IRELAND. (From the Standard.) INCREASING DESTITUTION AND MORTALITY.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 214, 17 June 1848, Page 3

IRELAND. (From the Standard.) INCREASING DESTITUTION AND MORTALITY.

Dudun, Jan. 30 — There is no disputing tlie melancholy fact that destitution is extending m every part of the country, and in many extensive districts the deaths consequent upon thp want of food, clothinjj, and the common protection from the dementi, which the beasts of the field rt quire for the preservation of their lives, fall but litt'e short of the mortality at the worst period of the famine of last year. Dcathi from actual starvation are common, but the actual causes assigned for the great bulk of the deaths are low fever, dysentery, colds, rheumatism, and other affections, brought on by scanty and unwholesome food, and exposure to the severity of Uih weather. THE r,A.TE FATAL C INFLICT AT ASIIFORD. Owing, we presume, to tic depth of the snow on the ground, the Western mails have not arrived to-day. Ihts Tmm, Roscommon, and Leitrim papers are expected to have the proceedings at the inquest held on the body of the lato vi r. W.ddron. It is said that n verdict of just fiible homicide has been returned by the jury, and that several of the pet eons engaged in the not have bocn loinmitlcd to gaol.