The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-02-20

The House then passed the Dlll 10
stock Of the Utica and Buffalo Railroad Company so
that the company may relay their road with heavy
rail
Mr. SMALL, of New York. introduced general act to
incorporate charitable and benevolent societies The
bill was referred.
An ntermnsble amount of local and private business
was disposed OF,
And the House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Senate bill, as amended by the House Select Com
mtee, to divide the State into Judicial districts
Theirs were great number OF efforts made to amend
the bill-ell were rejeeted.
And the Committee rose without having taken a vote
and the Hsuse ad jeurned
The Dcstitution In the Highlands and
Islands OF Scotland.
Mn. EpiroR -
TO tine Neo York Herald must be awarded the CRATE.
full remembrance OF the Scotch Hghsnders in calling
attention to the famine and peslence now stalking |
abroad in the Highlands and Islands, and entreatiDg
sympathy and aid from the Scotch benevolent societies.
and citizens Of this favored land.
is somewhat singular, that in the universal cry Of
relief TO Ireland" the orbesring and patient population
of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland under all their
tirely overlooked and not alluded to in public |
meetings. whose seemed to be TO extend the hand
OF charity and sympathy TO all those in father land
suffering under the dread calamity, with which il has
pleased Divine Providence to visit these lands From
The spirit OF charity now abroad and the kindly feelings
that have been elected for Ireland hope that the
hardy sons Of the mountains sufsrings will be also
mitigated and pestence averted' until happier days
In proof of the suerings of the poor ghlanders we
at the public meeting in Glasgow called by the Lord
Provost TO take into consideration the dest!uon in the
|
The Rev. d Buchan stated-We are not to rest cons
| tented in a case Of common humanity with say ing what
low countrymen--.be ye warmed and be- y y eds and
then fall back on the selfish notion that else
will dot When human beings are perishng, and that
by calamity sent by the hand of Providence, dare
not pass by the other side When starvation has dried
up saure's fountain in the mother. breast and the ia
minished nfa J, sucks from furnishing mother its usual
nourishment in vain; when the father is weeping
help less and hopeless among his children crying for
TODD Which he has not to give we should be less than
| men did We could we shut up bowels Of compa
sion from them This strong language but stronger
than truth demands Let me read sentence or two IL
Illustrative of this dreadful state of things In commu
ncaon have had from South Ust, from person we'll
known to and not native of that country who was
there on business of his own and business which had
nothing to do with the restitution have received this
written statement starvation hunger, and famine are
in this place They could not give morsel OF bread
in many places i'll would have given them five shillngs
for one cake. travelled through the mountains stop
ing at the huts of the poor people among starving child
crying to their fathers and mothers Tor bread
he could not provide bread for his family" In
Their communication from Pooleve addressed to the Sc
creary OF the Free Church Destitutisn Committee the
following statement occurs :"l have been instruct
ed Of public meeting of the Inhabitants to write
to you forthwith request that relief be sent
as possible in order to great number Of families
who in utter wrechedness beg say unless this
be DONE in several instances the will be
most awful. The relief cannot come moment too soon
order life The writer respectable teacher
adds after giving other details"I beg you will sup
pose that have drawn exaggerated picture of the
destitute OF this place No, SIR alas that is beyond
my power, nor can have any interest in attic mping it
i am not native of this place belong to the Reay
country. | have been long among them / have seen
them often IN distress, but never dd' nor any man
nor can help admiring the patience and modesty with
which they bear it, and in trying to conceal their want
= from another" In another communication IRON two
gentlemen one OF whom is a minister and the other Mr.
Forsyth, of Dimach, who have been examining the
state of the west coast of Argyle and Inverness shire
the following passage occurs" At Arisois met two
who had come from the Island OF Eigg in quest
OF food for their starving families of them showed
me gown belonging to his wife, which he had been
offering for sale TO get meal for his children but
could get person to buy it, They assured US there
were other families in the same deporable condition
We Immediately hired smack, took ten bags of oat
angels of mercy The JOY and gratitude of these
people, Papsts and Protestants proved small reward
for some self denial in bringing them relief" will
trouble the meeting with only other extract 1t
a.es TO the Isle of Skye and occurs in communication
K seen what they describe. After drawing a
u picture of the state of restitution in general they
of
efound four childeen under the charge, for the
time OF an epsPtciannt the youngest o. me breast VI
receiving almost none ITSELF the oldest not more than six
years age; the parents had gone to Porree than
miles off TO try to gets few behring's something
else to their helpless children from speedy starva
ton They had left nothing in the house they could eat
ID and OF the family had than half third iooC
Is for long time before The aunt had at last got hand
full of meal and when saw them near two O'Clock il
the afternoon this borrowed morsel had just been mad
into little porridge which cooling before being
given to these poor hungry creatures Such dressn,
,. in every Communication we have received. In com
municaton from Barra it stated that scores have
If persisted" by time the suppl - the Ere,
ChuTsn committee to that island And tina
with such painful facts before them it will crafty this
meeting to know that the committee to which have al
luded dispatched nearly month pgo two vessels from
the Clyde loaded with meat for the destitute Districts
That they have besides purchased consIderab ouan
IL tty from the government stores at Tobermory that
these supplies, under very careful and stringent regu
ations, are already IN course.o distribution To sho
10 how necessary these supplies let mention this
fact that SO of the returns received snswer this cues
ton: wha, number OF families the parish district
aaf nrii nd in lnnu
re TO be actually destitute oil foodl These answer
declare 2la9 families TO be already at the date OF ,hes
a returns ir that deplorable condition. And let M
Id mention that these returns do refer such places
b. Barra, Tyree, and the Long Island where the desuo
10 Is VIGOROUSLY the most severe 1t really needs not how
Id ever the evidence which such supply
to convince rejecting mind that restitution OF III
the Highlands ami Islands is possible that the food
people should be entirely destroyed without pungnf
nultudes ITO want and wretchedness3 | have ext
10 mined carefully the large proportion
at the western coast and islands, and these two facts
t. but UNIVERSAL First that the destruction of the poat
crop total; and second that the potato formed to b.
70 far the larger part OF the population vesix,hs in man
cases, elevenwehs OF their subsistence. II is com
cause for is, have already said the
suffering humanity II is not the of this church
or church of this section or of that section OF tn
community. IL ;s the cause OF every who has
heart to feel and hand to help is the of thos
e who are destitute, by no crime of their own who
10 suffering under the visitation Of Gsd IL the
helpless children, whose parents cannot feed them be
ID cause they furnishing themselves !. the
l. mothers whose very breasts hunger has dred Is th
OF fathers bowed down and broken hesed not
much by the feeling OF their own prvstious as by tn,
sight of the privations Of their wives families In
cause urgent, tender aud sacred appeal e
10 the liberay of the community cannot be made vain
The Inverness county committee, appointed with refer
J. ence TO the present restitution In the Highlands met IL
ID the Castle here on Friday last Sir John Macpherson
10 Grant OF Bandalloch Bart IN the chair The meeting
o. Of private and conversational than OF pub
ID lie and prepared description, but some OF the detail
brought forward painful and important interest
Mr.. Fraser r. tier, chairman OF the last meeting
10 the committee reported what had been done in obedienc
H. to the resolutions then passed. lie mentioned the avo
able results OF the application to government respectin