Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser from Dublin, Dublin, Ireland • 3

THR JOURNAL RIDAY MARCH 27 1846 nothing save the 270 the Irish record S' also As I before stated the land is very good It may be some acres more or 1 4 away were com pre 2 3 7 8 4 3 2 4 3 4 2 4 5 1 2 Widow Daly Laurence Kiltrartin Mark Gavin John Gavin Widow Widow Discon Billy Geoghegan John Walsh Ned Smyth Roger orcy Thomas Norton Thady Conlan John Manahan Michael Mulrey Pat lymings James Began Widow Croghan Widow Murray Widow Kenney John Callaghan Pat Morrisy James Egan I 1 given me similar permission ie to say that they proposed to corroborate the facts which I de On approaching the entrance to the village the thing that met my eye was some manure or dung The Mayo Constitution asserts That a man named Joyce had a pew in the chapel of Kilcommon for liberty to build which ha was obliged to pay but as he dared to vote for Mr Moore the pew was torn down smashed to a 1 4 TXT 11 vv rtj tkutnonieu to state thia a premeditated laisenooa uattiebar Tei ever in Belfast We are sorry to learn that fever House of Commons is really bent on carrying Let the Irish members be advised The game is is their own hands if they know how to play it But they must not play a winning game with the desperation of They must keep the sympathies of the Liberal party and retain the power of taking advantage of those chances which the present state of affairs will afford them in some way or another They are in the right as against this bill so clearly in the right that nothing but the over bearing power of a strong government can bear down their on the 13th of March 1846 Name of J'amily Luke Gavin Patrick Mantron Tom Gavin Pat Gavin Bryan' Connor Andy inerty John Conlan Murray Thad Kilmartin Pat Thady Rock Patr ick Morris Lau rence Rock Mic hael Rock Pat Gavin Michael Gavin Jot in Dillon Wi dow Gavin Jo! tin laherty Pa Conroy La rry Crehan Tt omas Tans idow Kenny Jai nes Monahan Ml irk Loftus Mi thew Bryan Th ady Gavin Th omas Gavin T1 lomas Gavin ichael Cheevers Pa Rogerson Pa Higgins Pg Gibbons Pi itrickDriscol Tj aomas Kelly Bj illy Discon Jc hn Norton ichael Clarke Ji ones Gavin I' THE IRISH MR The following reply to Mr second appeal to the Lord Chancellor upon the case of Mr Phillips ex hibits a weakness and sophistication of which we could hardly believe so clever a man to be guilty had we not his own signature as our assurance If the Lord words sufficiently convey his meaning his lordship seems to have spared Mr Phillips solely because the jury who tried the recent case decided in favour of the a case in which it was im possible to reconcile the evidence for the plaintiff with thatf the The jury in this case decided it is true upon their oaths but so did the magistrates in the case in which Mr Phillips criminally proceeded against M'Cormick and these magistrates who were in the habit of continual intercourse with Mr Phillips and some of whom were in communica tion with him as to the very case unanimously disbelieved his evidence and acquitted M'Cormick of the charge of assault which Mr Phillips and his servant swore he had committed Here then is one verdict against another Let us view the matter of these verdicts in their most legal aspect say that they countervail each other still we have the over balancing admission of Sir Edward Sugden against Mr Phillips that even under the circumstances he himself de tails he ought to have conducted himself with more mo and we confidently ask should any man who in his demeanour towards the peasantry to whom he is to ad minister the law cannot himself with modera be permitted for one day to remain in the discharge of functions for which his demeanour and conduct render him confessedly unqualified The following is Sir letter green 16th March 1846 Sir I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant renewing your application for the removal of Mr Philips from the commission of the peace The grounds of your application are 1st That the evidence given on the trial substantiates in all impor tant particulars the statement upon which your former application was founded and 2d that a gentleman who has so little control over his own feelings as to act in the in the 1 3 7 3 3 4 5 2 2 5 5 building stands now a mere munificence of intention and ages prove as great a puzzle round towers of other days Mrs Gerrard is is one of a truly painful character but exordium My business is to state facts as nave them to tell the truth and nothing save tne as I myself have witnessed truth corrobo from them is attemnted that it is a wise custom which places commanded by Captain Brown and also by a heavy body of police under the command of Mr Cummings proceeded to the place' marked out for destruction The people were then according to the of law(I could not procure a copy of the habei ej called on to render possession' and forth with the bailiffs of Mrs Gerrard commenced the work of de molition In the first instance the roofs and portions of the walls were only thrown down the former in most instances lie on the side of the road on the manure already alluded to It was stated in the original account published in the Roscommon Journal that a child had been killed by the fall ing of a beam as the bailiff would not wait until the boy came out of the house but I am happy to inform you that this is a mistake The boy was certainly hurt but not severely and it appears he was son one of the bailiffs not to a tenant and that the transaction was purely accidental It was also mentioned that a sick man had been thrown out on the field This is partly incorrect the fact being as follows: A man and woman who lay ill of fever were permitted to remain in a house into which they were carried after possession of it had been taken and this is the solitary house remaining and to which I have already alluded but they have since been served with notice to leave the place within fifteen days or the house would be tumbled on top of them This information was given me by a man on the road in presence of upwards of 100 men and women who all stated that it was a fact the man adding I don think Sir the poor people will be there then for I heard the peo ple who are attending them say they are dying and you know removing them in the fever was enough to bring that After this necessary digression I shall proceed step by step as I now come to the most painful but most important portion of the mission with which you have honoured ms Mr Donovan and myself walked through the ruins of every house and counted them to the number you have above Great pains must have been taken to de molish the houses as the walls were very thick and com posed of an umber clay and when the inside turned up good plaster and whitewash always appeared Not content with throwing down the roofs and walls the very founda tions have been turned up and here I must explain what a moment ago I stated namely that only a portion of the walls were pulled down in the first instance That is true but on the night of riday the wretched creatures pitched a few poles slantwise against the walls covering them with the thatch in order to procure shelter for the night but when this was perceived next day the bailiffs were dispatched with orders to pull down all the walls and root up the foundations in order to prevent the (this it ap pears is a favourite term applied to these poor people) from daring to take shelter amid the ruins When this last act had been perpetrated the took to the ditches on the high road where they slept in parties of from ten to fif teen each huddled together before a fire for the two suc ceeding nights I saw the marks of the fires in the ditches every body can see them and the temporary shelter which the (I help quoting the word so often) en deavoured to raise round them these with the sticks res cued from their recent dwellings the thatch and the dung remain there as evidence of the truth of my statement It was a melancholy sight but more particularly so amongst the ruins Here a broken chair there a smashed pot crockery ware remnants of old dressers boxes and tables together with broken farming implements and a hundred other articles belonging to husbandry and household pur poses lay about the gardens of the houses (that had been) or the fields adjoining Having satisfied myself as to facts I returned to the road through the fields which lie to the south of the village and which formed a portion of the farms attached but I am told it was the people who made it so The whole extent of ground connected with the village is over 400 acres less but I believe from the best information that this will be found about the number of acres which Mrs Gerrard has recovered and over which her fat bullocks may now roam without a solitary hut to intercept them I turned away almost sick at what I had seen and reached the road where I found a large number of people both male and female collected about our driver who remained with the vehicle They all Rocked around us on our return and one very intelligent young man addressed us as follows: Well gentlemen did you ever the like Of that be fore? Never (I replied) and I hope I never shall again Then Sir you intend to stop long in this part of the county Galway for if you did soon see these two villages (pointing to two villages as he spoke that lay about a mile and a half or two miles off in an easterly direction) in the same way Who is proprietor of those Mrs Gerrard Sir and she has served one of them with the notices and the other is warned to be ready Whose tenant are you? Mr Cheevers' Sir long life to him that never turned out a poor man or a widow woman but if any of his people were troubled with hardship or distress the one him self and his lady that would come and relieve them Who is Mr Cheevers and where does he live? Down there Sir his land runs along the river until you come to the mearing of Mrs land Well were you here when the houses were thrown down? In troth I was your honour and I never saw the like of it Well tell us something about it? Well Sir when the Peelersand soldiers came the sheriff and the bailiffs turned out the creatures and then such bawling and screaming of women children and old men I never heard Why Sir it would melt the heart of a stone to hear them and troth the very dogs howled and cried for think the brutes knew what it was all about and they howled away until the houses were all down and one of them stopped howling and barking at his door for several days after and wouldn't leave it for any My friend Mr Donovan who heard the poor simple but to me touching narrative corroborated him in every word he said and you shall have further proof of it hereafter The man went on Well sir that al! some of the walls were left standing and when the night came they threw up a few kippeens of sticks to shelter them selves from the cold but the next day she well God for give her after all she it is said ordered her bailiffs to root up the foundations to prevent the wretches sir they were called of going there any That was rather severe I observed Ob but sir said the man with a degree of horror de picted in his face that all for she sent orders to' all her tenants not to let one of them in or if they did she would serve them the same way at least such orders were given in her I said I believe that my good friend you sir said the man? No I replied aith and I could bring you at least to one person that was warned at all events I will not credit the story otherwise said I It is very currently reported said Mr Donovan and is believed to be true Who gave the notice to the tenants I inquired of the man Why the bailiffs Sir Could you show me any person that such a notice was either given to in words or in writing Ob I Sir it was not in writing the bailiffs only called and told the people Then Jet me see anyone that the bailiff called on a woman down here below on the road and if your honour comes down she will tell you all about it We went down accordingly but the woman was at the market of Mount Bellew There was a boy there about nine or ten years of age who told us that one of the told his mammy not to take in any of the people who were turned out but his mammy let in an old woman after that I would not have placed much reliance on this corrobora tion except for what you will learn somewhat further on It is to be hoped for the sake of humanity and of woman hood that Mrs Gerrard is ignorant of this order After some further conversation with the people which you will find embodied in the general details we proceeded towards Mount Bellew and at every step new heaps of dung sticks LANDLORDISM IN IRELAND CASE THE GERRARD TENANTRY (ROM OUR OWN REPORTER) Mount Bellew county Galway Wednesday Night 25th March 1846 The conduct of Mrs Gerrard towards her tenantry to which you were the first to direct metropolitan attention has not only excited deep and anxious interest throughout this country but through the imperial realms of England The I shall not use found truth rated by the most substantial and dence could not who would not be guilty of deceit or duplicity Before entering into a statement of the details I may here observe that there has been a mistake in reference to the locality where the scenes took place which I am about to lay through your columns before the public It was ge nerally conceived that the theatre of thia wholesale annihila tion of human dwellings was situate in the county of Ros common That is incorrect Still the mistake was natural as no particular locale was mentioned and as the first intimation of the fact was conveyed to the public through the Roscommon Journal situate mile of ORMOND AND COUNTY HUNT STEEPLE CHASE (LISMACRORY Wednesday March 25 Intelligence reached town yesterday evening that the oxhuntf Stakes of 15 sots each 100 added were won by Mr Preston's br Brunet' (A ireaway second and Irishman third We cannot vouch for the accuracy of the report but will be able to give a detailed account of the races in to morrow's beemax NORTHAMPTON Tcesday The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each with 40 added one mile and a quarter (4 suns Mr Auricula 3 yrs 6st Xord Discord aged 9st 71b a to 1 on Discord who was defeated easily by a length Two year old Sweeps of 50 sovs each ft half a mile (3 subs) Lord Gabbler 8st 71b (Nat) I Mr Dr Goodall 8st 41b 2 Mr by Gladiator out of Deception 8st 41b 3 2 to i on Gabbler and 7 to 2 agst The Doctor Won by a length easy The Great Northamptonshire Stakes of 100 sovs added to a Handi cap of 25 sovs esch 15 ft and 5 only if declared the second to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes and the winner to pay the judge 101 twomiles (89 subs 53 paid) Mr Morpeth 3 yrs 7st 91b (Bumby) 1 Mr Lord Saitoun 5 yrs 7st 51b 2 Betting 7 to 1 agst Morpeth 8 to 1 agst Lord Saitoun A run race and won by a neck only the Daughter a bad third and the Queen of Tyue fourth The Tally ho Stakes 10 sovs each ft with 25 added two miles (9 subs were won by Mr Valiant 4 yrs beating Mr Chance aged Mr Southby's Europa Mr Isabel Mr airplay andc by Don John The Plate of 100 guineas two miles Mr Moore's Wolf dog 4 yrs walked over The Plate of 501 Heats once round and a dis Mr Manning's Melody 5 yrs list lib (T Parr) 0 1 Mr Hiffa a bv Mundiz aged list 111b 14 Mr Bull's The Curate aged list II lb 032 Six others ran The first heat was won by a neck the others in a canter CHK3TKB CUP BETTING TCESDAY ATTZRNOOM 13 to 1 agst Sweetmeat (taken) I 25 to 1 agst itzAllen 20 to 1 Clumsy I 40 to 1 Corrsnna 22 to 1 Miss Burns 40 to 1 Whinston THE LEAMINGTON ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE Pioneer (Captain Peel) Boxkeeper (J Mason) Vanguard (Olliver) Nina ntnera ran The second race was won by Peter Simple (Mr Rolt) beating se veral others ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY There was a ballot for the admission of members on yes terday The following gentlemen were admitted rancis Codd Esq John Taylor Esq Andrew Ge raghty Esq George Murray Gusty Esq Joa Clarke Rutherfoord Esq James razer Esq Thomae Edkins "Wilson Esq John Aldridge Esq MD COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS COMPANY DUBLIN At a general meeting of the above company held yester day in the Commercial Buildings Dame street forth pur pose of electing 15 members to be the Committee cf Direc tors for the ensuing year the following gentlemen were una nimously elected: Peter Brophy Leland Crosthwaite A Codd John Croker John Ennis Char les Haliday Thomas Kelly John George M'Bride Thomas Mooney Thomas Pim Joshua Pasley George Roe and Thomas Wilson Esq INSPECTOR REVENUE POLICE Liautenant Colonel orster th Assistant Adjntant Genaral an Englishman a perfect stranger is about to "be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to the situation of Inspector of Revenue Police lately held by Colonel Brereton The place i worth 10001 a year and should be given to a deserving and popular Irish officer Evening Post SALES AND AUCTIONS Tea To Dav Brodribb Lloyd Matheson Sugar 31st March Hone Son Mahogany April 2 Jaffbay Barcboft Rooks Ta 'Day Chablis Shabpe Boats To Day Lawler urniture To Morrow Lawler urniture 30th March Lawler urniture tfc To Day Michael Crooks Tea To Morrow William Young Houses and Premises 30th March City Marshal ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of Charlemont as the lady in waiting on the Queen has succeeded Viscount Hawarden as the lord in waiting to net Majesty and Mr Ormsby Gore has succeeded Captain mey nell as the groom in waiting to her Majesty enrn The Earl of Wicklow has arrived in London from Ventnor Isle of Wight where the Countess and Lady Howard who continue in a very delicate state 8tlTheyMqui and Marchioness of Douglas are expected to return from the continent soon after Easter The Earl and Countess of Cardiean will receive a dis tinguished party the ensuing week at Dean Par The Eariand Countess of Erroll and Lady Hay were to have left Paris on Saturday last en rou We are sorry to learn that the noble earl staThTcoMuTs of Tankerville who is to Marshal Sebastian! at Paris is expected to re at the end of May The Earl of Wilton has arrived in London fr0 Ixxtge The countess and family have left Nice for GenevastmuntesaCampden has returned to Bourne Clift House from the rench capital The Hon Samuel Hay accom panied her ladyship Viscount Campden is in improved health Sir Roger and Lady Palmer and Miss Matthews arrived at Portland House London on the 20th inst from Chelten ham where they have been sojourning for some time John Esq and Lady Elizabeth have ar rived in Dublin from Drumcar on a visit to the Dean of the Chapel Royal Dublin Castle The Emperor of Russia has forwarded the insignia of the White Eagle (accompanied by a flattering letter) to Ges Panguten wbo accompanied the Russian troops during the re cent disturbances at Cracow King Otho of Greece has conferred the St Saviour a Order of the King of Hanover The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha have ar rived at rankfort on their way to Spain Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy arrived in Lon don on Tuesday from visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle the Earl and Countess of Brownlow at Belton Lodge and Viscount and Viscountess Newport at Egerton Lodge Melton Mowbray Prince George of Saxe Meiningen (the Prince Here ditary) arrived from Germany on Tuesday to visit the Queen Dowager He is only son of his Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Meiningen and consequently nephew of the Queen Dowager and the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar and is on the eve of completing his 20th year The Austrian Ambassador and Countess Dietrichstein give a splendid banquet on Saturday at Chandos House when Sir Robert and Lady Peel and most of the ministers dine at the embassy It is rumoured that Sir Pelly Bart ha received a high official appointment in her household and that he has taken a mansion in the vicinity of Hyde Park as a town residence Ipswich Express Viscountess Jocelvn has succeeded the Countess of Char lemont as lady in waiting to the Queen Lord Rivers has suc ceeded Viscount Hawarden as lord in waiting to her Majesty and Mr Ormsby Gore has succeeded Captain Meynell as groom in waiting to her Majesty The funeral of General Balmaseda one of the most firm adherents of Don Carlos took place in the Roman Catholic church at St Petersburg)! at the beginning of this month The general bad taken up his residence in the Russian capital during the last seven or eight years THEkTRE ROYAL Miss Cushman takes her benefit on to morrow night We have during the course of her engagement felt it our duty frequently to express our sense of her commanding genius and now that she is about to leave us we are anxious that she hould meet with that public testimony which her ta lents have so richly earned We know of no more suitable means to excite onr readers to join in affording it than by quoting from the Evening Packet of last a paper distinguished by the ability of its dramatic criticisms the following excellent notice in every word of which we hear tily concur: We perceive that Saturday night is fixed for the benefit of thi gifted actress on which occasion she will make her last appearance in this city rom the very first hour that Miss Cushman trod our boards as the love sick Romeo she hat night after night been achieving a succession of splendid triumphs and it is not panegyric too great to say that it is many very many years since a lady of such brilliant and purely original genius has graced the Dublin stage Such genius ought to have a commanding claim on public patron age and though the religious observances of the season have hitherto prevented the theatre from being as well at tended as we could have wished we hope that a crowded bouse will assemble on Saturday to bid Miss Cushman fare well Young gifted a lady and a stranger why the gallantry of Irinhmen shall be no longer prover bial if they do not on Saturday eagerly avail themselves of the opportunity to give Miss Cushman a substantial proof that hsr great powers have been appreciated as they ought Be it remarked that shi is a native of America a land in the veins of the greater portion of whose citizens flows Irish blood a land that ever has welcomed the Irish emi many of the children of whose fruitful soil may like the Geraldines be termed ipsis Hibernis Hi berniores Shall the daughter of such a people marvel louslv gifted as she is and eminently possesing that bright genius to which intellectual minds must bow in homage the world over be uffered to leave our city without a farewell auch a in after years she may look back to with pleasure Her sex her country her unequalled talents above all her being a stranger entitle her to our support and we shall blush for onr fellow citizens if they absent themselves from the theatre on the occasion of her benefit and last appearance SPORTING INTELLIGENCE do the work of the protectionists and stop the corn bill by raising a discussion on another measure which will not ia reality be according to the practice of parliament before the house We warn them of the inevitable consequences of so fatal an error No mismanagement of theirs will provoke the Liberal party to support a bad measure but it will deprive themselves of that hearty aympathy on the a A A 1' Lx AM A 1 A A A A Part of what he state to you I have after the period for a new trial and that I should willingly afrr moe effective means of AL 1 A AAM I AM 4 Lt A a4aa I defeating a coercion bill tnan all the obstructions which mere length of sueeches and freauenev of diviainna ran Total families Total persons The most important portion of the information I have received I cannot at present transmit for the reason already stated but you shall have it by to post You will at once perceive that I have gone on by stages in order to elicit facts and every word contained in my present com munication you may rely on But I must close or I lose the post The Gavins were very numerous here but although there are several of the same name they each composed separate families coercion the Irish members The following is the article in the Chronicle al luded to by our Special Correspondent We understand that the Irish members of the House of Commons are to meet to for the purpose of determin ing on the course which they are to take on the coercion bill Great consequences are involved in the decision to which they may come The fate of the bill itself probably depends on the greater er less prudence of the course adopted by the Irish members And on the issue of this measure and still more on ths tone adopted in the discus sions on it depend in all probability the relations which will for many years exist between the two portions of the United Kingdom depend perchance the restoration of kindly feelings and the consolidation of the Union We cannot deem ourselves justified in abstaining from such remarks on a subject of this gravity as appear to us calculated to exercise even the slightest influence in bring ing matters to a desirable issue We think we may claim some regard to our advice on this subject The Irish members cannot doubt that we are as strenuously opposed to this bill as any of themselves rom the first we have denied its efficacy to any good purpose and denounced its irritating tendency At the cost of differing from those public men in the House of Lords in whose steps we have generally deemed it an honour to follow we ventured to impugn th wisdom of their conduct in supporting this coercion bill In expressing these opi nions we even anticipated our Irish friends To the course which we took at first we have adhered through out and every word which we shall now say will be dictated solely by the desire of suggesting the course best calculated according to our judgment to defeat a measure which we deem pregnant with confusion and disaster We are sanguine as to the issue of a well combined and prudent opposition to the coercion bill rom all the in quiries which we have made we believe that the feeling of the Liberal party towards it is one of almost unanimous hostility The members of that party in the House of Commons are undoubtedly most desirous that nothing should occur to obstruct the progress of the corn bill and tariff or to endanger the existence of the ministry that has undertaken the responsibility of those great measures But we know that we are speaking the sentiments of the lead ing friends of free trade in the House of Commons when we say that their feeling is that not even to ensure the success of their own great cause will they become parties to the misgovernment of Ireland Whenever the coercion bill is pressed forward they will oppose it And if Sir Robert Peel should attempt to take any unworthy advantage of his position to force their assent to the bill while the issue of his free trade measures is still uncertain they will not submit to that unfair compulsion but will do their duty leaving to him the responsibility of obstructing or defeating the policy to which he has pledged his reputation We used similar language to this a week ago when some of the acts of the government induced us to suspect them of such an intention We feel bound now to acquit them of meriting such suspicions We understand from Sir Jaues speech a few nights ago that the government deem it to be required by usage and respect to the upper house that a bill sent down from the lords should not be allowed to remain unnoticed by the other house for any considerable length of time The usual practice of parliament has been for each house as a mattefr of course instantly to read a first time any bill which comes to it with the sanction of the other In the present in stance this practice was waived in deference to the wishes of the Irish members In censcquence of this and of the protracted debates on the tariff and corn bill it will be im possible to take up the coercion bill until it shall have been at least a fortnight in the House of Commons Longer than this ministers deem it unseemly to defer the first read ing of the bill But Sir James Graham stated (as well as we have been able to ascertain what he said) that after hav ing advanced the bill this stage it was not his intention to propose the second reading which is usually considered the first occasion for opposition and discussion until the corn I bill shall have left the House of Commons We confess that this appears to us a very fair arrange ment The rules and customs of the House of Commons are the result of great experience and of a judgment I of which the practical rectitude becomes apparent I whenever any deviation from them is attempted We think that it is a wise custom which places I this limitation on the stages of discussion on a bill I which has already received the sanction of the other I house There is surely sufficient scope for opposi I tion after the first reading of any bill We grant to the I opponents of such a bill as the present that long and fre I quent discussions are needed to awaken the English mind to the real character of measures proposed with reference I to Ireland We admit that this is a case in which it would be fair for a minority to try the chances of delay and acci I dent in thwarting a tyrannical majority But if the oppo I nents of the coercion bill should be driven to such a course I of opposition ample opportunities for it will be afforded in I the vast variety of stages through which the bill will have I to pass after the first reading The policy of defeating the mack did present a pistol at Mr Phillips which you admit delay bardly J08? a of by beinS I nnmmonrpn nt thA uqnaJ fitnaA nnnnmfinn awaww MA AXMU VIUIJ chance of exposing the vices of this bill by fair discussion and of defeating it either by the vote of an absolute majority or the moral weight of an united opposition will be com promised by an unnecessary and mischievous violation of the practice of parliament for the purpose of obstructing this or any other bill in its passage through a formal stage or such obstruction will in truth be a wanton and mis chievous obstruction of the corn bill The government have a right to ask the House of Commons to confarm to usage in giving a first reading to a bill sent from the Lords If they are met by a protracted discussion on that stage the consequence will be that the corn bill will not get through the House of Commons before Easter The fault of this obstruction will be laid not at the door of a conauwn Dually su uispose your application ministers who really ask nothing unreasonable with regard I beg further to inform you that I had not lost sight of fl regard kOW VI I Ainarv nnmiainna nf nnnnBi'tinn hut nn flino needless discussion on an unusual occasion Much allow ance will no doubt be made for the excited feelings of the Irish members and the peculiar nature of the measure which thev ouuese But thev mav denend unnn it thoi JC Al VT CVCl the county of Galway and within one town from whence I now write in order to particularise the pot (for it is wortny or recordj I shall describe the route from Roscom mon thither in order that the traveller or the curious may be able to recognise hereafter and point not to the but ruined village of Ballinglass where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain but where ruin wreck and desolation now reign friumphant with all their sable and dreary accessories Leaving Roscommon yon proceed by the Galway road through a country almost all bog En route you pass through a small but neat town called Athleague thence to Mount Talbot the residence of Mr Talbot where you cross the river Suck which divides the counties of Roscommon and Galway The next place of any note is a pretty town called Ballygar seated on the brow of a hill commanding a fine prospect from which considerable portions of the fertile counties above mentioned jQuy viewed to much advantage You thence proceed in a direct line to Ballinamore a small village on the bank of the river Sheeven where the Hon Mr french has a beautiful seat Turning to the right the road leads along the river to a small place formerly called Newbridge but latterly known as Newtown Gerrard in honour of the proprietress Mrs Gerrard This was at one period a populous place but the hand of the spoiler came and the evidences of his progress are unmistskeable and are here in ample array presented to the eye To compensate for this destruction Mrs Gerrard ha erected a market house which is without merchandise neither buyer or seller ever appearing there and the rusty iron triangle with mouldering beam and scales attached speak eloquently of the neglected state of this deserted village The lady also with a degree of carefulness not to be too highly estimated erected a large and very beau tiful house which she in her wisdom deemed fit for the accommodation of twelve policemen but after repeated ap plications to government for a force to the above extent she was refused and the monument of the no doubt will in future to the antiquary a the or the present union workhouses erected here a half inn half public house of large dimensions which is kept by a person named Ginty who acts in the united capacities of steward overseer and inn keeper I am bound however to say that I am credibly informed he is a respectable honest and well meaning man In view of this place there is a very elegant lodge raised for the reception of Mrs Gerrard when ever she visits that portion of her estates And here I may remark that ber broad cover a large tract of country and are valued at the value of over 5 0001 a year on a moderate estimate En passant her ladyship and her husband are accounted the richest commoners in Connaught some say in Ireland The Dublin and Liverpool markets are largely supplied with fat cattle reared on this extensive estate As the public mind is dwelling fixedly on this subject it may not be inappropriate to state that Mrs Gerrard pos sesses this property in her own right it having fallen to her on the death of her three brothers many years since The maiden name of this lady was Netterville and as she her self has had no family her heirs presumptive are lam given to understand Mr Corbally the member for Meath and Lord Killeen son of Lord ingal whose mother is half sister to Mrs Gerrard Mr and Mrs Gerrard re side at a place called Gibbstown in the county of Meath the former is said to be in his 80th year and the latter some ten years his junior It has been stated in an evening co temporary that they are Catholics this is an error But let us proceed to the scene of ruin Leaving Newtown Gerrard you pass along to the left of the ri ver Sheeven On the road to Mount Bellew and about a mile from that pretty little town the first sight of the recent scene of desolation presents itself to view The village of Ballinglass parish of Kilasobe and barony of Killyon county of Galway was situate here and was built on the confines of a bog which in a great measure had been reclaimed by the tenants the lnd particularly at the rere of where the houses once stood presenting an appearance of high culti vation which was produced by the patient and hard industry of th tenants who now are scattered over the country without a resting place for their weary aud time worn limbs save that supplied by the broad canopy of heaven and the charity of a few poor people in the neighbourhood and in Mount Bellew I now come to the task which of all other I feel my incapability of doing justice to or even of convey ing a faint outline of namely a description of the scene of ruin which presents itself to the beholder The approach to the village was by kind of togher as it is called along the left of which were heretofore a few scattered About a quarter of a mile from the main road the houses were clustered together in groups of three or four and so continued at short distances apart they were in number 61 as the return below will show you Not one of those habi tations is now standing save one and you shall presently see the reason that this solitary dwelling is still permitted to remain I went through or I should rather say walked over the ruins of all and from what I saw and heard I con cluded that they were all comfortable clean and neatly kept habitations with snug kitchen gardens either before or behind them In corroboration of this I have had the evidence of Mr Mathew Donovan of Ballygar by whom I was accompanied and who rendered me every assistance and afforded me most important information on this inquiry aad of whose merits as a true patriot friend and adviser of the people on this trying occasion I cannot speak in terms of sufficient praise Mr Donovan has permitted me to mention his name and should his evidence be required he is willing at any moment to present himself for examina tion before any tribunal as he was an eye witness of the facts which I shall detail I may as well mention here that two other gentlemen whose names you will find farther on have are tail first which had been carried away by the wretched people from their houses and thrown on the aide of the road in order to prevent it from becoming the property of the landlady after the tenants were evicted Mr Donovan who wit nessed the scene which took place on riday the 13th March 1846 describes it as the most appaling he had ever witnessed women young and old running wildly to and fro with small portions of their property in order to save it from the wreck the screaming of the children and wild wailings of the mothers driven from home and shelter their peaceful homes hallowed by a thousand fond recollections all combined to form a picture of human misery such as the darkest imagination alone could realise At an early hour on the morning of riday the 13th instant the sheriff accompanied by a large force of the 49th regt diseased potatoes with the general things mentioned as about the ruins which had been carried and deposited on the road side met our eyes There several houses levelled along the road but as I have puted them amongst the total number and as they sented the same mournful appearance what I have said of the village applies to these detached houses This day being market day in Mount Bellew the people on their return from the market collected in large numbers to view the desolation After passing the last of those now mouldering dwellings we came to a sharp hill the western ditch was well secured by a fine thorn hedge which afforded us ample shelter from a heavy sleet shower which set in at the time We were joined shortly after by large crowds whe were circumstanced as we were The people all seemed to know Mr Donovan and as each per son came up they saluted that gentleman and We entered into conversation with them of course on the subject of the eviction but before I detail what took place here permit me to say that although I often regretted that I was ignorant of language I never really felt the want of it until yes terday and although I could not understand it yet it drew tears from my eyes to hear the energy and earnestness with which the poor creatures spoke in the expressive lan guage of their native land when addressing Mr Donovan (who fortunately is an excellent Irish scholar and speaks the language with great fluency) and myself and this cou pled with their natural energetic manner could not fail to leave a deep and lasting impression We were surrounded at this time by not less than a couple of hundred persons one of whom coming up to Mr Donovan said in Irish Oh Mr Donovan jewel you see they have not left us a house on the side of the road to shelter us from the shower God forgive Are jou one of the persons who was turned out No sir but I was looking at them and I knew all the people and Mr Donovan jewel if you only saw the way they pulled down the places Why they rushed at them qlke an artny after a battle into a town to plunder and burn it This sentence was given with a degree of melancholy pathos and also an action suited to the words that must have touched the most relentless Up to this time I had not met with any person who had resided in the village al though I inquired anxiously for some of them Where are they' gone to 1 enquired of an intelligent man with whom I was in conversation Why sir some of them are gone to the hospitals as they got sickness out of the ditches others are begging through the country some of them are in the houses more of them in Mount Bellew and some of them who had a trifle of money are gone off to America I expressed a wish to be directed where I could meet some of the poor people when the man said Oh here is one of them coming down the This person who soon joined us was old and as he raised his hat to salute me bis fine long white hair floated on the breeze He was an athletic handsome old man with a mournful countenance and as he addressed me in the beau tiful and simple salutation of the country with God save you (he spoke English very well) I felt a reverence for the old ill treated and unhappy man Are you one of the people who were recently turned out I enquired Indeed I am Sir said he with a heavy sigh How old are you Sir Nearly 80 How long did you reside in the village of Ballinglaes? Over 68 years Sir said he and burst into tears How many in family have you Three together with myself but I had a great deal more than that Some of them are dead and gone and manner described in the evidence given on these trials is well for them they live to see this desolate day not fit to be intrusted with the preservation of the public peace As to the first ground it having been found im others of them are married and some more are gone to to reconciJe theBevidece of the plaintiff with that America of tfae defendant it seems that the learned judge who tried How much land had you Why I rightly tell as the case left it to the jury to decide on which side the truth there was no regular farms but there was over 400 acres wa3 and they found a verdict for Mr Phillips the defen I dant In the face of that verdict I cannot agree that your belonging to the village former statement is established by the evidence In regard Did you owe any rent I did Sir to your second ground I wish that MrPhillipshadcon Were you able to pay it I was Sir and willing too ducted himself with more moderation but I should not now vir be justified in disbelieving the statement that Mr IlLlL nuti MfOUlll I IL LnKtl IL lUr LI1H 11LML L1YC3 Xlall vCUlB 1 1 wny so wny oecaase sir sue wanted to tnrow aown would be a and although I agree with you the houses to make bullock pastures that Mr Phillips instead of in any manner taking the law Did you ever offer the rent to the lady I did Sir more into his own hands ought to have summoned than 20 times and I offered it to her agent also but they before the petty sessions yet that is on the assumption that McCormack was known to Mr Phillips whereas the lat would not take it We went to the hall door (meaning the er swore that he had never seen him before and the ser hail door of the lodge already mentioned) often with the vant swore at the last trial that when Mr Phillips asked rent but they take it from us Every man in the I his name he gave a false one and that another a Ua of the partv said we know you and you know village but one offered the rent over and over but they 6 and the jury must have given credit to the servants evi wouldn take it and we offered to pay that man rent but dence have made these few observations on the case as they take that either it stands in order to satisfy you that your statements have Is it true that the remainder of the walls were ordered to been fully considered by me although I purposely abstain A from answering your general observations and I am not yet ha fhrnwn rlnwn fn nrAVAnt th a nftnnlft frnm finplfprincr them I I a rnnnihnn hnallv tn nunnsA nf vfitir unnliCAtinn xt I selves av nignt in irum it 10 sir: tney wuuiuu uuj i one go near the nlace we slept in the ditches for two the case Having observed that the action had been tried nights and I got pains in my poor old bones after it I wrote to Mr Baron Lefroy on the 7th instant requesting mv him to inform me after having heard all the evidence Did the women sleep in the ditches They did sir and whether it appeared to him that Mr Phillips (although he I saw one of the women with a child at her breast hunted bad obtained a verdict) was an improper person to be en by the bailiffs from three places the night after they threw trusted with the commission of the peace and I requested th wiU behel(j blamelesg thL out 0the Vnuana miiAn wa ware lineal va woiio fliAtr I him to furnish mG with copy of his iiotss I received bd I I AIva a a A i a a a AA1 A 1 1 a answer from the learned judge reminding me that a new came to put out the fires and they put out the fires in the m)ght be moved for and reqneiting me for the pre road ditches on us too I 8ent for that reason not to call for the notes of the trial Good God 1 1 exclaimed turning to Mr Donovan can which was a very long one and stating the many hour this old man be telling truth? which the court sat every day during the circuit 1 a 11 That letter I answered by the return of post stating that I He is telling truth so far as he goes but he could not tell noj haTe acted upon the verdict as conclusive until you half the trutn witnessed myself and there are hundreds here who can wait for tne notes these circumstances I do not think that I can swear to every wuru vin i I iuuslu vi ucuuuuvy ui ui visions can 1 am old man now Id por Rock that wa iha th acUon i name of my venerable acquaintance Mr Donovan knows finally disposed of and all the evidence is properly before me well and God knows I have not long to live I am tell I me I have the honour to be Sir your faithful obedient ing you the truth Sir and to my knowing or knowledge servant Sugden I never told a lie in my life and too late for me to begin wmiam gmith Esq MP now This was uttered with a degree of earnest fervor and House of Commons i honesty that could not be mistaken or disbelieved I poor LAWS I regrcit that I must close this letter for the present as cootehili unton beneficial amendment of the there reniains yet much to be told and of still more impor tance The reason of my abrupt termination to this letter is nv fnR circumstance tnar tn a nnar atafa an rhyiv i tQ be hel(J 1Q (j00tellUi on Tuesday next tne oist instant to from henc that it is gone long since and there is no other take into consideration the Dronrietv of adopting and for mode of se nding mv parcel I am however kindiv favoured bv a friend who conveys this communication to Roscom beneficial amendment of the present poor law acts at I 1 mon in tim tor post mere cannot close However witn tfaat may tend of ead t0 £he di8cnssion of any other political out sending you a list of the families with the number in subject The working of the poor laws has given anything each' wbo were dispossessed on this occasion I but general satisfaction and it is admitted on all hands that List of amilies ejected from the Village of Ballinglass something should be done at the present a favourable No of Persons ARMY NEWS 8 I (specially reported for the freeman) eJ 4 POOR LAW ACTS A meeting of the ratepayers of the above union has been JU8t and reasonable opposition The present government convened by requisition numerously and respectably signed has etence 1S precarious its strength Snlfn fA almost exhausted Let the opponents of the coercion bill protest against its passing even tnrougn its nrst rormai hhU 1ULV UUUBIUCiaLlUH LUU uiuuuuty wuu XU I nnr triara iae rnpir nnnnairinn Ann tnr rnA nrAaAnt vardiog petitions to botn Houses oi parliament praying tor I tt 2aVi Af At It 8 not their interest to force the House of Commons to a rvi I irri ii 1 1 i 1 1 yx VUw WAvOVUV tv Qv which meeting no other political matter is to be introduced premature declaration ot its opinion ney snould ratner I cravn Att anr hoaioivo rill rnA naaaintr nr tne WWWVV VI WVSOA WMV Vfc UUV bill shall have left parties free to take their course on other till the government is left without the aid which at the present moment it derives from the mere necessity of bolstering up its weakness THE LATE IRE AND LOSS LIE IN LON INQUEST ON THE BODIES i lUnblaTr IK nnAa itir sit i a i tv 1 JL UclQa llA aixAvy aua vivavuv Captain Morris a troop of the 1st Royal Dragoons joined hIed in the infirmarv of St Marylebone work 6 head quarters at Dundalk on the 24th instant from I house to inquire into the deaths of Robert Butters 31 6 Enniskillen Robert Butters jun 7 Jane Butters and William But 3 I The depot of the 88th (Connaught Rangers) has received ters 2 the sufferers by the fire which broke out on the 6 a letter of readiness to march from Boyle for Castlebar to I premises of Mr Henry Clare Simpson chemist and drug 4 I relieve the 30th Regiment Major Shirley is in command gist 77 Crawford street on the morning of Monday 8 I Volunteers from the 2d Dragoon Guards and The jury were also impannelled to investigate as to the 9 Greys in this garrison for the 10th Royal Hussars em I origin of the fire No facts were elicited beyond those 4 barked at the North wall by steamers for Liverpool on I which have already been published and as the origin of the 5 Wednesday evening fire still involved in the inquiry was adjourned 5 A company of the 5th usileers marched from Enniskil I until Monday next London Paper I len for xelleek on tno 2otn insiaui io relieve a company ot 4 I that corps ordered to return to head quarters Major 4 I Smith and Captain Spence are on leave of absence 6 I A company of the 67th Regiment marched from Lime nes ror uroome on tne zovu mamuu 4 A company of the 44th Regiment willmarch from Dublin ri 5 for Newry on the 30th inst Two companies with head 4 1 11 4 ZXW 4 Ik A 4 Hon A A Spenr wfll march from Dublin or Ney is on the increase in this to and that particularly in th 3 nn ii i nt I more crowded neighbourhood it is amuming a formidable 4 The depotDof the 46th Regiment march from Newry for appearance It is of a bad character too beieg what is 3 Dublin onthe 2d April The companies at Armagh Char called low typhus fever and is mainly attributable to the bad 6 lemont and I Monaghan will march and join headquarters quality of the potatoes now conmption among the 1 Lieutenant Colonel Laurenson of the 13th Light Dra poor BeZhst CAronicle 2 goons having left Cahir on leave of absence Captain We are glad to learn that the tenriv district of 3 Thompson has taken the command at head quarters Major Gian county Cavan which thit me twdta wso 7 Knox is in command of a squadron at Limerick disturbed by Molly Moguireism is nw P88 6 companies of the 32d Regiment arrived in ermoy and order The tenants are employsd on the 6 from Athlone onthe 25th and 26th instant and another Deanston system as well aa rebuilding and i I I proving their habitations for which tnir inulsnt land 1 ompany wil 1 arrive on thsday (27th) I thm ampl aompen 3 We have Rood reason to believe that the destination sation Guardian 4 of the 26th Cameronians now in our garrison has been Theguwdimi of St Marj 1 altered from Dublin to Enniskillen and that they will re ham street umme 6 ceive the route from the tatter town almost have received from th Jhght Howm th Lord I Mayor 6 1 Northern Whig 1 8eTen of COlJs IMWWWn taunworiuy Ci derived as you will perceive from parties who.