The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-22 00:00:00

STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

Further lamentable accounts have been received of the
ravages of pestilence in some counties of the south and

west.

PROVISIONS FOR SLlGO.—Captain Gilbert, RE., Go-
vernment Inspector, ha* published an address to the relief
committee of that county, with a letter from Count de

Strzelecki, agent of the British Association, transmitting
5001. worth of provisions for the relief of the destitute.
Captain Gilbert thus closes the address :
"By an order received from the Commissioners of the

Board- of Public Works, the present mode of relief, by
employing the people on the public woks, will cease on
the Ist of May next ; it is, therefore, quite unnecessary
for me to point out the very short space of time remain-
ing for you and the Finance Committee to make arrange
ments for the new system of relief.—l have the honour
to be, gentlemen, your obedient, humble servant,
"F. Y. GILBERT,
" Captain Royal Engineers, Government Inspector."
CLON.II,'L, APRIL 17.—We regret to state that our re-
spected townsman, James Burk, Esq., and Mr. John
Power, of Priorstown, caught fever while attending their
duties as poor-law guardians in the workhouse of this
union, on Thursday week. The latter gentleman has
since died. Fever and dysentery are rapidly spreading.
TRALEE, APRIL 17.—The report of Dr. Alton to the
poor-law guardians, with respect to the frightful state of
Ratass Churchyard, surpasses in horror anything that has
occurred in our country for centuries. The bodies of the
dead are the chief, perhaps the only food of great packs
of famishing dogs, which nocturnally prowl about our
grave yards, and scrape up the scaree-buried dead as their
food. In Killarney, Lord Kenmore has, we have reason
to believe granted a new burial-ground; the old ones in
that district, as well as in this, and thoughout Kerry,
proving inadequate for the immense mortality. Unless
new grounds be opened at once, the heat of next month,
acting on the miasma generated in such abundance, may
produce a plague, transcending in horror any recorded
in history.
DINGLE, APRIL 16.—Arrived yesterday her Ma-
jesty's steamer Blazer, with oats and barley seeds. Since
the reduction on the public works, the mortality has been
so great that the obituary of this barony would fill a
large portion of our space. Fever and dysentery are
attacking all classes. The Rev. Mr. Hulooham, P.P., of
Dunurlin, and the Rev. Thadee Hamilton, Protestant
curate, are slowly recovering. It is supposed that our
population—over 20,000 last year—will be reduced one-
half at least.— Tralee Chronicle.

COUNTY OF MAYO, BALLINROBE.—We regret to state
that Dr. Molloy now lies ill of typhus fever; he was at-
tacked on the eve of departure from Ballinrobe, having
succeeded in removing fever from the poor-house, whcli
had 700 ill when he was sent down by the Board of
Health a month since.—Bid.

GALWAY, APRIL 17.—At the meeting of the poor-law
guardians on Wednesday, there were sixty paupers ad-
mitted, as several of the inmates, amounting to about two
hundred, have left the house having in view the prospect
of out•door

TIIE CROPS.—TILLAGE OF THE LAND.
Notwithstanding the continuance of ungenial wea.
ther, the reports of the crops are still favourable, and
generally, fair progress has been made in the tillage of
the land.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION—THIS DAY.
The weekly meeting of the association was held this
day.
Mr. J. II DUNNE in the chair. The chairman hav-
ing addressed the meeting on some matters of local in-
terest,

Mr. J. CONNELL, in reply to an annonymous letter,
which expressed a wish that some authentic state-
ment with regard to the actual state of his father's
health should be published, observed that the accounts
published in the Freeman's Journal were strictly
correct, and might be relied upon as conveying the
fullest information. The Honourable Gentleman sub-
sequently addressed the meeting at considerably length,
censuring in the most emphatic manner the conduct of
the House of Commons in rejecting Mr. Watson's Bill.
With regard to the Vagrancy Act for Ireland, it was
his decided conviction that such a measure would be
wholly inoperative, and productive of the very worst
results.

A vote of thanks having been passed to the Ar.,ericall3
for their sympathy to Ireland, and an addrcss voted to
Captain Forbes, of the Jamestown, the rent for the
week WAS unuounced to be 341, 15s. 10d.