Star.
London, England, 1831-08-27 00:00:00

1711v(1 wiscpu VE4)I-; EVTLITATES, 1831•
CHARITABLE Is:STI UrTIONS.
11,••:Int Charter SClicuis • .€51704 0 o
coq)o.

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, cVitit:ool Education
' 0111;;\ Hospital
I. tr 4•014,...t,110 114 :Tr. &C .
ill •
• •• • 30,000 0 0
• • • • 27.824 0 0
... ... 20.200 0 0
Rieitn,srliLl.tw.t.ic .1...vi0m ... ... 1,388 0 0
4.'N.r I.4at-Soc-e .: for Soldiers' Children 8.323 0 0
• ilfit,:-nit larine Society ... ... 1,268 0 0
.: . 1.7 . ilt4i 'tan house 1,291 0 0
... .•
i ‘ ' 'or nd Lock Hospital 2.900 0 0
,••.•'-',j-; Aitimln Hospital 2,000 0 0
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.1 •4". A "vens's Hospital
tor
.
.. ...
.. ... 1,578 0 0
F...ve. Hospital, Cork-street ... .. 2,860 0 0
Ilmmital for Incurables ... .. 465 0 0
Roman Catholic College ... ... 8,928 0 0
Royal Dublin S-wiety .. ... 5 500 0 0
Royal Irish Acialcmy ... ... 300 0 0
Board of Ch.tritahle Bequests ... 700 0 0
Belfast Academical Institution 1,500 0 0
Royal Cork Institution ... ... 0 0 0
Association for Discountenancing Vice 0 0 0
Society for the Education of the Poor 0 0 0
AIIiCFLI.ASTEOUS SERVICES.
Board of Works for Clyil Buildings .. 12,900 0 0
t'qief and Under Seuetery's Office ... 30.419 0 9
Ilousohold of the Lord Lieutenant, &c. 16.379 14 1
Vice-Treasurer's Office ... ... 5,334 0 0
Teller of F.xchever's Office ... .. 1.6110 0 0
Prlnting Pro:lainations and Statutes .. 4,6410 0 0
Criminal I'msectitiona ... . 50.000 0 0
Non-conforming and other Alinis:ers ... 21,741 13 0
Sal '6. to Lottery Odicers .. ... 470 15 5
Inland Ns•igation ... .. .. 2 630 0 0
Police of Dubl n ... ... .. 20.833 0 0
Cominksiniers of Judicial Inquiry ... 3,784 0 0
Board of Public Records .. .. 1,000 0 0
Employment of the Poor ... ... 49.000 ll 0
Commissioners of Public Works ... 1,100 0 0
Public %Yorks In Ireland .. .. 0 0 0

Total

... 333,931 5 3

TO THE EDITOR-OF-7"HE STAR.

St It --I perceive that the STAR advo-
cates these infernal beer shops. Ah, you little
know the effect they have already produced here.
Now, the workman who never was in the the habit
of visiting a public house, can go privately to these
beer shops, unseen and undetected, where be spends
the hard earnings of himself and family with im-
punity. Boys and young men a:so o there, and
scenes of depravity and obscenity are acted such
is we never heard of before in this country, by
night and by day. Instances are known of the
brewing of beer being drank out even before it is
barrelled, out of the working tub ! Young women
go there to meet men ; and there are well authen-
ticated cases of their mixing naked and promis-
cuously together. These things never took place
iry any of the old public houses, and my de-
cided opinion is, that if they are not
done away with, the whole class of the
last generation will be demoralized and ruined.
As tl-.ese beer shops are kept here by small cot-
tagers, themselves idle vagabonds, who can now
rocure a living without work, no honest respecta-
ble man will keep them. You may say, why do
not the authorities keep them in order? In reply to
which I answer, that in all these populous districts,
e have no police, but the common constable,—
no magistrates nearer than 8 or 10 miles, and
therefore no good order can prevail. The laws
cannot be availed of,—it is too inconvenient and
expensive. A few, however, have been fined in
mitigated penalties, who have afterwards declared
that they could afford to pay a weekly fine, and
would run that risk rather than close their houses
at 10 o'clock at night.—The beer they brew and
sell is of the worst quality ; and no old regular
beer-drinker can or will touch it. Such continue
to go to the old public. houses for a genuine ar-
ticle. fact is, that the customers to the new
brewers are of the description I have mentioned.
A new class of drinkers, ‘vlio ;.ro to these houses
for the purposes I have named, and if my paper
would admit, I could state many circumstances,
which to you, as a moralist, nould be extremely
affccting.,
West Riding, Aug. 22. Il. D.

• LOCO MOT IVEEx ti Es.— I t gives us great plea-
,•a re to state the perfect success which has attended
an experiment made in this city, oa the improve-
ment of locomotive steam engines, clue to the sci-
er.ce and ingenuity of Lieutenant-Colonel Long.
It is very much of the character of that gentleman
to abstain from the too common practice of forcing
himself upon the public attention, and we owe the
;resent oppmtlinity of announcing an improvement
of the hiLt-he::t importance to rail-road motion, to
a scientific . friend, in no manner connected
with its author. As the !limits of this en-
gine, which is to be called the Pennsylvanian Lo-
comoter, are soon to be tested in public, we shall
merely allude to some of its most obvious properties.
It weighs about three tons, has a ower of six
horses, and is surprisingly compact, occupyir;
comparative small space. The wheels have a di-
ameter of four feet three and a half inches. and a
circumference of thirteen and a half feet. The
quantity of water the boiler is capable of contain-
in; is sixty gallons, the fuel required is one bushel
anthracite coal with some charcoal. This fuel,
htn ignited, brought the water to the boiling
point in thirty-five minutes. The gentleman from
wri.o:u we have our information. states that with
twonty pounds of steam to the inch, the wheels
Dual,: two revolutions per second, which give a
velocity of eighteen miles two. fifths per hour ;
hi!: there is not the least doubt of her takile.; a
I.::.ssute 'of sixty pounds with the most cerfeet
It is not unlikely, therefore, that she may
Is trial outstrip any of these winking
s a hich the British engineers have produced.
SL: will also most with a pregame tot exceeding
ii!it pounds per square .inch. Lieutenant-Col.
.!. has applied, with the most perfect success,
‘1:•. J. P. welieriii.s beautiful plan of feeding
tit tire v.ith water:—it is clear, that henceforward
it v iii be of mote consequence, in rail-road motion,
cc:ion:ire water than coal. The chimneys of
thi,, machine let down in a new and very neat
manner, so that bridges of every description can
Le passed. One of the most striking properties of
!Geometer, is the ease with which the engineer
eau change her velocities, and even give her a re-
tlugrade motion in thirty seconds of time. Many
tatal accidents uhich bare recurred, alight bare
been spsted, had tie engines it hich occasioned
them been-provided %%lilt the mechanical improve-
ments of 'the Penusylvanian .Locomoter United
Mates Gouettr.

ROV:11. :NAVAL ScHow..—The affairs of this
1::•!;:titiou are gohig en most i rteptrously. Al-
1, tiv upenrds of 3 0001 has been !cc( ived in do-
I •It 116, b sides numerous and Oval annual sub-
iiptions, and reclusive of Dr. Bell's munificent
&nation of .10,0001. Nearly !JO iupiis of the re-
(,..itite operate albo already entered ter immediate
His filajesty Las announced his inten-
I;on of battening an annual Fulp,critt ! of 1001. to-
r aitia the estaliisle.ent.