The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

"GENERAL ORDER►,.

" By his Excellency the Right Honourable the Go-
vernor, Commander-in-Chief, and High Commis-
sioner,:&c., &c.

" Her Majesty's High Commissioner, &c., has great
satisfaction in making known for general information
that he received late last night a letter from the Ho-
nourable the Lieutenant-General Commanling, &c.,
announcing that the Gaika Rebel Chief Sandilli, with
his principal councillors, and about eighty of his fol-
lowers, had delivered themselves up yesterday morn-
ing to Lieutenant-Colonel Buller, Rifle Brigade,
commanding in the Keiskamma Hoek.

"It is not the High Commissioner's province to
particulari'e individuals or to mention names, but he
cannot refrain from recording in this public manner
the high sense he entertains of the zeal and energy
with which the operations against Sandilli haVe been
carried on under the Lieutenant-General's guidance,
and in which operations the troops and levies have
been subjected to great hardships, and exposed to
unusually inclement weather.
"The High Commissioner trusts that the example
which has been made of Sandilli,
.and the pending
movements against Pato and Krell, and their con-
federates, will shortly bring the war to an eni, and
enable his Excellency to establish peace and good order
amongst the Kafirs, and to give security for the
future to the colony.
"By order, RICHARD WOOSNAA.I.
" Graham's Town, Oct. 20, 1847."

By papers and letters from Natal, to the 17th Sep-
tember, it appears that Panda, after the departure of
Captain Kyle, sent for a Mr. de Lange, one of the
Klyp River Boers, and informed him of Captain
Kyle's visit, and told him that he had informed that
officer that the Klyp River country did not belong to
the English—thus denying what he had told Captain
Kyle, through the interpretation of Mr. Shepstone.
There is evidently mischief brewing in that quarter.
At the principal port of Kafirland a most melan-
choly accident has occurred, in the less of the schooner
Ghika, with all her crew, amounting to nineteen
persons, which was wrecked at the mouth of the
Buffalo on the 17th October. The following letter
gives a detailed account of this disaster :
"Buffalo Mouth, Oct. 21.

"I have the painful task to communicate to you
the most disastrous event that has ;happened at the
Buffalo Mouth. On Sunday morning we were land-
ing our cargo, but owing to the rainy weather were
obliged to desist. The captain of the Ghika was on
shore looking after his business; but, being anxious
to get on board, he offered the sailors a reward to
take him off, permission for them to do so having
been given by Lieutenant Forsyth. This was about
mid-day. Some hours afterwards the wind suddenly
rose, but the captain, still wishful to put off, offered
the men, who were unwilling to incur the hazard, 3/.
to take him. At this time I was under the appre-
hension that some accident would happen, and ad-
vised the captain not to go ; he was, however, bent
upon making the trial, and accordingly put out in
one of the surf boats. The boat had not proceeded
far when she was swamped, and out of ten men three
were only saved. I am sorry to say that Captain
Froud was one of the lost. Previous to the boat
capsizing, Lieutenant Forsyth signalized to them to
return. He did this as soon as he saw they were
actually going, he having given up all idea of an
attempt being made. They paid, however, no atten-
tion to his signals, and the consequence was their
untimely fate. Accidents seldom happen singly, and
as a finale to this sad affair, shortly after dark the
Ghika came ashore, and all hands perished. It seems
evident that the crew had taken to the boat, and that
this, on coming into the surf, had swamped. The
boat was discovered by us floating down the river
shortly after the vessel had grounded. The only body
that came on shore was the female passenger, and
from this we concluded that the crew were all to-
gether in a boat. The wreck is an awful smash, every
timber being torn asunder and strewed in fragments
upon the rocks.

Letters from Liverpool announce the suspension
of Messrs. Thomas and ;Joseph Sands and Co., American
merchants, a firm whose name has become widely kilo n
by their ownership of the Sarah Sands New Yolk
steamer. The acceptances are stated to be for 50,000/.,
and the winding.up is not expected to prove very unfa•
vourable. The stoppage of Blain and Son, a corn house,
Who were indebted to them 21,0001., and who are likely
to pav but a small dividend, is said to have been the
immediate cause of the event. One of the partners in
the house of Thomas and Joseph Sands and Co. is also
at the head of the firm of Sands, Turner, and Co., East
India merchants at Liverpool; but it is mentioned that
these parties " are undoubted, and that they will not be
affected beyond the amount of Mr.Sands'
capital in the
concern."
The breach of promise of marriage, Mr. Croke! v.
Miss Studdert, was settled out of Court ,on Wednesday:
i The lady pays all costs, and the gentleman gives up o
I pensatione-.-Limerich Reporter.

CAUSES OF IRISH DISTRESS AN D

IRISH DISTURBANCES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Srn,—Enclosed is a letter to Sir Robert Peel, which
you will oblige us by publishing in your paper. We
wish it to appear in your columns, because you have
always advocated the cause of our people, and have
ever " tempered justice with mercy."
Dec. 1847.

TIPPERARY.

1 TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.
At a period when the voice of every man is raised
against us, having full confidence in the integrity of your
intentions, and in the desire of the present race of
British statesmen to repair as far as practicable the evils
of two centuries of misrule, we address ourselves to you;
and in confiding our cause to your hands we entreat
that when you speak of " what we are," you do not
forget " what made us what we are"—that long series of
oppression which has driven the rcannar.t of a faithful
people to the lowest depths of human degradation. We
confess that we are now poor and ignorant ; we admit
that some of or, impatient under our sufferings, have
committed acts of wickedness which we all deplore;" we
proclaim to the world that we are willing to labour,
that we occupy a fertile land, whose natural resources
are sufficient to maintain twice our number, and yet we
are idle, we are naked, we are starving, we are hopeless.
How has this come to pass? To arrive at the cause it
is necessary to go back two centuries; when Cromwell
had annihilated the regal power in England between
1640 and 1650, he named royalty to its last refuge in
Ireland, at the head of an overwhelming force composed
of the dregs of the English and Scotch people, and
rapidly su!,4jugated the entire nation, when, knowing
that although he had crushed their power ho could
neither eradicate their loyalty nor their religion, this
politic and ruthless man determined to destroy their
nationality; and being also desirous to rid himself of an
army for which he had no further use, and whose return
to England ho dreaded, he forced the Irish people into
the western districts, and confiscating every acre of
Irish property in twenty-two counties, drove the ancient
nobility and gentry, with their families, and the
descendants of the early English invaders, who bad by
that time become identified with them, either as ruined
men from the country, or into the wild and barren
regions of the west, and redistributed the whole of the
forfeited lands amongst his army ; thus by one act an
honoured and ancient aristocracy were displaced by a
fanatic and barbarous soldiery. At the Restoration,
while the English estates were for the most part restored
to the original proprietors, the soldiers of the Protec-
torate were confirmed in their usurpations in Ireland, as
from their number and power it was considered unwise
to disturb them. And an ungrateful king, to whom the
Irish people had been faithful through every change of
fortune, on the 27th of September, 1662, signed an Act
of Parliament which made beggars of a nation, and
transferred the patrimony of those whose fathers had
died in the defence of his dynasty to his father's
murderers.

The new proprietors of Ireland, accustomed to the
license of a camp, habituated to a life of rapine and tu-
mult, without principle, scorning and trampling upon
justice, and incapable of cultivating the arts of peace,
were of all men the least fitted to become the founders
of an aristocracy. They lived as in an enemy's country,
in every native they recognized a traitor ; and, fearing
that the voice of indignant Europe might at length
reach the hearts of the British people, they contrived to
keep the English Government in a constant state of
alarm by false reports of conspiracies and rebellions
until they succeeded in forcing themselves between the
Irish people and their king, and in having themselves
considered as the sole preservers of Ireland to the
British Crown ; possessed of every place of power, they
tainted the fountains of justice, and one penal enact-
ment followed the other , each surpassing its predecessor
in barbarity, until they quickly succeeded in effacing the
last trace of our ancient nobility and in debasing our
people.
The present race of Irish landowners, indebted for
their existence to an unjust and bloody revolution, are
descended from these men, from whom they inherit, with
their estates, a contempt of the people, a disregard of
the duties attached to the possession of property in all
civilized nations, and a spirit of oppression and injustice,
which two hundred years may have tempered, but has
not removed. In their want of sympathy with the people,
their improvidence, their repugnance to residing in the
country, their hankering after England, and their con-
stant expectation that the Government will continue to,
relieve them from all the duties and responsibilities of
their position, who cannot identify the pampered.
descendants of the foreign soldier? With an here-
ditary instinct, they would still keep the remnant of our
people " hewers of wood and drawers of water." Dis-
daining the productive arts, the commerce and manufac-
tures of the country under these men have languished
and died ; grinding exactions and unjust restrictions
have prevented the formation of a middle class, who
alone can employ the people and develop the resources
of a country ; the shuttle of the neglected peasant
weaver is unable to contend with the thousand spindles
of the Manchester manufacturer, fostered by an
enlightened " and beloved" aristocracy. Without a
market for his labour lie is driven to the land for the
means of life; but there is competition also : every one
wishes to live—all want land. He seeks for its owner,
the descendant of Cromwell's soldier is he ; but too
ignorant and indolent to manage his estate, he has
leased it to a second party, the second to a third, the
third to a fourth; the fourth has subdivided it into
smaller portions; he is willing to sublet one •f these to
the peasant weaver, but it must be on his own terms.
What are they? An annual rent equal to the entire
value of the crop in the best harvest, with power at any
time, after the first twelve months, to pull down his cabin
over his head if he dues not pay this rent, and turn him
houseless into a ditch to die. The peasant hesitates, he
secs destruction before hi:n ; others are entreating for
the empty cabin and plot of potato ground on any terms.
He feats to lose it—the wife of his h Isom and his children
are starving. His present necossities blind his eyes to
the future ; reckless of consequences, he subscribes to
the terms and gets possession ; his family are under a
roof; for the moment he is saved. The seasons roll on; he
labours on his spot of earth, the harvest is gathered;
but his family have consumed a portion of its produce,
and he cannot complete his engagement with his land-
lord, he falls behindhand ; the next year the harvest is a
failure, he can pay but little, and falls still further
behindhand. The driver comes and seizes his pig, the
furniture of his little cabin—all is sold! He becomes
desperate, but he still clings to life, to the handful of
earth; he struggles through the next winter; the Al-
mighty God sees fit to visit the land with an universal
blight, his ground yield:: no return for his labour, pesti-
lence and famine stalk übroad,; the agent comes for his
rent, he can pay nothing. One morning the cabin is sur-
rounded by soldiers, police, and drivers—in a few moments
it is level with the ground. He is alone, he seeshis children
houseless and crouching to the winter's blast,—and, Sir
Robert Peel, " he is what he is."

A VOICE FROM TIPPERARY.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wale;
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took airings on Sunday in the pleasure grounds
and plantations of Osborne.

The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay left Os-
borne yesterday.
Sir James Clark has taken his departure from
Osborne.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the royal children, and attended by the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the royal suite, will, it is expected,
leave Osborne this day for Windsor Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at
Gloucester House.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
John llobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat two hours.
Mr. Charles Buller, Chief Poor-law Commissioner,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street. _ _ _

The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Sunday. The
Rev. Dr. 'Wesley, officiated and preached the sermon.
The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel preached the ser-
mon at the daily service. The Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort, and the Marquis of Winchester were among
the nobility present.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
WAKEFIELD STEEPLECHASE.
100 even laid on the field agst The Chandler and the
Glaucus gelding (Wolverhampton), and 4 to 1 agst The
Chandler.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Brettel's The Curate
20 to 1 agst Mr. Barry's Sir Arthur—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Moseley's Richard the First—taken
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Surplice—taken
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Scott's lot—taken to 2001.
40 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rosslyn—taken to 100.1..
40 to 1 agst Mr. Nunn's The Fowler—taken

1,000 to 15 agst MrC.HESTER CtTP.
Disney's licleshe—taken two or
three times.

DEATI I or lIER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ,PAIIL
OF WURTEMBERG.—Her Royal Highness Princess Paul
of Wurtemberg died on the evening of the 13th inst,
at BAmberg, after a short illness. The Queen of Bavaria,
her sister, and the Princes Edward and Frederick of
Saxe-Altenbcrg, were present at her death-bed.
PosT-OrricE NoncE.—The Brazilian Post-office
having consented to withdraw the charge which it had
imposed on newspapers from the United Kingdom de-
livered in Brazil, on and atter the Ist of January next,
no charge will be made in the United Kingdom on
British newspapers posted in accordance with the usual
restrictions. addressed to Brazil, when conveyed by
packet; and in like manner Brazilian newspapers ad.
dressed to the United Kingdom, and brought .to this
country by packet, will be delivered free from postage.
Arrangements have been made for the conveyance
of mails to Madeira and the Western Coast of Africa,
and the mails for these-stationa will be henceforth made
up on the last day of each month.