The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-29 00:00:00

MORE IRISH OUTRAGES.

A telegram from Ireland informs us that three men'
having their faces blackened, attacked a farmer, named
Whelan, on Thursday, at a place called Rathcormac, is
the County of Waterford, and beat him to death With
stones and sticks ; one of them also shot him. Whelan
had taken a farm from which the former tenant had been
ejected. _ _

A telegram from Cork gives the news of another
dastardly assassination in the county of Tipperary. f
farmer named Peter Power has been brutally murdered
at Rathermack, near Carrick-on-Suir. His body va4
found upon the road on Wednesday, his skull being felt'
fully battered in. It is believed in Cork that the crime
has nothing to do with any differences concerning the
occupation of land. A cousin of the deceased who bad
been in deceased's company has disappeared, and on°
arrest has been made.

At Birdhill, near Nenagh, someone hurled a large stone
from a bridge as the train passed beneath, which broke
into one of the carriages. Near the town of Tipperary *
stone flung at the train entered through the window of the
guard's van, and wounded him in the face.

THE FUTURE PRICE OF STEEL RAIL.

Mr. Bessemer's rail patents expire in February next, and
the only patentee's charge with which Bessemer steel rail
will then be saddled is one of 2s. Gd. per ton for the use of
his improved converting plant. The present royalty on
rails is £2 per ton; on each ton a drawback of .£l.
nominally allowed, but the nature of Mr. Bessemer's er''
rangements with regard to scrap, crop ends, wasters, itn"
is such that the true royalty on every ten of Bessemer
rails delivered to a railway company—in other words, sold
—amounts to about £1 ss. 6d. After the lapse of Mr. Based'
mer's patents in February, 1870, this sum, all but 2s. 6d. Per
ton royalty on plant, will be saved ; and, therefore, in Mernb
next year rails may be bought for at least £1 3s. Per
ton less than they cost now. Under these circurc"
stances it is obviously the interest of railway compsoiel
not to buy steel rails till next spring. But unless steel rail/
are bought immediately they will not be made. No mane'
facturer in his senses will make steel rails on stock which
will lose for a certainty £1 17s. 6d. per ton of their value 11
being kept for nine months —Engineer.

MR. ROEBUCK AND 711 E PEOPLE OF

SHEFFIELD.

Mr. Roebuck has written a letter acknowledging
the receipt of a book containing the names o'.,
the subscribers to the testimonial recently PI!:
sented to him. He adds :—" As I suppose this 10'
be the last political act of kindness that I shall r?"
ceive from my friends of Sheffield, I seize upon zi
as an opportunity to express, if possible, the strong
emotions of my heart, roused as they are by the recolle?'
tion of all that has passed during the many long years 111
which I acted as their representative in the House 04,
Commons. The generous confidence always bestowed on
me by the great body of the constituency was, I believe'
never betrayed by me; selfish considerations, I sincerely
believe, never influenced a vote given in their naive;
and every act of my political life, whether wise or
unwise, was prompted solely by a desire to promote til•
welfare of my country. These may seem proud so
swelling words, but without fear I say they are true
words ; and had I not so acted I should indeed have been
unworthy. They who chose me honourably trusted roe;
they confidingly put a great power into my hands,
believing that I would use it only in a way that I shod
deem conducive to their good, swayed by no WV Ors
personal objects, thinking only of the great interests n'
my country, making her happiness, her honour, and hear
glory the light by which my path was to be guided. An
now we part, my many friends giving me this last token
of their approbation and respect, and I in these weak
words recording the gratitude and affection which I feel
in return for their unflinching support and kindness."