The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

lONSTERS.—At Derrygoolen, on the estate of
the Marquis of Clanricarde, a man of the name of Burke,

iUMAN

with two children, was lying in fever, in a wretched hovel;
five wretches came to the house, and notwithstanding the
entreaties of the wife, robbed the family of all they pos-
sessed, taking away the blankets off the. people in fever,
and even the vinegar, and a small portion of meat. The
'• - -use was brought before the bench of magistrates
4Q --Pnl state of. society

at Woodford, and such is ie rear►u,
that the miserable wife declined to identify even the pro-

been held at Muff, in the county of Donegal, to consider
the best means of providing for the destitution of the dis-
trict, at which it was resolved, that the farmers and others
should assess themselves at lid. in the pound upon the
poor-rate valuation of their respective holdings; and that
the amount should be expended in out-door relief, care
being taken that it is administered judiciously, and only to
the really destitute and deserving. This is plainly au

acknowledgement that a liberal poor law is the real cure for
one at least of the social evils of Ireland—the poverty of

it 3 peasant class

The urgent appeals of Mr. Ralph Osborne to the Irish
Landlords have at length evoked a favourable response

from a quarter where, perhaps; it was least expected.
Mr, George Alexander Hamilton, one of the University
members, and a gentleman whose position, taken in con-
nexion with his long services to the Con,ervative party,
gives some weight to his opinions, has addressed a letter
to Mr. Osborne, cordially coinciding in the project cf a
general meeting of peers and of members of the House of
Commons, bbe held + +1
n. ev.ong fl figgPmhlnrrp of

mour, which had obtained little creoit. was current mat purpoSe of deliberation, than for creating ei,
Cabrera had entered Catalonia, at the head of 1000 men. trap speeches and interminable displays of Iris,
The Spanish Cortes were opened by Queen Isabella,
BRUTAL MURDER.—On Tuesday night, one of those
with a speech from the Throne, on the 31st ult. She an- brutal murders which unfortunately disgrace the annals of
nounces her marriage. anologises for the financialdifficul- that county, was committed on the lauds of Kilcoran, in
ties of the country, speaks of an intended revision of im- the parish of Tubrid, Tipperary, on the body of a man
port duties, and says that—" A fixed and suitable dotation named Thomas Mulcahy. The unfortunate man was met
for the public worship and the clergy is an urgent and on the road near,his own house by some person or person,:
posifive necessity, as essential for the good of religion as at present unknown, who fractured his head in several
for that of the state. My Government shall shortly nre- .

lug to be private, and

;h oratory

- or content with this, nis L..—..,-_ _
El Clamor
sent you a law on this important subject."°
announced that advices had be ear to ear, nearly severing the head from the body. Thu
AI
Public - only cause assigned for this cold-blooded murder is, that
received from Catalonia, on the 31st, from various qua the deceased was in the habit of lending money, and had
tern, that four Carlist bands were sweeping through the
.1

was cu

country. One of them consisted of not less than 500
men. Although Cabrera himself was not known to be
personally present, it was not doubted that he directed
the movement of these forces. Government had marched
several regiments into Catalonia and the Basque provinces,
and had sent two battalion; to reinforce the garriQnn at

Feveral processes for trial at the quarter sessions of
Cashel, then holding, against parties to whom he had ad-
vanced money in their aistress.

ATTACK ON THE PAYMASTER OF THE BTH HUZZARS—
DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday last, at half-past two
o'clock, the house of the Paymaster of the Bth Hussars,
•

bout two miles f

armed party. They immediately proceeded to the room
where the gentleman and his wife were sitting, and enter-

THE FRENCH IN OTS.HEITE
_ (From a Morning Paper.)

We have been favoured with— a copy of the following
letter, dated Her Majesty's steam-sloop Salamander,
Otaheite, June 1, 1846 :
" The natives here and at Huahine have proved them-
-4 better men than the French, having beaten them
out of the field at that Island, added to which they repulsed
La Uraine, a heavy frigate of sixty guns, and she returned
to Otaheite without having effected a single advantage
out of the many which they anticipated by the attack and
capture of the island. The natives here, no doubt stimu-
lated by the example of the Huahineans, made a smart
and very effective attack on the town ; they came in,
burned the houses of the French officers who had made
themselves most obnoxious, killed and wounded a great
many soldiers, and retreated without losing a single man.
This put the French in a most awful flutter; they sta-
tioned outposts on all the hills surrounding the town, and
these unfortunate wretches afforded prime sport for the
natives, who picked them off every day. Upon the arrival
of the French Admiral in a 60-gun frigate they marched
out to attack Papeno with 1,400 men ; they were beaten,'
and returned without having done anything but burnt a
church, and stolen a few horses. They retOitrned after a

mg iney presented two blunderbusses at his head, and
said that if he stirred they would blow his br.,..ns out.
They then took his double barrelled gun, two pistols, his
servant's carabine, some powder and shot, and what mo-

uoume' amounting, we unuerstana, to
about two pounds. This daring attack and robbery was
perpetrated in the noon day, and but a short distance
from the Military Barracks of Caher, where the head
quarters of the Bth Hussars are quartered.—Tipperary
Constitution.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—The Lord-Lieutenant, the
Lord Chancellor, the Chief Secretary, the Master of
the Rolls, and many other persons of the highest distinc-
tion were present at the inauguration dinner of the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Staunton, last week, for the
first time since the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill ;
and what was quite as unusual a circumstance, there was
a studious avoidance of every topic of a sectarian or poli-
tical nature calculated to lead to any diversity of opinion ;
no offensive toasts were proposed—" Repeal" being very
properly shelved, even after the departure of the high
functionaries who honoured the banquet with their pre-
sence, O'Connell not daring to open his lips in fai-our of
his darling object, though he has so often declared his
determination not to attend where "repeal" was not a
two days I leading toast.

.iers were a.

to recruit their exhausted strength before marching upon
Bonnallia, which they did last Friday. They attacked
the native fort at six o'clock a.m. on Saturday, and were
cut cut up dreadfully. The steamer Photon came up on
Saturday afternoon with fifty-four wounded, amongst
whom were several officers, including the Commander-in-
Chief of the forces and the Governor's Aide-de-Camp;
they are expected back to-day (Monday). There is no
other news of conQequenee, except that her Majesty's brig

GREAT FIRE IN DUBLIN.—A little after two o'clock on
Tuesday morning, the sentry on guard at the gate of the
Lower Castle-yard, perceiving smoke issuing from the
shop of Mr. Mears, the bootmak?r, in Dame-street,
promptly gave the alarm ; but, before the family were
well aroused to a sense of their danger; the whole premises
were enveloped in a sheet of flame. Mr. Mears and his
wife escaped by leaping into the arms of the soldier who

Osprey has suffered total shipwreck at New Zealand
" P.S.—The Pheton has just arrived with another,

discovered the flariies:
left, were burned to death

heir three children, who were
The whole concern was, in

of wounded and dyin

they are tall

as fa-4 'as possible ; there are, I believe, about fifty.
There is not at present the least possible prospect of our
getting out of this, let alone coming home."

down. At nine o'clock two men were ascending a fire-
ladder for the purpose of gaining the roof of an adioininz

had nearly reached the top story, when the

AMERICA.—By the New York, Captain Cropper, and
Marmion, Captain Edwards, we have advices from New
York to the 18th ult., but the news is Quite unirrinnyt.nt

_
Lauder snapped across, and precipitated the two men into
the street below ; one saved himself by clinging to a lamp
post, but the other, falling on the pavement underneath,
was so seikrely mutilated that he died shortly after the

SEVERE WEATHER AND HURRICANE AT GENOA.—A
private letter from Genoa, dated 21st. ult., represents the
weather there as being of unparal!elled severity. So much
snow had not been known to have fallen there since 1820.

accident

PREVENTION OF STARVATIV.—We give to our rea-
ders to-day-two very important resolutions, adopted una-
'

The writer says, " The ice inside the windows of our cot-
tage was' often half an inch thick in the morning ; the
water on the butter frozen in layers, and oil congealed to
a solid mass in a room with a fire ; the patient culture of
years in the vegetable kingdom has been destroyed; orange
and lemon trees, and almost all the perennials, except the
very hardiest and most sheltered, lost in a night. The
gardens are very wildernesses, the gardeners in despair."
In addition to this calamity, the harbour has been visited
with a hurricane similar to those which occur in the West
Indies. The vessels were driven from their moorings,
and wrecked in the harbour in the old quarter, the Doria-
terrace ; crews lost, boats everywhere capsized, and men
swimming for their lives. Scarce a vessel in the port, ex-
cept those immediately under the Mob Vecchio, but have

...... uu3iy au pecitst meeting of the livardians of the
Balrothery Union, held on Wednesday last, presided over
by nany•frks A r n _ "Ns -•

,
the Union. It will be seen from the first that the Guar-
dianshave taken upon themselves to order that any per-
son, or any number of persons, who may be found, after
inquiry, in danger of starvation, shall receive a meal at
the workhouse, upon an order for their provisional ad-
mission for this pnOse. This will rescue all those who
are within the range of the workhouse, and able to go
there, from the horrors we have witnessed of Skibbereen
and elsewhere. And the Guardians, in their second
resolution, have called upon the Commissioners to sanc-
tion the opening of the rooms, in the different districts
whprr. "Ma+ •

lost spars, bulwarks, figure-heads, masts, &c., and the
cargoes of many are so injured as scarce to pay the ex-
pense of unloading.

•ii taL;L, Late enect oI tnese resolutions will
.be to create rnendicity establishments throughout the
Union, where every person ascertained to be in a desti-
tute condition may receive one meal per day.—Dublin
Mail.
HORRIBLE EXPEDIENT

MESMERISM IN INDIA
flowing with mesmerism.

—The Bengal papers are over-
A Dr. Esdaile has long been

At an extraordinary sessions

and we some time since called attention to the ill success
of some of his experiments. It seems, however, that the
attempts to push mesmerism into notice had been so suc-
cessful, that it was deemed proper by the government to
appoint a medical committee to inquire into the merits of
the new practice. The 'committee consisted of the In-
spector-General of Hospitals, and six other members.
After fourteen days' laborious investigation of cases se-
lected by Dr. Esdaile, and treated in his own way, the
report is, on the whole, decidedly unfavourable. There
were, many remarkable facts connected with these experi-
ments, which we cannot undertake to notice, but they are
narrated with much minuteness and care in the report of
the committee. Wishing to pursue their inquiries fur-
ther, they proposed to Dr. Esdaile that he should take a
hundred patients 'at random from Dr. Jackson's wards
(Dr. Jackson is surgeon to the Native Hospital), subject
them to mesmeric manipulation before the committee, and
show what proportion of the number could be brought
into the condition of insensibility to pain. But this did
*it suit Dr. Esdaile at all, and he refused to undertake
the experiment.

a "presentment for the purchase of coffins" was 'put in,
in advocating which one of the gentlemen present thus
addressed the meeting :—" Gentlemen, can any of you
refuse this application ?—you who have beheld the appal-
ling spectacles of famine and destitution which our town
abounds in—you who have seen mothers walking the
streets with their deceased children in their arms, begging
for the trifle required to purchase them a coffin ? When
a rap comes to our hall door, and a person attends to
open it, a dead child is immediately thrust in by a starving
mother, who makes a sorrowful appeal for the price of a
coffin." And another gentleman (Mr. Becher, a magis-
trate,) detailed the following horrifying expedient resorted
to where coffins could not be procured :---` In the extreme
west of this county, in the parish' of Kilmoe, the Roman
Catholic clergyman of that place told me, within the last
week, that the condition of his people is such that a single
coffin, with a false bottom, is taken from house to house,
in which the bodies are carried to the grave, and there
' deposited in the rags that covered them, whilst the coffin
is taken to the next house, and made answer a similar
.purpose."
DISTRESS IN THE SMITH WEST OF IRELAND.—The
following shocking details of distress in parts of Clare and
Galway are given by the Limerick Chronicle :—" The
workhouse of Scariff, county Clare, (within 16 miles of
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the this city, is so overcrowded with paupers that a disease
Royal Family, left Windsor for Claremant on Thursday, almost amounting to a plague has broken out amongst its
where they will
Parliament. remain :until within a few days of i inmates-.-the deaths averaging from four to twelve daily.
meeting of
It is horrifying to hehold a donkey cart, laden with five The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have left town on or
.ix bodies, piled over each other, going to be interred,
a visit to the Earl De Grey, at Wrest Park, Beds. and not a
person attending the wretched corage, except
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, accom- the driver• The.graves are s 6 dug that the coffins are
panied by Lord .Adolphus and Lady Alexandrina Vane, barely covered with, earth, rendering the air infected. No
have returned to Wynyard Park, from a visit to the Duke coroners ' in quests have been held ! The most munificent
of Cleveland, at Raby Castle.
act we have yet to record is, the donation of £2OO on •
A hatter of Carmarthen has presented the Princess Christmas eve, by Mr. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, of
Royal with a silk riding hat, weighing only four ounces. Britton-hall, Yorkshire, to.lrilipßabde, of Wood-
It is lined inside with crimson silk, embossed with the parks, in aid of a private fund established y. this gentle-
r3yal arms,—the plume and feathers, the rose, the sham-
imnawnhfitrhthhee
rreesliiedfesof;
atnhde
itveisrygrdaitsitanssgedtonreeglridboturhahtonondt
rock, thistle, and leek.
Tne Countess of Shrewsbury has just received, from the a single case of outrage or robbery has occurred within his
Empress of Russia, a massive gold chain bracelet, bearing parish of Inniscathra, though many are suffering extreme
her Majesty's cipher, surmounted by an imperial crown in privation. Not a shilling has, as yet, been subscribed by
aiamonds; the whole encircled by a wreath of magnificent any of the proprietors to assist in relieving the misery,
on
brilliants of great size. their own estates in this district of Galway.

COURT AND FASHION.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.-Our columns this evening
present a sad and afflicting picture of the state to which
this ill-fated country is reduced. Crimes of almost every
hue are there recorded. The soil of Kilcoran is reeking
with the life-blood of the murdered Mulcahy, at the same
moment that the flames burst from the burning home-
stead of Walshe, at Bansha. In the latter case, by the
merciful intervention of Providence, the inmates of the
farm-house were saved, and the fiendish designs of the
concoctors of this savage outrage were so far frustrated.
The meal of Guiry, and the butter of Cormack, are, in
the mid-day, plundered by armed mobs ; whilst Keating's
flour meets with a similar fate in another district of the
country. From the mountain of Si -1-

..._tevenamon p are
stolen by wholesale ; from the plains beneath live sheep are
stolen y Wholesale; from the plains beneath live stock
of every description is nightly abstracted. This is a fear-
ful state of society. Something must be done, and done
speedily, to protect the lives and properties of the well
dpposed from the tender mercies of a lawless peasantry.-
Tipperary Constitution.
REPEAL ASSOCIATTn.•

• Al. tter from America, re-
commending the purchase of waste lands in that country
for emigrants from Ireland having been read, Mr. O'Con-
nell said it would be.a most afflicting thing to him to ad-
vise the people to leave Ireland. Live or die, he would
never give that advice. It was the whole study of his
life to have Ireland for the Irish ; and, as to the present
distress, the British Government was sufficiently indebted
to Ireland to be obliged to give food to the people.
Speaking of the Young :Irelanders, he said they had
made "reconciliation utterly impossible." Recommend-
ing a particular tradesman, he said'he wished " there was
nothing sold in Dublin but native manufactures." Mr.
O'Connell said his own daily, hourly, and nightly thought
was, how to relieve the people, of whom, he said, not
thirty, as calculated by the newspapers, but three hun-
dred, were perishing daily of hunger. " Something must
be done on a great scale." It is the duty of the British
Government to feed four millions of the Irish people. I
will give notice of what I mean to bring forward. I mean
to bring forward a proposition that there be a loan of
forty millions raised to relieve the Irish people ; a loan to
be raised on the resources of the country ; a loan to be
raised as the loan was raised for the

purchase of the
negroes. It is absolutely necessary to go to that length,
and less will not relieve the people from the necessities
they are in. The rent for the week, which included £5

from Liverpool, was announced to be £7l 6s. 3d. -
AWFUL.-There is an appalling communication in the
Dublin Mail of Monday. The writer, the Rev. Charles
Caulfield, dates his communication from Creagh Rectory,
Jan. 2. We make a few extracts. The Skibbereen dis-
trict is referred to :—" The mortality is very great among
the poor, and the aspect of the burial-grounds assuming
a new form : in many cases the dead are buried without

brought to a burial-ground, but interred in the fields.
In Skibbereen, on the Windmill, the body of a man lay
for several days besides his child, sick of fever, there being
no one to remove it until the dispensary doctor had it
buried, when it was becoming putrid ; this has occurred
more than once.' This day in a glen, in a wild part of
this parish, I was told that a family was ill with fever. I
went to the cabin and found thirteen persons ill in the
•

louse; nve lying on some dirty straw in one corner, men
nd women, and five in another room in a kind of bed.

food, not even a drop of milk, nor even an individual to
let the priest know that they were dying. The circum-
stances of one parish in the west which I visited yester-
day, present an amount of destitution quite appalling.
There are 18,000 people ; 15,000 are now in extreme dis-
tresS. There are only two resident proprietors, and 11,000
employed. in public works ; veil), little, except by the cler-
gymen, have been done to aid them, and the mamitude

of the evil is so great as to render any help from private
benevolence of little avail. I feel persuaded from what
the rector told me, that at a very low calculation, 5,000
people will perish in that parish alone within three
months, unless aid on a large scale be sent them. The
l• 1 • •1

consumes

OUTBREAK OF LABOURERS IN TRALEE.—On Monday
morning, considerable alarm was caused throughout this
town, by a body of labourers, about 300 in number, and
armed with spades, shovels, and other such rude wea-
pons, collecting in he streets, and exhibiting the utmost
state of excitement. They proceeded first to the house
of the Rev. Dr. M'Enery, P.P. to request that he would

anp relief, they rushed thence through the town. u
In
this state they encountered Mr. O'Sullivan, an officer
PM T 111117.1 -c ,

erninoyea unuer Lne noarci of works, and it was after
imminent danger he escaped being assaulted by them.
The labourers next proceeded to Mr. J. Lynch's house,
and again demanded employment. Mr. Lynch calmed
them in some degree, by advising them to wait upon the
relief committee. Several nerconQ +h. ,„.,,‘„a

gavc is MUSL melanenoly detail of their sufferings. They
stated that on Clahane road several men had died within
the last few days of starvation, one of whoni- was then
lying four days win'

nut, a Si❑gie penny to nuy a coffin." The attention of
the crowd was next attracted by the appearance of Mr.
Stokes, the county surveyor, as he was preparing to go to
the Spa. A tumultuous rush was the consequence, and
the gig was instantly surrounded. Mr. W. Denny then
addressed the labourers, but could scarcely proem
hearing amidst the vocif

_
'ous clamour for employment,
and threats of plunder and destruction of 'property if it
should be -refused. Finally, however, Mr. Denny pre-

vaned upon the crowd to allow Mr. Stokes to proceed
without further obstruction. The wretched labourers
then dispersed till the meeting of the relief committee.—
Kerry Kraminer.
HORRIBLE MURDER BY

A DUMB BOY.—On the last
night of the old year, Toal M'Nulla, his wife, and three
children had gone to rest, expecting, no doubt, to

the new year in peace. llowever -a dumb boy, who had
been in the habit of attending However,
came to his
window, knocking at it, and giving the unfortunate man
to nn nv.e+nv.rl __A.. _ . -

utr Lamm( itSLIU Mai ins came were taken from his cow-
house. M'Nulla rose, opened the door, and was signed
to by the dummy to enter the shed. M'Nulla was in the
act of doing so, when the former, suddenly seizing his
intended victim by the head, applied a razor to his throat,
and (horrible to relate !) almost severed the head from
the body, nothing holding it but the muscle of the neck.
Of•course he died instantly. Tie wife of deceased, on
hearing the noise, went out, ;hin'cing he was quarrelling
with the supposed party of marauders. On the murderer
seeing her,. he threw thu corpse of the deceased on the
manure heap, opposite to where he had done the bloody
deed, and attacked the unfortunate woman, inflicting a
severe cut, three inches in length, on her neck, with the
same weapon (a razor), and on her falling he gave her a
few kicks, and left her for dead. He then entered the
house, and after looking whether the children were asleep,
he commenced plundering the premises. In the mean-
time the woman gained so much strength as to crawl to
the house next to where the tragedy took place. and
t' f- dth lerer

aising the neighbours, ,ney tounc. fie wretched mura,
eating bread and butter in the house. He took refuge in
a loft above the kitchen, threatening any person who
would dare come up, A' ".” AI there were upwards r
tort "*.med

y men, armed with guns, none dared attempt to arrest
When the police in Moneymore heard of the cir-
istance, they immediately started off to the scene of

criminal, who was brought to town
frightful picture, being actuall

He presented a
red with blood from

houlaers down

Newry Telegraph

THREATENED DESOLATION

" Famine and pestilen are stalking over the coTntry,
,and carrying off their usands ! It is dangerous now
to go near, much less get into, a crowd, for fear of in-
fection. My two servants are in fever, from serving the
poor creatures who come to my house clamoring for food
13 • ,_1 • tr.

and this in their unknown cabins. I rescued a family the
other day in this state, by the direct interference of Pro-
vidence, after one member had died. They were dying in
the condition of misery described in your report of our
last Presentment Sessions—unknown by any one I The
poor creatures have pawned everything they had—cover-
ing and all ! Food at famine price without means of
any kind ! For as to the public works, they are a mockery
of our woe ! Eight-pence a slay for labourers with fami-
lies from four to fourteen ! This latter is extreme, no
doubt, but 'I have come across such extreme cases. And

one such case at present you will allow in such circum-
stances to be bad enough. I put the extreme I have met
with, as, in times like these, the worst that is fact may
be known. Fourteen-funerals in this Churchyard in one
day !—nine another ! And two men, by a resolution of
the Relief Committee, to be employed in digging graves !
—and without coffins, too, from their numbers ! Few can
understand the humanity of that disposition that can
leave a people, without any fault of their own, but under
the awful visitation of Heaven, to perish as they are, by
hundreds and thousands on the public works—working,
as
fences
and nhga have seenshoe
shoes—of
them,of
aiic'ewldeteatirtenwirds, swhaithpinngaktre feet—
having
and sides of the u.(l_ SS roads, until my own blood was
chilled at the sight !—to perish on them without adequate
remuneration !—to perish on them by a forced necessity
to work in cold and hunger and nakedness !---to perish by
inability to get even this work !—to perish unable to work
at all. They are perishing of fever, six in a bed, in their
own filth, without attendant or any thing—but I must
hold—Oh ! my dear sir, get us means, or we perish.
One hundred and forty deaths in the Workhouse from
Ist of December to Ist of January !! ! The Lord God
look upon us with pity and mercy, or we are all gone to-
gether."

The Cork Constitution of Saturday says:—" We were
going to invite attention to the.evidence on the inquests
reported in our second page ; but, after all, what is there
in it more than we read and hear of every day ? There
are ten deaths, or rather inquiries on ten bodies, for the
deaths are more numerous—and time was when ten deaths
from starvation would have startled us ; but u4e has har-
dened us. Starvation is the rule with our unhappy po-
pulation. They drop in the field or in the road, or they
build themselves up in their hovels, and the rats devour
them as they die. We would make some extracts, but
that we wish the evidence to be pondered as it stands.
Take, however, two. Catharine Hunt, speaking of Mary
and Timothy M`Carthy, says _

"•The cries of the child, Timothy, were terrible, but at
last he died on Sunday week. He - died lying on his
mother's bosom, and had cvt the nipple across endeavour-
ing to draw milk from her; on the day following the
mother died."

Doctors Sweetnam and M'Cormick state that "the wo-
man's eyebrow and part of her breast and nose had been
eaten away by rats as were also the limbs of the child !"

Mary Brian, deposing to the death of her husband,
says—

Her husband died of starvation, and nothing else ;
he was buried without a coffin, and they were all 80 weak
that they were not able to carry hcme the door on
which they conveyed him to the grove She and her
children have no food now, nor the Items of procuring

any. They would all have died as well as the father,
but for a shilling given them bY.a neighbouring gentle-
man."

This is in a Christian country, and where Christian men
are exerting themselves with Christian charity and Chris-
tian energy, yet are they not ahle to avert the direful
scenes the witnesses have described.

Nearer Cork—in Traeton—deaths, it appears, are oc-
curring,
,too. Mr. Corkoran, P.P., in'a letter to Mr.
Redington, (in the Examiner) says : _
" Over 16 deaths occurred in my parishes for the last
ten days. I am morally certain that each and every one
of them was occasioned and accelerated by want of food
and fire. Buckley, of Ballyvorane, and Sullivan, of
Oysterhaven, died suddenly. Buckley dropped, dead on
the works, after a journey of three miles before day. His
wife will make affidavit, ' that he had not sufficient food
the night before he died, and that she and the rest of her
family lived 36 hours on wild weeds to spare a bit of the
cake for him.' (In this case a coroner's inquest was
given without sight of the body.) This horrifying eco-
nomy is practised by scores of families in this district. Si-
milar effects must be expected from similar causes.- I fear
we must bury the dead COFFINLESS in future. My God ! !
what a revolting idea. Without food when alive, without
a coffin when dead."