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’ "__L_ REASONS ASSIGNED BY A COUNTRYMAN FOR THE FIRES Jr DISTURBANCES. To the Editor of the Sun.

'Sir,—A countryman waiting at my house the other day during the completion of an order, the following conversation took place :-—Why Tom, you have been making terrible alarm in the country With your fires and machine-breaking.——Ah Master, if you had but 16d. a day, with a wife and four children to share it, as I have, per- haps you’d grumble, and break machines,

' and would’nt care more than I if the whole

country was on tire. But you must allow, Tom, that by breaking machines and firing stacks, it cannot make you better off.—

“\This I know, replied he, that it cannot

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possibly make us worse ; for the machines rob us of our labour, and as for the corn, we get precious little of that ; potatoes milk, turnips, and meal mixed with pota- toes, is our chief food, and when out of work not enough of that. But you could get more from the parish, Tom, to make up.—Not ifI have work, replied he ; and if even I could get as much from the parish without work, as with it, do you think I like always to live upon charity as a beg- gar and apauper, while I am str0ng and able to work,without feeling ashamed of my situation ? besides, I take it from some who pay it that I know are nearly as badly ofl'as myself. But can you see any good .130. will arise by injuring the farmer’s pro- king ? Yes, I can; he will not be able buts," the taxes, nor the parson, and he’ll M: l'with us ; and then something must “blame by the GOVernment. But what a Jlld you have the Government to do, oim ? Why, take off the taxes to be sure, rye I lay out my It'd. that I have been rtj’fing hard for all day, for the necessa- fe‘ ‘iife—tea, sugar, coals, beer, candles, “Rage—don’t I know that I give half act” .y‘s work (little as it is) to Govern- ment—is that right ? And have not the

_\people complained and petitioned long

enough—and have they not been cut down by the soldiers, (these very yeomanry) for pnly meeting to beg for a little reduction of their burdens ? Well, 'l‘om, but if these taxes were taken off, how Could the nati- onal creditor, the fundholders, be paid .9— Whv MM‘“ ' confess I don’t understand ' creditors or the funds;

rish clerk, that ’tis

s*se fundholders

all the mis-

" beggars;

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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

Are our children to be born in debt, and their labour mortgaged to pay them? Well, Tom, there may be some reason in your observations, but they do not justify the destruction of property.-—That may be true, Master ; but we may as well be hung or transported as starved to death in the midst ofplenty. But tell me, Tom, how you manage to fire the stacks at a distance, even when you are watched, without being detected P—VVell, if you would, or could, tell the King honestly, why these tires are made, I’d tell you how I think it’s done, if you promise you’ll not get me into any scrape about it.—-—I promise—\Vell, then, after loading a fouling-piece 01- an air-gun with powder, put in phosphorous and wet tow ,the wetter the tow the longer it will be before it blaze. Well, Tom, I will write immediately to my agent in London, to put it into the Sun, and as that goes all over the world, most likely the King (God bless him) or some of his Ministers may hear what you say on the subject, and pay attention to it. I heartily wish they may, replied he, and there soon will be an end ofsuch horrid doings in the country. Per- haps I can get you the 5001. reward, Tom, --I would’nt take it to inform, replied he, ifI could drive my coach for life by it.

FROM me nunmn MERCANTI LE ADVERTISER, or SEPTEMBER 21. MURDER OF TWO TITHE VALUATORS.

Passengers by the Cork and Charleville Day Coach, which arrived this day at half- past ten o’clock, have brought intelligence that two tithe valuators having been attack- ed and murdered by the Peasantry, yester- day, near the vicinity of Doneraile.

We have not received particulars ofthe melancholy transaction ; but the following brief account, we are assured may be de- pended on :—

A number oftithe valuators had entered on the process of valuing a parish near Doneraile—or were about doing so—when a multitude of country people approached them, and instantly commenced an attack with sticks and stones. The valuators—or process-servers, as one account states—be- ing unaided by police or military, were overpowered ; they fled, but two of them --one a person named Cummane, the other a painter, (whose name we have’nt learnt), but both inhabitants of Buttevant

-fell a sacrifice to the fury of the assail- ants.—The others escaped with their lives, but much injured.

Of course we do not vouch for the accu-

icy of this statement as to particulars ; but

can be no doubt of the leading fact.

indeed, appalling—Southern Re- .1_ ,

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qT QONERAILE. ‘ay, we received

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the report, which will be found in another column, of the proceedings of the inquest held yesterday before Richard Jones, Esq, the acute and impartial Coroner of the county, on the bodies of the two men whom we stated in our last number to have been murdered near Doneraile, while em. ployed in a Tithe Valuation of that parish,

It will be seen from the minutes ofthe evidence, which the Coroner in the exer. cise of the sound discretion by which heis always guided, permitted to become public, notwithstanding an application to have the proceedings conducted in secrecy ; but these murders were committed under cir. cumstances varying from those which were stated in our last number, on the oral re- ports of passengers, who arrived in town on that day. But though the circumstances are different, the tragical results are the same, and a verdict of “Wilful murder against s0me person or persons unknown,” has been returned by the Jury.

It will be seen that this terrible crime was committed in defiance ofthe advise and ad- monitions from the alter of the Catholic Clergymen cf the Parish,wbo recommended 8L enjoined the people not to impede or ob struct the valuation. It is awful to per- ceive these injunctions disregarded and re- jected, and the hatred of an accursed system so far prevailing over every moral influence or human consideration, as to make men in the face of day perpetrate such enormous ofl’ences.—SoulliemReporlcr

OUTRAGE AT FIR Horne—On Wednes- day morning last, three bailiffs were placed as keepers on a field of wheat, the property of Mr. Read, of Ellenborough, near Tal- laght, at the suit oer. Garret Wall,tithe- receiver, under the Court of Common Pleas, to the estate of Ponsonby Shaw, Esq. It appears that Mr. \Vall had re— quested Mr. Read to appoint a day for the payment of 5!. l65. 2d being the amount of a year’s tithe due by him to Mr Shaw, as lay impropriator of the townland of Killininy, in which Mr. Read’s farm lies, and that the latter declined to name any day for the payment, on which the Bailifl's were placed on the field above-mentioned.

From an investigation that took place at the Head 'Police Office, on Thursday morning, the following facts were elicited relative to the subsequent conduct ofthese bailiffs, whose names are J. Flinn, J. Bry- an, an!I Edward Nixon. They were all found drinking at M’Coy’s public house, in Killininy, about eight o’clock the same night, by a farmer, (James Doyle, of Bal- lynascorney,) who, while detained there, awaiting the arrival of his cars from Duh. lin, saw Nixon hand a carbine to his com- rades to load with shot or slugs, and after- wards, on his refusal to drink with them, was insulted, received a severe thrust 0t astick in the breast from Nixon, and i blow of the butt end of a carbine fron'