The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

THE MONAGHAN MEETING.

The Tenant League conspirators indulged in lan-
guage at the Monaghan meeting on Tuesday night,
which out-Nutioned the speeches before dinner, and
that is saying quite enough about the oratorical part
of the soil-ie. Mr. Lucius read a letter from Dr.
Mq-kle, which was to the following effect :
" St. Jariath's, Tuam, Feast of St.
Michael, 1850.
" My dear is consoling to every friend of
humanity, of peace, and of order, to find the great
and long neglected question of tenant and landlord at
length so seriously taken up by persons of all creeds
and classes, with a view to its practical settlement on
principles of justice and equity, conducive alike to
the real interests of the occupants and proprietors of
the land. For, without going so far as to assert that
the unheard-of sufferings of the tenantry of Ireland
are its only 'grievance, it must be owned that they
are one of such hideous magnitude as that without
their removal no hope can be inspired from the most
elaborate efforts of legislation.
"To talk, then, of the condition of Ireland as a
political and social problem that baffles solution,
whilst the chief instrument that has laid her prostrate
is palpable to all, is nothing else but an insulting yet
clumsy aggravation of the original and persevering
cruelty of which she has been and continues
still to be the victim. The Learned Sergeant Shea
has placed this system in its proper light at the late
meeting of Kilkenny, to which he gave the weight
and advantage of his great legal acquirements. The
cause of the sufferings of the tenants he rendered as
intelligible as if written on the walls of the Assembly-
house, and, like the unheeded writing of old, it is
now more clearly understood in the terrible retribu-
tion it is bringing in the ruin of the very descendants
of those who were the first agents of this hereditary
injustice.
" It was from the absence of the spirit of a right-
ful and Christian legislation that the intolerable suf-
ferings of the tenant classes sprung. When the mer-
ciful spirit of the Gospel taught the landlords and
tenants of other countries that they stood to each
other in the light of parents and children, to be mu-
tually cherished and protected, in Ireland, the former
class were placed by the law itself in the odious po-
sition of exterminators and oppressors of the latter.
And though some of those hateful laws have been
recently repealed, their spirit survives with such
faithful energy as even to pass to several of the new
proprietors, who, from the force of the sympathies of
caste, disregard the precepts of humanity and religion,
and adopt all the hereditary notions of the old penal
ascendancy.

" Amidst the general prostration of the tenant class
of Ireland, it was fortunate that there has been hi-
therto one portion to which policy extended those
rights of which the natives of the other provinces were
cruelly despoiled. Those rights have since served as
beacon lights to others, pointing the attention of all
to the comparative comfort which even partial justice
never fails to bring in its exercise, and exciting just
aspirations that those rights—the feeble transcripts of
the rights of the Gospel—should be extended to all the
tenantry of Ireland, invested with the guarantee of a
Parliamentary enactment. In the present movement
there is fortunately no sympathy with Socialism, no
affinity with Communism. Those odious dogmas, as
revolting to religion as they are ruinous to social
order, will never find favour with the people of Ire-
land. Their principle is simple. Let the landlords
act towards the tenants as they would wish to be
treated were they in their position ; and again, let the
tenants act towards them according to the same
Gospel maxim ; and instead of the cruelty that' now
springs from the cupidity of proprietors, and the crime
of which cruelty never fails to be productive, Ireland
would soon exhibit a benevolent rivalry between both
classes, which would soon obliterate the recollections
of past sufferings and wrongs.
" Wishing your patriotic body every success in its
truly benevolent and patriotic efforts, and hoping that
the means resorted to will continue to be as legal
and constitutional as the object in view is laudable.
" I remain, my dear Sir, your very faithful servant,
" -flouts, Archbishop of Tuam.
" Frederick Lucas, Esq."
This letter gave, we are told, very great satisfaction
to the meeting, composed as it was of Presbyterians,
Roman Catholics, and soft-horned Protestants. Here
is another Bishop's letter cheering on the Tenant-
League conspirators :
" Mullingar, Sept. 28, 1850.
" Dear Mr. Lucas,—Your favour of the 26th has
just come to hand. In reply, I hasten to say that,
in my convicti( ma, the salvation or annihilation of our
unhappy country depends on the equitable and
speedy settle; nent of the present monstrous relations
between lan6lord and tenant. How deplorable to see
Government and Parliament insensible or indifferent
to the rapid ruin in which it threatens to involve
all classer, of our countrymen. An equitable
settlement, while it respects the just rights of
the lanaord, must be based on justice and
protectio.i towards the tenant. At present
the tenants have not by law the shadow of
either. Hence a system of cruelty, injustice, and
oppression, which has produced an amount of crime
and guilt sell calculated to excite the horror of every
Christian, and sufficient to provoke and draw down
the 'waviest chastisement of the Almighty.
" The noble efforts of the Tenant-League to ob-
tain by peaceful and constitutional means a legal
remedy against this ruinous and widespread ca-
lamity, entitle them to the gratitude and encourage-
ment of every friend to humanity. In the unex-
pected but most happy combination of Irishmen,
distinguished by their brilliant talents and disinter-
ested patriotism, who form the council of the league,
I see the most cheering elements of hope for our mis-
governed ana afflicted country.
"I congratulate you on the success which has
hitherto attended the labours of the Tenant League,
and will close by fervently imploring Heaven to crown
its efforts by that glorious consummation on which
depend the peace, happiness, and prosperity of Ireland.
"I have the honour to be, dear Mr. Lucas, your
obedient and faithful servant,

" t JOHN CANTWELL.
" To Frederick Lucas, Esq , &c."

•
A terrible accident happened at Glengarnock Iron
works on Saturday night last, by which one man lost his
life, and another was so severely injured that he is not ex-
pected to recover. It appears that after the melted metal
had been run out of the furnaces into sand moulds, which is
called casting, those two men were employed in plugging.
up the hole of one of the furnaces were the metal had issued
During such operation the blast must necessarily be kept
off; but in this instance, by some mischance, it was put on
and forced out a large quantity of melted metal, causing the
death of the one, and likewise, it is to be feared, of the other.
—North British Mail.

THE " EXTRAORDINARY '9 NUMBER SEVEN.-011
the 7th of the 7th month a holy observance was ordained to
the children of Israel, who feasted 7 days and remained 7
days in tents—the 7th year was directed to be a Sabbath of
rest for all things; and at the end of 7 times 7 years com-
menced the grand jubilee—every 7th year the land lay fal-
low; every 7th year there was a grand release from all
debts, and bondsmen were set free. From this law might
have originated the custom of binding young men to 7 years'
apprenticeship, and of punishing incorrigible offenders by
transportation for 7, twice 7, or three times 7 years.
Anciently a child was not named before 7 days,
not being accounted fully to have life before that periodical
day—the teeth spring out in the 7th month, and are shed in
the 7th year, when infancy is changed into childhood. At
thrice 7 years the faculties are developed, manhood com-
mences, and a man becomes legally competent to all civil
acts at four times 7 man is in full possession of his strength
—at live times 7 be is fit for the business of the world—at
six times 7 he becomes grave and wise, or never—at seven
times 7 he is in his apogee, and from that day decays—at
eight times 7 he is in his first climacteric—at nine times 7, or
63, he is in his grand climacteric, or year of danger ; and
ten times 7, or three score years and ten, has by the Royal
Prophet been pronounced the natural period of human life.

ROBBER' IN GLAMOR.—Last week a constable
having had his attention directed to the movements of a man
who was carrying a portmanteau along Trongate, followed
him for a short distance, when the former, noticing that
he was followed, darted down a close in that vicinity, as if to
escape. He was, however, captured by a watchman, who
observing that the man had thrown away something as he
entered the close, searched for it. This was ascertained to
be a bundle of bank notes, to the value of upwards of 901.,
and the man, on being taken to the central police-court, was
found to have an additional sum on his person, making the
total amount 1121. A little inquiry soon made it clear that
a robbery had been committed, and it was ascertained in •
short time that the person apprehended, who is named
Duncan M'Leod, was a waiter at the Buck's Head lon. It
appears that he had plundered an English gentleman who
was staying at the hotel of the above sum, and was endea-
vouring to make out of the town with it when thus cleverly
apprehended.—Nor:h Btitish Mail.
A swindler has lately been attempting to dupe the
London brewers and distillers, and has in tome instances
succeeded. His plan is to fix on some respectable publican
residing in the vicinity of a brewery or distillery, and to learn
whether he deals with the firm; If so, the swindler draws a
cheque on a London banking-house, forging the publican's
a messenger in the
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sendingrewer or distiller, in
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fur the cheque." If granted, it soon appears that oblige he bankers
have no account with the drawer.
Teta DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—We exceedingly re-
gret to state that his Grace the Duke of :Newcastle still con-
tinues in the mama precarious and unsatisfactory state of
health as 1% e
. have already described. Indeed, his recovery is
now considered very doubtful. The Earl of Lincoln, Lords
Charles, Thomas, and Robert Clinton, and the Ladies Clin-
ton, are unremitting in their attentions to their much-es-
teemed noble parent. Prayers for his Grace's recovery are
offered up on the Sabbath at Worksop, and other churches in
the neighbourhood of Clumber.—Lincoln Gazette of yea.
tardily.