Star.
London, England, 1831-05-05 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTION.
O.GO tAI MABON.--ThiS young and ardent patriot
left Dublin ea Tuesday wenninight, on his way to Clare. On
posting into Nenagh, be was instantly recognised by the spi-
rited inhabitants of that town, who, to the number of several
thousands, took the horses from his chaise and drew him,
not only through the town, but insisted on continuing in
harness for two mites of the limerick road, the air respond-
ing with their cheers. He arrived in this city at three
o'clock on Wednesday, and after being loudly greeted by
the population his appearance drew round Moriarty 's hotel,
and receiving the visits of a vast number of his friends,
he commenced a most successful canvass amongst the Clare
freeholders residing in this . city, which he resumed on
Thursday with equal success. He left Limerick for Clare
about three o'clock, accompanied by his brother, Mr. Charles
Mahon, and Mr. George Comyn, of Hollywell, and on their
entering Ennis at seven o'clock on yesterday evening,
nothing could equal the burst of enthusiasm with which he
was received by all classes of the people, who would have
gone out to meet him were they acquainted with his ap-
proach. The people, in mass, surrounded his carriage, and
taking the horses from it, they drew their champion through
every street in the town, the cheers of the multitude fre-
quently mixed up, " We will, we are resolved to support
you ; who is the man that can oppose you in Clare 7"
O'Gorman Mahon thanked his countrymen for their recep-
tion of him.

On Thursday the city of 'WATERFORD election takes
place, when Sir John Newport will certainly be returned.
A gentleman named Christmas, has been spoken of as his
opponent; but Christmas, being an enemy to reform, may
wait till Michaelmas before he is returned.
DUBLIN.—Mr. Perlin, K.C., has addressed the city
(see Advertisement) and the really respectable citizens are
resolved, with one heart and soul, to follow the glorious
example of London, and return none but reformers.
Our private accounts from Waterford assure us that Lord
G. Beresford will certainly be rejected by the independent and I
high-minded constituency of the county of Waterford. The
supporters of Mr. O'Connell can claim only half praise while
they permit a Beresford to misrepresent their sentiments.—
We perceive, by the Waterford Chronicle of Saturday, that'
Lord George has actually had the temerity to call upon the
electors by a public address to return him on tory principles.
MEATD.—The freeholders of this county nean to do their
duty, and have determined on being fairly represented, if we
are to be guided by the great success which has attended
Mr. H. Grattan's canvass. We have learned from good
authority, that no doubt whatever is entertained of his
return. The people aro most enthusiastic. On Friday
and Saturday he canvassed nearly one-third of the county,
and the assurances of support he received, exceeded, we are
informed, his most sanguine expectations. At Ratoath, they
took the horses from his carriage and drew him through
the village amid the most deafening shouts of applause, and
on Saturday, they drew him into Trim where it was known
he was to have paid his respects to the electors.
LINERICIE.—An effort may be made to, Appose Mr.
Spring Rice in this city, but it would be a slicial failure,
and a ludicrous exhibition of foolish conceit and self-suffi-
cient vanity, for the gratification of which a large price must
be paid.
COUNTY OF WEXFORD.—Mr. Lambert's friends are
quite sanguine, and his canvas is represented as very suc- '
cessful. Colonel Chichester's votes on the reform bill have
rendered him extremely popular. We have received letters
from Wexford, conveying the gratifying intelligence that
Lord Valenti', with the aid of all the boroughmongers and
corruptionists in Wexford, has not the slightest•chance of
success. His defeat will be a glorious triumph to the friends
of freedom.

KERRY.—The enemies of reform dare not show them-
selves in this county ; all the candidates who have an-
nounced themselves are advocates of the reform bill. The
following is from the Clare Sentinel :—" Mr. John
O'Connell, of Grena, is said to be actively canvassing the
freeholders. No county in Ireland will be better represented
than Kerry, if it returns him and Mr. Bernard, and few will
bear'a comparison with that choice.
CsaLow COUNTT.—We have to announce an act of
almost incredible treachery committed by Sir Thomas Butler
against the cause of the King and the people. He has at-
tually resigned in favour of Mr. Horace Rochfort, who re-
fused to sign the Carlow requisition in favour of Reform !
He who came forward on Reform, to whom Sir John M.
Doyle generously and disinterestedly resigned his preten-
sions, for whom the Independent Committee made such ex-
ertions, has deceived them. But this conduct will only
rouse the spirit of Carlow to more noble exertions, it will
kindle a fiercer patriotism. We are authorised to state
that Sir J. M. Doyle's address will immediately appear.—
For Mr. Blakeuey's we refer to our advertising columns.
We have no doubt that Carlow will assert her honour against
the stupid band of corruptionists that would disgrace her,
and return those gentlemen.
in Ireland generally there is every prospect that his Ma-
jesty's ministers will gain considerably by the election. We
are sure of two reformers, excellent and trustworthy men,
Brabazon and White, for the metropolitan county of Dublin.
In the city we will not suffer ourselves to doubt of the suc-
cess of the Lord Mayor. Kildare will have two reformers
in the persons of Mr. More O'Ferrall and Sir R. Hart. In
Meath, a contest is threatened, but it is remarkable that the
four candidates who have addressed the county, namely,
Lord Killeen, Sir Marcus Somerville, Mr. Naper and Mr.
Grattan, are all four reformers, so that whoever is elected,
we shall be sure of two reformers. In Carlow Mr. Kavanagh
has retired—Colonel Bruen, who voted against the second
Reading, has been received with marked coldness. The
electors speak of two new men, Sir John Milley Doyle and
Sir Thomas Butler, or in the event of one of these gentle-
men declining, of Mr. Rochfort or Mr. Blakeney. In the
Queen's county there will be a struggle to keep Sir Charles
Coote out, and we have learned that this day, Mr. Kelly,
son of Mr. Kelly, of ltathmiues Castle, near this city, has
set off for Maryborough to contest the election with the
honourable baronet. lie will be supported with all the in-
deikendent interest, and we understand has very fair Pro-
spects of success. There will be no contest for the county
of Krilkenny, nor for the city, the present members, the
Lords Ossory and Duncannon and Mr. Leader, all
reformers, will be carried in without opposition. la Wick-
low there will be no oppwition, Grattan and !toward being
sure of success. In Wexford county there will be a con-
test ; Mr. Lambert will be started against Lord Valentin,
who voted against reform, with, we are assured, a certainty
of a successful issue. The town of Wexfo-d will be also
contested with Sir Robert Wigram, who came in the last time
on the independent interest, but who, very scandalously,
voted against the principle to which he owed his election.
Mr. Walker is the new candidate, and, we doubt not, will
succeed. In Louth there will be a contest ; Sir P. Bellew,
Mr..A. Dawson, Mr. Shell, and Mr. Fortesque, are men-
tioned. The only persons, however, who have yet addressed
the county is Sir Patrick Bellew. Mr. M'Clintock the
la* anti-reformer, has not come forward, nor is' it ex-
pected .that be will. Mr. Shell is in England, but his
friends aver that he will certainly contest the county. 'The
• borough of Dundalk, however, will return whomsoever Lord
Roden shall be pleased to select. Mr. Wallace, we are merry
to find, has withdrawn his pretensions to Drogheda, and
• rtb•re is no toe yet, that we beard of, pot in midnation

GENERAL ELECTION.
for the representation of that town, in op,-losition to Mr.
North, who, it is needless to repeat, distinguished him-
self against reform, and abused, so very unceremoniously,
the shop-keepers, to whom he will he obliged to apply
for their sweet voices. The borough of Portarlington
will return the nominee of the Earl of Portarlington.—
The county of Longford will be contested by Mr. Luke
White, either against Lefroy or Lord Forbes: In Mun-
ster, Tipperary, we fear, will lose Mr. Thomas Wyse. Lord
George Beresforn .has canvassed the county of Waterford,
and it is said that Mr. Barron will contesi the county with
his Lordship. Mi. O'Connell will come in without a con-
test In Clare there are three, and, it is now said, four can-
didates—Mr. M. O'Connell, Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, Major
Macnamara, and either Mr. Vandeleur, or Sir Ede and
O'Brien : sonic say that Sir Augustine Fitzgerald proposes
to stand. In the county of Cork, it is said, thene will be an
anti-reform candidate. In Kerry, the Kiiight hying te•
tired, a new candidate is mentioned in the rorson of Mr.
John O'Connell. In the North of Ireland; the forces will
be divided, and about one half will be reformers. On
j the whole, we have no doubt that reform will gain decided
advantage in Ireland.—llereantile Adeertizer.

REPORT OF THE BOROUGH ELECTIONS.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sin— In printing the extract from my Tour, an error of
the press has changed the year 1778, into 1788, and this
would be fatal to my anecdote among the curious in the his-
tory of cotton spinning ; because, iu 1788 or 9, Sir Richard
Arkright was Sheriff of Derbyshire, (three years after the
impeachment of the patent,) and poor James Hargreave had
then been dead ten or eleven years.
The invention of the Spinning-Jenny took place in 1765
or 1766; and Mrs. Burgess, Hargreave's daughter, whom
I saw, told me that the first had twelve spindles. She was
twelve or thirteen at the time ; and in 1828, spoke with the
clearest recollection of all the circumstances, directly con-
tradicting the various fables about the claims of others; but
I speak on my own recelleCtion of the origin of the word
Jenny.
In the paragraph referring to Mr. Secretary Peel, the
transcriber hats produced an ambiguity, by substituting he
for Master Peel, the Secretary not being in existence till
20 years afterwards.
By the moving crank, I mean the duffer, used in card-
ing, and so necessary to the important carding-machine,
Hargreave's proven invention, of which, set aside Ark-
right's patent in 1786. He left the Jennies behind
him in Lancashire ; but his co-operation with Arkright,
Shipley, &c. at Nottingham, lay in perfecting the water-
frames, and their double rollers, in the contrivance of which
Arkright bad at least joint merit ; for in such things Sir
Richard was no mean genius. —My chief object in
writing the notice given in the STAR, was to call attention
to the beggarly condition of the children and grand-
'children of 'a man, whose inventions have enriched this
country in so surprising a manner, and laid the foundation
of such princely fortunes in many individuals and families.
I felt also indignant at the contumely with which humble
applications had been treated by those who had so immedi-
ately and greatly profitted.
Chelsea, May 4,

R. PHILLIPS.

P. S.—lt may add to the interest of this article to ob-
serve, that the same ingenious man was the inventor of the
flying-shuttle, and his daughter told me, he contrjved it to
relieve a son of his, who had a disease in the chest.

I wish any printer who may copy the article from the
STAR, to substitute, but they set them, for sent them. A
full stop instead of a comma, is also necessary after the word
chamber. Near the end, invention should be inventions.

MEANING OF THE ENGLISH WORD COMFORTABLE. '

A pamphlet, entitled " Remarks on the Consumption of
Public Wealth by the Clergy of all Christian Nations, and
particularly of the Established Church of Great Britain
and Ireland," published by Effingham Wilson, gives the
following statement:

CONSVMPTION OT PUBLIC WEALTH BY THE CLERGY Or THE

ISTAIBLISHED CHURCH Or ENOLARD.
The Clergy of all the Christian world. (except the King.
dom of Great Britain and Ireland.) including France, the
United Stain, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Italy, Austria,
Switzerland, Prussia, German Small States, Holland, Nc.
therlands, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Christians in Turkey,
South America, and of all the dispersed Christians in all
other parts of the World, making in all, 1118,728,000 people,
receive only
While the Clergy of the Established Church of Rlgiand '
and Wales and Ireland, containing 6,440,000 people,
receive ..... £3,8:16,000
And the Clergy of all other denominations in Omit Hsi
lain and Ireland, for 14,600,000 people, receive Z1,1)24,000
We take the above extract from a small card, distributed
gratuitously in the streets. It is too remarkable a statement
not to attract notice, and its fallacies should be exposed, if
really erroneous. On the reverse of the same card, ultieli
might be called a kind of pocket comforter far Englishmen,
is the following, which we fear is too true to be control et tee'.

UNIVERSALITY OF TAXATION.
Taxes upon every article that emars into the mouth, or Lovers the
back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon every thing that it I lea-
sant to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste; taxes upon warmth, light, and
locomotion; taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters Orthr the
earth; on every thing that conies from abroad, or is groan at home;
taxes on the raw material; taxes on every value that is added to it by
the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampas man's appetite,
and the drug which restores him to health ; on the ermine which deco.
rates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on thie poor
man's salt, and the rich man's spice, on the brass nails of the coffin,
and the ribands of the bride; at bcd or at board, couchant or levant,
we must pay. The sichool.boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth
manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the
dying Englishman, pouring his medicine which has paid 7 per cent.
into a spoon which has paid lb per cent. throws hinowlf hick upon his
chints bed, which has paid 22 per cent. wakes his will on stamped pa.
per, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has laid Alt* for
the privilege of putting him to death. his whole properly is obeli
taxed limn 2to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are de.
mantled for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to
posterity on taxed marble ; and be is then gathered to his fathers--to
be taxed no more.
His Majesty gave audiences to the Puke of Devonshire,
Earl Grey, the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Melbourne, and
Lord Hill.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland ho-
noured the Earl and Countess of Cawdor with their tom-
pany to dinner, and afterwards proceeded to the concert of
ancient music

The King left town yesterday afternoon about five o'clock,
ott his return to Windsor, escorted by a party of Light Hoisi
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent entertained s
large and distinguished party yesterday at dinner.
lo the Court of King's Bench yesterday, the Attorney-
General obtained a rule to show cawee why a criminal in-
formation should not be filed against the /fonds° Pust, for
its animadversions upon the Lord-Mayor in regard .to the

late illumination.

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