ccurred upon almost every word of every resolution.
However, personal opinions had been sacrificed with a view of having
perfect unanimity at the present meeting--a meeting, as he truly said,
of peculiar construction--perhaps the only one of the kind ever
assembled in the Rotunda before. The resolutions adopted by this very
remarkable assembly were:

1. That we deem it our duty most earnestly to impress upon our
representatives, our solemn conviction of the necessity of their now
co-operating cordially together in Parliament, for the advancement of
the interests of Ireland, and of their uniting to advocate such measures
as may appear calculated to raise the social, material, and moral
condition of the people; to save society from the ruin by which all
classes in the land are now threatened; and to preserve the country from
confiscation.

2. That, before and beyond all other considerations, is the salvation of
the lives of the people; and we therefore deem it our solemn duty--the
present system having signally failed--to call upon the Government, in
the most imperative terms, to take such measures as will secure local
supplies of food sufficient to keep the people alive, and to sacrifice
any quantity of money that may be necessary to attain the object,
declaring, as we do, that any neglect or delay in that matter will
render the Government responsible for the safety of the people of
Ireland, who must perish in multitudes unless supplied with food.

3. That, as the people of this country are suffering from a most
extraordinary and incalculably extensive deficiency in the stock of
food, we further call upon the Government to remove all artificial
impediments to the supply of that deficiency, by the temporary
suspension of the navigation laws, and the duties on the importation of
corn, and also to give increased facilities to that importation, by
permitting such vessels of her Majesty's navy as can be spared to be
employed in the transport of provisions.

4. That we consider it would be most desirable, that the unrestricted
use of sugar and molasses in our breweries and distilleries should be
permitted, under existing circumstances; in order to save for more
useful purposes a portion of the grain now used in those establishments.

5. That we recommend that Relief Committees should be allowed to sell
food under first cost to the destitute, in their respective
neighbourhoods, and that their doing so should not disentitle