Dangerous Ireland; Potato Blight Devastates Crops

IRELAND.
The intelligence from this country bears too much its ordinary impress: Burnings and murders–beatings, robberies, and maiming, still prevail. The potatoe crop, too, especially in the southern part of the Island, has fallen vastly short of its usual rate of production. “Such a circumstance,” says the Tipperary Free Press– “one which is almost uniformly followed by sequels the most distressing to a population who rely on the potatoe as their principal esculent and chief support, must, at the present juncture, bring with it many disagreeable sensations to the great majority of the Irish people. The failure to which we allude is not isolated– it is not confined to one country or two; if such were the case, so many unpleasant anxieties could not arise– but if we argue from the paragraphs put forth in many of our provincial contemporaries, this blight has been experienced very generally.” The gross amount of the O’Connell tribute last year was 12,536.