The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-14 00:00:00

THE NEW. RELIEF SYSTEM..

The Evening Freeman pubnshes the following letter
from the Rowan Catholic Arelibishup of

" Oastlebar, June 8.
" Doir Sir,—You may well conceive tNhat was my
surprise and alarm when, on 4rriving in this town yes-
terday, I percoiveil numbers of he people: franoc
with despair, as if the prevailing famine were aggravated
with some other fresh calamity. On inquiring of tLe
assembled clergy into the cause of this excitement, I
was informed that the relief supplies immediately re-
quired for sustaining the lives of the people were ad-
journed on account of some trifling informality in fur-
nishing the estimates.

" I would:not believe that the lives of the people would
be sacrificed or endangered, sod the public peace exposed
to I): ril, on' account suehlotnissions. This is not the only
place, nor is it the first occasion, I have found the people,
owing to the ignorance, or carelessness, or inhumanity
of officisls, exposed to starvation.
" If there are formalities deemed so essential as that
without them supplies will not be furnished, it becomes
the duty of the well paid functi.maries of Government to
have them strictly observed in the committees; nay, do-
cuments of such fearful import should be posted up for
general information. But if, through negligence or some
more culpable cause, such formalities should be omitted,
is it to be believed that in any Christian country the in-
habitants of an entire union will be placed in the awful
position of a besieged city, threatened with all the
horrors of impending starvation whilst there is abun-
dance of provisions outside the walls? Enough, alas!
more than enough of human victims have already fallen
to satisfy the most heartless of the political economists.
It is therefore high time to strive in good earnest to stay
the march of the angel of death from making further
havoc through the lan.
" Your very faithful servant,
"rX JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM."
THE POTATO CROP.

The accounts continue conflicting, but there is a de-
cided balance in favour of the appearance of the grow-
ing crop. The disease, however, had shown itself at
Tervoe, in the neighbourhood of Limerick; and a letter
from Omagh, in the county of Tyrone, asserts that the
blight extensively exists in that district.
It was generally reported that the disease had made
its appearance in Meath, but a person who has just re-
turned from that county says, that the very contrary is
the fact—that the crops never looked more flourishing,
and a closer examination had convinced him that, so
far, there was not a single symptom of the blight of
last year.

Tile Cork Examiner, which came to hand this evening
publishes most flattering reports of the state of the crop
in that county.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

The Limerick papers of yesterday ini;lish a long ca-
talogue of outrages—some of them of the very deepest
dye—the commission of which, according to one of the
local papers, is solely attributable to the facilities af-
forded to the peasantry for possessing themselves of fire-
arms, to remedy which the Legislature is called on to
pass before its dissolution a Short Arms Bill, as the
means of restoring confidence to the well-disposed.
STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

Three per Cent. Consols, Hi ; Three-and a-Quarter
per Cent. Stock, 88 84- ; Steam-chip Building shares,
44; ditto, of 251., 52 ; Midland and Great Westt-rn
Railway, 61; Great Southern and Western, 22k.