The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

to the organisation of the system of government, and
the determination of what relates to the serious
question of our northern frontiers, the Provisional
Government of the nation would find itself required,
until the system has been thus organised, to use its
own discretion on other points. This would be invest-
ing the Provisional Government with a dictatorship;
always odious, however imperious might be the cir-
cumstances rendering it necessary. I, therefore, pro-
pose, that the said assembly should come fully autho-
rised to determine with regard to all branches of the
pnblic administration, which may be of general interest,
and within the attributes of the legislative power ; the
provisional executive of the nation acting with entire
submission to its determination.

I consider it, moreover, indispensable that a uniform
rule be established for the regulation of the interior
affairs of the departments ; and that for this purpose
the Constitution of the year 1824 be adopted until the
new Constitutional Code be completed. By this means
we shall avoid that divergency of opinions, at this cri-
tical moment, when uniformity is so much needed ;
the national will which sanctioned that code will have
been consulted, and the executive of the nation will
have a guide to follow, so far as the present eccentric
position of the republic will allow. I submit both mea-
sures to the will of the departments, expressed by the
authorities, who may be established in consequence ,of
the revolution; proposing, moreover, that the Provisional
(;government of the nation should adopt forthwith the
second, as the rule of its conduct, until it be determined
otherwise by the majority of the departments, in the
form already indicated. The slave of public opinion
myself, I shall act in accordance with it, seeking for it
henceforth in the manner In which it may be known and
expressed, and subjecting myself afterwards entirely to
the decisions of the •instituent assembly, the organ of
the sovereign will of the nation.

Mexicans I there was once a day, and my heart dilates
with the remembrance, when, leading on the popular
masses and the army to demand the rights of the nation,
you saluted me with the enviable title of soldier of the
people. Allow me again to take it, never more to be
given up, and to devote myself until death to the defence
of the liberty and independence of the Republic.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
Heroic Vera Cruz, Aug 16, 1846.

IRELAND.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

DunuN, OCT. 7.—A letter dated Tuam, October 5,
in the Freeman's Journal, gives an alarming account of
the state to which the population of that town and neigh-
bourhood is at present reduced:—
" I am sorry to inform you that this town, I may say,
;„ ;„ - -ftttle in the onen (Ire
in spite of the police and townspeople. inere was
heifer belonging to William Sinnott taken yesterday on
the top of the hill of Tullynadally road, in spite of the
drivers. The animal was killed and carried off, and
nothing left but the hide and part of the fat. Other
cattle were stopped this day. The people cannot help
this outbreak, for if they even had money they
cannot get bread, as the Galway people are not letting
any of it come to us. Mrs. Davis, of Claremorris, was
severely injured coming from Galway with flour. The
people are watching the batches of bread coming out of
the ovens, and almost killing each other for it. Mr.
Blake's mill was kept going all day yesterday (Sunday)
dressing and grinding whole flour, and they were divid-
ing it up to two o'clock this morning, so you may judge
how the town is. Dragoons are expected here every
moment."

A writer in the Waterford Chronicle furnishes the
subjoined sketch of affairs at Dungarvan :
" DIINGARVAN, OCT. s.—lt is impossible for the most
sagacious to calculate where the present state of things
will end. The people are starving ; hundreds are living
upon a meal of cabbage and salt in 24 hours. They want
employment, and a rate of wages which will support
themselves and their families. 10d. a day is offered
them, and it is refused ; for that sum would, according
to the present price of Indian meal—the cheapest de-
scription of food—be perfectly inadequate to support
more than one man. And I ask, in the name of
God, are the wife and children of the wretched
labourer to starve ? Soul-harrowing as it is to
think of it, there is no other alternative for them,
if the Board of Works give only 10d. a day. The
stubborn adherence to the Treasury minute' appended
to the Labour Act, in not giving more than this unfor-
tunate 10d. a day, is already producing its effects upon
the country, particularly in the rural districts in the
west of this country. Great bodies of the peasantry
are nightly patrolling the county, making visits to the
houses of the several farmers, for the purpose of inti-
midating them into refunding the rents paid for
conacre land this year ; alleging, that as the potatoes
failed, no value was had, and, consequently, farmers
should refund the rents. Already several of the inti-
midators have been arrested—to the number, I believe,
of twenty-four. The military are out every night in
search. There is a force new in this town, including
police, dragoons, and cavalry, of about seven hundred
—a considerable reinforcement is hourly expected. A
rumour that about 8,000 armed peasantry were en-
camped at Ballinamult, a distance of nine miles to the
west of Dungarvan, was afloat here to-day; in conse-
quence of which, I have learned, that a force of some-
thing near five hundred, consisting of dragoons, infan-
try, police, &c., under General Sir Charles O'Donnell,
accompanied by P. C. Howley, Royal Marines, left town
this morning at eleven o'clock, and marched towards the
place of the rumoured encampment of the peasantry. I
trust that no collision will take place. Sad would, in-
deed, be the result if there should."

The accounts from Tipperary are extremely unfavour-
able. Agrarian outrages, of the old stamp, are daily
increasing, destitution lending fresh vigour to the Rockite
organisation.
THE ARMY.

The Queen's Bays, in the Royal Barracks, ha►e re-
ceived the route for Newbridge.
Three troops of the 7th Hussars arrived at the North-
wall from Liverpool, and on disembarking from the
steamers proceeded on their route to Athlone, which
will be the head-quarters of the regiment.
THE CONFLICT AT CASTLECONNELL.

The Nenagh papers of yesterday give the correct
version of the circumstances which led to the luss of
life at Castleconnell on Sunday last. The military were,
it seems, the leading transgressors ; indeed, nothing
could be more disgraceful, or subversive of discipline,
than the conduct of the draught of the 88th Regiment.
The Tipperary Vindicator's account is as follows :
" A draught of the 88th Regiment of Foot (the Con-
naught Rangers), en route to Cork to join head-quarters
at present stationed at Malta, passed through Nenagh
on Friday, and appeared rather excited in consequence
of drink. They attempted to create a row with the
police after nightfall, but they did not succeed, owing
in a great measure to the forbearance of the police.
On Saturday they marched for Castleconnell, where
they arrived that day; and on Sunday night after,
we understand, giving annoyance to the police stationed
there during the day, in which they were joined by
some of the idle scamps of the place, they proceeded to
attack the police barracks, breaking in the windows both
in front and rear, when, we regret to say, the police
fired, and the consequence was that a poor man who
was passing from a chandler's with candles, and the
father of a family of seven shildren, was shot dead ;
a soldier was also severely wounded, the ball having
passed through the latter, who is yet dangerously
ill, and hit the former, who died almost immediately.
The utmost confusion and excitement prevailed
during the night, and throughout Monday, so much
so that two pieces of artillery and a large number of
soldiers were ordered to the spot from Limerick. An
inquest was held before Mr. Bennet, the coroner, when a
verdict according to the facts was returned. It is to be re-
marked that the soldiers appeared to be under very loose
discipline. Their conduct during the short time they re-
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particularly Obnoxious to the police, and did what lay in
their power to annoy and irritate them. We should wish
to see the police, too, under that strict control which
would prevent their use of fire-arms in the deadly man-
ner they used them on Sunday night; and, while we say
so, we are bound to add that peace and order would have
prevailed, if the 88th were better conducted and under
proper rules ; as it is, an unoffending victim has fallen,
and serious injury has been inflicted on more than one of
the soldiery."
According to the Nenagh Guardian, the conduct of the
military was even more disgraceful than is represented in
the foregoing account.
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.

It is reported to-day that the coast guard and revenue-
police establishments are to be amalgamated and placed
under one authority. It is intended to make the coast-
guard a purely naval service--all civilians are to be
superseded by lieutenants in the Royal Navy, and the
inspector-general by a post-captain—the civilians, in-
cluding the inspector-general, to retire on pensions, and
the service altogether deprived of its' civil character.