The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-02-23
FOREIGN NEWS.
FURTHER ACCOUNT FROM
IRELAND.

DINGLE-The Rev. Mr.. Gayer, oil DlnSie
in letter says,-'The people are dying by
inches; that he wonders they are so patient
as TO lie down and die Without breaking open
the Government stores, and that two-lhirdf
of The population will perish it food be mol
cheapened there"
We take few extracts, descriptive oil the
horrible condition of the parish and town oil
Banlry, from the Cork Constitution
STARVATION is the rule OF our unhappy
popuIation. They drop in the field OF IN the
road. or they shut themselves upin their nov
els. and the rats devour them as ihey de
We wonld make some extracts. but that we
wish the evidence TO be pondessd as i;stands.
Tase however. two. Catharif7e Hunt, spea-
kiop of Mary and Timothy Mccarthy, says
.Tbe cries Of the child; Timothy, were terri
Bile, but at last he died, on Sunday week He
aied Iuing on The mothers bosom, and had cat
the uppLc across endedroring 10 drdW milk
from her. On the day following, the moth
er died.
Doctors Sweetman and Mccormick state
that The woman's eyebrow AMI part other
breast and nose had been eaten array By rats
as were also the limbs Of the chi!dn
Brian. deposing 10 the death of her hus-
band. says
Her husband died of starvation, and moth
ing else: he was buried without coffin, and
then trere all so freak that they icere not ABLE
10 carry home The door on irhich they conveyed
him 10 The graue.-She and her children have
no Good now, nor theImeans o. procuring any
They would all have died as wella the faith
err, but for shilling given them by a neigh
boring gentleman This is in christian
cou niry, & where christian men are exertins
themselves with christian charity and chris
tian energy, yet are they not able 10 avert
the dirciul scenes the Witnesses have dc5-
cribed.
Nearer Cork, in Traction. deaths, tap
pears, are occurring too. Mr.. Corkoran. NJ
r., in letter TO Mr.. Rcdington says Orel
sirteen deaths occurred in my parishes foT
The last ten days. am morally certain that
each and every one of them was oscasiOned
and accelerated by rant Of food and fire
Buckley dropped dead on the works. after Il
Journey of three miles before day. His wife
will make affidavit :lat he had not sufficient
food the night before he died, and that she
and tho rest of her family lived &c hohrs on
wild weeds 10 spare a bit of he cake for him
I'm this case il coroner's verdict was given
without sigh, Of the body. )-This horrify-
ing cc,nulny is practised by scores olfamIcs
in this district. Similar effects must be en-
pee ted from similar causes. fear we must
bury the dead coFFINLEss in future. My
God what revolving idea. Uithout foO:
rchen aIitc, iriitouta Griffin rhen deadr
The condition Of The country around Cork
is most appalling, starvation being universal
draths from want of food frequent, add fear
fully on The increase, whilst despair had seized
upon the public mind from the apparent in
disposition OF tho government 10 exert itscl
for The preservation Of the people.
The prices oflood have now risen 10 poin
which places il far bcyottd the reach even r
those amongst the laboring classes VINO ar,
employed, and This most unfortunate condition
is mainly attributed to the obstinate retusa
of the Government to establish food depot
throughout the country. and 10 the dlscour
agrment given by it at an carly period TO tn
procuration OF food from funds raised by pri
waite subscriptions and by It's refusal Ia al,
any funds applicable to the Object Of lowering
the prices o. food, even TO the poor and des
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