Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-03-25
FOREIGN News.

The steamship HibcrniG arrived at Boston on
Saturday eve, bringing news from Liverpool to
the 4th inst The Flour and Provision market
is growing tighter, in consequence of the starving
condition of portions of Great Britain. Money
was plenty. OConnell is in feeble health, and
fears are entertaind for his life.
The London Times speaks out thus boldly up
on the cause of Ireland's suffering.
Not TO 90 further back thar the Union, for now at
least half century England has had collateral voice
in Irish afurs. 1t has been notorious all that time
that Ireland the victim of unexamped social crimes
Besides lesser evils, there existed no public provision
for the poor, Property ruled with savage ant tyran
meal sway. 1t exercised its rights with hand of
iron, and renounced its duties with front of BRASS
Age, infmity, disease, and every form of weakness
and bereavement were cast out to perish. The 81 fat
of the land" the flower of its wheat" its "milk and
its honey" flowed from its shores, in tribute to the
ruthless absentee, or his less guilty cousin the usurous
I lender. twas all drain and return. But strength
and industry Jared but i'll in land where capital was
in perpetual fux and decay, how mnch more poverty
and weakness In an integral part of the British en-
pre, on soil trodden by British Sovereign the land
owner was allowed to sweep away the produce of the
earth without leaving even cleaning for them that
were read, to perish. And they did perish year by
year continually, from sheer desttuton."
The Times demands that such provision be
made for the Irish poor, as is made for the Eng
llsh, and commends the example of the English
parish of Marylebone, where, few days preyi-
Gus, near two thousand inhabitants assembled to
aid in securing an efficient Poor Law for Ireland
In that parish alone 10000 poor are receiving
relief weekly, mainly Irish immigrants In Liv-
erpool, alone, II 900 poor are receiving aid
weekly, of whom, at least 5000 are recent Irish
immigrants.
DUBLIN, Feb l6.-The accounts from the provinces
to-day furnish fresh details of distress. Two months
snce, Sklbbereen, in the south, and some parts of
Mayo in the west appeared to be the only districts
where numbers were actually perishing for want Of
food. But now, there is scarcely county in Ireland
In which the people are not dying of starvation Even
IN the metropolis there are deaths from utter desttu-
ton. Yesterday there an inquest upon the bodies
OF husband and wife, found dead in an obscure street
in this city, and the evidence clearly showed that they
persisted from want of the common necessaries of life
Meantime, vast numbers are making their way out OF
the country.
The Cork Examiner publishes series of communi.
cations descriptive of the destitute condition of several
localities in that county, including Mchaestown Kan
turk, Doneralle, and Ahabollogue The state Of the
latter, which is only nine miles from Cork is fightful
There were no less than nine deaths from starvation
on Monday and average of three deaths each day
IT during the week. In one town-and, containing sCC(
: souls, 700 are starving.