The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-12 00:00:00

No. 16,685. LONDON, THURSDAY Et R
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EASE IN WALKING,
NVILIAAM BADDELEY, of 130, STRIND,
is induced to give publicity to his much-admired PRE-
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UP NIVERSAT , GAS-LIGHT COMPANY
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THE STORM OF WEDNESDAY
IN SCOTLAND.
The severe hurricane which we t xperienced on Wed-
nesday last, and which was productive of so many serious
casualties in this city and neighbourhood, we observe,
has been felt with equal severity in many other places.
The following are a few records of the effects of the
storm :
DUNDEE.—Shortly after high water on Wednesday
the wind increased to a hurricane, and between nine
and ten o'clock the fury of the tempest was at its height,
gradually subsiding afterwards till about the time of low
water. We may mention the following amongst the
numerous casualties attending the visitation of this war
of elements here. The South Mail was two hours
and the North Mail one hour later than usual in
arriving, the state of the weather in the former
case rendering it impossible for the Ferry steamer to
effect a landing on this side of the river, the whole
breadth of which presented a tempestuous sheet of foam.
The tide swept the quays in all directions, exposing life
and property to extreme hazard ; and, had the springs
not drawn considerably off, the shipping and other pro-
perty exposed to the sweep of the impetuous flood must
have suffered very severely. Even as it was, several
vessels were considerably injured. The effects of the
tempest were also felt on shore. Part of a factory at
the Hawkhill and the back part of a house at Logie
were blown down ; the rope work between the Arbroath
Railway station and the Seagate was nearly demolished.
An erection in Mr. Adamson's shipbuilding•yard was
partly unroofed, and one in Mr. Stephens's was thrown
down; while the inclosures of Messrs. Kerr and Guild's
bonded yards were almost completely prostrated. A
chimney stalk situated between Shorter-road and Tally-
street fell with a tremendous crash through the roof of
a glazier's shop, but fortunately no one was on the pre-
mises. There were many narrow escapes, but, so far as
we have heard, no serious accidents were caus_ d by the
storm.
PAISLEY.—We certainly never saw the wind rage
with such terrific force, nor have we ever seen the
streets so strewed with chimney cans and slates, but
happily that description of damage, coupled with the
tirring of thatch roofs, and the breakage here and there
of a few panes of glass, are the most severe losses that
have b-en sustained. 01 all the buildings about the
town, Mr. Kerr's new factory has suffered most severely,
but still in nothing hut the tearing off of the slates. A
boy who resides in Queen-street had his arm broken by
the falling of a chimney can. At Elderslie two houses
were unroofed. At Neilston a drying-house was blown
down. Not a farm has escaped less or more damage.
KILMARNOCK.—About ten o'clock a large stalk of
chimneys in ltobertson-place yielded to the storm, and
fell with a tremendous crash through the roof of a
weaver's shop, happily without injury to life or limb. In
the newly opened print-works of Mr. P. Brown, in Wel-
beck-street, about seventy panes of glass were blown out.
Several trees were also blown down in our neighbour-
hood.
BRIDGE OF WElR.—Between nine and ten a.m., on
Wednesday, when the hurricane was at its height, a
young girl, in going home from her work at that time,
met with a very serious accident, being felled to the
ground by a large pit Ce of a wooden ridge which was
blown off the Mill-of-Gryfe byre, at the distance of
twenty or thirty yards from the road. On being taken
up, it was found that her thigh bone was broken, and that
she was otherwise severely wounded in the head.
GREENOCK.—This town, as well as a large part of
Scotland, was visited on Tuesday m ruing by a storm of
wind of unusual violence. We are very glad to be able
to say, that it has been unaccompanied by any loss of
life, or material destruction of property in this neigh-
bourho .d. Slates, pans, and panes of glass wt re broken
in the more elevated parts of the town, and in a land in
Hamilton-street, a large portion of a stack of chimneys
was overthrown.
The storm has extended to Ireland ; and in Parsons-
town a house was blown down, kllling a woman and her
child. Numerous other casualties are also reported to
have occurred throughout different parts of the country.
—Glasgow Argus.

SERIOUS AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Satur-
day morning, Mr. P. Nuthall, at the Lime Kilns in this
town, met with a very distressing accident, under peculiar
circumstances. A man named Bowles, employed by Mr.
Nuthall in his timberyard, was in the act of drawing a deal
from one of the stacks of timber; just at this moment Mr.
Nuthall happened to pa.s, when a portion of the pile fell
upon him, and so completely overwhelmed him that his body
was not discoverable. On extricating him, it was found
that one leg was broken in two places; two or three ribs
very much injured, if not fractured ; and several other severe
bruises were found extending nearly over the entire surface
of his body. Mr. Nuthall's medical attendant (Mr. C.
Aldred) was immediately in attendance; but at the time of
writing this it is scarcely possible tr, form any very accurate
opinion as to the extent of the injuries received, or state of
the sufferer.—Bury Herald.
LEWES.—THE SPECIAL BURDENS UPON LAND.—At
the Petty Sessions held here on the 3d instant, John 'Taylor,
the Ringmer- gate keeper, appeared before their Worships to
answer an information preferred against him by Robert Raw-
linson, bailiff to Captain Hart. Taylor, it appeared, under
the erroneous idea that all who drove a vehicle on the high-
way should alike pay toll, charged complainant with toll for
a cart laden with a roller. For this he was summoned, there
being a provision that implements of husbandry should pa,s
toll free. He now pleaded guilty, and was fined Gs., includ-
ing costs.—Brighton Guardian.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Minch 9
MAYO ELECTION.—The virtual termination of this con-
test is in favour of the Repeal candidate, Mr. Joseph Mites
M'Donnell, of Doo Castle. At six o'clock on Saturday even-
ing the Sheriff's assessor announced the poll, at its final close,
as follows: .
M'Donnell.
Moore

~477
~ 417

Majority for M'Donnell
The Men SHERIFF then declared Joseph Miles M‘Don-
cell, Esq., duly elected as one of the representatives tor
Mayo.—(Loud cheering rdlowed this announcement.)
On the motion of Mr. Diu.ox Bkowsz, M.P., a vote of
thanks was passed to the Sheriff's Assessor for his impartia-
lity during the election.
Mr. Moony:, the defeated candidate, briefly addressed the
electors. He deplored the occurrence at Wes. port, which,
he said, had diminished the lustre of the victory obtained
by the Repralers—a triumph which, he couside:Ted, had not
been achieved by constitutional means. Now that the con-
test was at an end, they should lay aside all feelings of ran-
cour and shake hands.
Mr. Moore then shook hands with Mr. Dillon Browne, and
the crowd in the Courthouse loudly applauded.
Mr. DILLON BRoWNE- said the victory was the greatest ob-
tained since the Clare election, as the kepealers had defeated
the Whigs and Tories combined.
The proceedings then terminated. The town of Castlebar
and the surrounding district were quite peaceable.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
DUBLIN, MARCII 9.—The weekly meeting of the
Association was held this day ; Daniel Callaghan, Etq.,
M.P., in the chair. „
- -

The CHAIRMAN haying congratulated the Ass )ciation
on the result of the Mayo election, which he regarded us
the greatest popular triumph sine the Clare election;
and an unequivocal demonstration in fivour of repeal,
The Secretary read the following letter from Mr.

"British Hotel, Jermyn-street, London, March 6, 1846.
"My dear itAy,-111 my first letter on the recent
Ukase of the British Miniver, I stated only three of my
objections to that oppressive and afflicting measure—the
new Cpercio Bill coet?ela:4l. _
""*"l"My VectioeWirnfiriettertkilliTtratbet*ten
this cud every former Coercion I3ill. They were, each
and all of them, temporary enactments—they were
limited in duration.
"This alone is a perpetual law.
" This is to form part and parcel of the perpetual con-
stitution of Ireland. It has the hellish perfection of
perpetuity of pain and infliction.
" It will save time and trouble to every future Minis.
ter. Despotic power will always be ready made to their
hands.

" Ireland must exist with her oonstitutional rights
and liberties held by the sufferance and with the eva-
nescent permission of her despot for the time being.
The Governor may be a violent partisan ; he may be
what is still worse, a well-intentioned, weak minded
being—a fit instrument to be used in the hands of irre-
sponsible knaves. He may be a priggish formalist, who
may think highly of technicalities and forms, and may
nave a sovereign disregard for substantial justice and
truth.

" In short, no matter what manner of man the Go-
vernor shall bP, there is, by this Bill, to be vested in him
the uncontrollable power to annihilate every vestige of
constitutional liberty, and to enact irresponsible des-
potism. •
" His power is to be perpetual.
" My first objection to the Bill, therefore, is its per-
petuity.
" It may indeed be said, that if the period shall arrive
whF n murders shall totally cease in Ireland, when there
shall no longer be any manslaughter committed, when
no person shall be shot at, or stabbed, or cut, or
wounded, nor any grievous bodily harm dune to any-
body, when such millenium arrives, then this law will
be repealed.
" I don't believe it. I don't believe that the English
Government is ill ever voluntarily give up any power Gr
dominion they may have over Ireland.
" The case of 1782 is not, as we lawyers say, a case
in point. England had just lost America by refusing
to conciliate—she preserved Ireland by rational conci-

liation.
" The causes that induced England to conciliate Ire-
land at that period are part of history. It is matter of
prophecy, and I firmly believe, almost unerring pro-
phecy, that causes of a similar nature will produce effects
not dissimilar.
" For the present, my first objection to the Bill is its
perpetuity.
" My second objection consists in the absolute false-
hood of its title.
" It is not a ' Bill for the better protection of life, and
to facilitate the apprehension of persons guilty of offences
in Ireland.'
" It really and in truth is, a Bill•for rend ring more
insecure lite and property in Irelatfd; anti:stimulating
to additional crime.
My third objection is, the absolute and unlimited
power, on any excuse however trivial, or upon any pre-
tence however untrue, to place the inhabitants of dis-
tricts, and counties, and provinces in Ireland out of the
pale .1 the law, and beyond the protection of any con-
stitutional right.
" I have said so much on these three points in my first
letter, that I shall now consider—
" My fourth objection to the Bill, which consists in
the unlimited posters given to the Government over the
persons and properties of the Irish people.
" Let it t.e recollected, that a proclamation under this
Bill will be equally valid, whether it be founded on the
assertion of a falsehood or the assertion of a truth. In
other words, truth or falsehood in the allegation of the
proclamation is totally immaterial. The proclamation
is of equal validity with the one as with the other.
" Well, the proclamation having issued, my fourth ob-
jection consists in the extent of powers vested in the
Lord Lieutenant by means of his own proclamattcn,
true or false. The powers are these :
" Ist. The power of appointing as many resident
magistrates, inspectors of constabulary, bead con-
stables, petty constables, and sub-constables and con-
stables, as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit,
such persons to reside in the proclaimed districts,
and all of them to be clothed, fed,- maintained, and
paid at the expense of the occupying inhabitants of the
proclaimed districts.
" The second power is that of compelling the in-
habitants of such proclaimed districts to remain within
their respective places and homes from sunset la sun-
rise.
" The third power is that of allocating any sum of
money, to any amount the Lord Lieutenant chooses, as
a reward for the apprehension or discovery of any per-
sons being guilty of any offence in the proclaimed
districts.
" The fourth power is to allocate any sum of money
the Lord Lieutenant pleases, to the relations of any per-
son murdered in the proclaimed districts , or,to any per-
son permanently injured in that district.
" The fifth power given by the Act is that which
makes the former power of allocating money to injured
parties and their relations afflictive and grievous. There
would be no objection to a reasonable allocation of money
to compensate injured persons and their relations, but
that should be done in a constitutional way, out of
funds voted by Parliament, by annual votes. The ob-
jection to the fifth power is, its totally unconstitutional
nature.
" This fifth power, the Lord Lieutenant by his pro-
clamation invests himself with, is that which enables
him, if he thinks fit, to levy the most enormous sums of
money from the occupying inhabitants of the proclaimed
districts, merely at his will and pleasure, without con-
trol, without check, without any legal responsibility.
" The sixth power enables the Lord Lieutenant to
appoint ' such person' or offices (these are the words
of the Act) as he shall think fit, with full authority to
make such rates as the Lord Lieutenant may deem ne-
cessary on every occupier whatsoever within the dis-
trict.' There is no limit to the Lord Lieutenant's ca•
price. The rate may amount to the entire value of the
property of each occupier. No matter, a valid rate to
the full extent of the last shilling the occupiers are
worth, may be made, and there is no relief, no remedy,
no traverse, no appeal.
" Mark. my countrymen, such a Bill as this is called
a Bill for the Protection of Property I!!
" The seventh power with the Lord Lieutenant ac-
quires by his own proclamation, is that of levying and
collecting such capricious rate, though it were, as I
have said, to the full value of the property in the dis-
trict ; and such collection or levying is to be made by
the constabulary or other force in the district, who are
authorised to destrain furniture, goods, chattles, cattle,
corn, hay, potatoes, and in short all the property of
the occupants, and to sell the distress for payment of

the rate.
" There is, then, a provision of a most oppressiVe
nature, that is, that the entire rate shall be payable and
levied on the actual occupiers, and whereas the rate is
based upon the poor-rate ; yet the Bill contains this
provision, that although persons holding lands under the
value of 41. a year are considered too poor to be charged
with poor-rate, set these wretched paupers are charge-
able to the proclamation-rate to be made pursuant to this
Bill.
" Another provision of the Bill is equally emphatic; it
exempts (oh ! let this be held in perpetual recollection 1)
the landlords, that is, the rich, from the payment of any
part of the rates, and expressly provides that the tenant
or occupier shall net deduct from his landlord any part
of the rates.
"There have been already many coercion Bills for
Ireland, but none of so unconstitutional a nature, as far
as relates to levying money off the subjects. In that
respect this Bill stands pre-eminent in its unconstitu-
tional atrocity.
' "But to crown all, and as if it were in utter contempt
of theComtnons of what is called the United Kingdom,
this Bill, with such enormous powers of taxation, is
made to originate in the House of Lords, which house,
all constitutional authority tells us, has no power what-
soever to orignate taxation.
" We say with sorrowful respect for our masters, Lord
St. Germans and others, that they ought not to carry
their power of insulting the people of Ireland to quite
so great an extent. A little moderation would become
them, were it ever so little:
" Let me, however, in the exercise of my duty, remind
our worthy Lords and masters that Lord Devon's com-
mission has told the wold the astounding act that the
agricultural population of Ireland, being more than Jew
millions, maim greater privations and suffering than
&iv other people in civilised Europe.

"Would it not be better to de vote time, attention, and
legislation to ameliorate in some degree the cordition of
so miserable a population, instead of devoting time, at-
tention, and ligistation to devise modes of unconstitu-
tional coercion for that unhappy people ?
"There are many other horrib'e clauses in this Bill
which I shall recur to again. But I wish to pause

for one moment, to call the-marked and deliberate at-
tention to the most important and absorbing considera-
tion of one simple fa=t.
" That matttT of fact is this, that the entire hope of
the Bill treats with indiscriminate and amdistinguishieg
severity the innocent as well as the guilty; and more
especially that, in the attempt to detect a. comparatively
small number engaged in crime, punishment is not in-
flicted alone on the guilty smaller number, but is equally
inflicted on the innocent great majority. '
" Thus, fear example, a crime is committed; or obliged
to be committed, for it is all the same, in one distriet or
county, and inane:Batt:ly a proclstnation may- issue of
outlawry, not only against the district or county in which
the criam was committed, but also any adjoining dis-
trict or county. The number of criminals in svich case
would, at least in al probAbtlity, not exceed six or eight
—the number of persons effectually punished in their
property would amount to ten thousand, twenty:thou-
sand, or perh spa one hundred thousand, or even more.
" It is a maxim in our law, and often quoted by the
be t of our judges, that it is better that one hundred
guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer.
This Bill, however, goes on a directly opposite principle.
It punishes one hundred innocent, upon the chance of
inflicting?: chastisement upon the one guilty.
" And all this medley of legislation is facetiously called
a union between Great Britain and Ireland.
"I reserve the consideration of the other and most
hideous clauses for my next letter.
" For the present, I have only to observe, that it is re-
ported that Lord St. Germans has graciously conde-
scended to limit the duration of the Act to about four
years. I hope and trust the firmness displayed by the
Repeal Association.);asealbrie him shrink from the more
atrocious enactment ; but the little Lord is not to escape
in that way. He formed, fostered, and matured the
Bill, with pit the.ndious tyranny of a perpetual law. If
Ireland shall ever have justice done her, the iniquity of
the pr( ject will, I trust, bo adequately punished.
"For my part, I will not spare him a single observa-
tion. What a miserable estimate he must form of our

love of constitutional rights. Freedom reckons by the
hour—liberty is counted by the day—and he who would
Acquiesce in one day, one hour of servitude, is as
despicable a miscreant as the base tyrant who imposes
the chain.

My fifth objection to the Bill is the unlimited power it
give% over the persons of the Irish people.
" By the 15th and 16th sections, any persnn who hap-
pens to be out of his place of abode, at any tine from one
hour after sunset until sunrise, may be arrested by any
constable or policeman—that is, by a.nyhody—and
trinspert d for fifteen years. Mark the offence, and
mirk the punishment. Gracions heaven ! fifteen years'
tran.portation for being out of a man's house for five
minutes.

"It is not necessary to give any proof against him, but
the fact of his being out in the open air. It is not ne-
cessary to prove that he was out for any unlawful pur-
pose. I repeat, the only proof under this Bill to enable
the Court, whatever it may be, to condemn to fifteen
years' transportation, is the mere fact of his being in the
open air within the prohibited hours.
" The prosecutor in such a case is bound to no proof
of guilt ; but the unhappy prisoner is told he will be
allowed to prove his innocence.
"See what a total violation of the first principles of our
criminal law is this ! Our criminal law declares em-
phatically, in the language of all the Judges, that every
B itish subject is to be deemed and taken as innocent
until his guilt is proved—proved on the oath of wit-
nesses. But this Bill reverses the maxim, and declares
the man guilty, unless he is able to prove, on the oath of
witnesses, his innocence.

" Fift-en years' transportation upon an ac:usation
unless innocence be proved.
" I have often spoke harshly of the Emperor Nicholas;
but I will do him the justice to say that he never issued
such a Ukase as this.

" The sixth objection to the Act is another frightful
power. It is one enabling the magistrates to issue a
warrsnt to enable any person to break by force into any
house in which liqu. r of any kind is sold, in a proclaimed
district, and to arre,t any person in the house not being
an inmate or traveller, and such person, for the mere
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fact of being in such house in the prohibited hours, is
liable to fifteen years' transportation.
" Mark this—a man is found in a house where liquour
is sold, at night, unarmed, defenceless, and for that
offcnce—offence I—he is liable to be transported for
fifteen years.
"I am sick of this Bill. There is a group of other
offences, some not punishable at all at common law, and
the others punishable only by fine or imprisonment,
which are !wade liable, in proclaimed districts, to trans-
portation for fifteen years.
" Two topics more, briefly touched, will bring me
to a conch's! n.

" The first r. late.; to the imperative necessity of every
repealer exerting him elf to prevail on the people to
keep the peace, and not to violate the law. There never
was a period when it was so emphatically true,
" That whoever commits a crime
Strengthens the enemy.'
" The next topic relates to what fills my mind wi.h
the bitterest anguish, namely, the hideously mistaken
and unconstitutional course that the Ministry adopt in
respect to Ireland. We repealers are most anxious to
put an end to crime, and to see the country tranquil-
lised, We know that it can be done by adopting the
proper course. Let the Irish people be conciliated. In-
stead of Coercion Bills, bring in Bills to equalise in
Ireland the elective franchise with that in England.
" Secondly. Give Ireland her equal proportion of re-
presentatives in the House of Commons.
Thirdly. Give Leland equal municipal rights with
England, and give them without reservation.
"Fourthly. Ab owe all things, immediately amend the
law of landlord and tenant. Give to the landlord his
adequate rent ; but secure to the tenant possession of
the land until he shall be repaid for all actual improve-
ment made by him upon the premises.
"Fifthly. Place the law of landlord and tenant upon
the same footing with the law respecting all other con-
tracts, and take away all the relics of the feudal supe-
riority of the landlord.
"Sixthly. Impose without delay a heavy absentee tax
in Ireland upon all non-resident landlords, and apply the
produce to lighten the burdens of county-cess and poor-
rates on the occupying tenants.
" Let the Government do all these things before it
presumes to bring to the Hon=e of Commons a Bill to
trample down all constitutional rights and liberties.
They may deem it a shorter and easier course to abro-
gate the constitution than to concede constitutional
equality.
"Is the Parliament of Britain only competent to
coerce, and not to equalise the franchises and rights of
both countries ? I believe so.
" Still, there is one course open to them—it is that
of abdicating a power which they abuse, and cannot
apply to useful purposes.
"Let them awow their incapacity, and restore to the
people of Ireland their domestic legislature. Let them
thus establish tranquillity and prosperity in Ireland,
secure the stability of the throne, and the permanence
of the connexion between both countries,
" Believe me to be, very faithfully yours,
"To M. Ray, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Mr. GRATTAN, M.P., moved the insertion of the letter
on the minutes, and then entered into an .elaborate con-
demnation of the Coercion Bill, expressing his convic-
tion that penal enactments were wholly inadequate to
meet the evils of the country. Till a better feeling
sprung up between the aristocracy and the people,
there could be no peace in Ireland, and that consum-
mation could only be hoped for in a satisfactory and
final adjustment of the landlord and tenant question.
A vote of thanks to the electors of Mayo having been
proposed and adopted, the rent of the week was an-
noinced to be 2831.45. sd.
The meeting then adjoured.
THE POTATO DISEASE.

GALWAY, MARCH 7.—We fear that the worst antici

pations of the people, respecting the state of the pt.tato
crop, are about to be realised. Already the markets
are but scantily supplied, and hundred= clamour for this
almost necessary article of food, but cannot procure it
even at exorbitant prices. It is really pitiable to witness
crowds of poor creatures, whose means will not allow
them to buy in a week's supply at the Saturday's market,
looking, but in vain, fur a day's food during the week.
On Wednesday there was scarcely a cart load to be had
for love or money, but since then some few baskets have
been brought into the town for sale.
SLIGO, MARCH 7.—The famine anticipated by the
failure of the potato crop has actually set in at Sligo. In
the liall.barony of Coolavin, a portion of the people are
now without food, or the means of procuring it ; they
are living on the bounty of their neighbours, who will be
soon reduckd to as sad and deplorable a condition as
themselves. The Government is about to bring Indian
corn to this port ; so far so good—but they must give
the people the means of buying it, or their labour will be
in vain. Employment is what is required, and we trust
it will be granted.
STATE OF CRIME THE
.ROMAN CATHOLIC
CLERGY

The Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Catholic Bishop of El-
phin, has is.sned a Lenten Pastoral to the clergy and
laity of that diocese, dated from Athlone. The following
are ext: acts :
" We earnestly solicit and intreat, that, guided by ,
that good sense, and those lively convic:ions of the
faith which we know you to possess, you would put from
amongst you, as the deadliest enemies or your happiness
and p. ace, those who would seek to connect you with
secret societies or secret obligations. For we have
heard that there are some among you who walk disor-
derly, working nut at all, but curiously meddling. Now
these that are such we denounce, and we beseech them,
in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working with silence,
they would eat their own bread. And if any man obey
not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not
keep company w ith him, that he may be ashamed ; yet
do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a
brother. But you, my bre-ti,ren, do not weary in well
doin:
We allude to that accursed rind illegal system of
Molly Maguirism,' Equally condemned by the law of