The Sun. — 1841-04-21 (London, England)

CRIME IN TIPPERARY.  I apprised you a week or two since, of the scarcity of potatoes in the county of Waterford, to such an extent that the agent of the Mining Company of Ireland, which employs a great number of people at the copper mines of Knockmahon, hail found it necessary to import a cargo of potatoes, and to forward a supply of oatmeal for immediate use. Is the neighbouring county of Tipperary, too, it appears that some apprehension begins to prevail regarding the stock of potatoes, and the peasantry are resorting to intimidation, in order to compel landlords to charge something like a moderate price fur ground let out for the growth of this esculent. Now, this reminds me of the terrible uproar recently made by the Times, in relation to some recent crimes in the northern part of Tipperary, bordering the Shannon, which had, even in former times of disturbance, generally been in a state of tranquillity. But it appears that the ejectment system has been in operation there for some time past, and that system has bten universally the precursor of disturbance. The Times adopts as its own " thunder," all the extravagant exaggeration upon this subject put forth by a notorious f.brca,or of crime in Tipperary, the Nenagh Guardian, publishing it one day as received by express, and repeating it the next as having "appeared in past only of yesterday's impression." There used, in Tory times, to be twenty murders for the one committed during the last five or six years. The (limes now perpetrated are, almost invariably, connected with the letting of land : and, I fear, whilst that source of evil exists, the character of the country will continue to be stained by the most criminal outrages. The praise of the Government is, tha►, under its administration, agrarian, as well as all other crimes, have greatly diminished.  As the Nenagh Guardian, rec&ved yesterday, had another list of outrages (in not one of which is it even alleged that the slightest personal injury was inflicted), it is probable the 7 biles will have anoth,r express to-morrow, received by the regular mail. I have looked over all of them, and they bear the certain impress of editcrial manufacture, a very small ingredient of truth being mixed up with a great deal of pure fiction. A brief description will suffice :  " C.iptain Hellfire" (Captain Rock is dead, and hislieutenants, like those of Alexander, have all become rulers on their own account), Captain Starlight, Captain SieAribs, and, stranger than all, Captain Nobody, are all stated by the Nenagh Guardian to have paid visits to different farmers' houses, to caution them either to give up or not to take certain lands ; but, with the exception ot some bla•ik shots, fired for fun by Captain Starlight's " ancient, Sergeant Flint," no overt act wai done, and not even an assault was committed. But as the following outrages in the list relate to the subject of the scarcity ot potatces, to which I alluded in commencing my letter, I shall extract them, with all the eloquent garnishing of the Nenagh Guardian:— " On the night of the 15th instant a body of men, some of whom were armed, tururd up nearly two acres of meadow land of John Dillon, of Cloncannon, parish of Annameadle.  " A threatening notice was served by Captain Nobody on Michael M‘Namara, of Turnioyle, cautioning him not to pay more than et an acrefor potato land. " CAPTAIN Nononv.—Another Rockite captain has been appointed from Rock Lodge to watch over the interests of the locality of Castleotway and the country thereabouts. The title of this new creation 15 Captain Nobody, and potato land seems to claim his first consideration; for only a few nights ago he served a notice on John Harrington, of Castleotway, threatening him with a cruel death if he asked or took more than 71. an acre for potato land. A shot was discharged by way of a sample of Capt. Nobody's capabilities."—Correspondent of the chronicle.