The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

to the organisation of the :.;yst( m of government, and
.he determiutti a of what relates to the serious
question of our northern fro itiers, the Previsional
Government of the nation would find itself required.
til the system has bs. n thus organised, to use its
own discretion on other points. This would be invest-
ing the Provisional Governmtnt with a dictatorship,
always odious, however imperious might be the cir-
cumstances rendering it necessary. I, therefore, pro-
pose, that the said assembly should come fully autho-
rised to determine with regard to all branches of the
pnb.ic administration, which may be of general interest,
and within the attributes of the legislative power ; the
provisional executive of the nation acting with entire
submission to it: determination.
I consider it, moreover, indispensable that a uniform
role be established for the regulation of the interior
affairs of the departments ; and that for this purpose
the Constitution of the year 1824 be adopted until the
new Constitutional Code be completed. By this means
we shall avoid that divergency of opinions, at this cri-
tical
moment, when uniformity is so much needed ;
Cie national will which sanctioned that code will have
been consulted, and the executive of the nation will
have a guide to follow, so far as the present eccentric
position of the republic will allow. I submit both mea-
sures to the will of the departmenis, expressed by the
authori:ies, who may be established in consequence of
the revolution; proposing, moreover, that the Provisional
Government of the nation should adopt forthwith the
second, as the rule of its conduct, until it be determined
otherwise by the majority of the departments, in the
form already indicated. The slave of public opinion
myself, I shall act in accordance with it, seeking for it
henceforth in the manner In which it may be known and
expressed, and subjecting myself afterwards entirely to
the decisions of the c instituent assembly, the organ of
the sovereign will of the nation.
Mexicans ! there was once a day, and my heart dilates
wi.h the r. membrance, wher,, leading on the popular
masses and the army to demand the rights of the nation,
you saluted me with the enviable title of soldier of the
people. Allow me again to take it, never more to be
given up, and to devote myself until death to the defence
of the liberty and independence of the Republic.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
Heroic Vera Cruz, Aug 16, 1846.

IRELAND.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

DUBLIN, OCT. 7.—A letter dated Tuatn, October 5,
in the Freeman's Journal, gives an alarming account of
the state to which the population o" that town and neigh-
bourhood is at present reduced:—

"I am sorry-to inform you that this town, I may say,
is in open rebellion—taking away cattle in the open day
in spite of the police and, townspeople. There was one
heifer belonging to William Sinnott taken yesterday on
the top of the hill of Tullynadally road, in spite of the
drivers. The animal was killed awl carried off, and
nothing left but the hide and part of the fat. Other
cattle were stopped this day. The people cannot help
this outbreak, for if they even had money they
cannot get bread, as the Galway people are not letting
any of it come to us. Mrs. Davis, of Claremorris, was
severely injured coming from Galway with flour. The
people are watching the batches of bread coming out of
the ovens, and almost killing each other fur it. Mr.
Blake's mill was kept going all day yesterday (Sunday)
dressing and grinding whole flour, and they were divid-
ing it up to two o'clock this morning, so you may judge
how the town is. Dragoons are expected here every
moment."

A writer in the Waterfw d Chronicle furnishes the
subjoined sketch of affairs at Dungarvati
DUNGARVAN, OCT. s.—lt is impossible for the most
sagacious to calculate where the present state of thiegs
will end. The people are starving ; hundreds are living
upon a meal of cabbage and salt in 24 hours. They want
employment, and a rate of wages which bill support
themselves and their families. 101. a day is offered
them, and it is refused ; for that sum would, according
to the present price of Indian meal—the cheapest de-
scription of food—be perfee ly inadequate to support
more than one man. And I ask, in the name of
God, are the wife and children of the wretched
labourer to starve ? Soul harrowing as it is to
think of it, there is no other alternative for them,
if the Board of Works give only 103. a ets The
stubborn adherence to the "Treasury minute' appended
to the Labour Act, in-not giving snore than this unfor-
-tanate--10d.a thy, is already producing; its tifeets upon
the country, particularly in the rural. districts in the
west of this country.. Great holies of the peasantry
are niginly patrolling the county, making visits to the
houses of the several farmers, for the purpose of inti-
midating them into refunding the rents paid for
conacre land this year ; alleging, that as the potatoes
failed, no value was had, antr, consequently, farmers
should refund the rents. Already several of the inti-
midators have been arrested—to the number, I believe,
of twenty-four. The military are out every night in
search. There is a force new in this town, including
police, dragoons, and cavalry, of about seven hundred
—a considerable reinforcement is hourly expected. A
rumour that about 8,000 armed peasantry were en-
camped at Ballinamult, a distance of nine miles to the
west of llungarvan, was afloat here to-day; in conse-
quence of which, I have learned, that a force of some-
thing near five hundred, consisting of dragoons, infan-
try, police, &c., under General Sir Charles O'Donnell,
accompanied by P. C. Howley, Royal Marius, left town
this morning at eleven o'clock, and marched towards the
place of the rumoured encampment of the peasantry. I
trust that no collision will take place. Sad would, in-
deed, be the result if there should.'

The accounts from Tipperary arc extremely unfavour-
able. Agrarian outrages, of the old stamp, are daily
increasing, destitution lending fresh vigour to the Rockite
organisation.