The accounts of the potato-crop received in Dublin on Thursday
are as conflicting as ever; but we notice that from Cork, Tipperary, Mayo, and Connaught generally, the reports are favourable. The Waterford Board of Guardians have adopted a resolution imploring the Executive Govern- ment "to call Parliament together immediately, for the purpose of devising means to employ the people extensively; and, secondly, to provide food for the ensuing spring, at a reasonable price, to prevent famine and disease Spreading throughout the whole of Ireland."
The Castlebar Telegraph reports a terrific flood caused by incessant rain falling on the mountains West of Ardygoman: the subterranean passage at Ayle became choked, the river rose to a height of two hundred feet above the level of its bed, and spread abroad, carrying away vast quanti- ties of agricultural produce. Many families who were in comparatively good circumstances are reduced to a state of "privation and famine."
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