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Show 284 APPENDIX TO NOTES. Prom the LondOit Guardian, of Jan. 2Gtlt, 1853. "'1\,.o shocking ca.scs of child murder arc reported this week. I 11 tho one case, at Agar t~wn, the infant ~''ns.found in o. garden crushed to a. mummy, it is supposed by plncm~ tt between two b_onrds, and f.~~~:,~:~~~~~ ;\tut~~~~1o?~~:Sct;d~gl1i~l;c ~~c~ ~~~~~~s ti:~~no1bii:~:~ctl;,~l~i1~~ gcr, a gi rl on ly 15, residing in tho midst of n den of wrc.tchcd ncss, at No. 3, Clarcn-phtcc, Cam!Jcrwc\1, who has. been con:'m1ttcd for tho murder of her new-born infant. On hcrmng of wh1ch, and having its paternity disputed by another man, tho reputed father James Drown, aged 40, committed s uicide by cutting his throo.t." Prom ilte Lo11don Guardian, of Feb. 2d, 1853. A~~T~l0d!~~~;, ~;:~,;:st::~0310a o~;~~~fc~f un:l~~~~~~~7~1 ~~u~ff~i~:! ~~~~h of rL child by con~pdting it to !told a hot b~trning coal." 4. Ireland. (1.) P·rom tlte N. Y. Exp1·ess, a.v copi.ed by llte Baltimore Sun, of .1\'0v 16, 1852. . u A SAD 1)1\:TURE OF IRELAND. u Tre~and is rapidly under~?ing n. revolution, in many parf.:<!, sucla aa docs not attrflct much attcnllon, but such, nevorthcleas, 11s IS a great revolution. In an Engli8h paper before us, we sec it alated that the county of Mayo is in rL transition from the cotticr state of society in which the land wns thickly peopled, nnd held by tenants in very sn'ran h oldings, at Ycry hi gh rents, to the r;razi11g system, in which it is occupied merely by n very few herds and cnrc·takcrs, and hchl either lW the landlord himself or by one or two great capitalist's tenants. 'I he change is from being stocked with men, women, and children, to he in ~ stocked ,with sheep and cuttlc. A writer in the London Times, dmwmg the p1cturc of the change, says:- " • The whole population of · rL district many miles in extent nre simply turned out into the roads to go where they please, and live or die as they can. Of course there arc among them many old people hardly n.blo to. get a long, many sick 1lcrsons, many little children, many women m an ndvnnccd state of p regnancy--out they all J:,tO together. '!'here seems to be in the ~jceting landlords n very happy state of indifference to the question, what becomes of these peoplt!? Dut I confess my weakness. I have not yet attained th is indifference. I inquired anxiously where tho people wcro gone, who, n. few months ngo, inhabited one of these distri cts, lately thickly peopled, and now n. sheep walk. I wa.s told by n. gentleman, and agent, who stoutly defended, upon the plea of necessity, the proceedings in question, that some of them, who had some little property, were gone to America; that many were in the Union workhouse; that some were in tho lower parts of the grcn.t tow ns of England, Scotland and Ireland, Lut that, iu his opinion, the grca~r part of them were dead.' APPENDIX TO NOTES. • 285 u A few years ago men women d 1 .1_, Ule !:ltock whicb ;L hrHllu;·J in tl. an ° n urcn wcro the most profitn.· property; they Iiv~d upon lhc r~s c~~unt~yl coulJ cncourug:c upon his paiJ rents which (cons!derin ~trs n.n. cast quantity of food,.. and ubsc.nco of _any expenditure ~n ~~cqu~hty ~f the land and t!•e tot?-l fcucmg, dra.ming, or the erect ion of t JMrt of tire land_lord, either m IJO oousii.I~I·cd exor·bitn.nt. When hcn~mc r~ts) would tn u..ny_country !nnua.n rwtmo.l ceased to ben. profit\b!o"cve•, tl~e potatoc fa.ded, the IJoor ~aws had been im/loscd nc~rl 0 r~r;( p:-t~· mg ~toe~; and as tho C$pCllstve one. Hero wo lave in 0110 Y a •e s.uno tuno rt Uccnmc :ln "The most noble Lor·d ilar uiS r"'~~-J the mlio1wtc of the chan,~c. t·~d?r in .this .changing the haUi{a.tio r~s ~· lp::O seems to be the gr·?at o}x. llus wntcr m the Times wlrcncc we men to the haunts of cattle. :'' N~a8c.1~\'cs~port, l?r' scrcl·almilc~1~Ylt~,n~~~t8 ~~lethe L d 1\r qms o lgO IS at this moment clearin •, I or arA fe_w arc already removed; in other c ~.\\~a~ t rc W~lOic ~opul:Lti?n · outs1de tire cottage door, nnJ the wha.1cs t IC_Ir urmt~re JS standl!lg point o~ plunging homeless, into the ~ eL"\rn i~ ~rc cv_lJcntly on tho well bill it wall is ri sing between tho r;~ 01 • • c.mwh llc, :~ ne~,. and the homo of mauy lately happy fami!·~d .tn1 tl~e l:wd, winch IS sti.ll very w:~ll, not yet completed (I" r t! cs. .t 1S Bad to sec that tins throut?h which the tcnantfl lw.Y~ to~~~~~;ll·~ b~c~ehcs in. man_y phecs, m~tcrm~s of Jemoli."'hed homes. The ~\C .t ,~c•r all,) ~ ~ butlt of tho stdl st:uncd with soot, wlrleh once ~ .0 sct""1·lnt c~c \\11ls?e stones cottage. Oimc t 10 clumney of m::ury n. " '.Hcyond W cstport the witll is com 1 t d 1 The lllOSt noble .i\hrquit-~ 1 conce·, ,P ~.e. an t tc people arc gone. them, in tlli_li ".'orld n.t lc:tst: Tire rcr~~~~;~~,~~ tl~~cc~:~~~,!~~~~·~·~rr. 1;m·e ~r enclosed wtthm tho encircl irl"' wall 'l'J d" . · o • c equ1to mouths :1:;0 . 0 • 10 lstric.:t was c leared :~ JCw "'As the tra.vcllrr goes on Ire <'ntcr tl t . mrl-. and then that uf the .Pi;;ht J rc .r'·r1t!)ry o~ Sir Roge1· Palthings :ll'e more rldv·tnced A, .. ton. l H). •,ad ot Lucan. ll cro brgc grass ficld!-l fed' Ly s.l ce g;.<•n, part of tile land i.'l already in nml in some ' 1 P; tnc Cl"OJIS of turuips arc in othc1·s An will ,·cry ys~~nml~&t;('~h~l:~/1~~~~~ ~rast .ar_r:~~.n~~. the f"~e~h stubble: no~:c,r peopled. tee 0 .L ur:stzwt wlueh man has 1. caunot ex:1clly stato the extent of tl d' .· It bcg;tus thruc or f(mr ulil<•s f"mm West 10 rshrct oper:l.ted 11pon. without some cou~id<·l·ahle int cn·ds ~r~rt, tt,ldt"t~nds (~ houg h not p1·ictorr-, ) almost to the tO\\"H of]'.' II' . :ua '~·o•r;;rrtg- to ot her pr·olltilct<. ~n buth ~ id e;; or the r~··:d tt·:·b.e: n. dJ:•d:ur_ee of perhnps 25 l"cacll. I w:u; iuformcJ and belie\",(' (·~l~ltrl t<:hr-~ n.s !:u· as the_ eye can own know led).!;('.) lh:Lt the End of' L~l ea1111_17h l• t'tlmrot state ~t of my on gra8s about 20 000 a('n•s of ~~~~ lt scly .' '1' ,,1 {_,nclh1n"' lately l:ud down "\Vhat tL mo '· . · til ra Jtk{ and.' Uut it i~ fi"Om t;:~~:~\111f/~;~·~,!-hc~h~~t.a fr!~htfu~ 1~rcct:l.('lo it must be! exist11,-tlrat we h ('~ 1. the l~ ud r~t r ;.11'! ·~;!."Cry, l not. th!s oppression anti whet·o suclr books as Un ·I, 1' CJ~ o~~ r:!i t!f our .i\frll'an slavery, o.geD1cut." c c om 8 vabur !iuJ tho largest cneour-- |