The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

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The following are extracts from a Report made
to the Dublin Mansion-house Committee, by.
Messrs. H. GRATTAN and.D. LATouczir, to whom
the letters received were, referred :

Cons.—Extract of a letter from Geofge Crofts, Chairman
of the Central Committee (City of Cork) .states, " that on the
4th of. June, it appeared from the Repoits laid before them
from near 100 parishes of the county, and from calculations
made in the remaining ones,-that not less than 92,800 persons
were at that period in the most urgent distress ; and from the
returns and the statements laid before the Committee on the
11th of June, it appeared that the number of persons in actual
want had amounted to 150,000."

MAY o.—Prom hence the Rev. Henry Peasley, Union of Bally.
'bane, 15th of June, states, that in the three parishes there are
9,750 individuals ; that in addition to want of food spotted
fevers and dysenteries had broken out. From the inadequacy
of supply, several of the poor creatures lay all night in the
churchyard, unable to move from pain and hunger, eating the
raw meal and potatoes..

CLARE.—A letter received on Saturday last from Ennis,
contained the afflicting account, that a man, his wife, and nine
children, all perished for wart of food.! -

Parishes of Aughatnore and Knock, June 19;—..The poor
wholly destitute, having. exhausted the cresses, nettlei, and
wild herbs in the fields. .

Ballyhauin, June 2L—Many of the starving creatures drop
down at the place of distribution. The fever increases. Three
died last week and one last night.
Parishes of Ivehan and Kilcummin, June 22.—Fever, dy-
sentery, and starvation, are fast spreading.
Bingham Castle, June 21.—1 assure you that thousands have
for weeks past subsisted upon sea-weed, wild vegetable sub-
stances, and rotten fish, which has brought on a typhus fever
and a violent dysentery. If we have not speedy relief, the liv-
ing will scarcely be able to bury the dead ; for instance, about
two days ago four men could not be collected to bury a poor
creature that died of want of food. They are swelling and get-
ting black in the face, and no medical assistance nearer than
Ballina or Castlebar.

• Ennis' timon, June 25.—This parish is inhabited by the most
wretched class in society; there is not an individual among
them able to call. the attention of any committee to their me-
lancholy situation ; and unless something is done to afford
them immediate relief, it is my firm conviction that more than
half the parish will fall victims before the 15th July,
TIPPERARY—Cappagh, June 22.—Owing to the very few
resident gentry in the country, our subscription in this parish
has not amounted to 501. which went a very short way in re-
lieving upwards of 2,000 famishing souls, nearly the one-fourth
of whom are now in the fever.

SLlGo.—Easkey; June 17.—The scenes we witness are ap.
palling ; nothing piesents itself but faMine and disease.
From the Bishop of Killala, Edward Wingfield, and Wil-
liam Browne, Union of Castlecomer and Kallyglass.—The
population is 8,270 persons, approaching a state of starvation ;
many are unable to get money for seed-potatoes ; for the last
two months the people have lived on shell-fish, sea-weed, and
herbs. .

GALWAY.—Westport, June 25.—The melancholy state of
our starving poor is daily increasing-14,000 weekly applicants..
Clifton, ,June 21.—Fifteen persons have died in the pa►ish
of Ballynakill Within these two days, and several in the parish
of Balindoon and Moines—all for want of food: four times that
number are afflicted with fever, and are—past recovery, and
the rites of the church have been administered to them by their
Clergy.

The Archbishop of DUBLIN has directed that,
on Sunday next, Collections shall be made in all the Churches
in Dublin, in aid of the Fund for Relieving the Distresses of
theyeople in the South and West of Ireland.

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'Thursday last a Privy Council was held at
Dublin Castle, when Lieutenant-General Sir S. Au cit v
was sworn in a Member of his MAJESTY'S Most Honourable
Council, and took his seat at the Board accordingly.
There are at this moment, employed on the
Public works, in Ireland, at the trifling pittance of eight-pence
a day, tradesmen of different denominations, whose daily hire,
before now, may be rated from two shillings to half-a-crown,
and three shillings and nine-pence a day. •

DEPLORABLE EVENT.-The followinff dread-
ful accident recently happened in Kilkenny, in
the family of Major MADDEN of that place. The
Major's son was soon to be married to his cousin,
who was on a visit to the family. The marriage
was only delayed till the bridegroom was of age.
The intended pair used to ride out every day.
One day on their return, a sister of the young
Gentleman, about. 12 years of -age, wished for a
ride, but would not mount the horse without
going to ask the consent of her father, who came
from the house and himself fastened her to the
saddle. The horse by some accident took fright,
and went off at full speed, the cries of the poor
child adding to his fears. By the violence of the
agitation the child was thrown from the saddle;
but her foot stuck in the stirrup, by which means
she was dragged along the stones, and mangled
in too horrible a manner for description. In this
dreadful state the poor sufferer lingered during
four days, and then was released from a state,
which if she had survived, would have rendered
her a pitiable-spectacle through life. The mother
of the unfortunate young lady is a sister of Sir
WM. CUMMING GORDON of Scotland. To in-
crease the misery of the survivors, the unhappy
father has since died of grief. The family were
so amiable and So. much respected, that this
dreadful event has excited a mournful sympathy
throughout die place.

A Birmingham paper says—" Our commercial
readers will be pleased to learn, that arrange-
ments have been made by Mr. HART with the
Postmaster-6eneral for the establishment of a'
direct mail between this town and laverpool--an
accommodation that has long been desired by
our merchants and manufacturers trading with
that port. We learn that it will commence run-
ning from this town on the Ist inst., at half
past seven in the evening, and will arrive here at
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ten o'clock in the mornin • g on its return."
STEAM TRAVELLING.—On Saturday last a party
ofGentleman left Liverpool at hail,-past three, and arrived in
the Isle of Man early in the evening. The next day they made
the tour of the whole island, examined its antiquities, its topo.
graphy, and its chief towns. They re-embarked on Monday
morning, and were in their counting-houses at half-past nine.
Another party sailed for Bangor and Beaumaris the same even.
ing, at the' same hour. They visited these two interesting
towns, then drove to Carnarvon, and thence to the Lake of
Llanberris. They afterwards ascended Snowden, and saw the
sun set from its highest summit. After this exploit; which was
performed on foot, they returned to Bangor, again embarked
for Liverpool, and were at their busin.,ss onMonday morning
at half-past eleven.:—( Liverpool Paper.)

FOR THE SUN:

MR EDITOR—As, voUr columns are sever open
to communications on EcclesiasticAl.matters, per-
haps you will.have the goodness 'to give publicity
_to the following query nothing o'n be more
annoyingtO.an attentive audience than. to lose
.
any part of the -preacher's discourse,. dad as this
constantly occurs as soon as the carriages becrin
to assemble would it not be
.advisable (if the
Great cannot be prevailed upon to walk to Church)
that the streets immqdiately surrounding the
Church or Chapel be covered''every sdbbuth with
strati.; .9—The expence of such. a measure would
be. hardly worth a consideration, and -would, I
doubt not', be readily defrayed by every *congre-
gation. Stable;leepers Wouldprobably,.in many
instances, not be unwilling to contract to supply
and spread the straw : as in the less frequented
parts of the metropolis, where few but private
, .
carriages are in the habit of passing, the straw
would not, from being trampled on only -one day,
be thereby rendered totally unfit for stable pur-
poses. Y am; Sir,

July 1, 1822.

PIIILECCLESIAS.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Only one Mail has arrived this day from the 'Continent,
and that is from Hamburgb ; but it does not bring intelligence
from the North later than what . was communicated to the
public yesterday by the Morning Chronicle' (received via
Holland). Many merchants are of opinion that they could cor-
respond with the Continent quicker without the interference of
the llamburgh packets, and that a very considerable expence
might be saved to the public by their 'discontinuance. In
forming this opinion, however, they by no means intend to com-
plain against the Post-office regulations in Lombard-street, being
perfectly sensible of the great exertions made in eVery depart-
ment'of that most valuable establishment. If qiticker inter-
course with the North of Europe, hoWever, can be obtained by
the way of Holland than direct from Hamburgli, those inter-
ested in Continental correspondence hope that the General Post-.
office will adopt it, particularly as the revenue !vould, be con.
siderably bencfitted by a discharge of one establishment not at
present very useful; and as without steam-packets the commu-
nication betwixt England and the North of Europe cannot be
so regular, and seldom so early, by the way of .IJambulgh, as
by the way of Holland.

The Pttbile Funds are this day extremely heavy. The Budget
haS neither created confidence nor given satisfaction. The Right
Hon. Calculator has undoubtedly one quality which few men
possess, and' that is the potver to mystify figures; for such an
Omnium of Accounts, such a mixture and intermixture of calcu-
lation., never-was placed 'Were .the understandings of reasonable
men. To attempt to comprehend them,is vain labour; indeed,
his Finance skill, as the old woman said of the doctrines of an
itinerant Preacher, 'is WO deep for common comprehensions, and
if the Liniversity of Oxford delays any longer to confer on him
the distinction of Doctor, that of Aberdeen ought to step for-
ward to do him -this act of justice: An account foi Augetist
commenced this day on the Stock Exchange, anti- business was
done in it at 81i a 8le: An eminent Jobber bought 100,000 at
81i; notwithstanding which the price did hot improve, as it is
imagined that the account which remains to bo settled is ex-
ceedingly large, and that extensive sales-must beanade previ-
ous to the 18th current. The fluctuation in this account has
been from 798 to-81,i, but when the dividend is deducted, the
,differences at present are inconsiderable.---Consols-forthe July
account opened' at 8l it, and were uncommonly heavy. At one
time they rose to 811,, but finally dosed at 811. There is an
Express from Paris, bringing -Mond4'S prices there of the
Rentes, but no impression was made on the market here after
ita.receipt.
• Foreign securities partake of the dullness in'the English
Funds, and the transactions- in them are very limited. The
French Rentes are at present more inquired after than any of
'the others, and they are rather dearer. They Opened at 91. 75.,
and-closed at-92. Prussian Fives are 86i. 87. Columbian Old
Bonds are new in the course of payment, and their existence has
ceased. Many will raise a monument to their therieory, but ruin
attended some of their first possessors. The trinnipleof liberty
procured for them that value which a differentissue of events
in South America would have deprived them of. So far Eng-
land- has benefited, and a complete acknowledgment of South
American,independence will still confer far more Sig lel favours
on the British Empire. The new Columbian Sixes are noted
at 83. The Spanish Old Bonds are 61a to 621, 'and the New
61A to 62. The-value of -both is improved, and the. mild and
steady conduct of the Spanish Cortes in their efforts,to establish
the liberty of their country, creates strong grounds to expect
-that their-exertions Will soon be crowned with -complete suc-
cess. Danish Fives are 84.1, Neapolitan 704, the Old
Russian-Fives 77i. The New Russian Loan is nominal at 83.
The panic in-the Chili Loan has passed, and its'ipiice is 79i -A.
Whatever events take place at present in that country, the re-
sult cannot fail to be the complete establishmene of, a liberal
GovernMent.

At the Corn Exchange this day, the arrivals of grain are few
since Monday last. Wheat is very dull sale, add the late prices
are with' difficulty maintained even for the finest qualities.—
Oats can only he sold at a redaction in their value of Is. to 2s.
a quarter., 114yley also finds few buyers, and is cheaper. The
rains have been nearly general, and the kingdom at the present
moment is covered with a most bountiful crop. In ten days
the wheat harvest will commence, and a god season will again
bless the population with plenty. •
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'Ministers" boast of the reduction of taxes ; -bait : does not re.
quire such comprehensive minds, "as they no doubt -possess, in
common.men to see, that much greater reductiops will be forced
on them.dining the next Session of Parrarnent, and that means
must be taken, both in Chttrch•and•Sta'e, tireiievethe produc-
tive classes from their present burdens. ; , •
Trade continues in a state" of great depression,, particularly
in Baltic and !Vest' 'lndia prodtice." The Refiners 'Of Sn'ar
are doing nothing, waiting for an .answer respecting an addi-
tional bounty on exportation, which is to be received to-morrow
from the Treasury. Coffee remains in tea.d.y.demand widicut
any variation in its value.—(Morning Chroktele.)

There were not Members enough -present yes-
terday in the Hotise of Commons at the usual hour to 'form a
House.—Mr. WESTERN had given notice that he would move
a series of Resolutions, descriptive of the distressed state of
the agriciiltnral part bf the country--Ithe effects` of the altered
state of the currencythe general amount of taxation—and the
relative situation of the,public creditor and. the public, under
such altered state of the currency. These. Resolutions are 18
'in number. The following is the concluding Resolution :
" That under all these circumstances, it is evidently and indis-
pensably necessary to take into immediate consideration the de-
structive effects that have arisen out of the alteratiOns made in the
currency, by the Acts-of 1797 and 1819, as well respecting the
enormous public burthens created and so ails nzented by the
Act of 1815, as the revolution of property in the vast and com-
plicated intercourse'of individuals throughout this country oc-
casioned thereby ; in order that, .by a final arrangement of the
currency, as equitable to all parties as circumstances will ad-
mit, or by a reduction of taxation equal to the advance occa-
sioned by the Act of 1819, together with the establishment of
ome principle for . the adjustment of private contracts, justice
n ay, as far as possible, be administered to all, and the country
Eave.l from a revolution of property, and also from a pressure
of taxation beyond the ability of the people to sustain."