The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-06-19

herself overDoaru, she addressed. the crowd on
the quay, telling herstory, and finished BY Mar
Ing herself ON honorable terms TO any Young
fellow who would take the place Of her faithsess
swain. A handsome young mason, who hap
pened TO be among the ISLANDERS BY. Immediately
offered himself. and was accepted on the spot.
The captain very properly sent to make inqui-
ries about him, and found that he was, as ne
represented himself to be, single man; and The
parties TO thisextempore match, sailed with that
very tide for the shores Of America
MAIN Causes OF THE PorAroE DIsEAsE.-Us-
ing an excess Of manure, with improper modes
of applying IL, had methods Of storing, want of
attention TO selecting seed from soils different
from the soils the seed IS intended for, and using
inferior instead of the very finest tubers 10 plant
liverpool Mercury
Generally, the accounts of the appearances of
the pOtatoe crop, in Ireland, are FAVORABLE: but
the hing's county Chronicle contains some we'll
authenticated evidence of the re-appearance-o of
the blight which has produced such disastrous
consequences.-Ib.
YOUNG IRELAND on EmGRArroS.-On the 22d
ult., the Young 1relanders met in the Union
fiall, Dublin, when Mr.. Deyin Reilly reported
on the Colonization project, laid before the
English Minister, by Mr.. Morgan O'ConneI,
&c, for removing a million and half of per-
sons from Ireland 10 Canada. Ii was opposed.
because
LIST. Ireland does now, in the actual state of
its agriculture, produce, one year with another
more than sufficient to feed all It's inhabitants.
The exports of food in 1885, were estimated bv
the Railway Commission at nearly fl2, 0OO, 600
We believe they were even then greatly under
estimated, and have enormously increased since.
I'd. We assert the absolute right Of the Irish
people to be fed upon the fruits of their own
soil and their own industry, seeing that there
are sufficient to support them.
Sd. The contem plated loan of &c, OOO. 900, il
lentto Irish proPrietors and tenants for improve
ment of the Irish SOIL and 10 Irish Railway
| Companies, and Companies for Fishery, Mining
| and Manufacturing purpOses-and II permitted
| TO he expended without the control and inter
| meddling of Government of6cias-would more
than repair the ravages Of this years famine
and make Ireland the most eligible residence,
as she Is the natural home and indefeasible prop
erty of all her own people
18th. There are in ireland, according TO the
estimate of Sir Robert Kane, 4, 600, 900 acres Of
| land easily reclaimable and well worth reclaim
ing.
Father Meehan, in secOnding a motion for
the adoption Of the report, said that:
| "There were, and he was proud TO saw it, 20
gentlemen present, commanders of American
| ships, great cheers and he wished them to car
| ~ away the cordial thanks Of the Irish people
TO their nation; and furthermore he would add,
that if in the hour of her danger, should the
felOn hand of England or any other country be
raised against her, they - The rest Of his
Revereuce's sentence was lost in the hurricane
Of applause which burst forth. Should caam-
| lily OF any kind ever threaten her, ye who have
| escaped the famine and Pestilence produced by
| English mlsgovernment, remember America;
| remember her noble ard generous relief and
1 sym nv I H.
support home manufactures and aid each other.
The Report was adopted
Rev. Mr. Nahoney states that in his parish Of
Coachford, the population Of which is 6,OOO,
the average of deaths from famine is fifty week
| ly; Rev. Mr.. Barry, V. c., states that nearly
1000 persons have fallen victims to famine in
| Bantry alone; and DIR. Walsh, Bishop Of Cloyne
and Ross, states on the authority Of a parish
prizes: of his diocese that in one Of his parishes,
| containing a population of 300, the number Of
leaths for the last month was $50; and that ' in
one of the sea-coast villages, which six months
| ago contained population of 80 persons, there
| are now standing but three novels, with about a
dozen persons" he adds, the other hamlets
nave been entirely depopulated.' The Cork
Examiner says: 1--WE this day witnessed a most
appalling spectacle at the Shandon guard house.
| Under the sheds attached 20 that building lay
| some thirty-eight human beings-Old and young
men, women, children, and infants Of the ten
derest age--all hudded together like so many
pigs or dogs, on the ground, without any other
| covering but the rags on their persons, and
these in the last stage of filth and hideousness.
There they lay-some dying-sOme dead-sll
gnunt and yellow, and hideous with famine and
| disease.
An AWFUL SCENE.--In house in Peacock
lane, within one or two doors of Clarence St
aig -.
| taken arp their residence. In that portion of i
| occupied by laborer named Dennis Regan. a
/ horrifyiHg spectacle presented yesterday;
| the wife lay moaning in the agOnies of death
/ from starvation in one corner of a bare, badly
| lighted, and ill-ventilated hole Of a room; and
\ in another corner, on the remains of a sop OF
straw, lay The dead bodies Of fln0 children, one
girl Of -, the other boy Of :. Their appear
ance was hideously CHASTITY. The father seem
ed almost unconscious Of the suffering and death
| around him.-COrk EramiRer.
A PHsoN WOULD BE PARADISE HEAR. HEIR.
The Liverpool Mercury Of May 4, shows the
effects of famine, bad crops and Irish Landlord
ism, TO be as follows;
"Here we see landing on our piers thousands
| of pitiable creatures who have no choice but
| TO get into cellars long since condemned as unfit
for habitation, and into garrets already over
crowded. Disease is at work there, and faStens
as if instinctively. upon their poor frames, which
are predisposed TO its deadly effects. When fe-
| yer has marked its own, we remove the victims
to temporary sheds, for the chance Of relief oil
death. On their first landing, know tina
they must pine in comparative hunger, though
we relieve them; We know many of them mus
die, because they must resort for shelter Il
places saturated with filth and foul air, and dis
4 eased fellow sufferers. Our police officers can
not drive them out, because there are no hospi
tails or prisons that would hold 1.-THE of them
, Their begging in the streets, and the disgusting
exhibition they make with squalid, Perishinl
: children in their arms, cannot be suppressed
. | for the sama reason. A prison would be par
adise TO them-a luxury We cannot give them
and hence the sanatOry and vGgTGnt tars ar,
at this moment, in this town, actHaIig berch o
al force
BRITISH COMMON SCHOOLS SrsrEM.-The Brit
T ish Government finds that it must rest on opin-
ion, and that il is best that that opinion should
be enlightened. In defence Of his scheme, and
the Government grant, Lord John Russell, in
the House of Commons, April 10, said, ave
felt that there pressed upon us the imperative
duty of improving, far as in US lies, the so
cial condition of the teachers in this country
Of attending, as far as i'm us lies, the knowledge
of .virtue, of truth, and of religion. We iel
thtt tDls was one OF lhOSe measures lhulsPehsd
Die for the welfare of the country; and be the
opposition what 1t may, and however formida'
bic may be those opponents--however fOrmida
Bile, | say, they may be-and | lament TO Sc
that at such a time, among them are those whC
have now Withdrawn their aid, but who, througl
good report and evil report, we're the supporter
Of our political eOurse-stil say, be the Oppo
sitiOn what IL may, it shall be consolation Il
US to reflect that VIC have made the attempt &
diminish the empire of ignorance, and to rails
the people of this country in the scale of religion