The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 4.—There has been a deep fail of snow,
accompanied by heavy squalls, with sleet arid rain. The
mails from London have been all from twelve to fourteen
hours later, the wind being from the west, the communi-
cation with the provinces was delayed only on the north.
ern road, and that but for a few hours, from the heavy
fall of snow. .

The Monitor of Saturday announces that the Duke of
Leinster has resigned his seat at the Board of Educe-
cation, and that his Grace is to be succeeded by the Mar-
quis of Kildare.
Major Sirr, one of the Magistrates of the Head-oflice
of Police, was seized on Saturday night with a severe
attack of bronchitis and slight fever, but he is much
better to-day. The rumour was that his ailment was
apoplexy.
There can be little doubt that the fire at Mr. Fold's
printing-office in this city was the work of incendiaries,
and the proprietor is about making his claim for compen-
sation. He has offered 2001. reward for such information
as may lead to the discovery of the perpetrators.
His Excellency is dispensing his Christmas charities in
a practically benevolent manner. The Marshal of the
Four Courts received from his Excellency's Almoner, the
Very Rev. Dr. Vigr,olles, eigTty-four pounds, to corn-
Fomise the debts of certain deserving persons, and thus
releasing them from prison, as also to enable ethers con-
fined for periods of from one to two years to avail them-
selves of the law for the relief of insolvent debtors.

THE POOR OF LONGHAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stu,—ln a leiter, dated Norwich, 21st December
signed " A Fre2 Trader and an Enemy to the Priest'
craft," the poor of the village of Longhair are represented
as " subsisting on food unfit for a horse, and living in
such hovels as to house one in would be to insure its death
from cold, and that the principal farmer had threatened
to drop the wages of his workmen to Bs. per week,
leaving your reaers very naturally, of course, to suppos
that they had not been in the receipt of much more
Now, as every word of that is a scandalous falsehood, I
trust you will grant me the indulgence of allowing me a
small space in your columns to contradict what has been
asserted, and to state what is the fact, and which I will
defy the base calumniator to prove that it is not. The
fact, therefore, is, that the cottages of the poor arc as
respectulle, and such as afford equal, if not superior,
comfort to what are general throughout the country ; and
as every workman capable of doing a fair day's work in
the employ of the " principal farmer" has regularly had
125., and several from 13s. to Its. per week till within
the last six weeks, when their wages were reduced is ,
in consequence of wheat coming down in price to 30s. per
huhel and under ; and as the other occupiers of the pa-
rish are paying at the same rate, I will leave it for your
readers to judge whether it is at all probable that, with
s 7ch wages, the working class are " subsisting on feud
tin (it for a horse." Now, my impression being that
the writer has no spite against me individually, but that
the oNect aimed at is to increase the enmity which al-
ready too strongly exists in, and pervades the minds of
the ma nufacturer and tradesman against the farmer, I
think if .110 had signed himself an enemy to his country,
instead of what he has, he would then only have declared
himself to ,he what, after the information now given, your
readers must consider him. _ _

I am not .ashamed of my name, which, without further
troubling you, I will give, as the " principal farmer," and
your obedient ft etvant,

JOHN HASTINGS.

Longhair, Jan. 5, 1841.

THE WEATtlEß.—Notwithstanding the
wlß-
terly appearance of The last two days, there has been no
very great diminuti,m of temperature. On Monday night
at ten o'clock, at I.lackney, the thermometer was 28 de-
grees Fahrenheit, ant,' yesterday morning at seven o'clock
it was 29 degrees, wh 'lst at noon it was 32 degrees. The
wind, which veered col tsiderably, was chiefly N. N.E., and
made travelling very Weak and uncomfortable. There
was a slight fall of snow on Monday evening, which con-
tinued at intervals durin g the night, but set in stronger
yesterday morning at nin e o'clock, and continued during
the day. The accounts brought by the Cambridge and
Norwich afternoon coaches were, that in these counties
and in Essex many fresh drifts had accumulated, which
had rendered many of the lby-roads impassable. In town
the streets have the appearance of winter having resumed
all its severity, the roads and footpaths becoming very
slippery, whilst on Holborn-hill and Westminster-bridge
many accidents occurred from horses falling. Penton-
ville-hill has. also this year been particularly dangerous to
horses, and many dangerous falls occurred yesterday,
REGISTRATION OF LETTERS.—This day the
new Post-office regulations relative to the registration of
letters came into operation,
.by which a system of regis-
tration will 'be adopted applicable to all descriptions of let-
ters withoult distinction, whether they contain coin or other
articles of t -aloe or not. The registration fee is ls., which,
with the pi ,stage, must be paid in advance. Foreign, co-
lonial, or s hip letters' registration will not, however, ex-
tend bey()) ad the port of despatch.