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O'Rourke, John

"With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines"

B. Martin, Viscount Newry, Sir D.
Norreys, Viscount Northland, C. O'Brien, W.S. O'Brien, D. O'Connell,
jun. John O'Connell, E. Smithwick, E. Taylor, H.M. Tuite, Sir W. Verner.
AGAINST THE BILL.
Viscount Acheson, R.M. Bellow, R.D. Browne, Hon. R.S. Carew, Viscount
Castlereagh, Hon. C.C. Cavendish, B. Chapman, M.E. Corbally, Hon. H.T.
Corry, Hon. T. Dawson, Sir T. Esmonde. F. French, Sir B. Howard, J.
O'Brien, M.J. O'Connell, O'Connor Don, J. Power, Colonel Rawdon, D.R.
Ross, Right Hon. F. Shaw, Right Hon. E.L. Sheil, J.P. Somers, Sir W.M.
Somerville, W.V. Stuart, W.H. Watson, H. White, T. Wyse.


CHAPTER XII.
State of the Country during the Winter of 1847--State of
Clare--Capt. Wynne's Letter--Patience of the suffering people--Ennis
without food. The North--Belfast: great distress in it--Letter to
the _Northern Whig_. Cork: rush of country people to
it--Soup--Society of Friends--The sliding coffin--Deaths in the
streets--One hundred bodies buried together!--More than one death
every hour in the Workhouse. Limerick: Experience of a Priest of St.
John's. Dublin: Dysentery more fatal than
cholera--Meetings--"General Central Relief Committee for all
Ireland"--Committee of the Society of Friends--The British
Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in Ireland and
Scotland.


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