The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-06-22
" oil. 5.--No. a2.
RESULTS OF THE FAMINE IN
IRELAND.
from late European papers.)

\ y '~f'N eN~t~ A~e~' 1919
Lord Brougham presented memorial
to the House of Peers, from the select
Vestry of Liverpool, complaining that
since December last, 10000 poor per-
sons had arrived in that city from Ireland;
end praying for restrictive laws. Is it
not reasonable, that il absentee Peers,
gentry and clergymen drain Ireland Of its
natural resources, the poor should fol-
low
At meeting of the magistrates Of Cork
it was resolved to station a staff of able
bodied men at the principal entrances of
the city to prevent the influx of paupers,
vast numbers from England snd Wales
having come over, inlesling Cork by land
and water.
Charles Brownlow, Lord Lurgan, has
fallen victim to the prevailing fever of
typhus. Five magistrates OF the County
Galway died last week of malignant fever
and the following are seriously i'll: Messrs.
Darcy, Ball Grown solicitor,) Leonard.
Kirwan, (Blindwell,) Morris, and Robert
son. Mr.. j. Nolan, magistrate Of the
county Galway, has fallen victim to ty-
2hus fever in addition to Mr.. Martin, MIR.
Gregory, and Mr.. Jones, r. M.
Rev. Mr.: Mahoney states that in his
parish Of Coachford, the population of
which is 5000, the average of deaths from
famine is fifty weekly: Rev Mr.. Barry,
V. G. states that nearly 1000 persons
have fallen victims to famine in Bantry A.
lone and DIR. Wolsh' Bishop Of Cloyne
and Ross, states on ihe authority OF a
parish priest of his diocese, that in one
Of his parishes, containing a population
of 800, the number Of deaths for the last
month was $50 and that '-in one Of the
sea-coast villages, which six months ago
contained population of $50 persons,
there are now standing but three novels,
without above dozen persons" he adds,
''the other hamlets have been entirely de-
populated. The Cork Examiner says
ave this day witnessed most appal-
ling spectacle atthe Shannon guard-house.
Under the sheds attached to that building
some thirty human beings-old and
young men, women, children, and infants
of the tenderest age-all huddled 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 hidecusness. There
they lay-some dying-some dead-aI
gaunt and yellow, and h;deous with
famine and disease"
In house in Peacock lane, says the
Cork Examiner, within one or two doors
of Clarence-st. some wretched families
from the country have taken up their res
idence In that portion of it occupied by
a laborer named Dennis Regan horrify-
ing spectacle was presented yesterday;
the wife lav moaning in the agonies of
death from starvation IN one corner Of
bare. badly lighted room and in another
corner, on the remains of sop Of straw,
lay the dead bodies Of two children, one a
girl Of l3-the other, boy Of 7. Their
appearance was bideeusly ghastly. The
father seemed almost unconscious Of ths
suffering and death around him.
HEAR, HEAR The Liverpool Mercu-
ry. of May 4, shows the effects Of famine,
bad crops, and IRISH Landlordism 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 habitaton, and in
to garrets already over crowded. Disease
is at work there, and fastens, as If in
stinctiveIy, upon their poor frames which
are predisposed to its deadly effects
When fever has marked lis own, we re-
move the victims to temporary sheds, for
the chance of relief or death. On their
first landing we know that they must pine
in comparative hunger, though we relieve
them we know many of them must die,
because they must resort for shelter to.
places saturated with filth and foul air,
and diseased fellow sufferers. Our poll
ice officers cannot drive them out, because
there are no hospitals or prisons that
would hold a 1.-THE of them. Their beg
glng in the streets, and tho disgusting ex-
hibition they makew with squalid, perIshing
children in their arms, cannot be sup
pressed-ior the same reason. A prison
would be paradise to them-a Injury
we cannot give them and hence the SEN
atory and yagrant laws are at this mo-
ment, in this town, actually berelt Of all
force.
TAYLOR AND STEWART.