The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
SERIOUS RIOT AT PARSONSTOWN-PEEVENTION OF TER
REMOVAL ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE FOR EXPOR•
TATION.

For a considerable period the markets of Parsonstown
have been well attended by purchasers of agricultural
produce for exportation. Yesterday a new buyer ap-
peared in the person of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, of
Roscrea, who bought for the same purpose 100 bar-
rels of potatoes, and a large quantity of barley. An
advance in prices, which took place, was, ascribed
to his presence as a competitor, and much excite.
meat arose in consequence. The sequel is given
by a correspondent of Saunders's Nem Letter :
" About seven o'clock in the evening, when Mr.
Atkinson was about to remove the potatoes and
barley on cars, which he bad brought with him for that
purpose, a mob, about 700 persons, assembled, whocom-
inenced shouting and hooting, and shortly they became
as wicked as mischievous. The cars were stopped, the
drivers imaltreated, the sacks containing the potatoes
thrown off the cars, cut open with knives, the potatoes
strewn about the streets. A few police who happened to
be on town duty on the spot were also assaulted with
stones, and during the melee the women, who were most
aciive, converted their inner garments into bags, and
succeeded in carrying away the contents of between 30
and 40 sacks of potatoes. Tue work of mischief con-
tinued until the arrival of Head-constable Noble, with a
reinforcement of armed policemen from the barracks,
who succeeded in driving the rioters away from the
cars, and capturing five of the principal offenders, all
of whom were to in the barracks. The men were
,extremely violent, but very fortunately no blood was
,ined or life sacrified. After some time, when quiet was
restored, the carts containing potatoes and barley- which
had escaped uninjured were removed out ()flown under
the surveillance of the police. Many of the Titters are
known to the police, and it is expected that arrests will
be made before the petty sessions. According to the pro-
visions of "The Summary Jurisdiction Act," 14 and 15
Vic., cap. 92, eec. 2, any person assaulting, beating, or
using any other violence to any other person with intent
to deter him from buying or selling any corn or other
agricultural or garden produce in any market, or other
place, or to stop the nonveyauce of the same, is
liab e to a fine not exceeding the sum of 101., or t)
be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months ;
and a subsequent section. of the same act empowers the
justices, in addition to the imprisonment. to award bard
labour. The affair had no political significance what-
ever. It occurred simply through the disappointment
caused by the rise in prices, which placed Mr. Atkiuson
in the light of one who had increased the cost of food.

AN INTERESTING- TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN.
The following tale of crime ranks in romance with the
wildest passages from the records of ticket-of-leavism. A.
man, named Carter, who was sentenced to transporta-
tion a few years ago, made his appearance near Carlow
a short time back on a ticket of ieave. He was not
long at large until his incurable propensity to crime
became manifest. On Saturday last he attacked
an elderly gentleman, named Fennell, at, Ross.
more, in the Queen's county, under the following
circumstances :—" On the Previous night the heart-
less wretch solicited a night's lodging from Mr.
Fennell, which was kindly granted. He was given his
breakfast in the morning, after which (having seen Mr.
Fennell go about his farm), he seized a spade, an,t
having closed over the kitchen door, threatened to knock
the brains out of the servant boy and girl if they did act
tell him where Mr. Fennell's money was. The girl
screamed violently, but this only made the rascal re.
double his threat. The servant boy took down a gun
and presented it at him ; this soon made the scoundrel
decamp, 'but unfortuately he met Mr. Fennell and re-
newed his demand for money ; it not being granted, he
gave the unfortunate man a blow on the side of the head
with the spade, and then made off. Bambrick, the Per.
vent boy, pursued him, and after a chase of two miles,
succeeded in securing him, and gave him in charge to some
of the Graigue police. Mr. Fennell's life is despaired of.
The fellow maintains the completest imperturbability.
He considered transportation heretofore a vary agree..
able punishment, for it was, he alleged, the custom of
the • benevolent' authorities, when a convict grew thin,
to weigh him, and if found lighter in weight than when
he entered on his confinement, his dietary was increased
until he was brought up (or fed) to the required standard ;
but so much attention was not now paid to this most
Christian rule,' under the regulations connected with
penal servitude. Carter's career is briefly told. Some
years since he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to
transportation for a robbery committed on Fennell, the
identical victim of this last outrage. On obtaining his
ticket of leave, he returned to Carlow, and enlisted in
the Carlow militia ; but on the disembodiment of that
corps be had recourse to his old habits of gaining a dis-
honest livelihood, and is again within the meshes of the
law."

We understand that the project recently organised for
the establishment of a National Bank of Turkey, and
represented in Constantinople by the Messrs. Welkin,
having virtually fallen to the ground, fresh combina-
tions are in course of arrangement amongst English
capitalists interested in the progress of financial affairs
in Turkey. The objcct is the elaboration of a plan which,
whilst remedying the glaring defects and abuses of the
Turkish monetary system, shall at the same time insure
a remunerative result to the shareholder,. 9
FIRST TRIAL OF WM. DRAY AND CO.'S PATENT PRIZE
CHAMPION REAPING MACHINE IN NEW ZEALAND.—TI,9
farming settlers of this province will be _lad to hear tba
a very successful trial of the Messrs. May's improv, d
reaping machine has been made by Major Nixon, on 12,
farm at Mangarei. It was tried on various kinds t
ground, broken as well as level ; and in all cases the trial
was relatively satisfactory. These machines are esp .
cially of importance to a youne country, 'here. labour is
not only scarce, but often not to be cbtamel at any
price ; and we think Major Nixon is entitled to the
thanks of his brotber settles for trying an experiment
which proves the practical utility of this reaping machine,
by the aid of which five men are enabled to get throng t
as much work as it would otherwise take twenty to sc.
omplish.—Ed tract from the " New Zealander," of Jan.
17, 1857.
STRIPPING CHILDREN OF THEIR CLOTHES.—Consider-
able excitement has been caused in the neighbourhood of
Deptford, and Gravel-lane, Southwark, 1 y a rumour
that two children of tender age, the one five and a hair
years, and the other younger, had been discovered
immersed in a filthy ditch, where it was apprehendtd
they had been cruelly exposed to perish ; and the report
got credence from the statement that their bodies were
bound together with the alltparent intention of rendering
them helpless. Upon inquiry we discovered that &Lilo
report was correct in some respects, but somewhat exag-
gerated. It appears that a young man, son of a carpen-
ter, who works for Mr. Gabb, the newly-appointed fp-
, vernor of the Licensed Victuallers' Incorporated Society,
in passing by a lonely place in the neighbourhood of the
Deptford station of the London and Brighton Rai way,
on Sunday last, was attracted by the cries of children ;
and led by the circumstance to the place whence the cries
issued, he discovered the two children in a piteous state.
They wept bitterly, and with the assistance of the police
they were conveyed to the Millpond-bridge police station,
Rotherhithe. The account of Sergeant Baker, of the
M division of police, is that the little ones, in answer to
hie questions, stated that they had
i been coaxed by a
t” ta and
ewe
woman from their parents' doors, n Great Guildford..
street, Southwark, to accompany
pepperan
ii
her o a place viehtsel ;"11
she would give them "peppermint"
that she led them to the place where they were
discovered, and there stripped one of them of fur
frock and boots, and the other of her bonnet and shoes.
She then deserted them, and they were found d" -
vested of those articles ; but not tied together as ru-
moured. Sergeaut Baker furthered ascertained from
one of them that she was the daughter of a marble
polisher, living at 17, Great Guildford-street, Southwark,
and upon inquiry f mind tbelittla one's statement to be cer-
rect. Tne children, who are surprisingly sharp and int.l-
- for their tender years, describe their kidnapper as
"Big Elizabeth ;" but the police have not yet been able
to trace her by that description. The offence—a most
serious one—is now becoming very common, and such
occurrences ought to act as a warning to parents to look
sharply after their children, and thus save them from
the danger to which they are exposed in being decoyed
away and stripped of their little articles of dress, by
1..05e and unprincipled women.