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policemen shot. No arrest of that gentleman or his
riend, who was as large as life' in Killorglin
the latest intelligence reached us, has taken
No military or police left Tralee for the pur-
stated, no military came into the county for
iurpose. The authorities in Killarney were up
ie o'clock this day ignorant of any such step as
that indicated being in contemplation, and we have rea-
son to believe that no order for the arrest of those gen-
tlemen has been received in Tralee.

" The Pierce Ferriter Club of Dingle is dissolved ; and
we shall be glad to learn that the Exile Club of Tralee
has followed so sensible an example.
"Proclamations were posted up last night in this town
proscribing the clubs ; but they were torn down in a
few minutes. We understand there was no proclamation
posted in Killarney, where there has been no club esta-
blished.

" An active search was made last night in this town
for arms by the police, but none were found. It was ru-
moured yesterday that shots were fired, in the course of
the night before, on the Oakpark side of the town."
The Newry magistrates have entered into a resolu-
tion, to the effect that no person shall be sworn a
special constable who has ever been a Repealer, or a
member of any Confederate Club.
The Freeman's Journal of this morning contains
the following:—
" RUMOURS FROM THE SOUTH: From among the
many rumours that were afloat last night, we give the
following, as having reached us on such authority as to
warrant repetition :
It was confidently stated in town yesterday, that
the directors of the Mining Company had received a
letter yesterday morning, or Sunday, from Mr.
O'Brien, making certain proposals with regard to the
protection of the property in the mines situate in Kille-
naule, and to the course about to be taken by the di-
rectors, as between him and the authorities. We, of
course, cannot vouch for the accuracy of the rumour,
but we have heard it confidently asserted that such a
letter had been received, and that the authorities hare
been put in possession of its contents, if not of the do-
cument itself.

" RUMOURED COLLISION WITH THE TROOPS.—WO
have heard it stated that a letter, bearing date Saturday,
has been received in town, from a sergeant of the Rifle
corps, stating that a volley was unexpectedly disoharged
from under cover at his company, by which several of
the men were wounded, and some killed. That a letter
to the effect, purporting to be from a sergeant in the
Rifle corps, reached town to-day from the vicinity of
Thurles, is a fact, but while we give the rumour of its
contents, we are not disposed to give them much cre-
dence, inasmuch as we had a letter from Thurles, dated
Sunday, in which not only is there no mention made of
the alleged fact, but it is positively stated that all is
perfectly quiet in the vicinage of Thurles, which could
hardly be stated with truth if the letter purporting to
be from the sergeant in the Rifles be authentic and
; correct."

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Monday, the 31st, the House went into
Committee on a Bill, of which, strangely enough, I never
heard the name before; the " Farmers' Estate Society
(Ireland) Bill." And the result of hearing, is a belief
that it deserves more looking into than it is likely to get.
So far as I can form a judgment, it is a Bill for forming
a Joint- Stock Company in Ireland, for the buying up
estates, with the condition of afterwards ejecting
and turning into the hedges all " seven-acre "
tenants, and all tenants of any kind holding
fewer acres than thirty. And by way of carrying oat
the principle, it contains a provision that land which has
once passed into the gullet of this Joint-Stock Company,
is never hereafter to all eternity to be capable of being
let, sold, or devised by will, in less quantities than thirty
acres, or not without incurring the penalties im-
posed. I cannot be mistaken in thinking I heard the
question asked, whether it was really intended, that a
man who had three daughters, and all whose property
consisted of thirty acres in fee simple of this " taboo'd"
land, was not to have the power of leaving them ten
acres a-piece; and answer was made that he was not.
Now what a wine and oil of landlordism is this, to
pour into the sores of Irish poverty at a moment like
the present ! Communism is standing out and saying,
there shall be no rich because it will be more con-
venient for the poor. And here is landlordism standing
out and saying, there shall be no poor beeause it will be
more convenient for tho rich. If the question is to lie
between the philosopher who is for cutting up a man of
a thousand a year into holdings for twenty men of fifty
pounds a year and another who is for turning poor cotters
into the hedges in order that their holdings may be
rolled into one for what is to be called a " Yeoman," I
am afraid I must give the preference to the first.
Perhaps you think I am not serious in my statement.
I assure you the preamble of the Bill as now before me,
is literally as follows :—" Whereas the formation and
establishment of a permanent body of independent
Yeomen, consisting of resident proprietors holding farms
in fee-simple, containing respectively not less than Thirty
Acres, would materially improve the social condition of
Ireland." Here are your new Socialists. It is
desired that in Ireland there should be yeomen ; there-
fore make yeomen by Act of Parliament. Why should not
the other Socialists, in France or where they may have
the power, make cotters by Act of Parliament ? I make
them a present of the precedent, for whatever it may be
worth.
But a law must have a penalty for breaking ; and
what is to be the penalty, if any of the land traded in
by this Joint-Steak.-Company, with its capital of two
hundred and fifty thousand pounds in twenty-pound
shares, shall be found illegally in the hands of
men of less than thirty acres? I copy from the
margin for brevity, with the substitution of a few words
from the body towards the end, to express what the
margin has left obscure. "In case of division below
Thirty Acres, lands divided to be charged with one half
the annual value of such portion (that is, I suppose,
half the rent), to be paid to the Guardians of the Poor."
In other words, if there are poor, they are to keep the
poor. The law of the landlord is, that there are not to
be poor ; and if there are, they are to live on one
another. I wait with curiosity for the comments of the
Communists.
Taking this view of the case, I do not feel much
shame in having been in a minority of three against
fifty-one, in the division which took place in the at-
tempt to expunge the words " or occupier" from one
of the clauses, where they were put for the prevention of
letting under thirty acres. Let us hope that somebody
will look into the case, before it passes the snap-lock of
the law.
On the same evening I had an opportunity of avow-
ing in the House the opinion declared to you some time
ago, on the propriety of meeting bounties by foreign Go-
Vernments on exportation to this country, with a corre-
sponding duty. The Member for Sunderland (Mr.
Hudson) brought forward the fact of the application from
Bradford on the subject of French Merinos; and I told
him I had avowed the principle, and must vote with him
if ever he brought the question forward in a distinct
form. It did not however appear that the statement
before the House, conveying a demand for a duty on
Dutch refined sugar on the ground of the existence of
a bounty, was sufficiently made out to demand my vote.
On Tuesday more debate on the Farmers' Estate
Society (Ireland) Bill; and I hope some light was
thrown upon the nature of the Bill. It is clear the Bill
is meant to be a broom to help to sweep the small
tenantry of Ireland off the face of the earth. Every
Irish landlord whose estate is full of small tenants, who
pay his rent badly and sometimes fire at hint
over a hedge, will have an interest in offering his
estate to the Company that is to be, and it will be the
interest of the parties to come to terms. The Company
cannot be fired at, and the landlord can; and though
it may be true as was urged from some quarter, that
the engrosser of thirty acres will be there to receive the
fire, it is at all events something that the landlord is not
'to be there also.
The only scheme advanced for checking the tendency
to the turning out of small tenants, is a clause proposing
to oblige the Company to support the ejected tenants for
five years if they come upon the poor-rates. A miser-
able compensation it is, to men turned out of the house
in which they were burn, that they shall be kept upon
the poor rates ! Great debate arose as to whether
this obligation to keep the poor they wade,
was to fall upon the Company in addition to
their share of the poor in the surrounding country; andk
eflbrts were made to represent this as unjust. To
the answer is, that the Company is a machine
maywun 11
special apparatus for ejecting all small tenants who
ane; but
come into its hands. A landlord may be
hrarliament.
the Company is to be inhuman by Act
of
The only way therefore to check the interest of the
Company in bilging land with poor tenssnintrtaiy
.teoinegjetchte,n,ils
to impose the additional necessity of re
as a means of making it a bad trade for the Company to
ei
deal iu land so circumstanced.
But the substantial question
is,
what is the necessity
for the Thirty Acre
manage
its
poor tenants like other land-
lords, kindly provision at all. Why not leave
the Company to nia.'Yits
when it is disposed 1' Why determine by
Act of Parliament,
.that it shall always be their enemy ?
An enactment of this kind will be no Soothing Syrup for
Ireland et a moment like the present.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Aug. 2, 1848.

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