The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

No. 17,021. LONDON, TH U RSDAY EVENING SUE APRIL 8, 1847.

ILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
•.I TAINMENTS, at the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET,
BEDFORD-SQUARE. -
Mr. WILSON begs to announce that, on MONDAY EVENING, the
12th of April, at Eight o'clock, he will commence his Series of En-
tertainments on the SONGS of SCOTLAND, when he will sing
several songs for the first time in London, and also bring forward
some old favourites.—Pianoforte, Mr. Land.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL s.—Fever still continues to increase

twelve months. He also adds, that the spread of oats
is far beyond that of 1846 at this pericd. Notwith-
standing this prospect, there are thousands of small
occupiers who are totally unable to sow their farms.—
Tralee Chronicle.

to an alarming extent in Core, Sligo, Mayo, and various
other counties, and, indeed, the pestilence exists to a
greater or less degree generally throughout the country.
In the union workhouses, especially, the malady pre-
vails, and the mortality in some places is very consi-
derable. As yet Dublin and the surrounding metropo-
litan districts have escaped, but there is reason to ap-
prehend that with the approach of warm weather the
capital will also suffer as well as the provinces.
In some few ceunties—for instance, in Cork and
Sligo—farnine is still at work, but generally there ap-
pears to be a decrease of destitution. The new relief
measures, it is to be hoped, will produce a decided im-
provement, as well in regard to the sustenance of the
poor as the ravages of disease.
The provincial journals mention the names of many
more landlords who are suaplying seed to the small
Occupiers on their estates. There are, however, bitter
crmplaints of the total indifference of several extensive
proprietors, who have as yet taken no steps to promote
the cultivation of the land.
A landlord and tenant association is in operation in
the county of Wexford, from which much practical good
may be anticipated. Most of the principal landed pro-
, prietors, including the Earl of Courtown, Lord Carew,
the Honourable S. Maxwell, Sir W. Cox, Messrs.
Gwyan, Morgan, Doyne, Walker, Soc., are members of
the association, which held a meeting at Ennisworthy on
Thursday last, Lord Courtown presiding. Resolutions
were adopted with a view of establishing safety harbours
for fishing boats, and of obtaining information on all
matters calculated to employ the labouring poor in a
useful and profitable manner, as the best means of lessen-
ing taxation on the land. An address to the landowners
was adopted with the same object, earnestly calling for
their co-operation in setting the surplus labourers of the
county at work, and urging them " to unite while there
is still time to prevent the degradation and final ruin
which threaten this country." We extract one important
paragraph from the address :
" the evil of out-door relief, when grappled with sys-
tematically, will not be fotzud unmanageable. 'On the
20thlif Februitry,'When more than 20,000 peraons were
employed on public relief works in this county, the pro-
portion was one person so employed to 25 arable acres in
the county."
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

S MODEL .
DUBLIN, APSOYE R'
RIL s.—This day M.KITCHEN Soyer exhibited an
experimental trial of his cooking apparatus, in the Es-
planade at the Royal Barracks, and the subject of his
model kitchen for the poor having excited a considerable
degree of interest iu this country, an immense concourse
of persons of the first respectability, to whom tickets of
admission had been issued, repaired to the ground, in
order to assure themselxes that Soyer's plan was, or was
not a project only. llia'txcellency the Lord-Lieutenant
having expressed his intention of being present, the at-
traction which the Noble Earl and his intercring family
never fails of creating amongst the citizens of Dublin
contributed to swell the number and the elegance of the
persons who attended. At three o'clock a grand military
salute from a guard of honour which had been stationed
on the ground announced the arrival of his Excellency
and the vice-regal party, amongst whom we perceived
the Ladies Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Captain
Williams, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. Corry Cone
nellan, Captains Henry Ponsonby and Williams. On the
ground we perceived the Earls of Charlemont, Roden,
and Meath, Lord Brabazon, the Lord Chancellor, Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, the Hon. Frede-
rick Ponsonby, &c. &e. On aligAng from his carriage,
his Excellency and the rice-regal party were conducted
to the tent where the cooking apparatus had been in
operation. They led the way, and were speedily fol-
lowed by a numerous train of visitors, who accommodated
themselves as best they could, standing at the outside of
a range of tables which extended along the square of the
tent, Soups of various kinds were then served, and the
company having discussed the merits of each decoction
as it had been presented, the signal bell to retire was
tolled, and the great people gave way to an equal number
of paupers, in order that they might regale themselves
upon M. Soyer's soup. The contrast was sudden and
bold. A moment before and a great number of lovely
faces smiled their apprsval, of everythinf they saw, and
'a moment aftek cl4ereprd 'age, upon whose faces It 'would
be hard to say whether time or hunger had made the
most havoc, were ranged at the same table. Ladies
Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Williams, the
Misses Brady, Mr. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. C. Connellan,
the Lord Chancellor, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, and
several others, remained inside the square formed by the
range of tables whilst the poor people were enjoying
their meal, and the pleasure which those benevolent per-
sonages derived from seeing the poor people give every
token of their approval of the " steam-engine-soup," was
visible upon every countenance, the ladies seeming to
take the deepest interest in the subject.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the association was held this
day. Mr. M. Murphy in the chair.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in reference to a letter from the
Rev. Mr. Campbell, Ciogher Head, Drogheda, inclosing
rent, adverted to the attempt which had been recently
made by the landlords to impose the entire payment of
poor rates on the tenants solely, and observed that if
any thing were wanted to fill to overflowing the cup of
landlord oppression, it was that attempt. He expressed
his apprehension that the felon attempt would again be
made in the House of Lords, and would in all probability
be successful. It would be advisable that some plan
should be adopted to make their Lordships aware of the
ruin that would inevitably fall on the tenant-farmers of
Ireland if the clause sought to be introduced by Lord
George Bentinek were suffered to become law. That
base attempt of the Irish landlords entirely removed from
his (Mr. O'Connell's) mind—and he thought it ought to
remove from the mind of every man of common sense—
any lingering feeling of sympathy for the proprietors of
those lands which were threatened with confiscation. He
would, therefore, welcome the accession of English capi-
talists to the possession of those estates, if they would
orly take care of the people—if they would only be
humane to the people—if they would only preserve the
lives of the people ; and if they acted so they would be
heartily received.—(Cheers.)
The letter of the reverend gentleman, to which Mr.
O'Connell alluded, contained the following passages :
" Here we have not joined in the foolish yell that has
been raised against Roebuck and some other English
Members, for their attacks upon the Irish landlords.
A harsh and disgusting picture of them he has given,
but I fear there was little creative power engaged in
perfecting it. Take a glance at the original, and judge.
The relief committee of Clogheran, Walahestown,
applied to the landlords of the district for contributions
to the relief fund established in the parish. The letter
of application stated that great distress existed in the
neighbourhood, and that great exertions would be re-
quired to meetei.t. The landlords of the parish are Sir
Patrick Bellew, having acres, 1,135; Smith Barry, ditto,
1,864; E. 11. Byrne, ditto, 869; A. Newcomen, ditto,
832; J. Godley, ditto, 366; Major Bonner, ditto, 217;
George Ball, ditto, 213; Brahazon, ditto, 186.
" Amount of subscriptions received from the above,
201.—being 101. from Sir P. Bellew, and 101. from E. H.
Byrne. The other honourable gentlemen (for they are
all—all, honourable gentlemen) did not even condescend
to reply. Thus the entire burden of the support of the
poor has been thrown upon the unfortunate occupiers,
and well and nobly have they borne it. It would be
uninteresting to detail their exertions, though perhaps
their contributions might excite shame, if such a quality
be an attribute of an Irish landlord. And is it to the
tender charge of this merciless class the Premier of
England would consign the Irish poor? A Poor Relief
Bill in the hands of the Irish aristocracy! Out upon the
hideous mockery—the ugly delusion. What effect, think
you, will the proverbial hard heartedness of the class,
excited by fear of confiscation, give to the law? Well-
informed persons believe, and I think prove, that out-
doOr relief amongst us must work confiscation. And
what of that? Place the London banker, the Yorkshire
manufacturer, or the Liverpool trader in the position of
landlord—would he be deaf to the cri, s of hunger and
destitution and death? Would he, when the wail of
famine and pestilence is borne on every breeze, clutch
closer his money-bags, and pull tighter their strings?
No; he has sympathy with his kind; he has not been
schooled in inhumanity; he has not exacted his pound
of flesh; the widow's tear and orphan's blood have not
swelled his cup of revel. But perhaps the Premier in-
tended this grim-faced grace to execute vengeance on
the landlords, by making them the instruments of their
own annihilation—complacency in the thought would
be cruel. I would rather punishment less circuitous,
though not so bitter—direct deprivation of property
where the owners leave its duties unfulfilled. Ah!
spoliation, robbery. Not more so than disarming an
insane man, or the depriving a child of a dangerous
plaything. And a dangerous and destructive plaything
Irish property has been in the hands of its owners."
The reverend writer suggests, by way postcript,
that

The Sligo Champion contains the follOWlng reports of
the miserable condition of affairs in that county:—
SLIGO, APRIL 3.—Notwithstanding the reduction
which has taken place in the price of Indian corn, our
agricultural labourers are still enduring the most dread-
cut sufferings. The deaths from starvation are multiply-
ing every hour; and notwithstanding all that has been
done by the Government, and the generous people of the
British nation, thousands upon thousands will be swept
away by absolute hunger during the present spring and
the ensuing summer. The people have given themselves
up to despair. In the remote districts there is nothing
whatever doing; the only soil turned up by the spade is
the rank earth of the graveyards. There is not a burial
place in the county that is not at present overstocked
with dead; and we do really believe that the mortality
is greater now than it was when the cholera raged. At
present—it is right the fact should be known—no in-
quests are held upon.the bodies of those who die of star-
vation. The grand jury, at the last assizes, desired the
coroners not to hold inquests in such cases.
FEVER IN SLIGO.—We deeply regret to say, that
fever is rapidly on the increase, and the disease is now
turning out to be of a very malignant character. A new
fever hospital was established in this town within thelt
was
fortnight, capable of holding ninety-nix at
filled in three days. In the country districts typhus
Fever is raging to a fearful extent. The following is an
extract fro:u a letter we received from a correspondent
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residing in Ballinahill :—"Fever is greatly on the in-
crease here—average of deaths weekly, twenty." In
Gurteen, Altamlisb, and Tireragh this awful scourge is
n ranks,oequallyw fi n and n generaltdhat thoseth ea3nw, dahroef
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of fever. Mr. William Ormsby and Mr. Luke Hester,
both pay clerk* are ill of the same disease.
STATE OF KILFREE.—Nothing can be more deplor-
able than the condition of this parish ; the following ex-
tract from the letter of an esteemed Correspondent will
serve to show the miserable state to which the wretched
people are reduced :—" Since my last we have had awful
times here. On last Sunday there were eleven people
dead in this parish. Of this number, John Fahy, of
Mulroe, Andrew Ferrell, of Drunbushand, and John
Grady, of Amaghmore (the father of the boy whom you
some time since stated was carried in a basket from the
who
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of 101. from our venerated Bishop, Dr. M‘Nich:Aas, aided
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by the liberal subscription of a charitable commercial
friend in Sligo, many more would have shared a similar

" If some Member of Parliament were to move for
a return of the relief committees in Ireland, and of the
applications made by them for relief to the landlords,
of the number of acres held by these landlords in such
districts, and of the sums received from them, this would
unmask the hypocritical exertions of several of the
Irish party!"
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL subsequently addressed the
meeting at considerable length. In compliance with his
recommendation, the committee of the association had
determined to request of the Catholic clergy to furnish.
as far as they could possibly do it, an abstract of the
number of deaths which had occurred since the com-
mencement of the famine. Having spoken at consider-
able length on a variety of topics, the honourable gentle-
man concluded by reading the address of the association
to the people of England, thanking them for their pri-
vate subscriptions in aid of their fellow• countrymen in
Ireland.
The rent for the week was announced to be 251. Is. sd.

The meeting then adjourned.
THE IRISH CORN MARKETS.
_

Conic, Arm 3.—Supplies of grain to our market
continue to be very limited. The same dulness and de-
pression which we had occasion to report so frequently
of late, continue to characterise the trade in every de-
partment. For Indian corn we have had a heavy
draging trade, at gradually declining rates, say 20s. to
to 30s. per ton on the week; cargoes on the spot have
been sold as low as 121.. to 121. 55., and in small parcels
at 121. 10s. to 131. per ton; a better feeling, however,
has been manifested in this article for the last couple of
days, owing to the improved tone of the English
markets.

BALLINASLOE, APRIL 3.—The corn market was very
plentifully supplied; the prices were lower than last mar-
ket. There was a large quantity of potatoes offered for
sale. Wheat, 455. to 495.; oats, 16s. to 19s. per barrel.
Potatoes, 2d. to 10d. per stone.
TRALEE, APRIL 3.—lndian meat, which not long since
sold so high as 2s. Bd. per stone, fell on Thursday last
down to 2s. 3d., and is now selling at 2s. 2d. Other
bread-stuffs exhibit a tendency downwards. In the
several markets of our county, too, the potatoes, which
so long lay perdu, are rolling in in unexpected abun-
dance. To-day the supply has been enormous, and prices
averaged from 14s. to 15s. per half quarter of 10 stone
for minions; white, 7s. to 9s. per ditto; black bulls, for
seed, Bs. to 103.

GALWAY, APRIL 3.—Our corn market to-day was but
moderately supplied. Farmers were demanding prices,
irrespective of the recent considerable decline, and few
sales were made until an advanced hour of the day.
There is more than the usual show of potatoes.
CORK.—MOST IMPORTANT.—At the advanced hour at
which the subjoined reached us, it would be impossible
to do mora than place it before the public. We may add
that a finance committee has been, we are told, appointed,
viz.:—the Mayor, the High Sheriff, Mr. Sarsfield, and
Captain Broughton:—

" Cork, Ist April, 1847.
" Gentlemen--I am instructed to make known to your
committee, that the reduction of 20 per cent., which has
been made upon the public works will be shortly followed
by a further reduction, and that great distress and con-
fusion will necessarily arise unless prompt and energetic
measures are taken by the relief committees for giving
effectual relief to destitute persons in their districts.
The relief commissioners are prepared to advance money
where it is necessary to the finance committees, when
the required preliminary steps shall have been taken by
the relief committee. the finance committees, and the
board of guardians, but the commissioners are wholly
unable to act until these steps have been taken. I there-
fore ornebtly request You will lose no time in calling

your committee together, and complying with the re-
quisitions contained in the instructions.—l have the
honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" W. E. DELVES BROUGHTON,
" Capt. Royal Engineers, Gov. Insrector.
" To the Chairman or Secretary of the City
of Cork Relief Committee."
AMERICAN SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.

The following letter has been addressed to a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood of Londonderry:—
" Charleston, South Carolina, March 2, 1847.
" As a committee, instituted for the relief of Ireland,
we have, within the last month, remitted to a committee
of the Society of Friends in Dublin, viz:—Joseph
Bewley, James Perry, and Thomas Pim, jun., the sum
of 1,3001., in two remittances, one of 1,0001., and another
of 3001.
" We now beg to hand you the first of a bill for 5001.
drawn in your favour by the Bank of Charleston, upon
the Bank of Liverpool, which we des're you to distribute
at your discretion amongst the suffering poor of Ireland.
The only condition we desire to impose upon you Is, that
you distribute the money where it is most needed, and
where it can do most good—all else we leave to yourself.
" In imposing this duty upon you, we are quite aware
that we are calling upon you to take upon 3 ourself no
small degree of labour and trouble ' • but from the known
benevolence of your character, we doubt not the trouble
will be considered a pleasure, and that you will derive
as much heartfelt satisfaction from administering to the
wants of the needy and afflicted, as we can possibly do
in being made the instruments of forwarding so pure and
holy a purpose. We have the honour to be, with great
respect, Tours,

" JAMES ADGER, Committee of
11. W. CONNER, the Hiber;
ALEX. ROBINSON, nian Society.
" To William Ogilby, Esq , Kilcatten, Claudy,
County of Londonderry."
EMIGRATION.

If the tide of emigration continues to flow with the
same rapidity which it has for the last month, the
country will soon become desolate indeed. Every sea-
port in Ireland is full to overflowing, We hare been in-
formed that one-nable-Lad in-the provinai OrCciatailtiebt
is about to ship not less than thirteen hundred families(!)
off his estate, paying half their expenses. If things pro-
gress in this way, there will be very little use for the
bailiff, and " Gerrardism" will vanish from the land.-
7uam Herald.

From every part of Ulster the middling and small
class of farmers are leaving in hundreds for the purpose
of seeking a future home on the other side of the At-
lantic. The English and Scotch steamers carry out with
them, weekly, immense numbers for Liverpool and
Glasgow, the impatience to quit Ireland being so great,
that should a vessel not be ready to sail immediately
from Derry for America, they set out with all possible
speed for the above ports. We have been informed that
within the last three weeks fully fifteen hundred persons
have embarked at Portrush, the steamers on arriving
there being scarcely able to take all the passengers
offering.—Londonderry Sentinel.
ROBBERY OF THE BALLINASLOE COACH.—The day
coach, running between Ballinasloe and Dublin, was
robbed on Tuesday evening last of 3001., money sent by
the Board of Works for the payment of labourers, &c.
It seems that the perpetrator was an acting guard em-
ployed during the sickness of the permanent guard.
He broke open the box and took three bags of silver to
the above amount. There was a large sum in notes
which he did not touch. He has absconded.—Galway
Vindicator.

The Board of Works have considerately appointed
Mr. Abraham Prim, pay-clerk, county Kilkenny, in
room of his murdered cousin. There were forty appli-
cations.— Waterford Freeman.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. _ _ _

CORK, APRIL 2.—James Buchanun, a corporal in the
73d Regiment, was indicted for the murder of Corporal
Thomas Frisby, of the same regiment, at Cork barracks,
on the night of the 2d September, 1845. It appeared
that the prisoner, in a fit of intoxication, fired the shot
which deprived the deceased of life. The jury, after a
long delay, returned a verdict of guilty.
GALWAY, APRIL I.—Several persons have been tried
and convicted of stealing cattle and sheep.

POOR-LAW FOR IRELAND.
The followirt is a copy of the petition adopted on
Friday last, at a meeting of the Parochial Board of the
city parish of Glasgow, in favour of the Ministerial
Poor-law for Ireland:—

" UNTO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN

AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

" The petition of the Parochial Board of the city
parish of Glasgow,
" Showeth,—That your petitioners, as the represen-
tatives of the ratepayers of this populous city parish,
have, in the discharge of the arduous and responsible
duties imposed upon therk as managers of the poor's
fund, experienced much difficulty and annoyance, as well
as an unprecedented increase of expenditure, arising
almost entirely from the extraordinary influx of impo-
tent, infuntine, and diseased Irish paupers into this
parish.

" That your petitioners, while deeply sympathising
with their distressed Irish fellow subjects in the
calamity that has overtaken them upon the failure of
the potato crop, cannot but express their surprise that so
little should have been done by the wealthy classes in
that country to ameliorate this distress--a distress as
yet that has had to rely for its relief upon British
chat ity and the taxation raised from British industry.
" That, in the opinion of your petitioners, an absolute
necessity exists for the introduction of a sufficient Poor-
law into Ireland, whereby an adequate provision shall be
made for the relief and support of the impotent,
infan-
tine, diseased and aged poor of that country, and that
the fund for this purpose should be raised by an assess-
ment upon all incomes, whether arising from real or
personal property.
" That your petitioners feel persuaded, had such a law
as this existed in Ireland, they would not have had to
complain of the present influx of Irish paupers, who,
from their wretchedness, destitution, and disease hare
not only absorbed and are absorbing a large proportion
of the rate levied for the poor properly belonging to this
pariah, and spreading contagion among them, but are
also setting a most pernicious example to the lower
classes of this city, by accustoming and instructing them
to look to parochial aid for support, instead of depend-
ing, as Scotchmen were wont to do, upun their own in-
dustrious exertions.

That your petitioners fear, unless your Hon. Housc
interfere and prevent this fearful ingress of Irish pau-
perism and disease, all the efforts that may be made,
whether by private or public benevolence, to ameliorate
the condition of our native poor, or to raise the condi
tion of the lower orders in this city, either temporally or
spiritually, will be rendered abortive.
" That your petitioners have seen with alarm that her
Majesty's Ministers, in the Irish Poor-law Bill which
they have introduced to your Hon. House, have ad-
mitted the principle of granting out-door relief to the
able-bodied poor—a principle your petitioners hold to
be opposed to sound political economy, as well as inde-
pendent feeling and sound morals among the lower
orders ; and, should your Hon. House sanction such a
principle, your petitioners do not hesitate to aver that
it will lead many to trust entirely to the poor fund f
their support who but for this enactment, would assur-
edly trust to their own exertions ; while it will also de-
st-oy all feeling of gratitude on the part of the receiver
of that aid—a feeling which ought ever to exist, and
which your petitioners earnestly desire to foster and
encourage, rather than destroy, and which they pray
your Hon. House to carefully watch over and protect,
and not supersede.
" at
pyouraparish,
h? petitioners,fee l themselves
asse theves representativesespecial
especially
c a
l called of
upon
populous
to give utterance to their opinions on this question, as
they have to provide not only for the maintenance of
their own destitute poor, but also, under I he recent Poor-
law Act for Scotland, they are compelled to provide
temporary aid for an overwhelming number of their im-
potent, infantine, and diseased fellow-subjects, having
no settlement in this parish, and for the relief granted
to whom they have no resource whatever.
" May it therefore please your Hon. House to pass a
measure for establishing an efficient Poor-law, by which
adequate relief shall be provided for the impotent, in-
fantine, diseased, and aged poor in Ireland, and other-
wis• adopt such measures as shall relieve your peti-
tioners from the intolerable and oppressive burden to
which, from the causes set forth above, they are at pre-
sent subjected.

"And your petitioners shall ever pray.
"Signed and sealed in the name and by appointment
of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Glasgow,
at Glasgow, this 27th day of March, 1847."

FEVER BILL (IRELAND).
The following is an analysis of the Bill prepared
and recently introduced into Parliament by Mr. La-
bouchere and the Irish Solicitor-General, for the
purpose of amending and continuing an Act of the
last session providing for the treatment of poor per-
sons afflicted with fever in Ireland.
The preamble briefly declares that the Poor Act
of last session can be more effectually carried out by
relief committees appointed under " The Act for the
Temporary Relief of Destitute Persons in Ireland,"
which received the Royal assent about four weeks
since, than by the board of guardians of any union
these
edestitutea
tp ot
ho
er.present Fever Bill,
forTthhee rfierlsi
te f c loaf u
which was to have expired on the Ist of next Sep-
tember, shall, subject to the
amendments hereinafter
contained, be continued until the Ist day of Novem-
ber next, and thence until
the end of the next ses-
sion of Parliament.
The second clause h •
aut orises the Commissioners of
the Board of Health
in Ireland, from time to time,
as they shall think fit, to transmit, under 10 Victoria,
cap. 10, to the relief commissioners, a written certifi-
cate of the necessity of medical relief being afforded
to the destitute poor affected with fever, or other
epidemic disease in any electoral division, for which a
relief committee shall have been constituted.
The third clause directs that the relief commis-
sioners, on the receipt of the previously mentioned
certificate, shall issue their written orders to the relief
committees to provide fever hospitals mid dispensuies,