The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

STATt Or THE COUNTRY.
DuBLIN, Nov. 14.—A parsic seems to have seized
u;:on the gentry in the disturbed districts of Tippe-
r.:ry, Limerick, King's and Queen's counties, and
Roscommon. And it is no word:T that terror should
prevail amongst them. The accounts of the progress
of crime which were forwarded yesterday—the dread-
tul murder of Mrs. Ryan, the wife of a land steward
in Limerick—the attempt to assassinate Mr. Bayly,
of Ballinaclogh, one of the most worthy men in North
Tipperary, and one of the most popular of its magis-
trates—the horrible murder of Smith, a deputy over-
seer, or " ganger," at the Ballybrophy station of the
Great Southern anti Western Railway—this rapid
increase of assassination, evidently without much
consideration of 'the character or conduct of the
victims, is enough to strike terror amongst those who
reside in the districts, and who can possess no guaran-
ke that they may not also be exposed to the vengeance
of conspirators.
Ballybrophy, the scene of the murder of Smith, is
the last completed station of the Great Southern and
Western Railway. It is within the Queen's county,
but immediately on the borders of Tipperary, and
is distant about eight miles from Roscrea. We
have learned that another murder was perpetrated
there on Wednesday last, of which no account has
et appeared in the newspapers. The victim, it is
stated, was a man who had been mistaken for some
other person.
The accounts received this morning state that Mr.
13ayly, who had been removed to his residence at
Ballinaclogh, was considered to be in great danger.
A special messenger having arrived yesterday for
medical assistance, Surgeon Cusack left Dublin last
night to attend the unfortunate gentleman. Mr.
Head, the gentleman who accompanied Mr. Bayly,
was wounded, but not dangerously. Mr. Bayly is
the chairman of the Nenagh Poor-law guardians, and
in that capacity has acted with much benevolence. It
is supposed that the refusal of the board to give out-
door relief, instead of relief within the workhouse, was
the cause of the attempt upon his life.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. HASSARD,
COUNTY TREASURER OF FERMANAGH.
In this northern county a commencement has been
made in the southern system of agrarian crimes. The
Evening Mail contains the following :
" ENNISKILLEN, Nov. 14.—You will doubtless be
as much surprised to learn as I am sorry to have to
communicate the painful fact, that Fermanagh has con-
tributed to the list of attempted assassinations which
have stigmatised so much the character of our unhappy
land of late years. Yesterday (Saturday) evening,
as the treasurer, Mr. Hassard (who had been in town
transacting some business), was returning to his resi-
dence at Garden-hill, on a jaunting car, he was fired
at when proceeding up his own avenue, within forty
yards of the public road, by some cowardly villain,
who had secreted himself in a young plantation for
the malicious purpose. I am happy to be in a posi-
tion to state that the deadly object of the assassin was
not altogether accomplished, the contents of the gun
lodging in the gentleman's right thigh, the charge
consisting of shot, slugs, and nails. One individual
has been arrested on suspicion."
COUNTY OF ROSCOMMON.

The state of the county of Roscommon is described
in the following letter :
" Nov. 14.—0 n Friday evening six armed men
from the Boyle district came to a house in Kilmanagh
parish, where the person employed to superintend the
works under the drainage commissioners at Lough
Gars lives, and swore him on his knees to leave the
country, as they would not allow any stranger to be
employed. From this they went to a farm of Lord
de Freyne's, Corroreagh, near French Park, and
forced the herd to swear, with a pistol to his head, to
give up his eharge at twelve o'clock the following
day, as they would not allow any person but the
man who was there before to herd the cattle. This
was not a prudent step on their part, as it brought
them into a collision with the tenantry of Lord De
Freyne, of whom twenty, well armed, were at dusk
last night stationed by Mr. Fitzstephen French in
different places, and patrols established between them,
an arrangement which will be continued all through
the winter. If any armed men venture into the dis-
trict the people declare they will break their guns
over their heads. We had two parties of police so
stationed that had there been any fighting they would
have been up speedily. No person ventured to show,
nor will venture during the remainder of the year.
They say Molly Maguire's mistress will keep Molly
quiet.' I cannot give yeu any idea of how pleased
the people appear at Mr.'French being out with them,
and the confidence it gave them. If all the gentry
would turn out the people would support them, and
the Ribbon system would be at once put down. But
Major Mahon's death appears to have frightened
many of them; Sir Gilbert King has broken up his
establishment and left Charleston, and report says
others will follow."
The Ballinasloe Star thus reports progress from
that part of the county of Galway :—" A notice was
posted on the chapel of Creagh on Sunday morning
last, calling on the people of Moore and Creagh to
assemble on the ensuing Wednesday at the work-
house of this town, for the purpose of demanding
labour or food, and expressing a determination on the
part of the people not to become inmates of the work-
h,eise while they were able to work. The notice
threatened vengeance to any person who would at-
tempt to take it down. The Rev. Mr. Coen, C.C.,
tore down the paper, and from the altar cautioned
th,! people not to assemble, or to take part in a pro-
ceeding which could be productive of no good, but,
on the contrary, might lead to much evil."
EVICTION OF TENANTRY.—COURT OF
CHANCERY.

_ .
The case of wholesale eviction in Meath was
brought before the Rolls' Court on Saturday last.
The lands from which they had been turned out were
part of those involved in the celebrated cause of
" O'Conor v. Malone," which occupied the Court for
some years. Nearly one hundred houses were thrown
down, ond the wretched inmates have been since
existing in temporary hovels erected at the hedge-
sides.

On Saturday Mr. Berwick, Q.C., applied, on behalf
of tenants who had been evicted from their holdings,
that the court should grant them some compensation,
so as to enable them to support life and provide them-
selves with shelter during the winter, and to assist
them to emigrate at the first opportunity. The head
tenant, Mrs. Chute, had entered into a consent in the
name of the tenants for an habere to issue on foot of
an ejectment, which had been served on condition of
her being relieved of all rents and arrears due by her.
The habere did accordingly issue, and 120 families
were put out on the road without a roof to shelter
them, their houses having been unroofed or thrown
down. A miserable pittance of V. 10s. was given to
each person on their eviction, but that afforded but a
very brief subsistence to each family, consisting of
seven or eight persons. The poor tenants hail, at the
time of their eviction, paid a sum of 3491., which
came nearly to a year's rent of the land they held.
Mrs. Chute, the head tenant, was allowed to surrender
in 1845, and at that time there was an arrear of
9301. The tenants were not then disturbed ; they
held each of them not more than five acres, for
which they paid the enormous rent of 21. 12s. 6d. per
acre—or in all about 5461. a year for about 910
acres. The tenants having contrived, under many
hardships, to pay the sum of 3461., the head tenant
gave consent for the habere to issue on condition of
her being relieved from arrears; it was put into exe-
cution, ninety-nine houses were stripped or levelled,
!sad 120 families were put out of their homes without
shelter from the inclemency of the weather. Now it
was important to remark that this took place in the
union of Oldcastle. The workhouse there was full,
and even for out-door relief arrangements were not
3et perfected ; but if the posr people could get a
pittance of food, where were they to turn for shelter?
They would perish from cold, or be smitten with
fever and die by the road side unless relieved. A
proposition had been made to allow these poor people
seosli sum for each family, to;assist them in procur-
hin g shelter, and enabling them to emigrate, but this
had, been objected to by Mr. Malone, whose interest
in the land was that he was next in remainder.
Counsel •
Court submittedcould that this woo a case in which the
application
of interpose its authority, and direct the
the cause
of the large fund in Court to
the credit of
for the relief of these poor
t nests, who had acted in the
and who had paid
all most peaceable manner,
disaster they suffered h that they could, after the
offerlure of the potato
crop, and who, when evicted
hd not the slightest
re.,istance to the law, althou
was reason to
believe that the lease had notgexpihrZe;?e the time.
The Master of the Rolls said that fore he would
make any order on the matter he should have, in
pounds, shillings, and'penco, an accurate stawt
hemrreha
would reeniel'
the arrears duce by the tenants, and t of
short affidavit from Mr. Malone stating
admitted the jurisdiction of :the 'Court to make a:
order for the relief of the tenants, and giving his
reasons for refusing the proposition.
The case stands over accordingly.
CLIANGNS AMONGST THE ASSISTANT BARRISTERS.--•
The following changes have taken place among the
assistant barristers, in consequence of the death of the
late Mr. Mayne :—Mr. O'Shauganessy has been re-
moved from Louth to Mayo ; Mr. Baldwin has ac•
cepted Louth, his professional business requiring him
to give up Cork, the duties of which involve
lengthened absences from Dublin. Mr. Berwick goes
to Cork, from Waterford. Whether Mr. Gorges
will be appointed to Waterford, or some other county,
has not yet been determined on.
Tun O'Cotssmr, MONUMENT.—The amount con-
tributed yesterday to raise a national monument to
the late Mr. O'Connell, in the various Roman Catholic
chapels of Dublin, was 1,290/. :
the metropolitan collection and it is likely that
n will reach 1,5001.
P
The Lord-Lieutenant has a
pointed Edw, Wynne,
Esq. (late inspecting officer in at E nstymon) As:
aistant Poor-law Commissioner in Ireland.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

weekly meeting of this body was held to-day,
and the attendance was unusually nume:- us ; several
Members of the House of Commons were present,
viz.:—Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Dillon Browne, Mr.
J. P. Somers, the Hon. Cecil Lawless, Mr. Maurice
O'Connell, Mr. John Reynolds, Mr. M. J. O'Con-
nell, Mr. Devereux.

The chair was taken by the Hon. Cecil Lawless
AL P.

Mr. John O'Connell having read several commu-
nications,
Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL, M.P., addressed the
meeting at some length on the subject of the Irish
fisheries, and urged their development as a matter of
national importance.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr.
J. Reynolds, M.P., Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P., and
Mr. J. O'Connell, M.P.

At the termination of the proceedings the rent for
the week was announced to be 371. 10s. 6d.

The meeting then adjourned.

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR.
We regret to learn that an attempt is about to be
made by a few of the divinity students to oust the
present Lord Rector, Lord John Russell. We are
surprised that this should be the case, seeing it has
ever been the understanding that the Lord Rector
should remain in office two years at least—an under-
standing which has been universally acted upon, ex-
cept in the case of Kirkman Finlay. The candidate
who is to be set up in opposition is Colonel Mure, of
Caldwell, M.P., a man who, whatever may be his
virtues, is surely in no manner so well calculated to
adorn the University as the present Rector.
Much has been attempted to be made of the fact
that the present rector has not yet appeared at the
University for the purpose of being installed, but we
believe not many could have desired that Lord John
Russell should leave his public business at a period
so fraught with importance as that since his election,
more particularly during these later days. We trust
that this attempt of the few will prove unsuccessful,
and that Lord John Russell will not be excluded the
rectorial chair on account of a too earnest attention to
business during times so serious as the present. The
election takes place to-day.—North British Mail of
Monday.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND
CAPTURE.

A robbery of a most disgraceful character was, late
on Saturday afternoon, perpetrated by two private
soldiers on a corporal, on the Penicuik-road. It ap-
pears that the three soldiers, who belong to the 30th
Regiment of Foot, at present stationed at Newcastle-
on-Tyne, had been sent from that place to Greenlaw
Barracks, Penicuik, in charge of a prisoner. After
arriving there and delivering up their charge, the
corporal asked the officer in command for a pass to
Edinburgh for himself and his comrades to spend
Sabbath in town. This was immediately granted,
and the soldiers set off in company. One of the
privates, named Campbell, a native of Edinburgh,
called with his companions at an acquaintance's, who
happened to reside on the way, where they obtained
some refreshment, and after that they repaired to the
Fishers' Tryst public-house, which lay also in their
way, where they had some spirits, for which the
corporal paid. They shortly thereafter resumed
their walk, and had not proceeded far when, being at
a lonely part of the road, one of the men, named
Robinson, felled the corporal to the ground,
and laying hold of him by the throat, rifled
his pockets of their contents, which consisted
of a purse, containing 2/. Bs. 4d., besides a pair of
gloves, silk handkerchief, &c. The other private,
Campbell, stood over the unsuspecting victim in a
menacing attitude, and threatened to take his life if
he stirred or made any noise. After accomplishing
their villanous purpose, they proceeded on their way
to town with their booty, leaving the corporal lying
by the roadside. When the soldiers reached Clerk-
, street they applied to a police-constable on duty to
procure them a lodging-house to rest for the night, as
they complained of being fatigued, and they were ac-
cordingly shown to a house in Sibbald•place. In the
meantime the corporal recovered from his attack so
far as to be enabled to pursue the robbers. He, how-
ever, could not overtake them, but on reaching Clerk-
street he met with the same constable who had pro-
vided them with quarters, to whom accidentally he
related the circumstances of the attack. They were
speedily removed to repose their fatigued limbs and
renew their broken slumbers in the cells of the police-
office, where they will remain till brought before the
sitting magistrate to-day, by whom they will most
likely be remitted to .a higher court. One of the rob-
bers bas been seventeen years in the army, and the
other seven.— Cabdonian Mercury.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 16.

LODER AND ANOTHER V. PIIRDAY.

This action, which was brought for the alleged
infringement of the copyright of a musical compo.,l-
- called " Festal," was tried before Mr. Justice
Cresswell, at Guildhall, on Friday and Saturday last,
and a verdict found for the plaintiff with nominal da-
mages. A full report has appeared in The Sun.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES, in pursuance of leave reserved
by the Learned Judge, now moved for a rule to show
cause why the verdict should not be entered for the
defendant, or why there should not be a nonsuit or a
new trial. The motion was grounded upon certain
points of law, which were reserved in the course of the
trial for the decision of the Judges, and also upon the
refusal of Mr. Justice Cresswell to receive certain
evidence which was offered on the part of the de-
fendant.
The COURT granted a rule.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday Ann Simons, Mr. Hickman, a City mer-
chant, occupying chambers in Lincoln's Inn-fields,
and Benjamin Simons, the father of the first- named
prisoner, who was shopwoman to Messrs. Marshall
and Stinton, silkmercers, &c., Yere-street, Oxford-
street, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton
for re-examination, Ann Simons being charged with
having stolen goods from the house of her employers
'to the amount of from 2,0001. to 3,0001„ and the
two latter prisoners with receiving a great portion
of the same property, knowing it to have been
stolen.

The particulars of what previously transpired
upon the former inquiries have already been made
public.

The court was yesterday crowded to excess, the
case,!from the magnitude of the robbery, having ex-
cited an extraordinary degree of interest.
Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Humphery
attended, as heretofore, on the part of their respective
clients.

Mr. Tedman, inspector of the D division, who has
had the case in his hands from the commencement,
brought forward some additional witnesses, whose
evidence was principally corroborative of that which
upon previous investigations had been adduced.
In order to afford time for the completion of the
depositions, the prisoners were remanded till to-
morrow (this day), when they will be committed for
trial.