The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 10.—STATE OF TIPPERARY.—The I
northern division of Tipperary is daily becoming more
disorganised by agrarian combinations. The accounts
received this morning are truly disheartening, and show
a daring and desperation on the part the persons en-
gaged in those confederacies, which prove how deeply-
seated is the source of the evil in the social system.
There appears to be a total alienation between the owners
and occupiers of the soil, and the law is altogether pa-
ralysed. Twelve or fifteen years ago the north
division had been comparatively tranquil, whilst the
southern portion of the country had been in a state
bordering upon insurrection. Within that interval.
North Tipperary has become the focus of disturbances,
whilst the southern riding ha; been, to a great extent,
tranquillised. This change and its causes were noticed
and accounted for by Baron Pennefather, in a re-
markable address delivered by that learned and ex-
cellent judge at the last assizes of the southern riding,
in which he is the owner of an extensive estate.
That property has been, in the hands of its
former proprietors, " a field of blood ;" but by a total
change of system—by the practice of kindness and for-
bearance towards the tenantry—by treating them as
human beings, sympathising for their wants, and en-
couraging and rewarding their industry, Baron Penne-
father rendered his estate a pattern for order and tran-
quillity to the surrounding district. The landlords of the
south have, many of them, improved their system, and
the southern riding has ceased to be the scene of con-
stant violence and outrage.
It is some such remedy as this that the north riding,
now so frightfully disturbed, requires, and not martial
law or insurrection Acts, which have been unavailingly
tried for fifty years past, never producing a remedy ;
but, en the contrary, always aggravating the disease. At
this moment the police surveillance in North Tipperary
could scarcely be exceeded under a coercion Act, yet
such terrible proceedings occur as the following, detailed
by the Tipperary Vindicator, a moderate and intelli-
gent journal, published in Nenagh :
" ATTACK ON A POLICE PATROL.—It may not be
generally known at a distance that the custom of police
patrols at night, throughout a very wide district of
country, is general in many parts of Tipperary, par-
ticulurly in the baronies of Upper and Lower Or-
mond, Owney, and Arra, Ikerrin, Ellogarty, and
Killnemanagh. This custom has been observed for
a considerable period, and even during the day on
certain occasions, particularly during certain hours on
Sunday, patrols are everywhere out, and the coun-
try, in fact, under a police surveillance, as strict, as
rigid, and as vigilant, as though an insurrection Act were
in active existence, and those parts in question of Tippe-
rary proclaimed. Sunday evening, so early as six
o'clock, the Killoskully patrol, consisting of five sub-con-
stables, under Constable Patrick O'Hara, proceeded in
the direction of Ballynahinch, where they went into a
house in which they had reason, we believe, to suppose
that suspicious characters were at the time located.
Having left the house, they were fired at by a party of
Terry Alts' who lay in wait apparently for them, and who
exhibited a bold and reckless front. The police returned
the tire, when a skirmish took place between them and
their opponents, who again fired. One of the police,
named Anthony Cullen, in the act of firing a shot which
he discharged at one of the ' Terry Alts,' received a
ball, which penetrated the left arm, and lodged in the
right elbow. Shot succeeded shot on both sides, when
the police at length routed their assailants, having ar-
rested one of them, taken a pfstol from another, and
found a gun and hat which were dropped by some of the
party in a field.
HOBRIBLE MURDER NEAR BORRISORANE. —ln
addition to the above, we regret deeply to add the
account of a perpetration of a murder, under the most re-
volting circumstances, near to Borrisokane, on Mon-
day evening. The victim in this instance was a
man of the name of Hogan. He had been in Por-
temna, we understand, during the day, disposing of
corn, and was returning homewards leading his horse
and car, when, at the gate of Kyle Park, he was waylaid
and shot dead. The weapon, it is thought, was a blun
derbuss, which must have been placed near the body
of the unfortunate man, as his clothes were torn by
the shot, and partially burned. Yesterday (Tuesday)
morning, James Carroll, Esq., county coroner, pro-
ceeded to the scene of this foul and barbarous murder,
and held an inquest on the remains of the murdered
man. We have heard that Hogan was one of the pro-
secutors for the beating of Dr. and Mrs. Hobbs, at the
last assizes for this county, for which two men of the
name of Hogan were sentenced—the one to seven and
the other to fourteen years' transportation. We have
heard also that since that period Hogan, the prosecutor,
has been protected by the police; but it would seem that
the police were absent at the time he was thus waylaid
and murdered."