The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-28 00:00:00

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IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JAN. 25 —Many more deaths from starva-
tion are reported in the accounts received to-day, and
what is termed the •' starvation fever." is spreading isk,
the western as well as the southern counties.
The Sligo Champion contains the following alarming
statement :
•' Fever is still on the increase ; the deaths in the
poor-house are most numerous, and almost all the per-
sons who have died have been carried off either by ty.
phus lever or dysentery. There are at present four
hundred on the sick list in the poor-house, or one-third
of all the inmates. This is really alarming, and from
the great increase of fever in the town wo fear a plague
will ensue.

" The coroners of Sligo are unable to attend to all
the calls made upon them, and although indefatigable in
the discharge of their duties, numbers of persons have
been buried (who died of starvation) without inquest*
having been held upon them."
After giving details of inquests on five persons who
died from starvation, the Slims Champion proceeds :
" While the coroner was engaged yesterday with the in-
quests at Drumcliff, he received an?' official communi-
cation from Head Constgp-k!Pay, of Riverstown, re-
questing his attendance toflo.ld inquests on the bodies
of a girl named Hodge, and rt man named Brian Mat-
tenis, both of whom died of starvation, and he was
informed by the messenger who brought the letter, that
three or four -orderlies were at his house, requiring his
presence in different parts•of the county."
From such a distriec it:l4:rjot surprising that emigra-
tion is still in progress, even in mid-winter. Two
hutidred persons left• the port of Sligo on Thursday, for
Liverpool, with a view of making their way to America;
but most of them were very poorly provided with sea
stores, and some were almost destitute of clothing or
provisions. Many of those creatures, no doubt, will
still further augment the pauperism in Liverpool.
From all parts of the county of Galway the most
harrowing accounts have been received, and deaths
from starvation are increasing. The Tuam Herald
states that five inquests were held from the 16th to the
21st instant, and ,in each case the verdict•was " died
by starvation."

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GALWAY, JAN. 23.—MORE DEATHS BY STARYATXON.
—Our private letters from Connemara mention details
of woe almost unparalleled. In Clifden, we are in-
formed that the population are fast dying away for want
of food—many are hurried to their early graves rims
utter destitution, without the ceremony of a funetal,
and frequently without the covering of a coffin, and the
clergy are incessantly employed in administering the
consolations of religion to those who are falling victims
to the ravages of famine. In the village of Glenn,
westward of Oughterard by about two miles, in one
wretched cabin, ten human beings, constituting an en-
tiie family, lie dead ire one heap 6f .'rottenness and
putrefaction.
In the extensive county of Cork the most appalling
scenes are to be witnessed on all sides. In the city of
Cork, on Saturday last, a crowd of labourers paraded
through the streets, but some of the ringleaders having
been arrested while endeavouring to force an entrance
into a shop, the remainder dispersed without committing
any outrage.

The Cork Reporter of Saturday contains a statement
from its correspondent of the dreadful destitution in the
district of Bantry. I have extracted the following pas-
sage :—" Mothers bearing dead children in their arms
are everywhere to be seen, and those who follow them
aro often compelled t• eat grass to satisfy the cravings
of the hunger that gnaws their vitals. As an example
of the rapidity with which death stalks through the land,
it may be stated that during the last ten days the Rev.
Messrs. Freeman Begley visited and prepared for death
no less than forty-two, thirty-five of whom were in the
utmost state of destitution, and of that number twenty-
eight died, twenty-five of absolute starvation. That
number did not include the deaths in the workhouse,
which had been unprecedented in extent, notwithstand-
ing the exertions of the hoard of guardians. Scarcely
an hour elapses without some of the population dropping
and sinking into the grave, and children, after suffering
the pangs of hunger for four or five days. Many die on
the mountains, uncared for and deserted. In the midst
of all these horrors, it is gratifying to find that
those who have been blessed with a reasonable share of
this world's goods have nobly done their duty. Amongst
the most prominent in endeavouring to allay and mitigate
the misery which exists amongst the tenantry is Lord
Kenmare. Some instances have occurred in the barony
where the landlord has demanded and distrained for rent,
but those instances, it is happy to observe, ace very few.
The fact is, the tenantry have nothing to give; for
although I have seen more fields prepared for the coming
crop in this neighbourhood than in most others I have
visited, in general all their corn is gone, and but few
have any seed."
From the southern counties the reports are equally
afflicting.
From some of the counties of Ulster the accounts are
quite as bad as from the south or west. The Lord
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe having recommended a
grant of 2401. from the National Club in London, con-
vened a meeting of his clergy at the deanery house last
week, to assist him in allocating the money and obtain-
ing local subscriptions. The reports submitted by the
clergy exhibit a mass of utter destitution in their parishes.
The Rev. Mr. Maturin desoribed the parish of Gorton as
containing " one thousand individuals who have no mere
than a week's provisions, and who are without means to
obtain them."
RE-APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO DISEASE.
The Cork Reporter of Saturday says:—" A gentleman
residing in the neighbourhood of Kinsale planted in a
hotbed, about three months since, a quantity of ,suund
potatoes of the quarry kind, and on examining the pro-
duce yesterday, which, by the forced growth, had far
advanced to maturity, he found them black and dis-
eased."

THE IRISH DISTILLERS.—REDUCTION OF
DUTY ON RUM.
The project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, re-
specting the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries,
has been received with general approval'here ; but the
proposed arrangement for reducing the duty on rum in
Ireland to about one-third of the present amount, hits
produced absolute consternation amongst the Irish dis-
tillers.

A meeting of the Dublin distillers was held this day,
at the Commercial-buildings, Sir John Power, Bart.,
presiding, when the following resolutions were adopted;
" That the meeting have seen, wi:h the greatest
alarm, the proposition of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, made in the House of Commons on Friday last,
to reduce the duties on 'West India rum imported into
Ireland to 3s. 2d. per gallon—a measure which, if car-
ried into effect, will prove utterly ruinous to the Irish
distillery trade, and most prejudicial to the landholders,
farmers, and traders of this country, and to every inte-
rest connected therewith.
" That any measure of a temporary nature, calculated
to meet the exigencies of the present time, however in-
convenient it might prove to the trade, would be cheer-
fully received and submitted to by the Irish distillers ;
but that the measure now proposed sloes not contemplate
any such effect, but is solely calculated permanently to
injure, if not totally extinguish, the manufacture of
spirits in this country.
" That a general meeting of the trade be called by
public advertisement, to assemble in Dublin, on Tues-
day, the 2d of February next, in the Corn Exchange, at
one o'clock in the afternoor, to take the proposition of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer into their consideration,
and that these resolutions be published in the meantime
in some of the morning and evening Dublin and London
newspapers. By order of the me.ting,
" WILLIAM W. JAMESON, Secretary."
Mr. O'Connell attended the meeting of the distillers.
The honourable and learned gentleman has delayed his
departure for London in consequence of the unfavourable
state of the weather ; but has to leave town by the mail
packet to-morrow evening.
REPRESENTATION OF GALWAY TOWN.
The Galway Vindicator contains an address from Sir
Valentine Blake, Bart., to the electors of the town of
Galway, intimating his retirement from the representa-
tion of the town, " it having pleased Providence to de-
prive me of the power to attend to your important inte-
rests in Parliament in future." The same journal con-
tains a letter from I'. S. Comyn, Esq., dated " Upper
Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, Jan. 21," iu which the writer
says—" Either my brother (Francis Comyn, of Wood•
stock), or myself, will offer ourselves as candidates, and
we will not support any Government not pledged to the
repeal of the union."

'lt is generally believed that the Solicitor General,
Mr. Monahan, who is a native of the county of Galway,
will start for the representation of the vacant borough,
with a fair prospect of success. Mr. O'Hara, the late
recorder of the borough, is also spoken of as a candidate.
On Wednesdsy a meeting of the trades and other re-
peal electors, presided over by the Rev. Mr. Martyn, was
held in the repeal reading-room, Galway, when a resolu-
tion was adopted, pledging- _the 'meeting to use every
exertion in the event of a vacancy for the return of a
repeal representative.
REPEAL ASSOMATION.

At the weekly meeting of the- Association held this
day, AldernaftD I,3utler in the chair, Mr. W. T. Kelly,
solicitor, detaile at2donsiderable length certain proceed-
ings instituted by a large number of landlords (whom
he named) in the county Of-,Wiyo, against their cottier
tenantry. From the staterneht• of the Learned Gentle-
man, it appeared that,. ats'-ehe recent sessions held at
Castlebar and Ballinrobe, an incredible number of civil
bill actions had been brought for non-payment of rent,
the greatest portion of which fell duo in November last.
Mr. O'Connell moved that a special meeting of the com-
mittee should be summoned for next day, to consider the
statement, and that a petition to Parliament, detailing the
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facts (if substantiated by the gentleman who announced
them), should be prepared ; and
How,lie a(stltrd.
s have the asked h 1
demand
assistance assistance from the British Government if it appeared
that the landlords oflr
Ireland were acting in the manner
sthtaatteda?Mrri
Anthony Hon,
Gentleman
O'Flah subsequently announced
his conversion to repttertayt,, of Knockbanp, ~ having
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of was ceternained to seek
the representation of
Galway (town), vacant by the Sirrt-
Valentine Blake.
kignation
At the conclusion of the proceedings (which were
totally devoid of interest), the rent for the week Wll5 au-
nounced to be 151.40 i 9d.
The meeting .tlict.t' adjourned..

" EXPERIENCES or A GAOL CIIAPLAIN."—A great
deal of interest has of late been, and continues to be taken in
the very important subject of prison discipline, and the re- •
clamation of criminals, and several works have been written,
which, to say the trail, have communicated much general
information touching this matter. But general treatises,
however elaborate, have not half the effect, and consequently
are not nearly so useful, as particular facts. It is for this
eason that we hail " The Experiences of 'a- Gaol Chap-
lain," just bublished by ➢lr. Bentley. It is indeed a dark
pagefrom life's volume, but which, whilst it is one of the most
valuable. di,closures ever made as to the economy of our
prisons apd the moral conditiort of their inmates, is one of tha
WO interesting collection of nwativis-ever published!,
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