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     dmt seems to have been drawn 
     
     atithe elections, lies between the support- 
     
    

    
     of the ministry and those candidates 
     
     6:0 pledged themselves unequivocally to 
     
     :henltra demands of the populace. But 
     
     as the ministerial candidates were very 
     
    

    
     enerally succesful, and as the ballot and 
     
     septennial Parliaments are held by the ad- 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     lp' ministration to be depended on expediency, 
     
     I] ‘t becomes difficult to speculate upon the 
     
     0M lrobable fate of those questiOns that are 
     
     Id dpgimed and calculated to effect an alter- 
     
     ]? attic; to the electoral institutions of the 
     
     ' country.—Londou Paper. 
     
    

    
     :5 In Ireland, affairs appear to be rapidly 
     
    
   
   
    
     approaching to a crisis. Mr. O‘Connell 
     
     is the only authority to whom the vast 
     
     majority of the people pay any sort of 
     
     respect. He is now about to enter the 
     
     House of Commons, at the head of 40 
     
     men devoted to him, and pledged to sup- 
     
     port every measure kthnt he shall either 
     
     roposc or advocate- He can also calcu- 
     
     late on about ten English members, so that 
     
     he will out no contemptible figure even 
     
     inaminority. I‘he Huskisson party sel- 
     
     dom mustered above thirty. Mr. O‘Con- 
     
     nell has announced that there shall be a 
     
     petition presented every night for the Re- 
     
     pealpl‘ the Union, and that every repealer 
     
     shall speak upon it. He expressed his 
     
     determination to force the House to at- 
     
     tend to the distresses of Ireland and to 
     
     comply with the 'demands of her people. 
     
    

    
     The Cork Caustitution says:— The Cler- 
     
     gymen are coming into town, and have 
     
     been driven to this step for the preserva- 
     
     of their lives. In the county of Mayo, the 
     
     military are on the alert every where, to 
     
     assist inthe collection of tithes. and their 
     
     services were found necessary to bring on 
     
     the Dublin Mail- In the county Louth, 
     
     too, the people have in many places, come 
     
     in collison with the police and soldiers. 
     
     In short the papers teem with accounts of 
     
     the disturbed state of the country." 4 
     
    

    
     It is believel that a considerable body 
     
     oftroops have been ordered to Ireland, as 
     
     the country is represented to be in a most 
     
     frightful state, many districts being invol- 
     
     ved in an universal storm of outrageous 
     
     crime, all law being despised and laughed 
     
     at. 
     
    

    
     The state of Ireland, according to the ac- 
     
     counts betnre us. is, mast lamentable. and 
     
     we fear that matters in that country are 
     
     hastening toa fearful contest. A large 
     
     additimial military force is on the point of 
     
     being sent thither. The county of Kilken- 
     
     ny Is in a very distracted state. 22 houses 
     
     had been attacked by the Whitefeet, prin- 
     
     Clpally with a View of dispossessing hol- 
     
     d8" of land taken in opposition to the 
     
     regulation of the Whitefeet. 30 persons 
     
     Were committed to the county Jail, during 
     
     the month of December, for alledged offen- 
     
     ce‘agalnst the government. Near New- 
     
     Port, in the county of Mayo, and near 
     
    
   
   
    
     “witnessed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Newmarket in the county of Cork, the 
     
     police and peasantry had met and blood 
     
     had flown profusely. The collection of 
     
     tithes was the exciting cause. Contested 
     
     elections in the counties of Westmeath 
     
     and Longford, had considerably aggrava. 
     
     ted the disturbed state of the public mind 
     
     there. On the 16th January, the Nation- 
     
     al Council as denominated by Mr. OCon- 
     
     nell, would meet with a view to consult 
     
     on measures which would bring about a 
     
     repeal of the Union. 258 members of Par- 
     
     liament, recently elected, had intimated 
     
     their intention to attend. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     CAPE m: Venus.—-A meeting of the ci- 
     
     tizens of Philadelphia was holden on the 
     
     25th ult. for the purpose of contributing 
     
     further aid to the famishing inhabitants of 
     
     the Cape de Verds. At the meeting a 
     
     letter was communicated from Captain 
     
     IIayes, commander of the Emma, which 
     
     was sent out in November last with provi- 
     
     sions forthe relief ot'the sufferers in those 
     
     islands. Captain Hayes’ letter is dated 
     
     at the Isle of Mayo, Januarde, 1833, and 
     
     contains some interesting particulars which 
     
     have not before been published in our pa- 
     
     pers. The first Island at which Captain 
     
     Hayes tou'ched was Antonio, where the 
     
     famine had been most severely felt, and 
     
     its ravages most dreadful. From the mo- 
     
     mentof his landing, he every where met 
     
     the terrible testimony that _ the report of 
     
     the calamity, which was desolating those 
     
     islands, was not exaggerated. He was 
     
     surrounded by haggard, emaciated wretch- 
     
     es, whose appearance, though they yet 
     
     survived, bore witness to the extremity of 
     
     their sufferings. M. Gozales, the Chief 
     
     Judge ot'St. Antonio, in acknowledging the 
     
     benefaction of the. citizens of Phila- 
     
     delphia, states that in that island alone. 
     
     the famine had carried offfifteen thousand 
     
     inhabitants. Captain H. visited the prin- 
     
     cipal towns of the island, and while at sup- 
     
     per in the house of the collector, heard 
     
     continually the piteous cries of the people 
     
     for something to eat On his return to his 
     
     shiphe overtook hundreds of the inhahi~ 
     
     tants travelling thither to receive the ra- 
     
     tions, of whose arrival they had heard. 
     
     Many ofthem sunk dovvn by the road side 
     
     from absolute exhaustion, and entreated 
     
     Captain II. with the utmost ardent prayers, 
     
     to reserve a portion ofhis provisions for 
     
     them ll’ il they should be able to reach the 
     
     vicinity of his ship. Such scenes as these 
     
     met him at every step It is impossible to 
     
     describe the misery which be every where 
     
    
   
   
    
     I The provisions brought by Captain H. 
     
     were distributed with much judgment un- 
     
     der the direction ofthe officers and princi- 
     
     pal citizens of the island, and effected a 
     
     great though temporary alleviation of suffe- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ring. - 
     
     With the letter of Captain H. a state- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ment was communicated of the progress of 
     
     famine, from M. J. C. Fena, the Governor, 
     
     and M. J. J. Oliveria, Deputy Collector of 
     
     St. Antonio. The famine, which com 
     
     menced in 183], was occasioned by the 
     
     usual periodical rains. 
     
    

    
     The season is thus described“ It seemed 
     
     as if t. 3 four elements had combined in a 
     
     league the better to effect the annihilation 
     
     of the ill-fated inhabitants. Rain, which 
     
     was wont to be plentiful in the months of 
     
     August and September, was eagerly, but 
     
     in vain looked for. The seeds and plants 
     
     which the husbandman. with so much toil 
     
     and care, had committed to the ground, 
     
     produced disappointment and despair. The 
     
     intense heat of the sun in October, scorched 
     
     the fruit, and utterly destroyed all sorts of 
     
     fruitful vegetation.” 
     
    

    
     The statement then proceeds:— 
     
    

    
     Here began the work of famine! Its 
     
     ravages spread into every corner of the 
     
     Island, individual property was no longer 
     
     respected, and men, as famished lions, 
     
     laid the country waste; whatever plants 
     
     or seeds had escaped the combined rage 
     
     of the elements, at once disappeared be- 
     
     fore them. ’I‘he want of laborers, seeds, 
     
     water and naval resources. served to shar- 
     
     pen theinstrument of death. Calamities 
     
     were increased in proportion to the wants 
     
     of the people, and things arrived at such 
     
     extremes that not even places fit to bury 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the dead could be had, and hardly suffici- 
     
     ent assistance in this work of charity, so 
     
     much so that burning was resorted to, and 
     
     (hard to say) part of those half burnt 
     
     victims were eaten by their starving fel- 
     
     low creatures! The plague was hourly ex- 
     
     pected by the surviving, owing to the 
     
     corruption of the dead. A man was how- 
     
     ever found, who having till then led a li- 
     
     centious life, became an example of chris- 
     
     tian charity, and attended to the disposal 
     
     of the dead. Famine and death continued 
     
     with double vigor in the followinvyear, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ov‘ving to the causes already stated. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     P’O R SAL 
     
    
   
   
    
     .HNE, three years old, now lying at Murray- 
     
     harbor, 38 tons burtben; having 2 Cablel, 2 an- 
     
     chors, gib, flying-gib, fore and maimsails, all 
     
     in good condition. For partiCuIars apply to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the owner on the spot. 
     
     THOMflS ROB ERTS. 
     
     N O T I C E is 
     
     hereby given. that all persons indebted 
     
     to the Estate of Henry Loggia, late of New. 
     
     London, yeoman, deceased; are requested forth- 
     
     with to pay the amount of their respective 
     
     debts to the undersigned; otherwise pro- 
     
     ceedings at Law will be immediately com~ 
     
     menCed for the recovery thereof 
     
     a 3 Administrator 
     
    
   
   
    
     E, too good Schooner 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     THOMAS BILLING. 
     
    
   
   
    
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