The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

THE ARMED GENTRY OF
IRELAND.

A return has been published of those persons in
Ireland who have registered arms, under the new Act,
to the amount of twenty stand and upwards. The
list is amusing. It contains the names of the most
prominent alarmists in the whole country, being com-
posed almost exclusively of that class, fellows armed
to the teeth, like Richard the Third in the Tower,
and

"Intending deep suspicion."

There is Lord Lorton with sixty-three stand ; a
trigger, perhaps, for every cabin razed to the ground
upon his wide patrimonial demesnes. The Marquis
of Westmeath can take the field with his peppering
gamekeeper, in character and equipment like Robin-
son Crusee and Friday. Lord Bernard is loaded with
barrels like a brewer's horse. The Earl of
Donoughmore has guns enough to fit out
the whole tribe of his " blood relations." The brave
Earl of Glengall is bristling with all manner of mor-
tal engines, not forgetting the long bow ! The Earl
of Rosse has his telescope guarded, in the centre of
his own well-garrisoned town, with pieces of the
longest range. Some of the specific enumerations
of weapons possessed by individuals are amus-
ingly characteristic. Edmund Staples, Esq., Dun-
more, Queen's county, boasts " three double-bar-
relled guns, six muskets and sword bayonets, six
carbines, seven baytinets, one duck gun, three blun-
derbusses, five double pistols, and eighteen single pis-
tols;" whilst a neighbour of his, H.Waller, Esq., of Castle
Durrow, rejoices in a still greater variety, namely,
" three double-barrelled guns, five single guns, three
muskets, two carbines, two carbines with spring
bayonets, one air-gun, two double-barrelled pistols,
one single-barrelled pistol, one six-barrelled pistol,
one four-barrelled pistol, four swords, four bayonets,
and one blunderbuss." The famous "Lord of the
brass-hilted sword" was nothing to Mr. Waller, of
Castle Durrow. The best armed man of the whole
lot, as far as numbers go, is James Pearson, of Ardara,
in Donegal, who has 81 guns. As there is. nothing
in that country worth shooting except rabbits, Mr.
Pearson has, probably, an extensive interest in
the fur trade : and hence the sameness as well as the
multiplicity, of his argument. But eighty-one guns
in the Black North are nothing, by comparison, to the
forty stand of arms possessed by Benjamin Lefroy,
Esq., of Cardenton, in Kildare.—Abridged from the
Dublin Monitor.

NEWLY INVENTED SPECTACLES, Deafness Relieved
Telescopes, Opera Glasses, &c., 39, Albemarle-street,Pic-
cadilly. Deafness Acoustic Instruments—lnvisible Voice
Conductors when fixed in the cavity of the cars are not
perceptible, they enable individuals at an advanced age,
and of forty and fifty years' standing, of extreme deaf-
ness, instantly to join in general conversation, and to
catch the sound of, a distant low speaker at church,
theatre, &c.—lt poars the conversation into the ears to
such an extent that in most severe cases deafness cannot
be observed. Also original Ear Cornets, French,
German, and Spanish Artificial Ears and Improved hear-
ing Trumpets of every description. Immediately the
Newly Invented Spectacles are placed before imperfect
vision that mist and dullness which appear before the
eyes is removed, every object becomes clear and distinct,
so that the most aged defective sight becomes bright and
brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and ori-
ginal state. Also Achromatic Waistcoat Telescopes and
Opera Glasses. Every kind of Telescopes of larger size,
with increasing powers, for Shooting, Sea purposes, and
upon stand for astronomical observations, with the cele-
brated Lenses of the most clear, transparent brilliancy;
the powers are so great and the Lenses so bright and
brilliant, that minute objects at an extraordinary distance '
are brought completely under the eyes.—Sportsmen,Tou-
rists, and sea-side visitors will indeed have a great treat.
Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and
Aurists, are not in any way connected with a person of
the same name in their immediate neighbourhood ; nor
in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes be
cautious, and observe,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-
street, Pic2adilly, opposite the York Rote
AUSTRIAN FINANCE.—VIENNA, MAY 15.—The na-
tional debt of Austria, including everything, amounts now to
1,014,000,000 florins—that is, more than six times as much
as the total amoant of revenue of the empire. The exact
amount of the revenue and expenditure is not exactly known,
but it is certain that there has long been a deficit, which
Baron Kubeck has not been able to get rid of.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The cradle for taking this
behemoth of the deep through the dock gates is fast approach-
ing to completion, and we are happy to hear that the projec-
tors have not a shadow of doubt of accomplishing her extra-
ordinary passage.—. Bath Herald.