The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

BREAD RIO: IN LIMERICK.

The Limerick Reporter of Tuesday contains the follow-
ing:—'° This morning, about eight o'clock, as a bread
waggon belonging to Mr. John Norris Russell was pass-
ing in the neighbourhood of John-square, its progress
was arrested by a party of persons, principally boys.
Two young men having charge of the waggon resisted
the aggression, but were ultimately overpowered, when
the waggon was broken open, and rifled of something
about a dozen loaves. The otrage was thus far checked
by the timely interference of several sensible persons
that were attracted to the scene. The mayor was also
immediately on the spot, and strongly remonstrated with
the people against such conduct; apprehension having
been felt, and rumour afloat, that a rise out' was in con-
templation, Colonel Hansel and a party of the Bth Hus•
sars shortly joined his worship. The bread waggon by
this time was allowed to proceed unmolested, minus the
few loaves ; and the Mayor on horseback, accompanied
by Colonel Manse! and the Hussars, proceeded round the
town, and down William-street, followed by a crowd,
which greatly increased in its progress. The Mayor
addressed the crowd at the corner of William street,
impressing upon them the necessity of abstaining from
any outbreak on person or property, and requesting their
immediate dispersion, telling them that he had only just
returned from Dublin, where he had been during the
past week, in communication with the Government, and
that matters were in pr-per training for the setting of
sach public works on foot as would shortly insure them
employment. The crowd immediately separated, and
the city has since been quiet."
THE INDIAN POOR RELIEF FUND.
The following appears in the Dublin Evening Post :
"During the early part of the present week a sum of
nearly 8001. has been added to the account of the Man-
sion-house committee at the Bank of Ireland, 6001. of
which have been received from Bombay, the generous
agency of the Honourable Sir H. Raper, Messrs.
Edward F. Danvers, and J. Stewart, the difference
having been received from the Island of Ce)lon, in
a remittance from the humane Major Parks and Sir
J. Emmerson Tennent. The gross sum received by the
trustees of the Indian Poor Relief Fund is 11,4501., the
greater part of which has been contributed at Calcutta,
and remitted through the medium of the Right Rev. Dr.
Carew, Roman Catholic Bishop, Sir Lawrence Peel, and
Mr. Henry Piddington. The parties who at present are
in communication with the trustees in the other places
are Messrs. Burney and Co., at. Madras ; the Chairman
of the Relief Committee at Toronto ; and the Mayor of
the city of Mobile, in the United States, whose sponta-
neous generosity is the more distinguished, because, in
the absence of the tie of fellow-subjects, no other motive
could exist with him and his friends at Mobile but that
of universal benevolence. The citizens of Mobile have
contributed 2001.

" The trustees of the Indian Poor Relief Fund are
men whose names convc-y their eulogy. They are :
His Grace the Duke of Lein'ster ; his Grace the Lord
Archbishop of Dublin ; his Grace Archbishop Murray;
the Right Hon. the Lord Cloncurry ; the Right Rev.
Dr. Blake, Bishop of Dromore ; the Right Rev. Dr.
Whelan, Bishop of Bombay ; the Venerable the Arch-
deacon Torrens ; the Very Reverend Theobald Mathew;
R. J. Graves, Esq., M.D. ; Sir Robert Kane, M.D.
These distinguished personages are in weekly attend-
ance at the board since the month of April ; and
the Duke of Leinster, with that munificence by
which his whole life has been characterised, has
given the use of his house in Dominick-street for the
trustees to meet in and transact their pious duties. The
Bank of Ireland, with a disposition corresponding with
the humane intentions of those who create, and those
who disburse the fund, have zuttuificently cashed; free

of discount, all the bills of exchange by means of which
the moneys have been remitted ; and although most of
these bibs were drawn at six months after sight, yet the
directors of the Bank of li eland. with a tn-nevolenpo
which commands re, Peet, have crdered the foil amount
drawn for to be plticed at the en dit of the tru.teeg. with-
out any banking reduction whatsoever. The fund thui
so humanely placed at the disposal of the trustees has
been distributed amongst about 350 local relief com-
mittees, to whom 639,700 destitute poor look for the
means of being saved from the horrors of famine."

ASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT IN
NOVEMBER.
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The Co? k Reporter contains the important announce.
merit made to the Mallow and Doneraile deputation, by
the private secretary of the Lord-Lientenant, that Par-
liament is to be astembied in November, in wrier to
remedy the defects in the Labour Rate Bill and to pro-
vide otter effectual measures for the relief of distress in
Ireland.

LETTER FROM MR. O'CONNELL.
The Evening Post contains the following from Dir:y-
nane:—

" Darrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, Sept. 14.
"My dear Conway,—l have only this morning got
the Labour Bate Act, and thus am able to state its pro-
visions accurately. lam the more anxious to do so, as
my former statement of its contents was necessarily
taken from_ the report of speeches in Parliament.
The Act provides that the Lord L'eutenant, uton
being informed of the existence of distress in any ,* s-
trict, shall, by proclamation, direct and require an Ex-
traordivary Presentment Sessions' for such district.
" This is mandatory upon the presentment sessions ;
they are bound to meet on the day mentiuned in the pro-
clamation, and they will be guilty of a violation of the
law if they do not meet upon that day.
"2d. The presentment sessions having met, they are
bound to make presentments for public works within
their district. This clause, also, is mandatory. It would
be a violation of the law if they were to refuse or neglect
making such presentments.
" 3d. The Lords of the Treasury are bound to
advance all sums of money, without specified limit, to
the amount necessary for the works included in such
presentments.
" 4tb. The Board of Works are bound to put into
execution the works so presented for without delay.
" Such is an abstract of the operative part of the sta-
tute, as far as relates to public works. There are also
provisions for the repayment, by instalments, of the
money to be advanced for those works.

"The repayment is not to commence until the next
year, 1847, so that the landlords are, by the Act, left all
their resources for the present year, untouched by the
payment of any rate.
" No specific remedy is given by the statute if the pre-
sentment sessions disobey the law, and refuse or neglect
to make presentm‘nts.

" Let it be recollected that if they so refuse or neglect
—the existing distress in the district will remain, not
only unrelieved and unmitigated, but naturally increas-
ing in intensity and severity. This will be so strong a
pressure upon the presentment sessions, that it is not
likely that they will anywhere refuse to make present-
ments, and by such refusal leave the starving labourers
without relief. But, supposing any presentment sessions
so to refuse, they are subject to legal compulsion as well
as to punishment. _ _

" For example, the Act being mandatory 'on the pre-
sentment sessions, if they refuse to do that duty they are
liable to be proceeded against, criminally, by indictment,
or by criminal informations, at the prosecution of the
Attorney-General. Besides, on application to the
Queen's Bench, a mandamus would issue to compel the
presentment sessions to make presentment according to
law. I take it, that the cost of the proceedings would be
visited on the defaulting presentment sessions.
" It is, therefore, to the last degree improbable that
any sessions will refuse to make presentments.
Let it be recollected that the one thing wanted at
present is food; that the pressure for food is immediate;
that the supplying of food cannot be postponed without
the utmost inhumanity—nay, cannot be postponed with
safety to any class.

" Food the people want, and food it is the duty of
everybody to provide fur them: -Els ell the Government
as the landlords—in short, everybody, having any means
whatsoever.

" The Government plan suggests the mode of obtain-
ing food by earning wages—such wages to be paid for
the execution of public works.
" It is quite true that many faults may be found with
the Government plan; but, then, it is rapid of execution,
and rapidity of action is, under existing circumstances, of
the most vital importance. No plan can be of any value
to meet the present horrible emt rgency but a rapid plan.
There is no time for delay or po.tporement. The penalty
of delay would be death—in fact, deaths innumerable.
From 10,000,0001. to 12,000,0001. sterling will, I fear, be
necessary to keep the people alive; but, while many are
writing or talking, the people are starving.
" I am not at all insensible to the disadvantage of
laying out money on works that are not, in themselves,
productive of direct profit ; but the complication of in-
terests—the properties of minors—the properties vestfed
in trustees for married women—the properties in the
hands of the receivers of the Court of Chancery, -and of
other creditors and annuitants—all these and mr.ny other
complicated relations, would require much time and labour
to arrange in order to secure any Government loans trade
for profitable works, and it would conse.me-much time
to investigate titles and ascertain the validity of secu-
rities.

In the meantime, the cry is load and universal for
food i food 1 Everything must be done to get the food
for the people without. delay. Rapidity constitutes, I
repeat, the essence of humanity and political sagacity.
It seems abundantly clear that there must he an early
—very early meeting of the Parliament. The practical
defects' of the Labour Pate Bill must he amended, and
other modes of rulici will require to be suggested and
a °Hod out. But ;Li the mean time let us one and all
struggle to procure wages and food for the people. Let
us dO the beet we can with the existing law, instead of
discoverin defects and proclaiming them to a starving
people. Let us, it possible, inspire in that people a con-
fidence, in our ext-rtions, and let us convince them, that
we will leave nu practical mean.. untried to preserve the
country from famine and pestilence.
" Believe me to be, very faithfully yours,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."

DISGRACEFUL STATE of WANDS_
WORTH POLICE-COURT.
About five years since an Order in Council created a
Police-court at Wandsworth, and assigned as the circle
of its jurisdiction the p,,rishes of Wandsworth, asp-
ham, Battersea, Tooting, Mert,e, WhiA)le.:cn, Barnes,
and a portion of Streatham. The place selected to ad-
minister justice was the then sleeping apartment of the
superintendent of the V division of police, togwher with
a very small room for the private accommodation. of the
magistrates. With respect to persons compelled to at-
tend the court, they were, and are still, oblik,red to put
up with the sorry accommodation of a stable-yard, or
the less wholesome jostling in a eircumscribtd and ill-
ventilated apartment, dignified by the title of a pi-lice-
court. The entrance to the court, too, is up a steep
flight of stairs, that threaten each day to dissolve
connexion with the building to which they are the
only public approach; and the absence of cells
ohliges the prisoners being at various times during
the sitting of the court paraded between that
place and the station-house, which is neatly a
quarter of a mile distant; an the filly of such
a course being persevered in cannot be better ex-
emplified than in the case which is appended. The
reporter would not have been induced to make these
remarks but for the miserable economy and imbecility
of purpose exhibited by those who are constituted
the agents of Government in these matters. For
three years past the magistrates at this court have
been deluded with the idea that a building commen-
surate with the dignity of a court of judicature would
be erected. Surveys have been made over and over
again, but still the conrt remains an eye-sore to the
neighbourhood, and a disgrace to the executive depart-
ment of the Government.
A case strongly illustrative of a necessity for a reform
occurred on Friday. A man named William Wilson,
who has already been convicted of burglary, - was
charged with embezzling several sums of money be.
longing to his employer, Edward Covenay, of Brie
tannia-place, Wandsworth-road. The prisoner, 'a
powerful young man, was remanded, and was
being conveyed towards the station-house by Eastman,
182 V, the Clapham summoning officer, when the fellow
suddenly turned round, struck the officer a tremendous
blow on the breast, and started off with the the speed of
a deer-hound towards Putney. The officer, although
,almost stunned by the blow, followed in pursuit, and
after a sharp run of some hundred yards succeeded in
coming up with the prisoner, who had been stopped near
the Adelaide Inn. The prisoner, on being again taken
into custody, made a most desperate resistance, striking
the constable in the face and in various parts of his
body, and also biting him severely. The constable, al-
though so severely handled, did not draw his staff. and,
with the assistance of civilians, whom it was necessary
to call upon to aid and assist in the Queen's name, the
prisoner was taken back to the court, and from thence
to the station-house.

Had this court possessed the necessary conveniences
that appertain to other courts, this mishap cuuld not
have taken place.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l observed a paragraph in your paper of the
12th instant, and ref. rring to the Bell and Crown Hotel
in a manner which is calculated to lead to an erroneous
impression. Allow me to state, in correction, that in.
stead of the coach-yard and stabling being converted
into dwelling houses, their sites are now occupied by
new rooms attached to the hotel, which were rendered
indispensable for the proper accommodation of the public.
I an), Sir, yours, obediently, --
VALENTINE RIMER,
Proprietor of the Bell and ()town Hotel.
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Sept. 17, 1846. -
[The paragraph in question was copied from a Morn.
ing Paper.—En. Sun.]

LARGB PIKE. —On Thursday, two gentlemen
trolling for fish at Twickenham, succeeded in capturing
several large "jack," among which was one weighing
164 lbs.
FATAL FALL.—An inquest was held on Friday be-
fore Mr. W. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of
Ann Stead, aged 62 years, lately residing at No. 6,
Great Tower•street, City. The deceased was a maiden
lady, but had been very infirm for some years past, and
during the absence of one of the domestics, on the 27th of
July, she got upon ono of the chairs to dust the shelves
over the sideboard, and in so doing missed her footing,
and fell heavily to the ground, whereby she received a
fracture of the left thigh bone. She was removed to
the above hospital, and lingered until Thursday, when
she died. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."