The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-14 00:00:00

and who make all the clamour about war. The people
of the northern States, with Mr. Webster at their head,
are for peace; friendly t)wards Great Brit n; moderate
in their politics; and, sp,,,.lting eontidentl', of the State
of Ohio, quite as mural as the people of 'England; but
very shrewd in their dealings, very iudus ions and pr-
severing. Justice, he says, is as well ad einistered as in
&lie,land—the spirit of the laws, and iten the letter,
being the same; but there is not that de rum in Courts
of Justice which is observed in England. The sale
and transfer of land are very simple,. Printed forms
may be obtained, and the seller and buyer have nothing
to do but fill up the blanks with an account of the
Ir3undaries of the land to be sold. It is then taken to
the sheriff or mayor, who sees the parties sign the deed,
and -inns it himself. For this he charges one shilling.
To render the deed quite sure, it is then taken to the
register office and registered, for which the charge is 25.,
and the deed is as good and binding as if drawn up by a
score of lawyers, at a cost, as it would be in England, of
many pounds.
He has no rent to pay, no tithes, and the taxes alto-
gether are only a few dollars a-year. The soil of the
valley of the Ohio is, he says, excellent, and the climate
beautiful ; but a little warmer in summer, and a little
colder in winter, than in England; but in the depth of
winter the sun usually shines brightly, so that a man
may, with pleasure, throw off his coat at work. He
never suffered so much from wet and cold as he did in
England in winter.

fie knew of no labourer who was paid in Ohio less
than 13s. with his board and lodging. No man ever
goes out of the farmer's house for his food, which is so
plentiful that it is thought little of. The single men
usually work for a farmer and live in the house with the
above wages, till they have saved enough to take some
land of their own. They then marry, and most of them
do as well as he has done. In his own township—five
miles square, and all the valley is set out in similar
townships—there were but two poor persons—one a
lunatic, the other an infirm old man. There was rarely
a crimi: al; but if a robbery happened or other crime, all
the people in every township were on the alert to ap-
prehend the criminal. In his township the population
was about 1,000 souls. There was plenty of game and
wild turkeys for anybody to shoot, and abundance of fish
in the rivers. Wheat was 3s. a bushel ; Indian corn
(maize) and barley, Is. 6d. per bushel; pork—the best—
three halfpence per lb. ; beef, 2d, per lb.; mutton, 2d.
per lb. He had abundance of honey in his hives.
Spirits were about ls. per gallon. Fruit in abundance ;
and excellent molasses made by his own family.
He said it was of no use for people to go to America
that can't work ; that can't do something useful. Shop•
men, clerks, artificial sort of people, had better stop at
home, as there were plenty of Americans to take the
lighter callings of all kinds. They had good schools, and
all the people were educated. On all the navigable rivers
there were corn stores; and in going along i❑ the steam-
boats the passengers would see hung out these stores
boards, with the words written upon them, " cash for
corn." It was to the storekeepers that the farmers sold
their corn, and it was from the storekeepers that the
agents from Europe at New York obtained their corn, or
rather flour, as it was ground at these stores, and bar-
relled. He thought that free trade with England would
increase the demand for corn in Ohio, and that a great
deal inure would be raised in consequence.

HISTORY OF A RAZED VILLAGE.
(Abriged from the Dublin Freeman.)
Newton-Gerard, formerly called Newbridge, was at
ore period a populous place ; but the hand of the
spoiler came, and the evidence of his progress is unmis-
takeable. To compensate for this destruction, Mrs. Ger-
rard has erected a market-house, which is without mer-
chandise, neither buyer nor seller ever appearing there,
and the rusty Iron Triangle, with mouldering beam
and scales attached, speak eloquently of the neglected
state of this des. rted village. The lady also erected
a large house, which she, in her wisdom, deemed
fit for the accommodation of twelve policemen ;
but, after repeated applications to Government she was
refused, and the building stands now a mere
monument of the lady's munificence of intention.
Mrs. Gerrard also erected here a half-inn,
half public-house. In view of this place there is a very
elegant lodge, raised for the reception of Mrs. Gerrard
whenever she visits that portion of her estates. And
here I may remark that her " broad lands " cover a
large tract of country, and are valued at the value of
over 5,0004 a year. Mrs. Gerrard possesses this
property in her own right, it having fallen to her on
the death of three brothers many years since. The
maiden name of this lady was Netterville, and as
she herself has had no family, her heirs pre-
sumptive are, I am given to understand. Mr. Corbally,
the Member for Meath, and Lord Killeen, son of
Lord Fingal, whose mother is half-sister to Mrs. Ger-
rard. Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard reside at a place called
Gibbstown, in the county of Meath; the former is said
to be in his 80th year, and the latter some ten years
his junior. On the road to Mount Bellew, and about a
mile from that little town, the first sight of the recent
scene of desolation presents itself to view. The village
of Ballinglass, parish of Kalasobe, was situate here,
and was built on the confines of a bog, which, in a
great measure, had been reclaimed by the tenants;
the land, particularly at the rear where the houses
once stood, presenting an appearance of high cul-
tivation, which was produced by the patient and
hard industry of the tenants. The approach to the vil-
lage was by a kind of togher, as it is called, along the
left of which were heretofore a few scattered houses.
About a quarter of a mile from the main road the houses
were clustered together in groups of three or four, and
so continued at short distances apart ; they were in num-
ber 61. Not one of those habitations is now standing
save one. I went through, or, I should rather say,
walked over, the ruins of all, and, from what I saw and
heard, I concluded that they were all comfortable, clean,
and neatly kept habitations. On approaching the en-
trance to the village, the first thing that met my eye
was some manure or dung, which had been carried away
by the wretched people from their houses, and thrown
on the side of the road, in order to prevent it from be-
coming the properrty of the landlady after the
tenants were evicted. 'Air. Donovan, who wit-
nessed the scene which took place on Friday, the
13th Marcb, 1846, describes it as the most appal-
ing he had ever witnessed—women, young and old,
running wildly to and fro with small portions of their
property, iu order to save it from the wreck—the
screaming of the children, and wild wailings of the
mothers driven from home and shelter—their peace-
ful homes, hallowed by a thousand fond recollee
lions—all combined to form a picture of human mi-
sery, such as the darkest imagination alone could re-
alise. At as early hour on the morning of Friday,
the 13th instant, the sheriff', accompanied by a large
force of the 49th regiment, commanded by Captain
Brown, and also by a heavy body of police, under the
command of Mr. Cummings, proceeded to the place
marked out for destruction. The people were then,
ace, riling to the process of law, called on to render
poe,ession, end f )rth with the bailiffs of Mrs Gerrard
commenced the work of demolition. In the first
instance the roofs and portions of the walls were only
thrown down, the former in most instances lie on the
side of the road, on the manure already alluded to. A
man and woman, who lay ill of fever, were permitted
to remain in a house into which they were carried, after
possession of it had been taken, and this is the solitary
house remaining, but they have since been served with
noti :e to leave the place within fifteen days, or the house
would be tumbled on top of them 1 Great pains must
have been taken to demolish the houses, es the walls
were very thick and composed of an umber clay, arid
when the inside turned up good plaster and whitettash
always appeared. Not content with throwing down the
roofs and walls, the very foundatious have been turned
up ; and here I must explain what a moment ago I
stated, namely, that only a portion of the walls wens
pulled down in the first instance. That is true, but
on the night of Friday the wretched creatures pitched
a few poles slantwise against the walls, covering them
with the thatch in order to procure shelter for the
night; but when this was perceived next day, the bailiffs
were dispatched with orders to pull down all the walls
and root up the founda, ions, in order to prevent the
wretches" (this, it appears, is a favourite term ap-
plied to these poor people) from daring to take shelter
amid the ruins. When this last act had been perpe-
trated, the " wretches" took to the ditches on the
high road, where they slept in parties of from ten to fif-
teen each, huddled together before a fire for the two suc-
ceeding nights. I saw the marks of the fires in the
Tt-1s chea ; ev..rybody can see them, and the temporary
t:1. It was a melancholy sight—but more particu-
ta amongst the ruins. Here a broken chair, there a
‘ma.hed pot, crockery warp, remnants
, of eld dressers.
boxes and tables, together with br
arming im ple-
,nents. and a hundred other articles
bid:dry and household purwe.es, lay about the trCl Inn"-
the houses (that had been), or the fields adjoining. e 4hnef
whole extent of ground connected with the einftee is
over 400 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard, the great actors in this modern
drama are, the one aged eighty, the latter some ten
years his junior. The Freeman gives the names and
numbers of each family evicted. We cannot quote them
in full. Here is the teal :
Total fainilies evicted, 61 : Total persons, 270.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PLYMOUTH. Yesterday
Lflairen was
h(Friday) morning, between one and two o'clock, at
disco-
vered to have broken out in the house No. 4, a
occupied by several tenants. The fire was first discovereilb". 11111,
by one of
the inmates smelling it, whereon she awoke her neighbours, and on
going down stairs, they found the room on the ground beer, oe' c,i-
pied by a family named Harvey, completely filled with fire. The
inmates of this and the adjoining houses were immediately aroused ,
but the progress of the fire being very rapid, they were compelled to.
leave their houses with so much precipitation, that many of them
were not able to clothe themselves, but were compelled to rush for
safety into the street almost in a state of nudity Immediately on
the spread of the alarm, the Citadel eng ne, attended by a lug,
hodv of soldiers, directed by several officers, arrived on the spot,
and after some delay in obtaining water, commenced playing upon
the devouring element. The house, No. 4, was completely de-
stroyed, and the adjoining houses were seriously damaged. The scene
presented was of the most painful and distressing character—'here
were the whole of the inmate.' of the houses (upwarils of twenty in
number, including infants, and several who have been the subjects
of a long-continued affliction) in the streets almost in a state of
4akedness, compelled to see the destruction of all they possessed
in
die world. The names of the families who have suffered by the ca-
lamity are—Harvey, Hodge, Marker, Owens, Davis, Heoper, An-
drews, and Geyer. We are happy to observe, that a subscription has
already been entered into for the relief of the sufferers, and most cor-
dially do we wish that it may be carried out with a liberality equal
to the claims of the sufferers. A painful eire4unstance transpired
during the fire—the remains of an aged female, whose death had
taken place a day or two preceding, lay in a coffin preparatory f
interment, in the house adjoining where the fire took place, and
when it became necessary to remove the furniture, the shell was
brought out and laid on the green sward in front of the ruins, giving
the appearance of still greater misery to the already distressing
scene—the naked an the dead lying side by side.—Plymouth Journal.
Gre,n p-ei from D-vonshire wet., offered, yesterday
at Covent-garden market at ten shillings per halt sieve. The pea
blossom in the different market gardens in the neighbourhood of the
metr,polia is very fine, and in a forward state, and promises a very
forward crop.
;ham amount
tbe of boa,
,00ROBBERY or 30,000 L—On Saturday last a mer-
conatning bills of exchange and railway scrip to the
was stolen from the counter of the Royal Bank,
Liverpool. It was brought
was only 471. in cub In the box ; 2001.
in for the purpose of being deposited
there for the night. There
reward has bun offered for the recovery of it.