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.
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

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY OCCUR-

RENCE AT CASHEL.

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

Sept. 9, 1847.
"TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIPPERARY VINDICATOR.
"Sir,--Now that my medic' aClaasdhveils'ers 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 am much surprised you in-
serted in your columns), containing a most diabolical
charge against me—a charge deeply affecting my
character, 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 may 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 fur 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
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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
trust the press in general will, in justice to ine, 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 MANUFACTURING Tows.—Sixty years
ago Huddersfield, now the centre of the fancy manufac-
ture of England, was a miserable village. The houses
were poor and scattered, the streets narrow, crooked,
and dirty—the people ignorant, and wild is their man-
ners almost to savagery. Around them stretched the
black moorland, unreclaimed by the plough or the spade;
and the sides of the noble hills were covered with
shaggy moss, brambles, and wiry creepers, or coloured
in the appointed season with the golden gorse and the
purple heather. And how short was to bo the inter-
vening period! Already its this wild people were de-
posited 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
nave been at work, conquering the wild dominion of na-
ture, and making all her elements serve them. Thus
the river has been converted into artificial beds, and
the waters arreqed in their course by weirs, and com-
pelled to turn the wheels of the hundreds of factories
.shich are built upon the river's banks. The savage
moorland has been cultivated and parcelled into corn-
tields and pastures. The hills, in many cases, wave,
von 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
;•reen foliage of the trees; every one of them the centre
tt a little working community. Thus, Huddersfield has
;rown into an important town, and, what is more, she
tas fostered other towns and villages in her immediate
tuighbourhood, and made them also important, so that,
•ithin six miles of her, there are some
hundred and
thirty thousand souls engaged in manufactures, and in
the commerce to which those manufactures give birth.—
Bradford Observer.

BOOKSELLERS PROVIDENT INfiTITLITION.— Last
evening; the ordinary meeting of the directors of the
Booksellers' Provident Institution and the Retreat in
connexion therewith for the reception of aged and de-
.ayed members, was held at the committee-t ooms in
Paternoster-row. The statement of the progress made
oy the institution since its formation in 1836 continues
to be encouraging. During the past year relief has been
Afforded to a number of sick and distressed retail book-
sellers and assistants, as well as to their widows; and
notwithstanding the large calls upon the funds during
the Sear, upwards of 700/. has been added to the perma-
nent fund, which nearly reaches the sum of 16,0001.
l'he Retreat at Abbott's Langley was opened in July
last year, on which occasion subscriptions were received
to the amount of 840/., increased since by the bequest
of 6001. Three per Cent. Consols, under the will of the
tate John Harris, Esq. The amount of assistance
granted to members of the trade since 1840 was upwards
of 1,030/.

ROBBERY BY A POLlCEMAN.—Yesterday informa-
tion was circulated throughout the metropolitan police
force that Thomas Hope Arrowsmith, one of the Lan-
cashire constabulary, had absconded from the police-
station 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.
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STEAMBOAT SIGNAL LIGIITS.—A gentleman of
Cincinnati,im-
portant
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
larger fsce. Dl. Guiou has received great encourage
meet 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, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, during
the absence of the family, had been broken into. The
burglars, after plentifully regaling themselves with the
contents of the larder, decamped with 3051. in 51. and
101. Bank of England notes, and four sovereigns.
DONCASTER MEETING.--Bell's Life in London,
of Sunday next, will give the Race fur the St. Leger,
and all the exciting and important events of the weak,
graphically and faithfully described; with a Portrait of
the Winner of the St. Leger. Features of interest in
every
department of British sports. Sale of Life,
to Mr. Clement,
27,000. A sixpence enclosed jun., 170,_
of Life, by return of
Strand, will ensure a coo'
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post, to any part of the