The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(FRONT OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) •
TILE IRISH POOR• LA WS•—CURIOUS DISCOVERY. -The
statement which appeared, I believe, originally in the London
Papers, and has been since extensively copied, that Mr.
Vaughan had been appointed an Assistant Commissioner of
Poor-laws, has been officially contradicted. He is a very
young gentleman, and had no claims on so responsible an office.
The person realv appointed is understood to be Mr. Senior,
son of the English Master in Chancery of that name. The
Irish expoctants are wild at the appointment of a fifth English-
man, and vow vengeance on the Government for overlooking
their claims. A curious announcement has just been made by
a Dublin Barrister. He states that Poor-law Unions cannot
be legally formed in cities or towns, as the clause distinctly and
solely specifies " townlands." If this be true, little can be
done till Parliament meets again, which event the necessity for
amendment in the Act would be likely to hurry.

ANTI-TITHE MEETINGS.—THE NEW AGITATION...-.The
anti-tithe movement is becoming more marked and powerful
every day. On Sunday a most numerous meeting was held
in the county Galway, at which resolutions deprecating every
attempt to continue the system under change of name, were
unanimously adopted. On the same clay a meeting took place
in another province (at Johnswell, county Kilkenny), %here
similar resolutions were carried by acclamation. Meetings
have also been held at Ballykine, county Mayo, and in
Donegal, during the present week, of the same character;
and the Castlebar Telegraph of this day brings a requisition
for a meeting of six parishes in another division of Mayo, on
the ith of the ensuing month. Meantime the Precursor
Society is spreading its branches abroad. On Sunday a meet_
in.- is to take place at Clonmcl, fur the formation of a local
Society ; and a meeting for a similar purpose is fixed for an
early day at Lady's Island, county Wexford. Funds are com-
ing from England ; the Secretary has received the names and
subscriptions of thirty members from Huddersfield. Mr.
O'Connell's fourth letter has not been yet received, but is
daily expected in town.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR
THE WEEK.

(From the Gardeners' Gazette.)

Preparations may now be made for removing trees and
shrubs, and forming new plantations.
Shrubberies may be thinned out where the plants have be-
come too large and close—the removal of some to give air and
room to others.
Most operations in the kitchen garden proceed as before.
Where there are alterations or ground work to be made, it
is well to trench the whole space, and level it before beds arc
marked out, or turf laid.
Box edgings may be formed, and shrubberies planted.
Propagate the China kinds of roses by cutting off the young
wood. _

All greenhouse plants not yet removed to their winter
houses and pits, should be provided with temporary covering
of some kind.
Plant out cauliflowers for protection under hand•glasses.

Continue to turn the compost for Tulips.
Keep Auriculas from too much wet and sun.
Plant the pipings of Pinks which are struck into beds.
The sooner stove and greenhouse plants are in their winter
laces the better.

We learn from the Inverness Courier, that Mr,
AV Kenzie, the Member for Ross-shire, was entertained by some
twenty or thirty Tory lairds, and a score or two of hungry, and
easily driven tenants, at a dinner in Tain on the 24th inst.
The burden of the song was as usual, the purity of Conserva-
tive principles—the depravity of the Whigs—the recklessness
of the Radicals, and a superfluous quantum of religious hypo-
crisy and cant. The great gun of the party was Mr. Ross of
Rossie, better known as a sportsman than a politician, and
more relied upon for a steady certainty of aim when game is in
view than temper or judgment when bellowing about politics,
and the stability of the " Kirk." The dinner took place in
the Court House, which was ornamented for the occasion with
some splendid deers' heads, stuffed and preserved, with antlers
of the most magnificent description—said to be the largest in
Europe—which had been shot by Mr. Ross in Hungary.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED.—Extract of a letter
from a distinguished and experienced naval officer, describ-
ing his passage to Antwerp and back in the Rainbow steam-
ship --" Underneath I give you the times we were abreast of
t4.places marked against each, premising we started in the
Rainbow from Blackwell, Sunday, the 16th instant, at two
minutes past one p.m. Passed Gravesend, 2.18, being 22
miles, in one hour 16 minutes ; the Nore, 3.44 ; Margate,
5.44 ; Ostend Light, bearing E. by S., 10.25 ; Flushing,
1.25. Took a pilot on board, and anchored for nearly three
hours ; at five wont fairly a-head again, and got up to Ant-
werp between nine and ten in the morning. On our return,
we started Wednesday, 19th, from Antwerp, at 12 minutes
past noon, passed the different places as under :—Ostend
Light, bearing S. S. W., 6.12 ; North Foreland, 11.10;
Margate, 11.15 ; Nore, 1.12 ; Gravesend, 3.3 ; stopped 11
minutes, and arrived alongside Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell,
5.13 ; making the passage, upwards of 210 miles, in 16 hours
and 50 minutes. She is perfectly easy, and has the least tre-
mulous motion of any steamer I was ever in, and it is a curi-
ous fact, that both in going and returning there was not one
ease of sea-sickness on board, although there was sufficient mo-
tion to have caused it to some in any other vessel. But there
is not the slightest smell either from the bilge water or from
the engines."
REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.—On Thursday
the half-yearly meeting of the Directors of this benevolent
institution was held at the City of London Tavern, E.
Forster, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Serles, superintendant of
the male refuge, Heaton, read the Report. Duringthe past
six months 29 males were received into the institution from
the several prisons; 10 were apprenticed, 10 emigrated to
Upper Canada, 15 without permission, 1 was discharged, 2
died, 6 were dismissed as incorrigible, and l returned to his
family—leaving 90 male inmates. Of the females 44 were
received from the different prisons ; 22 were provided with
situations, 3 were restored to their friends, 7 left at their own
request, 3 were sent away as unsuitable on accoui,t of bad
health, 2 went to an hospital, 1 to the Penitentiary, Fenton-
vine, and 2 to the Magdalen Asylum—leaving on the female
refuge 61 individuals. The receipts were 4,036/. ss. Bd.,
and the disbursements 3,8651. 9s. sd. The Report acknow-
ilneocogrepdoraalteinzgacy of 1001., bequeathed by the late Mrs. Ilayton,
!)f ; it als.stated that as A‘.:t was in progress for
the Society, and which would enable them to
hold lands to the value of 10,000/. sterling.