The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

FEVER AND DESTITUTION.

There is still a great extent of suffering, notwith-
standing the general establishment of relief com-
mittees, and the immense amount expended on the
out-door relief system.
The Sligo Champion gives the following account of
the dreadful state of that district :

"The town and its environs are in a truly awful
state. Out of all the houses upon ten townlands in
the district of Ransborough, not a single house is free
from infectious distemper. In Sligo we are in a con-
dition which people would not credit. 'We are sur-
rounded upon all sides with fever —it is everywhere,
and it is growing hourly worse; it is not only increas-
ing, but it is assuming a more malignant character.
The fever hospitals are crowded, so are the fever sheds,
and outside of the doors, on the cold earth, may be
seen a number of fever patients, varying from ten
to fifteen, every day and every night. The weather,
too, is becoming intensely hot, and we have, there-
fore, no rational grounds for hoping that the dis-
ease will be mitigated. One very curious and im-
portant fact has been noticed respecting the
prevalent fever, which is deserving of considera-
tion. We think it establishes beyond dispute the
necessity of thorough ventilation where fever pa-
tients are confined. When the fever hospitals were
crowded, tents were speedily erected in the open air.
They could scarcely be called covering ; the wind had
almost free access through them. All the patients
confined in those tents are recovering, while the rich,
who have comforts and attendance, are, when attacked,
dying like rotten sheep."
There are also very bad accounts from Galway,
Athlone, and from some parts of the county of Cork.
A letter from South Reen, in the latter county, says :
—" I have now to mention the lamentable fact, that
out of 62 houses and 320 inhabitants on the farm of
South Reen, two years since, there now remain, after
the ravages of disease and poverty, but 8 hovels and
about 50 people—the houses were pulled down for
firing, and the people carried off by fever. At this
moment I have no doubt but dead bodies are putrify-
ing beneath the remains of the deserted huts."
The poor-law guardians of Galway have passed
resolutions to the effect that they owe 5,000/. ; that it
is hopeless to collect a rate, and that unless the Go-
ernment make an advance they must close the work-
house.

THE PROVISION FLEET AT COVE.
The Cork Reporter of Saturday says :—" The
supply of food still continues to pour into our noble
harbour. On yesterday (Friday) the number of
vessels that entered the port was fifteen, having on
board 1,528 tons of maize, 1,296 tons f wheat, 459
tons of flour, and 218 tons of barley, making a total
of 3,500 tons of bread-stuffs. Since our last a large
number of vessels, that had previously arrived, left
Cove for various parts of the kingdom, bearing much-
wished for quantities of food to places where their
arrival will be most seasonable. We are much re-
joiced to learn that the reports circulated with respect
to the damaged condition of many of the cargoes are
greatly exaggerated. Some have slightly suffered,
but not to any serious extent."
IRISH L A NDLOR DS.—RAILWAYS.
In the Rolls Court on Saturday, in the case of the
Great Southern and Western Railway Company v.
Patrick Carey, Mr. D. Lynch, on behalf of Carey,
applied to have paid out of Court a sum of 2001.,
lodged by the Company in bank, being the amount
of
_purchase money,_ awarded him, his title having
been found defective, and he having since cleared
it up.
Mr. Scully, on behalf of Thomas Bennett, the land-
lord of Carey, moved that the money should be ap-
plied, in the first instance, in payment of an arrear of
rest, amounting to 174/., due out of the whole lands
devised by lease from Bennett to Carey, of which a
portion was taken by the company.
The Master of the Rolls refused to appropriate any
portion of the purchase-money as applied for by Mr.
Scully. The landlords in Ireland had ample means
afforded them for recovery of their rent, and in al-
most every instance which came before him in that
court he found they had got, not only the full value,
but in some instances more than double the value of
their lands from railway companies. He would leave
Mr. Bennett to recover his rent by ejectment against
the remainder of the lands not taken by the com-
pany, or by action against his tenant, as he might be
advised, and ordered the money to be paid to Carey.

EVICTION OF TENANTRY.
The Sligo Champion states that a nobleman pos•
sessing an estate in that county is carrying on the
extermination system—that "he lately levelled
several houses—the houses of widows too—and now
he has served several hundred processes of ejectment."
ARRIVAL OF TI4E BIRKENHEAD WAR
STEAMER.
KINGSTOWN, SUNDAY.—One of the largest iron
men-of-war in her Majesty's navy—perhaps in the
world—arrived in Kingstown Harbour yesterday, at
two o'clock, and in half an hour afterwards moored
alongside the wooden jetty, where she now lies. This
chance visit is for the purpose of conveying away
troops.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the Association was held
this day, Richard Kelly, Esq., in the chair. The
business of the day was commenced by the reading
of various addresses of condolence from different
parts of the country to the family of the late Mr.
O'Connell.

Mr. John O'Connell submitted to the meeting the
following letter from the right reverend Dr. Cantwell,
Bishop of Meath:—

"Mullingar, June 19, 1847.
"My dear Friend,—l request you will do me the
honour to hand in to the association my subscription
for 51. for the year 1847. At no former period could
the association hope to enlist such warm co-operation
from every true friend of Ireland. The sad condition
to which our unfortunate country is reduced, and the
treatment which she has received from an English
Parliament during this season of unexampled suffer-
ing, are sufficient to arouse every Irishman, who is
not lost to all sense of national honour or national
safety, into the most determined exertion to repeal
the miscalled act of union. While the proceedings of
the Conciliation Hall are conducted on the loyal,
Christian, and peaceful principles on which it was
founded by the illustrious and ever to be lamented
Liberator, you may calculate on the steady support
of the faithful clergy and people of this diocese.
" The scene of unparalled wretchedness by which
we are everywhere surrounded--the inhuman course
pursued by the present Ministry—the inadequacy of
their measures to save the lives of the famishing mil-
lions—the present Legislation tending, or rather
producing the certainty of beggaring the rich and
starving the destitute—the utter disregard of Irish
feeling, the total ignorance of Irish wants, and tho
rough indifference of Irish interests evinced by Eng-
land, whether Whig or Tory—these extinguish in us
every hope for our oppressed and misgovered coun-
try, save what is to be derived from a domestie Par-
liament.
" I cannot better convey to you my feelings and
wishes than by assuring you that .1 echo every senti-
ment expressed, and most cordially concur in the
practical suggestions contained in the admirable letter
of my venerated friend the Bishop of Ardagh.
" May the Almighty bless you and your patriotic
colleagues with the spirit of wisdom, prudence, and
peace ; may he guide your councils, and strengthen
you speedily to accomplish an event involving alike
the safety of England and the prosperity of Ireland
" I have the honour to remain, my dear friend,
" Your ever faithful and devoted servant,
" JOHN CANTWELL.

• "To John O'Connell, M.E, &c. Sze."
Mr. O'CONNELL moved the insertion of the fore-
going document in the minutes, and then read the
annexed letter from the Hon. Cecil Lawless, M.P.,
enclosing his subscription :
"My dear O'Connell,—ln writing to you at this
moment, I must begin by expressing what I am sure
you will know is sincere, my earnest sympathy with
you and your family in the irreparable private and
public loss you have sustained.
" I do assure you that nothing but the conscious-
ness of how totally unequal I am to the task has
hitherto prevented my calling on Parliament for a tri-
bute of respect to the illustrious departed, but it has
been with the hope that some one better qualified to do
justice to the theme should do so. It will be a last-
ing disgace to their highly gifted ones if they eon_
myself, feel themselves unworthy of a
approved -s
tinue to maintain their present silence, but perhaps
they all, like
proaching such a subject.
p-
"lth
of
think that tpheiasceisfual tpiomliecyw,haenndewvehro mean toy one who
continue, by the same means, to strive for in de pen
dente, should declare it by more than words, and so,
acting upon this opinion, I send you ten pounds as
my extra subscription towards the maintenance of his
Conciliation Hall.
"I am, my dear JouchintlycOi' O'Connell,
yours,n n
LAWLESS."
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"Very faith!,
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addressed by Mr.
MAURICE O'CONNELL, Mr. REYNOLDS, and others,
at the termination of the proceedings
s the rent for the
week was announced to be 28/16 The meeting then adjourned.

Mr. Mac Donnell, from the Gambia, had an interview
with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The saes a-e —lilackb urn, Clitheroe,
&c., Preference, 11/, p.—East Larceshire, dis.—East Lin.
colnshire, 1 p. ex int.—Glasgow and Dumfries, par—Glas-
gow, Paisley, and Greenock, Preference, par—Great North-
ern, 11h dis.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, s P'
Kendal and Windermere, 2 dis.—Leeds and Thirak, 6
Leicester and 13edford,14 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 1% p.—London and North-Western, 1791 —Ditto,
New Quarters, 111/$ p. —London and South-Western, 67--
Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares, par—Ditto, Naives (late
L. and B.), 1% p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union),
ls. 3d. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 90—
Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 734 dis.—Midland,
12517 —Ditto, 40/. Shares, 6%p.—Ditto, New, 3% p•--Ner
castle and Berwick, New, 2% p.—North Staffordshire, 274
p.—South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, dis.—Yerk
and Newcastle, Preference, 3% p.—Belfast and Ballymena,
11 dis.

MANCHESTER, JUNE 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, lOttiDgd-
ham, and Boston, 114 c. dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, an
Cheshire, 1 15-16 dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction,
714 p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials,
Northern, 1 9-16 c. dis.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester,
114 p.-London, Brighton, and South C0a5t,54.3/4-London
and North-Western, 180-Ditto (Manchester and Birming-
ham), 701,4-Ditto, Quarters (B), p.-Ditto, Quarters
(C), 6 7-16 p.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
Quarters, No. 1, 23,E p.-Manchester and Southampton, 315'
dis.-Midland Railway Consols, 1241,4-North Staffordshire!
23/ p.--North-Western, 1 7-16 dis.--Oldham Alliance, 7-16
dis.-Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 4% p.-Shropshire
Union, 1% dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, dis.
South Staffordshire, % dis.
LEEDS, JUNE 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-East Lancashire,
Newt
12s. 6d. c. dis.-East and West Yorkshire, 30s. 6d. Ells.--
Great Northern, 31s. dis.-Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 151-
p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 53 dis.-Ditto, New sc. dis-
Preference, 14s. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield. and Midland, 225.
6d. dis.-Manchester and Leeds, West Riding Union, Is. P.
-North British, Extension, 2s. p.-North Staffordshire, 2,4
p.-North-Western, 28s. n. dis.-York and Newcastle, P"
ference, p.
HULL, JUNE 23. Ditto,
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New,
15s. dis.-Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 2s.
p.-Newcastle and Berwick, New, 475.-North British,
tension (scrip), 2s. 9d. p.-Shropshire Union, 38s. di"'
York and Newcastle, Preference, 3% p.
EDINBURGH, JUNE 22.
Srocx EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen,
Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271
55.-Ditto, Halves, 151.---Ayr and Galloway, 21. 2s. 6c1.--
Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21. 25.-Caledonian and Dum-
bartonshire, 1/, -155.-Clydesdale Junction, 424 10s.-1•7
side, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, IL 75-
,b`"
-Dundee and Arbroath, 381.-Ditto. New, No, 1, 271 14,17
-Ditto, New, No. 2, 304-Ditto, New, No. 3, a „23'„,78
-Dundee and Northern Junction, 11. 10s. 6d.-Dundee
Perth, 321. IN.-Ditto, New, 131. -Ditto, Quarters, ,-
Bs.-East of Fife, 14 18s.-East Lothian Central, 1L lifia
6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. 15&-Edinburgh
Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Halves, 221.-Ditto, Quarters, 171 •
9d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181. 10s.-Ditta,lre:
ference, 20/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 24-Ditto, Quarters, 135.
Edinburgh and Northern, 18/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, ;54 td.
-Ditto, Newport, 71. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 21. 95., ef.
-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), IL Is.-Ditto, 11111,L
65.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 1201.-Ditto, New Stock, 2:
10s.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 81. 195.-Ditto, Halves, Elio.
64 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51.
gow and Garnkirk, 38/. 10s.-Glasgow General Terminus,
121. 155.-Glasgow and Greenock, 17/ 10s.-Ditto, 111111
8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference. 84-Glasgow,
Ardrossan, 4/. 55.-Great North of Scotland, 1/. 175•
-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 4/. Bs. 6aand
Ditto (late London and York), 1/. 125.-NewcastiDittof
Berwick, 27/. 155.-North British, 32/. I7s. 6d.--
Halves, 151. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 41. 11s.
Kilmarnock, 11611
eA
Quarters (scrip), 155.-Dtto,Thirds 2/. 129. 6c1.--Pltt°,
Fifths, 6/. 10s.-Scottish Central, '274-Scottish Gram;
Junction, 195.-Scottish Midland, 181. 10s.-Shrewsbury and
Hereford, 10s.-Shrewsbury, OswestzT, and Chester, 91. luswar.,
Ditto, New, IL-Stirling and Dunfermline, 5L
ling and Midland, 2/. 65.-Wishaw and Coltness, -
-Ditto,24
York and Newcastle, 871. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 14/. 12siii::
-Ditto, Preference, 11/. 12s. 6d.-Direct Bombay and •
Sa
dras, 2s. 3d.-East Indian 2s. 9d.-Great North of India,
2s. 2s. 6d.-Great Southern of Madras, 28.-Madras,
and Arcot, Is. 6d.

GLASGOW, Juna 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, 14.0.
435. 6d.—Clydesdale Junction, 42 lA—Dundee and Arbr°'
New, No. 3, 65s.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, u 1,
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 120/.—llitto Halves, lw.,*,d
81. 193.—Ditto, No. 2,6/. 12s.—Glasgow, DulnfrLesSrav
Carlisle, 5/. 4s.—Great Southern of Madras, 15. 9d. ,
chester and Southampton, 10s.—York and Newcastle, Frefer
ence, 113%.

DESTRUCTIVE. FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.--A most
tde-
structive fire broke out last night, about half-past eleven
o'clock, on the extensive premises of Mr. Henry J11....n3r
and Son, Vauxhall-mill, opposite Tatlock street, Vern;
hall-road. Mr. Hewitt, accompanied by Mr. IN/1„e-,1.
and other officers of the constabulary, with six eng.Aei,
were at the scene of devastation in less than a (111 M'S
of an hour after the alarm was given, and rendered Ter,
valuable assistance. The premises, which are very sPsi
mous and lofty, being about ten stories in height,
completely crammed from the basement floor with lodia:.
corn arid meal, surmounted by a heavy portion of ir°d,
work, necessary for carrying on the operation of Vino,
ing the wheat, and other articles of grain, weighing' ir
are informed, upwards of three tons, were soon
sa
veloped in flames, and from the immense quantitay c oi:
bustible material, but a very short period had elflAPing,
before the flames attained the top of the buiwe",'.
But a very small portion of the contents could be 8
cured, and in less than an hour from its commencement
the building was reduced to a mere shell. From thntihni;
mense weight of metal at the top, it was suspedeu
the framework would burst, and should this beve,h°:
curred it is fearful to surmise the destruction of life
might have ensued. Messrs. Juni we are iofortbeils
are insured to a pretty considerablep' sum in several in-
surance offices, but to what amount we were unable die'
tinctly to ascertain. It appears that the machinery en
kept at work night and day, and a different set of ru
are in charge during the night. It was not for some to_l,_
after the alarm was given that the water from one bran::
could be obtained, but this was obviated in a great n° he
e
sure by the engines stationed on the margin nf the
canal. About an hour after the commencement of th
above, another alarm was given of a warehouse in Mas,elr
street being on fire, but this, fortunately, was cluin'!*
extinguished.
CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION. The
C 0132
Spountyh:,
Eastern and Continental Steam- packet
steam-ship the Lord Warden left Folkestone for
a B.
voeui
logne at SA. 3r. yesterday. The Prince Ernesat rr" left
at Folkestone from Boulogne at 7A. M. and g
a in e
Folkestone for Boulogne at 4 P. M., with 116 passeng re;
__
and the Lord Warden arrived at Folkestone from Bou-
logne at 5 P. se., with 50 passengers. of Let-
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—In the barn-yer a
toch (Mr. Morrison's farm), near Beauly, ben a„n
hen partridge are laying their eggs in one nest. soot
chuckie is robbed of hers every morning, but of coure?•
the partridge eggs are left in the nest, and quite a
little
war is waging betwixt the fowls for the privilege o
sitting upon them. Should the barn-door hen be trium-
phant, it will be interesting to notice how she will treat
the young birds, and how the young will treat her.
Mr. Morrison has taken every precaution to secure the
nest and the hens from marauding enemies.—lnverness
Courier.

SERIOUS ACClDENTS.—Yesterday the following ac'
cidents occurred, one of which, it is feared, will end
loss of life :—The first happened to a
,youth ramed
James M'Gregor, aged seventeen years. It seems that
ho was employed on board the Victoria, a trading vessel,
belonging to Goole, Yorkshire, and whilst in the act of
ascending a ladder he missed his footing, and fell a
depth of twenty feet down the hold. He was raised up
in an insensible condition, and carried ashore at Hay s
Wharf, Tooley-street, Southwark, and from thence to
the nearest surgeon. He had received a severe scalP
wound, dislocation of the clavicle, and concussion of the
brain, and was in such a condition that it was necessary
to remove him to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he noW
lies in a very precarious state. Another accident Nl'
curred to a man named George Wright, a bricklayer•
living at No. 25, Essex-street, Gravel•lane, Southwsrig•
He was at work on the roof of a house, when he,
'by.'
some means, lost his equilibrium, and fell into the yard
at the rear of the building, whereby he sustained a frac-
ture of the thigh, and such other contusions, that be 17"
taken to Guy's Hospital. He is progressing very fa-
vourably.

BIRTHS.
On the 21st inst., Mrs. J. W. Scott, of Abney-place, Stoke
Newington, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., at Lawn-place, North Brixton, Mrs. ;-
Fraser, of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Albion-place, Hyde-park-square, the
lady of Charles Crokat, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 21st inst , at Dunstable, the wife of John Pearse,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., in Bedford-square, the wife of Patrick
Black, M.D., of a son.
On the 22d inst., in Belgrave-square, her Grace the
Duchess of Montrose, of a son and heir.
On the 12th inst., Mrs. J. R. Rogers, of Pomeroy-street, of
a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at Park-place, Loughborough-road.
Brixton, the lady of W. J. West, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 18th inst., at the Mount, Sheffield, Mrs. Willett, of
a son, still-born.
On the 19th inst., at Edinburgh, the lady of Frederick
William Allfrey, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., the lady of Ephraim Mosely, Esq., or
Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 23d inst., at Bow, Middlesex, by the Rev. Thomas
Watson, M.A., Edward Eyre, Esq., of Maryland-point.
Stratford, to Margaret Julia, only daughter of Godfrey God-
dard, Esq., of Wood-street, Cheapside.
On the 17th inst., at St. George's, Hanover •square, Richard
Bland Lucas, of South Audley-street, to Eliza, daughter of
Mr. Richard Edwards, of Betshanger, Kent.
On the 19th inst., at St. Saviour's, Southwark, George
Rowland, Esq., of Holly Lodge, Heacham, Norfolk, to EliZat
third daughter of the late Rev. James Wright, Rector of East
Harling and Hinderclay, in the same county.
On the 19th inst., at St. John's, Notting-hill, Robert
Barnes, M. 8., of Park-road, Notting-hill, to Eliza, eldest
daughter of J. Fawkener, Esq., of Norland-place, Notting-
ag

DIED.
On the 7th inst., at Arezzo, in Tuscany, Mary Anne
Hawkes, wife of Philip Lovell Phillips, Esq., M.D., aged 33.
On the 19th inst., in Baker-street, Portman-square, Cap-
tain Thomas Smee, late of the Hon. E. I. C.'s. Service.
On the 19th inst., in London, G. R. Daniel, Esq., Q.C.
On the 20th inst., in Gloucester-row, Weymouth, France'',
eldest surviving daughter of the late T. Oliver, Esq.
On the 20th inst., in Gloucester-place, Portman-squar,
Clarkson Palmer, Esq., aged 82.
On the 2lst inst., at Gravesend, James Smith, Esq.
On the 21st inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Sarah Small, aged 82-
On the 21st inst., at Gravesend, Mrs. Twiss, widow of the
late W. Twiss, Esq.
On the 21st inst., at Brighton, Susan, the younger daughter
of Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P., aged 12.

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