The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

RELIEF AND IMPROVEMENT

(IRELAND.)
The following statement, showing the sums which
have been voted by Parliament since the Ist of
August, 1846, for extraordinary expenditure in Ire-
land, for the purposes of relief and improvement,
and the amount of the sums which have been ex-
pended and remain to be expended, was issued,i3
conformity with an order of the House of Commons
It appears, that under the Labour Relief Act (the
9th and 10th Victoria, c. 107), the amount voted was
4,814,0001., the whole of which was expended. The
amount voted under the food, relief, and fever
hospitals, was a sum not exceeding 2,200,0001.
Of this 1,676,0001. was expended. Under the
Land Improvemt nt Act the amount voted was
1,500,0001, while only 31,0521. has yet been
granted, so that there remains to be expended
1,468,9481. The return explains that, although only
31,0521. has been actually advanced to parties up to
November 27th, 1847, yet applications have been re-
ceived to the amount of 1,763,0001., and loans base
been sanctioned to the amount of 609,0001. Under
the Railroads (Ireland) Act, 10 and 11 Viet., c. 73,
620,0001. was voted, and of this 339,0001. has been
expended. The whole of the remainder, 281,0001.
has been appropriated, and will be expended by the
sth of July, 1848. Under the Fishery Piers 13111
40,000/. was voted ; none of this has et been ex-
pended, although it has been partly appropriated,
and will be expended when the grant of 50,000/.
of the preceding session has been exhausted.
The Board of Works are now building, or are pre-
paring to build, seventy-two fishery piers. The loss
under the head of commissariat operations, 250,000/,
was voted, the wleile of which has been expended.
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cannot be ascertnit cd until the whole of the stores of
corn have been disposed of; and the account finally
closed. Under the head of donations to relief com-
mittee, by order of the Lord-Lieutenant, 190,0001.
was voted, the whole of which was expended. In
addition to this, 23,5001. has been advanced to cer-
tain boards of guardians to enable them to keep the
workhouses open. The sum of 370,000/. was voted
to be appropriated for loans for district drainage and
other works. Of this 215,000/. has been expended,
and there consequently remains 155,0001. to be applied,
the N‘hole, however, of which will be expended be-
fore the 31st of March ; 38,500/. was voted for the
works of navigation connected with drainage, the
whole of which still remains to be expended. The
works. connected with this vote will proceed with the
district drainages with which they are connected, but
the issues on this vote will not commence until the
vote of 35,000/. of the preceding year is exhausted,
and of which 5,000/. has been issued. The sum voted
for the expense of the extraordinary staff of the Board
of Works and of the Relief Commission was 310,0001.,
and the amount expended 277,000/. Thy re remains
to be expended 33,0001., which will not be sufficient
to defray the expenses up to the 31st of March, 1848.
It therefore rppears that the amount voted under
these several heads was 10,342,500/., of which
7,815,552/. has been expended, and there remains to
he expended 2,016,4484

REWARDING EVIL WITH GOOD.—The late Rev.
Roderick Mackenzie, of Knockbain, may be said to have
exceeded in charitable and benevolent acts any other
minister of his day. He regularly kept a meal store for
the poor, not only of his own parish, but also for the poor
of the neighbouring parishes. When first settled in the
parish of Knockbain, he met with considerable oppo-
sition, especially from a posse of fair ones, headed by a
female of masculine power, Hho carried a burden of
stones, which were to be used by her brigade as ammu-
nition. But on the dayoofsseeltutleenmtl;itiltrl.n
Mackenziefair Amajona
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inducted eithout opposition, and ultimately became a
general favourite in the parish. Some yearafterwards'
she who rendered herselt so prominent in her opposition
to the induction was reduced to great poverty, and was
forced to go to his manse to seek alms, where she was
cheerfully received by Mr. Mackenzie, who took her to
the storeroom, telling her to keep her bag until he
would put a portion of meal into it. After he had put
in three or tour shovels full, the poor woman said,
" Hoot, hoot, Mr. Rory, you are putting too much in the
hag, for indeed it is more than lam able to carry." e 0
woman," replied Mr. Rory. " I am sure it is not so
weighty as the burden of stones you before now car-
ried, in order that I might.be stoned eith them, but for
that I have long ago forgiven you, and while I hare a
peck of meal in my gurnal, you are welcome to a share
of it; therefore never want while I have to give." We
suspect such genuine charity as that of the late Mr.
Roderick Mackenzie, of Knockbain, is seldom to be met
with in the present day.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
The petition to Parliament, complaining of the
unconstitutional interference of the Marquis of Exeter
in the Stamford elections, has this week received a large
accession of signatures, including those of a few highly
respectable Conservatives. Next week it is to be sub-
mitted to the gentleman who has umpbrr,Lmaoliimse.emndottnoos.pe_nrefLoserinenet.
it, and to other Members win) Lave
it upon the attention of the House of
. epidemic is extensively preva-
lent Mercury.
Tahtisthe present. moment, the juvenile
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members of the community, especially, having suffered
er smeevmbeel);
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medical gentlemen of our town have,
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been kept in constant empleyment. Fortunately, the
diseastereisatomfeanmt
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mild character, usually yielding to judi-
ciousdays.—Liverpool Albion.
BUNN AND LlNO.—This teflon is expected to be
shortly tried; yesterday the special jury, nominated a
few days back, was, in legal phraseology, reduced" to
enty-four, by the solicitors on both sides. It appears
that the cause stands the second in the paper for Mon-
, day week, and its position for hearing on that day will
depend on the causes previously heard, seven being the
number allotted for each day. It is understood that
the demurrer in the action will be tried before the 20th.
instant.
We have good authority for stating that it is not
the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce
spy new measure respecting the corn-laws. The Mi-
nistry have decided to allow the Acts of Parliament as
they now stand to take their course; therefore, on and
after March next, we shall be under the sliding-scale of
from 4s. to 10s. There must be many to whom a know-
ledge of this fact will prove important, and, as we have
the information from a quarter in which we can place
the most implicit reliance, parties interested in the
matter may take their measures in full assurance of its
accuracy.— Liverpool Albion.