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

WILD SPORTS OP TEE SOUTH.

The folio wing novelette is from a correspondent
of the Cork Southern Reporter :
"On WednesCay, the 30th Sept., the hitherto quiet
and peaceable neighbourhood of Badyhooly was thrown
into a perfect state of confusion by a report getting
ii to circulation that a gentleman in that locality
was about asserting his right to a limestone quarry,
situate on part of the demesne of Convamore, in
the occupation of the Countess of Listowel, her ladyship
baviog declared that she would assemble her tenantry
and worlcpeople, and resist by physical force any attempt
to enter fif r territories. At an early hour the tenantry
surrounding the village of Bellyhooly, and also the re-
tainers of the house of Hare, assembled before the ball
door of Convamore, on the south side of the Blackwater.
Uer 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
eu the tardy villagers ; in fact throughout the day she
was everywhere exhibiting her well-known skill in hone-
mans-hip, 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 the c .nstabulary at Ballyhooly marched
to the scone ; on arrival they found from 400 to 500 men
assembled, and armed with 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-
We: company, armed with pia,els 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 tuld 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 hint arid hie
people a swim in the Blackwater—a service which
would he particularly dangerous on that day, as there
was a tremendous 11 Aid in the river, caused by the late
ratite. The con table asked for an order to get more
police 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 rain') to head a lawless mob, and that lie preferred
continuing the oecupati n in which the constable inter-
rupted him—namely, thinning young trees. The day
wore on, evening came, the expected assailants did not
Ippear, and at 7 o'clock p.m. her ladyship having made
,nother appropriate speech, thinking her retainers, in-
vited them to drink three large barrels of porter pre-
oared for them in the village of Ballyhooly, and returned
in triumph to the mansion-house of Cunvamore."

Country Markets.

MANCHESTER-O,T. 8.

The market moderately attended, and wheat and flour
sold slowly owing to the high prices asked. A very limited
business doing. New oats and oatmeal declined 2d per
151bs and is per load respectively ; in old there was uo
change. Beans ruled steady.