The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24 1849,

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 cost 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 Mon-
day last a portion of this work, between Athlone
and Ballinasloe, was commenced. In connexion with
the gratifying fact 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 told 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 WORHHOHSE.—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 hail captured about twelve o'clock noon.
Some nights previously a few refractory paupers who
were expelled the house formed the diabolical 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 had
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 CONSTAEULARY.--MAGISTERIAL MEETING IN
ENNISCORTHT.--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-RATE RESCUE.—On Friday last T. 11. 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 he 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 off I !"—Clare
.Tournal.
THE NENAGII CHAPEL APFAIR.—The committee
of the Nenagh and Lisboney parishioners, who are
opposed to the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Kenny
as their parish priest, met on Saturday.. They ap-
pointed a deputation to wait on the editor of the Tip •
perary Vindicator, and request of him to tell them the
real name of the writer of some letters signed " A
Layman of the South," and which appeared in his
paper ; but the deputation failed in accomplishing the
object of their mission. .The committee then pro-
ceeded to the transaction of private business.
During the last three nights, several farmers, who
were considered comfortable, and who possessed
money, left their holdings, situate in the immediate
vicinity of Kilrush, to the surprise and disappoint-
ment of landlord and tax-collector.—Limerick

aminer.
Several merchants to whom thousands of pounds
are due by the poor-law unions in Limerick, district,
have proceeded to Dublin for the purpose of soliciting
the Lord-Lieutenant and the Poor-law Commissioners
to devise means for insuring the early. liquidation of
the enormous debts owing to them.—Limerick
Chronicle.
At Killaloe petty sessions on Saturday, Patrick
Burke and Daniel Hogan were each fined the sum of
61., at the prosecution of Mr. John ANlugh, officer
in charge of the revenue party at Killaloe, for having
been found in a house where illicit potale was in the
course of preparation. This officer a'so destroyed 400
gallons of potale adjacent to the house of the prisoners,
which is a distance of fifteen miles from his station.—
Limerick Reporter.
On Sunday night three fellows disguised entered-
the residence of John Byrnes, at Kishyquirk, in the
county. Limerick, and having dragged Byrnes out of
the house, beat him unmercifully and left him dead, as
they supposed. They threw him into a ditch, where
he lay until found by his friends, by whom he was
removed to the infirmary, where he remains in a
dangerous state. The cause assigned for this wanton
outrage is, that Byrnes gave information of the re-
moval of corn by a runaway tenant.—Limerick
Chronicle.
Captain M`Call, 70th Highlanders, was robbed on
Monday evening of 201. It appears that whilst at
mass some person entered his quarters, and broke
open a desk, from which two 101. notes were ab-
stracted. Two other 10/. notes were also in the desk,
but were not taken.—Nenogh Guardian.
A fire broke out on Wednesday evening last, about
the hour of six o'clock, in the haggard of Mr. James
Kennedy, of ltedeen, near Lorrha, which was en-
tirely consumed, together with his dwelling-house,
out-offices, &c. This is the third time Me. Ken-
nedy's property has been burned. Hsi is insured for
2001. in the Alliance Company.—Tipperary Vindi-
cator.
BALLYHALE TENANT PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The
second meeting of this body was held on Wednesday
last, at two o'clock, and was very numerously attended.
Tenant farmers from several estates in the parish,
anxious to learn the object of this society and the
rule.; by which the members are to be guided, assembled
at the rooms long before the hour of meeting. All
seemed to take the liveliest interest in the proceedings.
Fourteen new member& were enrolled. Several notices
of motion were given for the next day of meeting,
when the committee will begin its work of usefulness.
—Tipperary Free Press.
Some nights since four persons called at the house
of Lara, the residence of Martin O'Connor, Esq.,
and inquired if he was at home. On being informed
that he was not, but was shortly expected, they
left the hall door and returned by the avenue, but
had not proceeded far when Mr. O'Connor drove
up. lie was instantly attacked, and robbed of 251.
A few nights after, a gang of the same ruffians pro-
ceeded to Fortwilliam, in the same neighbourhood, the
residence of Patrick J. Tighe, Esq. (who happened to
be in Dublin), for the purpose of robbing it. But before
they made any attempt to effect an entrance, they
were perceived by some of Mr. Tighe's men, who
gave the alarm.—Roscommon Journal.
ASSAULT.—Wednesday night last, three fellows,
armed with loaded butts, went to the house of Michael
Madden, a farmer residing at Clonkelly, and fractured
his skull. Msdden's corn was at the time under
seizure, on a civil bill decree, and it was by parties
connected with the plaintiff in the decree by whom he
was beaten—two of whom were arrested by the
Crinkle police.—King's County Chronicle.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—About one o'clock p.m. on
Monday, as a servant of Mr. Robert Dowd, of Bruena
Mills, was returning from Roscrea branch of the
Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, he was stopped within
a few yards of the spot on which a servant of the same
gentleman was robbed before. In the present case
the robbers took the sum of 51. in silver, and half-
notes to the amount of 951., with which they made off
across the fields, in the direction of Shinrone, sharply
pursued by a party of the ttoscrea police, under corn •
mand of Constable Waters, but without success.—
t Tipperary Vindicator.

SCOTCH WHISICEL—We observe that some casks
of Scotch whiskey were recently returned into one of the
Scotch ports, after having been shipped to the West Tu
dies, fur the purpose of improving the spirit by the
voyage. We are not cognizant of a practice of the kind
having existed, or of British spirits having before been
sent on a voyage to the Indies and back v)lely for the
purpose of improving the spirit, although such a mode of
precaeding is found to have so beneficial an effect on
Cape and also other wines, and the fact of such a pro-
ceeding in the present instance having been adopted, is
of some interest.

BUT TOUR LEAVES. —Another enormous Blue-book
has just been issued by the Select Committee appointed
to Inquire into the Woods and Forests. We understand
that there will be several more reports, and it is pro-
bable that every tree in every wood and forest will
eventually have a separate leaf. Perhaps, if the result
is that the Woods and Forests turn over new leaves, the
expense may be bent ficial after all.—Punch.
oia Experience
EDUCATION.— pointing out the
road to Young Nature —a mental railway, beginning at
birth, and t oak LIM eternity.—Eliza Cvoit's Journai.