The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

APRIL 15, 1847.

Alderman HUMPHEAT said the answer to that quf's.-
tiou would in some degree involve the Recorder. 111-
or,p)sition had been agreed to, and the Remembrance'.
had been natructed to draw up a Bill to repeal the 11th
of George 1., without the opinion of the Recorder and
Common Sergeant ; ho.vev,m, that officer c.Aild not get
on, and the It aiorder happened to be so oectipied that.
he could not give any opinlon on the subj, et. The
Le!.rned Gentl:•man, however, gave an opinion in th,
committee, which they followed. He said they ought
tu:t to proceed will the Bill. and the maj ,ri,y agreed
with that opinion. which showed what sound reformer,
they were.—(i,aughter.) Now he was prepared to sup-
p ,rt the Bill which he suggested, and which with one
clause would eff-ct all that was nne,sery, an t he w.
convinced it would meet with the approbation of Par
liarnent

The RECORDER willingly took upon himself the blam
of opp-snion to the grand remedy of the Hotiourahf
Alderman. He fervently hoped th.t the Court would
not think of proceedit g with a Bill so lle
hoped the Corporation sv,,u'd not meddle with the qua-
iification of elect-,..rs with•.tit in,.king alio to the
ca.ions of the elected. —(Hear, !war.) He thought i
%as contr,try to the tereats of the Aldermen to go to
Parliatnet.t to legislate without the
.sequiesenep
of the other branch of the Corporation—to attempt
to alter any of the institutions of the City with-
out the consent of the CQurt of Common Council.—
(Hear, hear.) He was opposed to the idea of gobbling
the Corp ration with a single clause—of carving out a
little novelty to send to Parliament to be licked int,,
shape.—(Laughter awl cries of s' Hear, hear.")
The petition of Mr. Ashurst was then referred to the
Committee, and the Court adjourned.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, APRIL 12.-PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION.-
The extent of the emigration this season fr. m all part-
of the country will far surpass all the calculatiena that
have been made upon theauhject. the peasantry--Ih4
lar,e as well as the small farmer and cottier—the cattle
and pig dealers, the small traders and shopkeeper:, are
flying from the country in all directions. A vat numb -r
of vessels employed in the brportation of food are taking
return cargoes of emigrants; but still there is not bale
enough of shipting accommodation at the various out-
ports, although great numbers proceed every tide to
Liverp, 01, or some other English port, to seek a passage
across the Atlantic. The progress of emigration Irma
the metropelis is thus described by the Dublin Evening
Poot:—
" There are now eleven vessels in berth in the river,
one for Quebec, ar:d two fur the United States. Every
ne of these will sail within the next five days ter the
American coast with nearly 5.000 emigrants from Ire-
land. About half the number of these will be provided
by their bete landlords with a free passage, rations ori
the voyage. and money on their arrival in America. We
believe the remainder of that number will proceed on
:heir own account, and after defraying the expenses in-
cident to their passage they will carry will them a very
cansiderable sum of money, the produce of their own
chattels which had been submitted to sale, added to the
remittances they had received from their friends, who
had had the geo_a! foe tune of being on American ground
before them."
CORK, APRIL 10,—The tide of emigration to America
seems. within these few days past, to have reached its
full height in this city. Though there are this year less
vessels leaving direct from Cork than usual, and the
passage money to New York is increased 50 per cent.,
the demand is beyond the power of local agents to ac-
commodate. The quays are daily thronged with cars
containing bedding, boxes, &c., belonging to the emi-
grants, the greater number of whom are from Kerry,
Limerick, and Tipperary. This morning the Nimrod
steamer, bound to Liverpool, left the quay with 1,080
deck passengers, besides children, who bad paid the
passage money, 109. each, to Liverpool, and it was cal-
culated there were at least 200 more wh r rushed on
board, and who were to have paid, as the vessel cleared
out between the quay and the passage. It may be easily-
conceived what those poor creatures would suft r on the
passage, be:ng absolutely as densely packed tagether
on the deck cif the steamer, as any " monster me eting "
we have ever seen assembhd. On Tuesday six hundred
and ten deck passengers sailed in the Ajax, direct to
L-endon, not one of whom came warn the denomina-
tion of a pauper, the greater number being able-
bodied labourers arid their families, and agricultural
and domestic servants. Many of the former were to
proceed to France, where they exp cted to get work
on the railroads. There were a great many females,
also, who went to look for employment as domestic
servants in England. Yesterday a vessel from Scot-
- •

land, in which 500 berths were engaged at Cork, passee
the harbour without calling, basing made up her fill
complement. there, and the agent will have tee send the
pe °plc., by Liverpool, the best way he can. Oar quays
are almost impassable from the crowd congregated On
them, seeking to obtain a passage to " the lard of
plenty," while numbers are every moment hurrying
through the streets making preparation for their respec•
tive voyagn. Mont of these eadgrents are of the better
elass of farmers, and, generally speaking, have had in-
terests in their farms, and small sums of money at their
disp,bil, la:it the failure of the potato trip, and the con-
seq tient burd4ns which have been placed on the land for
tl;e.repaytuctit taf kbALin-o'ney adverse, d by theßard of
Work., c 'opted with the ear of thi: introduction of Vie
contemplated sva'em 01 cut door relief, has crested sit, h
a panic amongst them. that they have thrown up their
farms to the ittnelloids, drawn out what m-ni-y they had
been saving for years from the hank, and are having n
country In which they saw nothing but roma staring them
in the face. The land which they have thrown up i., in
many cases, left untilled, in con,ecrtenee of the inahility
of the landlords to cultivate such large tracts; but there
are many instances in which the ground has been broke n
up and nown with oats. In many districts of the ciiunity
the cultivation of this crop during the present year is
unprecedented, but it is tar from b ing as economical a
grain for food as barley.—Cork Reporter.
EYRECOURT, COUNTY GALWAY.--Deep and dire is
the distress which pre veils here, and were proof of this
melancholy fact required, evidence of its truth may be
evinced from the• immense crowds of emigrants daily
departing from this land of wretchedness and woe.
leaving behind them friends, home, and country, and
not caring whither they may -he borne from this scene of
misery. Some are going to A-ryriea, some to Aus
and, in fact, to mostly every quarter of the known world.
where there might be a prospect of ameliorating their
present condition. Not alone persons who e ere eking out
a miserable subsistence by their daily labour, but men
who possess .d many " broad acres," and who could live
comfortably on their farms, are abandoning their hold-
ings, eager to fly. S.eme Tended proprietors in this
aoglib eurhood have purchased the farms of as many of
the telatets as may be disposed to emigrate; and, in
consequence thereof, the people, for miles round, are
busy waking preparations for the long journey, and so
intense is their desire to be away that they are
disposing of their effects at half their value, and
not even procuring the articles necessary for the
voyage. I can safely say one-third of our people
are gonig, or have gone. I have counted no less than
from 16 to 18 faceilies who have left a small district,
the extent of which is not more than a mile in cireutn-
ference ; and from one village near this toen, sixteen
young women are on the point of embarking for Ame-
rica, the majority of whom. it they staid at home, could
obtain a dowry of some 20/. each ; but still they are
better satisfied to trust themselves to chance in a pros-
perous and free country than live here at home, where,
like many whers, they might end their days in misery
and wretchedness. lam glad to have to inform you that
tn:irtality is considerably on the decrease since ray last
commutiicstion.—Galway Mercury.
WATERFORD.—Etnigration frotn the port of Water-
ford is increasing every day. The steamer
Penn sailed from our quay on Friday, carrying out to
Liverpool about six hundred American emigrants. Every
available portion of her decks, fore and aft, from stem to
stern, was crowded with passengers. It is confidently
asserted by persons who have an opportunity of knowing
it, that those emigrants carry out with them upwards of
10.000/. in cash.—ll atlrford Freeman.
GRAND CANAL.—lireat inconvenience has been_ felt
for the last two days in the town, by poor emigrants
and other passengers, in consequence of the boats being
prevented running as usual, by the bursting of a tunnel
between Shannon harbJur and Tullatnore. It will take
some days to repair the damage, and in the meantime the
passengers from Dublin will be conveyed on cars from
the breach to the fly-boat, by which means they will
reach Ballinasloe in the course of the day. The poor
emigrants who have been delayed here are the greatest
sufferers.— Ballinasloe Star.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.
Cork, Sligo, and two or three other southern and western
tiountks, are still most s3rely afflicted by pestilence.
Subjeined are some details supplied by the provincial
journals
CORE, APRIL 10.—MORTALITY AMONG THE rearm—
In cons. quence cif orders received from the constabulary
authorities, the police of this city have ceased to supply
coffins to the poor. The accounts from the several static's
have been furnished to Thursday night, the day on
the aid of the constabulary, in this particular, ceased.
In the Gaol-road district Acting Constable Casey ob-
-1 tamed 53 coffins from the Ist to the Bth instset, for that
numo,r of unfortunate people who had died within that
period ; and on yesterday, up to about two o'clock in
the evening, 24 or 25 more applications were made to
him, which, however, he was obliged to refuse. Le tins
same period (Ist to the Bth instant) Constable Porter
supplied 57 c: fflns-16 of which were given out on Wed•
nesday. In eleven of these eases the bodies were brought
tee the barracks, and left there, er in the old market, for
the police to coffin and bury! In 22 cases, out of the "
just mentioned, Constable Porter was obliged to hire en'
to convey the bodies to the g-aves, there being one tea
care whether they r•ated in the ground or above tone ti
care whether they r tied in the ground or above it We
understand that A.,ej ar'eter
Beamish, with his eh istict
ma
humanity, has de- arrangements for the supply of
coffins, till tile operations of the new relief coinmtteeare
in full work. The d-,aths from fever and destitution are
still as numerous us ever,: and, notwithitatidieg the re•
duction in the price of foeid, the people are fast dying off,
relief having come to thni'at*too late a period. Any
person walking up Great George's-street w, u:d be h.srri-
fled a, the scenes which mr et the eye. Thee eis scam ly
a ball doff:, or unoccupied shop, the door of which is
not taken up by a group of starving and exhausted ce
ea-
tures. and when the public thoroughfares pre seat such
& RielUre, in. what state luµst tl2O .10.12e5 aud

EXPORTS FROM WATERFORD.—It will appear to our
readers passing strange, that wheat tend flour are being -
shit p •d from a land wirer e thousands are daily perishing
of fatnin-. Wheat and fl rur are being shipped for Lis-
bon from the city of Waterford, end Indran ern to Me-
den a, from the city of Lcroloe.— If ct -ford Erccman.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the Association was held this
day, Mr Sullivan. iiiilieitor, in the chair. ,
.
The CHAIRNIAN, in siTeiv Wrist. expressed 'pis regret_
_,
__.
that the ov. rtures marl by Mr. John O'Connell on the
last day of meeting, to the Young Ireland part), for a
mconciliation. hid bees, r. js:cted.
Mr. JOHN O'CONSELL then adverted to the proceed-
ings of she .- Irish Conterb.ration" On Werine.ohy last,
whien, he observed, greatly depressed him. It had been
intimated to him shot. in making the advances towards
A reconciliation which he had made. he had gone too
or, and he had received conssnuoicatiosis from the
highest names in the essumry to that effect. The
speech of Mr. Smith O'Brien had tilled hint with
surprise. That gentleman had accompanied expres-
sions of personal kindisemi towards him (Mr. John
O'Connell) and his father with a charge against
them, which, if true, would have rendered them •
unworthy of the kindness or personal regard of any
man, and which ought to subject them to the reprobation
t-f every honest, good, and patriotic man in Iteleed—
(Cheers.) If they wer-' traitor:, tti the charge implied, .
they ought not to have been complimented, they ought
to have been denounced.—(Hear, heir.) If that charge
were true, the people ought to put them down—if the
charge were true, they shrruhl be driven with execration
from the political stage (Hear, hear)—and every man
con,cious of their delinquency in ant respect was him-
Self a deltnqueet; it' bolting a ptisitnen of influence he
did not use his t. flue nee in gmhering the opinion of the
people against them —(Cheers) Mr. Smii.h O'Brien
had charged them with a Whig alliance, and with the
most terrible consevences resulting from that alliance
—the death of the peon- from starva'ion. With
regard to that Whig alliance, he (Mr. O'Connell) did
not wish to use any term of personal off.-nce
to Mr. O'Brien—he would not for every light
and unguarded expression which a man might utter,
wish to violate the laws of God, and reply by
bitter and acrimonious language to those unguarded ex-
pressions.—(Cheers.) Ile tea: those exp, essions of Mr.
O' Brien as unguarded, and his answer to them was this
—without meaning offence to him or to any one what-
‘oever, but s lely in the vindication of his (Mr. O'Cone
lien's) character—that the assertion of a Whig alliance
between his father and himself was en utter, an entire,
and a most complete falsehood.—(Loud cheers.) A
falsehood without the shadow of truth.—(llear, hear.)
A falsehood that could not be supported. and therefore
tight not to have been advanced.—(Bear, hear.) A
fiLehood most cruel and grievous in its effects—a
faLehood lightly uttered, and erne which he challenged.
the man who uitered it to make good, or prove against
them.—(Cheers.) It might be stated that he (Mr. J.
O'Connell) was again showing the white feather, if he
added that he did not mean any personal offence to Mr.
O'Brien in using the emphatic expressions he had uttered.
Mr. Brien might have believed what he stated, but it
was not the less a talsehood.—(Cheers.) It was a false-
hood propagate d by the enemies of the country, and he
deeply regretted that Mr. O'Brien should have adopted
it up .n such light grounds without the shadow of proof,
or attempt at proot. To be sure Mr. O'Brien bad used
some personally exculpatory expressions towards them,
as if a-cribing the '• alliance" to an impaired state of
his (Mr. O'Connell's) father's faculties, or that he was a
traitor to Ireland without knowing it. They did
.not
tesraryedwassgs,masit
them by Mr. "rien ; let-it be proved.— (Cheers.)
shrink from the charge
bwuhiTchalhi ail
the charge had been made,ebewenouplred
the Whitc al • •
liance, the lives
to them? By reason of
And what:were the consequences which had been im-
puted been saerificed.l
iHie (Mr. O'Connell)
would decal iweithhadthat subject as ca.m y, as coolly, and as
as be could with a charge which he knew to
of the people
weightiest charges that
could be brought against any man—a charge which, in
cbc'ellueica'oeduinYded. It was one of the
the excited state of the et mntry, was likely to be taken up
wifinut examination, and was calculated to raise a cry
against those who, without fee or reward, were dis-
charging their duty to this country in those disastrous
time s.—(Cheers) Who was it, he would ask, that first
reminded the Whig Govt rnment of the mistake they
were cotreuitring ? Was it the Young Ireland party?—
(No, Ito.) Was it Me. Smith O'Brien ?—(No, no.) It
was in that hall that their policy was first combatted,
and it was fr um the same place that the " parrot
cry," as it' was called, " of food, food for the
people" proceeded.—(Cheers) The Honourable Gen-
tleman, after sotne further observations in vindication of
his conduct, cencluded by saying that he had done for
ever with "Young. Ireland," and that any advances-for
a rec.:nciliation should proceed from t! at party.
After some further business had been 'disposed of,
viz., the adoption of a petition to Parliament in favour
of the Dublin Improvstn-nt Bill, and an appeal to the
constitnentin-s sit Ireland in favour of the repeal candi-
dates ; Mr. John O'Conne:l moved that a sentence from
a le ter to Juhn litisell from Sydenham should be dis-
played en the walk int Conciliation Hall, viz., " That
the people of Eaglend -did not care one.,r,ush for your
Irish hobby-horses."
..
The rent for the week was 191.45. Od.

The Seine hes spin begun to overflow its banks.
On Saturds) ro t 3 n.evet 60 centimetres, by tit*
seat • on thv Pont R bftl.
Mr. lit•orl. 1141+,1-, m.r, b iatersitew Festi*JA7
wiol Turd julau .

-.i ; a