Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-04-17
THE SCARCITY IN EUROPE.


IRELAND.-The latest accounts from Ireland are
full of melancholy interest The distress is begin
ming to be felt severely by the tradespeople and the
middle classes. In some sections of the country
County of Mayo particularly menoned the age of the
land to be very generally neglected. owing the diff
Guilty procuring seed and the apprehension that the produce
of the land will be swept away by the andhoders for rent
&C. In the southern parts Cork, Limerick, and Tppe
rary cultivation however, proceeding. Large quantities Of
breadus had reached Waterford during few days previous
the 7h of March and fewer than forty vessels had sail
ed thence for America after food. One provision merchant
in Wespor had advertised Indian meal EOS cwt wheat
meal the same and bean meal at 4s cw, which is
reduction of than f2 per previous prices The
Cork Reporter the arrival Of thirty eight cagoes of
grain that port between Saturday and Monday, the 18th
and 18th umo. At Brondon the market the 9Th
remarkably supplied with oats and potatoes there
veneen loads Of potatoes offered good size and quality
average price of from 3D. to Is 3D. and the main
choked with loaded with OATS many of which left
the market unsod.
All the agree that the distreses in Ireland and su
eng of the people unmgated and surpass all that the
Imagination picture And it sad TO learn that the spring
socing has hardly begun in majority of the rural districts
No provision is therefore made for the ensuing year. The
Cork Examiner says
from gentlemen of undoubted accuracy and intelligence OF the
general neglect Of this propous for cultivation of the
lando the extensive tracts Of country that still unouch
ed by the plough, spade hao-o the stupid apathy and
suen despair that to hang like dark cloud the
minds Of all classeslandords middemen, and faimeswe
reluctantly compelled believe that the present Of
calamity but the precursor Of TERRIBLE appa
ling more destructive to human life
The tide of emigration, it also said by the Liverpool Mer
curry, continues flow with rapid,y really fearful when
of
posed of the sound and healthy portion society The
comfortable farmers the temperate Industrious and saving,
the young and abebodied the possessors of small capital
these the individuals who flying from their native
try it pague-smitten What will be the end of it
all, God only knows"
The London correspondent of the Cork Reporter gives
gloomy of the effects of change of air Mr. OCoN
SELLs constitution The writer says After the first short
rally over he reapsed into his former excessively depess
ed and state, and has continued sne gradu
ally sinking, and settling firmly in the conviction that
his hopeless His has failed and he spends
of bis time in devotional exercises Later accounts how
ever, say that his health is improving
FnANcE-Pas dates of March nth say that the state of
the public subsistence continues to be the object Of the
anxious socude with all parties The rise in all the
kes unceasng Bread Paris the 18th even high
than anticipated The rise in flour is alarming It
had reached 1913 francs per SACK equivalent to 81 shlngs
per hundred weight, and expected that would
rise still higher. In 1916, the PERIOD the price Of
flour was &c francs per sack 1873. The Municipality
of Paris continue supply bread out to the poor of the best
qualities at pence per pound paying the supplement out
of the city The pended in this for
three months ending the 3s of March will have amount
ed Gl20 600. Baron Rohschid has devoted five million
francs for the purchase of breasu in America to be sold
in Paris, the profits if any, to be given to the poor.
SPS-The DEAFNESS of subsistence in the capital has
ceved the attention the Senate, and the 10th umo
measures for relief under consideration The pecua
ton Of the French Government drawing guam
titles of grain from Spain 5000 wagons employed in
grain to Santander for expectation.
GsRmAxY.-Accounts from Germany continue speak Of
the scarcity Of provisions and spreading desire for emigration,
chiefly to America not only among the poorer classes but
also among the small andhoders letter from Prague
that the restitution Of the lower classes has suggested the
erection OF steam-cookng apparatus OF such size that
30 900 basins OF soup served out in forenoon Ac
from Hungary speak Of the most pressing scarcity and
give some details Of crimes committed by the hungering
people; and yet the Austrian oyd Journal such guam
titles of grain stored up the country might sup
ply the whole population for years but the
waiting send them by foreign markets rather than
send them almost impossible roads to the distressed
districts In Hesse the disposition TO emgrate has spread
widely From town, Egesbach which contains about
,400 inhabitants the whole population signed petition to
Government for leave 10 emgrate TO which
returned In another place. Bocha, than fourth part
of the population have resolved emgrae, although they
have had the Encouragement Of seeing several OF their coun
trymen return from America in condition than when
they went The Austrian papers state that It is probable that
before long the question Of providing facilities for emigration
will be brought before authorities of the several States