Star.
London, England, 1831-09-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER.

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A London correspondent has furnished us with the an.
need petition from the Corporation of Dublin, recently pre.
seated to the House of Commons by Lard Milton t

PETITION Of THE LORD MAYOR, 5H11171114 COMMONS)
AND CITIZENS Of DUSILIY,
Sbeweth,
That your petitioners being a legitimate body, formed of
component guilds appointed by ancient charter for the pro-
tection of trade and manufacture, cannot but view with deep
and alarm the present depressed condition (except in
partial instances) of the trades and manufactures of the city
and liberties of Dublin, most of which, from a state of former
prosperity, are becoming daily more cleptessed, and some of
them are entirely annihilated.
Your petitioners have to regret that this state of depression
and consequent distress is not confined to the manufactures
of Dublin and its liberties, but appears to have extended it-
self throughout the country generally; its flax and linen
trade, once the staple of Ireland, is receding trom the coun-
try, and other manufactures and pursuits are in a similar
state.of decay throughout Ireland.
That in consequence of such a state of things, numerous
persons that formerly derived support from those sources of I
industry, have been thrown into estate of destitution; those
who could effect it have changed the labour of the loom
and other fallen manufactures, to different pursuits, which
has again led to an increase of distress in other troth./ and
occupations, lessening as it has done the value of labour by
the accession of such number of persons ; and great cumber s
have emigrated from their native country.
That this decline in the amts of manufacturing pursuits
has rapidly increased within these few years and particu-
larla from the period when different legislative enactments
took place promoting the importation into this country of
Bridal and foreign manufactures, and other enactments af-
fecting trade and manufactures generally; and your peti-
tioners must therefore mainly attribute the effects which have
followed to the Muses which have preceded them.
Your petitioners have deeply to regret, that under such a
state of suffering depresaion, and while Great Britain and Ire.
land are so overrun with the manufactures of France, that

nation allows no reciprocity on her part, but on the contrary
(unless in trivial instances which she cannot avoid) her ports
are strictly closed against the manufactures of the United
Kingdom.
Your petitioners beg permission to state as their opinion,
that the real state of the local interests of Ireland does not
appear to have been at all times before the Imperial Portia.
mem, nor rightly understood in many instances, and to this
they must mainly attribute the several measures that have
from time to time been proposed or enacted for this
country, and which have been so detrimeral to its various
interests, and not front any want of good feeling towards
Ireland. The frequent changes in the administration of
Ireland, and the consequent want of local knowledge in the
new members of such administration. must always operate
against Irish interests in the Imperial Parliament, unless
nu mires be taken to remedy such a vital defect.
Your petitioners further beg leave to state, that exclusive
of manufacturing employment in Ireland, she abounds with
vast natural r. sources of wealth, even surrounding Dublin,
which could be made applicable for the employment of
her population ; besides her bogs, be: waste lands, her
fisheries, the forwarding of public works an an be brought
into operation for the promotion of employment, the benefit
of society, and the wealth of the state; ttiterould require
a board of commissioners to sit in Dublin to develops those
mourns, and make them applicable to practical purposes,
who would hold communication with the different persons
in Ireland interested in trade, manufactures, fisheries, agri-
culture, and other local interests in Ireland, and report to
the Lord Lieutenant, by which means the government of
Ireland would always be in possession of the true state of her
local interests. Such reports, your petitioners subnilt,would
by the information they would convey, simplify, and lighten
Irish affairs in the imperial patliament. Ireland would reap
the decided benefit by the assistance she would In conse-
quence receive, and her people would be made prosperous,
grateful, and happy. Such a measure your petitioners be.

Here would remove much of the cause that exists in the
minds of many, foe a repeal of the legislative with Great
Britain, and primate an increased unity between the two
countries.
Tonepatitimons thud= humbly pray your honourable
barns dm an wipsii beard et trade may be appointed by
pidinnent ID elt hi Debbi, their objects being the trade,
mssubeasno, monmeres, fisheries, agriculture. all public
works, aid Morsel improvements in Ireland. That such
board be _posed of persons particularly acquainted with
such faisesses and said board be incorporated with such
powers a the wisdom of your honourable beetle will °m-
older necessary to carry into practical of ects the objects
herein stated by your petitioners.
CURIA SZPIMIXEII MIZETING/The September
meeting, the most interesting sporting asamblage in Ireland
during the year, commenced on Monday ; the attendance
was way numerous, and the running on the first day was of
the best description. Ths Angleeeys and the Thirty Sove-
reigns Sweepstakes, both for two-year olds, afford opportu.
nity for the display of the first efforts of Irish bred attic;
and, as the entries were numerous, and some of them (by the
celebrated Starch) now appeared in the lists for the drat time,
the betting was very considerable, and the interest excited
by those races was greater than any thing which has been
witnessed at the Curragh for several years past.
Mr. Attorney-General Bhckburne Mr. Solicitor• General
Crampton, and Mr. B. W. Greene, his given it as their opi.
aloe that no power now exists in the crown to direct a re-
valuation of the benefices in Ireland already valued, for the
levying of first fruits.
On Monday last, an immense number of the peasantry,
well armed, assembled dose to the village of Emly, in order
to prevent a seizure for rent about to be made by Mr. Bery,
who, however, deemed it pendent not to enforce his claim,
and the fellows went at, after having fired several shots.—
Clowned Advertiser.

DIMLIN CORN gitcnAwair, Tussnar.—There was an
immense supply of wheat at market to-day, which sold
at a reduction of Is to Is. Id, and in some instances towards
the close, of full 21 per barrel. Oats sold nearly on the,
same terms u last week, and bee rather dearer.—Wheat;
red, 244 to 28s; ditto, white, 27s to 80; oats, lls to 1218 d
bare, lis fTd to 12s Bd._ _

NIA RRIP.D.MarIa, daughter of the late Gee. Butler,
of Jervis-street. Esq. to Mr. G;Butler, of this city..ln Bel-
fast, W. J. Eames, Esq. of Londonderry, to Elisabeth
Anne, daughter of J. Comyns, Esq.
DIED.—In Camden-street, Miss Jane Darley.

Yesterday morning these sessions commenced proforma ;
but, owing to the solemnity at Westminster, no bills of in.
&anent were read, or prisoners put upon their challenge.
Public notices had been posted in the purlieus of the Conti
that the presence of prosecutors and witnesses would not be
required.
At nine o'clock the Remain' and Commow Sax-
GIANT took their seats on the Bench in the Old Court to
attend the calling the Middlesex Jurors, after which the like
duty was performed in the New Court In respect tithe Lon-
don Inquest. The gentlemen were then dismissed, with or.
dm to attend the respective Courts at nine o'clock this
day. The Court then adjourned.
AfIDDI,ESII,X SESSIONS.
At the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, a paltry ease
of assault having terminated by a verdict of guilty, pro.
nounced against the defendant, Mr. Serjeant Pau., whohad
just entered the Court, rose, and said that he wished to make
a few remarks upon the case which bad occupied the atten-
tion of the Court. What sentence the Court would pass
upon the person convicted he did not anticipate; and be was
quite sure that what he might say would not prejudice him;
but he could not help remarking that the case, as far as he
knew it, was one which ought not to have been brought into
that or any other Court. He would not inquire what ma-
gistrate had committed the party, or held him to bail, be-
cause he was quite sure that no person would have thus ex.
ercised his discretion, had no more been told him than had
appeared in evidence adduced today. Mr. C. har.m ?.
begged to correct the learned magistrate. As counsel foe the
prosecution, he (Mr. C. Phillips) was aware of all the facts,
and they were that s—the prosecutor did not go before any
magistrate, and, therefore, was not held to bail; he went as
every man ought to do, who respected trial by jury,
before the grand inquest, who had found the bill proven.
Mr. Sergeant PILL was obliged for this esplanation.
He thought, however, that Hilo more had been said ex park
than had been related at the issue, the bill would have been
ignored. It was much to be lamented that in many eases,
owing to a trifling dispute, an assault was committed =gni.
sable by law, but which might be arranged without entailing
upon the parties the expense of having their difference ad.
juiced by a Jury. Ifs person, who, for instance, had a wife
' and eight children, was committed, in default of finding bail,
to prison, perhaps for six weeks, the evils arising therefrom
were numerous, both in a moral and political point of view.
Suppose the accused was in work, his family were deprived
of his support, and obliged to resort to the parish for relief;
and, after a paltry fine had been imposed, be, perhaps, bad
lost his work, and it was quite clear that his morals would
not be improved by his confinement; for it should be rot
membered that a person who, in the moment of irritation,
committed an assault, might be a man of moral habits, and
held In good repute among his neighbours. Other evils
beyond pounds, shillings, and pence, might be enumerated;
and he hoped that the day would arrive when those petty
bickering. would be settled without occupying the time of a
Court and Jury at a Quarter Sessions. Several Magistrates
on the Bench appeared to coincide in the observations of
the Learned Sergeant.