The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 19.—The accounts from various parts
of the country show that symptoms of discontent and
insubordination are apparent during the transition from
employment on the public works to the new relief system;
but there has been no actual outbreak ; although the
peasantry are suffering the deepest destitution. In
Youghal, county Cork, and in some parts of the
county of Galway, the authorities deemed it necessary
to have military and police in readiness ; but there has
been, fortunately, no necessity for their intervention.
The unfeeling conduct of some of the local gentry has
been calculated to produce a popular ferment. The
Ballinasloe Star, a Conservative paper, contains the fol-
lowing statement on this subject
We have heard a well authenticated report of some
evictions in the neighbourhood of Eyrecourt. Some
days since a suffering human being begged sorne:hing
to relieve the pangs of hunger from a gentleman not
very distant from this town ; although he could afford
relief—the unfeeling answer made to the wort!l tale of
destitution was, " Go, eat grass!" The sequel to this
disgraceful anecdote is, that the wretched man died of
starvation before night. What wonder, then, is it, if
we hear daily and nightly rumours of collected mobs
in the face of such ungentleness as this ? Such cynical
language is more galling than sheer neglect. From
this and other causes we are sorry to say that this
neighbourhood is not by any means as peaceable as it
has been. The cry of disaffection is now at last
striking on our ear; several gentlemen have received
threatening letters. On last Sunday a report cir-
culated through this town, that another and a worse
visitation was contemplated by the disemployed labourers
from the parish of Moore. The authorities acted at
once, by sending for a troop of Hussars to Athlone.
The arrival of this force prevented any meeting if such
were ever contemplated, and the troops retnrned to their
quarters in peace on Tuesday. Instead of an armed
band of infuriate peasantry, our streets are every day
crowded with numbers of poor creatures in quest of food
and employment.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.
Further lamentable accounts have been received of the
ravages of pestilence in some counties of the south and
west.

PROVISIONS FOR SLlGo.—Captain Gilbert, n.E., Go-
vernment Inspector, has published an address to the relief
committee of that county, with a letter from Count de
Strzelecki, agent of the British Association, transmitting
500/. worth of provisions for the relief of the destitute.
Captain Gilbert thus closes the address :
"By an order received from the Commissioners of the
Board of Public Works, the present mode of relief, by
employing the people on the public works, will cease on
the Ist of May next ; it is, therefore, quite unnecessary
for me to point out the very short space of time remain-
ing for you and the Finance Committee to make arrange
ments for the new system of relief.—l have the honour
to be, gentlemen, your obedient, humble servant,
"F. Y. GILBERT,
" Captain Royal Engineers, Government Inspector."
CLONMEL, APRIL 17.—We regret to state that our re-
spected townsman, James Burke, Esq., and Mr. John
Power, of Priorstown, caught fever while attending their
duties as poor-law guardians in the workhouse of this
union, on Thursday week. The latter gentleman has
since died. Fever and dysentery are rapidly spreading.
TRALEE, APRIL 17.—The report of Dr. Alton to the
poor-law guardians, with respect to the frightful state of
Ratass Churchyard, surpasses in horror anything that has
occurred in our country for centuries. The bodies of the
dead are the chief, perhaps the only food of great packs
of famishing dogs, which nocturnally prowl about our
grave yard,, and scrape up the scara,2-burii d dead as their
food. In Killarney, Lord Ketanare has, wo have reason
to believe granted a new burial-ground; the old ones in
that district, as well as in this, and thoughout Kerry,
proving inadequate for the immense mortality. Unless
new grounds be opened at once, the heat of next month,
acting on the miasma generated in such abundance. may
produce a plague, transcending in horror any recorded
in history.
DINGLE, APRIL 16.—Arrived yesterday her Ma-
jesty's steamer Blazer, with oats and barley seeds. Since
the reduction on the public works, the mortality has been
so great that the obituary of this barony would fill a
large portion of our space. Fever and dysentery are
attacking all classes. The Rev. Mr. Hulooham, P.P., of
Dunurlin, and the Rev. Thadee Hamilton, Protestant
curate, are slowly recovering, It is supposed that our
population—over 20.000 last year—will be reduced one-
half at least.— Tralee Chronicle.

COUNTY OP MAYO, BALLINnonE.—We regret to state
that Dr. Molloy now lies ill of typhus fever; he was at-
tacked on the eve of departure from Ballinrobe, having
succeeded in removing fever from the poor- house, which
had 700 ill when he was sent down by the Board of
Health a month since.—lbid.

GALWAY, APRIL 17.—At the meeting of the poor-law
guardians on Wednesday, there were sixty paupers ad-
mitted, as several of the inmates, amounting to about two
hundred, have left the house having in view the prospect
of out-door relief.—Aid.

THE CROPS.—TILLAGE OF THE LAND.
Notwithstanding the continuance of ungenial wea-
ther, the reports of the crops are still favourable, and
generally, fair progress has been made in the tillage of
the land.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION—THIS DAY.
The weekly meeting of the association was held this
day.
Mr. J. A. DUNNE in the chair. The chairman hav-
ing addressed the meeting on some matters of local in-
terest,

Mr: J. CONNELL, in reply to an annonymolis letter,
which expressed a wish that some authentic state-
ment with regard to the actual state of his father's
health should be published, observed that the accounts
published in the Frienzn's Journal were strictly
correct, and might be relied upon as conveying the
fullest information. The Honourable Gentleman sub-
sequently addressed the meeting at considerably length,
censuring in the most emphatic manner the conduct of
the House of Commons in rejecting Mr. Watson's Bill.
With regard to the Vagrancy Act for Ireland, it was
his decided conviction that such a measure would bo
wholly inoperative, and productive of the very worst
results.
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Americana
for their sympathy to Ireland, and an address voted to
Captain Forbes, of the Jamestown, the rent for the
week was auziounced to be 344 15e. 10d.