The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-05 00:00:00

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REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN

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TRADE.
(From the Mark•lane F:xpress.)
No time has been lost in getting the Corn and Navigation
Law Suspension Bills through. Parliament, these measures
having received the Royal Assent on Tuesday lest. Whether
the importations of grain will be materially increased by the
remission of the almost nominal rates of duties previously
levied on arrivals of foreign corn may be questioned; at all
events no immediate increase in the supplies can be caused
thereby. Before it was known that Government intended
to take the steps they have, orders had been sent abroad to
buy up all that could be procured; and these purchases
would, under any circumstances, have come fomard. The
whole of the available 'stock at Baltic ports is a mere baga-
telle in comparison with what will lie wanted to supply the
immense deficiency of food in Ireland. The same may be
said as regards the Mediterranean ; and though rather a
large quantity of wheat is held. at Odessa and the Danube,
we shall have to outbid France and other countries, who are
looking to that quarter as well AB ourselves for supplies, to
secure any large quantity there. Our principal resource
must, therefore, still be America; and we can only repeat
what we have on former occasions stated, viz., that we en-
tertain considerable misgivings as to her capabilities to fur-
nish adequate supplies in a season when the yield of grain
We are, consequently,
has been more or less deficient over a large portion of Europe.
inclined to view the reaction which
has taken place in the trade in grain during the week now
about to terminate as likely to prove temporary, unless our
own farmers hold much heavier stocks than we have reason
to suppose. The anxiety to realize which holders of Wheat
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and Barley have all at once exhibited, has, as usual, been
ts,themresilluer4t.
That some giving way should have occurred at Liverpool is
not surprising, as the arrivals at that port from America
have been very abundant for some days dast; if, however,
the wants of Ireland are nearly as great as estimated by the
President of the Board of Trade, the Liverpool warehouses
will not long retain what has just been stored. We have
recently received a communication from a source we believe
worthy of credit relative to the state of affairs in the interior
of Ireland, which fully bears out the gloomy picture drawn
by the different • speakers in. the House of Commons, when
touching on the subject of, Irish distress. From this state.
ment it appears that the demand for meal. of every descrip-
tion is so great, that the power of manufacturing it has
proved altogether inadequate ; that the poor people con-
stantly surround the different mills, and take away Wheat,
Indian Corn, and Oatmeal, in small quantities of a fevi stones
at the time, as fast as it can be made ; and oar correspon-
dent accounts for the accumulation of stocks at Dublin, .
merick, and other seaport towns, under such circumstances,
by the difficulty existing in procuring the means of convey-
ance, the boats, &c., usually employed in carrying goods
into the interior having proved wholly unequal to the pur-
pose. All this appears, however, for the present, to have
been lost sight of ; and, as already remarked, a decided
change has during the week taken place in the tone of the
trade. At most of the leading provincial markets a rather
important decline has occurred.
THE FORLIGN CORN TRADE.
We have received two arrivals from America, the latest
being the packet ship Patrick Henry, bringing New York
advices of the Bth January, and accounts of corresponding
dates from other parts of the United States. The news
which had, up to that date, reached there from Europe, had
not been regarded as particularly encouraging ; and, so far
from any further rise having occurred, the tendency of
prices had been rather downwards. Good brands of
Genessee had been sold at sd. sc. to sd. 56.:., and other •
western kinds at sd. 44c. to sd. 50c. per brl. A good many
vessels had arrived out, and the demand for ship-room having
at the same time rather fallen off, freights had slightly re-
ceded; 4s. 54. per brl. for Flour, and is. 6d. per bushel for
Wheat, having been taken for Liverpool. From the Ist to
the 31st December the exports of Flour had amounted to
232,894 brls., and in the first week of January close upon
20,000 brls had been shipped. Indian Corn Meal had been
in lively request, and large sales of Pennsylvania and Jersey
had been made at 3d. 87' c. per brl. Wheat bad not excited
much attention, and good Genessee had been sold at 115 c.
per pusbel. In December 276,757 bushels of Wheat,245,791
bushels of Indian Corn, 59,954 bushels of Rye, 21,758
bushels of Oats, and 81,661 bushels of Barley had been
exported.

At New Orleans, on the 30th of December, Flour was ob-
tainable at 4d. 50c. per brl., and Indian Corn at from 6214 c.
up to 70c. per bushel, according to quality.
The advices received this week from the principal Medi-
terranean ports describe the grain trade as having become
very excited. In the Papal States the export of corn had
been forbidden, and prices had risen considerably in all the
principal markets.

A litter from Marseilles, of the 23d inst., informs us that
Polish Odessa Wheat had commanded equal to 61s. to 635.
per qr. free on board at that port. Marianopoli 595., and
Romelia 545. Our correspondent states that the anxiety to
secure wheat had become so great as to render the price a
matter of almost secondary consideration ; parcels not ex-
pected to arrive for five or six months had been taken with
as much avidity as cargoes nearly at hand, ai.d that the ex-
citement was increasing day by day.
- From Trieste we have letters of the 21st January; Odessa
Wheat was then quoted 535. 6d. per qr. free on board, but
the freight from thence to a British port was Ics. per qr.,
with 10 per cent.
From Leghorn we learn that about 80 to 85 cargoes of
Wheat had arrived there, chiefly bound to Marseilles. The
demand for the article had been as active there as at neigh-
bouring places, and prices had advanced materially. Freight
to England was 9s. to 10s. per quarter.
The Hamburgh mail of Friday had not come to hand up to
alate hour this evening; our accounts from the Baltic are,
therefore, not of such recent dates as usual. According to
the latest accounts fnom Dantaic, the highest price of Wheat
was 635. to 655. per quarter, but it seems more than probable
that a further rise has occurred since then.
At Rostock and Stettin holders had raised their preten-
auu Ler ❑ue uplanu
r*edlniieereaguhaarveteorba6slays:ttrapyeerioip.
dated the 28th instant. It appears that a large number of
o.h.rrattaednubutencenoamewpmaiundunPication from Antwerp,
French buyers had attended that market, and had taken off
all the Wheat and Rye they had been enabled to procure.
This had caused an important rise in prices, and the former
article was, at the date named, worth equal to 70s. to 78s.
and the latter 525. to 555. per qr., with every appearance of
a still further advance.
Since writing the above the Hamburg mail of the 26th
has come to hand, further purchases of Wheat had been
made there on French account, and the tendency of prices
had continued upwards.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, FEW:UM 4.
SToCE EXCHANGE.-The salesl are -Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, and Eastern Junction, 3s. 9d. dis.-Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 3s. 9d. p.-Birmingham and Dudley, 5 p.-Bir-
mingham and Oxford, 8% p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 201. Shares,
% dis.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 16s. 3d. p.-East Lan-
cashire, New, 2% p. Ditto, New Scrip, 1% p.-Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 75%-Ditto, Quarters, 19 -Great Northern (Nos. 108,001
and upwards), par Lancaster, and Preston, Quart. rs, 14% p.-
Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 44 p.--Ditto, Extensions (green), %
p.-Leeds and Thirsk. 274 dis.-Ditto Preference, 1%3 p.- Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, .41s. 3d. p.--London and North-Western,
192-Ditto, 'Quarter!!! (Grand Junction, 20%3 p.- Manchester and
Leeds,Halves (late lluddersueld and Sheffield), 4% p.-Manchester,
Sheffield, rnd Lincolnshire Quarters, No. 1, 3)6 p.-Ditto, Quarters,
No. 2, 22% -Ditto (late Sheffield and Lincoln), 153 dis.-Midland
Steck, 124-Ditto, New, 3% p.-North Staffordshire, 3p.-Preston
and Wyre, 31 % -Scottish Midland, 3% p.-Shrewsbury and Che-
shire, New, 1% p.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 1%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), % p.- Shropshire Union Railway
and Canal, 16s. Bd. dis. ex int.-South-Eastern , No. 4, Thirds, %
p.-South Stafibrdshire Junction, % p.-Ditto, Trent Midland. % p.
-West Riding Union, 33s 9d. p.-York and North Midland, Pre-
feresce, 10% p.-Dutch Rhenish, 58s. 9d. dis.
MANCHESTER, FEBRUARY 4.
STOCK EXcNANOE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, 3-16 dis.-Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stair Valley,
2 p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., % dis.- Boston, Stamford, and Bir-
mingham, 1% p.-Eastern Counties. York Extension, % p.-East
Lancashire, 2% p.-Ditto, New (scrip), 1% p.-East Lincolnshire,
• p.-Glasgow and Dumfries, ?.- Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway and Canal, 2,6 p.-Lancaster and Preston, 12% p.-Leeds
and Thirsk, 2% c. dis.-Ditto, Preferential, 1% p.-Leeds, Dews-
bury, and Manchester, 1% p.-Ditto, New Branches Scrip (blue),
3 p.-Londou and North-Western, Quarters (C), la.-Mulches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland. p.-North Staffordshire, 3
p.- Preston and Wyre,:3l-Ditto, Halves (A), 2 3-16 p.-lihrewsbury
and Birmingham (A), 1 p.-south Yorkshire, Doncaster. &c.. par-
West Riding Union, 1 11,1-EIE6
FEBRUARY 4.
STOCK EXCRANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, Is. Gd. dis. - Buckinghamshire, 48.-East Lancashire, New,
• p.-Dltto, New Scrip 255. 6d. p. East and West Yorkshire, 58.
6d. dis.-East Lincolnshire, 2% c. p.-Leeds and Dewsbury,
Branches, Scrip (blue), 3% p.-Leeds and Thirsk, dis.-Ditto,
New, I2s. 6d. dis.- Ditto, _Preference, 245. 6d. p.-Leeds, Wakefield,
and Midland, 10s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 3s. dis.-Malton
and Driftield Junction, 17s. 6il, p.-Manchester and Leeds, Exten-
sions, 225. p.-Manchester,,uston, Matlock, and Midland, 123.6 d.
p.-North British, Thirds, 50s, p.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), lbs. p.-
North Staffordshire, 3% p.-Northern Comities Union, 233. dis.-
North-Western, 9s. Gd. p.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 4a.
c, p.-West Riding Union, 31. 175.-York and North Midland, Pre-
ference, 10% p.

SEWC .kSTLE-LTPON-TYNE, rrintrasy 4.
STOCK FACCIIANciF.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New (scrip),
245. rid p. Leicester and Bedford, p.-Newcastle and Carlisle,
'll4--Newcastle and Ikrwicli, 12' p. -North British, Thirds, Lie.
p.-Ditto, Quarters, 256 p.-kiitto, Extension, 155. 6d. p.-Nortli
Staffordshire, 3 p.-York and Newcastle, Extension, 7 p.
SIiEFFILLI), FEBRUARY 4.
STOCK ESChANGE.-The sales are-Manehester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, % siienield, and Lincoinshlre
(Grimsby and Sheffield), 201. Shares, 265. tics.-llitto (Sheffield and
Lincoln), 1 dis.- North-Western, 4Z p.
HULL, I,Enareiti 4.
STOCK EII:LUNGE. -The sales are North British, Extensions
(scrip), 14s. 9d. p.-Maltun and Drithelu Jucetioia, Ise. Gd. p.-North-
W', 6s. p

EDINBURGH, FtniteAuv 3.
STom: ExcirANGE.--The sales arc-Caledonian, 271.-Ditto, New,
!z. i,(l. -Caledonian and Dumbartonshire. 41s. 6d.-Direct North-
qt. ne.- Dundee and Arbroath, New (No. 1), 321.-East of Fife,
:s.--EaA Lothian Central, 455.-Edinburgh and hatligate, 541.-
ttinburgh 11:1,1 Glasgow, 771.-Ditto, Quarters, 103.-Edlnburirb•
i,e!tll, anti Granton, Quarters, 16s. 3d.-Edinburgh ;Shd
N0n1.,..rn. 16!,,'z -Ditto, Newport, 5/. Rs. 6t1.-Ditto. ditto,
51s. --K.ilinburgh and Perth (New), 515.-North British. Few
Quarters (strip), 2,L5.-Ditto, Thirds. 735.--Scottish C:,
tir.
‘ "Shret-s-
Scottish Grand Junction, 225. 6d.-Seottish 'ando
Dunfercu-
r4.,7o3,76edst.r4l,)aArendctClh,c(isintebra,yNaerid,
3420:1,64-4,ittainf
GLAsuiDt k.BBILAST 3.
• les are- Airdrie and Bathgate, 81s. -
,TOCK EICITANGF.. -111 e Fa
lea
New, 459.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 505.-
Halves, ?U.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters,
th Brit li Thirds,uthMP-
(l);rect Bombay and Madras, 45.-East of Fife, 525. 6d.-East Indian,
Bs. 9d.- East Lothian Central, 43e. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
-Glasgow General Terminus,
11 -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and
tdiblauiridgb,
rat; tadlvePs,erst7ih,-5515.,4
Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 91.38. G 1 '
gow,Kiimarnock, and Ardrossan, 61.- Manchester and SO - as-
-63d2DsittEolvi,eii
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and Newcastle, Preference, 71. 3 , 734.-York

gsoing of
singular inarli
We regret to announce that Richard Norman, Esq ,
health
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da
died on Sunday last, at his seat, Melton Mowbray, at the
vviteyarns,ntriel retaining
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period n
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f
his decease. Mr. Norman married tor his second wife, in
1798, the Lady Elizabeth Isabella Manners, eldest daughter
of Charles, fourth Duke of Rutland, and the Duchess Isabella,
so remarkable for her beauty. Lady Norman survives, with
a very numerous family. Many of the nobility will be placed
in mourning by this event, Mr. Norman, by marriage,
standing in the relation of brother-in-law to the Duke of
Rutland and Lord Charles Manners, and uncle to th.
Countesses of Chesterfield and Jermvn, Viscountess New-
port, Lord Forester, the Hon. Mrs- Anson, Lord Carington.
Lady ElTlMeillle Stuart Wortley, Lady Elizabeth Drum-
mond, the Marquis of Granby, Lord Joint Manners, &c.
Lieutenant Leopold Saxe Coburg Frazer, of the
Ceylon Rifles, Aide-de-Camp, to his Excellency Sir Colin
Campbell, Governor of that island, died on the Ist of De-
cember last, at the early age of twenty-seven rears, he was
the son of the late Major Fraser, Governor of Fort George,
whose demise, as our readers are aware, took place on, the
20th of the same month.
LAW SITTINGS IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday the fol-
lowing notice was affixed at the Guildhall, City :—" The
adjournment day of the London sittings of the Court of
Common Pleas is fixed for haturday, February 13. The
Court of Queen's Bench will hold the next London sit-
tings on Tuesday, February 16, at oalf-past nine o'clock
pt wisely.
Tl,e last letters from Riga state the exchange 41id.
to 410., and a general imp:mill:a:4 PrcrFaUed that ketore long
lit will be quoted et 42d. .

FAMINE IN IRELAND
AND AND SCOT..'
L.
UNITED RELIEF ASSOCIATIONI
A public meeting, convened by the committee.appointed
at the recent conference of clergymen and dissenting minis-
ters, held at Exeter Hall, assembled then larg?ve roomstate-
of
that building, at twelve o'clock yester,recei
ments from deputations who have arrived from Ireland and
Scotland, to communicate to the British public the real facts
of the present distress as they have witnessed them in these
countries. The meeting was very respectably but not nu-
merously attended.
The following gentlemen occupied the platform :—Samuel
Gurney, Esq., Dr. Urwick, Dublin ; Dr. ll‘Leod, Glasgow •
Luke Hansard, Esq., Charles Cochrane, Esq., Dr. Ferguson,
St. Dacy Irvine, Esq., B. F. Mosse, Esq., Morris Were, Egg
Sir. z Dr. Mackenzie, P. Pittar Es.
Mr. Randolph, and a number of clergymen and dissenting

ministers.
On the motion of the Rev. Dr. CamasLx, Samuel Gurney
Esq., was called to the chair.
The Caarnelaen in opening the proceedings, said they were
met to take into consideration the great afflictions of Scotland
and Ireland at the present time, with a view to alleviate
them. As gentlemen were present able to speak more accu-
rately on the subject than he was, he would not trespass on
their time, but it could not be denied that thousands of per-
sons would fall victims to the calamity. Scotland was not
so severely visited as Ireland, but in the Hebrides, Shetland,
and other western isles, the scarcity of food was great, and he
was glad that they were to receive a portion of the funds.
The distress, however, in Ireland was beyond description. The
calamity was so great that no amount of relief would do
more than partially relieve it. There could be no doubt
but thousands would fall victims, and he was sure it must
afford pleasure to every one if, by his or her individual as-
sistance, a single life could be preserved. He would now
call upon others better able to communicate information to
address them.
The Rev. Dr. Uawicx (Dublin) then addressed the meet-
ing, and after dwelling upon the assistance which Ireland
received from England in 1822, when the last famine visited
the farmer country, said that great as that visitation was, and
much as it was felt, it could not be compared to that which
at present visited that country. According to the calculations
made in the House of Commons and elsewhere, the money
value of the food lost did not amount to less than twelve
millions by the lowest estimate, sixteen millions by another
estimate, and twenty millions by a third estimate. When it
was considered, then, that this loss fell especially on the
lower classes of Ireland, who made the potatoes their sole
food, some idea might be formed of the immensity of the
wretchedness. It was calculated that it would take
ten vessels, of five hundred tons each, to arrive in Ireland
for three hundred suce.essive days, to provide a sufficient
quantity of food for the wants of the people. This, which
he believed was not an exaggerated estimate, would afford
some idea of the great scarcity of food in Ireland. The Rev.
Gentleman then proceeded to detail the distress in different
localities in Ireland. In Dublin workhouse, which was cal-
culated to contain from 1,800 to 2,000 persons, a very few
weeks ago, 800 or 900 of them were ill with fever and
dysentery, and among the children measles prevailed to an
alarming extent. The schools of surgery in Dublin never
received so many bodies for dissection as they did recently,
which was entirely owing to the famine, and to the
inability of the poor to bury their dead. In Waterford
Cork, elonmel, Sligo, and other places, the destitution was
equally great, and in many places more extreme. Much
was said about the great purchase of arms in Ireland, but he
accounted fur that from the repeal of the Arms Act last ses-
sion, and from the feeling of insecurity caused by the desti-
tution. Besides, the arms were purchased by those who
were in comfortable circumstances. The deposit of money
in the savings' banks was also brought forward to show that
the destitution could not be so extreme. But to
all this he would reply, " Look at the Irish
newspapers ; see the number of inquests daily reported
in them, to each one of which was appended
the verdict Died from starvation !'—' Died from starva-
tion r---‘ Died from starvation !' " He concluded by moving
the following resolution :—" That upon the evidence daily
received through the public journals, and from private
sources, detailing scenes of the utmost destitution, and con-
tinued deaths from starvation, in Ireland especially, but also
in Scotland and even hi our own country, it is the conviction
of this meeting that it is desirable to make a more general
collection, anti upon a broader basis of appeal, than any dint
has yet been made, throughout the length and breadth
of
the land."
The 11ev. Dr. M'LEoD seconded the resolution, and con-
curred with the Rev. Gentleman who last addressed them,
that the state of distress in Scotland could not be compared
with that of Ireland. 'The latter he believed to be unpa-
ralleled. In the Western Isles, however, the destitution was of
the must painful kind. Ile could speak of instances where
the fountain of nature was dried up at the mother's breast.
Ile could speak of instances of a similarly frightful nature, but
to an intelligent audience like that before hint, who were in
the habit of reading the papers, it was unnecessary. He
would, however, state that there was a population of 300,000
suffering from the effects of the scarcity, and that there
were 150,000 of this population seven-eighths of
whose food consisted entirely of potatoes. The re-
maining 150,030 did not live entirely on potatoes;
they lived a little above the others, but the failure
lied affected them greatly, and they would be in as poor and
in as deetitito3 condition as the others in a few months.
They would have no seed to put into the ground in sprir.g
time, and unless relief were given to them, the scarcity, next
year, would Le es great. and the whole fabric ot' society would
totter to the ground. He did not believe that the helpless
condition of the people was owieg to the landlords, but to
the circumstance of the annihilation of the kelp manu-
facture, which was carried on to a great extent in the
islands, and which was altogether destroyed by a
late legislative enactment. It was, therefore, by no
reckless negligence of the proprietors that this inability of the
people to sustain themselves, under the present calamity,
was attributable, but to the cause to which he referred, as
also to the land being turned into pasturage, and to the popu-
lation being driven out to make way for the graziers. It
was due, however, to the proprietors to state that, with
onduct on the present occasion was
tre'fitininTse.irl.
twas money tent to Scotland on goon
security, every penny of which, principal and interest, mast
be repaid. The Reverend Gentleman concluded by making
a powerful appeal to the feelings of the meeting, and hoped
that they would respond to the call now made upon them.
The Rev. Dr. LEIFCHILD supported the resolution, and
while lie concurred with the 11ev. Gentleman who had just
addressed them as to the state of Scotland and Ireland, he
was bound to state that they had at home among themselves
a large population who were houselese, penniless, and desti-
tute. The calamity was universal. There was not a country
exempt from the visitation, and this feature made him say
that it was unparalleled in extent if not in severity. The
present association had no poison of sectarianism
vitiating the milk of human kindness in its com-
position. It was constituted of ministers and laymen of
various religious denominations, and this circumstance in- i
vested it with a claim on the charity of the public, which lie
hoped would be responded to. If there was any one who
might be disposed to confine his bounty to the "household
of the faith," he would tell him that this was net sanctioned
by scriptural authority, for the Churches of the Gentile came
to the rescue when the poor of Judea were visited with afflic-
tion. The man who °tiered a briLe to a poor man to become
one of his religion insulted alike the sanctity of religion and
the human mind. There was enough for all if it was
fairly distributed, for God did not bring people into the
world without providing for their wants. Avarice, however,
destroyed his benevolent intentions, and begot the hag
beggary, which brought up theft from the bottomless pit.
He could not help admiring the resignation with which the
poor bore their woes and refrained from turbulence; and be-
fore he sat down he must express his satisfaction with the
Government of the country for the exertions they made to
meet the emergency.
The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. FOSTER, son of Mr. Foster, of Norwich (both of whom
lately travelled through Ireland), then addressed the meeting.
He visited Westport, in the county of Mayo, and the state of
the people could not be realised by the imagination—
personal inspection would be necessary to convince one of the
reality. The town appeared to be one large pauper house,
crowded like a fair. He never saw such an assemblage of
wretched starved creatures. The men were worn down to
the skin and bone—were living skeletons—and the women
were pale and livid, with the dark mark of famine round
their eyes.—(Sensation.) On the public works there was not
more than one out of every 12 of the destitute employed. In
Connemara also the distress was equally great,
and in one village the scarcity was so great that
he could not get a single pound of meal in the whole place,
and there was not a store within a distance of from 20 to 30
miles.—(Sensation.) Four cases of death had occurred there
within the two days previously, and he himself was obliged
to supply some of the poor creatures from the hotel at which
he was residing. The emphatic way in which the poor
people of Ireland spoke of the calamity was, that the
famine is upon us." He would conclude by urging on the
ladies to provide clothing for the naked creatures whose euffer-
ings from famine were greatly aggravated by the present in-
clement season. He would propose the following resolution :
" That whereas her Majesty has called upon the ministers of
the Established Church to make collections in their respec-
tive parishes, so also Dissenting ministers of all denomina-
tions be requested (if they have not already done so) to use
their legitimate power of appeal to their congregations upon
the subject as early as possible, or simultaneously with the
day fixed for the Queen's Letter to be read, 21st February.
Thus a general voluntary effort will be made by the whole
nation in mitigation of the awful calamity. And further,
that such ministers be requested to report to the United
Belief Association (at 40, Leicester-square) the fact of their
having made such collection, as well as those that purpose so
appealing to their congregations, in order that the same
being announced in the public papers, may stimulate other
ministers and congregations to adopt the same course."
The Rev. A. KING seconded the resolution, and detailed
several instances of the horrifying effects of the famine. In
one instance a family had nothing to subsist on but the car-
case of a dead horse, and the poor creatures exclaimed,
" What, under God, would become of them when the horse
flesh should be finished?—(Sensation.) In several cases the
dead were not interred, owing to the debility of the survivors.
In one district it was computed that one-fifth of the popula-
tion would be carried oft: And an instance had occurred
there where the limbs of dead bodies were obtruding above
ground, the poor creatures not having strength sufficient to
cover them with clay.—(Sensation.)
The Rev. THOMAS JAMES supported the resolution, which
was then put to the meeting, and carried unanimously.
_ The following donations were then announced :—Luke J.
Hansard. Esq., 150 guineas ; C. Cochrane, Esq.. 60 guineas ;
Gurney, Esq.4so/. ; Sir E. Buxton, 20/. ; Rev. A. Maugin,
z'leas; with several others of a smaller amount.
S.
h. er,,m__oti!osn of CuARLas CGCHRANE, Eaq., seconded by
Rev.
et7eartNlvie li (Cork), and supported by the Rev. O.
—.That a followingplain resolution was unanimously carried
and forcible statement of the extreme
wretchedness and destitution be drawn up, embodying the
substance of the account giytlen by the deputations that have
u
addressed this meeting,
other needful information, and
that the same be forwarded toi the clergy and to the minis-
ters of ell denominations, in order to impress them with the
urgency ofthe case, and that the
etsame
be forwarded also to
'iesliterary institutions,
all public companies, joint-stock societies
charitable societies, lecturers, n
may have it in their power to promote the benevolent,persons who
public collection.
And that, notwithstanding the benevolent dispoeition
evinced by, the Government of this country,.
and the gene-
rosityaer ...ajesty,
and
several branches Friends,ba aril many
of
r
exhibited by m
the j-toyal Family, by the Society of
benevolent individuals, the exigence of the present dislrt,'s
is so great, and the hope of its curly mitigation so faint, that
there appears a necessity for the committee (appointed at the
late conference of clergy men and iniiiisterson the 13th ult.)
continuing their remedial exertions as the United Relief
Association ; and that it is the settee of this meeting that
the administration of the funds collected by the public
appeal may be confided (if the contributors shall so approve)
to the said committee, and their treasurer, as trustees, who,
while they admit the sadly pre-eminent claim of lrelandand
parts of Scotland upon the generous charity of theßritish
public, would appropriate a portion also for the destitute
in
England, and who resolve that their distribution shall in all
cases be conducted on unsectarian principles."
The meeting then separated.