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[98] There were twenty principal Government Food Depots established in
various parts of Ireland in 1846, at which the following quantities were
issued:--
Tons. cwts. qrs. lbs.
Indian Corn 30 00 00 00
Indian Corn Meal 11,593 11 00 19
Oat Meal 528 00 3 24
Biscuit 6 3 00 7
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Total 12,157 15 0 22
R.J. ROUTH, Commissary General.
--_Famine Reports. Commissariat Series. Vol. 1, p. 2._
The number of Relief Committees in this, the first year of famine, was
600. In 1847, they numbered nearly 2,000.
[99] "On Monday at five o'clock, the public notification of the
resignation of the Ministry was made by Sir Robert Peel to a crowded
house, and in a remarkable speech.... It included an unparliamentary
eulogium on Mr. Cobden, whom it mentioned, to the surprise of the House,
by name, and it terminated with a panegyric of himself, elaborate, but
rather clumsily expressed."--_Lord George Bentinck, a Political
Biography, by Benjamin D'Israeli.


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