The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF IRISH MISERY

The medical officer of the Kanturk (Cork) Union, in his
last report, dated the 15th instant, says " 1790 persons
find refuge in the workhouse built for 850 ; 502 in hospital
(in fever alone of this number '210). On one of the last
board days, the number of applicants for admission was
800. Iu this emergency the guardians, in addition to
having taken a store in this town, are at this moment
erecting sheds to contain from 400 to 500 persons.
he sanatoill measlesryconedt of a malignantionofthehou charactersewas
rogrdieffstsminedg
favourablyrr 'till
itself amongst the children ; out of 400 patients, 67 died ;
immediately after convalescence gastric fever attacked the
survivors, which was of a decidedly contagious character.
The mortality was principally confined to the young
children recently admitted, whose constitutions were de-
bilitated by innutritive food and insufficient clothing,
filthy rags being their only garments. The adults who
were admitted for the last month, previous to their re-
ception, lived on bran and turnips ; the latter being now
nearly exhausted, the peel formed their chief sustenance ;
that dietary, coupled with extreme cold, induced dysen-
try, which terminated in low fever, and three of the assist-
ant nurses have caught the infection ; the dissolution of
one is fast approaching.
Dr. Sweetnam, the dispensing physician at Skull and
Ballidehob, in a letter, dated 14th January, to the Cork
Constitution, says, " within the last few days, eight per-
sons here died of actual starvation, and arc as follows :
Two children at Denlera, near Skull, three days without
food ; Patrick Linehan, of Rosslum, near Skull, found
dead in a field, two days without food ; John Driscoll, of
Keelbronogue, near Skull, found dead on the road, two
days without food ; john Coughlan, found dead on the
road at Knuckroo, near Ballidehob, two days without
food. Three persons named Cassidy, at Cove, near Skull,
father, mother, and son, all in fever ; had no drink or
food but salt and water, or any person to administer it.
The old couple three days uninterred, and the son lay on
the bare floor from Tuesday till Sunday, and so decom-
posed, when persons could be got to enter his house, that
he was tarred and rolled up in a rag, and buried in the
next field. In my opinion, if I can judge from the num-
^rless -4, 4.,,

berless persons deaa, -au stag.suring, halt the
population must diz. before the Ist of. May. I verily
believe there is more real destitution us the parish of
Skull than any other in Ireland, and regret to add that
the dispensary patients—now five times their usual num-
ber—are so exhausted from disease and starvation, that
medicine is ahnostmseless.

A gentleman, whose statements are entitled to the
highest respect, gives a most deplorable picture of the
condition of the county of Roseommon---a condition
which represents it to be infinitely worse than Skibbe-
reen, or the most destitute parts of Mayo. He says that
whole villages are depopulated, either by death or by the

Jan. 26, 1847.

flight of such as have the means of transport to England,
Scotland, or America. He counted in one village ten
houses together abandoned by their owners, the doors
torn off their hinges, the window-sills taken out, the
rafters burned for firing, and the very flagstone at the en-
trance taken up and sold for a mouthful of food. An
elderly man was sentenced to seven years' transportation
for sheep stealing at the quarter sessions last week; his
appearance in the dock was that of a man reduced to the
last agonies of hunger. He died in an hour after he re-
ceived his sentence. Numbers of young men, mere boys,
with wan cheeks, relieved by a hectic flush, were indicted
for similar offences, and equally pleaded guilty, in the
hope of transportation or imprisonment, or any punish-
ment rather than the lingering death they were daily un-
dergoing. The fortitude of the people, he says, almost
surpasses belief; they endure their sufferings without
murmur or complaint, and it is not until. famine well
nigh destroys reason itself, that they are driven to the
commission of that species of crime which is just now so
prevalent all over the country.
The Sligo Champion records fifteen cases of death from
hunger in a week in that small county. Accounts from
Mayo are to the effect that deaths from starvation are
becoming more numerous. The Castleba,. Constitution
enumerates no fewer than thirty cases of poor creatures
thus perishing—including eleven who had died in the
Tyrawly district. The details are too painful for perusal,
and are but scantily given by the reporters. "On Thurs-
day an inquest was held at Ballycastle on the bodies of
-John and Thomas Jordan, father and son. In this case
our correspondent says :—` No pen can picture this scene
of wretchedness and misery ; an aged woman gazing at
the emaciated skeletons of her dead husband and son,
and another son who looked as badly as the cold corpses
of his father and brother. The last words the dying boy
said were, ' Mother, wet my lips with warm water—l am
cold with hunger.' Both expired at the same moment.' "
In another case the deceased and his family had been
living for three weeks on half a meal a day. In another,
a family, ten in number, had been living for three Weeks
on boiled water-tresses and salt. Two of the children
died while the inquest was holding. Another person was
found dead in a mud cabin, another on the roadside,
and so on.

The Cork Reporter' says—t' The people are perishing
now, not in twos and threes, but in twenties in each pa-
rish, in hundreds in each barony. The pestilence is mow-
ing down the people faster than grass fell before the Once
strong and cheerful labourer."

THE MENDICANT PATRIOT'S SYMPATHY
WITH THE POOR.

At the last meeting of the Repeal Association :
" The Rev. Mr. O'Carney said he had omitted to give the
true reason why it was that subscriptions were not coining into
the Association. The fact was he, and others he knew, who
were Old Irelanders would be ashamed to hand in money at

Ft 'crisis, w

ng around them it would be a mockery to comebiur to up to Dublin on depu-
tations
to ask relief, and then to hand in their subscriptions."
—(hear and cheers.)

At the preceding meeting of the same body, the Roman
Catholic priest of Achill made a similar revelation.
Is it possible that, in the face of such statements, Mr.
O'Connell can have the effrontery—not to talk of the bar-
barous inhumanity—to continue his exactions on the
poorest peasantry on the face of the earth, now suffering
the aggravated miseries of famine and pestilence ?
The only answer we (Dublin Mail) can give, isathe dis-
gusting fact, that on that day the sum of £l2B 6s. 7d. was
acknowledged, and lodged in the Tralee Bank, to the cre-
dit of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., sole Treasurer of
the Repeal fund.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

The Rev. Dr. Scoresby has been on a visit to W. Rath-
bone, Esq.
The new church at West Derby—St. James'—of which
the Rev. A. M'Conkey is the incumbent, was opened for
divine service on Sunday last.

It is hoped that Christ's Chitral Cathedral, Fredericton
will be completed in October next. •

There are nowthirty clergymen of the Church of Eng-
land descendants from the Hebrew race, besides several
hundreds of lay members.

Last week immense meetings of the Evangelical Alliance
were held at Leeds, at which the Rev. W, W. Ewbank,
of this town, delivered a very able address.

On Saturday week the handsome residence of the Rev.
W. Roy, D.D., the rectory, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, was
destroyed by fire.

CHESTER CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—On Sunday
week, the Rev. J. Lomas, curate of the parish church,
Wigan, preached his farewell sermon, on his appointment
to the incumbency of a new church, at Walton-Breck,
on which occasion he pleaded the cause of the above
society, after which the sum of £23 were collected_
Several admirers and friends of the rev, gentleman have
presented him with a handsome sum of money during the
past week, as a token of their admiration and respect.
CONDUCT OF THE PERVERTS AT ST. SAVIOUR'S, LEEDS.
—One of the results of the investigation instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Ripon, into the proceedings at St. Sa-
viour's Church, Leeds, has been the ascertaining that, on
the very eve of Mr. Macmullen and his confederates for-
marlly abjuring Protestantism, they obtained the keys of
that church and therein celebrated a complete Roman
Catholic service, in anticipation of the period when the
church would be wholly in the hands of that communion
This outrageous conduct, irrational as it may appear,
nevertheless strikingly illustrates the object of the Oxford
and Cambridge Architectural Societies, and of those of
the clergy who are daily drooping off from our communion,
in in expending o e; o a such decorations and restorations;
they expect that, ere long, the. restorations will subserve
the purpose of promoting medieval forms, and h
day of " union:with Rome !'"—Church and Stqeoarette.

GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCE.—The well-informed
London correspondent of the Dublin Mail says that Lord
John Russell has proposed to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury to create Manchester into a bishopric, giving to the
new dignitary the usual seat in the House of Lords, or,
should the heads of the church prefer it, to create a num-
ber of new sees, those appointed not to have the honour
of peerages. He adds that it is for the purpose of deli-
berating upon these two propositions that a meeting of
the prelates has been summoned by his Grace. What
the object of the latter is, requires little skill to divine. It
would be the first step towards ejecting the bishops alto-
gether from the House of Lords. The London Morning
Herald says,—" A rumour has prevailed, during the last
fortnight, that it is the intention of the government to
propose the immediate establishment of six new bish-
oprics. The dissenters add, that it is also intended to
propose to make these new bishops spiritual peers. Very
naturally they, who were demanding a short time since,
the expulsion of the bishops from the House of Lords,
now declare that their friends the Whigs have " lost their
senses." The substantial part of this rumour we believe
to have some foundation. It has been remarked that the
Primate has lately had several interviews with Lord John
Russell ; and it is not to be supposed that such confer-
ences can have had reference to trifling or immaterial
• matters. •

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.

SPRING ASSIZES.-Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe come the northern circuit ; Mr. Justice Coltman.
takes North Wales, and Mr. Justice Wightman South

Wales.
The members of the bar, who attend the Kirkdale ses-
sions, have subscribed to present the Rev. Jonathan
Brooks with his portrait, which will be hung up in a pro-
minent position in the court.
In an action tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Mon-
day, Messrs. Coglan, sharebrokers, of Liverpool, being
the plaintiffs, and Mr. Bryant, one of their clients, de-
fendant, a verdict was given for the plaintiffs for £37810s-
LAW REFORMS.—The Lord Chancellor will shortly
introduce two measures into the House of Lords—to
separate the two systems of bankruptcy and insolvency,
and to abolish arrest in execution. Imprisonment will

only be allowed in cases. of fraud.
Clines v. SolomoN.—ln the Vice-Chancellor's Court,
on Monday, Mr, Bethell stated to the court that the de-
fendant, being perfectly satisfied that the iron safes which
he had exposeVor sale as Messrs. Chubb's were not their
manufacture, had consented that the injunction obtained
against him should be made absolute.

-In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, an action
was tried, which had been brought by Mr. Lee, the well
known pantomime writer, against Mr. Mercer H. Simpson,
the lessee of the Liverpool Theatre Royal, for piracy, in
performing at his theatre the celebrated pantomime known
as the Princess Battledore; or the Harlequin Shuttle-
cock. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for
23 nights' penalties-1:46. _ _

" FUTURE PROPERTY " IN INSOLVENCY.—In the Lon-
don Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Thursday, an applica-
tion was made in the matter of Samuel Davies, who wag
discharged fourteen years ago, and was now entitled to
£l5O in right of his wife. The question was, in what
manner the money was to be distributed. His creditors
under his insolvency claimed a part, and he showed that,
he was in indigent circumstances, with a large family,.
having several under ten years of age. The court, re-
garding the equity in the case, ordered the creditors un-
der the insolvency of 1832 to be paid .Z5l) out of the £l5O,
and the costs of the present application out of the estate-
It is said that about twenty of the appointments to the
judgeships under the Small Debts Act have been already
definitively made. Of Queen's Counsel, Messrs. Chilton,
Starkie, Koe, and Anderdon (the two latter gentlemen
members of the Chancery bar), are mentioned as having
received appointments. On the Northern Circuit, Messrs.
Walker, Wharton, and Ingham, and on the Midland,
Messrs. Wildman and Hildyard, will, it is said, fill sonS,
of the judgeships. Mr. Gale, of the Midland Cireuict
goes to Hanwshire ; Mr. Espinasse to East Kent; toe
Messrs. Tyrrell, Smith, and Palmer (three provincial
counsel, and at present tilling judicial offices under local
acts), to East Devon, Bath, and Bristol respectively. All
or most of these appointments are of apolitical character:
although as lawyers many of the gentlemen named sustaina respectable, and in one or two cases, a high reputation•
NOTICE OF DISTIONOUR---TIME OF POSTING.—Wood'
cock v. Holdsworth, 8 Law Times 215, is important al
being another deciiion that the question to be determine('
where a notice is transmitted by post, is, whether it Nveo
put into the post within the proper time, and, coiase-
queetly, if delay occur, that it is not to tend to the injurl
of the sender. The point turns upon the question whe"
ther the post-office is to be treated as the agent of tb°
sender. Public policy requires that it should not be 9°
treated. In Stocken v. Collin, 7M. and W. 515, accord-
ingly, the Court of Exchequer held that the jury were
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bound to accredit the post-mark, but might give the'verdict on the evidence of a witness that he posted it oe_.,"
particular day, notwithstanding the post-mark. In the?
cases Alderson B. observed the question is, has the par
been guilty of laches ? It has often occurred to us-0.,..
I the system of using enyelopes will materially diminish w:
facility of proving letters, and may produce serious WV°
venieuce.—Law Timex.