The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-31 00:00:00

IRSLAND.

DVIII.TK. MAT 40.
The want of employment has crewed the utmost
distress iii the city of Limerick ; groups of half-
starved poor tradesmen and labourers are continually
to be seen staring each other in the face. Ai six
o'clock in the morning a number of most wretched
spectres may be perceived, waiting to see who may
employ them ; they fully appear the emblem of
starvation. Many will inevitably perish err relief
is alministered, and a great many poor housekeepers
are famishing, unknown to the great.
As itistsuces of the deplorable stale of wretched-
ness to which the people are reduced in parts of the
county of Cline, we are enabled, upon sufc►ent
authority, to vouch for the following : —The one i•,
that a poor man, fur the purpose of proctoring sup-
port, handed to the turnkey of the gaol his ow.
romeiu•l, contented to resign his liberty to procure,
by so doing, a sufficiency to preserve existence.
Tbe other is the case of • poor woman. who, dr:ven
to the last extremity, declared she would enforce
food from the Gentlemen of the county, and within
five minutes she was brought before a Magistrate
and committed for theft.
The Directors-General of Mood Navigation have
intimated to the Lord Bishop, that they have di-
rected their engineer to ascertain what works are
necessary on the line of navigation, sons to give im-
mediate employment to the poor of Limerick; we
therefore hope that the canal bank, which is most
desirably situated as a promenade, may be put iuto
thorough► repair.
The officers and privates of the 39th regiment,
whose head-quarters are at present in Trslee, have
generously contributed a day's pay to the relief of
the Irish poor.
Through the munificence of the resident gentry
and landholders in and about Kilmallock, 449 Gun-
lite, averaging five in each family, are prsvented
from starving by the distribution of ostmesil, to some
at a very reduced price, to others gratis.
In the town of Gort oatmeal and soap are daily
distributed to the numerous poor by liberal sub-
scriptions entered into by Viscount Gust and the in-
habitants of that
Oatmeal is at present, and has beets, selling this
week at Broadford, county of Clare, at the reduced
price of one penny per pottle. This has been ef-
ticted by the Gentlemen of the neighbourhood,
who are neither numerous nor wealthy, forming
among themselves a fund sufficient for the purpose.
The Right Honourable Sir Benjamin Bloomfield
has undertaken the relief of les extensive tenantry
in the neighbourhood of Newport, in the most beim-
volent and judicious manner. Besides purchasing
a vast quantity of seed potatoes, he has directed a .
large bog to be drained. which will give incessant
-employ to one hundred men; and has also ordered
different roads through his estates to be repaired.
WI% NAY 45.
Two fellows were brought in here by the Kildy-
soot infantry, or Monday, for robbing a house near
Kibosh of sixteen guineas in gold, sad de►troying
some promissory notes.

At a period when famine and a pestilential fever
ravages seven counties in Ireland, rod appear t•
be extending in an alarming degree to other coun-
ties, and when we find the people of England
stud Scotland coming forward with not only mon:-
'ficent liberality in subscriptions, but likewise with
the most anxious and benevolent feelings adopting
the hest m'aru►es for relieving the Irish suf-
ferers; how extraordinary must it appear to every
friend of humanity to find that oconsideralale portion
of the Irish themselves, who possess weskit in lir.
land, and others who get their incomes from it, are
keeping back, coldly and unfeelingly, in their sub-
scriptions, or giving them in such small sums as
they ought not to to see acknowledged in
phut. However, we will not descend to individual
specification, for the publications of subscriptions
speak for themselves.
Our object is to bring before the Irish people
what perhaps they are not aware of.
On the most correct documents, we can assure
our countrymen, that it is cacukted that nu less
than one handed thousand human creatures are
likely to fall victims iu Ireland, to famine or fever,
in many cares to both, and if means are not imme-
diately applied, other parts of Ireland, as well
us the south and west, will most likely soon be
visited with the same shocking scene of " men.
women, and children, living, or endeavouring to
live, on the leaves of trees, sea weeds, ■nd other
destructive vegetables."' which horses and dogs
cannot be preserved alive on ; in consequence
the typhus fever is sweeping off hundreds of our
fellow-creatures where hyaline has not dune so.—
Freeman's Journal./

The supply of the East India Company with tea
is a monupoly in the hands of a few Chinese mer-
chants, known by the name of Hong (or seeurlt))
merchants, who give security to the Chinese Go.
vernment for the good conduct of the stranger.
with whom they dead. The Hong nietehxnts are,
of course, men of considerable wealth, deriving
enormous profits from their ittonopol3, and will not
puffer it long to be interrupted without snaking
extraordinary Ohms.

The National Intelligeneer states, that of the pre-
sent fdembers of the House of Ittpresetitatitres,
therein-, ninety-seven lawyers. fifty-nine farmers and
planters, thirteen merchant., filtern physicians, four
manufacturer., and one clergyman.
Tue Pork's But.k.—The term Ball is taken
from the Latin Balk, which signifies a bubble, as
when a pot boils, or a fountain flues, or the pro-
tuberance of a stud on a bridle or saddle, or any
Other kind of embussing ; hence the impression kit
by the seal on the wax to called Balls, and so the
Papal diploma, bearing the ►esl of his Holiness, is
called the Pope's Bull. The impression was ge.
nerrlly Intrie on lead, and fattened to the slitter'
instrument.

A young man belonging to Mr. Runtime's cons-
poly of cdmedians, proceeding from Lichfield to
A shby-dr- Is.Zouch on Monday seiinight, was mia-
tukesi fur the Rev. Mr. Town (suspected of being iu..
strumental in the death of an amiable young lady),
Mold appieheuded by a person who had no rye to the
rrward offered. After being detained in an uopleo-
Mali situation for some hour., he was liberated.