Report of Commissioners—Remonstrances—Quantity
of stationery used—Cooked food recommended—Monsieur
Soyer comes to Ireland—His coming heralded
by the London Journals—His soup—Jealousy—M.
Jacquet on Soyer—The
Lancet
on him—Professor Aldridge, M.D., on Soyer’s
soup—Sir Henry Marsh on it—M.
Soyer’s model soup kitchen—A “gala
day”—Ireland M. Soyer’s
“difficulty”—Last appearance!—Description
of his “Model Soup Kitchen” (
Note)—Reclamation
of waste lands—Quantity reclaimable—Sir
Robert Kane’s view—Mr. Fagan on Reclamation—Mr.
Poulette Scrope on the Irish question—Unreclaimed
land in Mayo—The Dean of Killala—Commissary
General Hewetson on reclamation and over-population—Opposition
to reclamation—No reason given for
it—Sir R. Griffith on it—Mr.
Fetherstone a reclaimer of bog—Reclamation
of bog in England—Second Report of Relief
Commissioners—Relief Works closed too rapidly—The
twenty per cent. rule—Mr. Labouchere’s
reply to Smith O’Brien—Letter from
Colonel Jones—The Premier’s promise—The
Claremorris deanery—Effect of the dismissals
in various parts of the country—Soup
kitchens attacked—Third Report of the Relief
Commissioners—Questions from Inspectors—O’Connell’s
last illness—His attempt to reach Rome—His
death—His character—Remaining
Reports of the Relief Commissioners—The
Accountant’s department—Number
of rations—Money spent, 420
The Fever Act—Central Board
of Health—Fever Hospitals—Changes
in the Act—Outdoor Attendance—Interment
of the Dead—The Fever in 1846—Cork
Workhouse—Clonmel—Tyrone—Ne
wry—Sligo—Leitrim—Roscommon—Galway—
Fever in 1847—Belfast—Death-rate
in the Workhouses—Swinford—Cork—
Dropsy—Carrick-on-Shannon—Macroom—
Bantry Abbey—Dublin—Cork
Street Hospital—Applications for Temporary
Hospital accommodation—Relapse a remarkable
feature—Number of cases received—Percentage
of Mortality—Weekly Cost of Patients—Imperfect
Returns—Scurvy—The cause of
it—Emigration—Earlier Schemes
of Emigration—Mr. Wilmot Horton—Present
State of Peterborough (Note)—Various
Parliamentary Committees on Emigration—Their
Views—The Devon Commission—Its
Views of Emigration—A Parliamentary Committee
opposed to Emigration—Statistics of
Emigration—Gigantic Emigration Scheme—Mr.
Godley—Statement to the Premier—The
Joint Stock Company for Emigration—L9,000,000
required—How to be applied—It
was to be a Catholic Emigration—Mr.
Godley’s Scheme—Not accepted by
the Government—Who signed it—Names
(Note)—Dr. Maginn on the Emigration
Scheme—Emigration to be left to itself—Statistics
of Population—The Census of 1841—Deaths
from the Famine—Deaths amongst Emigrants—Deaths
amongst those who went to Canada—Emigration
to the United States—Commission to protect
Emigrants—Revelations—Mortality
on board Emigrant Ships—Plunder of
Emigrants—Committee of Inquiry—Its
Report—Frauds about Passage Tickets—Evidence—How
did any survive?—Remittances from Emigrants—Unprecedented—A
proof of their industry and perseverance,
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