The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

condition i n the -scale of nations

servants of Christ labo cur ,more „energetically and syste-
matically than :hereto& ,re to spread the GOspel of peace,
whose fruits are right( oitsviess, industry; and prosperity
in nvnw.. IntatlMl 111711 P rn t OrrigtilltlitU Tiravaac:

dition to what I hav

already stated, it is but just

Ate resources are greatly
ur potatoes which greatly
..,se in the price of bread, now
and •by the difficulty—almost im-
ts.--Believe me, your affee-
GODFREY MASSIE.

to mention that our. o

straightened,,by the 'Io. is of a
aided our families, by C ie
double what was usual,
possibility—of getting i iLren
tionate and obliged,
Mr. Grov6s, of Rum F-2

wt.-place, will, we understan
for the Rev. G. Massie.

gladly receive any contri

The folloyiug
_letter hr is_ ju:

een received by a highl

respectable gentleman in town

,Currielogh Hone,
•ooketown, war Cork, Jan

MY DEAR Sm.—Your kind and welcome letter A had
the pleasure of receiving only this moment, on my return
from the oentre of .all the appalling wretchedness about
Skibbereen. Ido not mean to spin ou t a long letter by
mentioning.what, or one tithe ofwhat, I witnessed. Suf-
fice it to say. that, one iota of what has b een stated in the
Cork papers, which. no doubt you look at, is not over-
coloured. I war forthree weeks amongst the tenantryon
two Ismail .estates. of which I have the in anagement, and
yen will not be astonished when I tell you '(after what you
have seen .in the papers) that out of thirt. y-three tenants
on one estate, only four had seed sufficient to sow their
tillage ground, -and certainly not sufficient, in addition, to
maintain their families-with for another mouth. I entered
one houseinwhich the pmprietor was lying by the lire, in
fever, as the:family told me; but I -.rather think it is de-
bility afteriever the-poor sufferer is labouring under, and
1, I think, in a few days snore he will be finally
to his- exhausted state to the want
indispensable to the recovery of a

from-

person fromiever. There was not in. the house a morsel
of food of any,kind, and before I hatl.been there, the fa-
mily requested that the ground might be taken up, as they
had no seed of any kind tavlant, nor food to exisfon. ,Iti
another housewag the man, his wife, and seven children,
the oldest fifteen years and the youngest at the mother's
breast'; and, dreadful to state, they had only :from
Saturday evening last,. until the .following Monday at
twelve o'clock ( the time I was with them ) one quail of
of raw wheat, which on Sunday after mass they: boiled
and divided amongst the nine in family, or more properly
speaking, amongst the eight, for the youngest son was, as
I befoi-e stated, at its mother's breast. In truth; vier., I
to go on, I would extend the letter much beyond what I •
ilitended. lam now .about to procure seeds for sowing
very nearly the entire of those two small estates, as the
tenants are all requesting• to have the ground taken off

r's rent is totally lost to the propricton
expected, and are to the ut

; ttntl. yet the,y

their powor- contri

Your kind

assistance for thepoor of 'this neighbourhood tame most
opportunely, as that which you sent before is exhausted,
although my sisters added to that a similar quantity of
oatmeal, which they made into thick porridge with'broth
made from the bones and refuse of our table, which;
through God's mercy, has been the meandof saving, many
from starvation, nothing in the shape of a soup-houSe.):,for
the poor being yet established in this purist. The rice by
itself, prepared in a particular manner by my sisters, has
been the means of recovering some dozen or two personu
from thek:prevailing epidemic which is carrying off many.
It commences like dysentery, and terminates by en-
largement.of the abdomen. We had two inquests on
bodies of poor men who died after 'leaving their work at
the roads being now opened in thisAnarter, the latter of ►
which was held this day. I did not hear the verdict of
the jury. Itfy sisters will continue to dispense your kind
assistance to ~the poor. pf. . this locality with utitiring.
anxiety. We *l-; to

.ere join in most affectionate rekiir,
11 your firesicle,,and believe me yours sincerely',
G. N. 'GIBBON'

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