Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-08-17
CONDITION OF IRELAND.


CONDITION OF IRELAND.
It's with feelings of pain that we have to notice
=, J;sur,ceful occurrence. which for the second
time within the last week. has taken place In me
suburbs: we allude to the attack made on MI.
Crubb', -four carts. which. not happening TO nave
the protection of the police. were surrounded oy
, number of women and bows. aud seven bags oil
flour lorcihly taken thcretrom. The police sue
ceeded in recovering small quantity OF the hour,
and in apprehendiug three women, VINO were sun
seouently bailed That deep distress prevails
not only in this town and neigborhood, but through
out this unfortunate and misgoverned country.'
isa fact sufficiently notorious to all, save the mi
SCRABBLE politicians who indulge in the iancul idea
of a.similating taxation iii Eng land and Ireland;
vet violence and robbery are not calculated 10
produce an amelioraton of the peoples wretch
| I'd condition. The forlorn state Of the poor here
has for some time back excited The attention and
COMMISSION of MANY benevolent individuals. and
means. we hone. will be devised for employment
and relief. For these purposes. meeting OF the
inhabitants will take place on Monday next.
| TPperary Free Press.
| It becomes our painful duty to announce that
A famine in this country is inevitable. unless
effort De made 10 tslieNe s
few weeks since been exhausted. The mark cts have
risen to famine price. despite of all the efforts
of the committee. This very day are the po,a.
toes sold in our market at SOS. per peck, 81 3D..
per stone 1t is frightful to contemplate the con.
sequences. The laboring man earns but 81. per
day-so that suppose each man regularly employ
ed, his daily hire is insufficient to provide one
meal Of dry potatoes for his family. What is to
be said of those crowds who re out of EMPLOY
ment! of those thousands who are many DAYS in
the week Idle and unemployed! Typhus fever,
the usual attendant on famine. is fast setting in.
Already have some valuable lives been sacrific.
ed by It's contagion. Altogether we are entering
upon all the miSeres of the 22d. We protest, to
tax OF increased taxation under these circum-
stances. is enough to make the most placid lose
their moderation. -Nercury.
Any thing to equal the pressure of want and
distress felt at present by the poor of this town.
has not been experienced during the last fifteen
Years Provisions have advanced in price. and
are scarce: The poor cannot get employment; the
scenes Of want and wretchedncss we daily wit
less i'll our streets. if not attended to. will cost
the loss of many human lives from actual want.
EnniskiAfn Reporter.
We perceive that the cry Of distress is raging
IN many parts Of Ireland. and that charitable as
socatons are formln" To stem the progress of this
awful calamity. Indeed this town and county
are not exempt from The general prevalence l. I
Is melancholy to behold the hordes of poor who Z
daily creep about our streets: particularly stran
gers: to be sure, they have claim upon the hu
name, but the poo: house keeper. ashamed to bes,
still has stronger. and we would take the !ibeT.
ty OF suggesting. that # some ladies' and gentle
men undertook the alienation of these distresses
they could not but succeed. Our market ON
Saturday was however pemhfully supplied with
by the sack at 4 Id. per stone, and
single stones at sd. We cnnyersed with some
countrymen who had them fer sale. and thew in
formed us there are enough for CONSUMPTION.
which is cheering intelligence. The potatue
crops are not in that state of forwardness so much
lesired. The cat crop in some places mas suffer-
"a; but if Providence was pleased to bless us with
hot sun. all would rally.-.nayo Constitution.
The dearness and scarcity OF potatoes IN the
several parts OF this extensive county, especially
owards the west, have reduced the people to the
owest ebb Of human suffering. The town of
>llrush has, much To its credit. subscribed 500
mitigate the distress; and owing to the lauda- .
lie exertions Of the Rev. John Kenny, the K. c. =
ector OF the parish, and of his curate, the Rev.
Ut. walsh, partial supplies have been procured y
rom remote districts, but on such terms as must y
Ahaus' inc FUNDS very speedily, if the wealthy =
entry ana farmers In their respective neighbor- =,
ooas DO uot contribute TO avert the general ex-
losion 10 De otherwise dreaded. Hunger will y
reaK through stone walls, for neither the Pulpit a'
le rress or the Dayonet can subdue the CRAVINGS
nature. 10 add to ihis melancholy d-.cripfion
what the PseF are Suffering, the depressed state III