Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-02-02
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
Foreign Items.


IRELAsp--.4tcfl Catastrophe We'd
nesday week from four to five hundred pau-
pers attended at the Kilrush union, in order
TO seek either adnittance to the work-llouse
or outdoor reief. But alas their suppli-
cations were Ifuitless, and utter spending the
day Ia most inclement one) in niserable
state of suffering, they were Obliged, wlIen
evening came, to return unrelicved to their
homes, some of these being from eight to
ten miles distant from Kilrush.
Within two miles OF this town there is
ferry about 200 yards wide, over which
number of these starving creatures were
obliged to cross. Too many crowded into
the boat and she sunk on the passage, when
about 40 men, women, and children persisted,
five only being saved.
Language fails to describe the sad state of
this doomed union. The guardians have
neither funds nor credit and nre in debt
G15,000. There are $1,000 paupers actual
y starving.
BAD News ron THE RATs.-A grand bat
tue against the rats ia the sewers of Paris,
which are about $50 leagues in extent COM
menced on tue night OF Saturday. The re-
suit up to this time is said TO be the dcstrlIc-
iion OF 250,000 rats, aud il is expected by
that by the 1st of next month the number
! VIII IlNNf Itutiifu OVOtNDOs lCNtlul DldIc vi
destruction were made use OF by the differ
eut brisades OF scwermcn but that which
was found TO be most successful was the
placing a large leather sack in which large
piece OF mutton tullow was placed dainty
OF which these animals arc very iond-at
the corner OF each sewer, and toward which
the animals were driven. The animals at
ter their capture were all killed and skinned.
Tho skins are to be used for gloves.
SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
In the Lonion ErIm ner, OF November "a,
there is un article by Walter Savage Lludor,
in which hc predicts that the United Suites
will proceed ia anneXing foreign States and
establishing in them the English language
aud laws until the Union will embrace all
fruterniiies and climates. Within two OF
more centuries, Rio dc Juncmo and Vaipur-
also will be the richest of the cities in The
forty United States, and will contend viii
each other which of the two speaks witt
most purity the Anglo-Saxon tongue. Ger
mans, Polanders and llungariLns, win sing
their insurrectonaiy traditions in the sam,
tongue, &c.
NOVEL CoSvESTIoN.-Late foreign pa
pers inform us that n convention has bcci
held in London, composed Of 207 uyowet
thieves, who assembled thus, in order to do
wise means for procuring an honest livcli
hood Doubtless il was tho work of som,
pious md benevolent persons, as we no,ic,
ihat the meeting was opened with prayer
and tho singing of tt hymn. They adde's
sed n respectful memorial to Lord Ashley
asking il thoy might reasonably hope to oh
tain an honest living in the British Colonies
to which he responded in the negative, un
less they formed a settlement on the from
tier OF the wilderness in America.
NORTHWEST PAssAGE.-It is said that
British fleet have discovered northwcs
passage in lat. 73 and Ion. about 80 1-2, hay
ing gone one degree and half further mort
than any vessel had previously been. 1t
also said that they discovered new cont
nent, but on account of ice could not al
proacli nearer than fifteen miles to land.