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SOUTH OF IRELAND.

LFROM OUR CORRF.SPONDENT.I
CORK. SEPT.&
The Committee to whose care the fund for the relief of
the distressed poor of this city was intrusted are at length
about to commence doing that which might and ought to
have been dune long since. It has been determined that
food, to th,f want of which other physical ills are compara-
tively insignificant, should be gratuitously distributed to
the starving population ; and the eagerneowith which it
is expectel olemonstratcs the extreme need of those who
consider themselves entitled to share in the distribution.
The distresa of the lower classes is still intense, although

partially alleviated by the humanity of seine benevolent
individuals, who have for some time anticipated the tardy
proceedings of the Committee, and distributed provisions
at their private expense to such as their local knowledge
and personal observation induced them to believe were in
a state of extreme destitution. This plan affords a security
against that extensive imposition to which public charity,
from its very nature, is so liable ; and, if more generally
adopted, would he productive of the hest effects. A humane
gentleman, residing in one of the suburbs, whose charitable
example is well deserving of imitation, raised a small fund
amongst the members of his own family, to be expended
in providing soup and bread for the dtgritute poor residing
in the immediate vicinity of his dwelling. The females of
the family prepared the food, which was to be distributed
two days in the week, in the proportion of a quart of soup
end a small wheaten cake to ea. .It adult, and half the
quantity of soup and a cake to every child. Before the
distribution took place visits were made to the houses of the
poor to ascertain their real condition, and the scenes
which the humane visitants witnessed, within a short
circle round their own residence, and in one of the
least populous outlets of the city, we re such as it must
be altogether impossible accurately to describe. In one
instance, a wretched labourer, his wife, and a large family
of young children, were discovered in a miserable hovel, in a
state of nudity, extended on some straw, which was thinly
scattered, and formed the sole covering, as it was the only
place of re; ose which those unfortunate beings enjoyed at
night. They had ate nothing for snore than forty-eight
hours. Inanition had evidently stupitied the faculties of
the younger portion of the family ; their eves glared wildly
as they beheld the strangers enter, whilst the unhappy
parents continued to gale intently on their famishing off-
spring in mute despair. When informed that food was
provided, a wild shriek was uttered by them, and the
voracity with which they devoured what was soon
after set before them confirmed the relation they had
given of the intensity of their sufferings. ..s I before
mentioned, the benevolent gentleman to whom I alluded
was only enabled to distribute relief two days during the
week, and he assured me he bail good reason to believe that
a considerable proportion of those who had been relieved by
his intervention never knew what it was to taste food of
any description from Tuesday .to Saturday in every week, or
in other words, that they were dependent altogether on the
limited supply thus provided for them. Nor is the distress
of the poor co itined to the want of food-3 dreadful epi-
demic, in the teatime of a dysentery, is prevalent throughout
the entire of the South of Ireland. It is ascribed by medi-
cal men to some deleterious qualities which all vegetables,
and especially potatoes, have acquired from the unprece-
dented aridity of die season. Its ravages arc universal, and
many persons in the most respectable classes of society
have already fallen victims to it. Fever, too, which the
recent accounts describe as extremely prevalent in Dublin
and the Northern part of Ireland, has lately made its
appearance in the South, and threatens fearfully to
augment the mass of wretchedness which already exists.
With such an accumulation of calamity, it is vain to ex-
pect that local exertion can produce any permanent allevi-
ation. The fund collected in this city floes not exceed
3:0001., which, taking into account the expense now being
incurred in fitting up places for the distribution and pre-
paration of soup and bread, cannot reasonably he expected
to feed the pauper population of this city and suburbs, for
a longer period than five, or, at the utmost, six days. The
subscription has been confined almost exclusively to the
citizens, as the country gentlemen naturally feel themselves
called upon to support the funds established in the several
small towns of the county. The Mayor has addressed
letters to the Lord Lieutenant and Mr. Peel, containing a
representation of the distress which exists, and entreating
the consideration of Government: to 'the subject. To this
communication no reply has yet been received, but the pa-
ternal disposition of his Majesty's Government leaves
no room to doubt that their co-operation will be
readily given to any plan that shall be adopted with
a view to meet the present pressing exigency. The
Marquis of ‘Vellesley has directed Mr. Goulburn to
transmit 501. for the relief of the marsufacturcrs of Bandon,
which timely assistance the local committee in that town
have publicly acknowledged. As I before observed, pri-
vate benevolence does not slumber. I shall only trouble
you with one instance, supplied by a member of that body,
in disparagement of which anecdotes of an opposite and
less creditable tendency are too often sought for and pub-
lished with avidity. In this instance the Hon. and Rev.
John Blackwood, the Rector of Rathcormac, is the muni-
ficent donor, who, to alleviate the sufferings of his pa-
rishioners, has directed his Prortors to omit the entire of
the potato tithe in his parish this year, and to take promis-
sorynotes from the occupiers for the remainder of their
tithes. 'the parishioners of Rathcormac have expressed
their grateful sense of this acceptable donation at a public
meeting, at which the 'Parish Priest presided ! Such in-
stances of disinterested liberality and kind feeling deserve
to be recaded, if it were only for their rarity.

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A Com sr.—lrar.v.—lt was on the 7th of August tha
Professor Pons discovered a very small Comet near the star
11 in Eridanus. The Astronomers of the Studii Pii im-
mediately observed it with their excellent micrometer, and
detern.ined its position as follows :—Aug. 8., mean time,
15 deg. 32 min. 40 see., right ascension, 47 deg. 20 min.
20 sec., south declination, 25 deg. 34 mm. 30 sec. ; Aug.
9, mean time, 15 deg. 34 min. 40 sec., right ascension,
IS deg. 39 min. 47 sec., south declination, 25 deg. 14 min.
2'2 see. ; August 10, mean time, 15 deg. 37 min. 11 sec.,
right ascension, 49 deg. 49 min. 15 see., south declination,
21 deg. 51 min. 37 sec. The Comet has a very faint light,
no meteors, and seems to be approaching to the sun.
WINDMILL AIPTACIILD TO SHIP.TUMPS.—BALTI•
MORE, Aye. 12.—Arrived last evening, the ship William,
Brownell, 39 days from Lisbon. Left 29th June, brig
Orion, for New York in ten days, the only American ves-
sel in port. Sailed in company with the brig Hannah,
Bartlett, for Plymouth, Mass. July 3, lat. 35. 38. long.
20. passed an English ship standing South • hoisted at bet
mainmast a blue signal,
with a white field. Captain B.
informs that in his outward passage the ship leaked very
badly,
making 3,000 strokes per hour ; and had it not beau
for a windmill which he had attached to the pump, the
ship must have filled. All the crew were completely worn
out with constant pumping, and had nothing but gales for
35 days. W
strokes per hour.
hen blowing fresh, the mill would pump 2461

PUBLIC DINNER AT CAvrIN To LORD GEORGE
BARESPORD.
-
From the Waterford Mail.l•
On Wednesday last, the High Sheriff and Gentlemeh of the
county of Cavan entertained the Right lion. Lord George Lit-
reafonl, at • public dinrer, given in attestation of their high Ap-
proval of his Lordship's political principles, and his conduct on the
late election. At Aix o'clock, the principal Gentry of the counts
assembled at the Cotirt-house. Amongst the distinguished pert
wins present, we obteryed the Bishop of Kilmore, Lord Farnham,
Messrs. Maxwell and Saunderaon, the constitutional members of
the county, Colonel Clements, Major Burrowed, of Strarlone, Ste.
&c. At half-past six, the company, amounting to between fifty
and sixty gentlemen, sat down to • sumptuous dinner, RALPH
BALI. CLARKE. Esq. the High Sheriff; being in the Chair. The
wines were of the highest quality and flavour, and in great variety.
In short, front the rank end fortune of the Company, the unity of
feeling, the noble and constitutional sentiments expressed, and the
social hospitality fin which Cavan is so remarkable, the whole en.
tertainment was worthy of the occasion, and of the distinguished
guest whom it was meant to honour.
As soon as the cloth was removed, the following toasts were
drunk :
" 'the King" three times three.
" The Duke of York, and better health to him"—nine times
nine. (Cheers.)
" The rest of the Royal Family"--three times three.
" The Army and Navy of Great Britain"—three tunes three.
" Prosperity to lrelantl"—three times three.
" Lord George Beresford, and the independent freeholders an')
friends who supported him at the late election for the county of
Waterford"—four times focr. (Great cheering.)
Lord (i. BeeesFonn rose and said—Gentlemen, for the high
honour you have done me on this occasion, I beg leave to return
you my heartfelt .thanks. To the principles of constitutional
loyalty which I hold In common with yourselves, I feel that 1 am
indebted for this honour ; and believe me than the approbation of
such a county as yours, expreena in the manner in which you have
received my health, is a reward dearest to my heart, next to the
approval of my own conscience. Gentlemen, at the last election
we were all embarked in a common cause. I heartily congratulate
you upon the independence of your county. You have the represen.
tatives of your own choice; but you struggled nobly for them, and
nobly have you succeeded. The smite means. by which the inde-
pendence of Waterford was overthrown have been resorted to
here; but your energy and public spit it overcame the difficulties.
It was no common struggle in which we were engaged. It was the
contest between the landed proprietary and the priests of the church
of Rome. In my own inetance, had the real interests of the county
been suffered to prevail, there cannot be a doubt but I should have
been returned by nearly a triple majority over my opponents.
But the Catholic Association, which now presumes to regulate the
affairs of Ireland, stepped in, and, using the :spiritual influence of
the Roman Catholic Clergy, have for the present, at least, de-.
feated the landed interest in my person. No an, however unconsti-
tutional—no practice, however illegal—that was not resorted to, to
carry the ambitious proiecta of the Association. The freeholdere
were torn front their landlords' sides by priestly authority—by the
refusal of church rites—by actual eeriest munitation. From fifty to
sixty priests daily attended the poll booths. The very crucifix was
used as the implement of ambition—anti the deluded tenants were
informed that the contest lay betwixt Mot and me. Nor has the
persecution yet ceased. Those who ventured to vote for me are
still suffering under the wrath and exasperation of their ptiests.
Such were the diffeulties I had to encounter—such were the dan-
gers to which yourselves were exposed. But, gentlemrn, such •
state of things cannot long subsist. The Leeieleture, which admits
of no military constraint at the busting., will not permit a sptritual
control. There is yet an appeal to the fountain head efconstitu-
tional authority and principle ; and frcni this we may all expect re-
dress, and a restoration of our violated tights. (Loud cheers.)
Meanwhile, there is need of union among Protestants; our assail-
ants are bawled and knit together; let us follow their example—
and be assured that the united exertions of the Protestants of Ire-
land
will yet restore our independence, and secure it to us and our
posterity. Once more I thank you for the distinction you have this
day conferred upon me, and beg leave to propose a toast—
The High Sheriff; and prosperity to the County of Cavan."
The High Sheriff returned thanks.
" The Bishop of Kilmore, and the other gentlemen who have
honoured us with their company this evening"—three times three.
The Bishop of Kte MORE returned thanks, and said—Gentle-
men, the connexion which has long 'subsisted between us has been
this day cemented by the public honours which you have conferred
on the principles of my noble kinsman. (Cheers.) What these
are I need not explain. You feel them, and your conduct has been
a full exemplification of them. Had not these principles been
dearer to Lord George Beresford than any object of ambition, he
might still have enjoyed the seat of a hich he has been so unworthi-
ly deptived. Had he consented to abandon those views in which
he was nurtured and has lived—)Pad lie consented to violate his con-
science. and to betray the best interests of the Constitution—had he
been content to barter his hottest conviction for a scat in Paeliamem
—he might unquestionably have now been the sitting Member for
that county which his ancestors have represented continually since
their first connexion with it. But, Sir, he has taken the nobler
course—he has preserved his principles, and sacrificed his just am-
bition to hie honour. (Loud cheering.) His came is yours; but
you have escaped a similar consummation; and long may your
county remain free and independent as it is. I cannot but hope
for great public benefit from the conduct and issue of the late elec-
tions. The eyes of Engler d will at length be opened to our situa-
tion in Ireland; and the Government and people of that happy
country will learn, from the exposure of facts occurring there, who
the persons are the, are the hen able and most willing to preserve
the peace of the country, the purity of the Constitution, and the
union of the Empire.
••The glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and
good King William"—nine times nine. (Great cheering.)
• The Lord Primate and the Church Establishment of Ireland"
—three times three.
The Bishop of KILMORE returned thanks.
" The Protestant itecentlaney in Church and State, as now by
law established"—four times four.
Lord Farnham, the Governor of our County"—four times
four. (Loud cheering.)
Lord Feat,uAat rose to return thanks, and said, that proud as
Ile was of the honour the Gentlemen had done him, he felt pecu-
liarly gratified on this occasion, which had introduced to the ac-
quaintance of the county of Cavan another member of the house
of Beresford. iVith the virtues and principles of his Right Rem.
Friend they were all long and intimately acquainted. They had
lately had the happiness of meeting at that table with his Grace the
Lord Primate, and had lately heard him, in the discharge of Its
sacred office, deliver a charge which, from its unaffected piety and
good sense, its pure principles, its genuine philanthropy, its sound-
ness, temperance. and discretion, was every way worthy of the ex.
shed character of his Grace both as a man and as a Christian.
They had now the gratification of meeting another of that family,
whom. though he should have been heartily happy to have congra-
tulated on the success of his election, he would not now address in
the tone of condolence. His Lordship, he said, had nothing to re-
gret—had nothing to fear—from the result of an appeal to the Le-
gislature. (Cheers.) The unconstitutional practices by which he
'Aired a temporary deprivation of that honour to which he was so
justly entitled would never stand before a Committee of the House.
Were he (Lord Farnham) on such a Committee, and the facts al-
leged substantiated by evidence, he had no hesitation in saying, that
in his opinion the return of the Sheriff was as invalid as the means
by which it was obtained were unconstitutional and unworthy. He
had no doubt of that return being reversed, and exhorted his Noble
Friend to persevere in his petition. The tame had been attempted '
in the county of Cavan. lie congratulated the county upon its
triumph over the enemies of its independence. Still they were rot
to relax in their exertions ; the same attempt would be made again,
and it was the part of wise men in the midst of peace to provide
against the contingencies of war. His Lordship recommended
union amongst the landed interests. and a eimultaneous exertion
through all the counties of Ireland in the next Session of Parlia-
ment ; that petitions should be forwarded detailing the events of the
late elections. and the inroads that had been made on the exercise
of the elective franchise by a body of men unrecognised by, and
unconnected with, the State. His Lordship sat down amidat the
loudest applause.
" The Representatives of the County of Cavan, and may they
long continue to represent it on the same principles." (Four times
four.)
Mr. H. MAxwrr.r, returned thanks in the following words:—
Mr. High Sheriff and Gentlemen,—l rise to thank you for the very
flattering manner in which you have drank my health. We are
this evening honoured with the presence 0 Lord George Beresford
and I am confident that I speak the sentiments of every gentleman
who is here, when I assure his Lordship that lie is most heartily
welcome among us. I rejoice that the gentlemen of the county of
Cavan are allowed this opportunity of testifying to him, in person.
the high sense which they entertain of his public principles. (Loud
cheers.) Embarked in the same cause with ourselves_-antinated
with the same attachment to our invaluable Protestant Constitu•
Lion, which has ever distinguished the gentlemen of this county,
I am sure it must be highly gratifying to his Lordship's feelings
to receive from them the tribute of their approbation. We are all ac-
quainted with the circumstances connected with the late election for
the county of Waterford—with our noble guest's manly and
constitutional conduct—and with the illegal and unconstitutional
means which were resorted to in order to effect the return of his
opponent. We know, too, that democratic violence and Popish
bigotry there prevailed over the principles of the constitution.
But though precluded. for the present, from the possession of that
honourable 'situation to which his own long-tried services and
the merits of his family so justly entitled him, we offer not to
his Lordship the language of condolence: his Lordship has expe-
rienced no defeat, and his adversary has pitted no victory ; for he
has made himself the slave of the Roman Catholic priesthood and
democrats; while his Lordship has pursued, with an even and un-
deviating course, in the full spirit of freedom and independence,
the genuine principles of the British Constitution. (Cheers.)
During the late contests in Ireland we have witnessed transac-
tions hitherto unexampled in the history of elections. We have
ourselves (as I have already had occasion in public to remark)
seen the influence of a power, unrecognised by the Legislature, mi-
nted to control the freedom of election. We have seen Popish
priests marching through our town at the head of immense mobs,
encouraging them by example and by precept to every species of
disorder : we have heard them threatening with loss of property
and with personal injury, and, above all, with eternal damnation,
such Roman Catholics as should vote contrary to their directions.
Ire have seen them bringing up to the polling booths the tallies of
our opponents ; dragging away by force men who were anxious to
vote according to their own and their iandlortra wishes, and urging
them, by every species of terror, to pursue a Mune at variance

with their inellmaktnt. Nor were these emptj and unmea.llo
(AWOL The annthetrtss which were pronounced in our publi
streets, have been re-echoed from the chapels. Scarcely a Sunday
has etkpsed that some. proscribed poor Homan Catholic is nog
marked out by his priests from the altar, a art ob;ict of ven-
geance.. I myself have seen many poor ltomsn Catholics abet'
hare been waylaid and severely bewen, whose eropt bite been in.
lured, are! their property destroyed, merely for heiing voted -foe
those Candidates against shorn the influence of priests was
directed. If' lam asked whether I hold the prima responsible for
these acts of enormity-4 reply, THAT I do-for :Ley have the
power of preventing such outrages. One wmtl from them would
be fully sufficient to check the evil. Hut the denunciations which
the priests pronounce frem the altar against the unfmatmate indi-
viduals are a suffic'ent warrant to the lawleas and a!andoned to
wreak their vengeance upon the unhappy sufferers. And yet these
are the men whom our liberal Attorney-Omelet would extol as the
tranquilliztia of Irelawf. These are the men whom smne of our
liberal senators would represent as the holy ministe:a of s religion
which has been most unjustly calumniated—as those mto are in
the habitual practice of applying the immense authority which,
their church has veste4 in tium to the promotion of loyalty 'good-
offl, and peace in this divided country. (Mr. Maxwell sa.lowla
amidst loud cheering.)
A series of loyal and constitutional toasts followed.
Nothing et•uld exceed the harmony of the evening, and the patty ,
separated At a late hour, highly delighted with the loyal tow.
gives, and the sentiments expressed.

LIrEEPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL. SATURDAY, SEPT. 9.
We have had a gaol demand for British Plantation Sugar, and
the sales amount to 1,200 Ishda. at full prices, and in mine in-
stances a trifling further advance. Nothing done in East India Or
other foreign Sugar. In !linkman' a sale of 50 puncheon's of Deme-
rara at 30s. is the only one. In Rum about 150 puncheons, at
various prices, have been sold, but without any material alteration.
Coffee ha. improved, oboist 210, cask.; sold, of all aorta; tine Ja-
maica sold for 91s. per cwt. ; 250 bags good ordinary Hym
nail at ans. Some Beard Cocoa at 31s. ; and a little Bar-
hulloes flinger, fine, at Ws. In Pimento nothing done. The
demand for Ashes continues. About 500 barrels rot (Mon-
treal), at Ms. a 245. for old, and 245. a 290. for new ; and 10.1
barrels Pearl at 255. a 265. Der cot. In Dyewood, few sal', and
those without alteration, say 45 tons Campea:by Dogwood, at 71. ss.
a 7 guineas; 16 tons Jamaica, at 6/. ; 30 tons Cuba Fustic at 81 a
ill. 10a. ; 10 tots Nicaragua Wood (solid), at 211., and 10 tons Bra-
zaletto Wood et 5/. liks. a 6/. per ton. Quicitron Bark in Fuel
request, the preadtt prices being very low has induced persons to
turn their attention to it, and 259 hhdo. Philadelphia have been
sold at 12a., and a ter barrels at 12s. 6d. In Hides little has been
done, 200 dry salted Ox and Cow Brazil at fil. per lb., 120 wet salted
West India at 4i1., 1,790 Cape at 5d.. and 150 Buenos Ayres Hone
Hides at is. each. 1:1 Skins nothing done. In Oak Bark about 50 tors
German have been add at 1/.a 4/. 104.; and 25 tons Cork Tree Bark at
8/. per ton. In Brimstone very little doing. Saltpetre In demand and
advancing. In Tar 1.000 barrels of Stockholm sold at 15s. per
barrel, aad 1,590 barrela 'feoentine at 9s. Cll. a 10s. per cwt. ;
4,001) bags Sicily Shumisc sold at 10s. Ad. a 114.; 50 bags Yemen
at is. a 7s. 3'l. ; and 50 bags 11: lags at 13a. per cwt. In Carolina
Rice small sides here been trade at M. per cwt. for middling qua•
city. Indigo is steady. 30 chests sold. Madras at ss. Id.; acd
Bengal at 41. fkl. a. 6s. 64. per lb.
In Cotton we have had a very animated demand this week, and
an advance of id. rer lb. nn American and Egyptian. The sales are
6.900 bags Uplands at ad. a 7d.; 2,900 New Orleans c 6d. a
110.; 5,7110 Alabama at sad. a lip.; 400 Sea Islands at Hid. a
20d. ; 200 stained ditto at bid. a Pid.; 750 Pernambuco* at Mil-
a I Id. ; 1,150 3laranttam at Sid. a .Id. ; 150 Bahia at Sid. a 9d. ;
100 Para at Ad. a lqd.; 70 Bathadnes at Gad. a /id. ; 30 West India
at 74d.; 3,600 Egyptians at fill a thl.: and 450 Sonata at ,sa.
54d. per lb., snaking a total of about `..52,1100 hap, of which 1.000
Egyptians and 3,000 American have I.:een taken on speculaticn,
and 1,209 Brazils and 800 American for export, and 2,900
Egyp-
tian and American for Glasgow.