The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DISROLUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE.—After two days' de-
bate at the adjourned meeting of the Grand Lodge held on
Friday last at the Merchants' Hall, the question of dissolution
or no dissolution being then put, was carried by a majority
of 20 ; the numbers being 59 against and 79 for dissolving the
Institution. The first day was occnpied with speeches expla-
natory of the grounds on which they recommended a dissolu-
tion. The chair was occupied by Lord Roden. The three
resolutions which were adopted by the meeting are thus de-
scribed by the Register :—" The first is the determination of
the fiere. and unforgiving associates to submit to the fate which
otherwise would be forced upon them ; and the loyalty of the
crew may be tested by the fact, that the division upon the
question exhibited sixty-two dissentients in a gathering of one
hundred and fifty-four I The next resolution is one commiting
the books and papers of the body to the holy custody of the
Earl of Roden, appointing a committee to announce the de-
termination of the Grand Lodge to the country subordinates,
and determining that the funds of the body shall be placed
in the Bank, to the credit of the Earl of Roden and a com-
mittee. The last resolve is that thing of form, a vote of thanks
to the chairman, the said Earl of Roden."
There is a place in Mayo, called Clare Island, in which the
wretches are described as reduced to the most miserable desti-
tution, in consequence of the failure of the crops for the last
three years, and the ruinous effects of the storms. We
abridge the statement from a Mayo paper The processes
of ejectment having been executed last week by Malley, the
Sub-sheriff's bailiff, accompanied by his drivers—they levelled
with the ground about twenty houses, nailed about thirty more
with twelve-penny nails—not a house escaped the desolation,
but those of such as were enabled to redeem their leases by
paying the last farthing due of them to this moment, along
with paying them what costs they were ordered to pay by the
bailiffs, who, of, course, did not wrong themselves. Many of
them have succeeded, by reducing themselves to the next
stage to beggary (aided by an accidental take of herrings
which was had here this winter), in keeping possession for
this year. But what will your readers think of the treatment
received by John Malley, who, after giving possession of his
house to the bailiff, underwent the mortification of looking at
his aged mother dragged out of her dying bed by the drivers,
and thrown out on a dunghill—and viewing his six children
screaming while looking on the agents of desolation levelling
with the earth that luckless habitation. The executioners
proceeded next to arrest the wretched father, who was a specta-
tor, and conveyed him to the far-famed castle of Grana Uaile,
and locked him up there with Anthony Joyce, Martin Ruddy,
Patt Cannon, Lawrence Cannon, and John Gallagher, and
detained them in this dungeon during three days and three
nights, without light, without food, without a seat to sit on,
unless they stretched on the heaps of remains, or swam in the
brine of rotten herrings with which the dungeon was befouled."
The Commercial prospects of the country arc progressing.
The change is every day more sensibly felt ; commerce and
speculation, the life-blood of a nation's prosperity, are progres-
sively advancing, and each portion of the community has be-
gun to participate in the advantages held out to all. There
has not been a period within the recollection of the oldest in-
habitants when the different branches of trade enjoyed such a
flourishing condition.—Waterford Chronicle.