Star.
London, England, 1830-04-12 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

It it understood that St. George's Church, Limerick,
will soon be converted into a receptacle for transacting the business
of the Irish Provincial Bank in that city.
By a recent rogu!ation, the situation of Inspecting
Commander of the Revenue Coast Guard service in Ireland, can only
be held, as in England, by an officer of the rank of Commander in
the Royal Navy.
The largest holly-tree now known in Europe, grows
at present in the garden of Richard Armstrong, Fag. of Ballygawly
it is upwards of 60 feet in height.—Newry Examiner.
A general meeting of the Manchester Pitt Club was
held at the Star inn on Thursday week, when, we understand, a re.
solution was passed, " that there shall nut be any anniversary dinner
of the club this year."--ifanchesicr Journal.
WooL.—The opening of the Elbe has liberated a con-
siderable quantity of German wool, and the arrivals within the lot
ten or twelve days amount to 5,000 bags into Hull, and :1,000 into
London. Before these arrivals the stock of foreign wool under 211.1
per lb. was reduced very low, and even now there is a tendene7 up.
ward in the markets of Leeds and Huddersfield. The stock of Spa.
nish woollin the British market is said to be unusually small.
Leeds Mercury. 1

TRADE AT OLDIIAM.—The hat business is much
brisker here than it was some time ago. The late desponding
I weaver looks a little livelier, though strong fustian advance slowly,
say ls. lid. at most per cut of 50 yards. Spinning Is regular, and
prices stationary. There are not so many groups of idle and in.
active gazers in the streets as there'were some weeks ago ; all arc
generally on the move —Manchester Herald.
POWER-LOOM NV EATING.—An advance in the wages
of powcr.loom weavers, to the amount of Id. per cut, was made last
week by one of the principal manufacturers in this town, warranted
by the improvement in the prices of goods and the increasing de-
mand for the manufactured articles.—Stockport Advertiser.
Emigration to America seems to be on the increase in
the neighbourhood of Lincoln. Besides several families which are
moving front that city in a body, consisting of the most industrious
artisans, such as basket makers, coopers, cabinet makers, and smiths,
there is scarcely a village which has not many instances of persons
that either have recently departed, or are now setting off for the free
country of America.—Doncaster Gazelle.
Last week we stated that 73 persons casually met on
Tuesday, in the small village of Wetwang, near Driffield, all on
their way to emigrate to America. We have since been informed
that we understated the number : that, in fact,: there were above
cis,* ! From that village alone, twenty-two persons set off on the
route for America on Tuesday week, and were to be followed last
Tuesday by 32 more.—Hull Adv.
We are very sorry to have to state that an extensive
embezzlement has this week been discovered at the Churchwardens'
office. Of the extent to which the embezzlements have proceeded,
or the time during which they have been in progress, nothing cer-
tain is known, beyond the fact that they are already ascertained to
have been on such a scale that a very considerable number of years
must have elapsed since their commencement.—Manchester Guar.
dian.

One of the witnesses examined before the Committee
on Scotch Banking stated that " there is a prejudice against gold in
Scotland ; this prejudice is simply on account of the trouble attend-
ing it—it is weighed ; when it is found light people refuse it—the
country people are afraid to touch it. There is not a district in
..h..., iCr u.vearvwlu6 w pass a sovereign,
they would say, if you had a note of any bank in Scotland, they
would prefer it."
CHURCH Wonx IN TIPPERARY.—A printed docu-
ment was produced to us on Tuesday, and which was authenticated
by having affixed to it the " hand and seal" of a magistrate of this
county. Its purport is to cite some poor wretch to appear (at his
peril) before four magistrates whom it names, at the Courthouse of
Fethard on the 12th inst. (Easter Monday 0 for neglecting to:pay the
Churchwardens the sum of Two Pence ! ! ! of such summonses
we are credibly informed no less than Six Hundred have been served
within the last few days upon the unfortunate and destitute peasantry
in the neighbourhood of Fethard. Summonses have also been issued
there, for the sum of (inc Penny, and in some instances, when the
half.starved creatures (having begged it) °fend it to the Church-
wardens, it was refused, unless One Shilling, the cost of the sum.
mons, was thereto added ! ! !—Tipperary Free Press.

A TEnnon TO EVIL DOERS.—The Mayor of Mac-
clesfield must be a gentleman of gigantic strength, and a terror to
evil.doas, if what our contemporary of the Macclesfield paper says
be true, that he is in the habit of shaking the treadmill in the face
of his customers like a birch broom at a naughty child. "On Mon-
day last," says the Editor, "an Irishman applied to the Magistrates
for relief, and insisted upon being conveyed to Ireland by an order
of removal." It was stated that he, in company with another man
and a woman, and her family, had bean relieved a few days pre.
viously, and that his companions had gone of with the money,
leaving him to seek to obtain relief a second time. " The Mayor
shook the treadmill in his face, and told him to be (Mahout his bu.
siness."—.Slockport Ache e rl ire r. _

SING ULA R CASE.—A correspondent informs us that
there is • boy living at Denny who about three months ago was
seized with a dropsy, for which he underwent the operation of tap.
ping ; after which, the water again gathering, the boy was so much
swelled that the two doctors who atterded him said he must be
tapped a second time in a day or two. It appeared, however, that
a boy went to see the one affected with dropsy, who mentioned to
the other that he had a strong desire to cat some onions; the boy
went home to his father's house and procured some for him, and,
what is remarkable, in a short time after eating them the swelling
abated, the boy discharged a great quantity of water, and continues
to do so. He eats onions every day, and is nowt walking about.
Haw onions in this case appear to have produced an astonishing re-
sult, which, for the benefit of persons similarly afflicted, ought to
be known.—Glasgow Chronicle.
A STRONG ORJ ECTION TO TITIIES.—At the Fethard
meeting, which was held on Sunday week, Mr. Bacon, a Protestant
gentleman, attended and stated, that in a parish where it is now
sought to establish church rates, there were no churches, nothing
but ruir.rel walls, where the ivy and the moss were growing, and
birds making their nests!—and concluded by these strong °hems,
dons - " I do contend for it that there is no law in being to make a
man give his money, or rob him of his substance, and to get no va-
luelfor it. 1 pay neither tithes nor church taxes ; I hope I will never
be asked for any ; if I should 1 am determined never to pay any, let
the consequence be what it may. I resemble so far a Quaker, al.
though I am a libetal Protestant—because tithes and church taxes

arc repugnant to the Gospel of Cite IST, and forbidden in that di-
vine volume."—Morning Register.
FISHERY 13ouNTIEs.—On the occasion of the pre-
sentation of petitions fur and against the continuance of the bounties
on fish, Mr. Herries said, that the subject was undo the consideta-
lion of government, and he hoped that the plan which would be
adopted would be satisfactory. To st.t the bounties aside at once
was out of the question, as it was a great doubt whether they
ought to he discontinued on account of the disadvantages occasioned
to some other branches of trade, when, by so doing, another branch,
which was a nursery for good and hardy memo), would beof neces-
sity then given up.
EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE OP A YOUNG
MAX.-At was stated in our paper a short time since, that a young
man, named °teen, who was a journeyman printer, in the employ.
ment of Mr. Cave, a muter-printer, at Islington, had suddenly dis-
appeared, after leaving the Red Lion public-house, Ilford, at mid-
night, in company with several persons of doubtful reputation.—.
Although great exertions have subsequently been used to discover
the young man, he has not since been heard of. Taunton, the
Bow-street officer, went down to Ilford, and took some par.
tics into custody, but after undergoing as examination before
a local Magistrate, they were discharged for want of evidence.
—Subsequently, one of the men absconded, and previous to
his going of he had asserted " that he mould say sk great deal
about the affair if be would, bet be would not do es without being
well paid for it." Two officers were sent from London to Ilford oat
Saturday. to make farther inquiries. So satisfied are the inhabi-
tants of Ilford that the young man hes some to an untimely end,
that they have entered Into a subeeripdon w defray the expense et
Inquiry Iwo the esepieless seentrenee.