The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.
THE RELIEF TAXATION.
DUBLIN, SEPT. B.—A remarkable instance of the
localities afforded by the Relief Commissioners, in
lightening the burdens of the rate payers, has just
occurred on the electoral division of Rathgormac,
county of Waterford. At a meeting on Thursday
last, at which the Marquis of Waterford presided,
Mr. Gibbons, the Government inspector, read a letter
from the Relief Commissioners, the purport of which
was, that if any amount of voluntary subscriptions
was lodged with the treasurer of the finance com-
mittee of the union, the Commissioners were ready
to make a donation of an equal amount. Ile read
another letter which stated that the Commissioners
would not have the power of making any advances or
donations to relief committees after the 12th lust.
A resolution was passed—" That collectors be ap-
pointed in the several townlands to collect a fourth of
relief
2s. Bd. rate mad
tee in the ision f the out-door
from the nants, anddiv that the landlords be
immediately requested to pay the other fourth, and
have the whole lodged with the treasurer before the
7th instant, in order that the Government might pay
the other moiety."
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN said--I will pay the por-
tion of both landlord asd tenant on my property of
nine townlands in this division, and let the tenants
pay me their portion when they will find it convenient
to come in with their rents.—(Cheers.)
E. ROBERTS, Esq.—l will do the same on the
Disney property in this dilision.
Taomas NUGENT, Esq.—l will do the same on
ray property.
lklr. EDMOND WALSH said that, as his landlord,
Mr. Hayman, of Youghal, lived at too great a dis-
tance to attend the meeting, he would pay half the
rate for his landlord and himself, as there was no
time to be lost.
Several other tenants, whose landlords resided at
too great a distance to pay in time, stated that they
would follow the example of Edmond Walsh, and
settle withitheir landlords on the day of reckoning.
The Marquis of WATERFORD—That is not right;
I think the tenant ought not to pay in the first in-
stance. We have time enough to communicate with
any landlord residing in Ireland. Let us do so ; and
if they refuse or neglect to pay, then of course the
poor tenants must.
If the example of Lord Waterford were followed
by other proprietors, we should hear little about the
" ruinous taxation," or the " repudiation" of the debts
of the unions.
PROPOSED MEETING OF IRISH MEMBERS.
Mr. John O'Connell has addressed the following
note to the Freenzan's Journal:—

" Sept. 7, 1847.
" Dear Sir,—The Conciliation Hall IN.I.P.'s, who
may choose to meet next Friday, will do so,'as I un-
derstand, for the simple and single purpose of devising
the best means of inviting the other Irish Members
to come together next term, in Dublin, in the Na-
tional Council.' If our invitation be unheeded, we at
least can then meet and advise together.—l am, dear

sir, your faithful servant,
JOI-IN O'CONNELL."

THE POPE AND THE AUSTRIANS.
Various suggestions are offered in the Irish news-
papers for the holding of public meetings to adopt
" practical measures" of Lympathy in favour of the
Pope. One of those suggestions is the formation of a
" New Irish Brigade" for the service of his Holiness.
The Rev. James Maher, P.P. of Carlow, has ad-
dressed a lengthy letter to Mr. John O'Connell, which

thus concludes:—
" Was ever anything so intolerable as this audacious
attempt 4to overrule the Supreme Pontiff of the Ca-
tholic Church in the good government of his own
subjects ? The House of Austria, still reeking with
the blood of the noble Gallicians, to intermeddle in
the affairs of the oldest and most legitimate sove -
reignty on earth. If such tyranny be not controlled
by public opinion, alas! for the liberties of mankind.
Let Ireland do her duty by joining in one universal
protest against this monstrous usurpation. Let the
independence of the Church be maintained—the spi-
ritual authority neither clogged nor trammelled by
the state—and liberty can never be wholly lost or re-
ligion degraded. Praying you to use this rather long
letter as a text upon which to point out to Ireland its
duty in the cause of liberty and religion at the present
time I have the honour to be, &c.,
,
"JAMES -MAHER."
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF A MILITARY

OFFICER.
The Cork Reporter of Tuesday contains the follow-
ing :—" Yesterday a diabolical attempt was made by
a soldier of the 67th Regiment to shoot Adjutant
Graham of that regiment, while passing from one part
of the barrack-square to another. It appears that the
delinquent, who is a native of Lancashire, saw the
adjutant passing across the square, when he delibe-
rately went to his barrack-room, where he loaded
his musket and proceeded to the lobby window, from
which he took aim at the adjutant, and fired. The ball
struck the ground within a yard of where the officer
stood, and then took an oblique direction and passed
through the window of the apartment of Lieut. Sinnott,
adjutant of the 47th, in whose bed it lodged. This
officer's daughters had a very narrow escape of their
lives, as all of them were assembled in the room
through the window of which the ball entered. After
committing the deed the soldier was immediately
taken into custody, and on his cartouch box being
searched one cartridge was found missing. Adjutant
Graham rose from a subordinate rank in the Guards,
and from his knowledge of military tactics and gene-
ral propriety of conduct while in the service he has
obtained the rank of lieutenant and adjutant in his
present corps, which is composed of almost all re-
cruits, the delinquent being only nine months in the
service. The affair is to undergo an immediate in-
vestigation."
THE ARMY—STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The following very gratifying paragraph appears
in the Banner of Ulster :--4 The detachments from
the 48th, which have been for some time guarding
the public provision stores in different places in the
county Donegal, have been ordered to head-quarters,
Enniskillen, as the relief committees in those locali-
ties can now dispense with their services. Likewise,
the parties from the 44th and 74th regiments, sta-
tioned contiguous to the Ulster Canal, for the purpose
of protecting boats carrying provisions thereon, are
to be withdrawn forthwith.'
DEATH OF H. DEANE GRADY, ESQ.
_ _

Grady, who had been many years counsel
to the Excise and Customs in Ireland, and had re-
tired on a pension of 2,000/. per annum twenty years
ago, died this day, at his residence in the city. Mr.
Grady was father-in-law to Lord 2.luskerry, Lord
E. Chichester, and Sir David Roche.
DUNDALK ELECTION. The Newry Examiner
says :—" We are enabled, on the best authority, to
state that the petition against the validity of Mr.
M'Tavish's title to represent Dundalk has, to use the
technical phrase, been lodged,' and will be followed
up. The most eminent lawyers, intimately conver-
sant with all questions appertaining to constitutional
right, are decidedly of opinion that the result of the
petition will be the unseating of :\lr. M' ravish, and,
as a matter of course, the recognition of Mr. M'Cul-
lagh's right to represent the borough of Dundalk."
EMIGRATION.—TIIE UNITED STATES.
We are glad to learn that owing to the decrease
of fever at Boston and New York, the quarantine re-
gulations there are now suspended. This argues well
for the sanitary regulations put in force by the Ame-
ricans during:the fearful contagion that visited them.
Since last Tuesday there is no quarantine on pas-
sengers at Liverpool. Of course this does not include
Quebec and the ports of British; North America,
where, for the want of such timely precautions as
the authorities of the States insist upon, such great
mortality now prevails.—Cork Reporter.
FEVER AMONG THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.—
The Rev. Mr. Sweeny, C-C., of Boyle, died in Boyle
a few days since, of fever caught in "the arduous
duties of a Christian minister. There are not less
than eight Roman Catholic clergymen in fever in this
county.—Roscommon Journal.
CASTLEBAR.—This fearful malady has again
!nnken out with renewed vigour in this town and
locality. Every street and lane has been attacked,
and
we regret to say the epidemic progresses rapidly.
It is an extraordinary circumstance that, with all the
poverty with which the poor have to contend, that
ten per cent. have not fallen victims to the decease in
this neighbourhood.—Mayo Constitution.
SLIGO ELECTION.—GOVERN MEN T
INQUIRY.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 9.—The Lord Lieutenant has di- I
rected an inquiry to be made into the conduct of the
Mayor of Sligo at the late election for that borough,
and into the circumstances of the violence alleged to
have been used by the sitting Member and his
partisans for the purpose of preventing the nomina-
tion of a rival candidate. It will be recollected that
Mr. Dixon and his supporters were severely beaten
and thrown off the hustings before the nomination of
that gentleman could bs effected, and it is said that a
Roman Catholic priest died in consequence of the
injuries received by him on that occasion. The con-
duct of the investigation, which commences on the
14th instant, has been intrusted to Mr. Baldwin,
Queen's Counsel, and could not be placed in better
hands.
THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Yesterday the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland,
First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, accom-
panied by the Right lion. Lord John Hay, Colonel
Royal Engineers; Captain Eden, R N and Colonel
Irving, arrived in Kingstown-harbOut:, in her Ma-
jesty's steam-yacht the Fire Queen, and shortly after
proceeded to the Viceregal Lodge, on a visit to their
Excellencies the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess
of Clarendon.
Yesterday evening their Excellencies the Lord-
Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon entertained
the following party at dinner at the Viceregal Lodge :
—The Dowager Countess of Verulam, the Earl of