The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

place defenceless.
"If Government do not come forward speedily to the
rescue of our famishing population, and adopt some de-
termined and energetic measures for affording them food
and employment, it requires no prophetic spirit to tell
the frightful calamity which will befal this unfortunate
land and its degraded and impoverished people, mad-
dened as they are by hunger and despair; and should a
famine outbreak take place, I doubt if England has a
sufficient military force. at her command to suppress it,
as their operations will not be confined to one district or
locality, but will require to be extended over the king-
dom at large. I am, therefore, satisfied that 60.000 men
would not suffice for that purpose. Besides, flour and
meal is more digestible food than iron or metal. It is,
therefore, time not only for the Government but the
landlords, merchants, and men of property in general, to
be up and stirring in the cause of their suffering country-
men, if they have any desire to protect their properties,
and preserve the peace of the country.
" A troop of the Bth Hussars arrived yesterday in
Clogheen, to relieve the Ist Royal Dragoons. This,
being the only cavalry regiment in this neighbourhood, is
very much harassed at present."
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Redington, the Under Secretary, returned from
London this morning, and scarcely had the Hon. Gen-
tleman set his foot within the Castle of Dublin, when
rumours flew abroad to the effect that certain proposals
which had been submitted by Lord Besbarough, through
Mr. Redington, to the Premier, having for their object
the immediate application of a large sum of money
towards the employment of the poor, had not met with
the concurrence of Lord J. Russell. Accordingly the
report was, that both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief
Secretary, conceiving that they were thus deb erred from
carrying out, in a comprehensive form, the Government
measures of relief, had actually resigned their offices.
Of course no very .rest credit is to be attached to this
rumour, but this much is certain, that there is a " hitch"
somewhere, which, however, may be got over without
precipitating a resignation. Amongst the difficulties
which beset the Irish Executive one is said to be that
Sergeant Warren, one of the highest legal authorities in
the kingdom, has given it as his opinion that no assess-
ment can be made on properties where landlords possess
only a life interest in their estates, and that they cannot
leave a charge on property so circumstanced to their suc-
cessors. The Attorney-General, it is added, does not
concur in this opinion.
Up to post-hour this afternoon, the Lord-Lieutenant
and the Chief and Under -Secretaries remained in close
conference. Nothing, therefore, certain is known—all
is enve!oped in mystery.
THREATENED RISING NEAR CORK.
The Cork Examiner of yesterday evening has the fol-
lowing :
" Information of an authentic nature reached the
authorities of the city this morning, that a large multi-
tude of people were collecting at Carrignavar, as a
centre, for the purpose of proceeding to Cork, to pillage
the stores and shops containing provisions.
" The chief magistrate immediately took due precau-
tions to prevent their approach. An arrangement was
concerted with the commanding officer of the garrison,
by which an adequate force is kept under arms, ready
on the first intimation of the populace coming near the
town to be posted at the different approaches, and dis-
perse them.
These people must be actuated by the greatest in-
fatuation to attempt to sack any portion of this city. In
reference to the matter, we have received the following
communications.
" We received the following this morning from a city

correspondent:---
" EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M.—I am just informed by a
person from the place that the labourers from all the
surrounding country, from Carrignavar to Ballyhooly,
are assembling at Ballynerdan, near Dunbolg, and are
preparing to march into Cork by the Ballyhooly road.
God grant there may be no outrage. They want em-
ployment, and that their miserable wages should be
raised by the farmers from 6d. to Is. per day.
" t HALF•PAST ONE O'CLOCK, P.M.—I have just 801,11 a
man from Ballysierdane, where the meeting of labourers
was to be held; he did not attach any importance to the
movement, but heard their object was to proceed to Mr.
Foley, at Middleton, Lord Middleton's agent, to try and
procure employment.'"
FOOD RIOTS IN SLIGO.

station.
The Lucifer, 180-horse power, Commander Frazer,
now surveying the Saltees, between Wexford and.
Waterford, to be appropriate d to the general duties of
the *what.
The Blazer, 120-horse power, Captain Washington,
now surveying at Harwich, to be dispatched to Ireland
immediately for the conveyance of provisions.
The Dasher, 100-horse power, Captain Sherringham,
now surveying the Southampton Waters, to be sent
from Portsmouth to Ireland, immediately, for the same
purpose.
STORESHIPS.—The Madagascar, 44-gun frigate, 1,100
tons, Master-Commander Burney, a depot vessel,
moored at the island of Foynes, in the Shannon.
The Andromeda, a 44-gun frigate, 1,200 tons, fitting
as a depot at her Majesty's dock-yard, Devonport, and
ready to receive the gear of the Madagascar, to be navi-
gal ed to Ireland.
The Andromache, a 26-gun frigate, 700 tons, also
fitting as a depot at Devonport, for Ireland.
Thus we have twelve men-of-war steamers, of 1,756
collective horse power; 5,864 tons, and 720 tifficers and
men, aod shall have three depots of 3,000 tons and 100
men. The above, together with two ordnance lighters
also employed, make 17 sail of nearly 9,000 tons and
above 850 men, on the coast of Ireland.
COAST OF SCOTLAND.
On the west coast of Scotland, as the distress is not
supposed to have been so early or to be so general,
fewer vessels have beeen appropriated. They are, how-
ever, the following :—The Firefly, 220-horse power,
Captain Beechey, of late employed in surveying the
Swilly rocks, and the Shearwater, 160-horse power,
Commander Robinson, employed on the Scottish coast.
They rendezvous at Oban, and follow the directions of
Sir Edward Coffin, the Commissary-General. Additional
assistance is in reserve, and will be given should it be
required.

A letter froth Sligo, of Tuesday's date, which appears
in the Evening Freeman. says—
The quiet of our town has at last been broken, and
starvation is beginning to make itself manifest by out-
breaks. Yesterday evening the bread contracted for the
poorhouse was taken possession of by a mob, and, after
being divided, was immediately consumed. In dread of
this occurring again, the bread for the same place was
this morning guarded by the police. A large box of
bread, belonging to Mr. Martin, was attacked this morn-
ing, and the mob, not finding it sufficient, compellt d the
bakers of the town to supply them with food. Where
this will end God only knows, All the meal in town
being consumed, the people were in a dreadful way for
the last few days. The Government have now resolved
to supply biscuits at 10s. a cwt. This new move will
commence to- day."
A NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Mr. O'Connell's project of assembling together in the
Irish metropolis a meeting of delegates from all parts of
the kingdom, to devise measures, " in conjunction with
the Government," to meet the present crisis in the affairs
of the country, has found, amongst others, a warm sup-
porter in Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P. Accordingly, that
Hon. Gentleman has issued the following address to the
landed proprietors of Ireland:—

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,
NAV AL INTELLIGENCE.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 2.—The Scourge steam bomb-ves-
sel, Commander Coffin, arrived at Woolwich this morn-
ing at ten o'clock, from Leith, having on board a large
quantity of provisions.
fhe Gladiator steam-frigate, Captain Robb, will be
completed by the dockyard workmen to-morrow evening
The Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander -
Dunlop, is ready' for service, and will leave to-morrow
for Ireland.
The Diligence transport-ship, M. Martin, master,
sailed on Saturday last for Gibraltar and Malta.
The Aurora, Sardinian corvette, Captain the Marquis.
Spinola, left this port this morning, and was towed down
the river by a steam-tug.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE NAVAL RETIBEMENT.—The
contemplated naval retirement has been postponed until
the Ist of November next, there being at present only
140 captains who have signified their wish to accept it.
Vessels in the Harbour—William and Mary yacht ;
Sidon steam-frigate Captain Henderson, C.B. ; Scourge
steam bomb-vessel, Commander Coffin ; Li.;htning
steam-vessel, Master-Commander Petley ; the Dwarf
and Charon steam-vessels, not in commission ; and the
Plover surveying-vessel, Captain Collinson, U 8., to be
paid off at Woolwich on Monday next, on her return
from China, East Indies, and Cape of Good Hope.
In the Basin—Gladiator steam frigate, Captain Robb;
Sph) nx steam-vessel, Commander Cragg ; Medea,
Eclair, Vixen, and Kite steam-vessels, not in com-
mission.
In the Docks—The Violet, Dover steam-packet, and
the Monkey steam-vessel.
CHATHAM, OCT. 2.—The Mutine, 12-gun brig, fitting
for sea in dock, will be completed in her rigging this
week. An order for commissioning her arrived here
yesterday, and Commander Robert Tryon, who is ap-
pointed, hoists his pendant in a few days.
-The Gloucester, 50 guns, fitting in dock for commis*
sion, is completed. She will go out of dock next spring-
tide to be placed in ordinary.

" September 30.
" Gentlemen,—However the great proportion of you
may be disposed to slight any recommendations which
emanate from Mr. O'Connell, depend on it some sug-
gestions he has thrown out, in his letter of the 25th ult.,
are well worthy of your consideration. Fas est ab hoste
doceri. Mr. O'Connell suggests,—' That the landed pro-
prietors, instead of continuing their scattered and iso-
lated attempts to meet the coming mischief, should im-
mediately form a National Committee, to meet in Dub-
lin, and assist, at this disastrous moment, in the ma-
nagement of such Irish affairs as relate to the approach-
ing famine.' By the concluding paragraph, you will
perceive that be does not contemplate the mooting of
any other abstract subject; in fact, all such questions as
• Repeal of the Union,' &c., must necessarily. be laid
aside at such a crisis as the present; the visitation of the
Almighty has descended oil all, without distinction of
sect or party; la us, thererore, for once, throw all poli-
tical differences to the wind,, and, by taking counsel to-
gether, endeavour at least to assuage the calamity which
is impending. It is manifest the Government have been
taken by surprise, and have failed to lay in such supplies
of Indian meal as will be necessary to meet the emer-
gency, or to enact measures befitting the occasion.
"'Chaos empire sits,
And by decision more embroils the fray
By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter,
Chance governs all.'
" The property of the landlords is a convenient stop-
gap ; accordingly, should the present system of the 10th
Victoria continue, proprietors will eventually be reduced
to break stones on the very roads which are about to be
created by their own liberal contributions ; at least, it
cannot be objected, that you have shown ignoi ant
impatience of taxation when one looks at the enormous
amount of the various presentments. I would,
fore, humbly advise the proprietors of Ireland, great and
small, to act on the suggestion of Mr. O'Connell, and
that. with as little delay as possible. Whilst I write,
Indian meal, in many parts of the country, is selling at
ls. 11d. per stone, -being within a fraction double the
price intimated by the Prime Minister and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. The people of the county of
Waterford, hitherto an orderly and well-conducted po-
pulation, are inflamed against their best friends, end
blood has been shed. A nu ming of the landholders of
Ireland, with the Duke of Leinster in the chair, would
at once insure the resi:ectful attention of Government,
and the warm sympathy of the English people.
" I am, with great respect, your obedient servant,
" RALPH OSBORNE.

Newtown,Anner, Clonmel."
MARCH. OF TROOPS FOR THE SOUTH.
The 47th R. gimf nt, at present forming part of this.
garrison, was pheed under ordurs this day, to be in im-
mediate readiness to march ughal; unlesa courier-
manded in the tneantinie, the first division is to com-
mence its journey to.tr,orrnw
.RELIEF •OF THE YOUR.
The following commuliication I,otu the Chief Secre-
tary has been received by the chairman of a Relkf
Committee in Cork:—

THE NAVAL RETIREMENT.—In the scheme pro-
mulgated on the 31st of August by the present Board of
Admiralty, it was intimated that officers not in Europe,
who might be desirous of accepting the retirement,
would not be excluded in consequence of their letters
not reaching England before the Ist inst., as a reasonable
time would be allowed for such applications. Although
the number fixed as the retired list (200) has, we believe,
within a very few, been completed, the Board, acting
with becoming good faith, have extended the period
during which officers may intimate their desire of ac-
cepting the retirement to the Ist of November; the re-
tired pay commencing from the Ist October, as originally
intended. The scheme includes officers of fifty years of
age, who from wounds or ill-health are incapable of
service. 'We cannot help thinking the terms offered and
this extension of time most liberal on the part of the
present Board of Admiralty, and we trust those for
whom it is designed-will avail themselves of an arrange-
ment so honourable to them and doubly beneficial, as it
will enable a younger and not less deserving set of men
to be brought forward in our naval service.—Times.
Tus Aamy.—Colonel Boldero, an old Waterloo
and Peninsular officer, • has retired from the Grenadier
Guards, after a service of thirty-seven years. Sir John
Ord Houyman succeeds by purchase to the orinty
vacated. The Cornetcy in the 14th Light Drab_orn
stationed at Bombay, vacant by the dismissal of
at
et
Quartermaster Cuates of the 53d Foot, also stationed
Foster (sentence of a court-martial), has been given to
Be,,gal. It is understood the local companies of pen-
sioners in Ireland will be held in readiness to support
the civil power during the ensuing season. The late
Duke of Athol was, up to the day ot his demise, Et half-
ffi —r in the 3d Regiment of Foot, which he joined
ray o c.« •
in 1797, having retired in 1800.,
A GOOD ANECDOTE WELL APPLIED.—An Indian
and a Kentuckian once made an agreement to bunt in
company, and divide equally the game which they might
chalice to kill. Unfortunately, a crow and a wild turkey
were till they shot. " Well," said the Kentuckian, -at
the end ef the day, " as we are to divide equally, you
i take the crow, and 1,11 take the turkey; and I'll take the
turkey, and you take the crow."—" How's that ?"
quxed the Indian. The Kentuckian in rapid accents
repeated his proposal, to which the Indian, after a
"Dublin Castle, September 21. blank and puzzled look, consented, but with the
"Sir,--I have had the honour of receiving your letter mark." It sounds all very fair ; but, somehow
of the 17th instant, and the copy of a resolution lately
passed at a meeting of the West Musketry Relief Com- or other, you always get the turkey, and I always get
mittee, stating that since the Government bad declared
with mode, not only
the crow." This is an admirable illustration of the
their intention of int,rfering as little as possible the Indians, but in
in which the Americans have dealt with
the trade in provisions, except in special cases, the which the aristocracy in all countries
'I
and ages have dealt with the people. Everywhere the
price of Indian meal had materielly risen. I have sub- cunning and the strong have leagued with the mass,
mitred these d.euments to his Excellency the Lord- under pretence of achieving the common good, but with
Lieutenant. as well as similar communications which I
the secret object of securing merely their own. They
have received from other places. i have put themselves at the bead of nations, with the pro-
" I hope the memorialists will do me the justice to posal to divide equally the benefits accruing from this
believe that I feel the most sincere anxiety to mitigate, partnership, but they have invtiriably contrived to keep
by all practicable and legitimate means, the pressure of the turkey, and put off the poor bamboozled people with
the calamity that has befallen this country but I I the crow,-,-#aotpden'is History the English Aristcracy.