The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-15 00:00:00

can't starve."

The Rev. JAMES O'SHEA, who is held in much esteem
by the country people, next ascended the hill, accom-
panied by Mr. Robert Irwin and Mr. James Hynes, of
Honeypound. respectable fa, mers. The Rev. Gentleman
having taken up a posision near the flag, commenced in
a playful manner—Boys, I suppose this is the
banner under which I have to fight.—(Hear.) You
have, at all times and places, respected your clergy, and
I beg to ask now if you still entertain that respect
(be them and their counsel ?—(Cries of "We do.")
Then I call upon you to prove it by removing this
standard.—(The mandate was immediately obeyed,
and the banner removed.) Now, then, as a friend, I
have to protest against your assembling in this manner
—it is illegal for you to do so, and at the present time
most imprudent.—(Cries of "We want work.") I know
you do, and that man is not living who feels more for
your wretched and destitute condition than I do.—(Hear,
hear.) You have, at all times, linked yourselves with
the clergy of your church, for your and our interests is
one and the same, and I trust, therefore, you will not be
guilty of any illegal conduct that would disconnect us
trom each other.—(No, no.) I know you will not. We
have done everything in our power to procure employ-
ment for you. The resident landed proprietors have
done so, and I trust Government will, in ten or twelve
days, set going the works applied for in this district, and
give you employment.—(Cries of
We will be starved
before then.") God forbid. I implore of you to bear
your sufferings and privations patiently and quietly until
you know the determination of Government.—( Murmurs.)
"
I feel that hunger prompts you, perhaps at this moment,
to rash acts. Do not, in God's' name, make your condition
worse than it is. We have the Indian corn weal now
distributing to the poor. It is excellent food, and I
recommend it to you.—(Cries of " If we eat that, it will
poison us.") I assure you that is an absurd idea—l
used it for breakfast myself this morning, and I promise
you I will continue to do so, and if there is harm in it,
I will be the first victim.—(Flear, hear, and cries of
"We will use it so.") The Rev. Mr. O'Shea then con-
jured them t 3 leave the hill, and return peaceably and
quietly to their homes, observing, that if their meeting
was legally convened, he would himself preside, and
join them in devising means to prOvide food and employ-
ment. In conclusion,. he said he felt confident Govern-
ment would act with liberality, and, he trusted, with
promptitude, under the present trying emergency. If
Government did not do so, he would himself point out
where food was to be procured.—(Cheers.)
At the Rev. Gentleman's request the vast multitude,
we are happy to add, then retired, without tumult or the
slightest disposition to commit a breach of the peace.

The Limerick Chronicle says:—“ The intelligince in
our columns of the increasing distress of the labouring
population of Limerick, Clare, and Kerry, is most tear-
ful, and the accumulating wants of the people combine
to precipate a crisis, which the kind sympathies of every
Christian bosom must be earnestly solicitous to avert.
We could wish to keep this grievous spectacle of human
misery and suffering in the far distance, as a visionary
or pas:,ing creation of ' the mind's eye ;' but the sad
reality is so broad and substantial, that we cannot langer
turn away from the horrors of actual and appalling des-
titution, which now encompasses us at every side. We
have proof already that many wretched families in the
interior of the country are starving upon one meal of bad
and insufficient food in the four and twenty hours! The
district relief committees have heard the warning voice,
and the imploring cry of the hungry poor is painful to
the ear. Voluntary private benevolence is doing much,
but not more than it ought in such a deplorable calamity.
Government must come to the rescue with more speed
will be overwhelming."
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quences if he prevented his
So far as Croom parish, the threatened physical
labour demonstration was a failure, and it is believed
admo-
nitionc liieflyand attributablerem onst
remonstrance
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Rev.an
the Roman Catholic clergymen, who on Sunday last de-
nounced, in Croom chapel, in the strongest and
most
emphatic manner, the intended meeting. Accordingly,
very few of the inhabitants of Croom attended the
ing, the greet majority being from adjacent • Meet-
ROBBERY OF A FLOUR BOAT.—On weeinepsadrishes.
as the smack Maria, laden with flour, f ay night,
ruin
Norris Rus-ell's mills, in this city, vk us Mr. John
its passage to his bakery establishment Proceeding on
boarded in the Clare River, at Smith's Island iii!, it was
manned by nine hands, who, all armed with , by a boat
were
off half of the flour, which was as
mut juns, car-
were able to manage ; and, as far as We have h
learned
they
no tidings have since been heard of them. This is the
first serious outrage upon property arising from famine.-
Heaven grant it may be the last.—Limerick Reporter.

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As to the cause of these evictions the reporter says:—
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"I could not find out the reason; I asked everybody.
the cause of the under-tenants being turned out, as the
owed no rent to the head landlord, and the leases of the
original holders had only expired by rumour; but I
could only get the one answer. It was feared that the
whole place was about to be made into a farm, to be
given to either Mr. Ashburry, Mr. Dobbyn• or the
Rev. Mr. Ardagh. And there could scarcely be an
because the why
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The repo. rer continues :—" I shall present} our reader
with a faithful account of the number expelled, as near as

I could collect, after much and, protracted inquiry from
many sources. I shall begin with those who 11( Id
UNDER TUE HEAD LANDLORD. In family
James Gough, in a lane (I think cailed Pierse's-
lane)
James Murray, with his young wife and child,
with old people
Michael Green, jun
Michael Green, an old man, h•mselt; wife, and
one child in the fever, consequently not put
out yet, but the under-bailiff is asking about
his health to come at the house 3
HELD UNDER MAURICE HARNEY.
John Mooney, in the lane
Widow Fitzgerald
Tim Leary..

UNDER LURE FLAHAVEN.

UNDER THOMAS POWER
Pa trick Barry

UNDER PAT FLAHAVIN.
Johaanah Shea
John nearly, owned half an acre ; went out and
left half an acre of wheat
Michael Kiely, sub-tenant under Harney 3
William M‘Dininell, joint tenant, is a sickly man,
aged 40, not expect.-d to live—says every day he will throw down his house and go .6
John Walsh (young fawily)
Robert Walsh
Richard Walsh
...
Anthony Bullman 4
John Dunn
John Morrissy
N.B.—Thomas Geary still holds out—he has a
young family of five.
THE LATE WILLIAM THOMPSON'S ACRE.
Edward Thompson, with sister married 7
Margaret Thompson, widow
HELD UNDER MAURICE DEE.
Matthew Phelan
N.B.—Anthony Thompson (left standirg).
4 Norry Dee, widow

UNDER GARRET CHRISTIAN.

Edward Thompson
James M•lieniry
:This young man's case is a cruel one. He bought
the house and kitchen-garden from a man
named Connors, the first owner, for 31.; Con-
nors sold his land to Christian, or Christopher.
Melieniry has his door still standing in the
ruin.]
Mary Crawley, widow, and three children, her
daughter, with husband and family
UNDER PAT BUCKLEY.

James Hogan
[There was a girl sick of Sever in this house—she
was removed to another cabin.]
UNDER BRIDGET DALY.
Darby Sheehan
Mary Kiely, widow
N.B.—John Keating. This man would not go out
He is a cripple. He fell going to mass on last
Christmas day two years. He is supported by
his wife, by spinning. I did not speak to this
man.

UNDER JOHN TOBIN.

Michael Drohan
Thomas Bryan
Pat Butler
Bridget Fitzgerald
This woman got 21. from Tobin to go, and
leave the house to him. Poor man, will be let
keep his own I]
UNDER DENIS CROLLY.

Denis Sullivan
Denis Carroll
Edward Murphy
UNDER MICHAEL M'KENIRY.
MArgaret Shaw, widow
[She promises to throw down her house.]
James Power, wife, and three infants
Mary Barry 2
Richard Aylward
Widow Burke
Daniel Carty
Ellen Walsh, widow 5
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Pat Phelan 7
Mat Corcoran
Thomas Bryan 3
John Kielly, wife and three intents
Maurice Broderic, wire and four young chil-
dren, helpless
Anne Higgins, widow 3
John Cleary, wife and three young childr..m

237
Total 50...4 families, without: numbers annexed 20
Persons who have not thrown yet, but, of course,
are as liable to go as others

Total
And after some further particulars connected with the
case, the reporter concludes by saying:—
" I believe my work is done for the present. I have
put nothing down in malice, but everything in the spirit
of trutk and fair play. lam sure your columns will be
open for any contradiction to these statements—there
can be none as to the persons and their lands. Yet I
do not believe there can be the slightest dispute as to
these facts, which I have gone to considerable trouble to
elicit. There are eighty persons at least in this last
list, which, with the two hundred and seventy-seven al-
ready mentioned, will be three hundred and fifty-seven,
without mentioning the seventeen families that are yet
in jeopardy at Carrigshoheen. If by any malign influ-
ence these should be banished from all they hold dear
on earth, the number exterminated would stand at four
hundred and forty! I need draw no morel from this ;
but you might call the attention of the Irish Members
to it, that they might use the facts against the Coercion
Bill, and against traducers of the people."