The increased pressure of distress in Ireland is marked by
a correspond- ing growth of disturbance. The provincial papers record many acts of turbulence. In Limerick, four hundred labourers paraded the streets with spades, shovels, and hammers, as emblematic of their destitution, and plun- dered two bread-carts; the meal-dealers and bakers demanded protection of the Magistrates, and the military were called out. The people, however, dispersed. A meeting of Magistrates was immediately held, and a memo- rial adopted to the Lord-Lieutenant, representing that the wages fixed by Government-2d. less than the current rate in any district—were inadequate to support existence. The people met again next day, but without com- mitting any violence. In Dungarvan, the people assembled tumultuously, under an idea that their wages were to be reduced to 8d. or 10d. a day. Two hundred men, armed with various weapons, went to a farm near Clonaslee, in Queen's County, and having driven away some reapers who were in charge, carried off the corn crops, and fired several shots In the neighbourhood of Ballingarawn, and at Bohemia, large numbers of people traversed the country seeking employment. At Dunkerrin, an in- flammatory notice had been posted up in the night, calling on the people not to pay rent under pain of death. "The workmen and labourers employed by Mr. Fitzgerald, Rock Lodge, near Cloyne, refused to allow him to send his corn to Cork, orto market, and stated that they would give him the price be demanded for it. To this step they said they were compelled by the loss of their potatoes and the dearness of provisions." A party of dragoons are stated to have been sent from Cork to Youghal. The Clashmore Mills had been attacked, and robbed of flour.
Complaints were made at a meeting held in Killarney, that of the 400,0001. authorized by Government for public works in Ireland, only 100,0001. had been expended. Directions have since been issued to the Commissioners, by Mr. Labouchere, to proceed with all public works that may have been suspended, to the full extent of the amount sanctioned for them.
Judging from the results of the various baronial presentment sessions which have been held, there appears no disposition on the part of the land- owners to evade the performance of the duties assigned to them. There is a general belief in Ireland that Parliament will be called to- gether early, probably in November, to amend some technical defects of the Labour-rate Act; and Mr. O'Connell, in a letter to Mr. Conway on the act, countenances the belief.
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