The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

ITEMS OF IRISH NEWS.

(From the Provincial Papers of Wednesday.)
The Great Southern and Western Railway, now
open from Dublin to Cork, bringing the latter city
within seven hours of the capital, and the delightful
scenery of Killarney, Bantry, &c., within the compass
of a day, is the longest line in the three kingdoms
completed by a single company. It has coat three
millions up to the present, and its annual revenue is
200,0001., giving a dividend of about three per cent.
to the proprietors.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-011 MOD-
day last a portion of this work, between Athlone
and Ballinasloe, was commenced. In connexion with
the gratifying tact of its commencement, we regret to
say that the manner in which it was opened created
very great dissatisfaction in the neighbourhood,
and nearly occasioned a riot, which, but for .the
speedy interposition of the police, might have proved
of a serious character. It appears that a number
of men belonging to the contractor, Mr. Dargan,
who were strangers in the locality, were sent to open
the work. The labourers about the place, feeling
that they ought to be employed on the work near
their own homes, felt greatly disappointed at seeing
strangers where they considered they ought be. A
great number of them, accordingly, went on the work,
and demanded employment, which on being refused by
Mr. Dargan's men, they insisted on obtaining, and
to confirm their determination, took up some pick-
axes and other implements, which were lying about
the place, and commenced working. The police were
then sent for, and by their interference succeeded in
preventing a breach of the peace, and restored quiet-
ness. After a good deal of remonstrance, the people
were reconciled to their disappointment in not pro-
curing employment, on being tuld by Mr. Dargan's
principal agent that they would be employed when
the works were more extensively opened, and when
the manner of employing railway labour was shown
to them by those acquainted with such employment.
—Athlone Sentinel.

WESTPORT WORSHOUSE.—On Saturday night last
some paupers effected their escape, carrying with them
some of the union property. At six o'clock on Sunday
morning, at roll call, Mr. Goff, the master, missed
the absentees, and called out the constabulary, whom
he accompanied in search of the delinquents, all of
whom they had captured about twelve o'clock noon.
Some nights previously a few refractory paupers who
were expelled the house formed the diobolical plan
of destroying the establishment by setting fire to a
large wooden gate adjoining the kitchen. When the
Act was discovered, the perpetrators were found sit-
ting contentedly around the fire, into which they bad
thrown a considerable quantity of turf, as also a
wheelbarrow. Fortunately the master and his assist-
ant, on taking their rounds, discovered the fire, and
in a short time the flames were extinguished, and the
perpetrators secured.—Castlebar Telegraph.
The CONSTABULARY.—MAGISTERIAL MEETING IN
ENNISCORTHY.—A meeting of the magistrates of the
county Wexford was holden at Enniscorthy on Mon-
day, to consider the propriety of re-establishing the
Tullicanna constabulary station. A memorial was
adopted to the inspector-general of the force, praying
him to remove the men from Mayglass to Tullicanna.
—Wexford Independent.
Pooß-RATA RESCUE.—On Friday last T. H. Wat-
son, Esq., poor-rate collector for Castlebar electoral
division, seized some property belonging to tenants
residing on the Lucan estate, which was rescued
from him, and violence threatened to himself if ke did
not quit the townland.—Mayo Constitution.
A letter from Philadelphia, received in Ennis, states
that a man representing himself as James Breen, of
Knock, county Clare, who it will be recollected, mur-
dered his wife about four years since, and having been
tried at Ennis assizes was acquitted, on the grounds
of insanity, and confined in the district lunatic asylum,
where he committed suicide by nearly severing the
head from the body, and on whom an inquest was
held, is exhibiting there to crowded houses "as the
living Irishman whose head was cut off11" Clare
Journal.
THE NENAGII CIIAPEL AFFAIR.—The committee
of the Nenagh and Lisboney parishioners, who are