The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-24 00:00:00

to conciliate the people, even though persecuted, and-prevent
an owbreak of that• di3content, which, from hopes of better
thing.: daring the last few years, had almost subsided. But
if their endeavours shall not succeed better in legislation, cr
if their opponents persevere in thwarting the Irish measures,
I fear the consequences herein stated as likely to ensue, from
the more latent, but not less certain symptoms of the present
state of eland, will ba realteed. It is with the hope that
good men of all parties will be unanimous in preventing a
worse state of things than exists at present, I have ventured
to draw public attention to matters, which, in the calm of
comparative tranquillity and content, may not be foreseen, or
he disregarded. The two cases already mentioned, however,
out of the multitude of the same kind that miJ,lit be cited,
will abundsnily prove the operation of a system alike destruc,
five of present and future peace and national improvement,
and may tend more to the elucidation of the truth, as regards
this country than a recital of the more ordinary of passing
events.

LORD BANDON'S TENANTRY.—The case of Lord Bandon's
tenantry upon his estete of Kinneigh, in the west of the
county of Cork, to which the recent extraordinary proceedings
attempted to be instituted against them have given notoriety,
is again refared to in the Cork Southern Reporter, %liich
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we have received to-day. Mr. Swete, Lord Baia m's agent,
on the 30th of November last, published A lettee, which i!.:0-11:
republished, purporting to assign the reasons for (hiving from
their homes, and deprivirg of their means of livelihood, some
hundreds of unfortunate creatures. Gentlemen resident in
the vicinity of the town, connexions of the Bandon family, and
professing to speak the sentiments of its head, but probably
without sufficient, or any authority whatever, explained the
cause of expulsion in summary terms to be, that the delin-
quents were Catholics, and that the Noble Lord had formed
the determination of never letting land to any perscn rrofes.s-
ing that creed. Mr. Swote may be considered an authorized
expositor of the Noble Lord's views, and we therefore extract
from that gentleman's letter the paragraph which purports to
set forth the grounds of expelling the tenantry:—
" The farms In question, for half a century out of Lord
Bandon's controul, fell into his hands, by the death of Mr. H.
Gillman, the sole tenant. The question arose, was Lord Ban-
don to recognize immediately the tenants of Mr. Gillman as
his own ? He must inquire into the state of the district in
which they lived. He did so, and he found it confessedly and
unfortunately notorious for crime, disaffected in no ordinary
degree during the disturbed times of 1822, &c. ; the scene of
not unfrequent and recent murder, which could be brought to
light; the land on which but lately two of the revenue police-
men had been barbarously massacred in open day before a
crowd of witnesses, not one of w hem would convict the well-
:
well-
known murderers ; the head-quarters of illicit distillation, with
its ruinous evils. Ile, moreover, found the village connecßandonwith it in a demoralized condition. Should Lord Bandon
have quietly continued this state of things ? Every lover of
peace and morality would decide not. He felt the same."
After showing the utter groundlessness, the insufficiency,
the inconsistency, and absurdity of the reasons assigned by his
Lordship's agent, the Reporter makes the following observa-
tions :—" The legal proceedings in this matter reported in our
last number are absolutely without parellel or precedent, and
such as must engage the attention and excite the astonishment
of the whole country. Here is a proceeding at the instance
of a Nobleman—amember himself of the final Appellate Juris-
diction of the Empire—and whose legal proceedings, when he
was obliged to have recourse to them, should he looked to as
offording an example of every thing strictly correct and regular,
and what do we find? First, a summary proceeding, of doubt-
NI legality, adopted on the authority of the antiquated and ob-
solete statutes, and two magistrates, whose knowledge of law
must be presumed to be moderate, required to act in a ease
which would require all the teeming and experience of a court
of super ior jurisdiction, Neet, an assessor appointed, ex parte,
.t the instance of Lord Bandon's attorney; and finally the
same attorney returning the jury under the authority of the
Sheriff. Lest this latter statement may appear incredible, we
re-publish the following passage from the report of the pro-
ceedings in our last publication :
" Assessor—l'll make a note of the irregularity com-
plained
returnedrFc.ournsna yere the—tt _r Jdßurbyye theLuilstaad " Mr. Bullen—Of the fact that the plaintiff's agent filled
up and .
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authority.
Pray,
show it me."

" Since the foregoing was written and in type, we have re.
ceived information which, wider all circumstances, we deem
somewhat satisfactory, at least for the present.
" We understand that the High Sheriff of the County has
declined to comply with the new precept issued by the Magis-
trates, Mr. Gore Jones and Mr. Conner, of Manch, who so
creditably conducted themselves at the sessions on Saturday,
to issue a new jury for to-morrow, intimating that ho would
take it upon himself to suspend making any return until he
.liould be further advised in the matter, the proceeding being
heretofore without precedent in his Bailiwick."
Loan BANDON'S TENANTRY.—(From the cork Southern
Reporter of Saturday last. ) Something in the shape of a de-
fence of these proceedings is at length attempted, The first
point made is an ingenious one. " The pet'iol'es whom Lord
Bandon has resolved on ejecting are not, end never were, his
tenants, or the tenants of any of his family. Mr. Gillman was
c nf. ssedly the sole tenant of these ground:, and if he chose to
sub-let them it was an act over which Lord Bandon had no
control, which probably was nioat contrary to his wish, and at
all events part-of a system which, next to Popery, has been the
most fruitful source of the misery and degradation that have so
long afflicted the country—a system the evils of which became at
length to intolerable as to call for the interposition of the Legisla-
ture to put a stop to it by the passing of the Sub-letting Act,"
In order to do every justice to this brilliant suggetAion, ss
give it in the terms in which it appears in the Constitution of
this morning. Mr. Gillman was the solo tenant to a great
tract of laud, and according to the doctrine above indicated,
should, w e presume, have been its sole occupant. That Mr.
Gillman, and the members of' his family who preceded him as-
the immediate tenants of Lord Bandon, and his ancestors,
were not the sole occupants of this large tract, but sub-let it
in farms of a suitable size to industrious and improving tenants,
was " part of the system which, next to Popery, has been the
most fruitful source of the misery and degradation that have so
long afflicted the: country." The two sources of the evils
which desolate the country are here clearly developed. Popery
is one, and that a single tenant should not be the exclusive
occupant of an immense tract of land, is the other.
The proceeding on these obsolete statutes will, it seems, be
persevered in, though no instance has occurred of their 'levies-
been put in force in this country. Serious doubts, we under-
stand, exist, whether they are law in Ireland—doubts
strengthened by the fact of their having never been acted on.
Supposing
moat
that qu..stion to be raised before Mr. Gore Jones
and
serious difficulty attendant on this anomalous procedure
is,
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difficult legal questions arc likely to be stirred, fit only
a
for discussion and decision in a superior Court, which two Me-
, gistrates, moderately skilled in law, arc expected to dispose of,
utniand. The Sheriff has, it appears, taken time to make a
; return to the second p:ecept which has been issued, and it is
Doherty will figure in the capacity of Returning
I not probable that on the next Court day at the Balineen Ses-
M"The publicity which has been c,ffi er. given to the proceed-
ingstines will at least prevent that anomaly.

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On Saturday morning, about half-pastye„rs of age, the son of respectable parents, residing
in \\lite Lion-street, Pentonville, was proceeding along
a youth named Alfred Digby,
when a dog that was on the step of
• a door suddenly flew out on him, and fastening on his right
cheek, bit completely through it. The owner of the dog is
not known.
SACRILEGE.—On Wednesday night some fellow
otCl'icrirlootsecsekfs;treet, Islington,
perpetrated the following shameful robbery in Hereford Ca-
thedral. Ile, appears to have concealed himself in the Cathe-
dral during prayers, and afterwards proceeded to the library,
where he-succeeded in carrying of Bishop Trillick's crosier,
the episcopal ring (having an amethyst set in gold), and the
bulls or seal belonging to it. All these valuable relics were
found some years since in digging the grave covering the
Bishop's remains, and where they had been deposited in the
year 1340. It is supposed that the thief has taken these
things for the purpose of selling them to some antiquary,—
Hereford Journal.
On Tuesday a joiner named John Robertson, who
was employed in some alterations at the Gas Works, missed
his footing on a beam 20 feet from the ground, and fell upon
a piece of cast iron machinery, and was killed upon the spot.
One of his arms was broken in two places, and several of his
ribs were fractured. He was about 50 years of age, and has
left a widow and ono son.—Edinburgh Courant.
On Saturday, at the Insolvent Debtors' Court,
Simon Dickson Horsley was opposed by Mr. Mansfield, the
proprietor of the Russell Tay.;.rn, Covent-garden Piazzas, and
by Mr. Harding, of Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street. In the
course of the insolvent's examination, he stated that he was a
Doctor of Medicine in New York, and that he was a native of
the United States, and that his father left very limited property
in the State of Massachusetts; that he died many years ago,,
and, upon the insolvent becoming of age, be had sold his in-
terest in this farm, and had spent the money long ago ; tkis
having taken place four years since, and that he received
the country term)
re-
mittances from his mother to the amount of about 1,000 dollars
annually ; she .was a " common tradeswomar." (according to!
hoyv—(a laugh)-he attributed his insolvency to living boyondl
in New York ; he got into th© bills some..'
hi, means. Mr. Mansfield stated that the insolvent owed hind
1541., and had paid him 1001. from June to December last;
be represented himself as possessed of property in America,
worth 800/. or 1,0001. a year; ho had given witness a bill o
his mother, and then countermanded it in a letter to her. Mr
Harding
' stated that the insolvent owed him 41/. ; he had re.
eeived 34/. ; he had been put to 25/. expense by the insolvents)
defending the action, The Court, in pronouncing judgment,
commented severely on the conduct of Mr. Mansfield, an en
couraging such reckless expenditure, and said thel would not
remand the insolvent at his suit ; but at the t',',lit Of Mr. Hard-
ing he was adjudged to five rnontW imprisonment,
Ott oc%iiutlay the immense in.nutactoty of Mr. J.
Bright, at Rochdale', which -Ws a frontage of 171 feet in
length, and was five 444.4.1 es high, was, with all the InachinerY,
completely burned to the ground, The loss exceeds 30,0004,
but it is nearly covered by the insurance,—.shellieici iit-
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