The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

No. 17,183.] LONDON, TU ES DAY EVENING s Ny OCTOBER 19, 1847.

ohe reb TAG 0, NEW Z E A:l4 AN D.
The Court of Directors of the NEW ZEALAND COM-
PANY y , that obtaised in the
First Class Shipgive JOHNnotice WICKLIFFE,Passages 661 may tons,be chartered by the
Company to sail from the Port of London, on the 15th of November
next, on the following terms:—
Chief Cabin, for Two Persons, in the same Cabin-35 guineas each.
Chief Cabin, for a Single Person, the whole Cabin-50 guineas.
Fore Cabin Passage, 20 guineas per Adult. A separate agreement
with respect to Stern and Poop Cabins must be entered into. The
prices for Children will be in the proportions fixed by the Passengers'
Act, or as the Directors may fix in the case of large Families.
Families or Individuals taking Fore Cabin Passages may have ex-
tra space for their accommodation, upon payment of a proportionate
additional sum. Half a ton freight will be allowed to Chief Cabin,
and half a toil to Fore Cabin Passengers, free of charge; extra freight
will be allowed by the Directors, in their discretion, at the rate of
505. per ten measurement, and 255. per ton dead weight.
The Company will appoint an experienced Surgeon, and will pro-
vide medicines and medical comforts.
Applications for Passage or Freight to be addressed to the Secre-
tary of the New Zealand Company, is road-street-buildings ; or to
J. Stayner, broker, 110, Fencburch-street, London.
A deposit of 20!. will be acquired for every Chief Cabin Passage,
and 10/. for every Fore Cabin Passage, which must be paid to the
Company on securing the Passage, and the remainder one day pre-
vious to embarkation.
Another First Class Ship will also be dispatched from the Clyde
about the same time for the same Settlement.
By order of the Court,
THOMAS CUDBERT HARINGTON.
New Zealand House, 9, Broad-street-buildings,
London, October 15, 1847.

NOTICE.
REDUCED FARES—LOWER THAN .
GRAVESEND via BLACKWALLEVER BAIL-
WAT, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Second Class and Fore Cabin, SIXPENCE ;
First Class and Saloon, EIGHTPENCE.
Railway and Boat included in one Payment.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9, 10, 11, 12, 131, 2%,
331, 4%, 5%. and 6. Sundays, at 9, 10, 11, 131, *4, 331, 5, and
6. The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.
The New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7, 731, 831, 931, 1131, 1,
2,3, 4,5, and 6. Sundays, at 731, 831,•1114, 1,3, 4,5, and 6.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
Three Months, 11. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, 131ackwall.
October 1. 1847.

-THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE
, AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
8, WATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON.
Liability of the Proprietors unrestricted.
Moderate Premiums in the Fire Department.
Guaranteed Bonuses and other peculiar advantages in the Life De-
partment.
Policies, insuring the value of Leasehold Property at the termina-
tion of the Lease, are also issued.
SIVINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company.
BENJ. HENDERSON., Resident Secretary. London.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversioa of his in-
terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth
bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. ox tke premiums paid on each
policy effected oa the profit scale.

WELLINGTON SURTOUT—Patronised by
Prince Albert, the Royal Family, the Commander-in-Chief
and principal Nobility and Officers of the Guards—Two-and-a-HMI
Guineas.

In London only of FOUGERE, Patentee, 6, Conduit-street, llege.it
street, and 80A, Cheapside.
Agents.—Birmingham : Hollingsworth, New-street—Liverpool
Mactaggart, Bold-street—Manchester : Brown, Market-street —York:
Evers and Anderson—Edinburgk : Marshall and Aitken —Glasgow
Brodie, Macleod, and Co.; and principal tailors in all large towns.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A LECTURE oa the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET
of ,TEAM, in reference to VENTILATION, Ste.. with Novel and
Interesting Experiments, by Dr. BACHHOFFNER, daily at Half-
past Three. LECTURES on CHARACTER, with Musical 11

lustrations, by Mr. J. RUSSELL, accompanied by Dr. Wallis,
on the Pianoforte, every Evening, at Eight o'clock, except
Saturday. CHEMICAL LECTURES. The ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPHS worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained daily.
The beautiful OPTICAL EFFECTS include an entirely New Series
of DISSOLVING VIEWS. DIVING BELL and DIVER, with
HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING with PERSONS
under WATER, &c.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

Just published, carefblly arranged under the 'rations letters of the
alphabet, price Is. each book; post free 4d. extra,
THE UNCLAIMED DIVIDEND BOOKS of
the BANK of ENGLAND, containing the names, addresses,
and descriptions of upwards of 20,000 persons entitled to various
sums of money of all amounts, being the whole of the Unclaimed
Dividends and Stock in the Public Funds, amounting to many mil-
lions of money, which have been accumulating during the 18th and
19th centuries, anti tho whole of which can now be recovered by the
next of kin. Be careful in stating what particular letter you re-
quire. The whole bound together in cloth, price 20s.
W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, and all Booksellers.

MR. VINCENT'S NEW WORK ON SURGERY.
Published This Day, in 1 vol. Bvo., with Plate, price 12s. cloth,
BSERVATIONS on some of the Parts of
SURGICAL PRACTICE : preceded by an Inquiry into the
Claims that Surgery may be supposed to have for beiwg classed as a
Science. By JOHN PAINTER VINCENT, late Senior Surgeon to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

OSEPH MAPPIN'S PORCELAIN HANDLE
TABLE KNIFE ; Registered June 5, 1847, No. 43,501; is
the most useful and chaste artielo ever produced, combining ele-
gance, economy, and durability. It far surpasses ivory in its splen-
did appearance, and is 50 per cent. cheaper. It is particularly re-
commended for its purity and sweetness—a little soap and water
restores its first splendid appearance. It will not break with falling,
neither will it be the least affected by time or service. All these ad-
vantages combined in this article, which together with the low price
at which the article is produced, form a tout-ensemble never before
attained.

Sold retail by all freamongers, cutlers, and jewellers, in the United
Kingdom and the Colonies. Manufactured only by JOSEPH
MAPPIN, 32, Norfolk-street, Sheffield, where they can be obtained
wholesale; also at kis warehouse, 15, Fore-street, City.
N.B.—To Merchants, Shippers, and Buyers, generally, J. M. offers
considerable advantages, in keeping a large Stock of Cutlery at his
London Warehouse from his Manufactory in Sheffield, which is
suitable for every description of Wholesale and Export Trade, an ad-
vantage possessed by no ether Sheffield House.

EYEBROWS, MUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
KERB produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
prevented by the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
a few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a
most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only In triangular
bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size,
78. ; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con.
raining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes'
Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c."
By post, 4s. 6d., 7s. iid„ and 125., for money orders only.
Sold wholesale s nly at Gemstone's Herbary, Highgate, near
London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
Oxford-street; Messrs. Butler and Co.,Cheapside • Fisher and Toiler,
Conduit-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 66, Cernhill
and by all Chemists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and
R. Raimes, Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eresehe aid Son, Adver
User-office.

MONEY-MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES. The money-market to-day has been
thrown into a singular state of uncertainty and ex-
citement from accounts received of the suspension of
the Royal Bank of Liverpool. The paid-up capital
of the bank is 600,0001, being a much larger amount
than that of a:y similar establishment in the town,
and hence, when its stoppage became positively
known, the strongest anxiety was felt for some
authorised details of its actual position. In London,
however, no parties were in possession of particulars,
the agents of the bank, Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and
Co. (who, we are happy to say, are entirely free from
advances or commitments of any kind in connexion
with it) having been permitted to remain in entire
ignorance of the event. It is generally understood,
however, that the bank, about ten days back, applied
to the Bank of England for an advance upon bills,
and that, although this assistance was declined in
money, it was granted to them in stock, which was
at once thrown upon the market, and tended to in-
crease the heaviness which about that period began to
manifest itself. Previously to that time, and since,
large sales of the shares of the bank, which at the
commencement of the year "were at 3651. premium,
the price being 8651. with 5001 paid, were forced at
Liverpool, and discredit having thus become attached
to it, rumours were in constant circulation.
After the assistance it was understood to have
obtained, however, the public were .scarcely
prepared to hear of its immediate stoppage. An in-
fluential London shareholder, alarmed, it is said, at
the reports which were prevalent, started for Liver-
pool on Saturday with a view to an Investigation of
its affairs, and this was followed by an immediate
suspension of payment, and by the dispatch of a de.
putation of three directors to the Bank of England,
with an appeal for further aid, the amount required
being stated at about 500,0001. This application,
however, has been declined. That the results of the
suspension will prove very unfavourable for the
shareholders is now generally believed, since, as an
illustration of the management of the bank, it is
affirmed by some parties, that in one case an advance
has been permitted, to a single firm, of not less than
500,0001., of which only 50,0001. is covered by
security. This, however,:as well as the other reports we
have mentioned, must be taken without reliance upon
their correctness. In some quarters, even after its po-
sitive announcement,;the failure was still doubted; but
this arose from Messrs. Robarts and Co. having re-
ceived a remittance in .the morning, which they had
paid according to instructions, and from their not
having subsequently had any information of what was
going forward. It may be mentioned that the num-
ber of shareholders in the bank is 250, and that it was
established in the year 1836.
The English Funds opened this morning at an ad-
vance of a quarter per cent. on the closing prices of
yesterday, the first quotation of Consols, for money,
being 81 to The difficulties of the Royal Bank,
however, speedily transpired, and a fall then com-
menced, which left the price at the close of business
as low as 791; a point whence they further declined,
after the regular hours, until they reached 791 or
791. For the account they began at 81f to
advanced to 81i, and receded to 80f 1, bargains
being afterwards done at 804, and finally we believe
at 80. Bank Stock left off 180 to 182 ; Reduced
Three per Cents., 78i ; Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 791 to 80; Indian Stock, 220 to 224 ; India
Bonds, 40s. to 30s. dis, and Long Annuities, 8. Ex-
chequer-bills in the morning were quoted 15s. dis.,
and closed sellers at 30s.

In the Stock Exchange to-day the rate for money
was from 7to 10 per cent. Both at the Bank of
England and out of doors the demand was less
urgent.

Letters from Liverpool, received this morning,
mention the stoppage of Mr. William Pearse, an
agent, who had drawn largely upon Barclay, Brothers,
and Co., for shipments to India, and also of Messrs.
Molyneux and Hulbert, tea brokers. In the share
market several defaulters are reported.
A meeting was held this afternoon of the creditors
of Messrs. Cockerel], Larpent and Co., at which the
chair was taken by Mr. Samuel Gregson, M.P., and
the following statement, which had been prepared by
Mr. Oliverson, the solicitor, in conjunction with Mr.
Hall, was submitted for consideration :

That the debts of the house
in open accounts amount

154,761

That the house is under ac-
ceptances for ...
Part of these acceptances are
secured by bills of lading
from India to the amount
0f... ... ...

606,585

Further part of these bills
will be retired by the third
parties to the amount of

That the assets of the house
consisted of cash, goods,
debts, and other property,
and stand in the follow-
ing order :
Balance at the banker's . .
Bills of exchange and goods
Various balances due to the
house in the course of re-
alisation , •••
Amount in the hands of
Cockerell and Co., of Cal-
cutta, due to the present
house of Cockerell, Lar-
pent, and Co., of London,
and which is in the course
of remittance ...
Amount duo by Messrs.
Cockerell and Co., of
Calcutta, to Cockerell
and Co., of London
Mauritius estates (cost up-
ward of 200,0000 say
present value ...
Less mortgage
V- •

57,677

84,276

arious miscellaneous pro-
perty
Amount of various claims
secured .. ••• .. 335,380
Amount of property given
in security

... 352,099

The London house holds a
security for 129,5001.,part
of the 435,5001., but
100,0001., part of this
129,0001., has been trans-
ferred by the London
house in security ; it is,
therefore, deducted from
the assets ... ...

464,632

619,393

---- 809,254
The above statement, it will be seen, shows a
nominal surplus of 190,000/ , and
Aired during the discussion' . ? from what trans-
Which took place, the
prospects of the creditors, suppos-m,
difficulties to arise in Calcutta Co' no very serious
the upon the
disasters on this side, may, on whole, be consi-
dered favourable. In the formidable ivvt
which appears to be due from the Calcuttaeof 435,5001.
alu
house, we
Print' the. have a sufficient explanation of the cause
stop-
page, and also the indication as to the
liquidation
against
will depend. It appears that securities are
a portion of the amount in the shape of indigohithert facto-
riesb and other property, which have
. e
estimated at 200,0001., although, of course, it must° been
expected that they will not produce that su
a realisation shall be attempted. The I?t,,`„nvhenr
sill arises
it 339,0001., " which is in course of remittance_;, item ''''
present it was stated by the chairman, from goods
of business, to
the London house during the past and n
eyeabry,
all of which are, in the regular course
be remitted for during the present season.
It was further stated to the meeting that Mr. Mar-
tin, who was formerly a partner in the Calcutta house
and who is intimately acquainted with the various'
properties, had gone carefully through the last
balance-sheet of that house (made up to the end of
April, 1846, along with other parties conversant with
the commerce of India, and that " their very confi-
dent opinion is, that it will be found fully Competent
to meet all its liabilities, and that nothing but a most
unwarrantable sacrifice of property by panic and
forced sales can defeat its capacity to do so." Under
these circumstances it was finally arranged by the
meeting that the estate shall be wound up under in-
spection, and that Mr. Martin, who is stilt interested
in the concern, shall proceed to Calcutta, accompanied,
if it be deemed fit, by some other competent person,
wholly unconnected with either house, in order to
protect the interests of the creditors generally. Mr.
Samuel Gregson, Mr. Edward Mills, Mr. John
liorsley Palmer, and Mr. J. D. Campbell were then
appointed inspectors. 5,000/. was agreed to be set
apart for the liquidation of small claims not exceeding
come to that divi-
-1001., and an understanding.was
dends will be made from to time whenever there may
be sufficient funds in hand to distribute 10 per cent.
Mr. Cockerell, Sir George Larpent, and other part-
ners were present, and it was evident from the tone
of the meeting that they retain the entire confidence
of all the creditors.
CHRONICLE.—The memorial of the Liverpool

1 merchants to Lord John Russell has excited consider-
able interest in the City to-day, which has not been
diminished by the events which have taken place. It
is remarked that it differs very little in effect from
the petition of the London bankers before the Bank
Act became law, urging that the power of increasing
the issues on an irnmergency should not be withdrawn
from the bill ; and as this petition was supported by
all the clearing bankers with the exception of Mr.
Jones Loyd, whose house withdrew their signature in
consequence of his remonstrance, it will not be out of
place to bring it again prominently under notice. It
was as follows :

" We, the undersigned bankers of London, are in-
duced by the importance of the measure, and our in-
terest in its success, to address you upon the subject
of the Bank Charter Bill, now before Parliament.
" We were led to believe, when the measure was
first brought forward—and we feel confident it was
generally understood throughout the country—that
although it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment that the paper circulation of the Bank of Eng-
land, in their issue department, should be limited to
an amount not exceeding 14,000,0001. upon securities,
yet that, in the event of any particular crisis arising,
a power was to be reserved by the Bill enabling the
Bank of England, with the consent of the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and the Master of the Mint, to extend their issue,
upon securities, beyond that amount.
"It was with considerable surprise that we find
that the Bill now before the House of Commons does
not contain any provision for an extension of the issue
beyond 14,000,0001. upon securities, excepting under
the special circumstances named in the fifth clause of
the Bill now before Parliament.
" We are apprehensive that the absolute limitation
of the issue to 14,000,0001., without any power of
expansion being reserved, whether that amount be in
itself a proper amount or not, will create a general
feeling of uneasiness throughout the country, and, by
preventing the satisfactory reception of the measure,
will deprive the scheme of many of the advantages
it possesses, and interfere with its success.
" We respectfully submit that the effect of such an
absolute limitation will be to restrict the business of
the country, by leading to a general withdrawal of
legitimate accommodation, unless some power be re-
served by the Bill for extending the issue, with the
sanction of the authorities above alluded to, in cases
of emergency, to be made apparent to such autho-
rities.

(Signed) " Robarts, Curtis, and Co. ; Hanbury,
Taylor, and Lloyd; Bosanquet, Franks, and Co. ;
Brown, Janson, and Co.;Barclay, Bevan, Tritton,
and o. Co.;• Hankey and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and
Smiths; Wills, Percival, and Co.; Masterman, Peters,
and Co.; Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; Spooner, Att-
wood, and Co. ; Currie and Co. ; Glyn, Hallifax,
Mills, and Co. ; Williams and Co. ; Fullers and Co. ;
Barnard, Dimsdale, Barnard and Co. ; Barnet,
Hoares, and Co. ; Lubbock, Forster, and Co. ; Ste-

•
venson, Salt, and Sons ; Price, Marryat, and Co. ;
Sapte, Banbury, and Co.; Weston and Co.;
Twining and Co.; Dixon and Co.; Coutts and Co.;
Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Strachan and
Co. ; Scott and Co. ; Cockburn and Co."

IRELAND.
MEETINGS OF THE PEASANTRY-SE
ZURE OF CATTLE AND POTATOES.

DUBLIN, OCT. 17.—The Limerick Examiner, re-
ceived this day, contains the following account of a
very extraordinary movement in that county, where
the labouring classes, congregating in large number,,
demand relief, and, failing to obtain what they re-
quire, seize upon the cattle and potatoes of the gentry
and clergy, not even exempting the pastors of the
Roman Catholic Church! Two meetings of this
kind are described in the subjoined letters. Those
assembled at the first were induced, by the persua-
sions of the parish priest, to restore the property they
had appropriated, including his own cattle, as well as
those of a magistrate, Mr. Fetherstone, and of the
Rev. Mr. Massy, a clergyman of the Established
Church. But the peasantry who attended the second
meeting plundered the parish priest in the first in-
stance, and retained the spoils, consisting of nine
barrels of potatoes. You will observe, in the, ac-
count of this strange agrarian movement, that the
peasantry exhibited extreme indignation when Mr.
Fetherstone explained to them the arrangements con-
templated under the new poor-law, by which, in
order to apply the workhouse test, the able-bodied
were to be relieved within the house, whilst the aged
and infirm were to obtain out-door relief. Consider-
able difficulty may yet be experienced on this very
point, and great firmness will be required, on the
part of Government and the Poor-law Commissioners,
in enforcing the workhouse test.
GARRYFINE, TUESDAY NIGHT, OCT. 12, NINE
O'CLOCK.—The meeting of the peasantry, which was
to have taken place yesterday on the hill of Garryfine
(and which excited so much attention in the country)
was postponed by general consent to this day. At
an early hour this morning the peasantry from the
surrounding localities flocked in multitudinous masses

to the focus of attraction, and at the hour of twelve

o'clock the bill of Garryfine presented a most formi-
dable appearance. There could not have been less
than 2,000 persons assembled on the occasion. The
meeting was held on that part of the mountain which
is nearest the Croom road, and on its highest summit
the people took their stand to proclaim their miseries
and make known their wants. The sound of the
peasants' bugle was heard from all directions during
the greater part of the day, and owing to the elevated
position of the meeting the inhabitants of the Bruree,
Rockhill, Charleville, Killacolla, and Drew's-court,
could easily discern the assemblage.
At the hour of three o'clock the meeting proceeded
to deliberate, and after a few moments it was unani-
mously resolved that all should proceed to the resi-
dence of Mr. Fetherstone, J.P., Bruree, and in the
name of mercy and suffering humanity invoke his
friendly aid and intercession at a crisis pregnant with
misery and woe. On the way to Bruree the proces-
sion halted at Rockhill, and drew up opposite the
residence of the Rev. Mr. Ryan, P.P. The Rev.
Mr. Ryan was absent on parochial duties in a distant
part of the parish, and the Rev. Mr. Meany, the re-
spected and worthy curate of Rockhill, presented
himself before the people, and addressed them in
brief but appropriate terms. The Reverend Gentle-
man advised them to preserve order, and refrain
from any manifestation of indignant feeling or out-
rage on property, which might expose them to the
consequences of the law. He would advise them to
make known their grievances in a proper quarter.
Let them form themselves into a deputation, draw up

a proper statement of their wants, and wait on the
poor-law guardians of the Kilmallock union. He had
no doubt that such a step would be found to be the
proper one, and which ultimately would lead to sue.
cess. But above all, he would admonish them to
respect the rights of property, to act legally, consti-
tutionally, in the furtherance of their objects. Should
they violate the law, they themselves would be the
sufferers ; they would be dragged from their homes,
wives, and children, like felons, and immured in the
cold walls of a prison.—(A voice—" We'd be fed
there, and not allowed to starve.")
[Here some countrymen spoke in the vernacular,
and occupied the attention of the people a moment.]
The Rev. Gentleman's friendly admonition was
listened to with the greatest attention, and the meeting
promised implicit obedience to his precepts.
Mr. MATHEW, who was in company with the Rev.
Mr. Meany at the earliest stage of the proceedings,
next ascended an eminence near the door of Father
Ryan, and addressed the people for some minutes in
a speech which was frequently interrupted by loud
applause. He said—My suffering friends, as one of
the people—as an Irishman, and a lover of order—
perhaps you will permit me to second the excellent ad
vice of your excellent clergyman, Father Meany.—(A
Voice, " You're welcome.") It cannot, alas ! be denied
that your complaints are but too reasonable, and
founded on the forlorn wretchedness of your situation.
As this is not a political meeting, it is not my province
to explain the cause of your sufferings. Your suffer-
ings are many—they are depicted in your counte
minces ; they afford a melancholy lecture to the phi
lanthropist and the benevolent. This is a land of
wheat and barley, where no man should starve.—
(Cheers.) Go then to the fountain -head, and ask
bread. Go to the poor-law guardians of the Kilmal-
lock Union, and tell them your tale; th3y cannot but
hear you; but above all be patient, be forbearing, and
commit no breach of the peace. Respect the sacred
right of property, and keep within the limits of the
constitution. Petition, demand, implore, and suppli-
cate, until your grievances are remedied.—(Cheers.)
The horn was next blown as a signal for departure,
and in a moment the procession moved on to Bruree.
Arrived in that locality, they surrounded the residence
of Mr. Fetherstone, J.P., where they were met by
that gentleman and the Rev. Mr. Ryan, P.P. Mr.
Fetherstone presented himself before the hungry as-
semblage, and told them that he as an individual could
not take upon himself any responsibility beyond his
province. He would feel delighted to act in concert
with the gentlemen of the country, and do all in his
power to mitigate the wants of the poor. They were
aware that the new poor-law provided that all the
able-bodied paupers would enter the workhouse of
each union, and that the aged, the infirm, and the
decrepid would be set at large to be supported by
out-door relief under the authority of the new poor-
law.

At this announcement the people became enraged,
and after some angry exhibitions seized on Mr. Fe-
therstone's cattle. These they drove to the premises
of the Rev. Mr. Massy, whose stock they lessened by
six or seven fat cows and bullocks, and, without
offering the least apology to his reverence, took their
departure for Garryfine, and along the public road
fired some volleys of powder in the air, in order, it is
considered, to let the neighbours know that they
in
to
the that way. When the cattle were driven
the little hamlet of Rockhill the people were all as-
tounded at such an unusual exhibition, and every
farmer in the neighbourhood viewed it with alarm,
each apprehensive lest his own cattle might be taken.
The people were again met by the Rev. Mr. Ryan,
who admonished them against their proceedings, but
instead of acting on his counsels they entered his own
yard, seized his cattle, and carried them away to the
other captive animals. The Rev. Mr. Ryan followed
them on horseback for some distance beyond the vil-
lage, and repeated his exhortation. The people at
length yielded to his persuasion. The better feelings
of the peasant's heart gave way. With the conviction
of the impropriety of interfering with the rev. gentle-
man's cattle, the people returned them, as well as
those of Mr. Featherstone and the Rev. Mr. Massy. Mr.
Ryan thanked them, and told them that he would do
all in his power to procure them food. The meeting
then peaceably separated. I cannot close this com-
munication without recording, however briefly, my
admiration of the Christian zeal and forbearance of
Father Ryan, and I would boldly assert that in the
entire diocese of Limerick there is not another cler-
gyman who had done more for the poor during the
last winter and summer, during which he has been
often known to be absent on parochial duty until
eight o'clock at night, without taking a morsel of
dinner.

GARRYFINE, WEDNESDAY NlGHT.—Another " mon-
ster meeting" has been held this day by the peasan-
try, in the village of Ballyagrane. Poor Father
O'Flanagan, P.P., was forced to yield up his potatoes
to the multitude, and in the course of a few moments
he lost eight barrels. He thought vainly to oppose
vi et armis the unwelcome intruders, and applied
physical force to a second " Poll of the Reeks; who
first entered with a prodigious bag for booty. After
thanking Father O'Flanagan for setting the potatoes,
they next proceeded to Mr. Drew's residence, Drew's
Court, and deprived that gentleman of a quantity of
wheat and carrots. His sheep they also took to
Ballyagrane ; but on second consideration set them
at liberty. This is but the beginning—where will
it end ?
DISTRESS IN THE COUNTY OF CLARE.
The Limerick Examiner says—" Destitution of an
appalling kind has again commenced on the western
coast of Clare, particularly in Miltown Malbay. We
learn from the parish priest of Miltown Malbay, the
Rev. Mr. M'Mahon, that nearly all the labouring
population of his parish—whose existence even in
the most plentiful seasons was a very wretched one—
are without employment. Eight hundred families
have not, at the present moment, any visible means
of support, except by second digging the potato fields
for the purpose of collecting a scanty meal, at which