We lament to find that there is considerable anxiety in
several quar- ters as to the probable result of the harvest. The Rallyshannow He- rold states the crops throughout Donegal and the neighbouring counties present a melancholy appearance, and that unless fine weather shall set in, the supply will prove very scanty. Meanwhile, the poor in several cl..eszions are miserably off fin support, while fever adds its horrors to toe trightful prospect. The poor in many parts of Donegal are living upon herbs, and those svho have potatoes are digging them before they are ripe. In Enniskillen, too, the poor are in a pitiable condition.
Fever is fearfully prevalent; contagion being extended abroad by the necessity which forces ratose not quite restored to convalescence, to proceed from house to house to seek a precarious support for them.
elves and their helpless little ones. In Limerick, it seems that the loathe' is crowded with cases, and that the disease prevails extensively in the poorer localities of the city. Woad to God that a measure of Poordaws were in operation, to save us from those heart-rending visite- t o IS The influential amongst all parties appear now to be convinced of the necessity of some system of relief; and we trust that the foster. legcare of the existing Government will lose no time in framing a measure coextensive with the emergency.—Dublin Weekly Register.
The Carlow Sentinel gives an account of a sale in Carlow of some cattle seized for tithes due to the notorious Mr. Whiny. About 10,000 persons assembled and rescued the cattle, in spite of the exer- ti-ms of the Police— In the mean time, six mounted Policemen pursued the cattle, while the thutns beat to arms, and the whole garrison turned out to assist in the pursuit. The mount, d Policemen retook the cattle near the town ; but they were immedi- ately hemmed in by thousands, attacked by stones and missiles, and the cattle again rescued before the Military and Police arrived, and the mob succeeded in cll.:ding their escape with the cattle. One of the Policemen received a fright- ful wound on the head ; but they succeeded in evening several prisoners, one of whom was the son of Walsh, a notorious agitator from the county of Kildare. Th:s is truly an awful state of things, when, in the town of Carlow at the Bat mat-gate, in the presence of a Military aril Police force, thit ken head of a cattle, legal y distrained for a lawful debr, are reseued by a nodr, aid the consti - tut«1 authurities placed in danger of their lives in their exertions to maintain the law.
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