h Famine to L4,757,659.

The amount collected and disbursed by charitable Associations can be
only approximated to. There is a list of those subscriptions, as far as
they could be ascertained, given in the Report of the Society of
Friends. They amount to L1,107,466 13s., but the compiler of the Report
was of opinion that the sums so collected and distributed could not have
fallen far short of a million and a-half.

No effective means were taken to ascertain the moneys sent to Ireland by
emigrants until the year 1848; however, Mr. Jacob Harvey, a member of
the Society of Friends, from inquiries made by him in New York,
Baltimore, and Philadelphia, computed the remittances from emigrants in
1847 at L200,000, but it is highly probable that the actual amount was
far in excess of that; for we find in the next year, 1848, there came to
Ireland through the banks and commercial houses alone, L460,180; which
sum may also be regarded as a contribution towards the Irish Famine. I
think we are justified in naming L300,000 for 1847, instead of L200,000,
Mr. Harvey's estimate, these two sums make L760,180, which being added
to the acknowledged amount of public subscriptions, we have a total of
L1,867,646, 13s. as the amount voluntarily and charitably contributed to
our Famine-stricken people. But if we take one million and a-half to
represent _the actual charitable subscriptions_, as assumed by the
Report of the Society of Friends, and add to it the money sent by
emigrants in 1847 and 1848, we will have the enormous sum of L2,260,180.

The most important of all the Associations called into existence by the
Famine was "The British Association for the Relief of extreme distress
in Ireland and Scotland." There are about 5,550 distinct subscriptions
printed in the Appendix to its report, but the number of individual
subscriptions was far beyond this, for, many of the sums set down are
the result of local subscriptions sent to the Association from various
parts. This Association established about forty food depots in various
districts. They were, of course, most numerous in the South and
West--most numerous of all in Cork, the wild and difficult coast of
which county was marked by a line of them, from Kinsale Head to Dingle
Bay.

Noblemen and gentlemen of high position volunteered their services to
the Association, and laboured earnestly among the starving people.
Amongst them may be named the Count Strezelecki, Lord R. Clinton, Lord