IRELAND.
The whole Irish proprietary must be changed, was the sentence of Lord Clarendon, pronounced in his letter to the Lord Mayor of London : the last remnants of the territorial aiistocracy must be rooted out, was the echo of Quaker Bright, in his recent Wan. cheater oration. With such a great object in view, proceeded the man of pence, murder and anarchy are but the ordinary execution of '* the law of nature." — The present owners, aye and occupies, of property must begot rid of ; why not knock them upon the head, in accordance wuh " the law of nature," which t ills a poor or an idle man to slay and rob rather than to work or starve ? Arguments like these, insemed by a man of drab into the slave-owners of Manchester, and taught night by night to the pensant»paupers of Ireland, through the official organ of the Queen's representative, must produce their effect, and that a powerful one. We subjoin evidence of what has been already done, in an account extracted from a London paper of a recent attempt to sell some portions of the Uonnemara estates of the late Mr. Martin. In that document the curious reader will see that among the capitalists of the metropolis of Britain no one could be got to giye ;£lO an acre /or the fee-simple of land at present let for 205. ; that "87 acres of arable and j asture land, well * timbered, occupying a beautiful situation, was sold for £800 , that 435^ acres of arable pasture and bojr, was bought in for the venders at one thousand pounds ! Where was Sir Jaooes Duke? — where the Corporation Planters, while all those bar* gains were under the hammer ? What withheld their tongues and closed their purse-stringi ? We will
disclose the secret. They had heard of Mr. Bright's " law of nature;" their attention had bi'cn awakened to such facts as Qutrter-nore Gicjjory's vain appeal to the chief " magistrate of the state" (we me Mr. Berwick's phrase) for protection against the murderous denunciations of that noble individual's hired servants — denunciations individualised in the person of Mr. Gregory ; but embracing all who may flare to preserve from waste, lauds which cannot now be sold for five years' purchase. The Clarendonian Revolution is piogresing — well it way, when the duties of rentlifting and anaichy, and murder are justified in the Government Journal, by such sentences as the following :—: — "We but too well know, that in uttering this most common of common-places, to certain classes in Ireland, who have levelled the habitation of the pauper, and hunted them to perish in the ditches, that we might as reasonably address the idle wind, or—raising the metaphor to the height of their dignity — to the howling wilderness." This incitement to murder and plunder, was published in the official organ of the Irish Government, no longer since than last night ; yet Lord Clarendon, is ft Knight of the Garter :—: —
"IRISH LAND SALES— THE MARTIiV ESTATES. " On Wednesday Mr. Wainwright, at the Auction Mart, Lotlibury, commenced the sale of the Connemara estate of the late Thomas Barnewall Martin ,— The auction attracted -vi^e than usual attention, and was in some deguc, u>< >j ject of public interest, in consequence of cc tt.n nm-jMients made in the cily, under distinguished pnrro.inge, about the close of the late parl amentary session, for the improvement of the condition of Ireland. Fur, although ihe present sale does not take place under the Encumbered Estates Act of last session, but by virtu-5 of nn order made in the Court of Chanceiy, many still view it as the first of that series of transfer of landed property in Ireland which must precede all other efforts to benefit that countiy. The estates, situate in the county of Galway, lie between the south margin of Lough Corrib and the town of Galway, and from thence stretch along the coast of Galway Bay, almost uninterruptedly to Clifden and Clesrein Bay, a distance of at least fifty miles. In ihe 200,090 acres, or neiriy so, which are now brought to the haunner, is to be found a great variety of situation, and also of soil, bog, and fine arable land, with sea and lake margin*, and towards the Atlantic many of those features winch form the picturesque in scenery. It is nietty generally known that these extensive estates are sold at instance of the Law Life Assurauce Company, Fleetstreet, who are reported to be the holders of mortgages on the property to the extent of £100,000. If a sufficient sum can be realized without selling the whole, it is probable that the present owners will retain the family mansion, together with some 5,000 acres, situated iv the barony of Ballynahinch. The whole of the property is freehold, and the sale will extend over five succesBive days. The result of the first day's I sale was perhaps not very satisfactory, and in several cases evidently fell considerably below tha expectation of the vendors. "Lotl, A dwelling-house and offices in Marketstreet, Galway, wai put up at £70, and was knocked down at £95. Lot 2, 220 acres of arable and pasture land, in the townland of Dangan Upper, including residences named Ashley Park, Clifton Lodge, and Anville Lodge, was put up at £2,000, and the biddings rose to £2,750, but it was purchased in for the vendors at £3,000— n0 one choosing to make an offer beyond the reserved price. Lot 3, 190 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land, in Dangan Upper, waa set up at £2,500, and the biddings roie to £2,700, but it was purchased in at £3,000 for the vendors.— Lot 4, 120 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land, with residence, began at £700 and rose to £900, but was bought in for the vendors at £1,000. Lot 5. 105 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land, with residence, in the townlands of Bushy Park and BaL lagh, was put up at £700, and the bidding rose to but was bought in at £1,000 for the vendors. Lot 6, 87 acres of arable and pasture hnd, well timbared, with residence, occupying a beautiful situation in Killeen, was put up at £700 and sold for £800.— Lot 7, 32^ acres of arable and pasture land, with resideHce in Oranhill,was started at £300, and knocked do»n at £400. Lot 8, 435J acres of arable, pasture, and bog land, about seven acres being covered with water, in the townland of Tonacbrocky, was put up at £700, and the bidding rose to £900, but was bought in for the vendors at £1000. Lot 9, 107 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture land in Aubwee, was started at £700, and knocked djwn at £800. Lot 10, 283 acres of arable and pasture land, except about 2% acres, covered by Ihe waters of Lough Dru.n, situated in the townland of Corcullen, wai put up at £1,000, and sold at £1220. "Thus concluded the day's sale."
An Irish Jack Sheppard.— The following particulars have been stated of the escape from the county Roscommon goal of a malefactor under sentence for conspiracy to rob and murder. The pages of the ' Newgate Calendar 1 might be ransacked in vain for a feat of more daring dexterity '.—Michael Hannelly, one of a desperate gang (some of whom ware convicted at the last Roscommon Assizes) chargpd with conspiring to rob and murder Mr. M. C. Browne, J. P., effected his escape out of the above gaol one night last wsek, under circumstances fully disp'ayinfr. what a cool and determined character he is. He was confined in the solitary cell for bad conduct, out of which, at midnight, he made his escape, breaking; through two doors by smashing the locks ; this bi ought him into the chape'— to get to the door of which he had to climb over an irou -spiked railing fourteen feet b'gh. Having effected this, the next obstacle was the huge door of the chapel ; he wiencheel the four tnass Tij nuts off the lock, nnd ttopenrs to have failed in his attempt to get the lock off, as he got out by breaking the heavy hasp into whu h the bolt of the lock »hot. Tbii opened the way into an enclosed passage bttween two of the day-yards. Here he mounted a fixed ladder leading up to the cistern, and by a drop of about sixteen feet on hard paving, landed safely at the other side. This is an enclosed corridor, into which all the day.yards open, aa £*'ao the cookhouse and bread store— the latter he broke into, and took thereout one loaf of while bread. Out of this enclosure he got over a wall about twelve feet high, into the governor* yard, out of which lie took a ladder about sixteen feet long and an inch-and-balf thick board, and unlocking ihs gate of the yard, the key being merely turned, he proceeded round the inner grounds of the gaol to where the store yard ends, and where he would only have one wall to cross. Here he tied the ladder and board together, and thus got over the boundary wall, which is about twenty-five feet high. Haring got on the wall, hs pulled up the ladder and let himself down at the other side. — Con* naught Journal.
A Liverpool shipowner has been fined in the penalty °f one-third of ;£lOl), for allowing an emigrant ghiu to sail without a surgeon*
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New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 413, 30 March 1850, Page 3
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