The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

CLEARANCE IN ROSS-SHIRE.

The clearances which thirty years ago were effected in
Sutherlandshire are about to he revived in Ross-shire.
Then, however, they were silently carried ; now the Times
has its "own Correspondent" to supervise the operation,
and to tell the public what they really are.
The parish of Kincardine is the scene of the present
clearance. "It is," says the Times' reporter, " divided
into two districts, each of great extent; one is called the
parliamentary district of Croick. The length of this
district is about twenty miles, with a breadth of from ten
to fifteen miles. It extends amongst the most remote and
unfrequented parts of the country, consisting chiefly of
hills of heather and rock, peopled only in a few straths
and glens. This district was formerly thickly peopled ;
but one of these clearances.' many years ago, nearly
swept away the population, and now the whole number of
its inhabitants amounts to only 370 souls. These are
divided into three straths or glens, and live in a strath
called Amatnatua, another strath called Greenyard, and
in Glen Calvie. It is the inhabitants of Glen Calvie, in
number ninety people, whose turn it is now to be driven
out of their homes, all at once—the aged and the helpless
as well as the young and strong; nearly the whole of them
without a hope or a prospect for the future. The pro-
prietor of this glen is Major Charles Robertson, of Kin-
deace, who is at present out with his regiment in Austra-
lia ; and his factor, or steward, who acts for him in his
absence, is Mr. James Gillanders."
The land of Glen Calvie is wretched, and thoegh not
more than fifteen or twenty acres, yields the incredible
rent of £55 10s. ; eighteen families have a cottage in it,
and they have punctually paid their rents. On Mr.
Gillanders assuming the management of the property he
determined to convert it into a sheep-walk. In spite of
their offers to pay a higher rent than any one else these
poor people were to be " weeded out" on the 25th ; and
only three are to be provided for elsewhere. The rest are
hopeless and helpless. "Two or three of the men told
me they had been round to every factor and proprietor in
the neighbourhood, and they could obtain no place and
nothing to do, and they did not know where to go, or
what to do to lite." " And for what," asks " our own
Correspondent," " are all these people to be reduced from
comfort to beggary ? For what is this virtuous and con-
tented community to be scattered and driven into destitu-
tion ? I confess I can find no answer. It is said, that
the factors would rather have one tenant than many, as it
saves them trouble. But so long as the rent is punctually
paid, as this has been, it is contrary to all experience to
suppose that one large tenant will pay more rent than
many small ones, or that a sheep-walk can pay more rent
than cultivated land. Now, no doubt there is an object
in driving off the people—namely, fear of the New Scotch
Poor-law compelling the heritors to pay towards the sup-
port of those who cannot support themselves. How they
have hitherto performed this obligation, and why they
should be afraid of the New Scotch Poor-law, must form
the subject of another letter. In the meantime, let me
add, that so far from the clearance' at Glen Calvie being
a solitary instance in this neighbourhood, it is one of
many. The tenants of Newmore, near Tain, who, lam
told, amount to sixteen families, are to be weeded' out,
as they express it here, on the 25th, by the same Mr.
Gillanders. The same factor manages the Strathconnan
estate, about thirty miles from Newmore, from which,
during the last four years, some hundreds of families have
been ' weeded.' The government church of that district,
built eighteen years ago to meet the necessities of the
population, is now almost unnecessary, from the want of
population. At Blackisle, near Dingwall, the same agent
is pursuing the same course ; and so strong is the feeling
of the poor Highlanders at these outrageous proceedings,
so far as they are concerned wholly unwarranted from any
cause whatever, that I am informed on the best authority,
and by those who go amongst them and hear what they
say, that it is owing to the influence of religion alone that
they refrain from breaking out into open and turbulent
resistance of the law."

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JUNE, 1841.
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oath—Bengal; Chatham.
41st—I3recon.
42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight.

Reserve batt., Malta
143d—Montreal; Carlisle.
144th—Dublin.
145 th--Cape of Good Hope, I.W

Reserve batt., Gibraltar.
46th—Canada ; Belterbet
47th—Chester.
48th—Jamaica; Hull.
49th—P.ymou h.
50th—liengal ; Chatham.
51st—Van D. Land ; Chatham
52d—Quebec ; Dover.
53d—Bengal; Chatham.
54th—Mullingar.
55th—Winchester.
56th—Bury.
57th—Madras ; Chatham.
58th—N.S. Wales ; Chatham.
59th—Portsmouth.
60th (Ist battalion .)—Fermoy.
(2d batt.)—Canada; Aberdeen
61st—Cork .
62d—Bengal ; Chatham.
63d—Madras ; Chatham.
64th—Northampton.
65th—Dublin.
66th—Birr.
67th Dublin.
68th— Walmer.
69th—Canterbury.
70th—Newry.
71st—Antigua ; Isle of Wight.
Reserve batt., Canada.
72d—Gibraltar; Templemore.
73d—Kilkenny.
74th—Canterhury.
75th—Newport, South Wales
76th—Portsmouth
77th—Jamaica, Athlone.
78th—Bombay; Chatham.
79th—Gibraltar • Naas.
80th—Bengal; 6hatham
81st—Canada; Charles Fort.
82d—Canada; Tralee.
83d—Leeds.
84th—Madras; Chatham.
85th—St.Vincent; Londonderry
86th—Bombay ; Chatham.
87th—Edinburgh.
88th—Malta; Aberdeen.
nth—Canada ; Carlisle.
90th—Ceylon ; Buttevant.
91st—Cape & St. Helena ; /.ofW.
Reserve batt., C. G.Hope.
92d—Glasgow.
93d—Canada; Newbridge.
94th—Aden ; Chatham
95th—Ceylon ; Kinsale.
96th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham.
97th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight.
Reserve batt., Corfu.
98th—China; Chatham.
99th—N. S. Wales; Chatham.
Rifle B (Istb.)—Corfn ;
(2d batt.)—Halifax,N.S.,lsleW.
Reserve batt., Halifax, N. S.
Ist W. I. Regt.—Jamaica.
2nd—Nassau.
3d—Demera. Sierra Leone, &c.
Ceylon Rifle Regt.—Ceylon.
R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canada.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape
of Good Hope.
Royal Newfoundland Companies
—Newfoundland.
Royal Malta Feucibles, Malta.
St. Ilelena Regt.— St. Helena.