The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

were willing to give all the potatoes they had grown for
the payment of poor-rate.
W. D. GRIPFITIIS, Esq, J.P., proposed the next re-
solution, praying for the resumption of the works re-
cently discontinued, with the view, as he supposed, to
allow the corn crops to be cut down.
F. COMYN, Esq , J.P., seconded the motion, which,
being put from the chair, passed nem. con.
L. S. MANGAN, Esq., T.C., proposed the resolution
respecting the execution elf the Lough Corrib drainage
and navigation, and the opening up of the coast line of
Connemara, accordinglto the plan of the late Mr. NiMMO
and others.

A labouring man here expressed a hope that, when
the works were resumed, advantage would not be taken
of the poor to compel them to work for so low a rate of
wages as 10d. per day.
The resolution passed unanimously.
Rev. JOHN D'ARCY next addressed the meeting, and
pointed out to the county gentlemen the necessity of
making a great line of road between Galway and Ballin-
asloe upon improved principles, so as to level the hills
and fill up the valleys, a resolution in favour of which he
moved the adoption of.
JOHN FINN, Esq., Ballymagibbon, seconded the mo-
tion, but was in favour of having a railroad constructed,
which would give labour to thousands, and which could
afterwards be sold to a company.
Mr. D'Aacy had no objection to alter the terms of the
resolution according to the suggestion of Mr. Fynn, and
being so put it was carried,
A Committee meeting was subsequently held, at which
several of the landed proprietors of Mayo and Galway
were present, for the purpose of receiving assents to the
proposed works on Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra.
THE IRISH POOR-LAW—THE DISTRESS.
The Poor-law Commissioners have issued the follow.
ing important document, in the form of a circular to the
various unions. The subjoined has been received at the
Lisburn union. The object of the Commissioners is to
render the existing poor-law as extensively available as
that very imperfect and insufficient measure is capable
of, at the present emergency:—
" Pool-law Commission-office, Dublin,
10th September, 1846.
"Sir,—Adverting to the information received from
the board of guardians regarding the state of the potato
crop in the Lisburn union, I am directed by the Poor-
law Commissioners to express their deep regret that the
report of the guardians is to so great an extent unfa-
vourable.

" The Commissioners anticipate, in consequence
hereof, a great increase of poverty and distress among
the labouring population of the union ; and it is their
earnest wish that those means of affording relief which
the law has placed at the disposal of the guardians
should be made available, to the utmost practicable
extent.

" They recommend, therefore, that the guardians
should promptly bring under review the subject of their
contracts for provisions and other supplies, the present
state of their stocks of bedding and clothing, and the
general state of their finances, so as to be prepared, in
due time, for any accession to the number of inmates,
which the present circumztances of the union render
probable.
"In making such preparations, the Commissioners
urgently advise and call upon the guardians to base the
estimates for their financial and other arrangements, on
the assumption that the whole accommodation which
the workhouse affords will be placed in requisition
during a considerable period, commencing from the
close of the present autumn. The means of relief placed
at the disposal of the guardians being limited, it
will be a source of satisfaction hereafter, both to the
public and to the guardians themselves, if nothing
be left undone to make the utmost use of
those means, so far as may be found necessary, especially
in the relief of the primary objects of the Irish poor-
law—aged, infirm, or otherwise disabled persons, to
whole relief the recent measures of Parliament, enacted
for the employment of labour, apply only in an indirect
manner, and who may therefore be expected to form the
class most liable to destitution in consequence of the pre-
sent calamity.

What number of inmates may be safely and properly
accommodated in each department of the workhouse is a
question upon which the guardians will not fail to con-
sult their medical officer, from time to time, as occasion
may require.

" _
With reference to any change of the workhouse
dietary, which may become desirable, through failure
of a supply of sound potatoes, the Commissioners call
the attention of the guardians to their sealed order of
the 27th October last, which remains in full force, au-
thorising such departure from the prescribed form of
dietary as to the guardians, subject to the approval of
the Commissioners, shall seem fitting and expedient.'
" The assistant-commissioner, in superintendence of
the union, is specially instructed to afford the guardians
on this occasion all the assistance and co-operation it
may be in his power to give.—I am, Sir, your obedient
servant,

" B. BANKS, Clerk First Class.
" To the Clerk to the Guardians, Lisburn Uhion."
SUPPLIES OF FOOD.

LIMERICK, SEPT. 12.—The Alban steamer dis-
charged " bread stuff" this day at the quay, and the
Pluto returns to Tarbert with a supply of coals for the
Stromboli.

The Stromboli steam-frigate, Captain Fisher, has ar-
rived at Tarbert, from Cork, with a full cargo of
"bread stuffs" for the Commissariat in this city, which
are being transferred to the Alban and Pluto Govern-
ment steamers, and landed at the quays here. The
Stromboli from eleven until one o'clock on Monday, op-
posite Whitebay, Cove, fired 6'B-pound shot and large
shells, at s target moored off Rostellan, a distance of
two miles. The bursting of the shells in the air had a
grand effect.