The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

THE STARVING IRISH.

TO THZ EDITOR 011 THZ WHIM.

Ste,—May I bie you to ackty wledge with all my
best and grateful thanks from E., post mark South-
ampton, 35.; P. 11., Little Sultane, post mark Tyne-
mouth, 55.; a Lady, 2i. 6d., one who has experienced
the goodness of the Lord in answer to prayer, bo.;
IL W. (fearing it will be the last), post mark St.
Clear, 6e.; anonymous, post mark Blackheath, ;
Jane Wilbraham, 2s 6d.; a Poor Man's Mite to help
to buy turnip seed for the Irish poor, ls. Such a
state of mankind is beyond all dew ription; I that am
in the midst of it all, no one to help me, with even a
thought, mental labour and bodily toil unceasing, I
am yet not able to tell the half of what I have
seen, and known, and felt. Whoever is the
modern Pharaoh whose heart has been hardened to
continue 'system which has brought the country into
this state, has anything but blessings or prayers. A
poor creature who went to see her husband put into
the hospital of the poor-house yesterday, burst into a
flood of tears when I questioned her about him. " I
shall never see him again," she said. While there I
saw two horse loads of dead taken out. It has ever
been the practice to publish the deaths and casualties
of the battle-field ; occasionally the poor-house destbs
are published, but often in confusion, mixed up (a as
to blind to the realities), with the discharged. It is
not a battle of powder and ball, of spear, and sword,
and lance, bat it is a death atm:Oat—the battle of
life—every week, every day. If there was one
Irish member of parliament worth his salt, he
would insist that every week at least there should be
a published return of the deaths is all the Iri.h poor-
houses, and from every parish or poor law union ; the
police should send in a weekly return of the deaths
externally. If this was done—though the Irish
people, poor and rich, are now so depressed and worn
down that they have lost all spirit, and are like fresh
water passengers in the middle of the Atlantic with a
had wind on, giving up all, and resigned to die—
though they cannot raise their voice with any power
—the humanity, the high and noble mind of the
British people, would raison irresistible voice against
the continuance of a system which is only productive of
such disastrous real's. From the earliest morn to
the coming on of night my place is day after day l ke a
fair field. Would that you could ree the decent, the
respectable, in their own words, the mothers of
children, beseeching for a little food—those who I
knew before, and I trust will be hereafter," well to do."
Would that you witnessed their anxiety, evidently not
for themselves, but for their children, when I must re-
fuse (having not a sufficient supply for the previously
decided on cases). They grasp my arms with an
anxious, concentrated, all-despairing stare and en-
treaty : even a poor-law commissioner would yearn in
his heart to ands them. Many, many—why they
are almost without number—of a class who in the
famine were in need of nothing, and helped many,
are now for these next four weeks in as great want,
if possible greater, than the mere labourer. The
wants of the famine, when all England was
up in arms to protect our inhabitants from
its effects, were to the present a ripple stream
to the Atlantic Ocean. I was heart and hand
engaged in it, and I can solemnly state that it
was not to be compared to the present. Mach has
been sent me—from the widow's mite, and of these I
have received many; much from the necessity of
those who want themselves—end these little accumu-
lations have saved lives ; much from the good and the
wealthy: but the irres:stible requirements are so
many, that I am compelled to beg and to intercede
with those who have the ability and the power to
exert the will, and send some help to those who so
need it. Sixty-eight men and forty-eight women,
heads of families, are supported, all at constant
employment, by task work; twenty-seven fa-
milia are constantly supported gratuitously,
large numbers occasionally—a multitude of farmers
are advanced, on loan, sufficient for their maintenance
and to enable thematleastto feed their labourers. The

men and women at work are paid in Indian meal, rice,
or oatmeal, as they choose, three evenings in the week.
I applied to merchants in Cork—to the man they
provisions from for the poor, where heretofore I got
advances readily for large quantities—but from one end
all the answer was, "I cannot." These reiterated
encroachments on British benevolence are distressing
to me; but whatam Itodo ? Can I nee my people, my
neighbours, my parishioners, in every want, and be
at rest ? I cannot, I dare not, I will not. "He who
knoweth to do good and doeth it• not, to him
it is sin." And I can only lay their case
in the imperfect manner I do before those who have
received their talents from God, and who are willing
to ley them out in their Mas'er's use. It is not pre-
sumption, I trust, nor enthesium, to say I am cull-
dent the Almighty God has hitherto helped me, and
been with me ; how could I, at my time of life, be
equal to such unceasing overwhelming care and duty?
Never a moment's rest, mental or bodily, from morn
to night of every day! How could I, as I often do
by what II en call chance, as if stumble on cues of
peculiar want? .How could many from every Eng-
fish county, and town, and village, send some their
shilling, some their many pounds, according, and, I
believe, beyond their ability? I see clearly his hand
in every gift I receive for these, to them unknown,
poor. To him be the thanks, and the praise, and the
glory. I throw mytelf, not in either despair nor eves
in hope, but in trust and confidenee, on the servants

of God, WILLIAM R. TOWNSEND,
Rector of Aghadda, Whitegate, near Cloyes, County
Cock. July 7.1849.

THE RECTORY OF BISHOP Yir zmuittirril.—The
Nowcastis guardian saye " The ancient 'kitty et the
parieh of Bundorland have memorialised the ri council,
praying them net to sanction the slime lar g the
revenue of the rectory of Bishop Womanish. ma um •
body have elm addressed the Archbishop of Canterbury upon
ithe above setter, and they received a favourable Nowa
hos hie ma."

T. Chalk and T. Goodwin..-- 1
A. Bray and D. Cootnbra
IL Evans and W. Wail,
It was a close race until near home between the first two
boats.

CHARGE OP ROBEIRY AGAINST A STVDENT OP Kixo's
COLLEGE.— WEL Aslte Luzon was charged with sealing
ten sovereigns, the property of Henry Veulle, fellow student
at the King's College, in the Strand —Mr. Clarkson ap-
peared for the prosecution, and Mr. Humphrie's cleric for
the prisoner.
It appeared front the statement of the prosecutor, who
seemed unwilling to give evidence, that he was a naive of
Jersey, and occupied apartments u a medical student in the
King a Collegeecbambees. The prisoner was also a student
from Warwickshire. On Thursday last, having cashed a
cheque he received from home, at Messrs. Hoare's Bank, he
placed ten sovereigns in his dressing-cue. In the course of
the evening he law it quite safe, and about seven o'clock he
went out, at which time the prisoner was sitting on the sofa
in the next apartment. On returning about twelve o'clock
he found that the dressing case had been broken open, and
the money taken away, but the amount was subsequently
returned to him by a Mr. Basks, of No. 9, Ormond-street.
U. was alone in his room at the time and he saw Mr.
Banks before, previous to which he lied made known his less
to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Martlett, and Mr. Cunningham,
the secretary of the establishment, without, however,
charging any one with the robbery.
J. Merrier, a servant at King's College, said that en
Thursday evening he saw the prisoner go into Mr. Veulle's
room, and remain there for about five minutes, after which
he left the college.
H. Page, another servant, proved that it was bin duty to
mark down the names of gentlemen who dined in the hall,
and the prisoner did not dine there since Wednesday last, as
he could not then pay when applied to for the money, and
also made the same excuse on Tuesday, offering to take a
ticket, which would cost him 7s. Gd., and which would allow
him six days to pay, with a deduction.
Mrs. Mary• Anne Harris, No. 1, Howard-street, Strand,
said that the prisoner lodged at her house since October Lest,
and on Thursday, about 8 o'clock on the evening of that day,
he paid her 61 , which he said in the morning he was unable
to do, being in expectation of money from the country. On
Sunday the prisoner was visited by Mr. Banks.
Bail being refaced the prisoner was ordered to be remanded.

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