The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

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Jan. 5, 1847.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE DISTRESSED IRISH PROTESTANTS

County Tyrone, Dec. 28th, 1846.
MY DEAR MR. GROVES,—The pressure of my various
duties during the past fortnight prevented My doing more
than hastily acknowledging your kind note of the I;th,
and remittance of £l2 in further aid of our suffering
poor. I have now to report to you. how we progress.
The intensely cold weather led us to make inquiry into
the wants of the people as to clothing, and the result
exhibited a state of wretchedness beyond what I shoiild
have thought possible. Large families sleeping in one
room, on different bundles of straw, without anything to
cover them except the tattered garments worn by day.
They had been usually able at this season to buy some
clothing for their persons, and perhaps to add a blanket
in place of the remains of what was once deserving that
name ; but now they want food to sustain life, and have
no means of obtaining clothing of any kind. The ex-
treme suffering and privation thus caused we deemed it
well to alleviate promptly, and expended about £8 in
clothing this month. Our funds, however, are scarce
half expended as yet, though did I entertain a tenth part
of the applications for relief, it would not last one fort-
night. We are at present entirely supporting about 23
or 25 families, giving employment.to the men, and selling
them meal considerably under market price ; and we aid
in the support of others who have large families, and
whose pay on the public words cannot feed them all, by
giving them also the meal at a low priee. The value of
soup for the poor is so highly commended, that in addi-
tion to giving it daily to the persons we employ, we are
arranging this day to afford it also to families at home.
You see our operations are exYending, and may think we
are too lavish when spring will add so much to the num:.
ber of the destitute ; but if we struck off one, we would
be entailing on such certain and immediate want. lam
convinced, but for the assistance redeived from Liverpool,
several of those whom we have been enabled to clothe
and feed would before this have died from cold and hun-
ger and nakedness.

Persons are daily and hourly applying to me for em-
ployment, many of whom I know to be on the verge of
starvation, but I am compelled to dismiss them with a
single meal, as I dare not add to my number. The
greatest and most extended good I am able to effect is by
the sale of meal for money at a reduced price. As my
funds fail, I am turning my mind most to thiS ; and when
I can collect what will enable me ts make a larger pur-
chase than hitherto of Indian meal, I hope to continue my
relief for some time, though I fear scarcely so long as you
anticipate "

3 exertions or care on my part shall be
wanting. Indeed almost my entire time, as well as that
of every member of my household, is occupied in this work-
I am most truly grateful for your exertions in our behalf ;
you have done for us truly great things. I sincerely with
some of the Liverpool and Birkenhead brethren could be
persuaded to advocate our cause from their pulpits. In
the latter place, I presume to think I am not Quite forgot-
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ter. I rest the strength of my case on the fact t
application is made for Protestant
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