The mass of human misery produced in the County Carlow
by the relentless persecution enforced by the Orange landlords against their Roman Catholic tenantry, is absolutely frightful. it is stated by the Leinster Indyeudent, received in town this morning, that upwards of nine handral persons, including widows and orphans, have been ejected from the estates of Lord Beresford, Colonels Bruen and Latouche, and a Mr. Newton. This-number is exclusive of many others simi- larly treated by some of the minor landed proprietors—the Alexamiers, Brewsters, and others of the same principles. The object of this wholesale extermination is not at all a secret—it is ostentatiously avowed and manifested in practice. The places of the unfortunate outcasts are already, in many instances, filled up by Protestants. What, it will be asked, could have induced the personages in question to visit such a vast body of human beings with this merciless infliction ? The answer is obvious and undeniable : it is religious rancour alone, for their conduct in the present instance cannot even be palliated by poli- tical considerations. Several of the unhappy creatures had no votes in the country, and consequently could give no offence by their mode of exercising the elective franchise.—Morning Chronicle Correspoohnt.
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