The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

EVICTION OF TENANTRY.

The Cork Examiner givei an account of the expulsion
of a number of tenants from an estate near Konturk, in
that county.
The Waterford papers state that a considerable number
of tenants have been evicted, and forty-six houses taken
down on an estate in that county.
INDIAN CORN.

The Empire, an American vessel of 1,154 tons re-
gister, arrived at Cork on Saturday, in twenty-nine
days from New York, with 25,000 bushels of Indian
corn and 6,000 or 8,000 barrels of meal, consigned to
Messrs. M. and J. Cummins, for account of Government.
One or two equally large vessels are daily expected
there. Large cargoes have arrived at Limerick, Newry,
Belfast, and Dublin ; and by the advertisements in the
provincial journals it appears that Indian corn is either
on sale, or is immediately expected, in all the principal
towns in the south and west of Ireland. It is full time to
abandon the cry of famine and pestilence.
DISTRESS IN WATERFORD.—A meeting of thecitizens
of Waterford was held on Monday, the Mayor in the
chair, to adopt measures to meet the existing destitution
in the borough, A local relief committee was appointed.
During the proceedings, the following observations were
made by the Rev. Mr. Sheehan :—" There never was
such destitution in the city as there is at present. Show
me a mason, a carpenter, or any other tradesman, em-
ployed. The artisans have no employment, and conse-
quently are in a state of destitution. I took the trouble
of examining the reports of the Fanning Institution, and
I found that in Kira, 1843, potatoes of the best quality
were sold at 211. per stone , in 1844, at 4id. ; in 1845,
at 34d. ; and now, this year, they are as high as 7d. to
Bid. by retail, and it is by retail that the poor buy them.
As there is no employment, and prices so very high,
there must be extreme destitution."
The Castlebar Telegragh contains the following :
"FAMINE IN MAYO.—This gaunt and long-dreaded
scourge has at last broken forth. We have been written
to from several parts of this extensive county, by gen-
tlemen upon whose veracity we place the most implicit
reliance, giving the most awful accounts of the suffer-
ings of the people at this early period of the year. Even
at Turlogh, in the immediate neighbourhood of this
town, many families are at this moment, we learn,
without food—and cho wretched sufbrers are, in vain,
endeavouring to get provisions in time, that their chil-
dren may not die ! At the market of Castlebar, on
Saturday last, provisions which hitherto were considered
reasonable, rose to an alarming height—Potatoes from
2id. to sd. per stone, and oatmeal from 13s. to 16s. per
cwt. Turf can scarcely be had at any price, so much so
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be let
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fulfilment of their contracts. Thus, between scarcity of
food and fuel, the poor are reduced to a most distressing
state."

At one o'clock this day a deputation from the relief
committee of Galway waited upon the Lord-Lieutenant
at the Castle, to seek " for relief for the perishing hun-
dreds in this district."

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.
A circular will be immediately issued from the Joint-
Stock Companies Registration-office, addressed to the
several provisionally registered rail way companies,
stating that it is the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, immediately after Easter, to propose to Parliament
a Bill to enable any railway company which at the time
of the passing of the Bill shall not have obtained its Act
of Parliament to dissolve itself. By the Bill it is in-
tended to provide for the calling of a meeting of the
shareho:ders, either by the managing body or by a given
number of shareholders, at which meeting it is intended
that the holders of a majority of the shares in the com-
pany, or the holders of three-fifths of the shares belong-
ing to those present or represented by proxy at the
meeting, shall have the power to determine upon the dis-
solution of the company.
Due provision will be made for a sufficient public
notice being given of the time and place of meeting, and
of the mode in which absent shareholders are to be re-
presented by proxy.
Upon the dissolution being carried at the meeting the
property of the company is to become forthwith vested
in certain persons to be appointed for the purpose of
winding up the concern, and, after discharging the liabi-
lities, fur distributing the surplus.
The actual holders of scrip are to be taken as share-
holders, entitled by themselves or their proxies to attend
the meetings.

FORGERY.—A curious case arising out of a charge
of forgery has just occurred at Plymouth. A Mr. Jarvis
Hewett, a farmer, lately residing at Frittiscombe, in the
neighbourhood of Kingsbridge, had given a bill for 100/.
purporting to have been drawn by Mr. John Lome, another
farmer of the same place, and payable at the Joint-Stock
Bank at Kingsbridge. This bill turned out to be a forgery.
We bear that Hewett had previously defrauded his creditors,
and that a short time since he was arrested on a bill for 70/.,
and was on his route to Exeter, but when ha reached
Totnes he managed to effect his escape from the sheriff']
.fficer,and subsequently the bad bill was paid. He then drove
away all his cattle, and it may very readily be imagined that
his creditors did not greatly benefit by the transaction.
This he did with the intention of going to America in a ship
that was to sail from this port on Tuesday last. On Sunday,
however, Mr. Inspector Cole received information of the
case, and, on making m.nute inquiries, he found that Hewett
hal taken a passage for himself and his two eons in one of
the ships that was to sail on Tuesday afternoon. Inspector
Cole and a police officer from Kingsbridge, named Stear,
therefore, went on board the vessel before she left the
harbour, but finding only llewett's eldest son there,
they remained, thinking that llewett would join the
till they at last perceived a boat heaving to
ship. The vessel, however, went a considerable distance
beyond the Breakwater, when the captain called the roll,
and Hewett's absence was confirmed. I'his led the officers
e llead. The dicers hugged the vessel as
in a
small open boat, and they bpeuglalnedtoinbeuanendv'l-r_
to believe he would still make his appearance, and they hung
on as long as possible, and went out four or five miles beyond
till they found her making
pleased pith their pos.tion.
unWghesiltstsotnheswreerae
off, when they
undert 1
long, ea sthtithe
ethey Breakwater,
acomuld,
thought it best to leave her, as they were now several miles
to
hu
itn agt sbeuat,
alongside the ship, the younger Hewett must have signalled
his father, for they at last saw the boat that was
from the Rame Head turn back again, and the officers then
got 10 or tire the
used all possible despatch to reach the shore, and soon gained
shore,steep a, 1 e
wa
eltitoubsued.
upon the flying party. Hewett, who was in the boat, •
dently became alarmed, and the boat was
Penlee Point, and Hewett and his yo
moment after seen scrambling up the rocks, which,By th says our
lonififocremrsan
hadt,
reached appearedt
bees
mi-
nutes advantage of them. The police, accompanied bsy
boatman, having left another in charge of the two boats,one
made all the haste they could up the rocks, but when ti
reached the heights not a soul was to be seen besides them-
selves, for Hewett and his son had got clear off. Mr. Cole,
who has the keen eye of a Mohawk, albeit he may be slightly
deficient in the scent, traced the runaways' trail across -a
couple of fields, but there he lost it, as they had taken to a
grass field, and left no further sign of their progress. The
ship of course sailed without ttem A
, an. we would not give
much for Mr. Hewett's chance of escape._ p,
„ . PIMA JOU
DEATH OF THE HON. LADY 11ALLAC.—This lady,a
widow of Sir George Dallas, Bart., and mother of the present
Baronet, died on Sunday last. The deceased ladywas
youngest daughter and only surviving issue of Sir John
Blackwood, Baronet, and Baroness Duflerin, and married the
late Sir George Dallas in June, 1788.
SEAMEN IN THE PORT OF LONDON.—S 0 mtiye is the
demand for seamen, both in the mercantile marine and the
navy, that yesterday the whole number of inmates at the
Destitute Sailors Asylum was 10, whilst on no previous
night of the week did they average more than six, the ma-
jorq of whom were invalids or completely destitute.
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