The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

No. 17,021. LONDON, THURSDAY E ENING SU;' APRIL 8, 1847.
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PUBLICATIONS

In two volumes, post Bvo., now ready at all the Libraries,
THE POACHER'S WIFE;
A STORY OF TILE TIMES.

BY CHARLTON CAItEW.
" A story of deep interest, highly-wrought situations, and pathos.'
—New Monthly.
"A forcible display of a sad portion of our social position."—
Douglas Jerrold.
"It ably and eloquently illustrates the miszhievous influence of
the (lame Laws on high and low."— Sunday Times.
" It will be highly prized by all circulating library frequenters.'
--Asiatic Quarterly.
" Every game preserver in the United Kingdom will read,' we do
not say will ' like,' it. But read it, they all must."—Mirrer.
" Mr. Carew is a writer of great power."—Sun.
Charles Oilier, 18 and 19, Southampton-street, Strand.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NEGRO SLAVE.
Now ready, in One Volume, post Bvo., price 7s. 611., cloth, with
Frontispiece,
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
ZAMBA, an Ar-ican Negro King, and his experience of
Slavery in South Carolina.
IVriCen by HIMSELF.
London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINNIENTS, at the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET,
BEDFORD-SQUARE.
Mr. WILSON begs to announce that, on MONDAT EVENING, the
12th of April, at Eight o'clock, he will commence his Series of En-
tertainments on the SONGS of SCOTLAND, %% he n he will sing
several songs for the first time in London, and also bring forward
some old favourites.—Pianoforte, Mr. Land.

ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
The HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on the STOCK of the
ALLIANCE BRITISH and FOREIGN LIFE and FIRE AS-
SURANCE COMPANY will be in COURSE of PAYMENT on
MONDAY. the 12th inst., and every following day (Saturdays ex-
cepted), between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock.
A. lIE.MILTON, Secretary.
Bartholomew-lane, April 8,1847.

IRELAND.

Dunr,m, APRIL s.—Fever still continues to increase
to an alarming extent in Cork, Sligo, Mayo, and various
other counties, and, indeed, the pestilence exists to a
greater or less degree generally throughout the country.
In the union workhouses, especially, the malady pre-
vails, and the mortality in some places is very consi-
derable. As yet Dublin and the surrounding metropo-
litan districts have escaped, but there is reason to ap-
prehend that with the approach of warm weather the
capital will also suffer as well as the provinces.
In some few counties—for instance, in Cork and
Sligo—famine is still at work, but generally there ap-
pears to be a decrease of destitution. The new relief
measures, it is to be hoped, will produce a decided im-
provement, as well in regard to the sustenance of the
poor as the ravages of disease.
The provincial journals mention the names of many
more landlords who are suaplying seed to the small
occupiers on their estates. There are, however, bitter
crmplaints of the total indifference of several extensive
proprietors, who have as yet taken no steps to promote
the cultivation of the land.
A landlord and tenant association is in operation in
the county of Wexford, from which much practical good
may be anticipated. Most of the principal landed pro-
prietors, including the Earl of Courtown, Lord Carew,
the Honourable S. Maxwell, Sir %V. Cox, Messrs.
Gwynn, Morgan, Doyne, Walker, &c.,
are members of
the association, which held a meeting at Ennisworthy on
Thursday last, Lord Courtown presiding. Resolutions
were adopted with a view of establishing safety harbours
for fishing boats, and of obtaining information-on all
matters calculated to employ the labouring poor in a
useful and profitable manner, as the best means of lessen•
ing taxation on tho•land. An address to the landowners
was adopted with the same object, earnestly calling for
"
their co-operation in setting the surplus labourers of the
county at work, and urging them to unite while there
is still time to prevent the degradation and final ruin
which threaten this country'." We extract one important
paragraph from the addr,vss :
" The evil of outAlootiClief, when grappled with sys-
tematically, will not be found unmanageable. On the
20th of February, when more than 20,000 persons were
employed on public relief works in this county, the pro-
portion was one person so employed to 25 arable acres in
the county."
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

twelve months. Ile also adds, that the spread of oats
is far beyond that of 1846 at this period. Notwith-
standing this prospect, there are thousands of small
Occupiers who are totally unable to sow their farms.—
Tr alee Chronicle.

SOYER'S MODEL KITCHEN.
DUBLIN, APRIL s.—This day M. Soyer exhibited an
experimental trial of his cooking apparatus, in the Es-
planade at the Royal Barracks,
and the subj.-ct of his
model kitchen for the poor having exei.ed a considerable
degree of interest iu this country, an immense concourse
of persons of the first respectability, to whom tickets of
admission had been issued, repaired to the ground, in
order to assurethemselves that Soyer's plan was, or was
not a project only. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant
having expressed his intention of being present, the at-
traction which the Noble Earl and his interesting family
never fails of creating amongst the citizens of Dublin
contributed to swell the number and the elegance of the
persons who attended. At three o'clock a grand military
salute from a guard of honour which had been stationed
on the ground announced the arrival of his Excellency
and the vice-regal party, amongst whom we perceived
the Ladies Emily and Kathleen Ponsonbv, Mrs. Captain
Williams, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. Corry Con--
nellan, Captains Henry Ponsonby and Williams. On the
ground we perceived the Earls of Charlemont, Roden,
and Meath, Lord Brabazon, the Lord Chancellor, Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, the Hon. Frede-
rick Ponsonby, &c. &c. On alighting from his carriage,
his Excellency and the vice-regal party were conducted
to the tent where the cooking apparatus had been in
operation. They led the way, and were speedily fol-
lowed by a numerous train of visitors, who accommodated
themselves as best they could, standing at the outside of
a range of tables which extended along the square of the
tent, Soups of various kinds were then served, and the
company having discussed the merits of each decoction
as it had been presented, the signal bell to retire was
tolled, and the great people gave way to an equal number
of paupers, in order that they might regale themselves
upon M. Soyer's soup. The contrast was sudden and
bold. A moment before and a great number of lovely
faces smiled their approval of everything they saw, and
a moment after decrepid age, upon whose faces it would
be hard to say whether time or hunger had made the
most havoc, were ranged at the sawe table. Ladies
Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Williams, the
Misses Brady, Mr. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. C. Connellan,
the Lord Chaneellor, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, and
several others, remained inside the square formed by the
range of tables whilst the poor people were enjoying
their meal, and the pleasure which those benevolent per-
sonages derived from seeing the poor people give every
token of their approval of the " steam-engine-soup,” was
visible upon every countenance, the ladies seeming to
take the deepest interest in the subject.

PRICE SD.

your committee together, and complying with the re-
quisitions contained in the instructions.—l have the
honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" W. E. DELVES BROUGHTON,
" Capt. Royal Engineers, Gov. Inspector.
" To the Chairman or Secretary of the City
of Cork Relief Committee."
AMERICAN SYAIPATIIY FOR IRELAND.

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The following letter has been addressed to a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood of Londonderry:—
" Charleston, South Carolina, March 2, 1847.
" As a committee, instituted for the relief of Ireland,
we have, within the last month, remitted to a committee
of the Society of Friends in Dublin, viz:—Joseph
Bewley, James Perry, and Thomas Pim, jun., the sum
of 1,3001., in two remittances, one of 1,0001,, and another
of 3001.

" We now beg to band you the first of a hill for .500/.
drawn in your favour by the Bank of Charleston, upon
the Bank of Liverpool, which we desire you to distribute
at your discretion amongst the suffering poor of Ireland.
The only condition we desire to impose upon you is, that
you distribute the money where it is most needed, and
where it can do most good— all else we leave to yourself.
" In imposing this duty upon you, we are quite aware
that we are calling upon you to take upon , ourself no
small degree of labour and trouble ; but from the known
benevolence of your character, we doubt not the trouble
will be considered a pleasure, and that you will derive
as much heartfelt satisfaction from administering to the
wants of the needy and afflicted, as we can possibly do
in being made the instruments of forwarding so pure and
holy a purpose. We have the honour to be, with great
respect, yours,

..
"JAMES ADGER, Committee of
H. W. CONNER, the Iliber-
ALEX. ROBINSON, nian Society.
" To William Ogilby, Esq , Kilcatten, Claudy,
County of Londonderry."
EMIGRATION.

If the tide of emigration continues to flow with the
same rapidity which it has for the last month, the
country will soon become desolate indeed. Every sea-
port in Ireland is full to overflowing. We have been in-
formed that one noble Lord in the province of Connaught
is about to ship not less than thirteen hundred families(!)
off his estate, paying half their expenses. If things pro-
gress in this way, there will be very little use for the
bailiff, and " Gerrardism" will vanish from the land.—
Tuam Herald.