The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

The accounts to-day from the country districts con-
tinue to be extremely unfavourable, particularly from
the south and west, where there is no doubt the pre-
valence of distress affords a pretext for the wholesale
system of plunder and outrage, which, for sometime
past, renders it unsJe for the peaceably disposed t,
pursue their usual avocations, even in the broad glare of
day. Tipperary, of course, leads the way. The follow-
ing are taken almost at random, from the catalegu(
furnished by the repeal local organ:—
" On Friday night a shot was fired into the kitchen of
Mr. Alfred G. Richards in, justice of the peace, of Rath-
beg, near Sharavogue, the residence of the lion. Colonel
Westenra, M.P., which had nearly terminated the
existence of that gentleman, who happened at the
moment to be in his kitchen, giving orders to his ser-
vants. He had most providentially just sat down, for
had he been standing, the effects of the shot, which
lodged about two feet above his head, would have in all
probability proved fatal. Five panes of glass were
broken by the shot. He escaped unhurt.
" ROBBERY AT DROMINEER.—The premises of the
Inland Navigation Company, at Dromineer, on the
Shannon, within three or four miles of Nenagh, were
entered by several persons, at an advanced hour on
Saturday night, who having forced open the locks of the
gates, proceeded to a short canal which communicates
between the stores and the river, in which boats laden
with flour were moored, preparatory to the shipment of
the flour in steamers at Williamstown on Monday morn-
ing. The flour was the property of Mr. Malachi Ryan.
of Tyrone, a gentleman whose extensive liberality as a
contributor to the relief of the poor we have on several
occasions had an opportunity to commend and praise.
The persons engaged in this plunder were provided
with crow-bars, hammers, and ripping tools, and appear
to have used them with great dexterity. Mr. Shaw,
the company's agent, Mr. Shaw's son and family, who
reside immediately contiguous, did not hear them at
work, so stealthily did they perform it. They first, it
seems, opened up the hatches of a large boat, in which
very many sacks of flour were deposited; and being pro-
vided with a boat of their own, they placed in the latter
about 501. wortk of flour, as much, it is conjectured, as
it could contain. In their haste they left after them
one of the crowbars they made use of on the occasion,
but no means by which they could be identified. They
then, it would appear, put off from the Tipperary to the
Galway shore of the lake, making in the direction of
Dean Holmes' fishing-lodge; but in doing so they left
the hatches of the company's coat open, and, rain pour-
ing all the night in continuous abundance, the large and
valuable portion of the cargo which they did not carry
off, was much if not wholly damaged by the extreme
inclemency of the weather. In the morning the com-
pany's agent and his son were alarmed at perceiving
what had occurred, and immediate intimation was im-
parted to the authorities; but no clue was discovered of
the perpetrators cf this outrage on the property of a
gentleman who deserves so well of the poor as Mr. Ryan."