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Subject: [Irish-in-UK] Ballina (Mayo) Chronicle, June 20,1849 -- News Of Ireland
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BALLINA CHRONICLE
Ballina, Mayo, Ireland
Wednesday, June 20, 1849

MISCELLANEOUS
Captain CODRINGTON, of the Thetis, has got £20,000 with his wife.
Butter has advanced 2s. per cwt, in the London market.
The Colonels of Militia can appoint any person to the office of
Sergeant.
The Cushlamachree and Cremona, both full of passengers, sailed from
Galway last week, for New York.
Bianconi's car was upset in the street in Longford on Monday, owing to
furious driving.
Cholera has left Tralee and Templemore, and is abating in Athlone.
A dog was last week seen devouring the body of a corpse left over
ground in Killalee church-yard.
The potato disease has appeared at Castlemartyr and near Mallow, in a
most extensive field belonging to Mr. FRANKS. The plant and root are
destroyed.
There is a company of capitalists formed in London to purchase the
Irish estates when offered for sale under the act now passing.
Twenty-three shops are closed in the main-street of Clonmel, where
there are three workhouses full of paupers.
Mr. John BALL has been appointed Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, in
the room of Mr. POWER, who succeeded Mr. TWISELTON as Commissioner in
Ireland.
Three hundred pounds have been collected in the diocese of Derry for the
Curates' Fund, in the South of Ireland.
During the past week there were 50 convicts removed from Galway gaol,
for transportation, and there are 70 more under like sentence.
Ten stacks of oats, the property of Mr. MAHER, of Tullemaine Castle,
were maliciously burned a few nights since.
Archbishop McHALE has announced "an indulgence of forty days" to all
who attended his procession of the Host at Tuam Chapel on the Feast of
Corpus Christi.
Four hundred and fifty notices of ejectment have been served on one or
two properties not many miles from Borrisokane, and 300 miserable beingswere
sent on the world from a property near Clonmel.
Mr. Charles Fitzgerald HIGGINS, a Mayo gentleman, was, on Saturday,
committed from Marylebone office for assaulting his wife, daughter of Sir
F.P.JODDRELL, who lives apart from the offender.
Last week an application was made to the Queen's Bench to strike off
Mr.John MURRAY from the roll of attornies, for misconduct arising out
oftransactions with Mr. KERNAGHAN, of Sligo, and the Provincial Bank. The
court refused the application, but censured Mr. MURRAY and ordered him to
pay the costs.
Number of officers and men in the Constabulary force in Ireland, on
thelast of January, 1849, including 70 magistrates, 12,828; horses, 344.
Totalexpenses of proportion charged on the Consolidated Fund was £562,506;
ofwhich the proportion charged on the Consolidated Fund was £525,386, and
the amount borne by counties, cities and towns, £37,120.
In the parish of Clenmore, near Doneraile, there were three years ago not
more than three or four members of the Established Church, who were
attendants on public worship, but in consequence of the untiring
exertions,and the frequent parochial visits of that excellent clergyman the
Rev. James GRANT, the church, rather a large one, is now nearly quite filled
every Sabbath.
Since the 1st of January last 24 vessels sailed from Waterford with
emigrants for America. Two thousand individuals, in addition, left the port
for America, via Liverpool. The total number which left Waterford being
5,000.
The guardians of the Armagh poor-law union came on Tuesday to the
resolution of discontinuing out-door relief throughout the whole union,
andmaking arrangements for the intern accommodation of all classes of
paupers who may seek assistance.
A dreadful explosion of fire damp occurred on Tuesday morning, at the
Hepburn pit, the property of T. EASTON and Co., on the river Tyne, near
Newcastle.- All the men in the part where the explosion took place are dead.
The explosion must have been terrific for all the stoppings in the district
were destroyed, and the bodies of the men were blown to atoms. More
mutilated corpses were perhaps, never occasioned by such a catastrophe.
In that portion of the Newcastle union adjoining Abbeyfeale, not a
singlebeast for miles is to be seen, at least distrainable by the poor-rate
collector.
A general watch is kept up, and on any approach the cattle are housed.
The newly elected master of the Youghal workhouse having introduced a new
system of discipline, the paupers rose en masse to expel him, broke open the
gates and paraded the streets in a riotous manner. The police quelled the
riot.

PROGRESS OF PAUPERISM IN SLIGO- The increase of destitution in this
union seems to keep a rapid pace with the increase of public provision to
meet it. We have for some time past had a steady increase of applicants for
relief to the average amount of about one hundred and twenty a week. It has
been found necessary, in consequence of this, to take two large stores and
fit them out as auxiliary workhouses, and if the tide of pauperism but
continues to flow space, we shall soon have all the stores in Sligo filled
with the unhappy victims of poverty-creating legislation.--Sligo Guardian.

Cathy Joynt Labath
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