Star.
London, England, 1825-09-09 00:00:00

FiliD..kY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1825.

JOSEPH COOPER and SON, 93, Bishopsgate•
street Within, beg MAO respectfully to return their thanks to
their Friends and the Public, for the very-liberal and unpnecedented
patronagelhey have experienced, and to assure them no exertion
shail be wanting on their part to merit a continuation of such sup-
port in the following various branches connected with tbe Pato.
blithment.—J. Cooper and San, think it necessary to state, that
their workmen are of the first class; that their materials may be
relied on for durability and appearance, acd the prices offering im-
portant reductions for the advantage of immediate payment.
UPIIOLSTKIIY.—In Upholstery, they study to combine
taste•and elegance, their style for Drawing-rooms, Boudoirs, and
Salons, has been approved by the most distinguished families in the
Kingdom.—Carpeting and Floor Cloths of the newest patterns.
LOOKING-GLASSES of all denominations—and from the
smallest to the most magnificent Dimetsibms.
CARVING AND GILDING in all its Branches. Frames
fur Pier and Chimney Glasses, and Paintings, in every variety,
front the simplest to the most superb.

PAPER-11A NGING in the most Mesta and Decorative style
CABINET WORK.—New fashions ssiggested, with a brilliant
exhibition of Superior Workmanship, and Wood of the most
beautiful qualities.
YU NElt ALS furnished, and conducted with the greatest re-
spectability and attention.

SAI,GS BY AUCTION, APPRAISING, AND lIOUSE,
AGENCY.—'Try Register Estates and Houses for Saith or tol
Let, in every part of-she United Kingdoms.. Their very extensive
Connections afford peculiar facilities to their clients, for disposing
of every species of Property designed for Sae. Household Fur-
niture purchased ari Ijberal priors; or removed to a convenient si-
tuation [or ili,posal, where sales on the premises are objected to.

ESTATES SURVEYED AND VALUED.
RECEIPT OF RENTS, Securities, and aU descriptions of Pro-
perty managed with promptitude and dispatch, whether under
trust or otherwise—and ample Security given where require!.
93, Llishopsgate-street Within.
Parities waked upon in any Part of the United Kingdom.

REPORT ON THE JAILS, 4-c. OF IRELAND,
CEXTRACTI FROM.]

Four Courts Mershalsen.—A considerable emolu•
ment arise. to the Marshal from rent and fees esta.

blished by the Court. The rates of the apartments, let
to either one or more prisoners, are painted upon the
door of the roam. The prison is closed at night, and
all persons obliged to retire to their apartments, stran-
gers being excluded from the Marshalfea. The prison
consists of three classes of persons; viz. 1. Persons
paying rent for rooms.-2. Common hall prisoners,
paying ld. per night.-3. Pauper prisoners. The fe-
male classes are very ill-accommodated with respect•to
a yard, having no other than tbat belonging to the
common•hall class of men. We strongly recommend
that the system of this prison should be radically al-
tered ; fees abolished ; rents reduced, and brought ;o t!le
credit of the public ; and that the Marshal should be
paid wholly by salary; and the under officers appointed
by the Government, and placed on salaries.
City Marshalsea.—There are thirty persons crowded
into one miserable room, in which they remain by night
and day. Their bedding, most deficient in quantity, is
ranged upon a long guard-bed, on which the whole

number sleep.
St. Sepulchre's Manor Prison.—The only g, onp
wham we found assembled together in the common
hall, were employed at card playing, smoking, Stc. in'
a room which presented, as did the prisoners, a melan-
choly picture of filth and wretchedness.
iiicliron4 Lunatic Asylum—The seners and water
closets bt,ll remain in a de!ective state, the use of many
of the latter discontinued.

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Lunahe Asylum, house of Industry.—The male pa-
tients axe generally employed in cultivating the garden,
assisting the beadles in tarrying coals and provisions,
washing potatoes, and sweeping the court-yards of the
house. The females are employed in making the
clothing and bedding of the house, in spinning flax,
knitting stockings, quilting, and assisting in cleaning
the house. The patients, male and female, receive a
small premium "in money on Saturdays, for the work
they execute in the week.
Private Lunatic Asylums, Fiaglas.—ln these three
establishments we saw but one instance (in the esta-
blishment of Mr. Gregory) of the strait waistcoat being
used, - atad in, this instance the patient was walking in
the garden. •
LunaticAiyhon, Donnybrook.—This asylum is esta-
blished by the • Society of Friends out of their own
funds, and receives eighteen patients ; at present but six
men and three females are in the house. The system
is admirably conducted; the treatment of the patients
humane and kind ; and the establishment in a most
creditable. state of order and cleanliness.
St. Patrick's Hospital.—For lunatics and idiots,
founded by Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's.
The patients are accommodated with good apartments,
and with yards for air and exercise. The present Go-
vernor, Mr. Campbell, is an officer well qualified for
his situation.
' Belfast House of Correction.—tliis is the only House
of Correction, with hard tabour, in full operation in Ire-
land,i and all its departments are improved since my last
inspection. Every male prisoner is occupied breaking
stones for the high roads, and streets; by thus uniting
punishment, with industry and school instruction, I be-
lieve as much good is effected as can be expected within
-the walls of a common county gaol. The testimony of
the Magistrates and officers is, that fewer committal&
have occurred since hard labour has been established.— i
A considerable profit is made for the county funds by
breaking stones; a prisoner can break half a ton in one
day, and his one-third of this amounts to 2d. the ac-
counts of which are regularly kept, and he receives it
9n leaving the gaol.
Antrim BridemelL—The old prison consists only of
two wretched cells, deltoid of all legal accommodation.'
Lisburn lisidemeil.—Two small dark cells, without
yards, day-room, or s ifficient furniture.
Ballimena and Ballymoney. —Two small rooms in the
top story of a house in Smithfield. The paupers com-
plained that they were not supplied, as the law directs,
with bedsteads, blankets, straw, fire, or food.
Lurgon• Bricktoeil.—lt consists of two dungeons four
feet under the level of the street, unventilated and de-
clared to be unwholesome by Mr. Wilson, the infir-
mary surgeon, who I requested to see it. There is no
yard, privy, or pump.
h'esuloten Hamilton Bridereell.—The bridewell con-
sists of two cells, and no accommodation of yards,
privy, or pump.
Tallow Bridewell.—The old cell is devoid of all legal

aecommodation, and should not be used ; it must be
very unwholesome,
and there is reason to apprehend
persons have reached the county gaol from this place in
a state of fever. _

Donegal Bridewell.—ThiS place is devoid of ail legal
accommodation of yards, Pump, priviei, bedsteads, or
blankets, and consists of four dark, damp, and unven-
tilated cells.
Letterkenn.# Rridewell.—This plate consists of two
dark unwholesome cells in the mai ket-house; and has
ceased to be used for prisoners. Thee is neither yard,
water, privy, bedsteads, blankets, nor fire place.
Enniskillen Marshalsea.—This place of confinement
for debtors is under the controul of the town corpora
iron, and consists of one large room over the mat ket-
house, and has not any legal acc unnodation of yald,
day-room, privy, pump, fuel, or fond for paoper pii
soners. There are two bedsteads, and the ee pair
of- bl inkets. -
.King's County regret :hat it is out of my
I power to make a favourable report of thii jail. The
rotuns ttod cells by no means clear' ; the iiris,nert under
no cot foul, except that of rime safe-keeping, and iu
eppearance morel like asst of savages than cieiattires
under moral government and punishment. One yard
was full of potatne pits, the private property of the
jailer, who avowed be used it as a place of security.
No regularity as to meals; and there were no ticicens
to confine the straw on the bedsteads. The leghlative
enactments of 3 G:o. IV. c. 64. %erre for the most part
totally neglected : the blankets old and deficient ; many
cells had no bedstead's. •
Shinroae BridetveS.—This prison consists only of two
dark small cells in a house where the keeper resides.
fhomastown Bridewell.—: The prison accommodation
consists of two cells, one day-room, a yard, and privy
for miles, and one room, a yard, and privy for females.
The state of the yards, for want of sewers to early off
the water, is such as to make the bridewell useless.
County of Kildare.lail (at Athy) —There are no yards,
pumps, hospital, Chapel, or proper day-rooms.
Maynooth &Wawa—Two small cells, without fur-
niture, bedsteads, or blankets. It is not much used ;
but his Grace the Duke of Leinster is about to enclose
a yard, and erect a privy and pump in it.
County of Wexford Jail.—The windows of the cells
and day-rooms of one class overlook the yards of ano-
ther, and consequently frequent communication is held;
and to such an extent does this evil exist, that the fe-
males cannot possibly be placed in any one part of
ithis prison where they cannot converse with the male
Prisoners. •
New Ross Bridetaell.—This place is devoid of legal
accommodation, separation. yard, privy, or pump.
Cootehill Bridewelk—The two cells are without fire-
places.
Woodford.—This prison consists of three rooms ; one
for males, with one small yard, one for females, and
one for the keeper ; it is supplied with bedding. The
keeper is not intelligent, and was ignorant of the rules
and egulaticns, though posted in the prison, and had
violated them by converting the female room, when not
legally occupied, to his own private use.
£yrecourt.—This prison consists of two prison rooms;
one for males, and one for females, with one }raid; it
is labelled according to regulation, and supplied with
' bedding, &c. The keeper has been dismissed on
charge of having pledged blankets,. and a boy ap-
pointed, who is totally unfit for his situation.
Town of Galway Jail.—The female debtors are kept
with female felons, vagrants, and those of the very-
worst character, of which they have justly complained.
On my last tour I found' the female class in this
prison in an improved and promising condition, under
an efficient matron, who has been replaced by one
totally unfitted for her situation, and the consequences
are very visible in the appearance and conduct of that
class, who are now in a state of disorder most discre-
ditable to the jail, and very different from that in which,
from the appearance of last year, I had reason to expect
to find them.

NEW DISTILLERY LAWS.
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The changes made in the Distillery Laws, by Acts
of last Session, &c. are likely to be of the most benefi-
cial tendency. About half a dozen of the English dis-
tillers, with perhaps a million at their command, have
been in the habit of dictating to the market and the
consumer ; and they therefore may not be very well
pleased with • the infringement upon their mono-
poly, not only by allowing the use of much smaller
stills than were heretofore legalized, but in permitting
the Scotch distiller to send his manufacture to England
for sale and consumption. This was a complete
triumph of the Scotch over the English distiller; nr
rather, it was a signal and resolute act of justice and
policy in the Chancellor of the Exchequer in breaking
down old precedents, crippling monopoly, and equaliz-
ing the laws and the advantages of the two countries.
The character of the change is that which few of the
public are capable of appreciating. The whole provi-
sions of the chief Act will take effect in the course of
two or three months. The most important change,
perhaps, is that which will, after January next, remove
tbe restriction as to the article to be used by distillers ;
—they will uo loiter be limited to corn. They May
then use molasses, sugar, rein, &c. or whatever they
can procure the requisite spirit from. The first great
advantage of these changes undoubtedly is, that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the coinage and
the good fortune to be able to kick from before him
some musty, unscientific, and impolitic precedents, by
which most regulations on this subject were heretofore
guided. This has cleared his way a little for future
operations. The-next benefit (without dwelling on that
of legalizing smaller stills) will result from no longer
trammelling the distiller as to the article he shallause.
If corn be cheap, he will purchase that article ; if sugar
be a drug in the market, and consequently low in price,
he becomes a purchaser of sugar ; and similar will be
the case with rum, &c. Such purchases will improve
the, markets for all those articles; and by such
operations, those interests that require relief. from
their produce being a drug, will find it in. in-
, creased demand, which will, of course, tend to improve
their prices. The distiller will, of course, if the law
1 perMit him, resort to that article in the market which