The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 15 —Preparations on a most exten-
sive scale are being made for the intended meeting of
the Tenant League at Holy Cross-

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OUT-DOOR RELIEF IN ULSTER.
The guardians of the Downpatrick Union have
followed the example of the Larne, Lisburn, and
Newtonards Union, in declaring against out-door
reli'•f.

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY OCCUR-

RENCE AT CASHEL.

Mr. O'Ryan, jun., has published the following re-
ply to the letter of his father :

" Cashel, Sept. 9, 1847.
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIPPERARY VINDICATOR.
"Sir,—Now that my medical advisers say I may use
so much exertion, after my life being despaired of, I
hasten to reply to a letter of my unfortunate father,
dated Aug. 29 (which I an much surprised you in-
serted in your columns), containing a most diabolical
charge —a charge deeply affecting my
character, againstter,a m
and impeaching the reputation and fidelity
of an innocent woman, more particularly when his
letter was written in prison, where he had been com-
mitted on a charge the most serious and aggravated,
from which he would of necessity exonerate himself,
whether right or wrong. I totally and distinctly
deny his statements; they are at utter variance with
truth. I positively assert that I never did, in thought
or deed, commit any act that could justify him in
such cruel and unparental violence as he has resorted
to. On the night of the melancholy occurrence I
repaired to my bed about ten o'clock, labouring
under intense agony from toothace and swollen
jaw, to which I have been a long time subject. About
twelve o'clock Mrs. O'Ryan, on her way to procure
a drink for one of her children, having heard me com-
plain, came into my room (which is quite near my
father's) and asked me if she should send for anything
to allay the pain, when my father, armed with pistols,
rushed into the room, drove Mrs. O'Ryan out, left
the room, and locked the door on the outside. I got
out of my room, and in some time after proceeded to
the door of that in which he was, asked him for the
key, and the reason for acting as he had done, when
he deliberately fired a pistol at me, inflicting a most
dangerous wound. His statement that he had not an
argument with me relative to joining him in leases is
also untrue, as he did ask me to do a short time since,
for the purpose of enabling him to raise money fur
his own purposes, which I refused. Ever since he
has been most violent in his conduct and treatment
towards me. A statement which appeared in some
papers, written by a newly-acquired friend of my
father's (who gave the Limerick folk reason to think
of him), that he (my father) was recently married,
and other insinuations reflecting on me, is equally
false, as my father married nine years since, and has
got two children by said marriage. I could adduce
many and strange circumstances to convince the most
incredulous of the motives which actuated him to
commit this awful crime, but as the matter must
undergo legal investigation at the proper time, I
crust the press in general will, in justice to me, insert
this letter, as they have published that of my unfor-
tunate parent, and refrain from publishing any fur-
ther comments on this very deplorable subject.
" I am, your very obedient,
"FRANCIS O'RYAN, jun."

RISE of A atINUFACTURING TOWN.—Sixty years
ego Huddersfield, now the centre of the fancy manufac-
ture England,svvcaatsterued, the streets narrow, crooked,
miserable village. The houses
people ignorant, and wild is their man,
y. Around them stretched the
inte.r,isedr o
almostl pour
duty—and
tyor— at hn t
o e ds
savagery,
olack moorland, unreclaimed by the plough or the spade;
and the sides of the noble hills were covered with
higgy moss, brambles, and wiry creepers, or coloured
e the appointed season with the golden gorse and the
Jurple heather. And how short was to be the inter-
vening period! Alre dy this wild people were de-
,iosited the seeds of a glorious manufacturing and ,his-
torical unfolding. Sixty years have changed the face of
this vast district; for during that time heads and hands
save been at work, conquering the wild dominion of na-
.ure, and making all her elements serve them. Thus
.tie river has been converted into artificial b,ds, and
.he waters arrested in their course by weirs, and com-
pelled to turn the wheels of the hundreds of factories
,hick are built upon the river's banks. The savage
moorland has been cultivated and parcelled into corn-
aelds and pastures. The hills, in many cases, wave,
yen to their stony summits, with rich herbage; and
from the wildest glens and ravines rise the chimneys of
noble factories, sending their black smoke through the
;men foliage of the trees; every one of them the centre
it a little working community. Thus, Huddersfield has
;rown into an important town, and, what is more, she
las fostered other towtis and villages in her immediate
ieighbout hood, and made them also important, so that,
,ithin six miles of her, there are some hundred and
hirty thousand souls engaged in manufactures, and in
lie commerce to which those manufactures give birth.—
. irudjord Observer.

BOOKSELLERS PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. Last
veiling the ordi ury meeting of -the diree.ors of the
lui.ksellers' Provident Institution and the Retreat in
-ounexion therewith for the reception of aged and de-
,ayed members, was held at the committee-rooms in
eaternoster-row. The statement of the progress made
oy the institution since its formation in 1836 continues
t be encouraging. During the past year relief has been
4tlorded to a number of sick and distressed retail book-
,ellers and assistants, as well as to their widows; and
notwithstanding the large calls upon the funds during
the year, upwards of 7001. has been added to the perma-
aent fund, which nearly reaches the sum of 16,0001.
rhe Retreat at Abbott's Langley was opened in July
last year, on which occasion subscriptions were received
o the amount of 8401., increased since by the bequest
,f 6001. Three per Cent. Consols, under the will of the
ate John Harris, Esq. The amount of assistance
granted to members of the trade since 1840 was upwards
1,0301.
ROBBERY By A POLlCEMAN.—Yesterday informa-
tion was circulated throughout the metropolitan police
.orce that Thomas Hope Arrowsmith, one of the Len-
cashire constabulary, had absconded from the police-
-436°n at Burnley with several large sums of money,
which had been officially entrusted to him. He was
formerly a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, from
which he purchased his discharge in March, 1846.
STEAMBOAT SIGNAL LIGUTS.—A gentleman of
Cincinnati, Mr. 1). B. Guiou, has made quite an im-
portant invention—a now signal light for steam-boats,
which the papers of that city concur in thinking will
ultimately supersede all others. It is triangular, pre-
senting the point of an acute angle in front, on each side
of which is a coloured light, so that a boat approaching
in a straight line will show both lights, and a change of
course will be indicated by the disappearance of one
light and the increase of the other as it presents a
Luger faice. i. Guiou has received great encourage
went from river men, who are sanguine in believing this
invention will prove invaluable in preventing dangerous
collisions.—Baltimore American.

DARING BURGLARY.—On Wednesday information
was received by the metropolitan police that on the
night of the 13th inst. the dwelling-house of Mr. Francis
Wilson, of Horbury, nea* Wakefield, Yorkshire, during
the absence of the family, had been broken into. The
burglars, after plentifully regaling themselves with the
contents of the larder, decamp, d with- 3051. in 51. and
101. Bank of England notes, and four sovereigns.
DONCASTER MEETING.—BeII's Life in London,
of Sunday next, will give the Race tor the St. Leger,
And. till the exciting and important events of the week,
graphically and faithfully described; with a Portrait of
tl le Winner of the St. Leger. Features of interest in
,every department of British sports. Sale of Bell's Life,
'7,000. A sixpence enclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., 170,
Strand, will ensure a copy of Bell's Life, by return of
post, to guy put of the United sivl;dom.