The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-07 00:00:00

DISTRESS IN THE COUNTY OF CORK.

DITBLIN, JAN. s.—The Cork Examiner of yesterday
devotes a great portion of it space to the proceedings of
a meeting held in Bantry on Friday last. The object of
the meeting will be found embodied in the sabjoined re-
solutions :

" That the condition of this district is most appalling,
starvation being universal, deaths from want of food
frequent, and fearfully on the increase, whilst despair has
seized upon the public mind from the apparent indisposi-
tion of the Government to exert itself for the preserva-
tion of the people.
" That thus circumstanced, it becomes indispensable to
provide forthwith, and no matterikat what sacrifice of
present or future interest, food and IMployment for the
people.

- "That considering the many obstacles which have
heretofore obstructed the progress of reproductive works
throughout the country, and the hopelessness of making
them immediately available for the relief of the pressing
warits of the people, it is our opinion that we cannot do
otherwise than fall back on tha admitted evils of the
Labour rate Act, at least until reproductive works equal
to the amount of employment required shall have been
put into active progress within the district.
" That the prices of food have now risen in this dis-
trict to a price which places it far beyond the reach even
of those amongst the labouring classes who are em-
ployed, and this most unfortunate condition is, in our
opinion, mainly attributable to the obstinate refusal of
the Government to establish food depots throughout the
country, and to the discouragement given by it at an
early period to the procuration of food from funds raised
by private subscriptions, by its refusal to aid any funds
applicable to the object of lowering the prices of foul
•ven to the poor and the destitute."
STATE OF CL
The Clare Journal has the foil ling statement with
respect to the adoption of measu or counteracting the
mischief resulting from the ne (`9f all agricultural
labour in that district:—
" We are given to understand%t seventeen of the
relief committees in this county have agreed to the pro-
posal made to them by the Killaloe committee for a ge-
neral meeting of a deputation from each body, to take
place, we believe, in Ennis, for the purpose of devising
means to secure the cultivation of the land now ready
for tilling in the several districts. We shall, therefore,
wait for some short time to learn hOw far this proposal
will be carried out before we further address our inquiry
to each relief committee, as to what efforts they may
have made in their separate localities to secure this very
desirable object—one which, if neglected, will be the
means of perpetuating the misery we are now suffering
under. The Ennis committee have taken the first step
towards procuring seed wheat for their district ; and
this, we should hope, will be followed by efforts to se-
cure, in the proper season, a supply of seed barley and
oats. They will, we are sure, at all events, do their
duty. We hope others will do likewise."
Meanwhile, outrages on the public works in progress
in that county are still rife:—

" The public works have been suspended in the parish
of Ruan, in this county, in consequence of an attack
having been made upon ➢Sr. Harrington, the principal
overseer in that parish, because he was a stranger in the
district. Mr. Harrington was severely beaten, but we
are glad to hear that the medical attendant has pro-
nounced his life out of danger."
Extract of a letter, containing some American in-
formation, received from a friend at Liverpool by Mr.
John Singleton, Quinville, county of Clare:—" Amongst
many intelligent friends with whom I have conversed
here, one was an extremely well-informed gentleman
from New York, who told me there was plenty of food
for us in America; and that, as my countrymen seemed
to adopt Indian corn, he could assure me that any
quantity could be grown for fourteen cents a bushel to
the farmer; the shipping price depending, of course, on
the current of speculation, as well as the expense of
inland transit. New Orleans is the safest port to look
to, because corn can be borne on the Mississippi at a
light charge and from any remote districts. Then the
price at New Orleans was 30, while at New York it was
70 cents a bushel. One great comfort we have—that as
yet none of the Indian corn of 1846 has been exported
from America. This month, January, is the first for
thrashing and preparing the crops, and I do hope it is true
that Government design sending some of their ships of
war, unarmed, for supplies, because the mercantile navy
is not yet sufficiently numerous to embrace this new
traffic in addition to its usual calls."

DARING ATTACK AND ROBBETtY.
The following is an extract of a letter received in town
to -day from the neighbourhood of Cahir, county of Tip-
perary

" On Sunday last, at 12 o'clock in the day, Captain
Batley's
,house, near Cahir barracks (an officer in the
Bth Hussars) was attacked by an armed party, who
rifled the house of two guns, two pistols, money, &c..
The fellows were pursued by the military and police to
the neighbourhood of Clogheen, where they were lost
sight of. Houses are attacked every day, prevision-
carts plundered, cattle and sheep taken off the fields—in
fact, society is. totally disorganised. Every ruffian in
the country has arms; neither life nor property is secure
for one moment."