The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

Business
this da.y

106 i 107

WILD SPORTS OF TllE SOUTH.

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The following novellette is from a correspondent
)f the Cork Southern Reporter :
•• On Weditesilty, the :A/Lb Sept., the hitherto quiet
and peaceable neighbourhood of Bailybooly nits thrown
into a perfect state of confusion by a report getting
into circulation that a gentleman in that locality
Was about assertipg his right to a limestone quarry,
situate on part of the demesne of Convamore, in
the occupation of the Countess of Listowel, her ladyship
having declared that she would assertible her tenantry
and workpeople, and resist by physical force any attempt
to enter her territories. At an early hour the tenantry
surrounding the village of Ballyhooly, and also the re-
tainers of the house of Hare, assembled before the ball
door of Convamore, on the south side of the Blaekwater.
filer ladyship was on the field at an early hour, addressed
the crowd in language which touched the hearts of her
hearers, and exerted herself with great energy, spurring
on the tardy villagers ; in fact throughcnt the day she
was everywhere exhibiting her well-known skill in horse-
manship, whipping her beautiful ponies, and calling on
the people to protect her rights ; also promising rewards
to those who should act with the greatest courage. At
about one o'clock tbeetqinstabulary at Ballyhooly marched
to the scene ; on arrival they found from 400 to 500 men
assembled, and armed wits bludgeons, her ladyship's
steward having directed every man not properly pro-
vided to help himself to the fine oak saplings growing
on the demesne. The well-fed English formed a grena-
dier company, armed with pistols as well as bludgeons.
A. police-constable instantly hastened to the residence
of the nearest magistrate, and informed him of the
assembly, and perfectly astonished the poor justice when
he told him that it was to resist the attack of the magis-
trate himself, and all his people, that the immense
crowd were assembled at Convamore. I will leave it
to the reader to imagine the surprise of the quiet
justice when informed that 500 men were within half
a mile of his residence threatening to give him and his
people a swim in the Elackwater—a service which
would he particularly dangerous on that day, as there
was a tremendous flsod in the river, caused by the late
rains. The con-table asked for an order to get more
polite or military, but could not help violating the gravity
Of discipline so far as to burst into a fit of laughter when
told by the magistrate that he had no intention of in-
vading on that day the lordly demesne of Convamore,
and that he never gave an order to any his men to do so;
that he respected himself and the commission he held
too much to head a lawless mob, and that he preferred
continuing the occupation in which the constable inter-
rupted him—namely, thinning young trees. The day
wore on, evening came, the expected assailants did not .
appear, and at 7 o'clock p.m. her ladyship having made
another appropriate speech, thanking her retainers, in-
vited them to drink three large barrels of porter pre-
pared for them in the village of Ballyhooly, and returned
in triumph to the mansion-house of Convamore."