The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

The absentees are fast returning to the country,
and there are at present a great number of resident
gentry in the county of Tipperary. I trust their
presence may serve to cheek the existing spirit of in-
subordination.
There is a remarkable absence of agrarian outrage
just now, but I have heard in many quarters serious
complaints of petty depredations which have been
committed since the concentration of the police force
in the town. You will remember I had occasion to
remark on the same occurrences in a former letter
from Kilkenny.
In all quarters I have heard that there has been no
surrender of arms worth speaking of under the pro-
clamation. The constabulary are busily engaged in
searching for them, and to-day I met a large force
in the neighbourhood of the town of Tipperary en-
gaged in that business, but with little success. The
conduct of the Roman Catholic clergy in the present
crisis has been most praiseworthy, and I have heard it
commended by their bitter political opponents. On last
Sunday Dr. Howley, the parish priest of the town I
have just mentioned, delivered a most impressive
discourse to his flock oil the criminality of the club
system, and I have authority for stating that it pro-
duced the very best results. The police in this county
are extremely vigilant ; patrols scour the country
every night, and all persons found out at unseason-
able hours are searched.

THURLES, AUG. 5.
I returned to this town to-day, and on my arrival
found all quiet. The " moving column," under the
immediate command of General M'Donald, still re-
main encamped at the same place. It is said that the
74th Regiment will shortly be ordered to Dublin.
The severe weather, scarce a day passing without
heavy rain, is already beginning to tell against the
troops exposed to its inclemency in camp. and num-
bers are reported sick. The General and his staff
occupy apartments in the principal hotel. The con-
stabulary when patrolling last night arrested two
individuals on suspicion of being concerned in the
existing conspiracy : one of them gave his name as
Fitzpatrick, and stated that he came from Dublin;
the other announced himself as an American who
had come to this country to see his friends. He gave
his name as Nolan. A letter of introduction, and
rather a considerable sum of money were found on
his person. Both prisoners have been remanded by
Mr. Gore Jones, the resident magistrate, for further
examination.

It is really wonderful what an impetus the pre-
sence of 2,000 soldiers has given to the provision
trade of the town.

The country people flock to the camp with milk,
butter, eggs, potatoes, turf, and other necessaries,
where they meet a ready market at remunerating
prices.—Chronicle.

THE BALLINGARRY AFFAIR-INQUEST ON

THE BODIES.

An inquest was held at Ballingarry on. Monday, 31st
of July, by Thomas O'Meara, EN., Bouladuff, coroner,
and a jury of the farmers of the locality, on view of the
bodies of Patrick M'Bride and Thomas Walsh,
the two
men who were shut dead by the party of police on Satur-
day, the 29th July, in the affray. between the police and
the insurgents assembled on "the Commons of Boulick.
The inquest was attended by one of the local magistrates,
Mr. Going, of Ballyphillip, by Mr. Fitzclarence, R.M.,
as well as by General M'Donald and the officers of his
staff. The coroner first took the evidence relative to the
death of M'Bride, and called
John M'Bride, brother of the deceased, who, being
sworn, deposed that on Saturday 1 est he heard his
brother was shot at Farranroy, near the Commons, and
went in that direction, when ha met some men carrying
him home on a door ; asked him what was the matter
with him, when he replied, " Oh, I'm killed." He said
no more until he came home, when he said he was
coming over the wall of the widow tormack's yard ;
the police were at the time in the house when ho was
shot in the back from the house. Witness stated that
deceased had gone with tho crowd who followed the
police, and heard about half a dozen shots. He was a
servant boy that was making hay at the side of the road,
and when he saw the crowd be followed them.
In reference to the cause of the death of the unfor-
tunate man Walsh, the Coroner examined
Anne Walsh, wife of deceased, who, being sworn, de-
posed—l recollect Saturday last. My husband went to
work at breaking stones about six o'clock that morning.
About twelve o'clock I saw crowds of people going to
the Commons, and heard some shots, but I cannot
say how many. I then went to widow Cormack's
house, where the shots seemed to be firing, and saw
my husband lying on the field outside the wall of
the house. I was going over to him, when two
guns were put out of the highest window of the house,
and some persons inside cried out to me to go back,
or they would let the light. through me. There was not
a man near the house, or any other person except my-
self and my husband, and another man who was lying at
the wall of the house, struggling for life. The Rev. Mr.
Fitzgerald then came up, and I asked him to interfere to
get my husband's body, that I might bring it home to
wake it. I have one child, and had no way of living,
but my husband earned a pound of meal a day stone-
breaking on the relief works. It is Smith O'Brien I
blame for my husband's death, he would not have gone

there only for him.
Dr. Ryon swore that the deceased had got a gun-shot
wound on one side of the chest, and an aperture at the
opposite side, where the bullet passed out. The shot
must have been fired by some person on a level with the
deceased. That wound caused death.
The jury returned a verdict in both cases, that death
ensued from gun-shot wounds inflicted by some of the
police, who had retired to the widow Cormack's house,
and fired in self defence.
On the suggestion of General M‘Donald, Anne Walsh
was called, and on being asked did she received money
from Mr. smith O'Brien after her husband was shot, she
said that Mr. O'Brien gave her a 11. note before he lest,
expressing the greatest sympathy with her misfortune,
and telling her to bury her husband with the money.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
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majority of 44 against 34. This is a wholesome check
to the spirit of interference with everything the poor
man eats, or drinks, or tries to turn to his amuse-
ment. The great good of it is, that it will postpone
the time when the poor will be obliged to try their
hands for a twelvemonth, at exercising the same ac-
tive benevolence towards the rich.
On the same evening the Cruelty to Animals Pre-
vention Bill, second reading, was put off for three
months, which is equivalent to being given up
for the present. N o reason seems stated why
cruelty to animals should not be prevented,
except that the animals are not represented
in the House of Commons. It may occur to
some that the same reasoning may applY to more.
Two independent reasons, however, appear for sup-
porting the principle of such a Bill; one, that cruelty
to what are called animals, is intensely disagreeable
to some who boast of reason ; and the other, that a
set is made against legislative interference
.on the
subject, by the school whose object is to establish the
right of the craftiest and strongest to have their way,
or what may be otherwise described as the " Anglo-
Saxon" school. It is no doubt possible for the prin-
ciple to be run riot on ; but what is a House of. Com-
mons for, but to prevent ? The merciful man is mer-
ciful to his beast ; and if he happens to have a vote,
there appears no reason why his mercy should not
show itself through an Act of Parliament.
On Thursday the Farmers' Estate Society (Ire-
land) Bill went through Committee. lam afraid I
did not make great progress in persuading anybody,
that the true way to put down Repeal rebellions, is
to show the discontented in Ireland (which is every-
body) that they can be better cared for by a Parlia-
ment of Scotch and English as well as Irish repre-
sentatives, than they ever were or will be by a Par-
liament in College-green. If a native of an-
other planet were to drop upon the earth'
he would rush to the conclusion that the
greatest godsend for a people in the cir-
cumstances of the Irish, would be to find their legis-
lation taken out of hands which, to use the mildest terms
have been found incomparably unfortunate, and
di-
vided with those who have had more success in the
task of making nations comforttible. There is no
strength in the argument, that Irish Members ought
to have a monopoly of Irish legislation because they
know most of Ireland. The knowledge of Ireland is
their bane ; they know too much. It is for that very
reason, that Ireland wants somebody that is not to be
of the nature of an interested Jury ; somebody
that was not born to the notion of injuries to requite
or oppressors to put down ; somebody who can look
upon a question without the interference of recollec-
tions going hack to the days of Brian Borhoime. A
Ministry will sooner or later find out the necessity o f
applying the English mind to the Irish question ; and
every step towards it is a good. In.this view, I hope
the muster of the Noes on Thursday night on the
Ten Acre motion, however small, but of which the
half were Scotch and English Members, was not
without its use.
On Friday the battle went sore against the Tories
on the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill. They
resisted like men contending pro aril et focis. In
fact, that such things can be so defended, is evidence
that the time must come when an organic change, as
the phrase is, must mend the superstructure by put-
ting the whole on a foundation of more soundness.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Aug. 7, 1548.

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