The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1846.

opens a much-required communication to the farmers of
the district, who are hemmed in on an island at present
without it.
" Mr. CARDEN, of Barnane, rose and said—l oppose
this road on every score; first, as there is a road between
Templemore and Nenagh, and secondly, as there is a
new road of Mr. Lanigan's near the same place where
you propose to make this.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—This new road of Mr. Lani-
gan's has nothing to do with it whatever.
" Mr. MICHAEL MEAGHER—And to meet Mr. Car-
den's objection, I say it is not a road leading to Ne-
nagh.
" Mr. CARDEN--It is a road to Nenagh. You have
forgotten, I suppose, the Templemore Railway. I do
think to make three miles of a road to shorten a
distance between Templemore and Nenagh is perfectly
absurd.
"yr. GARVEY—Why, that is not the proposition

at all.
" Mr. CARDEN—I have told you that I would oppose
the making of this road on every score. Then, as to
the dearth of employment in that district, I can tell you,
on the contrary, I wanted men and could not find them,
and I had to advertise for them. This morning I met a
number of men on the road. I told them if they went
to my steward at Barnano they would get plenty of task
work, at which they would earn 14d. aday, which is re-
munerative wages. And what did they tell me? That
they would not go three miles off to work. And in this
district you propose the making of a new road. I think
it is the greatest absurdity I ever heard of.—(" Oh, oh.")
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—You have said nothing about
the cess-payers and rate-payers ; when they pay heavy
taxes, have they not a right to have a road ? Now, will
you answer me that simple question ?
" Mr. CARDEN (apparently puzzled)—The road has
been several times before the grand jury.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—Never.
" Mr. CARDEN—I will show you that this road in the
neighbourhood of Toomevara was brought before the
grand jury.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—I repeat again never'—
(Loud cries of Hear, hear')—and I defy any gentleman
on the grand jury to say so.—(Hear.)
" Mr. G. RYALL—I have endeavoured during the last
fifteen years to get this road made, but it never came be-
fore the grand jury. I say there is not a road in the
county of Tipperary more wanting.
" Rev. Mr. MEAGHER—I think it is a most ungracious
thing of you, Mr. Carden, to come forward to make the
statement you have made.

" Mr. GARDEN (with vehemence)—l'll state my opi-
nions.
" Mr. GARVEY—Hear hear.
"Mr. CARDEN-Andl will permit no person for a
moment to put me down in the slightest degree by talk-

ing to me about any ungraciousness.
" Mr. RILLLL—I can positively say this road is of con-
siderable importance to the people of Toomevara, and
that if they had this road made ten years ago I would
have a dwelling house on my property.
"Captain BUTLER—We aro assembled here to-day to
show neither favour nor affection, hatred or malice. I
am sorry to hear my old friend, Mr. Carden, say that
the making of this road is a perfect absurdity.' I know
myself the farmers to be completely locked up without
this road. I can tell Mr. Carden that I have seen a
starving population on the wild-looking hills and moun-
tains there. It was only this day that I saw men,
women, and children half naked.—(Hear, hear.)
" Mr. CARDEN—You may see a great many men idle,
and they may say they have no employment; but I can
tell you they don't wish to work, neither will you find
many of them to do so.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.")
" Rev. Mr. MEAGFIER—If I go out into the streets of
Toomevara in the morniag, I will get 400 labouring poor
who cannot procure employment, and who are ready
and willing to work if they only got it.—(Hear, hear.)
" The making of the new line of road was then passed
at 1,000/., there being but one dissentient, Mr. Carden.
" The Rev. Mr. POWER then proposed the making of a
new line of road from Barrack-street to Silver-street, in
Nenagh, the probable cost of which will be 2001. Also
to lower the hill of Cunnerhart, at 2501 ; and to repair
the road leading to Farnlough, the property of Mr.
Ferrars, 401.

" The applications were passed nem: con.
" The magistrates, at five o'clock, announced that over
7,0001. had been awarded by them for the execution of
public works in the barony of Upper Ormond during
the day. and then rose."
The Tipperary Vindicator thus remarks upon the
proceedings, and it is evident that the gentry in the ba-
rony of Upper Ormond have still much to do in a dis-
trict presenting an ample field for profitable labour, be-
fore they shall have fully provided for the necessities of
the population :
" The patience and the anxiety to work out the pro-
visions of the Act of Parliament, and to obey the pro-
clamation of the Lord Lieutenant, which all exhibited,
were, in every respect, worthy of the sacred cause of
charity, and of all who took part in the all important
and deeply interesting proceedings of the day. The ba-
rony of Upper Ormond contains about thirty thousand
acres of land. No small share of this land is mountain
and bog, which could be reclaimed with comparative fa-
cility. We know how vast the advantage, and great the
return, such an application of labour and capital would
be, and how much constant employment it would afford.
The works undertaken on Monday, or rather applied for
under the Act, though not of the most beneficial nature,
are not without their practical advantages. The sum of
7,0001. was passed for them. They will give employ-
ment ; they will secure peace ; they will strengthen the
confidence of, and they will provide food for the poor, just
now on the verge of starvation, with the last potato con-
sumed by the mysterious blight which has laid waste our
fairest fields. They will stimulate the industry of all cl asses ;
they will tend to show the landlord, and the tenant,
and the labourer, that they must put their shoulder to
the wheel, and act as far as possible in concert, where the
salvation of all from utter and irretrievable ruin is the
great question at issue. We regret to state that the
barony of Ikerrin has not yet been proclaimed. We
know that the state of the poor in that barony is really
lamentable. On Monday a vast crowd of almost
famishing men paraded the streets of Roscrea, with a
rotten potato and a loaf of bread on the top of separate
poles. Their demand was work and wages ; they de-
clared their determination not to die without a struggle
for existence."