The Daily Herald

State of the Poor in Ireland.—The accounts from Mayo are frightful. Young and hitherto healthy persons are dying—absolutely dying of starvation. The statement is made in a letter from the parish priest of Newtown Pratt, the Rev. James Hughes, inserted in a cotemporary Journal. It is this, " Yesterday morning, about 12 A. M. died of starvation, in the village of Murrivough, in the western part of this parish, Mary Carelan, aged about 20 years; her family I have known to be, the entire season, in the greatest destitution. This unfortunate girl had been always remarkable for rude and strong health; she lived at service up to the present distress, when she was sent home. It must be truly frightful to reflect what effect famine must have on the debilitated constitutions of more than 7000 individuals out of a population of more than 11,750, who have not the usual clothes worn by persons moving in the humblest walks of life, and of more than 8000 who sleep on the bare ground, with no better beds than rotten straw, heath, or green rushes. The two principal landed proprietors in this parish, whose starving drivers I fed last week with the meal sent here by the London Committee, and who take annually out of the parish nearly 5000l. from their present starving tenantry, have not contributed so much as a single farthing towards the alleviation of the present distress."—Dublin paper.