The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

PAPERS RESPECTING THE

STATE OF IRELIIND.

Extract from a letter from Sir John Burgoyne to Mr.
Trevelyan, dated 29 th May, 1847 :
" There is a greater tendency to keep down the expen-
ditura and the evil consequences of encouraging a loose
system than I expected. 'The number of destitute to be
provided for will be, I think, much less than I at first
calculated ; and our inspecting officers are generally
working with zeal, activity, and in many cases with
success.

Extract of a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Stokes to
Mr. Trevelyan, dated Lasinagh, Tralee, 28th May, 1847.
" The ration system has, certainly, one most im-
portant effect. Its support, by the levy of poor rates,
brings home taxation more immediately to the land-
owners and landholders than the road system did, and
their minds will, in consequence, be sooner impressed
with the conviction that the period has arrived when
they must either employ the people on their estates or
farms, or support them in idleness from the produce of
them." _

Extract from a report from Mr. Burrowe', inspector of
the Baillieborough Union, under the Act of the 10th
Victoria, c. :

" May 16, 1847.
" At a meeting of the Kiag's County Relief Com-
mittee, held on the 14th, the lists of those receiving re-
lief (which commenced last Tuesday on credit) were
strictly revised, and the rate-payers evinced the most
laudable zeal in unmasking any imposition that existed.
They came forward in a body, and in consequence of
their statements, which are fully substantiated by proof,
the committee were enabled to strike off at least 100
persons improperly in their lists, being possessed of stock
or money. The rate •payers retired, announcing their
intention to protect their own interests and assist the
Government by keeping a strict surveillance over appli-
cants for relief; and immediately reporting any imposi-
tion."
Report from Count P. E. Stryelecki to the Committee of
the British Association.
"May 5, 1847.
"I have the honour to lay before you the original of
a letter from the Government inspector Lynch, of West-
port Union, in which he supplies me with information
that I think worthy to submit to the consideration of the
committee.

"Mr. Lynch accounts for the second grant of 4001.
which I have transferred to his credit; he also transmits
the gratifying intelligence of the new Relief Act being
in full operation in every electoral division under his
charge, and concludes by conveying to the committee
his best thanks for the assistance afforded to the union,
by which he was enabled to complete the machinery of
the out door relief.

" That part of Mr. Lynch's letter which refers to the
population of the union, the numbers of men that are ac-
tually and will be eventually relieved, is very important.
" It shows that out of 78,000 souls 26,350 are actually
receiving daily rations, and that the double, but most
probably 55,000, will compose the number of the next
tortnight's daily issues.
" However surprising these numbers may be, the
admirable adaptation and working of the administrative
relief machinery created for the distribution of the
rations required is not less so, for notwithstanding the
deficiency in activity, energy, and experience of the
parties employed, the issues such as I have witnessed at
the different depots are conducted without much con-
fusion, and, improving daily, the joint action of both the
recipient and the distributor will become eventually as
easy as a simple task.
" The cost of the system of relief will he half of that
which preceded it, for 55,0001. rations of Indian meal at
151. per ton amount to 2,275/. weekly, which with other
contingencies may reach 2.5001., while the relief through
the public works was 4,7001. or thereabouts (weekly
average of March), which, with the grants made in
money and food by the Government, the British and
other associations to five relief committees, and with
the not less considerable private charities poured from
England, will make a total much above 5,0001., of weekly
expenditure.

But the great recommendation of the present system,
independently of its comparative economy is, that be-
sides being more systematic and capable of contracting
and extending its issues from fortnight to fortnight, and
thus of adjusting and adapting itself to circumstances, it
is more effective ; for since it came into operation the
afflicting and heart-rending crowds of deetitutes dis-
appeared, and Westport, the receptacle of misery,
assumes daily a more cheering aspect.
" I have deemed it right to lay before you these par-
ticulars, as, owing to the completion of the system here,
and to the machinery by which the effectual relief is
afforded, the assistance of the association to this union
should, I think, be discontinued."
Mr. Lynch to Count Stryelecki:—

" Ist May, 1847.
" In returning you thanks for the second grant of 400/.
which you have placed at my disposal for the union of
Westport, I have much gratification in communicating
to you, for the information of the British Association,
that through your timely interference the new system
of relief is now in operation in every electoral division
under my charge, except Achill, where I trust it will be
commenced either on this day or on Monday.
"I annex a return, by which you will see the date we
commenced, the number of rations daily distributed in
each division, the amount expended from the funds of the
British Association, and the estimated cost of the current
fortnight.
" I annex also a return marked No. 2, in which you
will find the sums I have felt Called urn' to advance to
districts where the lists were not prepared, and in other
cases to relieve some destitute persons who are not in-
cluded in the lists furnished. I felt warranted in thus
deviating from the condition on which I generally acted,
of requiring the names of the parties to be entered upon
the books provided by the relief commissioners. In the
first distribution you will find that daily rations were
received to the amount of 7,8893., and since Monday last,
the 26th, this number has increased to 26,380, and I feel
must still be increased to nearly double this amount.
Such is the distressed condition of this union numbering
about 78,000 souls.
" For the last three days the rations are being sup-
plied from the merchants stores, on account of two con-
tracts made by the finance committee for 250 tons of
Indian meal at 141. 14s. and 151. per ton. E,timates
have been forwarded from all the electoral divisions, and
as the guardians have resolved on striking' a rate of 10s.
in the pound, I do not apprehend any difficulty in con-
tinuing this relief so auspiciously commenced.
" May I request you will convey my sincere thanks
to the British Association, not only for their unbounded
liberality to this district, but for the important services,
through you, rendered to me personally, in enabling me
to put into operation the extensive relief so much needed
in this union."

DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF THE REV. H.
W. STARR ON SNOWDON.-It will be in the recollection
of our readers that the Rev. Mr. Starr, of Northampton,
who was making the tour of North Wales in September
last, after leaving Carnarvon to ascend Snowdon, was
missed. Various rumours were circulated to account for
Mr. Starr's disappearance, but the assertion of one of the
guides, John Hughes, that he had met a person on the
summit of Glyder Fawr, had conversed with him, and had
received sixpence from him for pointing out the way back
into the Llanberis-road, put an end to all other conjec-
tures, especially as Hughes's description of his person
and dress seemed to correspond so entirely with the de-
scription given of the ill-fated gentleman; and the
general supposition was that he had perished in one of
the terrific gorges of that mountain. It is now, how-
ever, well ascertained either that Hughes's story was
a fabrication, or that the person whom he saw
closely resembled Mr. Starr. On Monday last,
William Hughes, the huntsman in the service of Mr.
Williams, of Penrhos, as he was descending the vale of
Cwm Brwynog, picked up at the foot of the precipice of
Moe! y Cynghorion, or, as it is locally called, Clogwyn
Llechwedd y Llo, a red shawl and a piece of linen.
These he took to the Dolbadarn Inn, Llanberis, when
Mrs. Evans, the landlady, identified the shawl as
having been the property of Mr. Starr. It was then
discovered that the oil case used by Mr. Starr, as a
knapsack, had been found a month before close to the
river, by John Edm,rds, the tenant of a small farm
in the mountain hollow, below the spot where the
shawl was afterwards found. On Tuesday morning
the huntsman was sent for, and he accompanied
Mr. Edw. Humphreys, son-in-law to Mrs. Evans, of thd
Dolbadarn Inn, and David Davies, a quarryman, to the
place where he first saw the shawl. They then directed
their course to the cliffs of Moal y Cynghorion,
along the dry bed of a mountain torrent, and had
not gone more than two hundred yards when
they. espied the mangled remains of the unfortunate
tourist—that is, the body from the waist to the
knees, and near it a white cambric handkerchief,
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marked in red with the letters " 11.W.5." They
proceeded upwards for about three hundred yards, and
at the foot of the precipice they found the blade bone,
top of
fethepeprrfeeceitp. hanging over. At this spot,ice one of the shoulders, with
also, they found a hair brush, a small spy glass, a map of
North Wales, a small theological treatise, and a pocket-
book, containing tweezers, scissors, a compass, and various
papers. We have the gratification of bong well assured that
with the exception of any gold or silver coin the unfortunate
gentleman might have had about him, and a silver pencil
case, every article in his possession when he left Carnar-
von, has been found. There is every reason to believe
that whatever may be missing, if the search were worth
the time and expense, might be found among the loose
tones and earth carried down by the torrents. It
is a melancholy satisfaction to know that the suspicion
hinted against our mountain peasantry had no founda-
tion ; and it is but just to add that nothing can exceed
the alacrity which, from the first, has been shown
throughout the neighbourhood in endeavouring to un-
ravel the dreadful mystery ; while all of all classes,
whether rich or poor, have shown the deepest and ten-
derest sympathy in the distress of the bereaved mother
and sisters of the unfortunate deceased, who is known
to have been an exemplary clergyman.—Carnarvon
Herald.
TIIE CROPS IN WEST KENT. —The heavy rain on
Saturday morning appears to have cleared the fruit
trees, particularly the filbert trees, of some of the
in-
sects ; still the Lent corn is much in want of more rain.
The beans are in many places in bloom, although not
sixteen inches high. The wheat and potato crops look
ve-y promising.—Maidstone Gazette.
The will of the Honourable Sophia Margaret
Stuart, relict of the most Reverend and Right HonlWilliam
Stuart, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, and grand-daughter of
the famous William Penn, of Pennsylvania, was. made by her
in 1840, and a codicil in August last. She wasp her eighty-
third year. She has thereby left several annuities, and among
others an annuity for the life of her foster-brother, the elder
Mr. John Weir. She has bequeathed to her daughter, the
Countess of Ranfurly, all her jewels and a sum in the con-
sols, also a pecuniary bequest to her son William ; the residue
of her property she leaves to her son Henry, and appointed
her two sons executors. The personal estate in England was
valued at 7,0001,