The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.
THE RATTLE OF THE PROSELYTIZERS.
Lord Chancellor Napier gave judgment this clay
in the case of the O'Malley orphans. His lordship,
in a lengthened judgment, made an order of the
23d Sept., by which he appointed Jane Robinson
guardian of the minors; directed the minors to be
educated as Protestants, and to be given up into
the custody of Jane Robinson ; and finally referred
it to the Master of the Court to inquire and report
upon the best mode of carrying out the order.
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.
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The Mercantile Advertiser states that rumours
are prevalent to the effect that important changes
in the Irish Government are in contemplation. Lord
Naas is certainly to go to India, as Governor of
Madras, in place of Lord Harris. The Evening Post
reports that Mr. S. Fitzgerald is to be Lord Naas's
successor in the Irish Secretaryship, and adds that
Lord Naas has obtained a promisot of a permanent
office for his brother, Capt. BourkOto be created by
a new Irish Lunacy Commission Bill, which is in
preparation for nexe session. Capt.' Bourke is to
be Chief Commissioner, and a sort of promise of
two other commissionerships has it is said been
given to other parties.
LANDED ESTATES COURT.
The first great sale under the new land tribunal
took place yesterday, and the result was most satis-
factory. The property disposed of consisted of the
Meath estates of Mr. Charles Powell Leslie, M.P.
for Monaghan. They were put up in 64 lots, the
whole comprising more than 12,000 statute acres,
producing a net rental of £7,000 per annum, which
realized the gross sum of £195,000, being nearly 30
years' purchase on the whole property. This
flourishing state of the Irish land-market shows
that confidence in the progressive improvement of
the country has not been abated by the revival
(temporary, it is to be hoped) of agrarian outrage
in its most repulsive form.

THE RIBAND CONSPIRACY.

ThC Leinster Express (moderate Conservative) re•
marks that no stronger or more conclusive evidence
of the existence of the riband conspiracy could be
adduced than the fact that another week has elapsed
and the murderer of Mr. Ely is still, through the
connivance and assistance of the neighbouring
peasantry, enabled to elude the grasp of justice.
The Express adds :—" That the reported assassin
has not yet left the locality is commonly believed,
and his sleeping in one place, and his departure to
another are flippantly reported. Many must be
aware of these transactions, yet not one can be
found to give the information necessary to secure
his arrest or rid at once the earth of such a mon-
ster and the country of a foul stigma that attaches
t) hii being harboured among the people. Men
speak with horror of former bloodshedding ex-
ploits ; and, with expressions of the deepest sym-
pathy for his last victim, condemn the atrocious
miscreant ; yet even they confess that a word, a
sign, or the slightest aid towards his capture they
dare not afford to the authorities. The expression
' dare not' is a clue to the dreadful system that like
a shadow of death' overawes our present popula-
tion, destroys their finer feelings, and perverts their
sense of justice. We admit that any person, who
would dare to act as a free denizen of a free
country should, in honestly maintaining the
laws and bringing offenders to justice, do so
with the certainty that his home, kis property,
and his life, would be no longer safe, and that ex-
patriation would be the least penalty he would
receive by his contempt of the fiendish conclave
that sits in secret to try all offences against its
rules, and whose savage code knows no lighter sen-
tence than that of death."
In another article the _Express gives this warn-
ing to the parties engaged in the conspiracy :
" Though Mr. Ely has perished by the bullet of
the assassin, his death will not be permitted to pass
without that terrible retribution sanctioned by the
laws of God and man. Though the murderer is not
yet apprehended, his arrest is but a mere matter of
time; the police are on his trail. Sir C. Coote has
pledged to visit with immediate removal from his
estate, and the infliction of the severest punishment
the law permits, in each and every case where it
may be satisfactorily proved that any tenant of his
either harboured or succoured Delanv (the alleged
assassin), since the night on which -Mr. Ely was
shot. Henceforward if any tenant on the venerable
baronet's estates shall countenance persons of bad
or questionable character, be they members of his
own family or otherwise, his tenure becomes for-
feited, and he must seek some other more congenial
locality. The several magistrates of Clandonagh
and the adjoining baronies, who met at Borris-in-
Ossory on Monday last, are determined to follow
this laudable course, and thus effectually guard that
part of the Queen's County from the inroads of
Ribandism and all its atrocious concomitants."
Meanwhile other denunciations of secret societies
are becoming more frequent. The Kilkenny Mode-
rator is informed that on Sunday last, at the Roman
Catholic Cathedral in that city, the Right Rev. Dr.
Walsh, Roman Catholic bishop,' preached a serm on
cautioning the members of the congregation against
being led into secret political societies, and expos-
ing the danger and sinfulness of conspiracies of the
kind,in somewhat similar words to those previously
used by the Rev. Dr. Kieran in Dundalk, and the
Rev. Mr. Salmon, P.P., in Callan.
The Lublin Gazette of last night notifies that the
Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Council have issued a
proclamation tFthOffect that the Peace Preserva-

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Mr. S. M. Going writes to Day IS/press,
saying that, as the proprietor of Littleton and the
next local magistrate, there is not the slightest
ground for the reported attempt upon the life of
Mr. Samuel Murray Gason. The explanation of the
Express, however, is perfectly satisfactory. " The
report of the attack upon Mr. Gason," says the Ex-
press, "was given upon the authority of that gen-
tleman himself." It now only remains for Mr.'
Gason to explain his reasons for giving currency to
the ill-timed jest, which was freely ventilated 18
hours before it appeared in type.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF COURTOWN.
The Jsfail of this evening announces the death of
the Earl of Courtown, which took place on Satur-
day last, the 20th inst., at his lordship's residence
in the county of Wexford.
The late earl was born on the 27th March, 1794,
and was married on the 4th July, 1822, to his
cousin, Lady Charlotte Montague Scott, sister of
the present Duke of Buecleuch. Earl Courtown,
when Lord Stopford, represented for several years
the county of Wexford in the Imperial Parliament.
His lordship succeeded his father, the third earl, on
the 15th June, 1835, and has since sat in the House
of Peers as Baron Saltesford, of the County Pala-
tine of Chester. He has left three sons, the eldest
of whom, now Earl of Courtown, was born on the
24th of April, 1823.

THE RIVER PLATE.

It appears that the recent advices from the River
Plate regarding the gold discoveries were wrong
in describing them as situated in the province of
Buenos Ayres. Neither is the knowledge of them
now obtained for the first time. They are in the
province of San Luis, which is one of the States
that constitute the Argentine Confederation, and
have been worked by the natives in an imperfect
manner for several years. There seems little doubt,
however, that they are of great extent, and might
be very productive, and also that, from the proxi-
mity of San Luis to Buenos Ayres their development
would greatly benefit the latter province. The
Argentine Confederation or Republic comprises the
States of Entre Rios, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Cor-
dova, Santiago del Estero, Tucuman, Salta, Tujuy,
Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza, San
Luis, Buenos Ayres, and Cuaco. San Luis lie
between Cordova, San Juan, Mendoza, and Buenos
Ayres, from which last it is separated by a desert.
The inhabited portion of the province consists of
two grand divisions ; the first to the north of the
capital city of the same name and the road leading
to Chili between the rivers Desaguadero and
Quinto and the mountains bordering them, the
Carolina on the west, and the Varela on the east,
This district is alternately flat and mountainous,
containing woods, lakes, and rivers, and the soil
much varied, having mines of gold, copper, silver,
lead, iron, &c. The %econd division is to the south
and south-east of the city of San Luis, approaching
from the river Quinto, and is mostly an immense
prairie, where formerly millions of cattle used to
graze, which have since become the prey of the
Indians of the desert. Since 1852, however, the
invasions having ceased and the frontier being
better defended, it is again beginning to be repeo-
pled with establishments for herds. To the north
stretch the mountains of Carolina which have given
their names to the gold mines. Over an extent of
20 leagues to the north and south, and six to the
east and west, are found auriferous earths, to the
south in the valleys forming the river Quinto, and
to the north in those of the mountains of Carolina.
The richest valleys are Ronda, Arenila, and Du-
razno. About 600 persons—men, women, and
children—are employed in seeking for gold, but
they are totally with energy, and use only the
most imperfect means. At certain seasons they
dig up the earth and wash it in wooden bowls, and
in this feeble and desultory manner annually find
from 4,500 to 5,000 ounces. None of them dream
of making a fortune, or even a competency. In
I fact, they hardly take the trouble to find enough
for their maintenance and clothing. The copper
and silver lead mines of San Luis have been worked
ever since the Spanish domination, and have re-
cently undergone etxploration. Those of San Bar-
bouz and San Francisco arc said to have given from
15 to 30 per cent. of copper. and those of San Juan
from 10 to 15 marts of silver per 5,0001 b of mineral.