The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-05 00:00:00

11!T r!ITYIIO.V P.

The SECReTARY then read a statement of the
affairs of the company, from which it appeared that
the income for the last half-year amounted t,)
156 5384.. 12s. 9d., while the expenditure was
91,8151. 101;. 7d.
The GOVERNOR said they would perceive that there
was a balance of 64,723/. 2s. 2d. in the hands of the
treasurer, and he recommended that a dividend of
13s. 4d. per cent. be declared.
A resolution to that effect was then put and car-
ried unanimously, after which the meeting separated.

IRELAND.
INCREASE OF DESTITUTION.
DUBLIN, JAN. 3.—The distress in the south and
west is daily becoming more general and severe. The
Poor-law Commissioners, determined to force to the
utmost the local resources of the country, are dis-
missing boards of guardians who neglect to apply the
provisions of the law, and some 14 or 15 unions are
now administered by paid officers. But those func-
tionaries, although appointed for the special object,
find much difficulty in meeting the demands upon the
workhouse. An official communication has been
made to the Sligo board of guardians, intimating that
the Commissioners would be under the necessity of
dissolving the board unless the guardians attended
more regularly and numerously. " The applications
'or out•door relief (says the Sligo Champion), are
beyond all calculation. The people do not seem to
think it the least disgrace to receive relief. That de-
cent pride, for which the Irish peasantry were distin-
guished, has disappeared—it has been conquered by
adversity." Although nothing like the terrible desti-
tution of last year exists at present, there is extreme
suffering in many districts, and deaths from starvation
are becoming frequent.
STA'I'D. OF CRIME—EVICTION OF
TENANTRY.

The Roscommon Journal contains the following :
" A shot was fired into the house of a keep€r
placed over the property of tenants on the lands of
Kinnetty, within three miles of this town, and part
of the contents entered the leg of a woman who was
inside, but fortunately without doing any material
injury. Now, as to the cause of this outrage. A
very few days before Christmas-day, a person in this
town, who is acting for the agent, on the property of
the Goffs, minors (who have extensive estates in this
and other csunties), proceeded to the lands of Kin-
netty, accompanied by a company of infantry, and a
large police force, and dispossessed a great number of
families, set fire to their houses, and consumed them
to ashes in the presence of the unfortunate wretches !
Their cries and wailings were most piteous. Nor
was the village of Kinnetty the only one visited i
another shared a similar fate. There never were
more indulgent landlords than the late Messrs. Goff,
but the children of the Rev. Thomas Goff are wards
of Chancery. About four years since a populous
village, Derrycunny, on the same property, was
evicted and burned ; the inmates, some hundreds, were
driven on the wide world, and from that day to this
the lands are waste, no tenants having been found to
occupy them. Immediately after this part of the
country became disturbed, and has since continued so.
Where will the contentions between landlord and
tenant terminate ? God only knows."
The Dundalk Patriot says—" At the present Quar-
ter Sessions of Dundalk no less than seventy-two
ejectments were taken out. At the suit of the Mar-
quis of Anglesey alone no less than thirty-two eject.
ments were obtained. These ejectments were not
defended, and we are not, therefore, in a position to
say whether they were attended with any circum-
stances of undue severity. We trust, however, that
these poor people will not be put out of their homes
during this very cold weather, and that, if they are
put out, nothing will be left undone by the Noble
Marquis, at whose suit the ejectments were brought,
to enable them to begin the world again."
COUNTY OF GALWAY.—DAMNO ROBBERY.—On
last Monday evening, between six and seven o'clock,
three fellows entered the dwelling of a poor man
named Coen, a tenant of Lord Clonbrock's, living at a
place called Coolagunane. Coen was from home at
the time, and a man named Coghlan and his wife in
the house; immediately on the fellows entering it
they struck and knocked down Coghlan with a blow
of a loaded whip, and then demanded of the wife all
the money she had in the house ; she said there was
none, upon which one of them struck her with a
whip, and cut her dreadfully over the eye, from the
effects of which she is still confined to bed. The
ruffians then took a little girl, partly stripped her,
held her over the fire in order, as they said, to compel
her to inform them where the money was kept ; find-
ing the threat of burning the child useless, they
searched the house and took 7s. 6d. in money, torte-
thor with several papers of importance to the poor
man. Several robberies have lately taken place in
this neighbourhood.
We have received information that a farmer named
Brown was brutally murdered at Ballymore, county
Tipperary, on Wednesday morning. The causes as-
signed are, that some few months ago Brown got
married, to the discomfiture of some rivals, and with
his wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of
land. Suspicion has fallen on some of the rejected
lovers, but we have not learned that any person has
been arrested for this diabolical crime.

TENANT-RIGHT.-MR. SHARMAN CRAW-

FORD.

The movement in favour of tenant-right is prose-
cuted with great activity in all parts of the country.
Mr. Sharman Crawford has sent a letter, accepting
an invitation to attend a meeting in Balliboy, county
Monaghan. In it he says—
" The unjust state of the relationship of landlord
and tenant I hold the main, if not the sole, foundation
of the disorganization of the social condition which
manifests itself in the murderous acts committed in
some of the southern counties, and which is leading to
wide-spread holtility on the part of the tenant toward.:
the landlord, even in the more orderly portions of
Ireland, where attempt. are now being made by the
landlord to curtail the tenant-right. . • • • •
. . I would give any power to the Government
which I deem would be useful or effective for the
purpose; but I will not be a party to encourage the
delusion that the old, tried, and always failing re-
medy of coercion can effect the object, till the hearts
of the people are softened by acts for the amelioration
of their condition leading them to feel and know that
the laws are their protection from injustice instead of
being the instruments of inflicting that injustice.
There can be no peace in Ireland until that altered
system of Government legislation shall take place.
Then, the natural benevolence and natural kindness
of the Irish heart will again display itself. Murder,
which is a practice wholly foreign to the qualities of
their character, will cease to sully the records of our
country, and the people will bless the source, whether
they be landlords or governments, from which these
benefits flow. I conceive that to effect this object,
although many other remedial measures may be con-
jointly necessary, a just revision of the law of land-
lord and tenant is the essential basis."
Toe LORD CHANCELLOR.—We rejoice to be able
to state that the health of the Lord Chancellor is
daily improving, and that his convalescence may soon
be expected. There was no foundation whatever for
the statement that the Great Seal has been put in
commission. The Chancellor is now able to sign
any official papers requiring his signature.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the Association was held
this day in Conciliation-hall. Mr. Sheridan, J.C.,
presided.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL opened the proceedings by an-
nouncing that the new year had opened most
brightly upon them, and he, in the first place, read a
letter from Dr. APHale, enclosing a subscription of
39/. from the deanery of Tuam. Mr. O'Connell ob-
served that the sum transmitted in that letter, hand-
some as it was, was but an instalment of what his
Grace assured him they would receive from his dio-
cese. It was only the subscription of one deanery
in his diocese. He (Mr. O'Connell) next begged to
read a letter from the Rev. Dr. O'Rafferty, P.P. of
Tullatnore, in which a sum of 101. repeal rent was
enclosed.—(Cheers.) He also handed in 51., the sub-
scription of the Right Rev. Dr. Maginn, of Derry.—
(Cheers.) In sending that sum, Dr. Maginn assured
him (Mr. O'Connell) it was the last 51. he had at his
command.—(Cheers.) A sum of 1/. was handed in
from the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt, D.D.—(Cheers)—
and 21. from the Rev. Mr. Murtagh, Castlepollard.
Several other subscriptions were handed in.
The Rev. Mr. MuLuNs next addressed the meet-
ing, and in the course of his observations begged to
tell the meeting what he thought of the Irish land-
lords as a class. When he spoke of them as a class he
did not include the entire body, for there were many
and many honourable exceptions. There were ex-
ceptions to those who were ignorant, immoral, unjust,
oppressors of the poor, without bowels of justice or
humanity. He now addressed himself to his fellow-
countrymen, and would make them the judges be-
tween the priests and the Irish landlords, and he had
no doubt of their verdict.—(Cheers.) Those land-
lords—those cruel harpies were denounced in Holy
Writ, by the Almighty God himself. In St. Matthew,
he believed the 25th chapter, it was said, " Be ac-
cursed : I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat ;
I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink ; I was
houseless, and you took me not in."—(Hear.) Were
not the clergy, he asked, bound to denounce the
crimes of the rich as well as the poor ? They did not
denounce them by name, but they denounced their
crimes; and if they had not denounced the crimes
that landlords had committed, they would be un
worthy of the priesthood and unworthy of the sane-
tuary.—(Cheers.) Because they had exposed their
injustice the clergy were maligned and vilified ; but
still the people should not despond, though they
might have degenerate traitors amongst them.—
(Hear.) Like the sons of Gideon, though they
were few, they would succeed, because they had jus-
tice at their side, and would have the arm of God to
defend them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that it would be in the re-
c ollection of the Association that Mr. R. D. Browne
had written a letter of exceeding insult to Mr.
Dunne, and that Mr. Dunne had put himself in the
ban, is of the committee, who recommended Mr.
Dun le to withdraw what might be considered per-
sonal y offensive in his speech respecting Mr.
Brow ne's conduct, expecting that then Mr. Browne
would make a similar concession. Unfortunately,
however, Mr. Browne would not accept of that con-
cession, but persevered in his insulting letter. The
committee, therefore, felt bound to adopt the follow-
ing report :