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who had draws' them opt,
wake very great impremiuss is Eweland, where the people
had rose forward in aukidd • way lit relieve the distresses of
this sousdry. As it, however, appeared to him of the ut-
most consequetwe, that sat this Niceties only, but the whole
e °matey, ahutild be roused to expresso their feelings on this
important &object, he hoped they would nut consider him
triton's in canna( 'heir itieolioo mousse circumstances, sold'
which they were reshape out rosily informed, and which
would 'hew the injustice as well as impolicy of the iatended
measure, in a atroog, and he believed sew point of rife.
Ireland had hitherto enjoyed. the privilege of ogles ruck salt
free of duty, sod without restraint; sad also the free impor-
g•tis.n of white Milt. The Irish Legislature having wise-
ly
uoliolunaM period to'illiish Ire •Iladcd, when a duty of 31.
per 100 eas rock salt, Sod 2s. per binhel ea white salt, was
Imposed by the Irish Legislature on those commodities im-
ported lots Ireland. 'throe duties were ',ldeally, although
out avowedly imposed by the lullwewee of the English Minis-
ter, front an apprebrosion that the high price et ash to Eng-
land, roost/sent on the two tali on salt, world hold oat au
irreasstihle truspletioss to innegele salt from Ireland into
t;rent Waste. He 'wed this history to prove that fr. hod
hail hems hardened with these duties no salt, not fur the
sake of ince/amine her own 'eyesore, hot fee the dente
and interval of England, and fur protecting the high duties
then and there imposed. That now when them duties are
lath, off to Englasid, aid eve, reduced below their runner
standard, he cusisiitereil it hot bare justice that Ireland
aboold be restored to her former situation in enjoying the
privatise of ohtalning the elide mid rock gall froon)finginlid
free of all duties. Oat as Gewilessen milli' not be aware of
the miswrite whirl" Inlond -hoe suffered for the last 25
years on secansol of these Import duties en salt, he would
tnramon souse of tb-wo that bad come sealer his ohser.
mit inn. Is the year CHM he made so extesaisse tour stung
thew.' Coast of Ireland. aid he fund refineries of rock
dissolved in sea-wairr, ousiversally rani. d oo its the smaller
town., and ram villages atoms the sea coast, from which salt
was obleiesed at so woolerate a price, that the fisheries were
(wry arm to. a mos" &swishing state, and supplied Leh, both
feel and roost, iiabundance tor thr home couau mpg tun ittlhe
intishitants, and cvssiderable quaottlies for exportation.
Cerra tittle fanner and praises" alone the sea coast had his
-hstrel of salt herrn/ea or tub of rustled hake, and quantities
of dried asili bah for his winter mole; whereas when he made
lie mime tams a few years ant", I.e olid nut 611.1 a single
teed, in possession of those comforts. The refineries were
ehoodional, the AA...mom onowsployed, and ruling houses
for red sear while he falling iiito rules. Mr. F added,
as the Rem minus were to, well expressed, sod entered so
belly iii, the londship• to which the consiitry world be iu-
evitably impost d, tt was um y fur him to say soy
Wog more; bat althotigh it as a subject they rould not
1104. r perhaps, yet, he expected considerable a:4l from it,
•ril that w•• the apparent tote.trlt of faith with regard to
r•ortsrlers and moosofacturera of salt, in net allowing the
sl• •whark of the lien duller ow I ht. xportaituti of that article.
Hr might alga noisier, that to the firlwrirs rock salt was
most importaut, as it ltd Mom worm' before a Select Cum-
mit ire, that meshed rock *all was twitter for taring herrings
flow white or ,efaed and "hat in eonaequerice thereof
•.• Art of hull:towel passrd Imo a law no the 47th of Jnne,
IW:7. for allowing rook salt, duty fee., to the fi.hrites ill
t:.Nt Be lam. The advantage of this priviiige to thr fishe-
r4e• was inssnewee, as the orseinal rice of sock is only 12s.
tie h.d. elk) it is nol ~,,,uhject I. waste us loso.portotion,
whereas the hest &lorry roll is fr...ori 355. to 40s. and the
poorest sal: Conn U.. to SiSs ft• r 14. n.
Mr. LEADER, . f the county l'oik, objected to the brat
Rraclatios, and reemosietoded some mooliheatioso of iii He
did ant home what GC vel•niessi meant to do with the pnyints...
tine of Ireland. las slits taunt', fuur millions were partially
enTI -yeti; three millions ruse from their beds in the mons-.
ice 41.stutute altogether of employment. He dwelt upon Ike
iaj or? which lbe pies of the Chancellor world heap sou
the fisheries especially. The fisheries of the Isle
Meteserapport Il4,1110; the fisheries support 50,000 of khe
people of Holland, &c. and employment might be fueled fur
ILuvearde u, lirlsnal by means of her lialleriro. While lard
Li•rspoul and Mr. Yeawitart are hullo woodestrig at the
imhappiweas of the Irish, they ore shout passing- an Act'
gal ich will binder Ike people of 'reload (ruin betug Mdse..
',muse lbs. irk vii the coast of Galway had bees' ea super.
..absudati4 istely..that the lislettoru bad hems (fur the west
(4( salt) obliged so throw 'frisson again tato the see. He booed
'hit lie Chamber, the ('Up, mod the leaded loftiest. of Ire-
land, sushi sot sluitslsr es ibis subject.

lir. H. (RATTAN wired sigmas; arcummeats, mid 'rows-
tertsie.l • cotritno•icattuo vu this subject to • Cumnitsee
sow •.talsg on the sth vs of Irelaud, at the Thatched hustle
Tolfer• tit St. Jattstirs-sticti, London. Re lemieded she
•••1••••ell

'Tsasittset, sad ke was rietrirealited is ammiliseice to pmeee4
to Laodus 'MU Jay. • ...
MISTRESS.
The accounts from the country, as may be seen
by bur extracts, are still deplorable. Several state.
Menlo we hare already published, but we cannot
make room fur half of them. We have eodesvour-
ed to do our part, by laying the melancholy condi-
tion of the country plainly and fully before the pub-
lic; yet, we are satisfied, very few of our reader. have
any adequate idea of t he extentanil formidable nafure
of our distress. It is • fact too well authenticated to
admit of any doubt, that scores, perhaps hundred.,
have already perished of want—that a fever has set
in, arid that hospitals are already crowded with its
victims. In one parish in Clare, fifty person', when
the last accounts cattle away, were ill of fever, and
five had died. The greater part of this parishi-
(Cloodegial) were totally destitute of provisions.
The fever with which they are attacked is only an-
other word to describe people dying of hunger. In
the western purt of Llw.ry, men, women, and chit-
dren are dying of starvation. and so dreadful is the
mortality, that every one who can quit are king as
from a plague.
We have quoted a paragraph in **other place,
from a Galway paper, which desicribes human be-
ings reduced to the very verge of the grave for want
of food, and describes the dying and the dead is
language which we have not the heart to trsirscnhe.
Sligo, as may be seen by our extracts, is siutilarly,
circumstanced, and the fever has already made
frightful ravages in this county. In the county of
Cork a typhus fever of a most malignant kind has
already appeared. lu Mayo, the deaths from star-
vakion continue to increase. In short, a pest port
bf the west and south of Ireland present the shock-
ing and appalling spectacle of a dense population
in a state of famine, and upon the briuk of a pesti-
lence.
Considerations of this kind will and must force
men to be serious and earnest. It is not mere local
distress which may lie relieved or mitigated by a
local application. We repeat it, that a million of
men, women and children are starving, are actually
d) lug of hunger; that already, and in one of the
finest seasons ever remembered, a malignant fever,
with every appearance of the worst symptoms of
pestilence, has set in. We add, that if Olean, are
nut taken to stem this calamity in the begiouing,
it may reach our own doors.

CORK.
CORY, JUNE 5.
On lest Friday there was a meeting of the respect.
able iuhabitauts of the parishes of Magisurney aud.
Aliebollig, held in the church of Magou►ney, tiSsr
Coachford, to tett iuto coosideration the distressed
state of the poor.
From the reports made by the different gentle..
men who had been uppointed to exataine their re-
spective neighbourhoods, it appeared that the num-
ber of persons in these two parishes, who were in
want of immediate food and relief, amounted to up.
wards of twelve hundred, besides several districts
flan which the returns had not been yet sent in,
and which would increase the number considerably.
A handsome subscription was entered into, and
deputotioli appoisard to wait on the (ieneral Cen-
tral Committee its Cork, and report the some of these
parishes. cove.

The 'Committee formed here for alleviating
the.; miseriestinder the working and la-
bouring classes of this town and vicinity have so pa-
tiently sulfured, commenced on Monday the good
wet k of employment, by setting 186 men to repair
the streets, and Improve ovule of the roads 'eliding
to the toed.
There are 240 families supplied with oatmeal,
and the men employed at labouring work. get Bd.
per mama per day. which employment can be coati-
ourd fur a few weeks.
The number of applicants for relief is still in.
creasing. and but hit the psocautronary measures
used, this tuwu would hays •bvsu etwasailded
distress.
The Committee for the eiletlillent of the fond,.
are 'incensing in their exertion; thy hold frequent
meetings, and also superintend individually the thf.
ferent works which are carried ou.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Kilbrogan
pariah, Baniltm, held in the parish church, June 3,
1832, the Rev. H. T. Newman, Rector, to ,t4ie
Chair, the following resolution was agreed to:—
" Test it appears that the number of the suffering poor
meatus in one iltuusaild eight hundred laud thirty five of
which mutant one thousaird two hundred and tweedy-fuer
are without fund, or the mesas of prireurieg it."

•
:At a meeting of the General Central Committee 1,
of the county wf Cork, held in the Grand Jury
ROOM cm Tue-adsy, the 4th slay of June, 1822
Resolved, That the extent of the claims and
lOre of general theism which have been this day laid be.
fore us, render it expedient to repeat our application to t.a
vernmeot, awl to the several Associations that have beim
farmed for the relief of the country, for the purpose of oh-
tsisiing the means of &Rumbas aid to the Mass of our popu-
lation, which we cannot doubt, are in a state of nearly utter
destitution, and dila the following Geminate° be appointed
a Committee to prepare and forward memorials to this
effect :—Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, hails M'Carthy, Esq.
Robert De La Cour, Esq.
" Re solved,Tbal this p, et iv! do now adjourn to Tuesday,
the.l I ihnsstata, al eleven o'clock.
"JOHN MURPHY,

KERRY.
TRALEE, JUNE 5.

, For the last three or four mornings, at au early
n was lamentable to behold groups of starving
!labourers
parading our streets ; at length they form-
,ed • large assemblage, and proceeded to the houses
:of several gentlemen in this town, peeking work,
and declaring they were most anxious to labour for
their bread; that they and their families were fa-
mishing, and that if something was not done for

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EMILIE, JUKE 8.
w SA lr TAX.
laVtut, at two o'el k, a Nettie; of great rpet-
iiii7amvesed by the C Err of Commerce, took piece
al the Commercial Solidity LELA f'd D CROSTR WALTE,
'Esq. in the Chair.
Several niereastile geolleMit• having formed themeelvet
into a Committee, to comitier cif the probable cossequences
(to Ireland)•of the new pladbf the IChaucellor of the Ex-
chequer fur equalizing the Outlet on salt, their report was
'read to the Chairman by Robttet Rue, Esq. It fully explained
the dreadful evils that would Tollow the equalisation of the
tau—the total ruin to the fisheries, provision, batter, sod
esti works,. of 'related, if ear ie.! into • law.
..'efr....,,h nut a commercial BASER addressed Chats unto, sod stated, that al-
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~ . as there was a Pineal is,i.
1" , .., .1 to all who felt as ia revs in the Salt Laws, be ihneght
,
'1: lu s duly to attend, as t subject bad nut only been long
stn object of his atom •nz' ns e.insiJeration, bat that be had
,:tven his evidence before, a Select Committee of the Howse
of Commons, aid had piPstished his views on the Necessity
of salt being free frond all defies aid restrictiousi, in a
work of ROAM exi•at um the fisheries of Great Millie and
!viand, soil eyes yestt May be had au's a cummalieati"
to we of the Jourwale, addressed to the Committee, which
by he found bad net been generally noticed. be mould
beg leave to state to th Meeting his views on • subject
o bids comprised the v• I iolerests of all the improvement
of Ireland, mid poetic arty of the fisheries, which had bees
as °Nee of his assiduous 'nestles.. That whim be
beard that the duties • ruck salt and white salt imported
'foto Ireland frees rest Mikan% were repealed, he teams.
" witted as addreat t his Excelleory the Lurd Liesteniso,
coognitulatiog his IF, *Rene, and the coyote), osi ino great
'and heretic's' • imam.; Necompsnied with an offer to
make a speeille re or the immerse ailirsotages which
need arise to Ire J Own itiffb an crew. That be could
Lot expo,' them (ificatio• aid disoppoiotwient he felt
uo lading, that al Nib the «bolts end oppressive ease-
tioa• or salt ins led into !reload had been repealed, that
it was Sot prod Nre of any relief to litistml; but, an the
iet
contrary, from tax being laid in Ragland on reek salt an/
white tall, at pat mines of rock salt, sad the wiatioesetoriee
of while seta; without any drawback o• exportation to lb.
country, PM price of that article, instead of Wag lessesed,
must Ismbiereased, is a degree which would instantly spread
'it'll/id dismay thninghoot the whale of Ireland. That be
I/egged leave to say, that the resolutions just sow submitted
itmo the Meeting, were egyiressed in langoare which had troth
fur its foundation, and did great honour tit the Committee
who had drawls thews. up, and which be bad no doubt would
.'• • wake very great inspreasioo is Eagtsiod, where the people
hid rome forward is so k itiJ • way to relieve the distresses of
.1.5..........t0 An it huili•llPV- alialrared in him of the at-