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O'Rourke, John

"With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines"

--Mr. Bianconi, ex-Mayor of
Clonmel, had shipped to him on the 14th of December, at New York, a
small lot of best Indian corn, at _twenty-three shillings_ per quarter
of 480 lbs.; and the same post which brought the invoice brought a
letter stating the price at Liverpool was _seventy-two_ shillings. What
will Lord John Russell say to this?
[125] Board of Works' Series, vol. L., p. 97.
[126] Mr. Monsell's Letter to Lord Devon.
[127] The case of Ireland, etc., contained in two letters to the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere, Chief Secretary of Ireland, by the Rev. William
Prior Moore, A.M., Cavan, p. 6. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 1991.
[128] _Ib._ p. 7.
[129] _Ib._
[130] The Case of Ireland, etc., p. 11.
[131] _Ib._ p. 11, 12. The capitals and italics in the above quotations
are Mr. Moore's.
[132] Memorandum to Commissary-General Hewetson. Commissariat Series, p.
452.
[133] "A great deal of delay on the part of the Board of Works in the
respect of drainage was occasioned by that body involving themselves in
legal intricacies which were not necessary under the Act." _O'Connell's
Speech at the Baronial Sessions of Caherciveen._
[134] _Correspondence on some of the general effects of the failure of
the potato crop and its consequent relief measures.


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