following were the votes of the Irish members on the occasion:

FOR THE BILL.

Colonel Acton, Sir H.W. Barron, T. Bateson, Viscount Bernard, M.J.
Blake, Sir A.B. Brooke, Colonel Bruen, W.M. Bunbury, P.J. Butler, Lord
J.L. Chichester, Hon. H.A. Cole, Colonel Conolly, E.A. Fitzgerald, H.
Grattan, W.H. Gregory, E. Grogan, J.H. Hamilton, G.A. Hamilton, Lord E.
Hill, J. Kelly, D.S. Kerr, P. Kirk, Hon. C. Lawless, A. Lefroy, C.P.
Leslie, Major M'Namara, A. M'Carthy, T.B. Martin, Viscount Newry, Sir D.
Norreys, Viscount Northland, C. O'Brien, W.S. O'Brien, D. O'Connell,
jun. John O'Connell, E. Smithwick, E. Taylor, H.M. Tuite, Sir W. Verner.

AGAINST THE BILL.

Viscount Acheson, R.M. Bellow, R.D. Browne, Hon. R.S. Carew, Viscount
Castlereagh, Hon. C.C. Cavendish, B. Chapman, M.E. Corbally, Hon. H.T.
Corry, Hon. T. Dawson, Sir T. Esmonde. F. French, Sir B. Howard, J.
O'Brien, M.J. O'Connell, O'Connor Don, J. Power, Colonel Rawdon, D.R.
Ross, Right Hon. F. Shaw, Right Hon. E.L. Sheil, J.P. Somers, Sir W.M.
Somerville, W.V. Stuart, W.H. Watson, H. White, T. Wyse.

CHAPTER XII.

State of the Country during the Winter of 1847--State of
Clare--Capt. Wynne's Letter--Patience of the suffering people--Ennis
without food. The North--Belfast: great distress in it--Letter to
the _Northern Whig_. Cork: rush of country people to
it--Soup--Society of Friends--The sliding coffin--Deaths in the
streets--One hundred bodies buried together!--More than one death
every hour in the Workhouse. Limerick: Experience of a Priest of St.
John's. Dublin: Dysentery more fatal than
cholera--Meetings--"General Central Relief Committee for all
Ireland"--Committee of the Society of Friends--The British
Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in Ireland and
Scotland. The Government--Famine not a money question--so the
Government pretended--Activity of other countries in procuring
food--Attack on Divine Providence--Wm. Bennett's opinion. Money
wages not to be had from farmers. Was it a money or food
question?--The navigation laws--Freights doubled--The Prime
Minister's exposition--Free Trade in theory--protection in
practice--The Treasury says it cannot find meal. President Folk's
message to Congress--America burthened with surplus corn--could
supply the world--Was it a money question or a food question? Living
on field roots--Churchyards enlarged--Three coff