Those 150,000 may be
taken to represent at least half a million of starving people;--how many
more were there at the moment, whose names never appeared on any list,
except the death-roll!
FOOTNOTES:
[139] Commissariat Series of Blue Books, Correspondence, vol. I., pp. 80
and 83.
[140] _Ib._ p. 98.
[141] _Morning Chronicle_ quoted in _Freeman's Journal_ of October 7th,
1846. The _Standard_, commenting on a letter which appeared in the
_Times_ shortly before on the same subject, and written in the same
spirit of hostility to the Irish people, says it would be "indecent" at
any time; at present it is "intolerably offensive" and "greatly
mischievous." "That the Irish are not naturally an idle race," continues
the _Standard_, "every man may satisfy himself in London streets, and in
the streets of all our great towns, where nearly all the most toilsome
work is performed by Irish labourers."
[142] Letter in Commissariat Series of Blue Books, vol. I., p. 360.
[143] _Ib._ p. 349.
[144] Afterwards Sir Thomas Redington, Knt.
[145] Mr. Brett, County Surveyor of Mayo to the Board of Works. Board of
Works Series of Blue Books, vol. L, p. 125.
[146] "_Employment_, with wages in _cash_ is the general outcry.
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