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Day
3
Month
April
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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The geneml intelligence by the Htbernia is uaimportant, though of much intorest. The famine and suflering still continúes in l rel and. We have, however, reccived no detniled accounts as yet, of tho extent and scverity of the nllliction wliioh exist in that unhappy country. - There is not only a great destitution of food, but of the ineans of purchasing at any rate, so Ihat large massosof the people are dependent upon the liand of charity for relief. To ?uch the contribulions from this country will be most w el co ni c. In Englond Irisli mTairs continue toíibsorb atlcnlion. Jn ihc Parliamcnt, jDI Georgc Bentick subrnittcd a proposition for expending sixtecn millions on aihvays in thal conntry,but was rojncled by a lnrge mr.jnrily. About n million sterling per month was drawn from be nalional lreasury on Qccount ol' rel and. It isanticipatcd t!iattliorc uill be lnrge emigmtions to America in tho spring. - The Englisb papers siate that every farmer in tbe county of Limerick wbo can crufttBT üaOorcven iJIO, is coming over. - iiuffalo Cturicr.Qr We finish this week tlio spoech of Mr. Corwin. Without endorsing evcrv part of it, we tnay sa y ihat it is o sound and conclusive argument ngainsi the fuiiher prosecutiorï ol' the war ; and his views are sui)[orted by such appeals to the truths of history, and to the great principies of hunian aclion, as cannot fai) to make an mpression on the reilocting reader. lts delivécy seems to have had a powerful eflbet on all who heard it : and the violence with wbich it has been assailed by the Democrats, shows their appresialion of its power. We are glad to Ree it published exiensivoly and praised in those Whig papers, which, like the Detroit Advertiser, were formcrly in favor of giving the President all the money and men he waliled to cavry on the war. Their present cratvfifhing course looks ratber undignificd ; but it is better to go ïight than wrong, even though one has to go backwards to do it.05a" We seo by our exchangcs that mucli cxcitemcnt has been caused in different places, by thc decisión oí' the Supreme Court, on the license question. - Prosecuüons are going on in almosl overy town in tho New England States, and the friends of lemperance are determined to revive the cause. Several of the most extensivo dealers in Boston have declared Iheír detormination to close their doors, and nmong ihat number we nolice the far.-famed Brigham, whosc palace-den has been the cause of more misery than any otlier two establishments in the city. We are glad that sometriing is left effectual enough lo nut a stop to the vile traífic. - Newburyport Adverliser. ftr Tlie Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, in enumeraling the rewards ofiered to and bestowed upon the Northern Traitors who defeated the Wilmot Proviso, says that John S. CMiipman, of Michigan was to be made a Judge in Oregon under the bilí which finally failed of a passage through both Houses. Q Mr. Hnrmon, a publisher of ihe Frce Press at Detroit, is about to establish a pnjier at Michigan, the.seat of governinent of this State. Cease to do e.vil ; learn to do well.

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