The Famine In Ireland

A lady who formerly resided in Pen nsylv'ania writes from íreland to a friendí in thnt State, - " I have takon tho liberty to pul youf name as the transmittcr of relief to us, for lime will not admit of my asking you about it - for at the momet of my wrting the dead and the dying are around u', and unless the Lord in mercy stay his hand, this country will soon be one wid chnrncl houso. All local mcans are ineificient. All the resident gentry (Tor many have fled from the horrors they could noi relieve} are strnining every nerve to keep alive their famished neighbors. My sister and I, who are now sole residents of D. minor, buy Indian meal al the enormous price of JE18 per ton in Cork, and sell it out at our kitchen at a reduced price to our starving neighbors, and give it to those who can not bjy but our own means are too narrow t permit us to continue this much Jonger. Oli ! my dear friends, in your blessed land of plonly you can not conceive our misery, People are dying by hundreds j in thO next parish to ours the dead ar without cofiins. The prospect befors us is fearful. An unusually early and sevew frost set in ; clohing, Uedclothes, a)l pawncd for fv)ort, and the sufiering of cold added o hunger. The pig, ('the Irish cQtler'ü wealih,) the fowls by which maxy lived, gone, stnrvrd, and in many cases drowned by the Qwners when they could feed them nu inore. Oh ! if you saw th sight I saw ya.sterday; above two hundre.i ien, taltered, looking more like skcleton tlian human beings, with despair on every feature, toüing on a road they were maK'ing, a.nd not one probibly having taste fuod sinco the day before : and inth mountain wild--, the women and children perishpd by hundrrds. A mans day' hirp wi'U hprdly earn y$ keeps himsolf QÜvr, and thougli an Irishman would give his last morsel to his child, yet he must keep it himself. for if he perished, hia family most porish with him," .