The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 28.—The arrival of Lord Clarendon is
rumoured for Thursday next, when it is stated the ap-
pointment to the vacant bishopric will be announced.
The selection of an Englishman as master of the Royal
School of Armagh, and the unpopularity of the appoint-
ment, would incline one to hope that discontent be not
stimulated among the clergy of the Establishment by a
second nomination of that nature. The income of the
see is 4,4631. 9s. Oid., of which over 3,0001. arises from
fines—of course this payment will be irregular.
The loss to Ireland arising from the failure of the po-
tato, and its consequential results, is estimated at
43,000 0001.
THE STATE PRISONERS.
For the last two or three days Mr. Smith O'Brien has
suffered considerably from an attack of lumbago which
has confined him to his bed. Although this disease is
most troublesome and painful, it is not one of a dan-
gerous dharacter, and the medics attendant of Mr.
O'Brien confidently expects that his patient will have
suffiaiently recovered in a day or two so as to be enabled
ro take his usual exercise. Mr. M‘Manus has improved
in health, and is going on most favourably, so that in a
short time he will be completely restored.
ANOTHER TIPPERARY •MURDER.
For the sake of human nature it is to be hoped that
the-re is over-colouring in the following horrifying ac-
count of man-butchery in the county of Tipperary:—
" DErNDRUM, Nov. '25.—A murder has just been com-
mitted in this neighbourhood under circumstances of
peculiar atrocity. A farmer of the name of Janies Hen-
nessey, of Gatlin, near Dundrum, having risen on Thurs-
day morning rather early for the purpose of detecting
some parsons who were in the habit of stealing his tar•
nips, was ivsailed by a number of men, who literally
riddled his body with slugs, and not content with that,
heat, cut, and stabbed him in the most dreadful manner.
lie lay for two hours within a field of his own Is ;uso,
and his wife must have met a horrible sight, as she
stumbled over his body on her way to milking. It is
supposed that the savage manner in which they treated
the boly arose from taeir desire to finish their job in a
more busines-like manner than they did on a former
occasion to his still more unfortunate brother.
The latter was fired at in open daylight, both
his legs broken, and left fur dead. He reco-
vered, however, after a long illness, and the miserable
cripple, scarcely able to crawl, might have been spared;
but the murderers were again sent on his track, and
exactly on the same spot he saw four armed men running
over the field. Being harlly able to move he screamed
dreadfully, and some men ran to his assistance; but the
villains, with cocked guns. ordered them to lie down
and witness that they this time did their work
more effectually. Three of them held the unfortunate
wretch, while the fourth actually hacked his head off
with a billhook. Tnis occurred some time previous to
the murder I have mentioned above, and explains the
unusual pains they took to extinguish life. Hennessey
was an industriouPfariner, and generally esteemed, espe-
clay by his landlord, Lord Hatvarden, one of the heist
and most indulg-nt landlords in the south of Ireland,
who (ably seconded by his agent, Mr. John Stewart)
is untiring in his efforts to benefit his tenantry and in-
troduce such a system of agriculture as may conduce to
their comfort and respectability."
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.

Profiting by the example of the great English com-
panies, a requisition is in course of signature for a meet-
ing of the shareholders in the Dublin and Drogheda,
Dublin and Belfast Junction, Dundalk and Enniskillen
Companies, to take into consideration the best means of
effecting an amalgamation of the four companies.
" Power to amalgamate," says the Irish Railwa.
Gazette—
" The companies already possess, so that there would
be no necessity for an application to Parliament ; but
the amalgamation company would not be legally styled,
as suggested in the circular addressed to the shareholders
of The Great Northern and Western Railway Company,'
without a new Act to authorise the change. Upon the
policy of an amalgamation we believe no person conver-
sant with the position of the four companies can enter-
tain a doubt. The great saving effected by the
working of the combined company would be one of
the least of the advantages derivable from the
measure. Not only would the general manage-
ment be more consistent and vigorous, but economy
could be carried out to an extent that the companies
singly are incapable of, and the result would prove
equally advantageous to the shareholders and the public.
The amalgamated company would embrace an extent of
209 miles of railway, of which, however, only 351 is
open, while 59 miles are in an advanced state of con-
struction, and will be opened, we presume, by January
next. When these portions are opened there will then
be 941 miles of railway working together, with the ex-
ception of the break at Drogheda over the Boyne,
leaving 1 miles to be completed; and it cannot be
questioned that under the management of one board and
one set of officials,the working could be more satisfactorily
and economically conducted than by four boards, with
their conflicting opinions, their divided responsibility,
and their seemingly antagonistic interests."
THE FUNDS.

Three per Cent. Consols, 851; Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cent. Stock, 86i 86; Bank Stock, 192; National
Bank Shares, 18; City of Dublin Steam Packet, 70;
Great Southern and Western Railway, 23; Midland 164;
Waterford and Limerick, 8.
THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.--There are further and dis-
heartening accounts of the progress of evictions in the
south. The occupiers of the larger class of farms are
emigrating, many of them without paying rent or poor-
rate; and the smaller holders are put out by ejectment.
The Cork Examiner contains the following:—" Battem,
parish of Kilmoe, Nov. 23.—0 n Friday, 17th November
inst., Joe Driscoll, driver to Mrs. Clerk, went on the
lands of Battem, and dispossessed several families, com-
prising in all 36 persons."
The same journal says:—" The correspondent, who
authenticates this information, states that there are no-
tices pending for even a wider range of extermination!
And it is in the most wretched part of all this wretched
country that this movement is so rife."
The Tipperary Vindicator gives an appalling account
of the condition of some districts in the North Riding of
them
that county :—" In a townland in the immediate neigh-
died, leaving
neigh-
bourhood of Borrisokane, where twenty-five families
litiestls
eitan. comfortable circumstances, nine of those fami-
liesd within the last few months, and four of
whom are inthe most
twelve on the townland, some of
ristn, whilst it does
of leavin...„_.teue most indigent circumstances, desirous
lymack4ilse c:untry if they could. The village of Bal.
comparatively
death having become a heap of the most squalid paupe-
not contain one-fourth of the once
made sad by whom it was inhabited,
ino Sundays it is observed
a great measure; and in
nearly all the rural chapels
Toom-
avara the same may be asaalvdof among them. Of
that the congregations are th'iti
numbering half what they were'
ESTATES OF LORD BLAYNEY.
mentions a rumour that Baron
chaser of the estates of Lord Blayney.
aset:::.nty, and ragged, not
Rothschild h :ews Newry Examiner
is the pur-