The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

POVERTY IN IRELAND

Dear Brother,—ln regard to the state of the destitute
poor, I scarce know where to begin. Famine and pesti-
lence never made their baneful appearance so much as
just now ; fever and dysentery present an appearance most
appalling, in the small villages round 'about, scarce an
hour passes but corpse are being carried by one or two
women on their shoulders, or wheeling in a barrow, or by
a man struggling under a heavy coffin on his back, whilst
friends and neighbours keep at the utmost distance from
the contagion.
It is most tryine to see

etrarts of my starving neigh-
_
bours, to procure what may preserve life a little longer;
the children are over the fields to see if they can get
some small potatoes, which the needy farmers do not
think worth lifting ; they are also beginning to search old
ditches, where nettles grow, but in vain, for nature has
yet refused to give them this desirable repast ; frequently
families are found over the corn fields in search of sheep
briskin, a white root which grows in poor land, which is
indeed not food for pigs, much less for human beings.
Surely.we have provoked the all-merciful God to a great

I Know a man of the name of Watson ; he has a wife
and three children, one of them is just dying; his wife is
subject to fits, and he is scarcely able to work a day, and
when he does work he gets about Sd. ; on this, he, and
his sickly wife and child, and two other children have to
preserve life. In the same house is John Glen and wife ;
he is ill of fever, without a penny to subsist upon but
what I give them, and from the bounty of yourself and
friends in Liverpool. John Liveston, has seven or eigh t
in family, whose only support is about Is. Bd. per week.
I know many men who have to support a wife and six
children, on 30. or 4d. per day, which he receives for his

work, in addition to his food. The poorhouses are ordered
to have their number reduced to what they were built to
contain ; Clogher is a half union, and for 600, but con-
tains near 900. Omagh, a three-quarters union, and forS
900, it contains near 1:300; so you may guess what wite
i:
be the result, when no more will be admitted, and t,Wlllredundant turned out ; and I believe out-door relief( - v
not be given before May. " The money you sent \V 1 L
soon be done ; may God dispose the hearts of benevolent
and Christian friends, to call upon
you with donations
towards the relief of my starving neighbours."—Ever"—Ever
yours. JAMES JONES.
To Alexander A.PC?y, Town Missionary,

LIVERPOOL

THE PRINCIPAL PORT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM.

From a return moved for by Mr. Cardwell and published
on Wednesday, exhibiting the amount of tonnage, British
and foreign, inwards and outwards, at 12 of the principal
ports of the United Kingdom in each successive year
since the general peace, up to the close of 1815, we derive
the gratifying information that the port of Liverpool has
at length reached the point of supremacy over all her ri-
vals, not excepting the port of London itself. In 1816;•
the total tonnage of London, inwards and outwards, was
1,247,873 tons, and in 1845 2,688,897 tons, showing an in-
crease of 1,441,024 tons. In 1816, the tonnage of Liver-
pool was 642,063 tons ; and in 1845, 2,819,014 tons, show-
ing an increase of 2,176,951 tons, the business of this port
having thus more than quadrupled itself, whilst that of
London has only a little more than doubled itself. Liver-
pool in-1845 was 130,117 tons above London; and the re-
suit of last year has probably improved our relative posi-
tion. The nett increase of Newcastle is 1,158,816 tons;
844 3 o6nlsi34Lei
tons;th, 5
andB,B Cork 9of Hull, 506,773 tons ; Southampton, 263,665 tons ; Gree-
nock, 116,330 tons; .Glasgow, 197,451 tons; Bristol,
0,
88tn,
s 2;
pro-
portion of the total increase of tonnage has been an in-
crease of British as compared with foreign shipping; for
example, out of the to'cal increase in London and Liver-
pool,Dublin,tons.
Itßelfast,
viz., 1,441,024 tons at the former, and 2,176,951 at
the latter port, the proportions of 932,443 and of 1,414,659
respectively have arisen from • the increase of British
shipping.

tiN uu6TRIAL COMIVIITTEE FOR THE
RELIEF OF THE POOR OF IRELAND AND
SCOTLAND.

A meeting of ladies was held in the Lyceum, Bold-
street, on Monday the 22d March, at which the Rev.
Mr. Pollock presided, when it was resolved— _ _

That a committee be formed, to be entitled The
Ladies Industrial Committee for the relief of the existing
destitution in Ireland and Scotland,, through the encou-

That to promote this object a sale be . opened at the
Lyceum, in which building a room has been most kindly
granted for that purpo?e:

That the sale he carried on during.two days in ea.& week
(Tuesdays and Fridays), from eleven till four o'clock,
conducted under the superintendence of the ladies of the
committee, and to commence on Tuesday next, the 6tb
April.

That the stock for sale shall be strictly confined to those
articles which are the work of the suffering poor, and
that eertifickes to this effect be required in each instance,:
from the ministers, or public authorities, of tne district.
That a subscription be entered into, for the purpose of
carrying into effect the objects of the meeting.
That fifty ladies be appointed a committee, with power
to add to their number, fourteen of whom shall act as a
sub-committee, for the transaction of business.
Lady Patroness—Mrs. George Hall Lawrence
surer—Mrs. r

harles
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Secretaries

5, ~count Vernon-ra
.d, Rake-lane, Edge-hi
Miss Oulton, 15, Moi

Miss Cropper, Dingle Bank ;

Vernon-road ; Mrs. Priestley, Parkfield Catag
That the best thanks of the meeting be pre__ _
the gentlemen who have so liberally, granted the use of the
room in the Lyceum, for the proposed sale.

rated to

. • WILLIAAF6LLOCK, Chairman. •
It was the united- desire of the ladies to express their
best thanks to the Rev. Mr. Pollock, for his great kind-
ness in presiding on the occasion.

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