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London, England, 1831-09-02 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

MACCLESFIELD COURIER, August 27.
The Independent Potter was, on the morning of Tuesday
last, upset near Gawsworth, partly through the misconduct
of the passengers, several of whom,as well as the coachman,
were severely Injured. It aFpears that during the journey
the former had accustomed themselves to shout at the
horses ; and though cautioned by the coachman of the
danger they incurred by so doing, they continued to make a
great noise at the animals, which ultimately in consequence
took fright, set off at full gallop, and becoming unmanage-
able, drew the coach into a ditch by the road side, by which
the vehicle was overturned.

We have now in our possession a stalk of wheat measuring
six feet three inches in length, taken from a crop grown after
turnips and cabbages in a field belonging to Mr. Ogilvie, of
Mere, near Kourd, the stalks in which averages mea.
surement of six feet, and are thickly planted. The corn is
expected to average front 43 to 44 bushels per acre. The
cabbages and turnips were also a very great crop, averaging
80 tons per Cheshire acre. The land was immured with
about 30 tons of putrescent matter, and 11 tons of lime ap-
plied in its caustic state to each acre.
The kelp trade, which by late legislative enactments is
utterly ruined as regards Ireland, afforded means of sub-
sistence to 40,000 families on the coasts of Galway and
Mayo I
We have noticed with much pleasure, that of the twenty.
seven criminals included in the Report madei by the Recorder
to the King in Council, on Wednesday week, not one has
been ordered for execution.

WAITERS. I always endeavour to be liberal with
waiters, and " such small deer," and I reckon I save 101.
a-year by so doing,—for if you will not pay them, they
will pay themselves. I get the freshest chops, the best
cigars, and a civil good night, with the use of an umbrella,
when rains, by this simple expedient.
Lord Grey has been in office nine long months, and in
that time he has only been able to secure to his own family
—sons, sons.in.law, brothers-in-law, nephews, and cousins
—emoluments, sinecures, and pensions to the trifling
amount of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS PER
ANNUM. In this estimate we Include the last God-send
of the Bishopric of Derry, which with its reversionary in-
terests, is worth at least 30,0001. per annum.
CHESTER, SATURDAY.—Wheat, per 751hs. 9s to 9s 6d.
Barley, pa 601bs. 41 6d to 4s 9d ; Oats, per 461bs. 34 91.
to 4s ; New, 31 3d to 34 6d ; Prime beet, ad to Gd ; Veal,
4ed to 6d ; Mutton, 5d to 6d ; Pork, 5d to 7d.
MAccr.zsruct.D.—Flour, super, 41s; ditto, seconds,
391; Oatmeal, 30s to 31s; new ditto, 36s to 37s ; Butter,
per lb. 144 to 15d ; Beef, per lb. 7d to ad ; Mutton, do. 6d.
7d ; Veal, do. bd. to 6d ; Pork, do. 6d to 7d ; Lamb, 6d
to 7d. _ _ _

MARRIED.—At Chester, Mr. Joseph Heginbottom,
of Buralem, to Sarah Ann, daughter of the late Thomas
Brown, Esq. Lincoln's Inn Fields, London—At Blackburn,
Mr. Christopher Shorrocks, of Manchester, to Ellen,
daughter of the late Joseph Eccles, Faq. of Lower Darvren
—At Manchester, James Murray, Esq. merchant, in Glas-
gow, to Anne, daughter of James Houston, Esq. Lloyd-
street.

DIED.—At Woolson, the Rev. Oswald Leicester, of
Altrinchano, 70—At Southport, Elizabeth, wife of Christo-
pher, Webster, Esq. of Manchester—Elizabeth, the wife of
J. Wilson, Esq. of Latchford—Emma, 20, daughter of
James Burgess, &q. of Cheer Brook, near Nantwich.

DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER, Aug. SO.
A mere technicality caused the withdrawing of the peti-
tion forwarded to London during the late contest in Dublin.
A second petition is at present receiving signatures, and sill
be on the table of the house on Thursday evening. The
Tories are persuading themselves that there was an end of
the matter when the first petition was withdrawn. By fia.
turday's packet they will find that their troubles are only
in the commencement.

The chairman of the Irish distillers has received the fol-
lowing letter from Mr. O'Connell. There can be no doubt
that the honourable member is perfectly correet in the opi.
nice), that the only effectual relief from the suffering a t pie.
sent sustained, is to be found in a temporary prohibition of
the spirit intercourse between Scotland and Ireland. The
drawback, alone, does not account for the effects we witness,
and time is necessary for the discovery of the other causes to
which they are traceable ;
London, 27th August, 1831.
My Dear Sir,—l had the honour to receive your letter of
the 26th instant, this day, informing me that the distillers
of Ireland were pleased to confide to my care their petition
to parliament.
I feel proud of their conidenee, and feel it an honour to
be deemed capable of serving the interests of the distillers
of Ireland. They could very easily indeed have chosen a
person of more ability, but they could not, I venture to say
it, have selected any man more unfeignedly desirous of pro.
moting Irish industry or of protecting Irish trade and ma.
nufacture.

In a former letter to you as chairman of a former
meeting, I expressed a preference to the plan of reducing
the drawback on malt over the plan of prohibiting, at
least for a time, the spirit intercourse, I beg to say that
I have had much more information on the subject since
I wrote, and that my present opinion leads strongly to
the conviction that it is necessary to prohibit the inter-
course for at least a short period. It seems to me
that the frauds committed in Scotland by means of the
drawback, arenot alone sufficient to enable the Scotch distiller
so entirely to undersell the Irish distiller in the Irish market.
Those frauds account to my mind for only pan of the diffe-
rence between the proved real cost of honestly made and
sold Scotch whiskey, and the price for which it is, in point
of fact, sold in Ireland. At present I cannot account for
that difference otherwise than by supposing that the Scotch
distillers obtain facilities, when the Irish distillers meet with
nothing but difficulties. This would be the mere easily ac-
counted for, if it be true—and I have reason to believe that
there is some truth in It—that the Scotch distillers are
guarded by Sootehmen as revenue officers, while the Irish
distillers are watched by English and Switchmen. At all
events, the means of selling Sw.h spirits so much chcapet
than Irish can be sold, is a mystery which remains un-
explained on any avowed and at the same time intelligible
grounds.
I will of course enforce the object of the petition as well
as I can, but I fear without much success. You are de-

prived of the advantage of a domestic and local legislature.
You have not the advantsp of personally explaining eo
ti r
framers of laws the means by which your industry is &eked
and your capital interfered with. Neither can you punith
'by dbmiasal from the legislature the men who may eithre
neglect or oppose your interests. In short, a foreign leo,.
lature has other cares and other sympathies d until ht.
land has procured the restoration of her own Parliaturr,
her merchants and traders must be liable to the fri
effects of all the frauds which it may be the interest of °nir
parts of the empire to perpetuate upon Irish commerce arg
manufacture. DANIEL O'CONNELL.
John Power, Esq.
Chairman of the Irish Distillers.
As an exemplification of such a scheme applied gene.
rally to Ireland, the following notice, as applicable to the
county of Meath, is respectfully submitted to considers.
tion

The poor may be clamed under three heads :
I. Able bodied labourers (with their families) nom.
ployed at certain seasons.
2. The aged and infirm, being householders.
3. The destitute—(houseless and wandering.)
For the relief of those classes respectively, the following
means might be made available :
1. For the labouring class:—
Meath contains, independently of many thousand acres
not yet rated on the county books, 274,778 acres that pay
cesa. These, let at an average of 30s. per sae, together with
the value of glebe lands, produce a rental to head landlotds,
middlemen, and clergy, of about four hundred thousand
pounds a year. A charge of three per cent, upon this rental
and upon the value of tithes, would amount, in round num.
ben, to twelve thousand pounds yearly. This sum at 21.
per head, or ss. a week, would give employment to 6000
men for two months. These men being heads of families,
consisting of five persona each, the employment thus afforded
would give an additional degree of support and comfort to at
least thirty thousand persons, men, women, and children;
that Is. to 16,661 persons in each of the 18 baronies of the
county.
2. For the aged and infirm :
A levy of two per cent. from all tenan a, upon the rental
they pay, on a valuation of the lands they hold rent free, or
at a nominal rent, would produce eight thousand pounds per
annum. This sum would give to 2,666 aged and infirm
householders 31. each per annum, or in each of the eighteen
baronies, would allow 149 persons dill portion.
Having thus provided, to a certain extent, for the agricul.
tural poor, being householders, by means to be taken directly
from land proprietors, their tenants and the clergy, it remains
to be considered what provision can be made.
3. For the destitute, now houseless and wandering :
For these it is proposed to provide " Houses of Refuge"
in each barony, or in joint baronies, on the plan of the Dub-
lin Mendicity Society. It appears from the report of that
institution, for the year 1829, that 31. 17s. 74d. is the an.
nual average cost of each mendicant (including all charges
for rent, management, &c.) Thus, at the rate of about 41.
a head, one thousand paupers may be supported for 4,0001.
and for this purpose, there should be in the county ten
" Houses of Refuge," holding 100 persons each. The ne•
cessary funds might be raised by a direct tax on the properly
of absentees ; by additional charges on the licences of pub.
lie houses; together with a druw.back from government of
per cent. on the revenue derived from spirits ; and
by fines at suites, the quarter, and petty sessions, dtc. To
these may be added the alms collected at churches and
chapels, and the bequests and voluntary donations of the
charitable.

For the management and disposal of the funds thus
raised, it is suggested that parochial committees should to
appointed to be composed of the Protestant and Roman
Catholic Clergy, and each landlords and tenants as pay a
certain proportion to the rates ; the landlords to serve either
by themselves or their agents ; and all the lay members to
come on and go off by rotation. It is not proposed to give
to any individual pauper an absolute legal rht to suppon ;
the members of the committee to decide on aclaims.
MARRIED.—The Archdeacon of Clogher to Frances,
daughter of the Rev. Dr. Storey, Chancellor of Clogher
thedral.—At Belrurbet church, S. Hunter, Esq. to Jennette,
daughter of J. Dunlop, Esq.
DIED.—In Ennis, Catherine, relict of the late Thomas
Roughen, Esq In Tustin, R. Morris, Esq.—ln Cionnal.
S. Abbott, Esq.-1n Limerick, Miss M. Considine, sister of
H. Considine, Esq.
ELGIN COURIER.
WHISKY of the Scotch members had
a meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his
residence in Downing-street, on Saturday the 13th, in re.
gard to an application from Ireland for the removal of the
drawback of 11s. per gallon on spirits distilled from malt.—
Amongst others, were Mr. Campbell of Islay, Mr. Teal
Mr. H. Rosa, Mr. Down Gillon, Dlr. Pringle, and Mr.
Andrew Johnstoce.—lt was stated by Mr. Campbell, that
previous to the reduction of the duty on Whisky and the
allowance of the drawback, about 14,000 out of 17,000 of
the population on his estates had been engaged in smuggling;
that about 200 of these were annually committed to jail;
that since the remission of duty there had not been above two
or three persons committed to prison, from that numerous
population, for offences connected ith smuggling. The
members present deprecated any alteration on the present
system, which might tend to injure the morals of the
Highland population, or disturb the Scottish distiller in
Ibis capon trade.
On Monday evening last, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, the inhabitants of Elgin were alarmed by the ring.
• log of the Church bell. On enquiry the cause was found
to be, a fire which had taken place at Kirkhill. A large
stack of straw belonging to Mr. Geddes, farmer there, was
nearly wholly burned, and the house occupied by Mrs.
Angus, at a little distance, was also discovered to be on fire.
In the latter ease the fire was got under before much damage
I was done, owing to the exertions of a number of people from
Elgin, and from the neighbouring farm houses. The
way in which the fire originated is undergoing judicial in-
vestigation.
MARRIED.—At Elgin, D. Alexander, Esq. artist, to
Mary Ann DufE--At Park House, Dingwall, A. 31. Ca.
meron Esq. late Captain of the 78th regiment, to Floes
klaekensie, niece to Colin Mackenzie, Esq. of Newhall.
FREEMAN'S JOURSAL, August 33.
We have received several communications from various
i parts of the county within the last ten days, all of which,
we are happy to say, announced a vast improvement and
rapid progress towards tranquillity. One instance alone has
occurred of that alarming and savage character shish we
have had so often to comment on recently, the murder of a
man named Madden, in the neighbourhood of Chiggers.—
Western Argus.
THE IRISH YEOMANRY.—As an evidence of the deep
detestation in which this obnoxious force is held, we take
the following from an able and honest contemporary, the
Waterjord Chronlek.—" No one pretends that they ever
rendered any service in a civil capacity, and how have they
done it in a matter, one ? During the rebellion of 1798,
they never gained a single victory, or the slightest advan-
tage over the unarmed peasantry who were opposed to them:
nor in fact could they be got even to face them, except ac-
companied by an iniwense mass of regular troops. How far
were they efficient to putdown rebellion in the county of Wes.
ford, where they were at that time immensely numerous?
As long as the people remained passive, they burned their
houses, violated their wives and daughters, and committed
such cold-blooded atrocities as were Dever before beard of,
except amongst the savage Indians of North America; but
the moment the peasantry turned in their own defence, they
fled like sheep before them, and lett the rebellion, which
they had caused, to be put down by the King's troops and
fereign mercenaries, who were Imparted to massacre the
Irish. During the entire rebellion, the yeomanry accompa-
nied the army merely in the capacity of executioners,
and half.banged, flogged to death, pitch-capped, and
picketted the unfortunate prisoners who were delivered into
their custody ; but as to render any service, as soldiers. we
defy any person to point out a single instance of it. The
only victories they have obtained were such as that at Nev.
townbarry, where a hundred and fifty yeomen, without re-
ceiving the slightest provocation, fired on a body of ddenct.
less men, woolen and children, and massacred them in s
manner SO merciless and inhuman, as to leave no parallel to
it in the whole history of the world."
WATERFORD, AUG. 27.—W heat per barrel 27s to `2B;
Barley, 11s to I3s; Oats, 10, to 13a ; Oatmeal, per cwt. l!f.
to 13s ; Second Flour per bag, 311 s to 38s ; Third Flour, 3t"
to 345; Fourths, 15s to 20s; Indian Corn, lOs to 21st In.
dian Meal, 20s to 21s; Beat Butter per cwt. Lis to 00c
MARRlED.—Francis Healy, Esq. of 3logullan, to
Ellen, third daughter of William Kenny, Esq. of Cragleigb
—At ituskey, W. Temple, Esq. M.D. of Alonaghan, ma
Anne, and Lieut. J. G. Lapenotiere, of the Royal NsYY.
to Jane, daughters of the late Hugh Hamilton, Esi.
Ituakey.
DIED.—In Clonmel, S. Abbott, Req.—The &I'd
daughter of Francis O'Shaughneasy, ap of Oughterarde,
Galway.
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