The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

I, the Irish would flock over

fever and pestilence in that land of peace
lino._ and! thn hnenitale and

plenty, lie

•ending
vation,

and causing immense expense, without any return
rev. gentleman, in reply to this, gives a heart-i
account of the misery, utter destitution, disease, star
and death, with the means of relief, through wort,
prevail amongst the masses of his poor fellow-countryme
and their families. The scenes are, indeed, too he
for detail, but appear, from the strength and m
the narration, to bear the impress of truth. He state
that in place of meeting this dreadful state of thing
by adequate means, the public works are insufficient
the wages unproportioned to the price of provisions, ant
thousands, old and young, are being weekly carried off
by famine or disease arising from it. The people, too,

that

are almost destitute of clothing, and this alsO prnepUgate;

daily tor their anowence of Indian meal—lta a-day for an
adult, and half a pound for all under nine years of age.
Many are unable to walk, and perish. Others who re.
ccive the meal are told they must soak it twelve hours h..
water before they boil it, as if starving men could patiently
stay the cravings of nature to any given time.
them have, after all, fuel or means to cook it
he
_asks, wonderful If

Few of
Is it,

svho can, rush to Eng-
land to save their lives, or emigrate to America, if they
have the means. " It is," he concludes, " cruel and -unjust
to leave these people to the casual voluntary bounty of
private individual, in Great Britain ; to those whose
boundless charity is so well known that they are as a tar-
get for everyone to shoot a quill at. Their names will be
found in the books of every subscription for every good
purpose, and their names will be, and are, inscribed in a
better book—the Book of Life, for His namesake whose
will they do. It is the duty of the government to come
out like men girded for the battle, and determined to con-
quer, with measures adequate to the difficulty. £20,000,000
has been lost by the poorest nation in the world ; all this
£20,000,000 the product of manual labour : £20,000,000
must be expended in manual labour to put us in the state
we were, before that £20,000,000 can be appropriated to
such reproductive works as will, under Providence, ensure
future abundance, employment, and prosperity—not like
the lavish expenditure of last winter, which had better been
thrown into the sea, but that it continued many in life;
and all this should be repaid ; and where landed proprie-
tors cannot, or where they will not, let their properties be
the forfeit to the government who support the people, and
in this they cannot go wrong ; for the same c
pursued by a servant of God, as recorded in 1
Blessed Word, Genesis, chap. xlvii., verses
until this is t"

iauct was
Holy and
24, and

every state of life, we will not or cannot be a prosperous
people, and if my correspondent and the British people
wish the Irish to be kept at home and not to deluge the
land, they should raise their voices and send in net
from every district, to. parliament, to stein the tc
time, Ey finding profitable and reproductive emi
for the Irish at home, before it be too lat

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