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 UAMFAX, 24th Pibriian, 1847. 
 
 
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 SIR. 
 
 A Dreadful Famine having visited a large portion of Ireland 
 and the Islands and Highlands of Scotland, by which great numbers 
 of the Inhabitants of the former Country have perished by hunger— 
 a detailed account of which may be seen in the several extracts on the 
 back hereof, 
 
 We are directed to transmit to you a Copy of a Resolution pass 
 
 ed at a Public Meeting held in this City on the 22d instant, for the 
 
 purpose of affording relief to the Sufferers, which is as follows : 
 
 Rksolvkd, That (he calamitor.s condition of Ireland and the 
 Islands and Highlands of Scotland be brought under the notice of the 
 various other portions of the Province. 
 
 Whatever Sums of Money you may be enabled to collect in be- 
 half of the above object you will please forward to Thomas S. Tobin, 
 Esquire, Treasurer of the Connnittcc. 
 
 You arc earnestly requested to give ample publicity to the ap- 
 peal in your County as early as possible. 
 
 We have the honor to be, 
 Sir, 
 
 Your obedient Servants, 
 
 peti:r lynch, Jcnr. 
 alexander james, 
 
 ■► ' ■Scci'clurics of the t'oiiiniilli'e. 
 
 
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THB FAMINE IN IRELAND ! 
 
 The following details of tlic lainine now cx-!j A letter from the Rev. Mr. Henry, Parish 
 istingin Ireland.we clipped mainly from the Uub- Priest of another parish of same county, address- 
 lin Freeman's Journal of the Ifith and S3d.|jed to yourself, All'jding to a late communication, 
 They were read at the Meeting on Monday : Lin which, about a fortnight since, he had an- 
 
 MAVo.-Thc Correspondent of the Freeman's ."ounced eleven deaths l„j sUn-eation, says-" Since 
 Journal, writing from Clairmorris, says : .">y last communication regret to inform you 
 
 •A horse belonging to a poor man earned tl^t «</.«./ /u■c.,i/Aa//,W»,^.«c■^-^T</ ,« ,«.v;.«r- 
 Mackum, residing in this town, died a few days "/'. l=la"Jerry, county of .Mayo,./.«ms/«n <,/.,«. 
 Bince, and the animal having been skinned, .he^'and I fear that unless immediate and extensive 
 carcass was kft for dogs and birds to proy and employment be given, 1 will liave to record deaths 
 feed on ; but before much of it had been consum- "ot by units but by dozens. Day and nigh my 
 ed, it was discovered that a portion of it had been' residence is beset by thousands crying tor lood 
 carried away by a poor starving family named' or labour tickets." 
 Kelly, who resides at a village called Kiibng-;j The Rev. Patrick M'Manus, Parish Paest of 
 
 another parish of that county, the same clergy- 
 man who, ill a former communication to you dat- 
 ed about ten days back, gave you a list o( la-inly 
 'seven persons that had died of starvation in hi.s 
 parisii in three weeks, now announces that death 
 is about to dcnl-flo longer with single victims, 
 
 •wills, within a few perches of the town, and by 
 them salted and used as food ! 
 
 ' Doubting the statement, I visited the village. 
 On approaching it I met the wife— a liorrible, 
 famine stricken spectacle, with the bones almost 
 
 protruding through her skin. She returned witli , , , ,, - ^, ,. . . 
 
 L to her cabin, in which nothing could be seen but with whole battalions. Speaking of the con 
 but a wad of half-rotten straw, which seemed as sequences of iurt iior delay in opening up new and 
 abed for the whole family, without any „igh extensive works, he says-M am convuicod that, 
 covering whatever, save the tattered rags whiel,''"'^ """'Z'"' »"""/'- ''"^,/''^W«^«'""' "J "'^^""^- 
 they wore during the day. On asking if ihe^\ish will be su-eptmeay. 
 
 story I heard were true, she did not hesitate to| The Rev. Patrick Fif/.gcrald, Roman Catholic 
 tell me all about it. ' Sir,' said she, ^s the tears .curate of Kilgejiver, anotlior parisli in Mayo, in a 
 rolled down her worn cheeks, ' look here,' point-jjcommunication, addressed to you, says :— " My 
 ing to six helpless children. ' Thsse did not .whole tims and that of my co-operator, the Rev. 
 taste a morsel of food for four days. Three ol^JMr. M'Hale, is unceasingly occupied in adminis- 
 them, we thought, were dying of hvnger ; tml';teiing the last comforts of religion to the victims 
 my husband hearing that Mackum's horse died,| of starvation. It would be an endless, and 1 fcnr 
 
 brought home a basket full of it, wb'.ch was all 
 the dogs had left, and on this alone we have lived, 
 the whole week, and the 1, :d only knows what 
 1 will now do for my starving children since it is, 
 gone.' 
 
 useless ta.sk to record ihem." He proceeds to 
 givo you the following instance of the harrowing 
 scene'- with which he and his co-operator are now 
 not merely familiar, but so cngrossingly occupied, 
 i that witli dilficulty he linds time to address you a 
 
 Tnc ,ame correspondent notices the deaths of .letter of thirty lines :- 
 ttn others-one of the victims remaining five] " I shall never forget the impression mat'c on 
 days unburied for want of a coffin. jjmy mind a few days ago by a most heart-rending 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Curren, writing from Westport 'case of starvation 1 have wUnessed the poor 
 
 'molherof five in family sending her little cliildicn, 
 "' At this moment 1 am after beholding a scene; almost lifeless for hunger, to bed, -'•'''-l-iring 
 Ofdistress, at which obdurate naturehersclf must of ever again seeing them alive, ^''O took he 
 
 " , , ,. u r 1 lis) leave of them. In the morning her first act 
 
 recoil, the eyes and nose of a poorman, who died .last iea\e o tnem. in i e „ 
 
 . , , • .11 was to touch their mjs wilh ncr li;\nQ to see it 
 
 of slarvat on, eaten away by rats m a wretched i"'** >•" ^"'"" '""'" "i , , , 
 
 01 siarvaiion, eait; y y ^^^^^ remained ; but the poor mo- 
 
 hovel where he lay dead two days. "'= r.,. „,,, o t.rmtl. 
 
 ..... thpr 9 fears s\ere not groundless, for not a breatli 
 The Mayo Constitution gives a list of eight| ^^^^ ^^^^ „^^, ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^,. ^^^ ^^^^ ,ij^,^ ,,„,. 
 
 deaths from starvation .n that County, within four 1^^^^^ _ ^^^^ ^.^^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^^^ .j, ^^^ ^j„,,^ ^f ^^^^, 
 
 ^^y^- Inity.'' 
 
 The same paper notices the ^^^^l' J-; ^^ ^he distress in o.her parts of Ireland U equally 
 lion of an old woman, who, when discovered in | 
 
 her hut, (the husband having gone two days be-; jheart-rendin^. . ;„ ,i,„ ,„„„ nf 
 
 ' \ , , r r 1 ! Kne persons died on one day, in the town ol 
 
 fore to bc"^ her arms and face were found man- i->i"^ f^'^" - 
 
 ,V L , i'Newrv, from fever, caused by destitution, and 
 
 gled and eaten by the rats. i. . - '. . 
 
 A Correspondent of the Dublin Freeman of the, Jestitutioiiitstlf. 
 
 , ' ' , , .. The Tpnerary ^ mdicat.ir mentions several 
 
 16th wrumg from the same -""'y- ->\-^^^^^ j^j^aths, on tl.e public highway, from starvation. 
 . In one parish o the county, Cong, it ap ars - ^^1 ^^^^^^^ ^^^.^^ ^^.^^^ ^^ ,^^^_ 
 
 from the statement of the Rev. Dr. U a dro , ■ ^^^ ^_^ ^,,^ 
 
 quoted by you from a local paper, that <„■ ../y.carnory, wnnu^ .u . 
 
 seven deaths from slarvalion have occurred within' l^lh .January, says : 
 
 the past week ' !! ' Wy parislt contains a population of mno iho'J' 
 
tint :i 
 of two .^tlllT 
 one of ll .1 
 
 saiiJ, of whom six thousand lunu beon in almost four petaons, wlu. dic.l from bu:vati»n. lo one 
 
 cxiromo want since March last. Their sunirinp 'case it is slated, wliiUi holdinir an imiuest o.i ihn 
 
 has increased exceedingly from Srplemher, l.y body of one of a family often, who ha'' boe.i 
 
 reasonofthcsuspensionof the iniblic works for Jivini,' for three weeks on boiled water et•^sns 
 
 six weeks, tlie increased dcarness and scarcity of ami salt, two of the children were dymt; ! 
 
 Ibod, and their want of c'r.ti.irn. Several to my Another Coroner in the same county 
 
 own knowledge have si.lcu died of'»r«rva(i. n. 1 dilTerent district, jjivcs the names 
 
 reported to the Lord Ijeutenai . six of these persons who died from starvation, 
 
 deaths, as having occurred in Ncvnmber, and lifemale, who was found on thn roadside. 
 
 have reason to think the chief . f [oli. e, who has'] Another Coroner, for Tyrawly dislriels. held 
 
 been deputed to inquire i.lottr fa 'l, has eonfirm-i inquests on ckirn persons, in each ease of vhioh 
 
 cd my statement. There wa; an nu;uest held a (the jury returned a verdict of • Death from -.'»■> 
 
 few days ago on twi) of ll ise crearsres, bt'(^^ars,^vation.' 
 
 who had no friends 10 prevent it, vhicli satisfiedJ i'Iiq poor victims arc frequcntley buried uii- 
 
 the physician. Dr. Fil/.fibbon, anr a icspi-otable co|y,„gj j,, their rags, or with nothing round them 
 
 jury, that want of food v;k< the inunediati' cause i,yt ^ p„afgo sheet. 
 
 of their death. A famil', named \ennedy, and ^ pofiespnndent of the Cork Examiner, wtit- 
 
 cxtremely destitute, got f.ver, am! lay all 'og"-: .^^ ^^.^^^^ Skibereen on the Ulh January, gave 
 
 ther on the same litter. The heaa of the i-- mily! ^i^^ fullowing horrible details : 
 
 "On yesterday, Joscjih Driscol, of Skull, j/oor- 
 
 rate collector, went to the lands of KisbriiiH, \n 
 
 died, and was two days .lead amidst his l.ving| 
 bedfellows, before they it their next door neigh 
 
 hours perceiv-ed it. My .=.sUn. and I are »''- u,^ j^,, of East Skull, to collect poor rates 
 
 miiustcnng the last rites ol religion, boih ('.uvanil 1 ^' . _ ^^ ^ 
 
 night, and are called upon lo a1temJ».Keverui who 
 have no apparent sickness of any Kind— suvu ex-, 
 hauslion for want of fooil— and upon these oc-l 
 
 casions we find many alrtiost literally t.akcd, avenj 
 
 modest females, who wei('i>bli<;ed to pawnevery- 
 
 tbins; they had in the slu i < dtci» to ji.idony 
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 existence. - 
 
 A oorrespodent of the Rallyshatjiion Herald,' 
 writing from Dallydehoh says : ' doal.ns arr lear-j 
 fully on the increase hen . Four persons nave^ 
 died in the immediate ucinity of this village 
 ivithin the last few days. ( )ii ye.ilerduy, a man was 
 discovered half conceals ' •■. a pig^ye, in such 
 u revolting condition that biuiianuy^nld nbrinl 
 
 and on coming to the bouse of a man named He- 
 gan, the door was shut, when he repeiledly 
 knocked at it to no elTect. lie then push, d in 
 the door, and what was bis astonishment in hnd 
 three men dead in the bouse, and no other person 
 in it but the three lifeless corpses. 
 
 " Ho also told me that at a place called Dris- 
 hano, in the same parii-h, there is a woman nam- 
 ed Neill dead since the tub instant, and not buri- 
 ed, as yet; and on Tuesday three children ol her's 
 died, one boy and two girls, and that he thought 
 ihe father was a corpse before this, as he v as ly- 
 ing sick at the time. 
 
 " In the parish of Kilmorc a man was found 
 
 . , . .■ c.inu^i, I, „..,. , ,,,,,11,. ,ieJ!dead ina field, and a great partof bis body eaten 
 at a description ol the boi!\. It w..;, i.ipnii , ue-, | ' . , , , , .• 
 
 composing; but no neighbour has yet ollerod his' by the dogs ; he remamed so lotig there boloro 
 services to cover the loalb3ome remains. Foor^e was seen, that he was not .dentified by any 
 CouMilan, of the Hoard o; Work», was craw ling' iperson, and was buried without a coffin, wlu' h ■. 
 homo a few nights ago, wl.a, luingor and cxb tus-jjthe common practice in that parish, 
 '.ion seized hiin within a I v yarJ^ of bis l.„ase,l| " A man dropped on Tuesday last at the west 
 wbotehewasfoundthe following niormngafrnsht- end of the town, returning from one of ibosc 
 ful example of )vm//«uy/a/.'';,.. I have juFt L,irn- roa<ls ; he was taken into tlio backhouse cf ib^ 
 ed that in the neighbourhood of Croekhaven they' police barrack, to afford him some relief, bui 1 :■- 
 are buried within the walN of their hul«. ' hey, was extinct. 
 
 have, in most cases, forgotten the usuui > '!re-| 
 mony of interment. The livinor are so consumed 
 
 The papers furnish numerous other 
 ments which might be given, were it ncces 
 
 bv famine they are unable to remove the dta.l.— ;!shew the awful extent of the famine and nnse- 
 On the 13th January, Richard O'Orady, i".:iq.,;jquent suffering.— bnt we grow sick on tbe de- 
 
 Uie bodie:^ of tails. 
 
 Coroner in Mayo, held inr ■le'^s 
 
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