11 APRIL 1846, Page 9

The worst anticipations as to the extent and consequences of

the scarcity in Ireland are too likely to be realized. The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on Thursday, says- " The accounts received today are still more alarming than any that have been published since the commencement of the potato disease. So imminent is the danger, that the gentry and clergy of all denonimations, without waiting for the Measures of the Government, so very tardily carried into practical operation, are working with zeal and energy to avert the threatened calamity of famine and pestilence. We are still only in the second week of April, with the spring-sow- ing scarcely commenced for the next crop, and yet the people in some districts are already suffering the horrors of famine."