The Sun. — 1852-10-14 (London, England)

OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.  The report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into those parts of the counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth, which were referred to in the Speech from the Throne, embraces a variety of topics —agrarian outrages, secret confederacies, emigration, encumbered estates commission, juries, tenant-right, Itibbonism, &c. The witnesses examined consisted of three parish priests, five magistrates, two barristers, and one under-sheriff; and the opinions expressed by the various witnesses are as varied as are the topics which engaged the attention of the Committee. One witness attributes Ribbonism to agrarian outrages, which another as flatly denies, another believes that crime is to be attributed to competition for land ; whilst another iit equally convinced that such outrages would prevail did no such competition exist, and does in fact prevail where no such competition is known and the population are in comfortable circumstances. One class of witnesses throws the fault upon the tenant-leaguers, whose object is to transfer land to the hands of the present occupiers ; whilst others are equally convinced that the present disturbances are to be attributed to free trade and to the fact of rents remaining as they had been previous to 1846. In the midst of all this variety of opinion, the committee, without attempting to reconcile such obvious contradictions, have satisfied themselves for the resent with recommending some slight reforms. These chiefly consist in attempts to secure more respeetable and impartial juries; in the removal of trials for murder, on special application, to the 411,:en% Bench, and, in cases of intimidation, to a defferent country ; in withdrawing licences granted to public-houses where secret societies are suspected of 11) .6eting ; and finally, in a better regulation of the law between landlord and tenant. In incomparably with this last topic, which is incomparey of the weightiest importance, the attention of all those who are interested in the improvement of Ireland may well be directed to the " Transaction of the Central ueuef Committee of the Society of Friends, during the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847," The very most title assumed by the authors of this very excellent eeeek scarcely to the general reader a fair estimateef conveys its contents. II gives an account of the attempts ma Society of Friends to alleviate thedread dreadful le byfainine the which occurred in that unhappy country intheTear Above-mentioned. But it also conveys the resultsosf those attempts, and shows what men, actuated solely by Christian benevolence and a sense of duty, felt ,would be de'irable for permanently anis. Tiating the condition of this unhappy country. The "work will, unquestionably, take place among the lasting historical documents of this country; the correspondence contained in it will be read with the deepest interest ; and whatever opinion may be formed as to the plane proposed in it for the relief of Ireland, all will readily confess that those plans have been suggested in the spirit of the purest benevolence, and after an actual examination of the state of the country—an examination conducted with that sobriety and faithfulness which eminently distinguish this great body of our Christian community.--ilforning Herald,  SCARCITY or Slivisa CotNAGE.—ConsiderablP sonvenience in minor commercial transactions arises daily from the extreme scorcity of silver. It has become next to impossible to procure cherim even for small notes. For some weeks past persons wanting the change even of a pound note have been obliged to search from twelve to twenty shops before they could be accommodated. If silver cannot be had in sufficient abundance for coinage, a gold coinage of five shillin4 and two shilling pieces will be essential. , Mare at least some effort should be made to procure a supply of small coinage. otherwise the shop trade will be in a dead galwrip Feakot.