The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

of the populace and extensive plunder of flour carts in
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pwardc of .59 l• ads ;.f ti or: which I„,ft
the morning on its way to Shannon Harbour, for ship-
ment to Dublin. Owing to the state of the country, an
escort of soldiers and police was granted the millers for
its protection ; but this force was found totally insuffi-
cient, as the people collected in great multitudes and
seemed determined to have the flour at all hazards.
News having reached the Earl of Rosse to that effect, he
immediately ordered reinforcements ; and, as We now
write, the military are marching past. We hear that
the people have broken down the bridge at the Rape-
mills in order to render the road impassable ; but
whether the cars were enabled to proceed or not we
cannot say. It is stated that the women cut open
several of the bags, and succeeded in carrying off a
considerable quantity. Two entire bags were taken off
one of Mr. Lyster's cars, quite convenient to the town.
Time will not permit bur giving further particulars, but
at this moment all is excitement and alarm.
" We have just heard that some cars were stopped on
the road near Cloneen, and three loads of meal taken,
which Mr. Darby, of Leap Castle, had imported for the
use of the poor on his estate."
A letter from Banagher, in the same paper, says—
"l ant sorry to be obliged to state that matters are
assuming a very alarming appearance about this neigh-
bourhood; scarcely a day since my last communication
that some outrage or another on property has not been
committed. The plunder of Messrs. Robinson's flour,
at the Rape-mills, between here and Parsonstown, was
followed up by a similar attack on a number of persons
belonging to this town, mostly small dealers and others,
who were returning from Parsonstown with their pur-
chases of flour and oatmeal on Thursday evening last;
the cars were stopped at the Split Hill by a large crowd
of nearly 300 persons, composed of men, women, and
children, who in a very short time rifled every car of its
contents, stating that they were famishing for the want
of food, and could not stand it any longer. Although
there was a considerable quantity of flour and meal,
yet, when divided amongst so many, it afforded only
a small portion to each person. On Friday
night, the 23d instant, two sheep, the property
of Mr. B. Seymour, of Clonfert, within three miles of
this town, were killed on his land, and the carcases
taken away. Mr. Seymour has been always exceedingly
kind and obliging to the poor of this neighbourhood, and
did not deserve this treatment. One or two other per-
sons have also lost sheep in the same way. Nearly a
fortnight has elapSed since the presentment sessions
were held for this barony, and yet, strange to say, there
is not the slightest appearance of any work being com-
menced about here yet. lam told the engineer has not
had time even to report on the works in this locality ;
surely such delay, under the circumstances, is highly
reprehensible, and the Board of Works should at once
issue the necessary directions to their proper officers for
this dietrict to have the works proceeded with as soon as
possible ; the officers cannot do anything without orders
from the board. A spirit of demoralization is spreading
rapidly amongst the lower orders, which, if not checked,
must soon obiiterate every trace of honest or honourable
principle they have remaining."
The Tipperary Constitution draws a very alarming
skebch of affairs in the south riding of that county, as
thus :

" The peasantry of Tipperary are armed to the teeth ;
every man with his gun, blunderbuss, or pistol. It is
fearful to contemplate what may be the result, but
such is the fact. The people do not disguise their
possession of fire-arms ; they walk about with them in
the noonday ; and it is a common expression amongst
the lower classes to say Here are the fowlers,' when
they see those desperadoes traversing the country.
The Government, as we said in our last number, must
step forward—they must disarm the revolutionists of
Ireland before it is too late. Ireland requires, nay de-
mands, a stringent Arms Act. If strong measures are
not taken forthwith this country will present a scene of
bloodshed and rapine unparalleled in the annals of crime.
We use strong language, but the times require it. Nye
have information from many sources, and all combine in
stating that we are near a dreadful crisis. Then, in
God's name, let us endeavour to meet it as we ought to-
do. Let the Government leave no stone unturned to
avert it; let them take measures commensurate with the
state of the country, and stay the stream of crime ere it
siwells into a crimsoned flood. Poverty, to be sure, has
its excuses, but the Divine and human laws are not to
be violated to dissipate it. It is not by bloodshed and
robbery th 3 condition of the people is to be ameliorated.
The people must be taught this. The gentry of Ireland
are doing everything for them, even to the confiscation
of their properties; but it is of no avail, and will be of
no avail, unless the Government come to the rescue of
the country at once."

EDE'S CITY WEEKL Y ALMANAC.
This little periodical almanac, which is now being
published from week to week, is the carrying out of
one of those excellent notions which cause amazement
at their never having been thought of before. For
mercantile men this will prove an admirable assist-
ance, and will materially simplify their prospective
arrangements. Each almanac embraces one week;
and, in separate divisions, we have the day of the
week, the day of the month, blank tablets for en-
gagements, and a most copious list of memoranda.
We cannot afford a better notion of the completeness
of this very useful circular than by transcribing the
memoranda given for a single day. Here is the list
for Monday, November 2 :

Meeting; of Creditors at Bankrupts' Court, Basing-
hall-street :—(2d meeting)—R. B. Bradley, at eleven
o'clock ; John Richards, jun., at one o'clock.
Insolvent Petitioners—Hearings in Portugal•street :
j. Paiba, J. Crew, J. Scouler, H. Pilcher, W. S. Simp-
son, J. Castledine, R. W. Roberts, W. Coates, T. Hogg,
H. Murray. G. Miles, E. R. Buller.
Michaelmas Term begins. Holiday at Transfer Offices
in the Bank.

High water at London-bridge—Morning, 0 b. 36 min. ;
Afternoon, 1 h. 1 min.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM 01111 OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
EAST COWES CASTLE
.—This splendid building, the
master-piece of the late John Nash, Esq., was offered for
sale by public auction, on Wednesday last, at the Medina
Hotel, East Cowes, and was bought in at 15,8001. We
expected there would have been a good deal of compe-
tition, and that many of our nobility would have been
anxious to obtain so beautiful a place in such a desirable
situation; but, alas! not one purchaser could be found;
even curiosity had drawn but a very few persons to-
gether.

THE NEW PLANET.—The Isle of Wight astronomers
have had a meeting at Coulbourn-bottom, at the cele-
brated almanac manufactory, and after due deliberation
have decided that the new planet does not belong to our
system, that instead of its being the last of our system
it is the first of another.

WAGIIORNS EXPRESS.—" Mr. Waghorn's courier's
arrival at Dover is just telegraphed. Bombay dates,
Ist Oct."—Overland Office, 34, Cornhill, 1.25, 1.m., 31st
October, 1846.

Loss OF AN AMERICAN VESSEL AND SIXTEEN
LIVES.—The American papers contain an account of the
loss of the brig Rienzi, Captain Small, of Boston, to-
gether with sixteen of the crew, in the storm to which
the Great Western was exposed in her last passage from
Liverpool. The vessel was fallen in with on the 26th of
September, by the Minerva, who took off the wreck the
second mate and four of thel crew in a very exhausted
state—the captain, mate, and fourteen of the seamen
having been swept away. The Rienzi was on a whaling
voyage, and had on board 470 barrels of sperm oil. On
the 15th of September she was struck by a sea, the
hatches burst off, and the vessel immediately filled with
water. Captain Small, his mate, and young son, about
sixteen years of age, together with two boat steerers,
ship-keeper and steward, were drowned in the cabin.
Some of the crew were drowned in the forecastle, and
others were washed overboard at the time of the dis-
aster. No pen can depict the sufferings of the remain-
ing crew. All the provisions they had for ten days was
about half a deep basket of bread, which they succeeded
in getting from the hold, and which had been soaked for
forty-eight hours in Rah water. The day before they.
were taken off they caught a shark by means of a bow-
line, the liver of which they ate raw, and tried to drink
the blood, but found it bitter. All the water they had.
during their stay on the wreck they caught by putting
an old shirt in the rain during a shower, and wringing
it out when it became wet. In this way they procured
two quarts in all. They were almost without clothing,
and for seven days the sea made a continued breach
over them ; and they could only keep on the wreck by
lashing themselves fast. With the exception of the last
day they spent on the wreck, they had no place dry
whatever, and then only a small place aft.—The brig
being entirely under water both forward and amid-ships..
On the 18th, at about eight A.M., they were passed by es
brig steering to the eastward. She came so near that
they could see men on her deck ; and
ocan-
vass
and an old sheet, they notwithstanding
they made signals of distress, by waving
a without
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left
a wife and six children to mourn his loss and that of his
two sons ; the remainder of the crew, with but one ex-
ception, weraelly(u)unnn3garrartiedn,.n—oLt more than
elr6cutryo
.22 years
of age, and
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