The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

IRELAND

THE PROVISION SCARCITY.
Dumas., APRIL 4.—The following instructive conversa-
tion is reported as having taken place at a meeting on Tues-
day of the Cork Poor Relief Committee. That the farmers
havein many instances contributed to the prevailing scarcity
by holding back their stocks with a view of extorting famine
prices there is no reason whatever to doubt, and if, from the
precautions taken by Government, they have discovered that
they have overshot the mark, few will be found to sympa-
thize with their disappointment. Why " Peel ought to be
hanged" for checkmating These forestallers is a riddle the
solution of which must be left to the two enthusiastic gen-
tlemen who suggested this ignoble termination to the Pre-
mier's existence :
" Mr. MURPHY said that when it was found that the meal
(Indian corn meal, of course) was selling in Cork, a panic
struck the farmers, and he was informed that last Sunday a
number of them waited upon a gentleman to know whether
that the
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selling .cf Indian meal had struck terror into the hearts of
the country people, and they were asking advice as to whe-
ther they should send their produce to market, as they had
previously kept it up for high prices.
" Mr. COTTER—Then Peel eught to be hanged for bring-
ing it here.—( Laughter.)
" Mr. CRAIG—He ought to be hanged, whether he did it
cr let it alone.—(Loud laughter.)"
EVICTION OF TENANTRY. r 777:
The Tipperary Vindicator contains the following :—" A
reporter from this establishment proceeded yesterday (Fri-
day) morning to Gorthore, between Nenagh and Limerick,
to witness the eviction of tenantry—or what is technically
called the execution of a "habere' —on the property of Mr.
Tuthill, where 120 men of the 72d Highlanders, under
Captain Pollard, 41 police, under the Sub-Inspector Lewis,
of Newport, and several bailiffs, went at an early hour. Our
reporter returned at five o'clock, P.M. He informs us that
nine poor families. were evicted from their tenements.
The day was particularly wet, cold, and inclement,
more in fact like a mid-winter • than a spring day. No re-
sistance was offered to the executioners of the law.
The people in the neighbourhood, he says, did not expect
the visit. Those who were present showed every courtesy
and kindness to the military officers and soldiers,-who well
merited the hospitality manifested by the poor cottiers, who
boiled eggs and gave what refreshment they had to them.
The men of the 72d seemed ashamed of this distressing duty.
" The names of the persons evicted were :—Patrick Mara,
4 in family; Patrick Clancy, 9 in family (who showed his
receipt to our reporter for his rent up to November); John
Fennell, 5 in family ; Denis Brien, 5 in family ; Pat
O'Brien, 5 in family; Patrick Clancy, 7 in family; William
Merbert, the amount of whose family our reporter was un-
able to ascertain, but supposes it to be at least 5. In all 39
persons.
. .

" Our reporter says that it was generally stated that the
tenants had paid the rent up to May, 1845—but of this he
had no accurate knowledge. The fact, however, was that
Fennell, above-mentioned, had bank-notes for rent in his
hands, which were refused—and the day ended by the
tenants being put out, the doors of their cabins closed and
locked. Our reporter was informed that Mr. Tuthill has
fourteen evictions against fourteen other tenants. Our re-
porter heard it stated from Mara, above mentioned, that Mr.
Tuthill promised them possession again ; but this he does
not know of his own knowledge."

RE THE APPROACHING CHANGE IN THE CORN-LAWS.
—We have, in our journal of this evening, the opinion of a
gentleman, that necessarily will carry great weight with it,
in respect to the contemplated change in the corn-laws. We
allude to Mr. George Robins, who has taken an early oppor-
tunity to place his opinion upsn record, in his announcement
of the Willenhall Hamlet, Manor, and Estate (near 800
acres) of first-rate land, near to the city of Coventry. This,
it will be perceived, shows in uxmistakeable terms not only
his opinion, but the reason that guides him to such a con-
clusion. In alluding to the safety of landed investments, he
enforces his feeling in the following strong and uNanswerable
terms :—" Hear it all those who incline to be dissatisfied with
landed investments, that there is not, nor has there been, an
arrear of one guinea during the last ten years;" and as it re-
gards the general prejudice that has too long existed in re-
spect of reduced rents, he pointedly rebukes this feeling by
the following quaint observation. He says, by way of con-
clusion, that it affords the writer very great satisfaction to
join in, and express a very concurrent opinion (and one that
has become an every day assertion now-a-days), that " THE
AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE
FRIGHTENED THAW HURT; a fact which will be demonstrated
past misapprehension in a few weeks." We shall watch Mr.
Robins's sales, and give to our readers the benefit of the
results.

Pc ST- OFFICE NOTICE.—DETENTION OF MAILS.—
This morning the following notice was posted at the General Pizisgt:
office, St. Martin's. le-Grand :—" April 7,
evening, will be detained.
deira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, for this
Letters will be iu time to-morrow evening."
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4.1,E OF THE LIBRARY, MANUSCRIPTS, &C., OF J.
Bairrox
v• • s•k• --yesterday the sale of the fourth portion of
the extensive. ESQ., .
sive andvaluable library of John Britton, Esq., F.S.A.,
the well•known antiquarian, was commenced at Mr. Fletcher's
Auction-rooms, in Piccadilly. This portion, which comprises a great
number [of curious and valuab:e books on antiquities, topography,
theology, including several rare Bibles and Prayer-books, is divided
into upwards of 2,000 lots, comprising many thousand volumes.
some of the lots are extremely curious. There are several heauti-
tnily illuminated manuscripts and autographs ; among the latter is
one by Nell Gwynne, to a receipt for 2501., being for a quarter's
pension; one by Prince Rupert, Sir Isaac Newton, &c. 'l'lle sale
consisted principally of books on architecture and architectural an-
tiquities, which sold for large sums.

Lord Frederick, Lady Augusta, and the Hon. Miss
Fitzelarence, have left Etal House for the season. His Lordship has
for several months been suffering from a violent attack of gout, so
much so, that it was deemed advisable by his medical attendant to
remove him. Sir David Davies, together with en easy travelling-
carriage belonging to the Queen, were sent express to Etal last week
to convey the Noble Lord, by easy journeys, to town, whence he
proceeds direct to Winbourne, Dorsetshire.
MUSICAL NEWS.—A letter from Vic,nua informs us
that M. Liszt has given six concerts ix that capital since the Ist of
March, and that the pianiste has likewise played before the Court,
and been presented by the Emperor with a rich diamond ring, with
his Imperial Majesty's cipher. The anniversary festival of the
Berlin Philharmeuic Society took place in that capital on the 22d.
ult., after a fine concert, at which Vieuxtemps and Mendelssohn
were in attendance. The Earl of Westmorelaud honoured the
festival with his presence. A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of
the 28th ult. states that the 23d grand annual festival of the
Rhenish districts will be celebrated this year in that city. The
programme of the festival, at which 2,600 performers will as
silt, will solely consist of ancient works of ecclesiastical music. It
will last finis days. The King and Queen of Prussia have promised
to be present at this festival, which will commence on Wednesday,
the 29th of April. Paris letters inform us that it appears certain
that the engagement of Madame Eugenie Garcia with the director of
the opera is broken off, and she will be replaced by Rossi Cassia, who
has lately sung with so much success in Lisbon and London.
Madame Rossi Cassia will make her debfit in the part of La Juive.
An opera in two acts, called L'Ame en Peine, will be produced in
Paris in a few days. Feliclen David's new oratorio, Moses on Mount
Sinai, has disappointad the expectations to which his ode-symphony
of The Desert had given rise, and has called some very unfavourable
criticism from the Parisian feuilletonnistes.

FERRARA.— he lately-discovered manuscript of a
lost poem, by Ariosto, has been sold by the tinder to the Library
at Ferrara, reserving to hilusell the right or publishing it withiri
Av• 7,111,