The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

IRELAND,

Dusus, DEc. 2.—The Young Icelanders are to have
a grand review this evening in the round-room of the
Rotunda. Mr. Smith O'Brien was expected to hav,
reached town this morning, for the purpose of taking
part in the proceedings, but I understand is has been
intimated to the Committee, that it would be incon-
venient for the Hon. Gentleman to leave home at present.
Messrs. Magher, Doheney, Barry, and others, are to at-
(end and speak; and as the party are every day obtain-
ing new recruits, it is very likely that the muster will be
a strong one. _

MORE DEATHS FROM STARVATION.
By the provincial papers received this morning it
would appear that the scarcity of provisions is begin-
ning to affect the poorer class
, of farmers and house-
holders, while the lakiurer s condition is every day
becoming worse and worse. You have already the
verdict of the Skibbereen jury before you, testifying to
the melancholy fact of four human beings having died of
starvation, and I regret to say, that at Corbetstown, in
the county of Kilkenny, an inquest was held on Sunday
last, from which it appeared that a woman and three
young children, whose bodies were found on the pre-
ceding Saturday in a dyke on the roadside, were at the
period of their decease, if not in actual want, at least in
a state bordering on starvation. The bodies were brought
to a house on the road-side, the nearest that could be
procured, by the police—they presented a truly heart-
rending spectacle, partially covered with filthy rags
saturated with mud, and frozen, having been exposed to
the inclemency of the weather. The hand of one child,
and part of the foot of another, had been devoured pro-
bably by rats. Dr. Gwydir, of Freshford, made a minute
post mortem examination of the bodies of the mother and
eldest daughter, and a child about nine years old. The
Doctor was unable to detect in the stomach or the bowels
of the mother a trace of food having entered for more
than twenty hours before death. The child's stomach
contained avery small quantity of half-digested potatoes.
The following was the verdict of the jury:—" We find
that deceased and her three children's deaths were
caused by drowning, and we find from the post mortem ex-
aminations made by Doctor Gwydir on two of the bodies,
that they were in a state of hunger bordering on star-
vation, but how the bodies came into the dyke of water,
whether by accident or design on the part of the mother
we have no evidence to show."
ANOTHER DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.
An inquest was held in the workhouse of Kilkenny,
on Monday last, on the body of an aged pauper, named
followingafter al long
end patient investigation, the
verdict;—" We find that the
judeceasedfound
Farrell, when,
thea
s
received into this house on Wednesday
last, and admitted to its relief by the Board of Guardians
on the following day. That the said deceased was aged,
and that we (the jury) believe his death to have been
the result of age, privation, and hardship. That it ap-
pears to have been the practice of this house, that per-
sons admitted do not receive their dinners till after the
sitting of the Board. That the deceased was fasting
from nine that morning to six, at which time be was un -
able to partake of his dinner, and then died in the act of
being carried thereto. That we (the jury) request the
Coroner to write to the Board, that permission be given
to the master to give food to a person so circumstanced
as the deceased was."
ANOTHER DEATH FROM STARVATION.
An inquest was held on Saturday last at Glandore,
county Cork, on the body of Andrew Barry, who was
reported to have died of starvation.
Among the witnesses produced was the wife of the
deceased, who swore that on the Sunday previous to his
death they had but three or four turnips for herself,
deceased, and three children, and on the Monday had
about four or five quarts of meal, which she got from her
sister's children, on which they lived till Wednesday
morning ; on that morning witness's daughter got some
broth at 111 r. Barry's, of Glandore House, and from that
to her husbands death (the Sunday night following) had
nothing to support her family but some broth and tur-
nips, and the last three days previous to his death M. r.
Barry gave him work on the Ross and Glandore line,
but he was scarcely able to work, but for which he got
wages. Deceased was working on the road in a dying
state from want of food.
The Jury found that the " deceased died from want of
food." STATE OF THE SOUTH.
The Tipperary Vindicator received this morning, gives
the following fearful ace tint of the state of things, in
Tipperary and the adjoining districts :—" We continue
to receive most e;stressing accounts from several dis-
tricts. Indeed the condition of the people is frightful.
We would point attention to the letters of correspon-
dents, including two from respected clergymen who
reside at considerable distance from each other. Yes-
terday about seventy
pweerrseo nssu rapunemployed labourers proceeded
through the streets of Nenagh, and entered bakers' shops
in quest of food. Famine was in their looks. They
supplied with
same
bus.breiande s fsromw.thhi el s
t immense bakeries of
sumsseveral
unexpended money presented for are placed to the credit
of electoral divisions, and whilst distress and destitution
alarmingly prevail, what wonder that there should be
discontent and crime ?—We protest that the patience
and forbearance of the poor under the circumstances, are
wonderful to contemplate; and between the Board of
Works and their subordinates and the Presentment Ses-
sions, it is almost difficult to:pronounce where the crying
and grievous fault lies. A King's County Correspondent
asserts, that in that county nothing can equal the hor-
rible condition to which the people are reduced, particu-
larly in the mountainous district. In the neighbour-
hood of Kinnety, though the Presentment Sessions was
held on the 28th of September, no public works, we un-
derstand, have been yet undertaken except some misera-
ble hills or footpaths, affording employment only to a
mere fraction of the dying poor. Great God I how long
is this system to be permitted ? Is this decimation to
effect its worst, or are the people to be driven into the
arms of despair, and consequently of reckless violence ?
To augment their manifold misfortunes, fever has broken
visitation
taatmioonngosfts
pestilential
their graves !" them insdisease
e ealplaces ; and the burning
is hurrying thousands

ANOTHER DEATH FROM STARVATION AT SKMBEREE,
The special reporter of the Cork Examiner, instructed
to proceed to Skibberreen, and report as to the state of
affairs in that locality, writing under the date of Sunday
night, says :
"I had scarcely got off the coach to change my clothes
after a bleak mornings drive, when I heard a person in
the hotel say, ' There s a poor ,man died this minute in
High•strcet, starved to death. I went to the desolate-
looking cabin where he lay, and there the poor victim
of gaunt famine, extended en an earthen floor, was wra.,)t
knowsnof
170aink 1
theng parik,h of Abbey
~ His name was
into the town to seek relief, when all other hope was ex-
hausted. Lag night (Saturday) sensibly fearing to
trespass on a stranger s assistance, the hungry, way_
iCnh thatarle s
a rth 'which3•—he had
worn, broken-hearted man, sought refuge m a
6 wake-
house,' where candles gleamed by the side of the dead.
As the day advanced • I the cravings of nature impelled him
forth from that house of mourning, and lie entered the
humble cabin of one Ilooly, a carman in High-street.
He was then merely able to ask the poor man
to procure
him a ticket from the priest for admission to the work-
house, which llooly proceeded for. The clergyman was
at the chapel, and he desired Hooly to go to his house,
and that he would in a few minutes be there to give him
the necessary order of admission.
" In the meantime Carthy made his way out of the
house, and brought in a halfpennyworth of milk, which,
at his request, was warmed for him. He swallowed it
with some difficulty, and, lying downo9 the floor, yielded
up, without a struggle or a sigh, his life 'to Him who
giveth and taketh away.'
"In the evening I accompanied the Rev. Mr. Fitz-