wages not to be had from farmers--Was it a money or food
question?--The Navigation laws--Freights doubled--The Prime
minister's exposition--Free Trade in theory--protection in
practice--The Treasury says it cannot find meal--President Polk's
message to Congress--America burthened with surplus corn--could
supply the world--Was it a money question or a food
question?--Living on field roots--Churchyards enlarged--Three
coffins on a donkey cart--Roscommon--no coffins--600 people in
typhus fever in one Workhouse?--Heroic virtue--The
Rosary--Sligo--forty bodies waiting for inquests!--Owen
Mulrooney--eating asses' flesh--Mayo--Meeting of the county--Mr.
Garvey's statement--Mr. Tuke's experiences--Inquests given
up--W.G.'s letters on Mayo--Effect of Famine on the relations of
landlord and tenant--Extermination of the smaller
tenantry--Evictions--Opinion of an eyewitness--A mother takes leave
of her children--Ass and horse flesh--something more dreadful!
(_Note_)--The weather--its effects--Count Strezelecki--Mr. Egan's
account of Westport--Anointing the people in the streets!--The
Society of Friends--Accounts given by their agents--Patience of the
people--Newspaper accounts not
exaggerated--Donegal--Dunfanaghy--Glenties--Resident proprietors
good and charitable--Skull--From Cape Clear to Skull--The
Capers--Graveyard of Skull--Ballydehob--The hinged coffin--Famine
hardens the heart. Rev. Traill Hall--Captain Caffin's
narrative--Soup-kitchens--Officials concealing the state of the
people--Provision for burying the dead--The boat's crew at a
funeral--State of Dingle--Father Mathew's
evidence--Bantry--Inquests--Catherine Sheehan--Richard Finn--Labours
of the Priests--Giving a dinner away--Fearful number of
deaths--Verdict of "Wilful murder" against Lord John Russell--The