Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-03-06
From the Liverpool Standard. Feb. 81
The Famine In Enrepe..The DsstitutioW
In Ireland and ScOiiaMu.

DCOTLAN0
Last night Dr. Mscksy delivered an address
in Great George ST. Chapel. detailing the dis.
tress in which the Highlands and lslanJs Of
Scotland are at present plunged He said that
Of 100000 souls iuhabitipg the TIghlonde, about
60 0O0O are at this moment totally destitute of
daily TODD, and are supplied by charity and that
number will, in q short time, be doubled b..
fore next summer arrives the highlands and
Islands of Scotland will contain 300, 600 totally
dependent upon charity. The failure OF the pota.
10 crop has been universal through, the High.
lands and the whole Of Scotland and the popu.
laton of the Highlands and Islands are totally
dependent upon that crop. From 100 districts
accounts had been received, Stating that potato.
formed seven eights Of the Food of the people.
This calamity has fallen upnn population who
nre totally destitute Of money to buy other food,
and who have no resource in their extremity
The population OF tho Highlands was divided
into two cln.ses; OF cotters, paving no rent to
the proprietor offoil, but being permitted TO build
hu,s. and plant their Iitle patches OF potatoes
which furnish them with means o! humble ex.
is,ence throughout the year. and of crofters. or
s'nnll tenants, paying rents Of from g.. to El2
to the landlords, but raising little more 'hnn is
enfflclent TO meet those rents and their wants.
This clnss live almost exclusively upon po,a,cs
The loss had come suddenly and unforeseen.
...-....... .., IRELAND. .... ..
II is stated that there are 350,GC0 families
over and above The ordinary laborers and far.
mers now destitute in Ireland. requiring a, Q
calculation of GOO per family e. 600 600 Er
their yearly maintenance.
Description is futile 10 convey any notion Of
the suffering in IrrIsn6, but rome idea may be
had from individual facts. Dr.. Donovan, the
physicsn to the Skbbereen Dspen.sry. in the
county Of Cork, givrs these details. which we
extract from r rultitude Of others. in the Cork
Southern Reporter:
| On Monday morning last, a woman called a,
my house at q very early hour, and, forcing
herself into the hall, requested that | would
visit her daughter, then in confinement. IN an.
Dor was bad, che said no. but she is suffoca
ted by the smell of dead man that was in the
house with her. When ] visited this msera.
BILE and suffering creature. found her lying on
the ground, without particle Of straw to pro.
tect her from The dsmpness Of filthy earthen
floor, or q single article Of covering TO screen
her from the bitter cold TO which in this com.
.ortless cabin she WIS exposed. Immediately
opposite TO her, near the hearth, where the fire
had burned out, 10y the body OF her fs,her.in.
law in the rsgs in which he died, and in the
attitude in which he brcsthed his last. Putre.
. faction had at the time made rapid advance,
, from the nature Of the diseass of which he
died, viz: the dysen,cry ths, is now ravsging III,
country. ." es
A man of the name Of Hesly died in the pa
!. r,sh Of DriWolesgue about fortnight ago h,'
wife and two children remained in the hous.
until the putr. scent exl'slauons from the bod,
# drove them from their cOmpan ionship with tn
e dead in dsy or two alter some persons il
!: passing the mans cabin had their attention
, drawn by loud snaring, and on entering ioun,
e The gnswed and inapg led skeleton Of Healy con
Il tended for BY Sc, Of hungry dogs and pigs
J. hat were completing their horrd banque, O,
e his pu,r'd remains .fr.-
A woman in the townlsnd Of Ln,her, belong
u ing to Alexander O'Driscoli. Esq. and OF
which there Is more poverty than any farm @
9 its ex,en, in The west riding. crswleG to IN,
= door; che was al the time lsburing under ma
. lignsnt fever, was emscisted to the utmost de
gree, and appeared ss il the grave at that mo
:, lnent vomisd her furth. handed her sum
Telet and directed her To leave the door, ss
!. dreaded infection tor my family. i tou'i wan
h this said she pointing 20 ,he Shilling ~hlcl,
N had givcn her, but want 'uget my hoy buried
% he is desd these eleven days; he died in IVY
= dsys sitsr hie father; got The sickness ,nyse
.. my two children are dying no person will g
re TO give them or me drink Of cold water, and
y got up in the fever To-day an.l put the corps
'e in ditch, and cline 10 you to get i, pu, 10 tn
grave, that the dogs nsy poa sstn.'.a esa1
'e THE DEriCEScy OF GRAIs IN GREAr Ba
: TAIN 10 the editcr eCthe London Times =
SIR 1 send herewith On estimate ot the def
I, cheney of grain and other crops in the un,s
!. Kingdom tor the year ending Sep'.l, ls47, o
2 The eslia,ats is founded chiefly upon II
statistical facts furnished BY Mr. Iabcucher
% iu bis speech Of Tuesday evening the 10th ins
re The results are startling and confirm ,he view
n, you have recently expressed in relation 10 Il
- dangers which menace the commercial and m
% netsfy Interests oi Greet Britain. sl 90 scer.