The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-22 00:00:00

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IN IRELAND.
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increasing to a frightful extent in this district, even amongst
those who were considered above want. The poor people
are coming in hundreds here, to see if anything will be done
for " I was present this day when application was
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and------ boiling'stat theingt blood till it becamehattheywereexis thick,tin whengbyble eding
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cat it, and also eating seaweed and small shell-fish. I knew
cases myself where the children resorted to weeds in the fields
to allay their hunger, being so for 24 hours, and another large
family
having no food for two days; one of
them, aof
boy, children
years, dreading a return of hunger,
took away the two sheep that were spared to pay the public
money or cess, which, to add to the misfortune, is 110%
collecting, and sold them for half-price. I also know many
not
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to come here, particularly last week, who said they were
without food twenty-four hours, and indeed their faces
corroborated their statement. And while I now write
(six o'clock p. n..) there are many here who have not
tasted food since yesterday morning. Others are known
to have, by night, taken away the carrion of a cow
drowned by chance, and unskinncd for two days, and
picked the bones that the dogs had feasted on. The
description given by the priest of the sufferings of the
people, whom he has to be in constant attendance on, is
frightful. Many families are lingering through fever.
and will feel want a long time, as their manure remains
at their cabins, not being able to sow ; and what is
worse, the misery is not likely to end with many when
the harvest returns,which will be late in this country, as
they are now compelled to root out the potatoes before
they arrive to one-eighth of their growth. So that in a
week there will be as much destroyed as would serve for
two months, if full grown. I need not name one village,
for every one round about shares this awful visitation.
There arc many actively endeavouring to relieve this
distress ; but, alas, it is only like a drop of water to the
ocean."

THE TWELFTH OF JULY.—So far as we have
yet learned we have reason to believe that the anniversary
were
that the Church bells
were n
some
of the
steeples,
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of the Boyne passed over, not only without the occurrence
of rioting in any quarter, but without any display of party
emblems, and on their general submission to the law in this
respect we have to award to the Orangemen the credit tr,
h
but nothing like a procession took
the churches of Dublin joy bells were rung, and in the
suburbs a number of shots were fired, but nothing further
occurred. In Derry an Orange flag was suspended over
the figure of Governor 'Walker—The jny bells pealed, the
" virgin flag"
w°trea'‘n entitled.flagsc
' I
hoistedn understood
the neighbourhood
was displayed from one of the windows of
the Cathedral, and nine discharges of cannon took place at
the foot of the monument
.on the Royal bastion. Every
es.INTARKET, JULY 19.—The
Belfast News Letter.
ether exhibition of political feeling was confined to the
sugar markets continue flat and declining, and the extent
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of business done is inconsiderable for this time of the year.
The weekly deliveries still fall cif to the amount of rather
rooßmsßorfstThoe sLevesr
more than 1,000 hhds. each return, which must eventually
have an important influence
.on prices. Whatever may
prove the efiCit In, in the :
to be d import, we cannot but
think it will be more than compensated by the difference
in the consumption ; and as the stocks on hand are new
greater than last year, and the average price 7s. per cwt.
higher, it appears highly improbable that present rates can
be maintained.—Bristol Mercury.
In Cowbridge (says a Correspondent) there is a
population of about twelve hundred inhabitants, many of
whom are persons of independent property, but yet there
is no butcher, baker, or plumber, in the parish, and la-
bourers are so scarce that the farmers are now paying from
twelve to fifteen shillings per week, besides an allowance
of beer, and in many cases a dinner, during harvest thr 0
This is a striking contrast to Devonshire, where the men
employed in agriculture are earning but seven to eight
I shilling pm. week.—Canthrian.