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    1. [COTIPPERARY] 11-4-1846 From the Tipperary Vindicator.
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. 11-4-1846 From the Tipperary Vindicator. A reporter from this establishment proceeded yesterday morning to Gorthore, between Nenagh and Limerick, to witness the eviction of tenantry on the property of Mr. Tuthill, where 120 men of the 72nd Highlanders, under Captain Pollard, 41 police, under Sub. Inspector Lewis, of Newport, and several bailiffs, went at an early hour. Our reporter returned at 5 O'Clock P.M.. He informs us that nine poor families were evicted from their tenements. The day was particularly wet, cold, and inclement, more in fact like a mid winter than a spring day. No resistance was offered to the executioners of the law. The people in the neighbourhood, he says, did not expect the visit. Those who were present showed every courtesy and kindness to the military officers and soldiers, who well merited the hospitality manifested by the poor cottiers, who boiled eggs, and gave what refreshment they had to them. The men of the 72nd seemed ashamed of this distressing duty. The names of the persons evicted were:--- Patrick Mara, 4 in family. Patrick Clancy, 9 in family, who showed his receipt to our reporter for his rent up to November. John Fennell, 5 in family. Denis Brien, 5 in family. Pat. O'Brien, 5 in family. Patrick Clancy, 7 in family. William Herbert, the amount of whose family our reported was unable to ascertain, but supposes it to be at least 5. In all 39 persons. It was generally stated that the tenants had paid the rent up to May 1845--but of this our reported had no accurate knowledge. The fact was, that Fennell, above mentioned, had bank notes for rent in his hand, which was refused, and the day ended by the tenants being put out, the doors of their cabins closed and locked. Our reporter was informed that Mr. Tuthill has fourteen evictions against fourteen other tenants. Our reporter also heard it stated from Mara, above mentioned, that Mr. Tuthill promised them possession again, but this he does not know of his own knowledge.

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