The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-13 00:00:00

THE O'DONOGIME,S ESTATES.

The O'Donegleue's estates and their sale continue to
force themselves on public attention in Ireland. About
this time twelvemonths the Kerry property of the Chief-
tain of the Glens was put up for sale in the Landed Estates
Court to pay off the incumbrances upon it. At the sale a
gentleman, who was esteemed a "patriot," attended, and
ran up every lot to a sum beyond which no intending pur-
chaser would go. As the highest bidder (and there appear-
ing at the time no reason to doubt the bona fides of Lie
proceeding) the judge declared him the purchaser. Accord-
ing to the practice of the court fourteen days are
allowed for the lodgment of the purchase-money, but this
period was availed of by the individual in question to leave
the countiy, it is understood for America. The sale having
thus proved abortive, the court directed that the property
should be again put up to auction on the 20th April last.
Another curious incident now occurs. The "tenant
farmers" of Kerry, with whom were associated many of
those who have espoused what they term "the tenant
cause of Ireland," undertook to purchase the estates, and
re-convey them to TheZi'Donoghuo. Time passed, the
Nation canvassed the countiy in favour of the project, tho
lot l Tralee Chronicle observed upon the " :Want success"
of this move in the right direction—a tenantiy purchasing
a property for the purpose of transferring it to their land-
lord—and meetings were organised to collect subscrip-
tions. Those efforts proved fruitless. The amount sub-
scribed never could be discovered ; but I believe that
The O'Donoghue trusted to the representations made to
him, and in the fulness of his hope entered with sanguine
expectations upon the course which had led to such un-
pleasantness as is now likely to arise. The O'Donoghuo
instructed his solicitor, Mr. V. B. Dillon, to attend the sale
in the interest of his wife, and to secure the withdrawal
from competition of one lot against which his wife's pin-
money was charged, and at the same time ho obtained the
consent of Mr. G. R. Baary,M.P for Cork, to have his name
used by another solicitor, Mr. Edward Nugent, in the pur-
chase of the residue for a sum of £lO,OOO, giving a gaarantee
that Mr. Barry should be at no loss, trouble, or expense in
the transaction. As the property was put up in separate
lots, it was of course impossible to bid in the gross for it,
but Mr. Nugent considering that it was a life estate merely
suggested that he should bid up to 10 years' purchase and
no further. The letter of The O'Donoghue, containing the
instructions to Mr. Nugent, was written in London on the
18th April, and consequently did not reach Dublin until
April 19, the day prey:ous to the sale. It contained the
following passage :—" My friend, Mr. Barry, M.P. for
Cork has w-itten for the enclosed letter, which by his
direction I forward to you, authorising you to bid for the
estates to the extent of £lO,OOO for him. Of course, he bids
in ta ust for my wife; but this can all be arranged afterwards.
Keep the matter a prbfound secret- do not tell a soul,
even Dillon, who appears for me. Let you buy as cheap
as you can, just keeping in advance of the last bidder."
A postscript was in these words need scarcely say Mr.
Barry is very rich and well known in the Landed
Estates Court as a purchaser. The authorisation of Mr
Barry was simply an instruction—" I shall bo obliged by
your bidding in my name and purchasing on my behalf for
any sum not exceeding £10,000." On the morning of the
day of sale Mr. Nugent received a letter from Mr. Bariy,
entering into a long detail of his reasons and motives for
putting himself forward as the purchaser of the: estates for
The O'Donoghue, on whose promises and letters he relied,
by whom he was indemnified against all losses and cash ad-
vances ; and who assured him that he "saw his way quite
clearly" to obtain the purchase-money. Mr. Barry ad-
vised Mr. Nugent not to act up to the authority which he
had received unless he felt satisfied that the purchase-
money would be forthcoming. In the exercise of the dis-
cretion which he conceived to be thus left to him, and not
interpreting this latter letter as a withdrawal of the prior
authority, Mr. Nugent purchased two lots for £3,610, de-
claring that it was in trust for Mr. Barry ho did so. A
good deal of correspondence now took place, Mr. Nugent
writing to The O'Donoghue, and to Mr. Barry to forward
him a cheque for the purchase-money, and the former as-
suring him he should have it "on Monday without fail ;"
then pledging his honour he should have it "on Thurs-
day or Friday next," then that DA would be "I:ght in a
day or two," ani finally—
"My dear Mr. Nugent—You will be delighted to hear
that my dear and good friend, Mr. Barry, has forwarded
instructions to his solicitors to pay for the property. There
was not the least cause for uneasiness. I am greatly
obliged to you, and will call on you in a day or two.--I am,
yours truly, " O'DOXOGIII:E."
The money, however, was not lodged, and now comes the
disagreeable part of the affair. A conditional order for an
attachment against Mr. Nugent and for a sequestration
against Mr. Barry was obtained. The latter gentleman at
Once wrote to The O'Donoghue informing him of the state
of affairs, and in reply received the following letter :
"Reform Club, June 30, 1866.
_ _

"My dear Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 27th inst.,
I regret that you should have been put to any inconveni-
ence on my account. I admit that there was a distinct
understanding flat you were not to pay for the estates. I
expected to be able to pay for them myself. I cannot but
regret that Mr. Nugent did not follow the instructions
contained in your letter of the 19th April, though 1 have
no doubt he was induced to exceed those instructions owing
to the confident tone in which I assured you of my ability
to pay for the estate myself. As it is, all I can say is that
1 have no objection to tale any measures that you may
think necessary to free you from all responsibility in the
matter.—l am, dear sir, yours hilly, " O'DoxooHuE."
This closed the'correspondence, aud so the matter stands
for the present, until it comes before the Landed Estates
Court some day this week for the examination of Mr.
Barry and The O'Donoghue in reference to the transac-
tion. The facts above stated are extracted from the affi-
davits filed by Mr. Barry and Mr. Nugent respectively, in
showing cause against making absolute the conditional
orders already obtained.

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raising volunteers for the pumps. At that time there was
a great difficulty in getting men to go to the pumps; not
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wounds. Mr. Munroe went to the forecastle once to got
men for the pumps, and twenty pleaded illness. The work
at the pumps was very laborious. We had to take brief
spells, being short-handed ; occasionally we would have a
flesh hand, whom Mr. Grant had persuaded to come, 1 V kilo
others left off, quite done up; and in indeed it was a try-
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ments the pumps would have to stop ; but as soon as the
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