Star.
London, England, 1822-05-09 00:00:00

FROM TILE DUBLIN EVENING POST.

Although pressed more than ordinarily for space,
we cannot avoid, in reference to the duty we owe
even to the dictates of humanity, from placing the
following few paragraphs before the Public. Again,
and again, we say the people are literally starving,
and the citizens of Dublin are canting about the
Bible and the Religious Tract Society. OUR SAviowt
fed the multitude with the loaves and fishes before he
preached his Sermon on the Mount. In London it
has been otherwise. Two subscriptions have already
been opened. In Dublin, nothing has been done. It
is, we repeat, a crying shame !
_ CASTLIOAR, MAY 2.

Accounts of the most serious suffering are pouring
in upon us, and we have a perfect conviction on our
mincl4, that more than half the people of this county
are unable to procure half enough to eat. One case,
communicated by a Magistrate, we select from se-
veral which have both fallen under our observation
and been mentioned to us. A man, named William
Kerby, of Carabeg, has perished for swot of food !
A party of nine men, wearing white shirts outside
their coats, broke into Milford House, near Miltown
Malbay, in the county of Clare, on Saturday. the
flth ultimo,' and took away a quantity of potatoes.

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RESOLUTIONS FOR REOULATIOPt
. CORN TRAIDR--BY MR. CURWIN.
I.—Tbo Average Price of Wheat exceeding Ws. and the
Ports bebsg declares! open fot the Importation of Foreign Wheat;
varelaTerdedat exceeding -Four Hundred Abonsand *quarters,
be • , on a duty of We. per Charter.
. The. Average Price of Wheat continuing above SOL at the
expiraden *Ellie Weeks froth the first opealor the Ports, a farther
Import.** of Fqur Hundred Thousand quartets to be per-
mitted, at Ss. per quarter.
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PARLIA NENT.ARY PROCEEDINGS.
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HOUSE OF LORDS,MAY 11. • 1
Their Lordships Witt at ten o'clock, to hear Appel •
MACAO, Appellillart OFFICin Of STA= IS •1106.6111109
- Respondents. •
This was an appeal frOm the Court of , *—Mr.
Wass= and hlr. &Aux-re were heard far. Appiliantr; the
Arroamay-Gesuoms., in part, for the 4.-r-ioniser ar-
gument postponed.
Faveral private Bilb were brought up from the House of
Consesons.ky Sir J. GLAIIAIe.
The Scotch Malt Duty 11111, and the Irish Linen Bounty Bill
Were read a second time.
The Excise Licenses Bill was read a third time, and passed.
The Countervailing Malt Duty Bill was coinmittedo—Ad-
journed.
HOUSE OF COMMON&

Sir H. SHAW presented a Petition from the !totel-keepers
of Dublin, against the Window Tax levied on them by the
Police Act.—Laid on the table.

Mr. LOCKHART presented a Petition from seieral Owners
and Occupiers of Land of the County•of Oxford, expressing
their surprise and dismay at the proposition contained in certain
Resolutions before the House (those of Mr. Ricardo), for ad-
mitting the warehoused foreign grahisinto the market; and two
similar Petitions from the County of Dorset and a Hundred in
the County of Essex.—Laid on the table.
Mr. CH ILDE presented a Petition f om the County of Salop,
for a revision of the Criminal Code.— Aid on the table.
Sir J. NEWPORT presented a etition from the Woollen
Manufacturers of the town of Carr against any modification
of the Act protecting their manuketjes.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON trusted that care would be taken
not to injure the manufacturers in Ireland, who had, on the faith
of Acts of Parliament, embarked their capitals in manufactories.
Mr. WALLACE said that inquiry was going on upon this
subject, and that, if any change was proposed, care would be
taken to give due notice to the parties interested.—Laid on
the table. _

Mr. Alderman WOOD gave notice that he would(on Tues-
day, move for the production of such book or books as have
been kept in Ilchester Jail since the appointment of William
Bridle to be jailer.
Mr. F. BUXTON, me behalf of Sir J. Mackintosh, post-
poned his motion on the state of the Criminal Law to Tuesday,
the 4th of June.

Mr. COURTEN AY moved for leave to bring in A Bill to con-
solidate and amend the Laws relating to Prisons.—Leave given.
Lord F. OSBORNE presented a Petition from the Town of
Cambridge, praying fur a revision of the Criminal Law.—Or-
dered to be printed.
Mr. LAWLEY presented two Petitions from Owners and
Occupiers of Land in the County of Warwick, expressing their
surprise and dismay at the propositions contained in the Resolu-
tions of the llon. Member for Portarlington.—Laid on the table.
Mr. CKREVEY moved for a Copy of the appointment of
the present Clerk of the Pells.—Ordered.
?Ir. G REN FELL wished to ask, now for the third time,
what was the cause of the deli), in the production of the corre-
spondence between the Government and the Bank on the sub-
ject of the renewal of the Charter. There was a letter of Lord
Liverpool's published in a Newspaper, and if the correspondence
was so limited where was the ground of delay ?
Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that he had but to repeat his an.
swer of yesterday, and referred the Hon. Gentleman to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. GREN FELL moved that the correspondence be pro-
duced forthwith. •

Alr. LUSHINGTON Wished the Hon. Gentleman to wait
until the Chancellor of the Exchequer took his seat.
Mr. BROUGHAM saw no reason for waiting. The delay
was a contempt of the House.
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• The House was about to divide, but the motion was carried
without a division.

Sir M. ♦V. RIDLEY gave notice that he would, at the pro.
per occasion, propose a clause in the Navigation Bill, to repeal
the Tonnage Duty altogether on British ships outward and
homeward bound.

Sir R. HERON postponed to next Session his motion respect-
ing the Settlement of the Poor.
Mr. HUME wished to call the attention of the House to a
mistatement in a Morning Paper, of what had Linea from him
the day before, on a motion for the Return of the several.sums
paid for the insertion of Proclamations, Advertisements, &c. in
Public Newspapers by Public Offices. This was not a private
matter, but a purely public transaction. He would premise
that he was the advocate of free discussion on public questions,
and would be the last to limit the right of examination into, and
animadversions on the conduct of public men. He never would
bring a public journal into the least trouble on his own account ;
but he would require, in return, on the part of public writers,
an adherence to truth. Whether or not he had a right to com-
plain in this instance, was for the House to judge. The Hop.
Member then proceeded to read an extract from some comments
made upon what fell from him on the occasion alluded to by one
of the Morning Papers, and concluded by saying he had no inten-
tion to take any step against the Paper, his only object being to
set himself right with the Public as to the purity of his motives.
Mr. LUSHINGTON having moved the Order of the Day
for the second reading of the Stamp Duties Repeal Bill,
Sir M. W. RIDLEY asked whether it was intended to lower
at all the duties payable upon debenture bonds, which were at
present excessive ? It was usual in transferring debentures to
give a bond ;
.but the stamp duty was often so high that they
were of no use to the merchants, which was a great grievance to
the trade.

Mr. LUSHINGTON said, this was not the first time he had
heard complaints against the part of the law to which the Hon.
Baronet alluded. When the Bill came into the Committee, it
would be seen that the subject had not been overlooked.
After some more conversation the Bill was read a second time/
and committed for tomorrow. _ _

Mr. LENNARD postponed his motion for the repeal of the
Seditious Meetings Bill to Thursday, the 30th of this month.
The Order of the Day for going into a Committee upon the
Stamp Acts being moved,
Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that his object was to propose
some Resolutions In the Committee, relating principally to the
stamp duties payable on policies of insurance, as well as to regu-
late the mode of distributing these stamps. It was not, how-
ever, his intention to submit these Resolutions for discussion at
the present moment, as he wished Members to suspend their
opinions until the Resolutions were printed.
A conversation then ensued between Mr. Homy Mr. Baum;
Mr. Binds, Mr. C. Cadmus, Sir M. W. MIDLEY, and Mr.
Ewes ; after which the Hoene went into the Committee, the
Resolutions were adopted, and the Report ordered to be brought
up to-morrow.
Mr. BENNET gave notice that, on Friday next, be would
bring in a Bill to alter and amend the present mode of Licensing
Publicans.