiers. He bore emphatic testi-
mony to the excellence of the education given in the
school, and wished that in the seminaries of the
wealthier classes the teaching was always half es
good. He also spoke highly of the commandant's
fatherly care, and expressed his satisfaction that the
establishment was under such careful, kind, and
effective management. It was stated that 755 of the
pupils educated in the school have joined the army,
and of these seven are commissioned officers and 68
non-commissioned officers. A greai number of the
Hibernian boys have distinguished themselves in
the field, and have won, at least, their share of
medals. The boys bore a pleasing part in the per-
formances yesterday by singing a number of melo-
, dies in a manner which showed that great atteilltion
is paid to this part of their education.
On Monday night, about half-past 9 o'clock, the
Glen Flour Mills, at Old Park, near Belfast, were
discovered to be on fire. At 11 o'clock the roof

and fib rs of the main building fell in with a crash,
and all the machinery, including millstones, be-
sides corn and flour stored on the lofts, dropped to
the ground floors. The walls were then left quite
bare. The flames by this time had extended to the
kiln, which is attached to the floor mill, and is only
two stories in height. Tho kiln escaped with only
receiving a comparatively small amount of damage,
but the premises are so much injured by the falling
of the roof of the other building and other causes
that it may be said to be now entirely useless. The
conduct of the work people present was disgraceful,
they having refused to give any assistance to ex-
tinguish the fire. Superintendent Reilly frequently
appealed to these people to aid the firemen at the
pumps, but the answer in the majority of the cases
was a distinct refusal. At half-past 3 o'clock the
only things remaining were the bare walls of the
mill. There was a large stock of wheat in the mills
at the time, and a quantity of Indian corn was also
in store. It is believed the entire property destroyed
will amount to nearly £5,000. The property is in-
sured for £4,000 in the Imperial and Mercantile
Insurance offices.
The salary of the Mayor of Cork has been raised
from £6OO to £9OO a year. Mr. Maguire, the pl e.
sent mayor, had nothing to do with the proceeding.
During the last two years ho found that be was,
in a pecuniary point of view, the worse for the office,
and he declared that he never put a shilling of the
salary into his private purse.
The Lord-Lieutenant has distributed blankets and
warm clothing to 400 poor persona of the rural d's-
(riots adjacent to the V;ceregal Lodge, who were
recommended by the clergy, without religious dis.
tiriction.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON LONDON BRIDGE.--Of
Tuesday morning Mr. Payne, the City coroner, held an in-
quiry at Guy's Hospital respecting the death of John Her-
vey, aged 38, an omnibus conductor, who was killed on Lon-
bridge under the following circumstances :—Wm. Lambert
said ho was the driver of one of Wood's omnibuses, plying
between Hackney-road and Camberwell-gate. On Friday
evening last, as they were on the crown of the bridge com-
ing towards Southwark, one of the horses fell. The har-
ness was taken off and the horse was got up, Deceased
stooped down to get up the harness when some one struck
the animal, which kicked out and struck the deceased on
the forehead and under the ear. The horse was a very quiet
one, but was nervous, and would have kicked only if hit by
one of the crowd. The conductor was carried to the hospi-
tal, but died before his admission, the injuries ho receive
being very groat. The coroner having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."