The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

p JAN. 4.—ln consequence of the frequent
outrages
ban been committed in some parts of
• a Privy Council was held yes-
terday at the Council Chamber, Dublin Castle. There
the
countyujL I I '
whichof
were present bis Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, the
Lord Chancellor, the Chief Justice, the Master of the
Rolls, the Recorder, the Donegal
Right Hon. R. W. Greene, the
Judge of the Prerogative Court, the Chief Secretary,
and the Attorney- General.
A proclamation was agreed upon, under the 11th of
Victoria, the Act for the Better Prevention of Crime
and Outrage in Ireland, declaring that from and after
Monday, the Bth day of the month of January instant,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, the said Act
shall apply to and be in force in and for the electoral
division of Tawhawully, in the barony of Tyrhugh, in
the poor-law union of Donegal, and in the county of
Donegal.

During the past week,
Hillsborough Castle, the resi-
der.co of the Most Hon, the Marquis of Downshire, has
been the scene of brilliant festivities. A temporary
theatre has been tastefully and elegantly fitted up, under
the superintendence of the Marchioness, for an amateur
performance, which took place on Wednesday, under the
patronage of the youthful Earl of Hillsborough, in the
presence of a large number of the elite of the town and
neighbourhood, who had been invited to witness it, and
which passed off with great éclat, those present ex-
pressing themselves highly delighted with the per-
formance.
Lord Clarina is likely to succeed to the Irish Repre-
sentative Peerage, vacant by the death of Lord Dunsany.
The Rev. James O'Donnell, R.C.C., of Askeaton, when
returning from a christening on Saturday night, acci-
dentally fell into the river and was drowned.
The following are some extracts from the Nenagh
Guardian of yesterday :
"On New Year's-day, while the Rev. Mr. Scanlan, of
Bourns, and his curate, the Rev. Mr. Maher, were at-
tending their chapels at Clonakenny and Corraguneen,
two men armed with pistols, and having their faces dis-
guised, entered the house of the former at Bourne, pre-
seated a pistol at the servant girl, Bridget Tracey, the
'
only inmate of the house at the time, and crdered her
to go on her knees and hold down her head. Having im-
mediately complied with this threatening mandate, one
of the fellows stood over her as a sentinel while the
other proceeded to Father Scanlan's room, and having
ransacked every portion of it, he came to the object of
his search, a box which he broke open, and robbed of
141. in silver, which Father Scanlan had received as part
,
of his Christmas collection.
" The peuperised state of this union may be ascer-
tained from the fact that there are 2,800 inmates in the
workhouse, scarcely fifty of whom can be called able-
bodied.' In the electoral division of To( merara—a
second Skibbereen--there are about 1,000 persons,
more than half the population, in the most destitute cir-
cumstances. Two hundred persons were admitted into
the workhouse last week, and a similar nurnbc r the week 1
before.

61 On the night of the 31st ultimo, nine men, armed
with guns and pistols, entered the house of Mr. Patrick
Slerin, Litbony, miller, and demanded fire arms. Mr.
Sevin was not at home at the time, and to their dematal
not being granted they administered an oath to Mrs.
Slevin as to whether there were any fire arms in the