The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-14 00:00:00

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.)

LIMERICK.—A tempest of unusual violence from the
south-west has swept over Limerick yesterday morn-
ing. A great number of casualties from the falling of
chimneys and flying slates have been reported. Several
persons have been conveyed to the hospital in consequence.
One man was:, blown into the floating docks, and was
drowned before any assistance could be rendered him.
Another man had his skull fractured by the debris of a
falling chimney. A great many small craft on the river
were blown from their moorings and run ashore. The
storm coastwise is reported as being very severe.

The first prosecution under the Peace Preserva-
tion Act took place at Kells, County Meath. Seven young
men, who were found in a field between sunrise and sun-
set, unable to give an account of themselves, were arrested
and brought before the petty sessions. One was sen-
tenced to a fortnight's imprisonment and the others
discharged.

A letter has been addressed by Dr. Moberly to
the clergy and ratepayers in his diocese in reference to
the new Education Act. The right rev, prelate urges the
clergy to endeavour at once to supply deficiencies, if any,
both in the way of erecting new and enlarging existing
school edifices, so as to meet the requirements of their
respective districts.

At the meeting of the Jockey Club the motion of
Lord George Manners to abandon the racing at New-
market on Mondays was carried; as was also that to
revive the Second Spring Meeting. The motion of
Admiral Bous, to repeal the existing law regarding
auction selling races, and bring into force the old enact-
ment allowing runners of selling races to be put up by
auction and the surplus divided, was lost.

THE SAMPLE AND PATTERN POST.—The closing
of the sample and pattern post has gix en rise to a great
deal of dissatisfaction. A workwoman has written to the
Times to complain of the hardship thus inflicted on poor
dressmakers and needlewomen. It is of importance for
them to obtain from the makers articles for their work
which cannot be procured in country places. The railways
cannot be depended on, and are besides unwilling to
transmit small parcels. Many poor women who have
maintained themselves in remote country places by the
finer sorts of work will be quite at a loss now that they
are deprived of the useful agency of the pattern post.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE BOVILL.—At the Warples-
don agricultural dinner the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas was present. In responding to the toast
of his health, the learned judge referred to the suddenness
with which the war on the continent had broken out, and
observed that it went to strengthen the conviction he was
disposed to entertain that it was the best policy to provide
for possibilities rather than probabilities. It seemed, after
the revelations that had been made, that it was the merest
accident that, instead of the war now raging between
France and Prussia, we were not engaged in a struggle
against those two Powers for the defence of Belgium.
What would have been our preparedness for such a
struggle ? When residing in that neighbourhood he had
frequently passed through the Aldershot Camp, where
eighteen to twenty thousand soldiers were stationed. He
doubted extremely whether even that small body of men
could be transported to the Eastern Coast of England in
less than two days, and, if that were so, what, he asked,
would be the fate of the country if, instead of 20,000, the
whole army was need'd for our defence ?