The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-13 00:00:00

Undoubtedly the especial hand of Providence has
been thus mercifully extended towards the relief of
the people, in a manner that will greatly mitigate
the general distress, but it still leaves a large amount
absolutely requiring a great extent of human and
humane exertion.

Although the potatoes have succeeded better this
year than on the two former, not above one-sixth of
the usual quantity has been planted, and that not by
the small occupiers, as usual for theirsupport, because
the case appeared hopeless, and even otherwise the
seed was wanting.
The lands of many were ill adapted to other crops,
or they had no means of tilling them; or even
where they have put in turnips or oats, &e., the
produce will be quite insufficient for their support, for
it must be observed that it requires three times the
quantity of land laid out in corn to what would be ne-
cessary in potatoes to feed for the year any given num-
ber of persons.

Thus it must plainly appear that Ireland in all
parts is still in much distress, but along the west very
active and extended benevolence is required to be ex-
erted from elsewhere to prevent the most horrible
scenes; that this calamity is continuous, and can only
be gradually removed by a new order in the social
system, which it will be the interest, and must be the
effort, of all parties to introduce and to accelerate.
Dublin, Oct. 6.

J. F. BURGOYNE

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF
TUESDAY.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, OCT. 11, 1847.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Gentlemen Cadets to
be Second Lieutenants—Samuel Digby Wright, vice
Greville, promoted; Augustus Young Earle, vice S. R.
B. Swinney; Honourable Leonard Allen Addington, vice
Bent; Arthur Vandeleur, vice Glanville, promoted;
Andrew Spotswood Orr, vice Jervis, promoted ; Charles
Rowland Hill, vice Atkinson, promoted ; Patrick John
Campbell, vice Dumaresq, promoted ; Francis Corn-
wallis Maude, vice Tupper, promoted ; Arthur William
Twiss, vice Heyman, promoted ; Reginald Curtis, vice
Dew, promoted; Allan Sievwright, vice Robertson, pro-
moted ; Frederic Southcote Seale, vice East, promoted ;
John Boulton, vice Hoste, promoted ; John De Luttrell
Saunderson, vice Taswell, promoted ; Montray Anketell,
vice Winterbottom, promoted ; Philip Dickson, vice
Singleten, promoted ; /Eneas Clarke, vice Reilly,
promoted ' • Francis Place, vice Saunders, promoted ;
Edward Jackson Bruce, vice Smith, promoted ;
William Powell Richards, vice Fitz Hugh, promoted ;
John Edward Hope, vice Moody, promoted ; Henry
Walpole John Dashwood, vice Hardy, promoted ; Al-
gernon Brendon, vice Bolton, promoted ; James de
Havilland, vice Lugg, promoted ; Sidney Carden, vice
Fraser, promoted ; George Allix Wilkinson, vice Lam-
bert, promoted ; William Windham Augustus Lukin,
vice Soady, promoted ; William Walker, vice Dyneley,
promoted, Oct. 1.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants—Alexander Ross Clarke, vice
Wrottesley, promoted; Edward Bainhrigge, vice St.
John, promoted; James Murray, vice Gordon, pro-
moted; George Ranken, vice Porter, promoted; Francis
Horatio DeVere, vice Wilson, promoted; Henry Raymond
Pelly, vice Dawson, promoted ; Hobert Mann parsons,
vice Crofton, promoted ; Frederick Brine ; Arthur
a'Court Fisher ; George Montagu Stopford ; Edward
Bridge ; Henry Reynolds Luard ; Montagu Stopford
Whitmore, Oct. 1.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somersetshire.
Vere Poulett, commonly called Viscount Hinton, to
be Deputy Lieutenant ; Sir Walter Calverley Trerelyan,
Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Sir Peregrine Palmer
Fuller Palmer Acland, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ;
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chetham Strode, K.C.8., to
be Deputy-Lieutenant ; William Miles, Esq., M.P., to
be Deputy-Lieutenant ; John Batten, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, Oct. 1.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire
The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Frederick Smith, Gent., to be Cornet,
vice Edward L. Cresswell, resigned, Sept. 18.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Rid-
ing of Yorkshire.

First West York Yeomanry Cavalry—Walter Thomas
Spencer Stanhope, Esq., to be Captain, viee Martin,
deceased; William Bamfortb, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Stanhope, promoted; Thomas Taylor, Gent., to be
Lieutenant, ♦ice Naylor, promoted; Samuel Jackson,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice Bamforth, promoted; Thomas
Barff, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Drake, resigned, Oct. 7.