IRELAND.
The Government plans for the relief of the suffering population are in the course of practical development.
A minute, issued by the Dahlia Commissioners at the close of last week, sets forth, that the landowners and rate-payers are the parties who are legally and morally answerable for affording due relief to the destitute poor; that the mea- sures to be adopted by the Government-officers are merely auxiliary to those adopted by persons of property; and that the local committees should solicit sub- scriptions from such persons. Where such assistance falls short of the necessities
& the case, "a list of the sums subscribed, together with a list of the landlords who do not contribute, should be confidentially brought under the notice of the Lord-Lieutenant; who after due consideration of the case, will determine on the ,sum to be contributed 'froin the funds at his disposal in aid of the local subscrip- tion." Landlords who give employment in farm-drainage or otherwise are not to biconsidered as persons who refuse to subscribe. In eases where food is scarce, or the price artificially raised, "the Government will be prepared to transmit to the local committee, at cost price, including the expense of carriage, a quantity of food corresponding to the amount of the subscriptions paid in for that purpose, and to place that food in the hands of the local committee, for distribution, on their own responsibility, at cost price, or as wages of labour to destitute persons employed on local works, or, when absolute destitution is united with inability to labour, in gratuitous donations."
The Dublin Repealers had their weekly meeting on Monday. Mr. O'Connell's letter was exceedingly short; which he attributes to hurry. His -commentary upon the remaining clauses of the "Coercion-ukase" will, however, be forthcoming in due time. He entreats every Irish Member to be in his place in Parliament to aid in resisting the "atrocious and ridicu- lous" bill. Mr. Grattan, M.P., handed in a donation of 100/. from the Re- peelers of New York. The rent for the week amounted to 240/.
Potatoes are rising to famine price. At Sligo, on Saturday, the price was from 18d. to 2s. per peck; being a rise of nearly Is. in the course of a week.
Indian corn, rice, and buck-wheat, passed the Dublin Customhouse yes- terday week, in virtue of a Treasury order, at the nominal duty of one shilling a quarter.
A farmer of Killeen, in Tipperary, having engaged a number of men to build a wall, plentifully supplied them with whisky; which they drank so immoderately that two died the same evening, and a third soon after: others were missing, and it was feared that they had perished in some ditch.
Last week, at New Inn, Tipperary, a man not accustomed to the work was em- ployed to light a lime-kiln; as the fire did not burn well, he descended into the bin, by means of a ladder, to stir up the mass; a volume of smoke arose, and he was suffocated. A second man, and a third, descended to the rescue: both fell senseless. The bodies could not be got out till the wall was broken down; when, of course, all the men were found dead.
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