PRICE CURRENT OF COLONIAL WOOL.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 194, 9 June 1847, Page 3

PRICE CURRENT OF COLONIAL WOOL.

A large meeting had been held in New York for the purpose of raising a subscription for the relief of the poor who are starving in Ireland. The New York Herald thus notices the meeting : — " We should not be surprised, from the impetus given to the cause of charity throughout- the country, if the round sum of fifty thousand dollars was collected in the United States, and remitted 10 Ireland. New York city will, herself, we are confident, contribute a large portion of that sum ; and, from all we can learn, other cities will contribute largely likewise. With a population of only five or six thousand, Jersey city has raised the sum of one thousand dollars, to buy food for the hungry. Here is an example of practical piety and charity worthy of being followed. While this is going on for Ireland, there is an effort making, we understand, among the Jews in this city, to relieve the starving condition of the inhabitants of Hebron, the place where Abraham and Isaac, and also Sarah, were buried. We learn that an ambassador has been sent to this country to collect funds for the suffering Hebronites."

Public Works in Ikeland. — There are 398,231 men employed upon public works in Ireland, according to the last returns.

Deaths from Starvation in Cork. — Melancholy indeed are the latest accounts from all parts of the county of Cork. From Bantry, Skibbereen, Crookhaven, Castletown, and Tracton, in Cork, aud Dingle, in Kerry; the reports present the same gloomy features. In the parish of Kilmore fourteen died on Sunday ; three of these were buried in coffins ; eleven were buried without other covering than the rags they wore when alive. One hundred aud forty died in the Skibbereen workhouse in one month ; eight have died in one day. It is stated that the work on the public roads is even more destructive than fever, for the unfed wretches have not energy enough to keep their blood in circulation, and they drop down from the united effects of cold and hunger, never to rise again.

Food Riots in Dublin. — Before eight o'clock on Friday morning last, a mob, consisting of between forty and fifty persons, many of them mere boys, commenced an attack upon the bakers' shops, in the neighbourhood of Summer-hill, Britain-street, and Abbey-street. Owing to the early hour, and the unexpectedness of the outbreak, they were enabled to carry on their depredations without let or hindrance. The rioters had the appearance of country people, and came from the southern outlets of the city. When they had reached Abbey-street, two policemen interfered, and endeavoured to disperse the crowd, but without any effect, several men

exclaiming that they had been without food for twenty-four hours, and that bread they would have. They continued their depredations up to eight o'clock the same evening, and, owing either to inequality of numbers, or want of energy in the police, succeeded in plundering a great number of bakeries in the neighbourhood of the liberty, as well as in the northern ends of the city. So formidable had the appearance of the mob become towards evening that the inhabitants of Nicholasstreet, Thomas-street, and the streets adjaaent closed their shops and suspended business by the advice of the public authorities. In Pa-trick-street the crowd came into collision with the constabulary, the result of which is that two of the latter were beaten, one of them very severely. The alarm created by the outbreak was considerably heightened Ly a report that some of the ringleaders were posesssed of firearms ; and on making inquiry of the spectators of the riots the statement was repeated in the most positive terms, although it is not alleged that there was any disposition evinced to put them into use, and it is thought they were displayed solely for the purpose of intimidating such as might feel disposed to resist their commands. The following morning the work of plunder commenced afresh, and several bakers' shops and carts were emptied of their contents with little or no resistance on the part of the owners.

State of the Provinces. — All the provincial papers received in town are filled wth fresh and appalling accounts of the famine and its results. Most of the melancholy instances of death from starvation which they contain are, however, similar to those which I have almost daily to describe to you. The Cork Examiner states that the deaths in Skibbereeu workhouse, which for the three months ending the Ist of January, in 1845, were eleven, and in 1846 ten, were in the three months ending the Ist of this present month January 256 ! Of this 256 sixteen died in October, eighty in November, 160 in December ; and they were still fearlully increasing. Yet this in-door mortality, it would seem, bears but a trifling proportion to the cut- door.

Asses' Flesh foe Food. — Every day s post increases the awful slate of Ireland. What can be more horrible than the following heartrending and disgusting account furnished of the food of the Irish, by a gentleman of unquestionable veracity. The manager of the Ballina Bank, after giving a general description of the dreadful sufferings of the people of the district, thus records the following revolting fact : — " I went into a cabin, where I found an emaciated worndown man, a woman fifty years of age equally squalid and miserable, and a deaf and dumb boy ; they were sitting round the dying embers of a turf fire, that glimmered at one end of the miserable hovel. Near the fire, and under some wet straw, which served them for a bed, stood a barrel, which emitted an overpowering stench. In this barrel I saw the greater part of an ass, the half of which was salted ; this was their food. Upon questioning them respecting it, they said that they had sold the skin for eightpence !" Some, no doubt, deem this impossible, but if they do they should satisfy their doubts by writing to the manager of the Ballina Bank who will verify the horrible story.

The Bank of France. — The Commerce says :—": — " The Council of the Bank of France has determined on raising its rate of discount to five per cent. Some members of the court considered that this measure would not he sufficient to bring back specie into the coffers of the bank, and proposed to limit the length of date of bills admissible for discount to sixty days; this latter measure has, howerer, been reserved for more difficult conjunctures. Since the month of December, the cash in the bank has still further decreased ; it is now, it is said, no more than fifty-seven millions.

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