The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 25.—There is little or no intelligence
in the provincial papers received to-day; and, as a num-
ber of hands are now actually employed by the Board of
Works, and measures are being taken to insure speedy
and profitable labour in those districts where the demand
for it is most urgent, it is to be hoped that ere long—
no mischievous influences interposing—the accounts will
be of a less gloomy character than they have uniformly
been for the last three months.

The Navan Relief Committee having memorialised the
Board of Works for •an increase of wages to the labourers
employed by the board, received the following very
proper reply:—

" Office of Public Works, Dublin, Oct. 17.

" Sir,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of the me-
morial of the board of guardians of the Navan Union,
praying for an increase of wages to the labourers era.
ployed under the Board of Works.
" And in reply I am directed to inform you, that the
Board earnestly press upon the board of guardians the
advantage which will result, not only to the country,
but to the labourers themselves, from the adoption of the
measured work, by which alone higher wages can be ob-
tained, and trust they may call on the board of guardians
for their aid and co-operation, and for their influence in
explaining the subject to the people.

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"JOSEPH C. WALKER, Secretary.
" Henry Meredyth, Esq."
Mr. O'Connell had published in the Cork Reporter a
very long address to " The Steadfast Moral Force Re-
pealers of the City of Cork," in which he expatiates upon
the advantages of moral, over physical force, and dis-
cusses with extreme prolixity the resolutions in faiour
of " Young Ireland" which had been carried in Cork.
He thus concludes :

" For the present, I content myself with declaring
my unalterable adhesion to the full strength, form,
and pressure of the moral-force doctrine. For two
reasons :

"First.—My thorough conviction that political in-
stitutions cannot be safely, wisely, or securely amelior-
ated by any other than moral and peaceable means.
"Secondly.—That any concession now made to the
Young Ireland party (if there were to be concessions at
their side, which they have not been asked for) might
easily be construed by a Dublin jury into an accession to
a principle involving deep guilt.
" The Association, therefore, cannot concede ; and, if

it could, it ought not ; leaving time to develop the fatuity
and folly of those who now seek conciliation by lauding
and maintaining! those who are in the wrong—namely,
the supporters of the physical force principle ; while
they assail and rituperate those whom they admit to
be in the right—the maintainers of the moral force
doctrine."

THE ARMY.

SHIPS AND TROOPS ARRIVED IN INDIA.

The Anne Armstrong, with the head-quarters of the
Bth Regiment of Foot, about which some anxiety had
been felt, arrived safe at Bombay, August 28.
The Poictiers, with the head-quarters of the 24th
Regiment, arrived at Calcutta, August 26; • and the
British Sovereign and Edmondsbury, with detachments
of the 32d Regirnent,airrived at Calcutta, the first August
22, and the second August 28, and the Duchess of Nor-
thumberland arrived the same day.
The following other transports have arrived at Cal-
cutta :—The Timandre, Aug. 14 ; Livingstone end
Queen, 16 ; Success, 17 •; Semarang and Bland, 18 ;
Amity, 20 ; British Sovereign, 22 ; and Salsette, 30.
The Cornwall, transport, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope from Cork, en the 2Sth August, with the
passagefkdlo
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tenant
andherLalor, and 112 men, of her Majesty's 12th Foot; Lieu-
tenants Ewart and Russel, Erligns Ora and Blyth,
and 51 men, of her Majesty's 35th Regiment ; Lieu.
tenant-Colonel Erskine, Ensigns Fleming and Grantham,
and 41 men, of her Majesty's 45th Regiment ; Ensign
Ramsay and 41. men of her Majesty's 73d Regiment ;
Ensign Minchin and 74 men of her Majesty's 95th Regi-
ment 31 men of her Majesty's 15th Regiment : Cap-
tain Molina, Ceylon Rifles ; Lieutenants Gossett and
Cooke, Royal Engineers ; Assistant-Surgeon Millenger,
Staff ; four ladies, and eleven women and children. The
drafts for the troops serving at the Cape were trans- '
ferred to her Majesty's ship Apollo, for conveyance to
Algoa Bay, en route to the frontier, and the transport
was about to proceed to the Mauritius and Ceylon.
Major Goodman, 27th; Major Creagh, 87th; Brevet
Major Bainhrigge, Fort Adjutant at Guernsey; Captains
Hennis and Mundy, Royal Artillery, gazetted on Tues-
day, the first three to the rank of lieut.-colonel, the
other two to the rank of major in the army, had been in
command on her Majesty's recent visit to Guernsey.
A troop of the Bth Hussars, under Captain Lord Kil-
leen, were out in the direction of Cappoquin, and returned
to Dungarvan with twenty-one prisoners, engaged in in-
timidating the farmers to give up con-acre money.
We (Limerick Chronicle) have been requested to state,
on behalf of the gentry and other inhabitants of Killaloe,
their great regret at the departure of the detachment of
at that place, a
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the command of Captain Rich, marched from Pembroke
of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, under
to Newcastle-Emlyn, where they are to be stationed.
A detachment of the same regiment have also marched
for Cardigan, commanded by Litut. Patterson. On
Tuesday the detachment which is to be stationed in
Carmarthen, amounting to about 170 strong, arrived
under the command of Captain Kidd. They are a fine
solder-like body of men, and will, we have no doubt, with
the example of their officer, emulate the unexceptionable
conduct of the 37th, just left.

ESCAPE FROM SHERIFFS' OFFICERS.—A few even-
ings since the following extraordinary scene occurred at
the General Post-office in St. Martin's-le-grand:—
Shortly after six o'clock, while Remington, one of the
porters, was on duty at the northern or newspaper
entrance into the office, and while the folding gates
were opened for the reception of the masses of
bags of papers collected from the several offices
of the newsvenders throughout the metropolis, a
man, apparently respectably dressed, rushed past
the officer into the letter carriers' office. No sooner
was he perceived than Remington followed in chase of
him, and finding that the party had darted into the mid-
dle of the office, he proceeded towards the opening be-
tween the letter carriers' and the sorting office for the
letters; but whilst there engaged, the porter found that
two other men were standing in the doorway, and beck-
oning him to go to them. Not knowing what to
make of a circumstance of so unusual a character,
the officer returned to the door, and upon questioning
the newly arrived parties, they told him they were
sheriff.' officers, and that the man who had entered
the office was a party of whom they were in pursuit,
and who, having caught sight of them, had " bolted "
into the office. While the porter was thus engaged, the
intruder rushed through the numerous body of clerks.
messengers, &c., who were then busily engaged, in the
dispatch of the eve ring mails, when eventually ho sod-
denly came to a stand still, as if stunned in the midst
of the range of sorting tables with which the
office is Hed. For a minute or so his appearance
was not noticed, but immediately afterwards one of the
officers, perceiving the man (lid not belong to the esta-
blishment, requested hint to kayo the office. Glad of the
opportunity to escape by any other wny than by the one
through which he had entered, he followed the messen-
ger to the eastern outlet of the office, opposite to the
front entrance to Goldsmith's Hall, thus leaving his pur-
suers many yards distant from him, and in total ignorance
of his escape.
BRISTOL FREE -PORT ASSOCIATION.—This body
numbers already upwards of 1,200 members. Among
the first to enrol himself, was P. W. S. Miles, M.P.,
whose example has since been followed by the Lion. F.
Berkeley.