Star.
London, England, 1822-05-30 00:00:00

11011 oilcans. MOVOPOLY:

TO THE EDITOR-
Bta—Tht Irish graziers' monopoly is_ not merely
monopoly of trade) bat Of land. For instance; tear
most considerable cattle market in the United King:
dom is Ballinasloe, in the County of Galway. In no
part of the United Kingdom is the rent of lend so
high as in the County of Galway:
gr. Vansittart's Bill to equalise the Salt Duty,
will throw open the international trade ih animal
food as unrestrictedly, or as equally as it is in corn
and other vegetable food, and will reduce' the-rent of
lead in the County of Galway. Inasmtith es the
graziers of Yorkshire, for instance, will supply rafted
provisions to the shipping of the port of Hull, and the*
gran iers of the County of Devon to the shipping of
.the port of Plymouth, the rent of land in the Countf
of Galway must necessarily decline to its natural
level. Unquestionably, by throwing open this trader
or by distributing the cattle in the County of Gal-
way over the soil of the United Kingdom, the rent
of land in the County of Galway must decline ; and,
vice.versa, it is the opinion of the Earl of Liverpool
that there should be no Government interference
with the subsistence of the people. Had his —nr‘.. I
-
ship's opinion been understood in It eland, it is ptoha.
ble the Irish graziers' monopoly would not exi,t ;
then the Provinces of Munster and Connaught would
not be crowded as they are with cattle, and toe un-
fortunate peasantry in those Provinces would not he
residing on mountains and in bogs, nor suffer, as rhe,,-
do,-the inexpressible miseries which follow in the
train of famine and pestilence.
I beg your permission, Mr. Editor, to comnauti.
rate to those peasants, through the mcdium of the
STAR, that upon the equalization of the sit!t duty,
the surplus cattle will move off from the fertile clic-
Alias, and they, the peasantry, who have to give
precedence to those cattle, will move into those fertile
districts, fiom the bogs and mountains in which
they at present reside.
The character of those peasants will he then bet-
ter understood. They hive been accused of niaitn-
ing or houg,hing cat tle from a vicious disposition—they
have done so, -thinking that by diminishing the num-
ber of cattle they would diminish the amount of
their 44 rack rents. The theory is good, thoti;:;l1 it
were to be wished it had been humanely ieduce,l to
practice. But Mr. Vansittart's Bill will prevent t'ais
ill•treatment of cattle, by removing the caul:.
Itowever, this two-faced monopoly of t:,e
graziers, of trade and land, will still exi,t, ~hold a
higher duty be levied in _Great Britain than in Ire-
land upon St. Übe's and other foreign salt, which
would be, in effect, to diminish the rental of Bri-
tish laud-owners, to augment that of the Irish gra-
ziers, and to give a partial advantage io the Irish
fisheries : whereas the thorough equalization of the
salt duty would take from the superfluities of tile
Irish graziers, and administer the total amount of
those superfluities to the wants of the Irish peasantry
.who are starving, or would have already stirva,
were it not for the benevolent interposition of the
British people.—l am, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Nay 28, 1828. K. T.

CORONERS IxouzsTs.—Yesterday evening an In-
quisition was held at the Bull's Head, York-street,
Westminster, before G. 41. Gam., Esq. Coroner, on zle
body of Mrs. Martha Quigley, a fine young woman,
aged 28, who was unfortunately killed on Monday
afternoon. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. T.
Quigley, a respectable tradesman residin; in George-
street, Portland Chapel, the father-in-law of the de-
ceased, that they had gone out, on Monday last, to
spend the afternoon at Battersea with a few relations.
While there they went to take an internal view of a
windmill near the spot; they went to the top of it.,
and on their return, the deceased being foremost, she
was suddenly missed—she had gone out on the land-
ing-place or stage, and at the same moment the mill
stopped ; witness became alarmed, and on asking the
cause, a man informed him that their friend was no
more; and he, although a stranger, was weeping at
the dreadful catastrophe that had happened. Wit-
ness then went out on the landing-place, and ob-
served the deceased lying prostrate ; she was alive,
but totally insensible ; the blood flowed profusely from
her head, ears, and mouth ; the deceased had been
struck by the sails of the mill. She was afterwards
conveyed as speedily as possible in a boat, as no
coach could be procured, to the Westminster Infir-
mary, where she shortly afterwards died. Verdict—
Accidental Death.

An Inquisition was taken on Tuesday on the body
of John Higton, only nine years old, lying at the Lon-
don Hospital. The deceased was received into the
hospital as an in-patient on the Bth, in consequence
of one of his arms being fractured by his falling in
the street from treading on an orange peel. He lin-
gered until Friday, when he expired ; his body was
then opened and.examined, when it was ibund that
he had been labouring under a most grievous disease,
as his liver and other internal parts were almost co-
vered with ulcers. It being the opinion of some of the
Doctors that his death was accelerated by the accident,
the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."