The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-25

counts Of the narrowing scenes at Skull and SIKH,
bereen-hefe the putrd corpses lying unburied and
there the cofnss with sliding bottoms out Of which,
to rave EXPENSE che dead dropped into pits in ordsr
the red graves everywhere telling the tale of desosion
tie people pning away their feet from gaIut hungsr
While the wheat and oats, and barley and rye and ths
cattle upon thousand hills, shipped off to Fog
land Food sufficient for three tunes the of
Ireland according to Epglsh authorities was actually
carried away TO support just many Of tue population
1T the Other side OF the channel BY made the
House OF Commons it appeared that for the three
months ending July s. s4e the exports produce from
Irelcnd great Britain :Vneat 50 ais querters
e1,s oatmeal las al DO oxen, bulls and cows.
hogs l24,762. In the third week of November IA, s3S
barrels Of oats we're exported from Limerick to
oDs 1housapd dollars duty was paid on the mporta
ten Of damaged ard heated Indian corn shich made
the people sick who ate it From the same port Al 600
fikins of butter were shipped from the hst Of May.
While al this DING the people had to tax them
selves for public works that perfectly useless such
~ dwelling untaips cutting down hills old roads,
and rendering them inpassabe and making roads
where nobody travelled; but works projected that the
starving people might be employed 1t ga. mere eva.
sion Of aims In the county Of Galway $240 600 and in
the city OF Galway, si5000o voed; in Killarney,
county Kerry. seas 900; in Kenmare, same county,
$50 OO in Castetown Roche county Cork, $3.50 000 In
Lover Conpllo county Limerick 5000 COO And these
only spec the voted in other localities Bat
this relief was utterly inadequate The sums earned we're
not sufficient to support the individual laborer HIMSELF
Who perhaps, had wife and family Of five or six chill
drsD besides th,t instead Ct being put out of pain
ionged by lingering death Of hon ibs torture In the
Of this year. (lS47 he wrote essay, in the
Nation newspaper on ihe Irish Guide Bools" in which.
after giving mott graphic sketches of the beautiful
scenery OF the country and the poor psasanty compare
lively happy in their poverty before the famine he
then proceeds 70 .h with the past and
cient to make the hair stand erect. Re writes =:
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With Meir LIQUID Gac accents that melted into 10
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We 5H,w the SnGs story the a. was w n
t.Ssd emily a~ass duly PAID him Sa.
s T. kept them hall alive r three months
Of those three months who tel The poor wife wasting
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Within Ii feeling his own arm shrink and his step tottsr
surely over AND hs
lying hmm sso fs
his heart that there NO Cod from but homes. far
there nothing firm table the e him dark aud
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op sas and Alas there is dull stupid malice in their
and dung oefnless into sh, graves nay the
sh he hs *sa a ssad snf IL
hn Of old NtGhs d ID t ss ssf s;s
nue exhibit the actual CONDITION of the country in the
most appalling pic ures ana necated the strenu
relief We do not rxaggerate neither do
diplace the just merits Of any other when we
say that John Mitchell the most isdefatgable in.
stIuctive, and suggestive teacher Of the His ayti
deineatons Of the surrounding wretchedresa embraced
the most comprehensive ststs'ics and the means to
b. ID wee after all the only eectual that could be
proposed and they only seemed wild spd impossible
cause there not sufficient spirit K enforce them. and
becauo the selfish of the English mercantile Glass;
through the Legisl,t and the Cabinet too pre-
d. infant There doubt that the real oppressors Of
the people, who squeezed out their visas the Irish
l.ndiorcs.
They lived for the most part In London or other TO-
reign ties ant the ceeds of the whole Of the crops
RENTED to Them with the exception Of the potato
And this sy tenn would have lasted probably to the end
OF me- had the unfortunate tenant enough pay
soul together The potato, however the basis Of the
social stem The wreched tenant lived on it. and 30
end % He fed a pig on h and wh
tnought SOW the seed and reap the hsrve,t of mis-
sser. When this root failed Ill f4leo. Here We ere
,be instability of that ocial system which prevailed in
Jrtano and the of her calamiss and crimes
Bence that the fan inc consequent the potato
flight extensive in its destruction and involved
IL deep gulf sill the interest Of the country was
terrible visitation but to those susceptible Of it. The
calamity brought aluraTy lesson nation depending
10 uhefL
vegetable must be, fundamentally. in faacious and
dlessed condition This lesson accepted in different
with alarm. John Mitchell read ths lesson in all its 3sr.
rble import with that clear, comprehensive ken for
made kof might result in order Of things
The ndl0rds come here. They together. They
met they talked, spd passed resolutions They sent
OCCUPATIONS to Dondon which effected nothing The land
lords assembled onoe more They formed, with other
citizens what they called Irish Council John Mitchell
exhibition of imbecty.
In the meantime, however the great question of Item
ant rlght' was rising prominently throughout thu
country 1t be necessary to explain TO the reader
that tenant right is custom known in Ulster prevailing
there 10 great extent and having the force Of law
prescrptve usage 1t ia the just right Of the tenant
his own improvements on the land, involving
his right to hold his farm as long az he pays
the rent, his right NOT to have tbs rent raised
because he is Industrious and his right to sell
his good will of his IA wherever no thinks proper In
other parts Of the county, II the unfortunate tenant has
not lease which Is very rarely the case he
In proves and fertizes the soil by his skill aud labor s
rent Is Immediately raised and If he refuses this upon
his industry, he is turned out to die in ditch; II be
struggles to pay and IL unable he is turned for
payment, and aocn takes his fa at the ad-
velcsd ,snt Hence the agraran that stain the
lara The peasant driven desperation takes the law
in his own hard, and wrecks the Wild justice OF
veDge," either by shooting the incoming tenant the
agent the landlord There was. theref. necessity
for su.h Law tenant right in LELAND, nd the
famine properly taken advantage Of TO carry the
measure Various meetings had been held throughout
the country in favor of it, John Mitchell nceving that
further silence his part would he NAL forbear
determined TO tai his stand this day for thu rights
Of tie demo and lab agaDs the graspng GRADING
d<spotism df the arstocracy. As amendment 10
vague resolution Of lord Wiltern he moved -
THAT tfe tenant ght OF Ulster Is just and sAu'ary
custom, beneficial alike to the landlord to the tenant
and to 'he community auc that 1t Is desirable
firm and extend the tn, oushout Ireland"
Cron his smepdmen heightened debate took place;
eoptir ned for three days In concluding IL Mitchell
ade another grand appeal to the sympathsa Of the
landlords snd with IL noble vLdlcation Of the claims OF
lose whcee cause he espouscd who he aoks soon
cited the boys f Connaughs and Lenser into arabic
end pasture Was II tie la dlsrd the tensnts Who
Va NJ raeh al