The Sun. — 1849-12-05 (London, England)

ITEMS OF IRISH NEWS.  We (Limerick Examiner) believe it is part of the instructions recently addressed to the constabulary, to make a report under the present inquiry in the rural districts, of the quantity of land in pasture or tillage, and of the extent deserted by the tenants, and left to the landlord, without any cultivation. it is the conclusion of very good judges, who have farmed extensive tracts in this and the adjoining counties, that not more than certainly two thirds the acreable area of ground will be prepared for culture in the south of Ireland next year, and in the western counties, on an average not one-half the acreable surface will be productive. We know in the county Clare, for instance, that seven thousand acres are thrown upon one proprietor by his tenants, and this gentleman is unable to seed or stock one-twentieth part of this derelict territory. In one electoral division in the west of the county Limerick an expanse of more than 2,000 acres is left bare and destitute, without a vestige of tillage or human occupancy. Most of the farmers have been constrained to sell this season's produce at a market price entirely inadequate to their labour and outlay. The proceeds, however, are carefully reserved, not for payment of rent, poor-tax, and county cess, hut to assist the holders in making a settlement across the Atlantic. A report of the local committees of the unions of Limerick, Rathkeale, Newcastle, and Kilmallock, upon the present condition of the ratepayers and other inhabitants comprising an aggregate area of 666,499 acres, a property valuation of 558,8881., and a population of 272,257, show that the grand jury cess and poor-rate of the city has increased to 9s. 7td. in the pound ; Rathkeale union, is. lop.; Kilmallock, Os. 70.; and Newcastle, 15s. 20.1—Limerick Chronicle.  MUEDEn.—Some time since a poor woman was poisoned, and subsequently barbarously choked with a tongs, whilst lodging in the house of a man named Meehan, in the neighbourhood of Carrickbanagher, near Collooney. She had eight or ten pounds in her possession, of which she was robbed, and then hurried in a ditch close to hleehan'a house. A man named T. Gilgan, who was severely beaten by some of the parties suspected of the murder, gave information on the 28th instant to the police, who instantly went to the place pointed out by Gilgan, and on digging down the ditch they found the remains of the poor woman buried under a heap of stones, and coveted with lime, livid with putrefaction, and frightfully decomposed.—Sligo Journal. From a report furnished to the guardians of the Macroom union, it appeared that the able-bodied women in the workhouses were employed, in conjunction with a few pauper weavers and tailors, in making clothes from the raw material. A profit to the funds of the union, amounting to 1681. 17s. 61., was realised by the produce of their labour. Lieutenant Henry, Government emigration agent, has selected eighty girls of the ages of from fourteen to eighteen out of the female inmates of Nenagh workhouse, as eligible emigrants for Australia. The weather continues most inclement, with such a fall of rain as to render the farmer's ground totally unfit for seeding purposes.—Limerick Chronicle.