The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-16 00:00:00

THE PROVISION SCARCITY.

DUBLIN, APRIL 14.—Reports, as usual, highly
coloured, were current all day to the effect that the
country people, driven to desperation by hunger, had
assembled in large masses in the neighbourhood of Clon-
mel, that several flour mills had been taken by storm,
and their contents carried off, that the military, dragoons
and artillery, had been called out, and that a serious col-
lision between soldiers and peasantry had been the final
result. Part, and very small part, of all these alarming
reports appear to be founded in fact. The affair is thus
noticed in the Post of this evening :
" A correspondent in Clonmel, whose letter is dated
yesterday afternoon, writes to say that the greatest ex-
citement prevails in that town, owing to an attack made
by the peasantry on some carts laden with provisions,
and under an escort of military. Two troops of dra-
goons and a party of artillery that arrived from Cahir
yesterday morning, were dispatched to Marlfleld-mills
and distillery, upon which an attempt at plunder had
been made. Happily no lives have been lost, as the
military succeeded in driving back the people without
firing on them."
The Evening Freeman has an account which substan-
tially agrees with the foregoing. It is as follows:
"Letters have reached town to-day announcing that
there was an outbreak of the people at Clonmel, the
county town of South Tipperary, yesterday. The people,
who are reduced to the utmoss extremity of distress,
and whose bones
.protruded through the skin which
covered them, staring through hollow eyes as if they
had but just risen from their shrouds, cried out that they
could no longer endure the extremity of their distress,
and that they must take that food which they could not
procure, and without which they could not live. They
therefore assembled yesterday to the number of several
hundreds and attacked the extensive and valuable flour
mills situate just in the town. These mills are the largest,
most valuable, and perhaps the best stocked of any in
Ireland. They are the property of several Quaker gen-
tlemen, named Grubb, Malcolmson, and Hughes. For-
tunately, before the people could force their way into
the mills, the army, consisting of artillery and dragoons,
had arrived at the scene of outrage, and succeeded in
dispersing the rioters without loss of property, and hap
pily without loss of life. The people dispersed in the
town again, it would appear, collected at some rendez-
vous in its vicinity, and they forthwith proceeded to
Marlfield mills, the most extensive flour manufactory in
Ireland. The proprietor is Mr. Stein, a Scotch gentle-
man, largely engaged in the distilling of whisky from
way, but whether they were also successful in plundering
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THE BODY OF A MAN FOUND IN TILE RIVER:) Last
Coroner, at
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a bgeefra I tjllarp.Sptle. appeared from the
evidence that on the morning of Monday last, about half-past
six o'clock, the body of the deceased was found in the river,
off Cox's Quay, near Billingsgate, by a fisherman, who
brought the body to the surface of the water with his grapnels.
He conveyed it to the dead-house. The deceased had received
a blow on the side of the head, near the nose. The inquiry
was subsequently adjourned for further evidence.
LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BRANDLING JUNCTION
RAILWAY.-SOUTII SHIELDS, APRIL 14.—Sarah Ripon, one
of the unfortunate women who received such extensive in-
juries by the recent accident on the Brandling Junction Rail-
way, died shortly after four o'clock this morning Her in-
juries were principally scalds on the head, chest, and arms.
The deceased was a native of Alston, in Cumberland, and
she had been on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Swaiwell, whose
husband had left the house but a few minutes before the
accident, to attend a Sunday-school. The deceased was sit-
ting near the fire, and Mrs Swalwell was at the table, when
a rumbling noise was heard, and the one said to the other,
" What could it be?" In a moment after the engine de•
scended through the roof. The coroner's inquest on the
body was commenced to• day, and adjourned till 'Thursday.
GRESHAM COLLEGE.—Yestorday being the first day
of Easter term, Professor Pullen delivered the first of bis
elementary course of lectures on astronomy to an audience
composed of upwards of two hundred persons.
CONVICTS FOR BERMUDA.—The Scotia, hired convict-
ship, was brought down the river yesterday from Deptford,
where she took in stores to moorings opposite the Royal
Arsenal. preparatory to taking on board convicts intended for
Bermuda.

A letter from St. Etienne of April 7 states that, in
some of the pits, and particularly that of Clite-Tholliere.
several of the colliers had returned to their work. At Fir-
miny also, the works had been resumed, so that the circle of
the strike is becoming gradually narrower. The authorities
had adopted measures to prevent the well disposed portion of
the workmen from being molested. A few more arrests were
effected on the night of the sth; but without noise or dis-
turbance.

How TO SICKEN JOSEPH ADY.—An individual at
Gate4lead, who had been pestered by Joseph Ady's commu-
nications, has adopted the expedient of sending Joseph (who,
by the way, never 'pays postage) a farthing enclosed in a
letter, informing him that the balance of the fee demanded
(one pound) will be sent on receipt of the valu-
able informatien promised. The general adoption of this
plan would, no doubt, soon induce Joseph to adopt a more legi-
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timate occupation.
An important piece of news was in circulation at
Constantinople when the packet left. It was said that the
independent tribe of the Abazes, who occupy a vast district
on the Black Sea, had agreed to make common cause with
the Circassians against the Russians. Soliman, Lieutenant
of Schamyl, had gone amongst the Abaze, and read a pro-
clamation from that chief, which announced that he had ob-
tained two victories over the littssians.—Galipieni,