The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-14 00:00:00

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FAMINE.—Front Ott West the following extracts are
made front tators addressed to the Dublin Evening Post :
" Ruslic'en, April 28.
" Our prospects are of a most fearful character. Such is
the severity of the weather, that the cattle are dying all
around, and those which still survive can only be kept so
by giving them potatoes. This will ultimately leave the
poor people in a frightful state of starvation. Unless some-
thing be done expeditiously for their relief, I shudder for
the consequences."

Tulloghbeghy, May 1.
" The people in this neighbourhood are worse off than at
Rusheen. Cattle are dying in all directions, from Beylagh
to Clonsbanelly. The poor people are casting off the skins
to Letterkenny. We have had no spring, and there is not
a blade of grass to be seen, scarcely a primrose except in
some sheltered nook. The fodder was all expended a month
ago, and the poor must share their little stock of potatoes
with the cattle, for they are not worth killing, being only
skin and bone. It is generally believed that there is not
more than a month's provision in the country, and we
cannot expect to touch the new crop this year until the Ist
of September at the earliest. The prospect is dreadful."
In the North-east, too, the distress of the starving pea-
santry is dreadful. It sickens the heart to think of it. The
Dublin Evening Post thinks it probable that an immediate,
perhaps an official appeal may be made to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and that the matter will be brought be-
fore Parliament.

DISLODGMENT OF THE CARLOW TENANTRY.—The de-
' populating policy is now in active operation, no less than
' 228 persons have been ejected from one property recently.
The exertions of the Roman Catholic clergy are repre-
sented as being most praiseworthy, in trying to preserve
the peace under such trying circumstances.
TITHE AUCTIONS.—At the late advertised sales of goods
for tithes, the people assembled in great and imposing
masses. On Wednesday last, about eleven o'clock in the
morning, the Sub-Sheriff, unattended by either military, or
police, proceeded to the farm of Mr. Kelly, of Crefogue,
to sell his goods and chattels, under an execution for tithes,
at the suit of Colonel Rochfort. Thousands of the country
people were present, and conducted themselves with be-
coming forbearance and decorum. After several fruitless
efforts to obtain bidders, the sale was adjourned—when the
Sheriff proceeded to the lands of that upright citizen
and genuine philanthropist, Mr. Sparrow, of Salville,
who was sued for the payment of the unhallowed exac-
tion by Mr. Charles Hill. The assemblage at this sale
was even greater than that at Crefogue, and the same
orderly and upright conduct characterized the pro-
ceedings of the people. When the cattle were brought
under the hammer, opposite Mr. Sparrow's hall door, a
death-like silence pervaded the vast assemblage, amongst
which we'observed a large sprinkling of the independent
patriots of Enniscorthy. The bailiff acted as auctioneer ;
at first a fine fat cow was put up at 5/., when the sale took
a retrograde movement, the bailiff acting in the double ca-
pacity of vender and bidder—thus 5/., 3/., 1/.,105., 55., ls.,
one penny, still no purchaser ; when the sale was adjourned
amidst the hearty laughter and cheers of the people. The
following day, Mr. Lett, of Kilgibbon, was selected as the
victim of the Law Church, where the crowd was even much
greater than on the preceding day—but no sale took place.
Nothing could surpass the determination, the cool, the
steady resolution of the people to consign this curse of their
country, this disgrace of the age, and horror of every honest
man, to the tomb of the Capulets. We understand that
it is the determination of the people to bear these excellent
men harmless of all law costs.—Wexford Independent.
Similar scenes are exhibited in the county of Carlow, and
also in the North. " Some time since," says the Newry Exa-
miner,." a poor man named Ward, who occupies about
two acres of land on the estate of the Marquis of Bath, was
asked by Mr. Evatt, J. P., Agent, &c., to pay eight shill-
lings and ninepence for Tithe. Ward refused, declaring
that he had received no value for the money claimed, and
that the demand was unjust and oppressive. The case was
brought into a Superior Court • Ward was torn from his
wife, and a family of eight children was deprived of his
support and protection ; and the. cost, .for the recovery of
the sum of eight shillings and ninepence amounted—to how
much, think you ?—to Twenty One Pounds !"
THE LADIES AND MR. O'CONNELL.—The Mail is in
the raptures of a political extacy. Such a discovery has
been made ! The identical passage reported by a Cork
paper to have formed part of Mr. O'ConnelPs speech, at a
public meeting held in the year 1824, has been discovered !
Yes, the ipsissima verba which the Hon. Member for
Dublin uttered at a certain meeting of the Ladies' Auxi-
liary Society, have positively been dug out of the columns
the Southern I?eparter, and brought to light. Murder will
out ! Here is the damning evidence. "By the Parliamen-
tary Reports on Poor Laws, it appeared that nineteen
women out of twenty were mothers a month after their
marriages. The marriage baked meats did coldly furnish
forth the christening tables. Mr. O'Connell then proceeded
to comment on the other parts of Mr. Noel's speech."
What a monster of iniquity—what an assassin of women's
reputation ! to refer to a plain naked matter of fact, pub-
lished in a Return made by the Ho::ourable House of Corn-
inons. Thank God, however, the wretch is now in the
hands of Mail justice, and the paragraph, which has so
often served as a peg to hang the charge on, is now published
to the world.

MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.--We know a characteristic
anecdote of this ill-conditioned lordling, which may add to
his fame. Some time since he appeared in this city, seated
in his carriage, with a blood hound his companion. The
latter animal was actually chained to the biped, and thus
they journeyed on in congenial fellowship—a blood-hound
and a Beresford sitting coupled together !"—Kilkenny Jour,

THE WEATHER.—A more extraordinary season
than the present is not remembered. We are now advancing
fast into May, and at the moment of writing the weather pre-
sents all the characteristics of a severe March. A dry piercing
wind from the north-east has now blown for about ten days
without' intermission, and in consequence vegetation is posi-
tively at a stand still. We know that in these parts a late
spring is safer and altogether preferable to an early one for the
purposes of the harvest, but there are peculiarities about the
present singularly protracted spring that render it far from
desirable. Its dint on vegetation is perfectly paralyzing, and
such of our farmers as are obliged to go to market for their
hay find its effect upon their pockets equally distressing. We
believe the price of hay has not been known so high for many
years, and unless the weather takes a more genial turn, it is
likely to be much higher. Friday week the northern lights
Were observed at Edinburgh and other places : we observed
them here. Their visitation is considered remarkable at this
time of the year. The phenomenon generally indicates the
approach of co'd frosty weather, and singular it is that since
its appearance we have had a second winter. The mountains
have been tipped with 'snow, and ice a quarter of an inch thick
has been common. On' Saturday afternoon we had a heavy
hail-storm, accompanied by distant thunder. At Preston and
other parts of the county some loud peals were heard about the
same time. Altogether, the season is one of a most extra-
ordinary character.—Lancaster Gazette of Saturday.

SINGULAR CAPTURE OF ATIJIEF.—On Saturday
last as the Royal Exeter coach was on its road from Bristol to
Cheltenham, it was passed by two men mounted on a horse,
who were no sooner perceived by a female passenger, sitting at
the back of the coach, than she pointed out one of the men as
the individual by whom she had been recently robbed of three
watches and other property. The coachman pulled up, when
the fellows on horse, hearing the cry of " stop thief," went off
at full speed. Fortunately, however, a gentleman happened
happened to ride up at the moment, and as soon as the circum-
stance could be explained to him, he gave ehace. A capital
run now ensued. The riders in advance had all the advantage
of a good half-mile start ; but they rode double; and it is a
well-established fact, that this additional weight has a tendency
to impede the progress of one's nag. Still, howei'er, they
maintained a severe struggle, and it was not until the whole
party were " bloody with spurring, fiery red with speed," that
the pursuer came up and effected a capture. From the state-
ment made by the woman it appeared that the robbery was
committed in Oxford on Thursday week, and she determined
to follow the thief, and had already made unsuccessful efforts
to discover him in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath, and Bristol,
when she alighted thus singularly and unexpectedly upon him
as she was returning home.—Bristol Journal.

FIRE AT WINDSOR.—About five o'clock on
Thursday morning a fire brok out in the residence of Mr. For-
man, of Langby ; it was first discovered by some work-people
seeing smoke proceeding from the bed-reom of Mrs. Forman.
On their endeavouring to proceed up stairs, the flames became
so strong, that they found it impossible to proceed to the un-
fortunate lady's room, and melancholy to relate, she has fallen
a sacrifice. After many hours' exertion by a large number of
persons, with the aid of the Windsor town-police, by two
o'clock, the remains of the unhappy lady were rescued from the
ruins. The body presented a most horrible sight. A great
portion of the furniture was saved, but the whole of the interior
of the house is destroyed.
It is greatly feared that one of the Hastings mackarel
boats with her crew, consisting of four men and a boy, which
has been missing a week, is lost. A report has reached here
through a Dover smack that during the gale a schooner passed
a new fishing-boat, bottom upwards, having the word " Has-
tings" on her stern. The boat was the property of Mr. Wil-
liam Winter, shipbuilder,—Brighton Guardian,