The Starvation Of Ireland

Elihu Burritt, the learned blncksmith, hns been (living into the cabins of the starving Irish; and has sent a cross the Atlantic some leaves from his journal. - A horrible picture of wretchedness they present. He has also sent appeals to particular classes of his countrymen in í Massochusetts for clothing- to the Shoeninkers, and to tho Girls of Lowell. We give the following note addressed tothem throueh the papers :TO THE GIRLS OF LOWELL. The thought has occurrod to me toJay, while visiting the miserable hovels of the poor crentures dying with destitution, thnt the girls of Lowell, of wliom the world has heard such honorable mention, might do a grateful ihing in rescuing some of theirsex not only f rom ihe misëry but the shnme of their situation. No langiiage of mine cnn describe the destitution of clothing to which all ngc nnd both sexes are reducid in this lanc of the shadowsofdealh. Everyihing o valué has been pawned for food. Thou .„„ nf-nmftn and childrenhere aresdestitutoof covering as to prevent them from going out itito the streets to beg.- In hundreds of these hoveis tho living wife or child or husband haslain for days close besido the doad body of a husband, molheror wife, in order to cover themselves with the rags spread over the deceased. Now 1 had ihought to-dny, while witnessing these scene3 of sufiering, ihat i the GirlB of Lowell might give each a comfortpble calicó dress, to clothe tho destitute of their sex in Skibbereen. I am suresuch nn example would be followed by the ladies in different towns in New England, nnd that tene of thousands of I those poor, thin, nakcd, blue-lippoddren would altest in favor of their bene"actresses at another day; " was naked and ye clolhed me." I hope the counties of Middlosex and Essex will club togethr er and send out aship (Veigl)ted with provisions and cloihing Ibr Irelnnd, and ihat t will embrace in its bilí of lading 10,000 calicó dresses, suited to eveiy size, 'rom the Factory Girls of the two