The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TIIURSDA Y MORNING.--MF. Monaghan
has been appointed Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, at the reduced salary of 4,0001. a year. Mr.
Hatchell is the new Attorney-General, and there is
little doubt that Mr. Sergeant O'Brien will be Soli-
citor-General. The promotion of Mr. Hatchell will,
as a matter of course, compel him to resign his seat
for Windsor, for which he will be again a candidate.
PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION.—The tide of emigra-
tion still floes as vigorously as at any period during
the spring or summer, from Cork, Waterford, and
various other ports. Cork seems to be the great
port of departure from the south, and there is really
a species of mania for emigration. Daily sailing
vessels, freighted with emigrants, chiefly of the
better class of farmers, traders, and country shop-
keepers, are leaving fur the United States or Ca-
nada. One large vessel left Queenstown on Saturday
morning with 370 passengers, many of them fami-
lies who had been in the rank of small gentry or opu-
lent traders, and other vessels are taking in passen-
gers at Cork. Meantime the steamers of two rival
companies, plying between Cork and Liverpool, are
generally crowded with emigrants of an humble
class, who intend to take shipping at the latter port
for America, and on some occasions the applicants
are so very numerous that the masters of the
steamers are under the necessity, from motives of
prudence, to refuse many of them a pasage across
the channel. When we consider that emigration has
been in progress on a gigantic scale since the dis-
astrous potato failure in 11146, it is difficult to account
for the vast numbers still flying from the country,
even at this advanced period of the season, and en-
countering the hardships of a winter passage across
the Atlantic.
THE IRISH CATTLE TRADE.—A letter from Ar-
magh mentions that on Friday last several droves of
cattle, from one of the great fairs of Connaught,
passed through that town on the way to Belfast, for
shipment to Liverpool, and that the cattle seemed
generally of a good breed and in tolerable condition.
The extensive clearances of the small occupiers
in some of the western counties, and the emi-
gration of many of the farmers, have left large
tracts without a human occupant, and the owners
have placed herds of cattle and sheep to graze on
the pastures. This change has led to a con-
siderable increase of cattle breeding, and hence the
new traffic in the shipping of cattle for &gland by
the route to Belfast, from the north-western coun-
ties. In Galway, Roscommon, and other parts of
Connaught, tillage farming of a superior kind has
latterly made decided progress ; but more generally
mere grazing, which affords no employment what-
ever, has been adopted; and a more pernicious sys-
tem, as regards the welfare of the country, could
scarcely be devised. Some few stock farmers in the
west, who possess capital and intelligence, raise green
crops for winter-feeding, thus giving fair employ-
ment whilst adopting the only mode of securing a
good profit cn their business.
ATTEMPT TO HURN A CHURCH IN THE COUNTY OF
WEXFORD. —The Dublin Evening Post has the fol-
lowing from a correspondent in Gorey :—" On
Sunday night the church in Lord Curtown's demesne
was entered by some evil disposed person or persons,
and set on fire in several places. Happily the fires did
not take effect, as the church, though greatly dis-
figured, was not seriously injured. It is the sulUect
of wonder to all the neighbourhood why such a ma-
licious act should have been committed, t.or his
Lordship is universally respected and beloved, and
devotes his whole life to the good of the people. It
must be considered that no disre4pect could have
been intended towards him by this outrageous act."
REDUCTION OF RENTS.—The Earl of Meath has
given a reduction of 20 per cent. to his tenantry, to
tie applied to the improvement of their farms.
CARRYING AWAY CROPS.—The Cork Constitution
contains the folloaing :—" On Saturday night, twelve
o'clock, about forty men, with horses and carts, as-
sembled at Monehaa n, on the estate of G. S. Barry,
Esq , between Watergrasshill and Midleton, for the
purpose of removing the crops, &c , belonging to a
tenant named Michael Mantle, which had been seized
and in charge of keepers for non-payment of rent.