Star.
London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

TO TIM &OMAN oiroomo cuntormar or THE oterszesto DIMICII or

GALWAY AND WAY&
My dear and Rev. Friends,—perceiving by the newspapers that a
meeting has taken place in Londoa, on the 26th of this month, for dia
purpose of alleviating the alarming distress which at present exists in
this part of the country, I feel it necessary to direct your attention to
the circumstance, as affording additional evidence of that characteristic
benevolence of the generous English nation which shone forth so con-
spicuously in 11t22.
The unexampled patience displayed by your poor parishioners, during
this season of accumulated misery, has called forth the sympathy of our
fellow-subjects and fellow-christians in England ; and there is little
doubt that, while the people continue to conduct themselves in an or-
derly, peaceable manner, every exertion will be made on the other side
of the Channel to ameliorate their truly deplorable condition, and rats!
them beyond the reach of want.
With the Drviwz assistance, the noble and generous labours of those
who have already come forward in aid of suffer humanity will not
or
prove nugatory ineffectual. The great, the good, and the wise of the
United Kingdom will cooperate in the efforts ready made to arrest the
progress of famine and disease, to which **many of our fellow-gestures
have fallen victims.
It is your duty, my Reverend Friends, to make known to your
afflicted congregations the benevolent conduct of their British friends.
What a consolation to beholds Lord Mayor of London, accompanied
by his humane and kindhearted Chaplain, and surrounded by so much
of the wealth, the virtue, and respectability of that great city, actively
and efficiently engaged in attending to their wants, and administering
substantial relief to the poor of Ireland ! Hove not the poor, at least
now, cause to rejoice at their connection with Britain ? Will they not
be filled with affection and gratitude towards their liberal benefactors ?
And will they not offer up their sighs and supplications for the proape-
rity of England ?
And now allow me, through you, to caution all those over whom you
may have influence, against sending any false or exaggerated statements
of distress. It would be a most criminal ,abuse and injustice. Ail
those who seek for, and obtain any portion of the alms or relief, and
are not actually, and most urgently in need of it, or who aid or con-
nive at such fraudulent deception, will be gailty of the most grievous
criminality. Such conduct would be evidently dishonest towards the
charitable contributors, as It would be cruel and pernicious towards
those who are really in want.
If the poor of the country and in the towns are deeply afflicted, the
more opulent are afforded the opportunity of exercising extensively the
Christian and social virtues of charity, benevolence, and doe attention
to the wants of the needy, and thereby attaching to than, by the strong
chains of gratitude and affection, that important and meritorious class
of the community, the laborious and industrious portion of society.
I rely with confidence on your active seal fa promoting and firmly
establishing these mutual kindly feelings among .11 chess, and pant.
cularly towards the generous and liberal English people, whose disin-
terested kindness towards afflicted Ireland will, nape, be never forgot-
ten, and whom, I trust, we shall ever consider as friends, countrymen.
and fellow-subjects. I mean to develt pe more fully the principles now
hastily glanced at, in my next address to you....in the mean time I
remain, my Rev. Friends, your's meet faithfully,
Tuam, March 30. OLIVER KELLY.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
MAILS ARRIVED Tuts Dar—Dublin, I ; Waterford, I.
DEAL, APRIL —Wind N.W. light breeze.—The Hon. Company's
ship General Hard., Staunton, from China, and Les &fans Cheri%
Letallie, from Rochelle. have passed for Landon. Arrived from the
River, and sailed, the Ottawa, Douglas; Thomas, &Wart; Canadian.
Morgan; Self, Morris; British Tar, Addison; Ceres, Dunn; }a-
mouth, —; and Emerald, Prince, for Quebec. Remaiii, the United
Kingdom, Friend, for Jamaica, and Sarah, Columbine, for Bombay.
Baurox, APIUL S.—Arrived the Achilles, Cox, from Naples;
Temper, Slesso, from Genoa; Cottager, Harvey, and &. Birtieby,
—. from St. Andero.
Liviarom., Aram 4.—Arrived the Lady Amherst, Phillips, from
f,enos, and 3launcy, Junes, from Lishon.
SOUTHAMPTON. APEIL s.—Arrived the 8 n Galseppe, Pioggi, f --rst
Genoa.

Posvisiourn, Aram 5. Wind S to W.—Arrived his 111Ajesty's
ship Pearl, from Ireland. Sailed the Prince Regent transport, tor
Deptford.
Aran. 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Illarton,
from Valencia.

Fausoavu, Aram 4—Wind B.R. to S. light tweezes.
THE TURTON DIVORCE BILL.—ln consequence ef'
introduction of the Bill into the House of Lords to eli‘s,lve
the marriage of Mrs. Louisa Turton, who is thus see!jug
divorce, a vincula matrimonii, from her hush :nd,
Michell Tinton, Esq. a practising Counsel in the Supre.na
Court at Calcutta, she virtually renounces the prospeyti:e
rank of that gentleman, who will inherit the dignity of a
baronet from his father, Sir Thomas Turton, Bart. of liar-
borough Castle, Surrey, Clerk of-the Juries in the Com tof
Common Plea::, and formerly representative in Par'l.rnetit
for the Borough of Southwark. Mr. Turton, the alleged
offending party in this suit, is now in his 40th year, and was
united to Mrs. Turton (then Miss Louisa Browne, one of the
daughters of Lieut.-General Browne) in Nov. 1812, at
which period the lady was only 18 years of age. It appears
that in this collntry the regulation of divorca, by which the
conjugal relation is occasionally abrogated, cann-r
said to have received any settled form in our Gm einment
since the Reformation. An excessive facility i 9 ok-
solving marriages prevails through all the P:ote.hot
countries of Germany. In Prussia, in particul.o ,
marriages were dissolved in the year 1817, among
population not much exceeding 10,000,000. By the Prus-
sian Code, prepared under the direction of the cete •
bi %tee] 17redelick, a marriage may be dissolve by nottiril
consent, if, at the close of a year, there should remain no
hope of a reconciliation. According to the British eccle-
siastical law, no divorce, properly so named, is in :illy case
granted ; for a divorce a vincula matrinioni; is by tl law
only pronounced in those cases in which a marriage l.ad
been, for some reason, originally void ; and a divorcee' Ace.,
et mensa, which may be pronounced iu certain other ertsea,
is not properly a divorce, but merely a separation. Effectual
divorces are not granted under the authority of any general
law. The person seeking such a divorce is compelle,l tie
make application to the legislature, soliciting a law re ba
enacted for each particular case, and so far to supply the de-
ficiency of the general legislation. It appears that in an in-
terval of 128 years, computed from the 12th of William and
Mary, 155 statutes for the dissolution of the nuptial buml
have been enacted, and that all these, except 28, have Leen
enacted within the two last reigns.