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

IRELAND.

EVICTION OF TENANTRY.—SCENE AT
GURTMORE.
We witnessed on Friday morning one of the .most
melancholy spectacles that ever tell to the lot of feeling
humanity to behold, namely, the casting out of nine
wretched families from their miserable hovels on the
bleak road side at Gurtmore. It was a wet and stormy
morning, when a detachment of her Majesty's 72d
Lighlanders, under Captain Pollard, who were marched
ten miles on this unsoldier-like duty, drew up on the
public road, within a few hundred yards of the cabin of
Mara, the first of these poor tenants on whom was exe-
cuted the law of ejectment. A strong body of police
were posted opposite the house, and more about the
,door
to kr ep the passage clear for the landlord, the sub-
sheriffs, and the bailiffs. It was disgusting
to observe
with what recklessness the bailiffs dragged out
every little article of furniture which belonged
to the wretched inmates of each hovel they
visited, and ir4 some instances threw out the miserable
remnant of rotted potatoes which they had for sub-
sistence. We have been informed that the sheriff, on
more occasions than one, reproved those fellows for
misconduct in the discharge of their office, and checked
their violent impropriety. But the military and police
comported themselves on this occasion with the bearing
of men who knew and felt they were performing a hated
duty, but the soldiery openly expressed their repug-
nance to this mode of campaigning. " I have been in
the army," said a veteran, "for twenty: seven years;
this is the second time I have been called out on this
duty, and I hope it will be the last, for I would rather
face an enemy than witness what I have seen to•day l"
Pat Clancy was the second man who was dispossessed,
and who showed our reporter a receipt for half a year's
rent up to November. The commanding-officer of the
72d met him at the rear of his house, and expressed
deep sympithy for him as well as for his fellow-sufferers.
Another officer said to Clancy's ion, " Well, my boy,
where will you sleep to-night?" "I don't know, Sir,
said the boy. The brave, humane man, put his hand
into his purse. and gave him silver to procure a lodging.
—Tipperary Vindicator.
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY.—The Nenagh Guardian, an
Orange journal, gives the following notice of the conduct
of the Roman Catholic clergy at this calamitous period :
—" In our own neighbourhood, the gentry of the union
of five parishes met at the residence of the parish priest,
the Rev. Father Nolan, and liberally and generously in
a few minutes collected near 2001. for the occasion. We
are happy to state that there is every prospect of timely
aid for the suffering poor, by the promptitude with
which gentlemen connected with these benevolent meet-
ings have come forward to meet the emergency. We
have had reason often before this to eulogise the conduct
of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, formerly of Dunkerrin, but now
residing near Nenagh, and P.P. of the union of parishes
we have referred to. We trust the noble example set by
these gentlemen will be followed up by others in the dif-
ferent localities, and with much sincerity do we hope
that Protestant and Roman Catholic, lay and clerical,-
will unite their best efforts in endeavouring to relieve
the wants and necessities of their fellow man. There
are many non-resident landlords, who draw large re-
venues from these districts, who should contribute to such
a fund as that now in the course of being raised for the
destitute and unemployed. They should recollect that
from those to whom much is given much is required.
They should not be niggardly, nor throw the entire
burden of relief, so much required, upon those who daily
witness it, and who have so liberally come forward on
this visitation of Providence—want and famine in the
land."