The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-10 00:00:00

Mark—for three months only at the wages just men-
tioned I The whole number employed in the parish
was one hundred, or about one-seventh of the idle
pulation: - Mr. MONAGHAN, a gentleman living in
the neighbourhood, said that five hundred men might
be had in the parish, to wcrk for any wages an
employer might choose to offer ; in fact all they
wanted was permision to work ; they would thank-
fully accept any remuneration—even- their food.
It is easy to imagine, froth the, foregoing, that the
wives and children of these unemployed labourers must
'be constantly steeped, even to the very lips, in misery.
" When out of work," says Mr. Monaghan in his
evidence," the quantity of fool is certainly much di-
minished, the decrease, is greater and certainly more
general in the summer months ; but the quality, is not
-changed—it could not be worse. For fifty miles round
'this place every grain of wheat and oats, and every
.pig, is sent to a foreign market; meal or flour they do
not know - the -taste of; some of them kill their pigs,
hoping to get _a better price by doing so, and cannot
afford to eat even the entrails. The very egg must be
sold for the rent I" Others who were examined stated
that there were two hundred families in the parish
who were compelled to live for three days in summer
on a less quantity of potatoes than would reasonably
suffice for one ; that many people lost their lilies by
being obliged to feed upon unripe potatoes, which
besides causing sickness, entailed upon the labourer
certain ruin, in consequence of being dug before the
potatoes had attained half their growth. One indivi-
dual gave it as his opinion, that it would be considered
as a blessing by half of the
.poor - if they were trans-
ported—solely on account of the benefit to be derived
from the change in their present supply of food and
clothing.

But the compulsory idleness and consequent wretch-
edness of the poor, is no plea for the non-payment of
the rent. The iron grasp of the landlord or middle-
man is not relaxed by the cries of entreaty to which
the miserable parent gives utterance. We will cite one
instance of the heartless cruelty of these tyrants before
closing this article. It forms a part of Mr.. EGA N'S
evidence

" It is not six months ago since I saw a neighbour of my
own, sitting with his family- round his hearth ; the potatoes
were upon the fire ; but before they were fit for his children
to eat, I saw his fire quenched, and the half-boiled pota-
toes put out upon the road. I know that he was willing
to pay the rent, but really he was not able ; he was a do
cent and hard-working man ; he was an honest man, but 'a
poor man."

Place yourselves—all you who affect to be horror:
stricken at the idea of being Compelled to live among
the barbarous Irish—place yourselves in the situation
of this poor man, when he found. himself surrounded
by his weeping famishing offspring, a passive spectator
of the quenching of his little hearth, and the destruc-
tion of the frugal meal intended to whet the cravings
of infant hunger—and then tell us what are your feel-
ings ? Does the situation affright you, or do you now
wonder why the Irish peasant is so prone to the
commission of outrage ? 'The case here cited is an
ordinary one. We hawe ourselves witnessed scenes more
heart-rending on the Irish estate of a gentleman named
MURRAY, situated in the county of Donegal, although
we are certain that he himself was wholly ignorant of
the cruelties exercised upon his poor tenantry. He
was, and we believe is, an absentee ; his agent taking
upon himself the entire management of the property.
This gentleman's mode of ejecting the tenantry was by
the process of fire. He actually burned them out of
their cabins by applying lighted faggots to the roofs.
We ourselves have stood for hours gazing wistfully
upon the smoking ruins. The unfortunate outcasts
wrung their hands in agony, and sometimes might be seen
kneeling amid the dying embers of their hearths, im-
precating the most awful maledictions on their oppres-
sors ; but, in every other respect, the process of burning
seemed a matter of such ordinary occurrence as to ex-
cite no astonishment. Yet with these details of human
suffering before their eyes, the people of England
affect surprise that their Irish fellow-subjects are
not peaceable, industrious, and contented !
Let us once more revert to the case of the poor fel-
low mentioned by Mr. EGA N in his evidence. He must
have been more or less than man if, conscious as.
he was of his own innocence and industry, he felt no,
contraction of the brain, no withering and searing of
the heart, no instant reversion of all the. social sym-
pathies, as he glared upon the .wretcheS who drove forth
hiS hungry and houseless children to perish on the
highway. Would such cruelty provoke no retaliation
'in England ? Well we know it would, and so direful
too, that no landlord would dare to incur it. And vet
Mr. EGAN does not say that tkhe poor Irishman was
guilty of even a breach of the peace. Possibly the
blow fell too heavily upon him ; he sunk under it, and
those children whom he had previously supported by
his honest industry now swell the list of vagrant
paupers who prowl about from village to village—a
living monument of the present misery and past mis-
government of the country.

THE FUNDS.---(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning ara a French and a Hamburgh
mail, and ship letters from Demerara, Valparasio, and Ma-
ranham.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 91* for the Account,
opened at 91+ to 918 for money ; the-same may be quoted
at present, 91*, with very little doing ; Omnium 3i- prem. ;
Exchequer Bills, 11 to 13 ; India Bonds, 1 to 3 ; Bank
Stock, 209 to 210 ; India ditto, 2551 to 2,561.
In the Foreign Market little business is doing at present.
Spanish Active Bonds closed at 42i8, and are the same at
present ; ..Portuguese 884 ; Three per Cents, 5588 ; Co-
lombian, 304.4 ; Mexican 37 to 38 ; , Dutch Two and a
Half per Cents, 55H- ; Five per Cents, 10P8i,
Mr. Rothschild's Danube and Mayne Canal Shares are
expected to make their appearance this morning.

HALF--PAST DIVE.

We have been exceedingly dull in the city, during the whole
of the morning, both for want of intelligence, and-speculations
in the various Funds, in consequence of which the British as
well as the Foreign markets are very languid, with little doing.
Consols have been done at 91+ for the, Account, ,at present
91+ ; for Money 91+ ; Omnium, 3i prem. ;, Exchequer Bills,
11 13 ; India Bonds, 2 3 ; Bank Stock, 209 210 ; India do.,
255 k 256 k.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Bonds are at 42k ;
Portuguese, 84 89; Three per Cents., 5711 ; .Columbian, 30
30i• ; Mexican, 36 37 • Dutch Two and a Half per Cents.,
54 55-k ; Five per dents.', 1001 11. .
Railway Shares are also heavy. A new one has:made its
appearance—the Commercial, to Black wall, at 6d. per
share premium ; BrightoM, Ito premium ; Gravesend, +to
pre n.ium.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 91-!. • •

PLYMOUTH, NOV. 7.—This day, pursuant to the
Municipal Reform Act, the Burgess Lists for this borough
were delivered to the Town Clerk by the overseers of the
poor. The number of persons on these lists is altogether
1,500. Several persons' names appearing more than once
on them, owing to their being rated for various premises,
there will be but about fourteen of the fifteen hundred who
will be entitled to vote.

The dates from Jamaica reach down to the 30th of
September. The elections were in progress, and excited
great attention in the colony. It was fully expected that
the majority of the old members would be re-elected. News
had arrived that his Majesty's ship Spitfire had safely wea-
thered out the hurricane. It will be recollected that the
previous advices expressed great fears that she had been
totally lost. The weather in the colony had been most
oppressive, but some refreshing showers had greatly im-
proved the prospects of the agriculturalists. At Barbadoes
some surprise had been occasioned by an order of the Go-
vernor to pay over a sum of 2,0331. to the. Treasury, there
to be at the disposal of the Colonial Legislature, forming
the balance of the subscription to be raised to relieve tho
sufferers by the late hurricane. A meeting of the inhabi-
tants of 3arbadoes had been held, at which it was resolved,
that the money should be appropriated to pay off certain
claims against the colony.