It will increase fourfold in a few months; and where shall it look? Unless pestilence shall diminish the occupants of the Skibbereen workhouse, the besieging paupers cannot get a meal of stirabout out of it. These last, therefore, must look to the death of their fellowcreatures as something to their benefit. It is an awful thing to force on the mob a disrespect for life. Who knows where it may end?

A deputation from Skibbereen has gone to parley with the LordLieutenant. Drowning men will catch at straws, and the residents of that fatal neighbourhood will not let the people die, and make no sign. Archdeacon Stewart, Dr Donovan, Rev Mr Townsend, Rev Mr Webb, and Mr Somerville, have gone to expostulate with the Viceroy. We can, at least, prophecy that their reception will be the most courteous and gentlemanly in the world. The Rev Mr Larrington, of Berehaven, has informed us of the miserable and ominous state of the people there.

As in Skibbereen the workhouse accommodation is stretched to near its utmost, and must soon cease.

In Bantry and Killarney the story is the same. The boards of guardians are in a state of apprehension all over the country, particularly the coast country.

We pronounce again and again, and those that have ears to hear let them hear, that the winter of 1847-8 will be worse than that of 1846-7.

To what is this country to be driven?

The Times 3 November 1847 Importations from Ireland . . .

The arrivals of grain and general provisions at the port of Liverpool from the Irish ports during the week comprising from the 15th to the 21st ult included the following: 7,766 firkins, 309 half-firkins, 254 boxes and 1,413 other packages of butter; 1,130 barrels, 227 tons weight, 769 sacks, and 1,225 quarters of wheat; 707 sacks of flour, 3,045 barrels, 1,248 sacks, and 155 tons weight of oats; 918 sacks and 1,839 other packages of oatmeal;

120 tons weight, 60 quarters, and 150 bags of barley; 1,401 sacks of meal; 12 bags of malt;

86 barrels and 28 other packages of hams and bacon;

609 packages of linens and cottons; 114 casks of whisky;

11 tons weight of Indian corn meal; 163 barrels, 27 hogsheads, 60 sacks, and 14 tierces of seed; 87 tons weight of rye; 18 tons weight and eight sacks of farina; 10 sacks and 585 quarters of beans; 230 bags of vetches;

53 packages of beef; 16 of lard; 39 tons weight of Indian corn; 37 barrels of pork; 30 firkins, 5 barrels, and 12 kegs of tongues; 30 tons weight and 32 sacks of peas; and 1,294 quarters of oats.

This is an important list of one week's arrivals from Ireland at Liverpool, both with respect to the variety and the extent of each description of article of food specified. Arrivals at the metropolis from Ireland, including from the 19th to Saturday last, the 30th ult, viz : 12,316 casks and other packages of butter; 78 packages of seed; 320 of soup; 448 bags, 5,054, 622 sacks, and 1,946 quarters of oats; 585 casks and bales of bacon; 315 packages of pork;

986 boxes and cases of eggs;

75 casks of whisky; 42 packages of feathers; 812 casks of porter; 250 packages of paper, 19 of hams, 59 of linens, 128 of malt, 532 of lard, 80 of general provisions, 10 of meal, 55 tons weight of butter.