Star.
London, England, 1822-06-15 00:00:00

DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

The Mayo Constitution says, so argent is the dis-
tress of the poor, and so numerous the applications
from famishing creatures. that a meeting of the Com-
mittee of Castlebar was called, to add three hundred
families to the list already receiving relief, and this
can only be done by limiting the time for which it was
originally proposed to afford assistance.
One man was found dead on the road side at
Augholeggine near Clare,Galway, who perished from
starvation, and the Coroner's Inquest returned a ver-
dict—That his death was caused by hunger.
The Edinburgh subscribers have placed 1200 bolls
of oatmeal (eight stones of 17ilbs. per stone) at the
disposal of the Dublin Committee.
The Commissioners of Fisheries, in consequence of
receiving an-aid of one. fourth the expense from the
Mansion House Committee, have agreed to construct
small piers for the protection of fishing-boats at the
following places :—Valencia, Dingle, and Barra, in
the county of Kerry—Kilbaha, Seafield Point, and Lis-
cannor, in the county of Clare—Casleh Bay, Round-
stone, and Cleggan, in the county of Galway—Old
Head, Achil Sound, and Saleen Bay, in the county
of Mayo. The Commissioners have several mote
works of this kind in contemplation as soon as funds
can be obtained.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LEITRIM, DATED JUNE 9.

" The wants and poverty of this parish (Killtog-
herr), which is a very extensive one, being 15 miles in
one direction, are truly distressing and appalling.—
Wheels, reels for spinning, the wretched implements
of husbandry, the bed clothes and women's cloaks, all
sold for food before the householders would come for-
ward to their assistance ; the one cow has been bled
several times, and then slaughtered for the relief of
the indigent sufferers r

The Reverend RICHARD LAURENCE, D.C.L. Canon
of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of
Hebrew in that University, is appointed. Archbishop
of Cashel.—Dr. LAURENCE owes his elevation to the
personal friendship of Mr. Secretary PEEL.
Mr. ZEA, the Envoy from the Republic of Colum-
bia, arrived in town this morning from Paris.. We
understand the object of his visit is to endeavour to
induce the British Ministers to recognize the inde-
pendence of Columbia, and form a commercial treaty
with the Government which he represents.
Private letters have come to hand from Constanti-
nople, by way of Odessa, to the 14th May. Every
thing continued tranquil, and the Capitan Pacha had
sailed from Scio for Samos.
Thursday night, his Royal Highness CHRISTIAN FREDIRICI,
Prince of Denmark, attended the sitting of the Royal Society,
in order to his being admitted a Fellow; in pursuance of the re-
solution of the Society the preceding week, as in the case of such
distinguished individuals they dispense with the usual forms, and
proceed to ballot on the evening they are proposed. His High-
ness was received by the President, Sir Huurnay Davy, the
Council of the Society, and one of the fullest sittings known for
a long time. with all the honours due to his exalted rank and sci-
entific acquirements. Ile appeared much gratified by the hand-
some and welt-merited encomium addressed to him on his ad-
mission, by the President, and much amused at being called upon
as a Member, immediately after, to vote on the election of Cap-
tain Ross. His Royal Highness afterwards visited the Library,
and irspected many curious and scientific instruments, particu-
larly
that invented by Captain 'CATER, to ascertain the vibration
of the pendulum, &C. Ile received the same complimentary
honours on leaving Somerset House as at his reception. It is
not viler:lily ktitwdn that this is the fourth year in which this
Prince, with his amiable l'rincess, who is nearly related to our
KING, has been travelling in the south of Europe in search of
useful knowledge, during which their mild and affable deport.
ment has endeared them to eveay one who has been honoured
with their notice.

We are requested to state, that it was not the Rev. Mr. Smith
who died suddenly at Carlisle, as stated in the STAG of Tuesday
last, hut Mr. Thomas Smith, of the finn of Disost and Smith,
SheEklti.