The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

gerald for them; I think it was from a society." -
ENGLISH FARMING NOT PALATABLE TO THE IRISH
LANDOWNER.—Captain Eustace, of Dublin, a landowner
in the barony of Fermoy, and by no means a bad land-
lord, thought proper about three months ago, quietly,
and without any harsh or legal process, to remove off the
townland of Ballydoyle, near Castletown Roche, his pro-
perty, a number of small farmers, who fulfilled their
engagements, and paid regularly £1 15s. the plantation
acre, up to the failure of the potato crop, when, unfortu-
nately, they fell into the position of many others, and
being unable to pay their rents got into arrears. The

captain got about 250 acres of Ballydoyle, and having a
surfeit, of paupers was naturally anxious to provide him-
self with a rich and improving tenantry. In order to
carry out his intentions, the captain and his friends looked
towards the sister country, England. The introduction
of capital, with a wealthy class of English farmers, a
superior race, was a blessing longed for by the captain.
Such men would change the face of the country, and im-
prove the habits of the people; wretched hovels, dung-
pits, and bad fences, would be succeeded by beautiful
slated homesteads, hedges, and stonewall fences ; splendid
pasture would be seen on every side, producing beef, mut
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.;neese ror the market; an improved system of
husbandry would be introduced—a school for the pro-
vince; in a word, complete bliss appeared at hand. Well,
iglishman arrived in the person of a
7orkshire, the friend of Mr. Welst--

eistead, of
Ballywalter. Mr. Smith closely viewed the lands, while
Captain Eustace waited anxiously to receive his offer, and
close with him. The cool, steady Englishman minutely
examined the soil ; he saw the land in every state, red
ground, pasture, and tillage. At the end of a fortnight,
which he took to see his way, he sent in his proposal in
writing, and it was exactly this,—He would require the
land gratis without a penny rent for five years, and £5OO
in hand from the landlord, never to be repaid, to build a
suitable homestead. At the end of five years he would
pay 95. an acre for 250 acres. The old tenants, as stated
before, paid £1 15s. per acre up to the year 1848, the
fourth year of the potato blight. Captain Eustace,
startled, amazed at the offer, said, "This land paid
£1 15s. per acre." " Impossible," said the honest
Englishman, " here aro figures and facts; here is the
expenditure for labour, manure, rent, and taxes, and here
again are the receipts and probable annual profits of the
farm. There is no doubt," he added, "a large balance
remaining yearly on hands, which I will require to sup-
port my family, on their usual fare of bread, beef, mut-
ton, and ale." The Englishman was not aware that the
former tenantry did not lose a farthing for labour, having
worked their farms by their children, while they lived on
the potato, or nothing at all, if you will, so that the whole
profits of the farm went directly into the pocket of the
landlord, and amounted, of course, to the round sum of
£1 15s. per acre. The gallant captain was, I need not
say, taken by surprise—the land of promise, a beautiful
dream of English wealth and enterprise on Irish soil,
soon vanished. Turning to his agent, Mr. Smith, by the
way, a good character and a public man, he said, " A bad
business this, could we not get back the old tenants ?"
" Too late, captain," was the reply, " They are half-way
to America." Ballydole is unlet, and producing weeds
from that day until this, paying plenty of rates and taxes,
but not one farthing rent. I am quite certain that the
introduction of English farmers into Ireland would be of
infinite service to our agriculturists—such a step would
raise the character of the latter ; it would establish their
rights, and make Irish landlords do their duty, pay for
mprovements and not pocket all.—Cork paper.

AWFUL DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
The accounts of deaths from starvation, and the dread-
ful sufferings of millions over immense districts in Ireland,
are too appalling for detail. The Limerick Examiner
gives particulars of several cases of dead bodies being
found on the high roads, of wholesale evictions, of deaths
from destitution, of robberies of food, and, finally, of a
human body devoured by dogs ! Four unfortunate crea-
tures, unhousecl on the 30th ultimo, on Mr. Westropp's
property, in Kilofin, died from exposure to cold and
hunger on the beach at Baliina. A magisterial enquiry
was made as to their deaths. A man, named Cox, his
wife, and four children, were evicted. The father and
one child died soon after from want. The widow went to
lodge with a neighbour. Both, with their children and
others, were turned out on Monday fortnight by Mr. Dan
Molony, Mr. Westropp's agent, who went with seven or
eight men, but no civil officer. The house was tumbled
down. On the same night, they removed to a little hut
on the shore side, and put up some little sticks for shelter.
On the following day, Jeremiah Molony came and com-
pelled one of the girls to knock it down. They had no
shelter but a few boards that night, and her mother
sickened, and died next night. Molony even burnt the
little bit of straw they had left. Another of the children
died two days after. Her father said he had built the
cabin they were turned out of himself, and that they
were one night on the shore without any shelter. On
the 7th instant, a poor boy, fourteen years old, sought
shelter in a cowshed, being a week sick. The owner,
Gibson, carted him to the church field, or grave yard,
and left him with a little straw shaken over him. Next
morning, his mangled remains were found—his head
severed from his body, and the flesh torn from his bones,
by dogs. All this was proved before the coroner.
Near Killimore, persons were daily found dead on the
public roads, fields, &c. A list of ten is given in one
number of the Freeman's Journal. In one house, five of
a family perished in one day. Ten to twelve died weekly
of starvation at Killimore. None could obtain admission
into the fourteen Ballinasloe workhouses, as they were
crammed to suffocation. The deaths in that neighbour-
hood the week befere last amounted to 223. In the same
week, there were eight hundred and sixty deaths in
Ballinasloe. A case is related of a poor fellow, who, after
eating some cabbage leaves, as a last resort went into a
wood to cut some birch for brooms, which he hoped to
sell. He was not heard of for some days, but a dog
being seen with a human head, search was made, and his
body was found in a pit in the wood, with the knife and
some recently-cut birch near it.
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The Kerry.' Post says-" The approaching summer is
likely to be one of greater horror and misery than we
have yet seen. Disease is cutting away the population at
a rate not easily to be estimated ; and the people, under
the pressure of their wretchedness, are fast degenerating
into brutality. The poor are buried by stealth, uncoffined,
and at night. Parents bury their children in gardens and
bye-places, to hide the fact of their death, in order that
their miserable pittance of meal might not be stopped.' "
The accounts from the south are equally horrifying and
varied in circumstances. In one case the flesh of a
deceased dead mare was devoured by come perishing
wretches. The chief relief from the unions is in Indian
meal.