"--_The Case of
Ireland: in two letters to the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Chief
Secretary for Ireland. By the Rev. Wm. Prior Moore, A.M., Cavan._
Dublin: Wm. Curry and Co., 1847.
[260] The number of persons employed on the public works reached its
highest point in March, 1847, viz., 734,000. But this was the average
for the whole month. Before the Committee of the House of Lords on
"Colonization from Ireland," Captain Larcom, one of the Commissioners of
Public Works, said that the Commissioners expected the number employed
on those works to rise to 900,000 in June and July, having risen to
740,000 when the first stoppage took place on the 20th of March, at
which time they were increasing at the rate of 20,000 weekly.--_Answer_
to _Question_ 2,547, p. 265.
[261] _Freeman's Journal._
[262] Hansard, vol. clv., p. 436.
[263] 1847, March 11--Food riots occurred in the Highlands. May 19:
Alarming food riots took place in various parts of England, at Taunton
and in Jersey, and also in France and Spain.--_Census of Ireland for
1851, Tables of Deaths. Vol. 1. p. 289._
[264] Fagan's "Life of O'Connell," vol. I, p. 111.
[265] Fagan's "Life of O'Connell", vol.
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