The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-19 00:00:00

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DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday the
Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to about
70 guests, upon the occasion of the swearing in of Alder-
man Finnis, the newly elected Alderman of Tower Ward.
Many of the aldermen deputies, and principal law offi-
cers were present.
Yesterday the materials and fittings-up of the
premises situated, at No. 5, Oat-lane, Foster-lane, City,
which was formerly the residence of the celebrated
Titus Oates, after whose name the lane was called, was
disposed of by auction by Messrs. Pullen and Son. Con-
siderable interest prevailed among the competitors, there
being many present beyond the usual attendants of pur-
chasers of building materials.

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111.44,AND.
OUT-DOOR ''REPEF—EMPLOYMENT.
DUBLIN, JAN. 17.—The Poor-law Commissioners
have forwarded to Mr. Hugh Morgan Tuite, of Tonna,
Westmeath, the following important communication
in reply to a letter from him, objecting to stone-
breaking as a test for the able-bodied paupers receiving
out. dcor relief. The Commissioners adhere to the
principle of their regulation, but only as a test at the
outset, promising to sanction more useful labour if
circumstances should render a modification necessary,
but positively refusing, in any event, to permit pauper
labour on private farms :
" Poor law Commission Office,
Dublin, Jan. 13, 1848.
" Sir,—The Commissioners for administering the
laws for relief of the poor in Ireland have had under
consideration your communication of the 6th instant,
in which you state objections to the employment of
paupers receiving out-door relief in theMullingarUnion
in stone-breaking, and you suggest that it would be
more preferable to employ them in useful and remu-
nerative works, such as repairing roads, and in
fencing, trenching, and draining land, whereby you
state that the labourers would not be congregated
together in large numbers (which you deem objec-
tionable), but would be scattered over the country in
small numbers, under the superintendence of persons
interested in the welfare of the country, and of the
works in progress, thereby avoiding the great expense
of superintendents.
" In reference thereto the Commissioners desire to
state, that in recommending stone breaking as the
kind of employment which should be offered to the
destitute able-bodied poor in the first instance, the
Commissioners did not cnntetnplate the permanent
employment of many thousands of individuals in
nothing else but stone-breiking. The view which
the Commissioners have taken of the subject has been,
chat whereas all experience has shown that the
,4ranting relief to able-bodied men, without some
rigid test, is liable to great abuses, and whereas
stone-breaking is less attractive and more capable of
effectual superintendence than any other kind cf out-
door labour on a large scale, it is advisable for
guardians to begin by Offering stone-breaking to
applicants, when there is no longer any vacant
workhouse accommodation in the union.

" With reference to the expense in paying
overseers of work, the Commissioners have to express
their entire conviction that efficient superintendents
of labour would save the union far more than the
amount of their own salaries, by preventing imposi-
tion and fraud. Similar objections were raised in
England, in 1834, to the expense of workhouses, but
notwithstanding the immediate expense arising from
the building of workhouses, and the salaries to work-
house officers, the total reduction of expense in the
first year was, in some unions, 20, 30, and even 50
per cent. In fact, it is to be borne in mind that, if
any system of relief is attractive, one of the chief
sources of expense arises from the great number of
improper objects to whom such relief is administered,
and hence arrangements by which the abuse is
checked are found, in the long run, to be really
economical, although the system of arrangement may
be apparently expensive.
" The commissioners, therefore, trust that a fair
trial will be given to the experiment of stone break-
ing, as a test of destitution in Mulingar union; and
if the number of able-bodied men on the relief lists
still remain the same as betbre, the commissioners
will endeavour to forward the views of the guardians
in reference to the completion of the unfinished
roads.

" The commissioners have only to add, that they
would not, under any circumstances or consideration,
deem themselves justified in permitting the employ-
ment of paupers on private farms. It is an essential
principle in any sound system of poor-law adminis-
tered, that, relief and wages should be kept totally
distinct, and that a destitute able-bodied man should
either be relieved wholly by the union, or employed
wholly by the party for whom he works.
'The commissioners are convinced that the in•
fringement of this principle would lead to pernicious
consequences, and by making employers of labour
suppose that they had a pecuniary interest in intro-
ducing a system of out-door relief to the able-bodied
men, it would eventually entail an enormous burden
on the poor-rates, which the property of the union
would be wholly unable to support.
By order of the commissioners,
"H. M. Tuite, Esq." " NV. STANLEY, Sec.
STATE OF THE POOR.

From the south and west, the accounts of the
increase of destitution are most afflicting.
The Galway Mercury says—" It is now no un-
common thing to hear of human bodies lying for days
uninterred for want of coffins. On Friday last we
beheld no less than fifty-six of our fellow-creatures,
pale, wan, and emaciated, committed to our county
gaol for acts of petty larceny—such as stealing
turnips, and the like articles of food, in the neigh-
bourhood of Clifden. On the same day we learn
that there were two other batches of thirty-five and
eleven each from another part of the county. The
same occurs every day. While undergoing the term
of their sentences they will get food, but what will
become of them afterwards."
The Cork Reporter gives a statement of increasing
destitution in various parts of the county, and of
some deaths from starvation.
STATE OF CRIME.

There are not many new outrages, but the pro-
ceedings of the Quarter Sessions Courts, as well as
the special commission, exhibit a fearful array of
crime.

At the Tralee Quarter Sessions, last week, a eon-
sidersable number of prisoners were sentenced to
transportation, chiefly for the stealing of cattle. Ten
persons pleaded guilty to a charge of riot, in oppos-
ing the collection of the poor-rEte, which, however,
they had subsequently paid. They were sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment. The assistant-
barrister, Mr. MDermott, remarked that the persons
concerned in plundering cattle by wholesale in the
county of Kerry, belonged to the better class of the
peasantry, and were far removed from a state of desti-
tution.

The Tipperary Constitution gives the following as
an illustration of the good '
effects of the conviction of
Frewen, at the Limerick Special Commission for har-
bouring a murderer :
f Frewen, sentenced to lready has the conviction
transportation for lite, for
Ryan sheltering the murderer . (Puck), at the Special
Commission in Limerick, been attended with the
; and
most salutary resultwe are happy to state that
those results haveoe
originated within a few miles
Some of our town. time since we gave an account
of the capture of two brothers named Cody,
charged with then r
rder of a man named
Madden, near Glehowemu and, upon that occasion,
we detailed the ditlicutltyawith which their capture
that was effected. Since period a third brother,
offence
charged with the same has been 'on his
keeping,' and of course, must have received shelter
However, from the neighbours. when the conviction
abroad, of Frewen was noisedit caused a general
panic amongst the shelterers , and all determined to
avoid the risk of a similar
sentence.
been—that every door has been The result has
closed in the face of
the third Cody, and on Wednesday he came into
town and surrendered himself."
lIIGIIWAY ROBBF:RY OP A PAY v INLERIE.—On the
Bth instant Mr. Brunker, of
Ard
ee, whilst on his way
to Wilkinstown, to pay persons employed by the
Board of Works, was attacked by. two fellows, one
of whom presented a pistol imff, whilst the other,
after a desperate struggle, made with his cash-box
containing 271. The robbers have, been apprehended,
and commited to Trim goal.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On
,
Friday
night last a
e
man of Mr. Parker's, near Portroe, within a few miles
of Nenagh, was fired at, but fortunatelyv the shots did
have not take effect. Two personsbeen arrested for
the offence, and it is stated the:,
Mr. Parker.d ewy have been fully
identified. They are tenants/
REPEAL ASSOCIATION
The weekly meeting of the associationJo was held
this day in Conciliation Hall.
commenced
H. Dunne,
ma
Dn
Esq., presided. The chairman eonf c e
thed the
conduct
pro-
ceedings by a speech in condemnation
of the recently-elected Lord
art (Mr. Jeremiah
Dunne), because that functionary,
toasts, " The
mrhis inaugural
dinner, omitted to include
_.amongstJohn the
memory of O'Connell. O'Connell also
c
casteitted the Lord
referred to the subject. Having a
Mayor of any wilful design toslight or disre-
spect on the memory of his father,
man referred to an article inthe
mDblin Evening
the Hon. Gentle-
Post, in reference to the mannerwhich the Lord-
Lieutenant had been received at the
who
tthh er e Lordby , i t w.Mayor'sassaid
dinner by the citizens of Dublin,
had expressed their approval of the policy he has
, adopted. Now be (Mr. O'Connell)
citizens of Dublin bad eypressed anyenied that the
tipprobation
whatever of the policy of her Majesty's Government.
In fact, the cheers given were only to be considered
as a compliment to the official personage, and had no
he pursued.—((dear, hear.)
reference to'the policy
Mr. John O'Connell had to hand in several contri-
butions frein the Catholic clergy, mainly the west
of Ireland.--(hear, bear.) Through Dean Burke,
of Westport, county Mayo, he had received 21/. ; from
O the deanery of Castlebar, through the
Curley, C.C., 14 . from be deanery of Rev.Dunmore,Mr.
,
county Galway, throughltiv. Patrick Garvey, P.P.,