24 APRIL 1847, Page 12

At a meeting held the other day in Limerick, to

thank Captain Forbes and the American people for their active sympathy in furnishing supplies of food, a Mr. Cullen attacked Lord Lansdowne for not contributing towards a fund for erecting a soup-kitchen, and for not even sending a reply to the application. But who in the room, he asked, would say one word in favour of Lord John Russell or Lord Lansdowne? "He felt it his duty to expose his Lordship; for he cared as little about Lord Lansdowne as he did about any other man. What cared he for lords? What cared he for the base, brutal, and bloody Whigs—the recreant, bribing knaves." Much cheered.