The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1847.

FAMINE LN IRELAND AND SCOT
The following list will show the exertions made by
her Majesty% ships and vessel, appropriated by them, a lair
are found movt useful in securing timely relief when illllllo'
popolation from abeolute starration. We have put this ;
of the aid actually siren and

LAND.-MEASURES OF RELIEF.

the government for this object, and the number of
proportion of the vessels mentioned being steamers, which
e wisistancc is imperatively demanded to rescue the distressed
wition into a tabular shape, showing at one glance the nature

of the aid actually Riven and preparing : - '-
; m.
Name of Ship. Tonnage. Hone-rower I Su r
of Dow employed.
Catine.s. , Cecw.
Terrible 1847 800 — —
280 Refitting at Woolwich, and will soon be available as • most
powerful and capacious vessel.
Avenger 1444 650 .. Manned from H.M.S. Queen, at Devonport, and loaded at
that port for west roast of Ireland.
Dragon
Deptford by the British RelieeAssociation for Ireland.
Centaur 1269 540 .. Manned from H.M.S. Caledonia, at Devonport, to be imme-
diately loaded by government at Deptford, for Tobermory
and Portree, and islands of Mull and Skye.
Scourge
heavy mortar has been landed.
i Bulldog
been landed to give greater stowage.
Rosamond 10.59 287 160 At Woolwich, preparing to load.
Sphynx
Geyser
Stromboli
and will return to Plymouth for further supply.
Rattler
Medea
Rhmlarnanthus Bl3 200 60 Gone with a full cargo front Portsmouth to Clifden, and then
to return to Plymouth to reload.
Adman 720 170 60 Conveying provision from the depot at Galway to neigh-
bouring places and districts.
Dee 7Ol 200 GO Conveying provisions to Cahirsiveen from Cork.
Firefly
vice of western islands of Scotland.
Blazer 527 120 69 Now conveying provisions to Lueem and Kenmare.
Tartarus... 523 136 44 Manned from St. Vincent, at Portsmouth, and fitting at
Woolwich ; when ready, to proceed with meal to Bantry
and Berchaven.
Alb ,n 40.5 120 46 Replenishing depots on coast of Ireland.
Lucifer 387 ISO 64 Employed under the orders of the Commissary-General on
the coast of [Maud
Porcupine 382 130 54 Abont to load at Portsmouth for Kenmore.
Myrmidon 374 150 43 At Cork, employed as required, towing provision vessels and
conveying relief.
Pluto 365 100 42 Employed under :the orders of the Commissary-General on
the crud of Ireland.
Avon
Scotland.
Shearwater
Oran for service of west coast of Scotland.
Torch 3lO 150 48 On roost of Scotland.
Dasher
I Swallow
her tender, conveying meal to neighbouring places.
Comet
Cuckoo
Rocket
escort three lighters and tenders to Ireland.
31 21773 7943 2369 Total of steamers.
Cockatrice lB2 .. 307 Manned from Ocean, and fitting for service.
Emerald B6 I .. .. Manned from St. Vincent, and loaded with meal from that
port for Ireland.
Mercury 7O .. .. Ditto Ditto
Devon 5O .. ~, Loaded, and about to sail for Ireland or Scotland.
Ant 4O .. .. Loading at Deptford with meal, biscuit, and perk, for Castle
Clare, Ireland.
Lively 4O .. .. Loaded and ordered from Portsmouth for Ireland.
_
6 468 .. 30 Total of sailing vessels.
And two Ordnance pro-
Via= hop of
DIIPOTI.
Andromeda
Madagascar
/Coins
Belvidere
Andromache 717 .. 30 Moored at Galway, Ireland.
6 5282 .. 261 Total of depots.
44 27523 7943 2660 Grand total.
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1 n addition to the above, there must be added the crews lent from guartleyps, &el, not inserted in this tel-
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In addition to the alarm, there must ___ the crews lent tr..— ipa, &c., not ton jahlo, anti
amounting to between 600 and 700 6160, tasking a total of nearly 3,000 men, and three of the larger packet+ will he tern.
porarily taken from their stations, for the relief service of which the aggregate touriage would probably be about 2,000, and
the amount of horse-power between 600 and SOO.

MR. LUNG, THE EX-MAGISTRATE.—It is stated
that Mr. Laing has been appointed magistrate for Australia,
and that he leaves England next week to assume his appoint-
ment in that distant colony.
A NEW RAILWAY.—The Eastern Counties Railway
Company are about very large works at Stratford, comprising
almost a new town. We learn that no fewer than 300 houses
are to he at once erected, at a cost of 200,0001. It is also
contemplated to erect a church at the same spot, and provide
other institutions for the moral welfare of the inhabitants.—
The Builder.
OATS AND SCARCITY OF IirMAN FOOD.—Sir,
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coroner, he made a post martens examination of the body of
the deceased. Ho found the face extremely pallid and
swollen. The lips were the same, and there was an effusion
of the eyelid. The body was in some degree attenuated.
The rieht lobe of the liver was enlarged and congested.
The mouth and gums were very pallid, and the stomach wee
empty of food. The immediate cause of death was a recent
inflammation of the pericardium. There wan no appearance
of the existence of erysipelas. The treatment the deceased
received was not such as ought to have been pursued in her
case. Warmth, and not cold, should have been applied, with
a proper diet —The Coroner summed up the evidence, when
the jury, after above two hours' consultation, returned a
verdict of Manslaughter against Dr. Lovell IN principal, and
Anne Betts as accessory.—The inquiry lasted seven hours.

—Looking over the Express of yesterday, my eye
glanced over the nomination for the Derby, Oaks, and
St. Leger for the present year. I could not help say-
ing to a friend with me, " What a lot of oats do those
splendid nags consume! and what a pity it is not made
into oatmeal for the starving highlanders!" I took up
a pen and a scrap of paper, and found by calculation, that
these nags in six months, at the rate of four feeds each per
diem, do consume the quantity of 249,1'N feeds of corn !
.ow, this is the consumption of a given number of
hones entered for three great races. But what is this
('i46 horses) in comparison to the 'lumber of other horses
that are or will be in training during eight months, which is
the number in which races take place, if you take into view
the different racing meetings that take place in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, and for which local meetings horses
and mares will be entered, not one of which arc included in
the 346 whose names are mentioned in the programme in
your excellent paper? What must a foreigner think who
looks at this, as I do now, and then reads the accounts which
swell the columns of our papers, of the destitution of our
fellow-men in Ireland and Scotland? Truly it must puisle
hint, and it vexes me.—Ainar tes
FIRF. AT AN IRON FOUNDRY.—Lest night, shortly
before ten o'clock, a frightful occurrence took place in the
extensive iron-foundry belonging to Messrs. Ainger and Co.,
in Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars. A number of men
were engaged at the time previously stated, in casting a
heavy piece of metal, and they had just succeeded in filling a
pan with molten iron, whicliwas attached to a crane. The
weight of the iron was upwards of 70 cwt., and great care
was consequently required in drawing the pan to the
mouth of the mould. The several persons engaged in the
work had succeeded in shifting the hot metal to about the
middle of the space between the furnace and mould, when
the ladle toppled over, and the whole of the immense weight
of hot liquid iron was scattered over the floor of the foundry,
running amongst the men, and firing sundry portions
of the building, and then rushed through the windows
and doors like the discharge of rockets. For some
time the utmost excitement prevailed in the neighbour-
hood, and it was feared that every man on the pre-
mises had been burnt to death. Such was the power of the
fire, that no one could enter for some time to render aseis-
tepee, and intelligence was forthwith sent to the engine
stations. In the course of a few minutes. Mr. Connarton
reached the scene, with the West of England engine, and
was followed by Mr. Hembleton, with the brigade engine
from Waterloo-road, and the war belonging to the Royal
, Society for the Protection of Life from Fire. With the aid
of buckets of water, the firemen succeeded in getting the
fire out, and the hot metal on the Boors cooled, when a most
dreadful sight presented itself. One of the workmen, named
Geo. Richardson, was found in a corner of the foundry
burnt in a most shocking manner. His shoes and portions
of his dress were stripped by the action of the fire from his
person, and the injuries he had received were of snob a
nature that no hopes were entertained of his recovery. Hs
was placed in a cab, and removed to the hospital. Two
other persons, named Thomas Hobby and Martin Ryan,
were also extensively burned about their bodies, and wen
likewise obliged to be removed to the hospital. Two children
belonging to Mr. Belliughurat, one of the pertness, INNS
also injured, but not to any great extent. At 11 o'clock the
ire was safely extinguished, but it was expected that ems
person, if not more, would die during the night.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DEATFI PROM EXPOSURE
TO War AND COLD.—Bi Mr. W. Baker, at the Duke d
York, Rateliff, on view of the body of a female unknown,
' who died in Ratoliff workhouse, under the following Tsai
singular circumstances On Tuesday morning List, the
deceased was observed walking along the Cambridge-heade.
road, apparently in a 'tato of intoxication. She inquired
the way to Bethnal-gresn-road, and was properly directed. •
Ilse deem was then observed to be wet, and she elated that
she had accidentally slipped into the Regent's-canal. Her
face was cut, and was bleeding most profusely. She then
proceeded further down the road, and appeared weak and
exhausted. She was taken in charge, and conveyed to the
station-house in Arbour-square, Stepney, where she became
insensible. She was then removed to Hatcliff woekhouse
when Mr. Barret, • surgeon in the Commercial-road,
promptly attended, but she expired on his entering the room.
He attributed death to expmure to wet, cold, and exhale,.
tion. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death,
accelerated by exposure to wet and cold."
HTDBOPAmtc STsvaM. Before Mr. Him COMM,
at the Crown and Three Rome Shoes, Enfield-erase 'rkithi
body of Martha Hobbs., aged 20, whose death was alleged to
have been the effect of the hydropathie treatment. —Ells.
Ronsell, servant to Mr. Swanwick, Chase Side, Enfield, said
that deceased was in the same service up to Tuesday week.
She had not been in good health since September. She was
able to go about her work till last Monday fortnight, when
she complained that she had a cold. On Monday sbe was in
a state of delirium. On the following day she was worst.
The next day she wan removed to her aunt's, and erysipelaa
made its appearance, on her face and the side of her head.
She took hyclropathie remedies, such as potting on a night
cap which was wet with tepid water, and kept so day and
night —Emma Idakepeaoe, aged 16, niece of Mn. Betts, aunt
of the deceased, said that she lived with her aunt. Deceased
belonged to a hydropathic club, to which she was a subscriber.
No one but Dr. Lovell attended her, and never heard her ex-
press a wish for any other medical man. Dr. Lovell first
saw her on the Wednesday or the Thursday previous to her
death. He came altogether about six times. He was there
on the Sunday, which was the last time he saw her. There
was medicine in the house, but the deceased did not take
any. On her first coming home, her aunt stated that she
was suffering from erysipelas. On the Thursday night Dr.
Lovell remained at Enfield, and on the following morning
Mr. Bette sent for him to attend the deceased, and on Fries&
night he stopped in the house, and attendee the dezeaseff
throughout the night. She confirmed the evidence of the
second witaxem as to the application of the baths.—Mr. T.
Ashbury. surgeon, Enfield, stated, that by direction the

first, and, above all things, bringing food to the people, " to
nve," to use their own expressive words, " such of the peo-
ple as can yet be saved."
Mr. o•CoNnett rose to 7second the resolution. He ex-
pressed hie full concurrence in all that fell from Mr. Hamil-
ton. He, too, was ter the formation of a neutral bu• united
Irish party. No compromise of any principle by aq• man,
but a vow by all to unite for the salvation of the pe, pie and
the permanent interests of Ireland. Ile dwelt u on the
terrible calamity that spin ad itself over the land—de ith was
the first enemy they had to encounter ; and for this purpose
they should unite to compel the government, at any cost of
money, to save the lives of the people by procuring immediate
and abundant supplies of food. All other objects %sere Lot
ancillary to that great end, (Loud cheering foil°. id this).
Food, then, was the first object. (Cheers.) He then com-
mented on the calumny of the Times against the gentry and
people of Ireland. Ilis remarks on this head were heard
with loud plaudits. He eulogised the gentry and clergy of
all sects—invoked a blessing on the new Irish Union, and
pledged himself to full and cordial co-operation, forgetful of
men's differences, mindful only of Ireland and her interests.
He resumed his seat amid loud and repeated cheer' og from
ai parts of the room.—The resolution was carried unani-
mously.
Mr. DILLON CM/Kim, of Fermoy, spoke to the resolution,
eulogised the committee, and referred to the unanimity of
'B2 as an example of what might be done now.
Mr. B. Oseolure was of opinion that the meeting should
look to food as the first object to be sought for by t•te union.
(Cheers.) He wished to know whether that meetitig would
authorise the Irish members and English member., such as
himself, to propose ao amendment to the address in case
ministers refused t r supply food to the people. (Tremendous
cheering.) He was a supporter of this government, but he
was a more ardent supporter of the right of the Irish people
to live. (Repeated plaudits, which continued several
minutes.) No minister ought to be permitted to ! old office
who would not at once feed the people, and this an united
party could compel him to do. (Repeated cheers.)
Mr. Morreett, of Terror, observed that the reception
given to the suggestion plainly showed the feeling of the
Irish gentry as to the great immediate object--fool, and the
necessity of forcing the government to do its duty. If Mr.
Osborne put a motion to that effect it would beyond ques-
tion be carried with almost perfect unanimity, but he would
suggest that the determination of the course to le• taken in
parliament be left to the men who formed the 1- :sh parlia-
mentary party—(Cheers)—in them they had cons fence, and
to them it would be safe to leave the decision.

oprrationot Ml—the aid of the r.. 11. awl the °raider/ft., theponc We
pray divine providence to biers or,:r effort m the cause of our afflicted
country— to promote =0 mit feeling of united exertion and
reit-reliance which can alone raise in to our proper place in the great
empire to which we belong.
'Che Evening Mail adds, that "Many other peers and
members of Parliament have signified their cordial concur-
rence in the scheme ; though, not having signed the docu-
ment, their names do not appear. Very few have expressed
their dissent, and answers arc still expected from many whose
feelings are well known, though nut A )(A. liCeared."

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 14.
The Edinburgh subscriptions for the Highland
destitution are reported to-day as amounting to
9,0701. 1 la. 10d. At the first Glasgow meeting on
behalf of the Highlanders, held on Tuesday last, the
subscriptions made at the close amounted to upwards
of 5,0001. At that meeting Dr. Buchanan gave the
following details of destitution :
Io a communication I have had from South Uist, from a
person well known to me, and not a native of that country,
who was there on business of his own, and business which
had nothing to do with the destitution, I have received this
written statement :—" Starvation, hunger, and famine are in
this place. They could net give me a morsel of bread in
many places, if I would have given them ss. for one cake. I
travelled through the mountains, stopping at the huts of the
poor people, among starving children crying to their father's
and mothers for bread. I saw the father of eight children
crying fn two hours because he could not provide bread
for his family." In another communication from
Pooleive, the writer, • respectable teacher, says :
" I beg you will not suppose that I have drawn
an exaggerated description of the destitution of this
place. Alas! that is beyond my power, nor can I have
any interest in attempting it. I am not a native of this
place. I belong to the Reap country. I have been long
among them. I have seen them often in diatress, but I never
Ilia, nor any man living in this country ever saw them in
such distress; nor can I help admiring the patience and
modesty with which they bear it, and in trying to conceal
their want from one another." In another communication
from two gentlemen, one of whom is a minister, and the
other Mr. Forsyth, of Dimach, who have been examining
into the state of the west coast of Argyll and Inverness-shire,
the following passage occurs :—" At Arisaig we met two
men who had come over from the island of Eigg in
quest of food for their starving families ; one of them
showed me a gown belonging to his wife, which he had
teen offering for sale to get some meal for his children, but
could get no person to buy it. They assured us there
were other families in the same deplorable condition. We
immediately hired a smack, took ten bags of oatmeal with
us and went to Eigg. The people hailed us as angels of
mercy. The joy and gratitude of these people, Papists and
Protestants, proved no small reward for some self-denial in
bringing them relief." I will trouble the meeting with
only-
one other extract. It relates to the Isle of Skye, and
occurs Ma communication from Mr. C. Elder, of I seloomsay'
" In one wretched hovel we found four poor children under
the charge for the time of an epileptic aunt, the youngest
on the breast (if that breast could supply it with nourish-
ment which was receiving almost none itself), the oldest
not more than six years of age ; the parents had gone to
Portree, more then seven miles off, to try to get a few
herrings or something else to save their helpless children
(coin sp“dy starvation. They had left nothing in the
house that would eat, and none of the family had had more
than half or third food for a long time before. The aunt
had at last got a handful of meal, and when we saw them
near two o'clock in the afternoon, this borrowed morsel had
just been made into a little porridge, which we saw cool-
ing before being given to these poor hungry creatures."
GREMNOCK.—TheCustomp receipt for the port of Greenock,
for the year ending Jan. 6, 1847, exceed those of the previous
year by upwards of 36,0001., a gratifying proof
,of the in-
creating trade of the port.
Tire WEATHER.—The late stormy weather has greatly
interrupted the communication in the north. Five mails
from Orkney were due in Caithness on Friday, end the
storm still continued. All intelligence of the island of St.
Kilda has been cut off for some time, owing to the tem-
pestuous weather, and (ears are entertained for the condition
of the poor inhabitants.—lneerness Courier.
EDINBURGH ACADVMY.—The rectorship of this seminary
becomes vacant at the expiry of the current session by
the retirement of Archdeacon Williams. One of the classical
mariterships is also vacant by the death of Mr. Carmichael.
litoittaxo Socorre.—At the annual meeting, held on
the 12th inst., Mr. Maconochie, of Meadowbank, was ap-
pointed treasurer, A remit was made to a committee to re-
port as to the ileairableness of flax cultivation in Scotland;
and a memorial to government was agreed to, regarding the
better collection of agricultural statistics.

The Earl of ERNE proposed the next revolution ; it was to
the effect:
That before and beyond all other comdderations 1s the salvation of
the lives of the people ; and we therefore deem it our solemn
duty—the present system having regally failed—to call upon the
government in the most Imperative terms to take such mea-
sures as will secure local supplier of food sufficient. to keep
the people alive, and to sacrifice any quantity of money
that may be neceiwtry to attain the object, declaring, as we do,
that any neglect or delay in that matter will render the government
responsible foe the safety of the peoaleof Ireland, who must perish in
multitudes unless supplied with food. That as the people of this
country are suffering from a most extraordinary and itcalculably ex-
tensive deficiency in the stock of food, we Nether call or, the pewee-
ment to remove all artificial impediments to the sapply of that
deliciem7 by the temporary suspension of the navigation law. and
the duties on the impor talkie of corn.
Lord FARNHAM, in proposing the series of resolutions
which suggested the furnishing employment to the peasantry
in tilling the land, and seed for the coming year, said there
was no man in the country more proud of that assem-
blage than himself. The noble lord then proceeded to advo-
cate and support the objects of the resolutions. He said the
people had not seed, nor was it in the country. In his
county, Cavan, there were 27,000 men on the public works,
yet the most extreme distress existed, and unless what was
recommended in the resolutions were complied with, next
year must he worse than the last.
Major BLACtALL supported the resolutions, and add se
matter what political economy Raid, the country should he
I saved from famine. He defended the landlords and the
people, the first for not giving seed to the people when they
had not got one-tenth their rents, and the people, who, if
thee employed themselves in tillage, must starve.
Mr. B. OSBORNE, in propoaing the next series of resolu-
tions, asked if it was supposed that the gentlemen there
assembled were to be considered as ass; nting to anything
that was proposed. (No, no.) Well, he was glad of that;
for he was of opinion that the landlord should give seed
himself to his tenants.
Mr. Mormatt said it was not supposed it should b... given
gratuitously.
Mr. OSBORNE wan glad of it; for he wou'd not have it
imagined that they were to come to England as beggars for
Need for their tenants—always mendicants. He defended
the English people from the supposition that they were
fairly identified, or that they coincided with the abuse
of the people in the English press. He was of opinion
government should make advances to railways. He
was 'also of opinion that the potato being gone, and
they would do well to look upon that root as gone,
the cattier tenant could not exist. He was perfectly ready
to pay any tax for locating in colonies those cattier tenantry.
He would send them with the ministers of religion as of old
—or if they could persuade some of the )oung gentlemen
now engaged in breaking horset and shooting snipes, they
would soon rover themselves with glory, and could indulge
their sporting inclinations on a larger scale. He was of
opinion that the waste land panacea would fail. He was of
opinion that the cattier tenantry could not be located on the
waste lands.
Mr. O. OoLa MoosE seconded the resolutions.
Lord MILTOWN proposed the first of the series of reeolu-
t ions recommending permanent measures, and advocated them
with great vehemence.
Mr. MONBELL Emended these resolutions. He said this
was the first time that an Irish party had been formed, NO
the hope of the country was founded upon what they had
never yet attained—union. The road to Downing-street
was too frequently the bridge to the destruction of Irish
interests. It would be so no longer. Mr. Monsell's allu-
sions to the formation of an Irish paste, and the effects of
union, as well as his anticipation of its effects, were received
with the loudest cheering.
Lord Mayor; propoved the second ;cries of " permanent
--e." His lordship's observa•ions were brief and

general.
Mr. G. R. Goner, a young gentleman of Cavan. who
has just issued a pamphlet in support of poor-laws and mud.
gration, seconded these resolutions in a speech enforcing his
views.
Mr. Pumas Mattouv proposed the next series of resolu-
tions. He insisted that the measure now proposed were
not offered for the first time. They had been proposed so
long as 20 years ago—so far back as pin.
Mr. H. GRATTAN, M.P., was the seconder of these pro-
positions. He contended that no Irish member, nor all the
Irish members, could hope to be heard who was not backed
by the people.
Mr. W. F. TIGHE, of Woodstock, in proposing the next
series respecting the facilitating th , transfer and sale of
property, said that the hon. meml:l. must see that the
couistry would support the Irish members,
Mr. CAHILL seconded the proposition, and entered into the
reasons for demanding those facilities.
Lord CARTLEMAINE proposed, and Sir THOMAS BUTLER
seconded the series of resolutions respecting the employment
of surplus labour, and the improvement of Grand Jury
Viscount Maessazzate proposed the next series, advo-
cating the enabling of proprietors to employ their own poor.
He defended the conduct of the Irish landlords.
Mr. L. NAPER, of Loughcrew, seconded the resolution.
In defending the landlords from the attacks of the press
upon them, he said he never knew a patriot cut out of a
printing press. The Irish landlords were statesmen—the
blue-books proved it. He did not want to set them against
the government of England, but she could not do what they
wanted, for those who undertook the duties of statesmen
were only placemen. Mr. Naper advocated the raising of
the physical and educational state of the Irish people, ss the
best means of influencing the Irish people to use, for the
general protection, those arms they were, in his part of the
country, purchasing in large numbers.
Sir G. HODSON proposed, and Mr. CHARLES TOTIRN-
HAM seconded, the resolutions directed to the checking of
wake.
Colonel KNox Goaz, lieutenant of Sligo, proposed the
resolutions which advocated the exemption of landlords who
employed their own poor from any assessment for genera
purposes of supporting " surplus labour." Colonel Gore,
upon the subject of 'soutane* rendered to Ireland by Eng-
land, would beg to remind the English people that atter the
fire of London, the Irish Parliament, not haring money, sent
30,000 good beeves cured in barrels to their suffering fellow-
countrymen.
Mr. M. BARRY seconded these propositions. With re-
spect to absenteeism, he said that he had rather taxation were
imposed on it through the operation of the resolution
exempting the employing proprietor than by any direct
means.
Mr. J. H. HAMILTON, Id P.,proposed a resolution, calling
on the committee to continue its labours, and to °all another
meeting whenever they deemed it necessary.
Mr. S. O'Butew, M.P., seconded the resolution. He said
that if such a party as was now fouuded had existed, many
men would never be driven to advocate those other measures
which he believed must ultimately be obtained.
Mr. A. MTerrne, M.P., in proposing the next resolution.
respecting general co-operation among Irishmen, expressed
his gratification at the mai:dray whit* characterised the
meeting.
. Six J. POWER seconded the resolution, which passed.
THE New lawn PAtLTy.—The declaratory resolutions
for the formation of a new Irish party have received the
signatures of • large portion of the Irish peers and members
of the Hones of Commons, and arrangements ap in progress
far hold*, meetings on the, subject throughput the pro-
, vines". Those resolutions have emanated from the Marquis
of Sligo, and Mr. Moore, of Moore Hall. They are as

follow; :-
That at this awful period of *aloud calamity it becomes the filet
duty of curry habitat to devote his undirided efforts to the intermix
of Ireland ; and that neither polities, parties, nor persona prejudices
should Influence Ids mind in the discharge hoerh aduty. That as we feet
deeply convinced that our tam divisions been the leading causes
of our own misfortunes, and by weakening **influence bathe councils
of the empire bare deprived us of our share in the general prosperity,
eve we are no tees firmly persuaded that it is by union Moue we can
Ptuarthe evil. that elCseenertne has created. That If the neseeetty of
rand united action be urgent 4nd important to Ireland under es-
y circumstances, It at Mk moment becomes imperative and
vital, ae not only the future fortunes, but the present lives of ourliany
may oepeod on our exert**, and that daemon at such an hour is
not only • reproach, but • crime. That to make such a union binding
sad effective, It will be nemewary net only to feel but to act together,
to take *epee to naive an united ammo* or united oppattlsa tom&
measures as may be produced with regard to Ireland daring the
ensuing session of parliament. That foe this purpose we yenta.*
to moms* to the truth members of the legislature to meet together
at such time as may be coneSdered must proper and eon-
\yenlent, for the purpcse of forming an Irish Tarty for the. protection
of Irish Interests; and we earnestly entreat that every member of
that body ehould resolve es tar ss possible to consider and modify Me
own opinion no m to meet the united tediums ot the genmaa S.dr, ant
eimald banish from his mind all oaaridetaJone of party or uotudier
at a time when the Una and hue*** of his oov.ntremen are so
deeply periled. That we real conga at a union thus firmed ardearrted
an is the prxe,tion at evil •:,,Favc., trh' re, ht .vphr* lad lt,