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Belmullet, Mayo.“ There is nu disguising the fact, that there is at this moment 5,000 people in ibis district absolutely starving 1 expect nothing but death by 1 hundreds in this neighbourhood, unless Provi-I dence raises us a (ri-nd to save us. The present is one of a most alarming cbar-cter :—requiring the most prompt and energetic measures to save the lives of the people*’ Merting in Tu»m. •• If ti.lt;»'lt;- who said they doubted the existence of distress could on y see the people as be (Mr. O'Grady) did, tbeir doubts would soon be rernovtd. lie would now pain his hearers and himself by speaking ol the state of the abode*, of the cotbing —if it deserves the name of clothing—of the poor in bis parish. Fan ine was at tbeir door. And he (the Vicar General) would say tbar, cou d ibey in Tasmania, who doubt the existence ol this dire distress, Bnd who have been endeavouring to stop the current of charity, could uniy see ; if, their doubts would slt;» lt;n vanish, their opposition I br changed into assistance. God grant that such a calamity may never befall them and their little lt;n-s The children crying for food—the parents having non- to give! Bilintubber Committee. — Tuere are over four hundred families now on ! the verge of starvation scattered over three j large districts of these parishes. Oran-j more. I beg to say there is awful distress j in tr.is town, many families live on nettles, the watts of trie children are truly appalling. They fly to the Union for reli-f, but, alas! we are un able to give the assistance requir. d We strive i * give a dai'y breakfast, and depend entir*ly „n donations. More than five thousand breakiasts h .ve been given there within the hit few months. On ! euch sad scenes as we have to witness, the poor children unable to speak fur hunger.1 now quote from a 1-ttrr of the Rev. Mr Jack-V»n, Protestant Rector, of Belmullet: *• There have ln*en puti-s at my door during the past week (June 186*3) absolutely sick Irura starvation, many of them having subsisted for days on a few cabbage plan's with a sprinkling of mesl. We were in despair when we met last Thursday, end
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Sydney Freemans Journal
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Sep 12, 1863
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