Six-and-twenty Catholic families, comprising upwards of two hun- dred persons,
have been driven by Lord Beresford, during the last week, off his estate, in Clonegah, for no other reason but because they were Roman Catholics! They had no votes; so therefore could not have sinned politically against his Lordship, by opposing his nominee. They have been turned out, however ; and their places, as we under- stand, are to be supplied by a colony of Protestants, such as at Slyguff, where we may expect to hear of victims being immolated to satiate Conservative vengeance whenever an occasion offers. Hitherto the barbarous system of unhousing men, women, and children, in the most inclement seasons, was confined to the Beresfords, the Bruens, the Newtons, and Alexanders ; but that the name of Latouche should be disgraced by any approximation to a community of feeling, or an asso- ciation with such men, is what the people of the county of Carlon, were not prepared to witness. Yet, to the eternal disgrace of that once Liberal name, must we tecord an act of a similar character, though not so extensive as that perpetrated by Lord Beresford on the people of Clonegah. The townlands of Ballywilliamrow is the property of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Latouche, the once popular Representative of the county of Carlow. By the dropping of a life, some time back, the leases on that part of his estate terminated ; and the tenants, anxious to be continued in their holdings, sent immediately proposals to the agent, first paying up their rents, and offering such a price for toe land as by industry and attention they considered they could pay for it. Their tenders were not accepted; arid the tenants, conceiving that the fault misht have been with the agent, resolved en throwing themselves on the clemency of their landlord. They accordingly got up a memo- rial to Colonel Latouche, backed by a certificate of character from the most respectable persons in their neighbourhood as to their habits of industry, &c. respectfully praying him not to turn them and their help- less families to the road, but to give them their holdings upon whatever terms he would be pleased to impose on them. The prayer of the memorial was not, however, attended to ; and the consequence was, that eight or nine industrious seen, with their families, amounting to up- wards of forty individuals, have been driven from their homes, and their land given to three Protestants.—Leinster Independent.
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