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SOUTH OF IRELAND.

(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Cork, SepteraLer 2
That unaccountable and reprehensible delay, which I
before alluded to, still continues, and no effectual mean,
have yet been taken to, supply the starving population of
this city with food. A sum amounting to urarly 3000/. ha,
now been subscribed, and is at the disposal of a Committee,
consisting of very respectable gentlemen; but instead of
taking immediate measures and applying the means within
their reach to meet the urgent necessities of the caw, those
gentlemen have thought proper to convene Parish Vestries,
in which Parochial Committees are formed, whose duty it
is to meet the Committees of other Parishe 14, ror the purpose
of discussing such proposals as shall be submitted; with a
view to relieve the urgent distresses of the Poor. If words
could foal the hungry, no doubt this plan would be wholly
unobjectionable, but it seems a very tedious and circuitous
mode of affording that relief which is allowed on all hands
to be indispensable to the very existence of a large propor-
tion of the suffering poor. Notwithstanding the vast num-
ber of unemployed persona who crowd the streets, there
does not seem to be the slightest tendency to riot or disorder.
The patience and forbearance with which the lower orders
have borne their sufferings, whilst it excites admiration,
cannot fail to strengthen those feelings of sympathy, which
their distressed and destitute situation have calied forth.
By this time the distress, which is already extreme, would
have been fearfully augmented, if the bounty of Providence
had not blessed the country with several abundant fails of
rain, followed by genial sunshine, which has happily re.
vived vegetation. The fields, before parched anal arid,
have now assumed all the freshness and verdure of spring;
and the fears that were very generally entertained of a total
failure of the late potato crop, which, in this country,
would be tantamount to an absolute famine, have greatly
diminished. Indeed there is now every reason to hope,
that however deficient as An averag' crop, the late potatoes
will be improved in quality, and increase in quantity more

than the most sanguine could have believed, from their
appearance a few weeks ago. 'f he change in the weather
has produced a sensible alteration in the prices of all kinds
of field and garden produce. Milk, butter, and vegetables,
have been reduced car•.sidt rably, and potatoes are now sold
at eightpence a stone, which is one third less than the sell.
ing price a month ago, though still more than double the
ordinary rate. Meanwhile the Poor Laws continue to oc-
cupy a much larger share of the attention of the citizens
that, the actual condition of the poor. It is now proposed
to hold Parish Meetings, in order to agree upon Cotintr.
Petitions to be sent to Parliament, in opposition to that
agreed upon at a general meeting of the inhabitants. This
will render every vestry-room an arena for wordy warfare,
and afford a precious opportunity to that host oft rators with
which this city is blessed ; who, like the s,ve n wise virgins,
seem always ready, and never miss an occasion of " declar-
lug their sentiments," whatever may he the nature of the
subject. However opinions may differ, with respect to
I the time and manner in which this subject was discussed
in Cork, there can be no doubt that it is a question of
great difficulty. The frequt nly revolting, and occa-
sionally alarming, scenes presented by an extensive
pauper population without any permanent means of
support, are calculated to make a deep impression, and
fill many with an idea that no price could be too dear
for the removal of an evil of such appalling magnitude.
On the other hand, the poor laws in England have been
the source of much abuse, and, in the opinion of many,
have tended to degrade the lower classes. To expect its:
the Irish could have the rose without its thorns, or that
they could import a system liable to such abuses, and pre-
serve it free front those abuses, seems quite irrational, and,
w. re it not so, it may be doubted whether Ireland is yet
ripe fur the introduction of such a system. These argu-
ments, into which I shall nor enter, are canvassed here in
every society: they have for some weeks exclusively occu-
pied the attention of all classes, and would probably con-
tinue to do so for some time longer, but for the lam: nted
death of one of the Representatives of this city, (Mr. C. H.
Hutchinson.) A letter written by this respected Gentles
man a few days before his death has just been published,
recommending his son to the notice of the electors. he
ensuing election therefore at present divides the public at-
tention. There is little doubt that the election will be COll.
tested, as several candidates have already been named.

The Oriental Spectator off' the 14th July gives the fol-
lowing sketch of the character of Goura :
When Colonel Fabvier, provided with money and great military
talents, arrived in Greece, and was appointed Commander of the
regular troops, Goura, dissembling his mean jealousy, sought the
friendship of the generous Philheiline. who, like all old soldiers,
incapable of deceit, was the more easily deceived, and fancied he
had found a friend. Goura flattered Fabvier, loadtd I.im with
marks of friendship, and even made him a present of s beautiful
horse. But at the time of the affair at Carysto he secretly spread
unfavourable reports, and thereby increased, in the eyes of the troops
at Athens, the dangers of the Greek army. Thee reports caused va-
rious disorders, which Goura promoted. ineteod of trying to suppress
them. Be succeeded in bribing some Greek officers of the battalion
of reserve, which was not sufficiently well trained to join the army.
Sacrificing their Commander and their honour, they favoured deser-
tion ; while dour* secured in the citadel the deserters and their equip-
ments, which he encouraged them to pilfer from the magazines.
At the National Assembly, at Piads, Gouts, who thought dist
Fabvier was irretrievably ruined, not knowing the resources which
the Colonel would find within himself, and which would make him
more powerful than ever, threw off the mask ; his jealousy blinded
him to such a degree, that he himself stai the wicked means he
had employed, wh. e , to get rid of a flea!, he halt 'tact liked a whole
army of his countrymen. He said publicly :hat Fabvier hail gone
to Negropont, to make himself King ; that if he, Goitre, 1.a.1 been
intrusted with the expedition, he would have executel it with
more prudence, and the Government would have found in him a
much more faithful servant. lie was answered, that in case of
success, he would, perhaps, have seized the supreme power him-
self. " Well (said he), anti what great misfottone would it be. if
I were the tnaster of Greece ?" Let no one say, then, who knows
Oman well, this is not the exclamation of a heart animated with
perhaps a pardonable ambition, which burns with desire to make
the country happy. He is a vulgar speculator, without thinking of
honour or reputation, who coolly contemplates the misery which he
would create, if he commanded Greece. He will lay down his
power the mmnent there is nothing more to get, and he would al-
ready have given up hia present situation, did he not daily find
means to plunder tied oppress the unhappy Livadia. of which he
found himself master, when he precipitated from the top of a tower
his prisoner 1 klyssetts, his old master and friend. To amass riches and
retire with them to Europe, there to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth,—
this is the plan or flours, and of all those Chiefs to whom a deluded
people have confided their liberty and happiness, not reflecting that
at the of gold, they are even ready, in the hour of danger, to
abandon the unhappy victims of their rapacity. At the National
Assembly at Piada. Prince Ypsilanti it tttcred himself iur a moment
that the reins of Governtnent would be intrusted to him. The
real friends of the Greeks rejoiced in the prospect of having so
patriotic a Chief, and hoped that the well-known integrity and
disinterestedness of the Price would pot an end to the anarchy.
This last hope has been baffled for the present by intrigue. The
Greeks have still at the head of their armies the insatiable Coloco-
troni, who, loaded with the treasures of Tripotizza and Napoli di
Romania, still stretches out his hand for more money, and laughs
at the simplicity of those who hasten to the combat, singing Rohe
of liberty. We have the following account of Colocotroni. Zaint.
Primate of Calarrita had purchased from the Hydriots several
fine Arabian horses, Attu had been captured from lbrahint's army.
Colocotroni long sought means to appropriate them to himself.
What did he do ? He proposed to the Government that all the
horses at pasture in the plain of Argos should be taken to form a
regular corps of cavalry. The proposal was approved. Culaco-
trom put it into execution, and caused &liars horses to be conveyed
to his own stables. Zaini loudly complained of this viols ion of
his property, and managed so well, that Colocotroni was ordered to
restore his horses. lle obeyed, but four of the finest of them had
already died.
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, SEPT. S.—Monthly Return of
Patients from the lst to the 31st August :
In.patients admitted by letter . -
Ditto, accidents

. 110
. 92
-139
. 190
. 110
-303

Out-pat;ents adm't.ed bi Irters .
Ditto, accidents

T,t 1

In.paffnts eivharrd
-
Remaining 'n the limits! -

. 437
1?..4
148