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Provincial Occurrences : — Ireland. 



July, 



the town of St. Andrew's, which he in- 

 tended as a site for schools, and for 

 whicli he paid £1,100. This splendid 

 donation reflects the highest credit on 

 Dr. Kell, and it is to be hoped that he 

 will live to see his system in operation 

 in St. Andrew's, which has already been 

 of so much benefit to the human race. 



On the afternoon and evening of Sun- 

 day week, we had a pretty heavy fall of 

 rain, with thunder and lightning. On 

 the eastern side of Loch Ness, by Boles- 

 kine, the atmosphere became so dark and 

 close, that the parishioners, who were 

 then in church, became alarmed, and 

 rushed out to some adjacent barns, where 

 they had only been a few minutes, ere a 

 flood descended, the barns were swept 

 awav, and the people surrounded up to 

 the 'middle in water. It was evident 

 that a water-spout had fallen, and its 

 consequences, we regTct to add, have 

 been very injurious. The glen of Alt- 

 more has' been rendered a perfect wreck. 

 One bridge has been carried away, and 

 three others rendered impassable. About 

 400 yards of the road are totally de- 

 stroyed ; and nearly an equal quantity 

 of the breast wall, in another part of the 

 road, washed away. On the other side 

 of the Inch, the briilge of Borlum, con- 

 sisting of three large arches, has been 

 destroyed ; other two stone bridges are 

 carried away, a third is greatly damaged, 

 and two wooden bridges, on the farm of 

 Balmacaan, are swept into the loch. A 

 great quantity of the road has also been 

 destroyed. The whole glen of Urquhart 

 was one sheet of water, and consequently 

 much injury has been done to the grow- 

 ing crops. ' Indeed, whole acres of the 

 soil, containing potatoes, barley, &c.. 

 Lave been canied ofi'. The surface of 

 Loch Ness is completely strewed with 

 timber and other debris of the flood. 

 Hail fell in great quantities, and of un- 

 usual size. In the unexposed part of 

 the glen, in some places, they were lying 

 so late as Wednesday to the depth of 

 five or six feet, and 'larger than boys' 

 marbles. Pieces of ice ot six or seven 

 inches of diameter also fell — Glasgow 

 Journal. 



IRELAND.— A meeting was lately 

 convened, by the Right Hon. the Lord 

 Mayor of Dublin, ibr the purpose of 

 taking into consideration the wretched 

 slate of the peasantry in the west of 

 Ireland, and of adopting such resolutions 

 as seemed best calculated to lead to the 

 relief of those districts ; the Right Hon. 

 the Lord Mayor, IM.P., took the chair. 



The Chief Remembrancer submitted 

 a series of resolutions to the meeting, 

 which had been prtjwred by the Com- 

 mittee. The amount of subscriptions 

 already raised was £'2,207- 10s., and this 



sum had been almost all transmitted to 

 the distressed districts. £918 had been 

 sent to Gal way, and £1,286 to Mayo — 

 so that there remained in bank but £53 

 to meet the demands of a deputation to 

 the Committee for relief, who have made 

 such a statement of the appalling misery 

 of their respective districts, as must 

 wring the hardest hearts, and draw forth 

 the contributions of all who are not 

 wholly callous to the claims of charity, 

 or dead to all sympathy with their fel- 

 low-creatures. In ]\Iayo several had 

 died. Nearly 200,000 persons were in 

 the deepest distress in the west of Ire- 

 land ; and unless immediate relief was 

 procured, thousands of these must die of 

 famine. The peaceable conduct of those 

 poor people, under such trying, such 

 terrible circumstances, and their obe- 

 dience to the law, gave them a tenfold 

 claim upon public commiseration. They 

 are not only without food, but without 

 the means of procuring it. The potato 

 crop has been swept away. Whilst they 

 are dying of starvation, or feeding upon 

 sea-weea, or browsing, like cattle, upon 

 nettles, could the public remain unmov- 

 ed by their woes, because such deplorable 

 calamities were not passing in revie'v 

 before them ? i\Ir. Blake then read two 

 letters, one from Sir Francis Lynch 

 Blosse, the other from the Right Rev. 

 Dr. ISIachale, detailing the frightful dis- 

 tress of the people in their districts. 



The resolutions proposed by the Chief 

 Remembrancer were carried unanimous- 

 ly. 



Sir Francis L. Blosse said that £8,000 

 had been contributed by gentry of the 

 county, and provision to the same 

 amount, so that this made £1(!,000 as 

 the amount of their subscriptions. It 

 had been said that the people were in a 

 state of tumult : now, he declared that 

 he had no apprehension about the safety 

 of his house or family, though he left 

 home without any bars or bolts to his 

 doors, and purposed proceeding to Lon- 

 don before his return. This might pos- 

 sibly be the last occasion of their seeking 

 relief, for the gentry of the country saw 

 that some permanent measure, to pre- 

 vent the recurrence of such distress, 

 must be resorted to. 



]Mr. Howell observed, that the letters 

 which he and INIr. Corbalis received from 

 Cunnemara, were fully as bad as those 

 detailed with such direful accuracy from 

 Mayo. Not only were the seed potatoes 

 dug out of the ground in a state of ve- 

 getation, but it was too true that the 

 wretched people had supplicated for per- 

 mission to bleed the sheep and cattle 

 under the care of the herds, as one 

 means of enabling them to support life. 



£'000 were subscribed by the meeting 

 before it separated. 



