The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

PUBLIC COAL YARDS,.
FROM SAUNDERS'S NEWSLETTER A.:;D DAIIN ADVER,

TIZER,—DUBLIN JANUARY B.]
QUA RTER ASSEMBLY. • • •
SUAKESPEAR GALLERY, JANUARY 14.=Previous to the
consideration of the admission of the Roman Catholic Gentle-
men,. proposed to be Members of the Guild. of Merchants,
Alderman Nugent called the attention of the Guild to an Act
passed in the last Session of Parliament, abolishing one of the
most useful and charitable establishments in Dublin, PUBLIC
COAL YARDS,' and moved that a Committee should be ap-
pointed to address the Government of the country to use their
influence to restore them.

Mr. GRATTAN having expressed a wish that some further
explanation should be given on the subject, • •
Mr. GLASCOCK offered himself to the attention of the Meet-
ing, and- after entering fully into the rise and progress of the
several Acts relating to the • Public Coal of this City, he re-
marked, that the Act passed late in the last Session to abolish
those truly valuable institutions, recited the Acts passed on their
being established ; but, singularly enough, omitted that of the
40th George 111. which declares they were of such public utility
and charity, as to be deserving of being made perpetual, arid
was so decreed and left by an expiring Legislature as a legacy
to the poor of Dublin. Mr. G. further remarked, that he was
confident the Right Hon. Gentleman, who (he found by the
Votes of the House), had introduced the Bill; was imposed
upon by some malicious and interested person, for if he
had known half the benefits the Dublin poor received from the
Public Coal Yards, be never would have introduced the Bill
at all ; to prove which Mr. Glascock stated, that on the
day before Christmas day, upwards of 1,100 bags of coals
were delivered out of those yards to the very poorest of the poor,
and that each has was subdivided among two Or four, nay,
eight or tea families, at the low rate of 20d. per bag.
The Meeting might calculate how many individuals were
thereby enabled to sit down to a warm dinner, instead of par-
taking of their scanty meal in a chilled and cheerless habitation.
After some further explanation from Mr. Glascock, Mr. Grattan
declared himself perfectly satisfied.
Mr. Ews, M.P. begged to observe, that before he and his
worthy colleague left London at the close of the last Session of
Parliament, they applied to the Secretary for Irish Affairs, to
know if there was any more Irish business to come on, when
he assured them that no Irish business, and particularly no
business in which the City, of Dublin was in any manner in-
terested, would be brought on in the House that Session ; and
yet, they scarcely left London when the Bill for abolishing the
Coal-yards was introduced by the Secretary himself.
The Appointment of the Committee was then carried.
Now we state upon unquestionable authority,
.that the like establishments of coal-yards under
the same acts are made applicable to the City of
Cork, with equal, if not greater, benefit to the
poor. As a_ proof, in the last year no less than
sixty-one thousand persons were served with a
measure of coal, each at fivepence, being at the
same low rate as that delivered in Dublin, and
in former years a general average of from 500 to
800, and often 1000 persons per thy, were sup-
plied during the winter• season, whilst those
yards at Cork were open. They are. now, and
have been for some days, we understand, open
by order of. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
and the stock delivering out to the • poor in the
usual may, though the act was considered to have
expired.

The KING will come to town on Saturday
tiext ; and on Tuesday his MAJESTY will go in
state to the House of Lords to open the Session
of Parliament with a Speech from the Throne.—
It will be seen by the extract given from the
London Gazettc of Saturday, that the most judi-
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cious arrangements have been formed for this inte-
resting occasion by the Lord Deputy Great
Charnbe► lain.

Our Scvenpenny Statesmen have been chatter"-
ing at a tine rate last week! According to them,
one day the Russian ultimatum is accepted by
Turkey, and the, next day it is rejected !—But
we can assure our readers that there is no ques-
tion of ultimatum on the tapis. flow is it pos-
sible,.indeed, for Russia and Turkey to come to
an amicable adjustment, unless Russia abandons
the cause of the Greeks altogether? for the lat-
ter will certainly not abide by any stipulations
which may be made in their favour, as they will
never voluntarily submit again to the barbarous
yoke of their former oppressors. Actordin, to
the last accounts from Russia, the army under
Wittgenstein has broken up from its canton-
ments, and is marching towards Turkey : and it
is from high authority that we are enabled to an-
nounce the important fact, that Tim GRAND
DUKE CONSTANTINE IS THE KING OF GREECE IN
PETTO, AND THAT THE CAPITAL Or HIS DOMINIONS
WILL BE CONSTANTINOPLE:—(BiIIiSh Monitor
of yesterdajj.)

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