The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

IRELAND

DUBLIN, JAN, 1.
STATE OF TIPPERARY.
The Tipperary Constitution, a Tory paper, makes an
alarming representation of the state of that county. De-
tails of robbing of sheep and provisions are given. I
subjoin two extracts from that journal, which, it is ne-
cessary to remark, has long been in the habit of drawing
exaggerated pictures of the state of the district;—
" Mr. Sergeant Howley, the able and excellent as-
sistant barrister for this eounty, was obliged to be fur

nished with an escort on proceeding to ClOgTheen to open
his court on Tuesday. The military and police are ha-

rassed.
" FIRING AT THE MILITARY.—On Monday evening,
about five o'clock, as the escort of military and police
were returning from Caher, a shot was fired at them
from a car, which was passing near Summerville: sub-
constable Crozier, who was with the party, saw the shot
fired, and arrested two men named Prendergast and
Slattery, who were in the car, and found a pistol which
had been recently discharged concealed in the car. The
parties have been committed."
DESTITUTION IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
At the meeting of the guardians of the South Dublin
Unica, yesterday, the clerk read the following important
report from the Surgeon-General, Sir Philip Crampton,

and Dr. Corregan:-L
" ➢lerrion-square West, Dec. 29, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—ln compliance with your resolution of
the 24th inst., we have this day visited the workhouse
in consultation with your medical officers.
" Of the total number of inmates (1,946), 815 are
labouring under illness, and a large proportion of these
are suffering under dranlica, or dysentery of a very fatal
form.

"In the process of our examination we were very
soon struck with the fact, that the fever accompanying
the disease was, in nearly all the cases, of the same low
typhoid character; your medical officers are of opinion
that the disease is contagious, and in their opinion we
fully concur. The great majority of the cases are in
persons advanced in life, and relapsos are frequent,
which circumstance constitutes a serious aggravation of
the disease.

" Dysentery has prevailed throughout the city and
suburbs during the past autumn to a somewhat greater
extent than in preceding years, and many of these ad-
mitted within the laFt few months into the workhouse
laboured under it on admission ; but, nevertheless, its
more rapid increase, its assuming the form of an epide-
mic, the universal similarity of the accompanying fever,
and the more fatal character of the disease within the
walls of the workhouse, clearly prove that there must be
some additional influence of an unfavourable nature ope-
rating within the institution.
" The clothing of the paupers is sufficient, the food and
drink, which we examined, appear to be of good quality,
and, as your medical officers, in their report of Novem•
ber 25th, have justly observed, the disease cannot be
attributed to the use of Indian meal, because numerous
cases of dysentery appeared in the house several weeks
before that article of diet was introduced, and numbers
of the inmates haVe been attacked who never used the
Indian meal stirabout.' To none of those influences,

sidered by the session to be a very useful and necessary
undertaking.
COUNTY OF ROSCOMMON.-Mr. Fitzstephen French,
M.P., presided at the adjourned sessions of French-park,

on Wednesday.
Mr. French commenced by expressing to Captain
Burmaster and Mr. Bushe, the officers in attendance

from the Board of Works, the thanks of the magis-
trates and associated cess-payers, for the zeal with

which their duties was performed, and the assistance
they had uniformly afforded to the local gentry. Since
their last meeting, Lord de Freyne had forwarded,
under the Treasury Minute of the Ist of December,
his application for an advance of 24,0001., to ba ex-
pended in reclaiming waste lands in that barony, and

in all probability instructions would be received by
the next day's post by Mr. Burke to report on the
memorial. He (Mr. French) trusted that the other

landed proprietors in this district would follow this
course, and that every person having a stake in the
country would perform his duty. If not, let petitions be
forwarded to Parliament to allow the magistrates and
cess-payers to tax the lands of those not giving employ-
ment for reproductive works, subject to the sanction of
the Board of Works. The sum voted on Saturday was
for three months' employment for the destitute poor of
the barony, to save this district, if possible, from the
horrors of starvation; and his object in requesting the
attendance of the officers representing the Board of
Works, at this their adjourned meeting, was to arrange
with them the method in which this could be most se-
curely and effectually done. He had prepared a return,
showing the amount unexpended of the sums voted at
their September sessions—the sums now allotted for
each new work, and the number of men who, in the
opinion of the engineer. could be- conveniently em-
ployed on each. He would recommend that work should
be laid out for each person to the amount of 2/. Bs.
The sum they had just voted was for three months'
employment at Bd. a day. This would enable each
person, by daily labour, to earn 2/. Bs. Let the relief
committee send such numbers to each work as would
enable this work to be carried out. Whether working
in gangs or not, letlthe persons taking the tasks be al-
lowed to bring to their assistance such members of
their own families as they please ; and, if possible,
to have the task finished, and the sum required for their
subsistence, the 2/. Bs., earned in six weeks. The re-
maining six weeks out of the three months, the wages
for which they have in their pockets, should be devoted
to their own tillage, and some attempt made to arrest
the impending famine of next year. He would also, in
the most earnest manner, press on Mr. Bushe the expe-
diency of not allowing.any person to continue as stew-
ard of public works who could not satisfactorily show he
was, on his own land, giving employment to one or two
persons, and that his land was in preparation for early
sowing.
The address of Mr. French appeared to give great
satisfaction to a crowded court.

Mr. BU,SHE and Captain BURMASTER stated their de-
sire to co-operate in every way with the magistrates, and
to avail themselves of every suggestion which could be
rendered effective.

The remaining business was gone through, and the
schedule forwarded to the secretary of the grand jury.
COUNTY OF MEATH.—THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—
The following letter has been addressed to the Irish
agent of his Grace the Duke of Bedford:—
" Bedford Office, Bloomsbury, Dec. 28, 1846.
" Dear Sir,—The Duke of Bedford desires me to re-
quest that you will have the goodness to inform the
High Sheriff of Meath that he has received and considered
the circular addressed by him to his Grace, in which,
after adverting to an application made to his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant, to call an extra baronial present-
ment sessions in the barony of Lower Navan, for
presenting for reproductive works, the High Sheriff,
Charles Joly, Esq., inquires whether the Duke of Bed•
ford will join in a plan to provide employment for the
people, without the intervention of the Board of Works,
on the principle of subscriptions equal in amount ,to the
assessment which would have to be made for productive
works under Mr. Labouchere's letter ; and whether,
in the event of that letter being adopted at the en-
suing sessions, his Grace would be willing to undertake
for reproductive works (giving the required guaran-
tee), and to what amount ? And the Duke of Bed-
ford also wishes )•ou to be so good as to inform the High
Sheriff that it is very satisfactory to his Grace to find
that the proprietors in the barony are anxious to come
forward and provide employment without the interven-
tion of the Government • and that he is willing to join
in, and bear his share of any reasonable plan for accom-
plishin.z that object ; and in determining upon the steps
to be taken for that purpose, his Grace hopes, where the
sowing of wheat has been neglected, that the expediency
of sowing spring crops will not be lost sight of.
" I beg to add that the Duke of Bedford is pleased to
hear that you have created employment for such of his
tenants as required it ; and I quite agree with you in
the opinion you express, that if every landed proprietor
would do the same, it would do far better than applying
to the Board of Works.—l am, dear Sir, yours truly,
" CHRISTOPHER HARDY.