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NEW THRATRLROYAE, NAY-MARKET..
THIS E4nirig, THURSDAY. September 46,
will be performed tie Comedy of

. that 011ie iteugslaSsly bf Ilittnaariee on thelpart of
loase of the Megebetel 'kW ittitbifred the eeDeut
utility of she .BoswebitSperintelderice • and ttiei
are of opinion that thirodirantari derived from the
constant residence of Trusters in the distant parts
of the country, where the-manofielnie is principal.
ly carried ,on, tends math, by Ihrilitating the
Board', means of correct information, to counter-
balance any inconveniences ohich must result from
.the absence of those Trustee's from the regular
meetings of the Board.
Considering, also, how much benefit the linen
trade of Ireland derives from having sight to
chin), on all occasions, the support of the leading
gentlemen of the country, your Committee cannot
recommend in the House the adoption of any mem,
sure which could by possibility deprive the trade of
this great advantage, or which could transfer the
protection of its interests to an
fOiot of less dis-
intorested class of the etweinittui .
Yobr Committee are, however, of opinion, that
frequent intercourse should be held with those con.
edited in the trade. on their various subjects of
application, which ought to receive more prompt
attention and decision than has been under present
circumstances afforded.

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Wheel manufacturer pussesses in the ust of this (as
stir superior and cheaper raw material.
They therefore fully concur in opinion with the
'testimony of all those who have been examined to
the point, that every encouragement. whether by
premium or regu:ation of the Board, or by provision
of law, should be afforded to procure improvement
in the culture and preparation of fist for market;
and observe with sati.faction, on reference to the
proceedings of the Board, that some succeisful
efffiris have been made to estublish the most ap-
proved sciitch mills in the various flex-growing.
districts, which ought to be perseveriogly continued.
tinder the third head of couideratum, it appears
to yoir Committee, that the concurrent testimony
of all those examined, goes to establish the absolute
necessity of the provincial and county idsliectors. li
particularly of this last description of officer, whose
duties are incessant, and whose labour* are inade-
quately and iujudicioesly reustmerated, to which
subject they recommend the attention of the Linen
Board.
Under the fourth head of Report, your Com-.
mittee do not feel themselves competent to offer as
full and detailed en opinion as the subject de-
mands ; at this period of the Session they have not
time to communicate as largely, or to investigate as
minutely, as the interests of the trade may require,
still leas In revise the whole code of law on this
subject. Oa oue point, however, they are decided
in opinion, that legislative powers ought to he
given, as referred to in the second head of Report.
to regulate the manner of exposing fax 41. mm-he's
in Ireland; and whatever further amendments may
be required to the laws for the regulation of the
linen trade of Ireland, your Committee recommend
to be considered in the next Session of Parlia-
ment.

appoint three persons to set as Commissioners lot'
their county, in communication with the General
Board; the General Board to submit their plans
and estimates for new improvements and fur repairs
to the Grand Juries, mid upon their 'auctioning
them and presenting the necenary fund', the work
to be executed under the orders of the Gen'erril
Boards by which means the public will have the
advantage of the skill and science of professio...at
engineets in superintending the execution, aci.l
maintaining in good condition, these important pub-
lie
In wiped to those mail roods which are tinder
the management of Turnpike Trustees, your Com-
mittee are of opinion, in consequence of there ni.t
existing in Ireland any power of indicting them :is
in England, that the General Board of Commis-
sioners should have, power to examine the accounts
og ali tdrnpike trusts, and to inspect their roads,
and In- ue of say part of the same being out of
repair, the Cousasissionere first to apply to the Trus-
tees to put ihe same into repair within a prearribM
period of time ; and then, if their application is not
attended to, make the repairs themselves, and levy
the expense upon the Trustees,

THE WAY TO KEEP HIV.
Sir Bashful Constant, Mr. Liston; Sir Brilliant Fashion,
Sir. Jones; Lovessone, Mr. C. Kenai,le. The Widow Bel-
now% Mrs. W. afford ; Mrs. Loventore, Mrs Chat's/ley ;
Lady Cunrt.int, Mist Bore; Muslin, Mrs. Tayleare.
After which the Comic Piece of

MATCH MAKING.
Mr. Matrhem, Mr. Terry; Col. Rakely, Mr. Jones; Cape.
Belmont, Mr. Johnson; Shuffle, Mr Ozberry. Lady Easily,
Mrs. Chatterley.

bs 3s.—First Gallery, 2, —Strand Gallery, Is.
The boors to he opened at Sr: o'Clork, aad i Perform-
ances to bt gin at Sesta.
Pliers (or the Boxes to be tate% of Mr. Massfaitharn, at
the atre, of *boors Private Boxes may be had, nightly.
To amoirow, Lovers' Quarrels—The Beau's Opera: Cap.
!at■ Mar heath by • Gesitleinto. his int appe is that
choursetrr. and on this May; Polly Ora lime), Mum Paton—
mil Family Jars!

The mail coach system in Ireland has little belong-
ing to it, except in one or two instances, which re-
sembles the order, steadiness, alacrity, comfort, and
appearance, which are the peculiar chsractenatica
of the manner in which the English mails are ma-
naged. There are, no doubt, local difficulties in
the way of bringing it to • more perfect state; and
some of these difficulties your Committee regret to
find cannot be easily removed from the nature of
the c•ntruets which have been entered into. Your
Committee feel no hesitation in saying, that it is
highly advisable that the office of Superintendent
and Inspector of Mail Coaches should be filled by
some person who has been brought ■p in the Eng-
lish Post-office, and who is well acquainted with the
mail coach system of England.
The attention of your Committee has been drawn
to the additional tolls which are payable ou stage
coaches upon the Kilcullen, Limerick, Mullingar,
and some other roads. These tolls operate as a
great hardship on coach companies, and obstruct
the progress of improvement in stage coach travel-
ling, ■nd the great public advantages which belong
to it. It appears that these additional tolls, when
firs( imposed, amounted to ss. a horse, at every
gate, upon a coach carrying more than six inside
and three outside pailengers; and, therefore, that
they clearly were of the nature of penalties fur
limiting the number of passengers to be carried by
• coach. They are now reduced to ■n additional
toll of ed. a horse at every gate, and are payable
on all coaches beyond what is paid on other car-
riages. Your Committee are of opinion. that this
subject deserves to be more fully inquired into, with
a view of removing these tolls. Should the timid
Companies or Trustees be able, contrary to the ex-
pectation of your Committee, to establish any right
to have them considered as secured to them upon
the faith of Parliament. then your Committee
would recommend an advance on their other tolls
to be grunted, sufficient to give them • fair remu-
neration for taking away the additional toll on stage
coacher.

With respect to the present establishment, in
point of expense, as it exists in Dublin, your Com-
mittee have examined a variety of evidence, sub-
mitted herewith, the documentary part of which is
annexed in an Appendix; by a cromparative view of
the establishment in 1797. (a year to which returns
required by the Treasury refer) with the last year,
a reduction of LOW. in salaries and allowances,
appears in favour of IB2i.
Your Committee are of opinion, that e fund
m'sght be made available towards the expense of the
establishment, by a small charge in the nature of
rent fur the warerooms occupied in the Linen Hull,
amounting in number to 465; your Committee
having ascertained that charges made at other linen
halls have not produced any inconvenience or com-
plaint.
This matter, however, together with any further
practicable reduction of expense, your Committee
consider will be best left, under this their recom-
mendation, to the revision and arrangement of the
Trustees themselves, who have already considerably
reformed the salaries of some of their officers.

In considering the fifth and last head of Report,
namely, bounty 011 exportation, your Committee
have to observe, that the trade has apparently ad-
vanced under this encouragement ; and the evidence
Of all those examined on the subject pronounces the
co minuance of the bounty to be esiiential to the
interests of the manufacture, both in Great Britain
and It eland.

With vespect to any fraudulent practices, which
may have been supposed to cilia in obtaining
bounty, yocr Committee feel they cannot do better
than direct the' attention of the revenue departments
to these allege ions, by whom the remedy against
such fraud (if it e.:riwts) should be applied; the sub.
ject is of import:rem, as the amount of bounty
paid in the last year 'out above 452,000/.
Your Committee cairewt close this Report oil:)_
out again impressing °poi.' your consideration the
very great importance of the linen manufacture to
the prosperity of Ireland ; and that, in their opi.,
nion, it is the doty of the Trustees of the Linen
Board, by every possible means, to extend this
manufacture to the south and west of Ireland ;
for 'wherever it has 'Obtained a footing, industry,
moral habits, contentment, and traoquillity, bete
followed.
July 11, iett.

Under the second head, it appears to your Com-
mittee, on reference to the proceedings of the
Beard, now before your Committee, that the Trus-
tees have, at various times, with laudable anxiety,
given much attention to the proposals and sugges-
tions of individuals, who have offered plans and in-
ventions for the improvement of the manufacture
in its different stages and branches, from which
great benefit has resulted, particularly in the art of
bleaching, which was formerly cmifined to the sum-
mer season ; but which, by iinposlived process, is
now carried on throughout the year, producing a
better article, with a considerable redaction of ex-
pense; and it appears to your Committee, that the
Board have in this and other instances given scope
to experiments beyond whist individuals in the trade,
without their encouragement, would have risked;
the objects of these experiments, when successful,
have been generally adopted ; and when the reverse
(at has sometimes happened) small individual loss
has been occasioned. It is tit that your Committee
should also observe, under this head, that Irish
diaper and damask, which have in their turn re-
ceived the encouragement of the Board, stand now
unexcelled for their durability and beauty as a
fabric.

!KISH ROADS.

SIXTH REPORT•

The Sleet Committee appointed to ingot.** into the sista of
the Roads from London to Holyhead, ant.. 4 frost Chester to
Holyhead; into the regulations for conveying bin Ma.
jeaty'a Mail between Loadrus and Dublin, ati.i between the
Northers Parts of Distend and Doblin, sod between
Debits and the interior of Ireland, sod into the stale of

Four
Committee hive called for return., showing
the postage charged rin letters from London to the
principal towns in Ireland, and the tables by which
the charges are regulated, which returns are invert-
es in the Appendix.
The charge on a letter from London to Cork is
td., the diatsnce from London to Cork, in
Eoglish miles, being 492 miles. The charge on
a letter from London to any place in Great Britain,
49 miles from London, is 14d. that is 12d. less
than on • letter to Cork. There is the same pro-
portional exceeding of charge on all letters passing
between Great Britain and Ireland; and as it is to
be inferred that the rates of postage in Great Bri-
tain have been carried as high as is consistent with
the interests of the Post Office revenue, this exceed-
ing must have a most injurious effect in dimi,lish.
ing correspondence, ■nd in promoting plans for
evading the Post Office duties.

the Mail Coach Ronda in Ireland; and to report their
Obrervatioas thereupon, together with the Minutes of the
Evidence taken before then trout lime to time, to lb*
House; have agreed to the follow/tag Report :
Your Committee have inquired into the manner
of conveying his Majes'y's mails between DUblin
and the interior of Ireland, and into the state of
the mail coach roads in Ireland.

Canvass duck and sail cloth have, by premium.
also had their share of support, which from evidence
before your Committee, may be henceforth advanv
tageou►ly directed by the Board to other objects. I
In the distribution of the small utensils of mann:.
facture by the Board, viz. wheels. reels, and
hackles, your Committee are of opinion, that indus-
try has been considerably excited amongst the very
poorest classes, particularly of the female part of
society.
This distribution has hitherto been accomplished,
partly througl. the Trustees themselves in their in-
dividual capacities, in their respective neighbour.
hoods, to whom grants of these articles are annually
made, and partly through ladies or gentlemen su-
perintending schools of education and industry ; al
whose disposal grants of these utensils are placed.
on proper application and certificate. so far as the
means of the Board enable them to afford such aid.

By the Act of the 45th George 111. c. 43,, " to
amend the Laws for improving and keeping in re-
pair the post roads in Ireland, and for rendering
the conveyance of letters, by his• Majesty's Post
Oilier, more secure and expeditions," the Isost-
nsasters•Grneral of Ireland were required to have
surveys made or all the mail coach roads, with
plans and estimates for the improvement of them ;
they were also required to lay these plans before the
different county Grand Juries, where the roads
were county roads, and before the Trus'ees of Turn-
pike roads, where the roads were vested in Trusters.
The Act also enabled the Government to make
such advances of money to the Grand Juries and
to the Trustees, as were necessary fur executing the
proposed improvements.
It appears from the documents which have been
laid before your Committee, that surveys have
bees made of 4,068 miles of mail road ; that the
estimates for improving this extent of road amount
to 1,934,7841.; and that the sum of 673.5161. has
been presented and applied by the Grand Juries,
from time to time since 1815, in improving old and
making new mail roads.
Notwithstanding this great expenditure, the evi-
dence which has been given before your Committee,
and the documents already referred to, fully prove
that the mail roads of Ireland are, in many in-
stances, in a very bad slate: although the new lines
of road appear to have been laid out in • scientific
manner, the execution of the work has frequently
been defective, and in some cases must have been
accompanied with great dishonesty.
It appears to your Committee, that the advan-
tages promised by the Act of 1815 have not been
fully brought into operation, in conarquence of a
subsequent law passed in 1816.
'l'bey are now disposed to recommend the al:-
pointment of a Board of Commissioners, epou tl.e
precedent.. of the Highland Road and Holyhead
Road Commissioners, as the best plan for superin-
tending the Irish mail coach roads: the Commis-
sioners to be named by Parliament; not to have
any salary; and the chairman of the Board to be
some considerable public offsa:er. lir-order to pre-
serve a connexion between the General Board and
the counties, each Gaud Jury may be enabled to

The following table ',tows what the posing,
now is on a single letter from London, and what
it ought to be accordlog ro the English Post Office
table, to the under-mentioned places:—
Distance in Thane by
Present Cline. Eng. miles. El f. table.
To Cork, by Dnblio 2.. 4d....... 442
To Limerick 2o. 04. 4t4 .144.
To 51ig 0....
To Derry ..
To Belfast 2l. Od 414 tl4d.
To the English charge of 14d. two pence slot.
ter must be added for the crossing the Chan*l,
and one penny a letter for the Menai Bridge, m -
ing the proper charge on • letter from Lando o
the above places 17d.
The effect of the existing law for regulating the
postage of letters in Ireland which come from Eng.
land is thus shewn to be a greater duty than is paid
in Great Britain ; and therefore it appears to your
Committee that this duty is contrary to die Act.of
Union, which provides that no duty shall be levied
in Ireland on any article greater than the duly on
the same description of article. is in England.
Although a considerable extent of evidence has
been given to your Committee upon the octant
state of several of the principal roads in belittle
the time of your Conimittee has been so Much en-
gaged in preparing the five Reports, which they
have already presented to the House, in the course
of this Session, that they have not been able to ex-
amine into this part of the order of reference no a
way to enable them to make a satisfactory, Report
ups* it. The evidence and other documeots wli:cli
are inserted in the Appendix coutaiii e very ample
• description of the state of the mail roads ;
judBiug from this testimony. your Committee are
decidedly of opinion tbat it le quite clear that sampa
better apical) or managing them is very much
wanting.
Jolty 4,18 ft.

But the most important proceeding to which the
[Lard has latterly directed its attention. is the cul-
ture and preparation of flax itself, the substantial
basis of the linen manufacture.

The natural excellent qoality of Irish flex. as
contrasted with foreign or British, has been admit-
ted ; yet at market it is found to bear a deteriorated
Price, when compared with either of these.
To investigate and remedy this evil, the Board
employed one of its officers, well conversant in
agriculture, and all the concerns of the linen trade•,
to proceed to Scotland, and those parte of England
where the management of flax was best understood.
Mr. William Marshall (whose evidence and report
on this subject are hereunto annexed) performed
this duty in $ manner which has 'wowed the import.
ante of the investigation, and to which your Com-
mittee beg leave particularly to refer.
It appears to your Committee. from the returns
called for, and now before them, the nearly 43,000
tons of flax, or a quantity which would occupy the
culture of 100,000 acres, was imported last year
into Great Britain, whilst the average number of
acres sown with flax-seed in Ireland, for the last
three years, was 83,000 acres; which amount, your
Committee entertain reasonable expectation, might
be doubled, ■s the soil end climate there are pe-
culiarly favourable to the culture of flax.
Where your Committee consider that this foreign
flex, eltbough imported with a duty, cots compete
with home-grown flax in the British market, they
view with anxiety the advantage which the foreign