Star.
London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

DISTRESS •!N IRELAND.

The typhus fever has broken out at Cork, to an
alarming extent. The distresses of the poor are said
to be unparalleled. Provisions in abundance are
brought to market, but there is no money among the
lower orders to purchase them, so that it is real
starvation in the midst of pletity.
A Meeting was held at Kilmallocic, in 'the county
of Limerick, on the 14th, relative to the distressed
poor of the parishes of St. Peter and Paul, Ballin-
goddy, and Tankardstown, at which it was resolved,
" That from eleven to twelve hundred paupers in this district
have not the means of subblstence for three months: that no less
a sum than from six to seven hundred pounds would be sufficient
to subsist those persons, and prevent starvation and sickness,
which have already commenced in several instances."
The following lamentable truths are contained in
'the printed Report of a Committee appointed to in-
quire into the condition of the suffering peasantry. in
the county of Mayo. Referring to a list of the names
of resident Gentlemen, from whom•they received in-
formation, the Report thus proceeds :
" They concur in most afflicting statements of the wretched-
ness of the peasantry, and place beyond the slightest doubt the
melancholy fact that very many thousands of our poor country-
men, in that County, are at this moment actually enduring all the
horrors of starvation and malignant disease. The High Sheriff
states, that a very malignant fever is making rapid strides in se-
veral districts ; and that he has seen hundreds of wretches greedily
seeking for seater-creates, wild mustard, nettle tops, dwarf thistles or
danddioa, all the Spring; Mr. Joseph M'Donnell states that the
people are emaciated, they have been excited by hunger to plun-
der for provisions, and have carried off yoting lambs front the
fields for food ; Mr. Strickland represents the typhus fever to be
extending rapidly, and the villages and roads crowded with beg-
gars evidently starving. Others represent the peasantry on the
coast as utterly destitute, and endeavouring to subsist on shell-
fish and sea-weed ! " _ _

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The Report from which the above extract has been
taken, thus concludes :
The Rev. J. Seymour, Rector of Ballaghaderrine, and
Chairman of a local Committee formed iu that town, in his
letter, dated May 22, states—' No pen can describe the state of
misery and despair to which the unfortunate victims of starvation
are driven.'

" The Rev. W. R. Smith, Minister 'of Castlebar, and one of
the Secretaries to the local fund of .that town, writes, May 9.1
' The misery of the poor here is hourly increasing. A family
last week, in their last extremity, seized on a sheep in a neigh-
bouring field, killed it, and devoured part, and carried the re-
mainder to the owner. A similar case occurred this week, with
regard to a pig. I have, myself, seen several venoms falling down
faint through weakness,frons want offood. Our local subscription,
the first entered into in the County, has already amounted to
above 22Q1. and out of this scanty fund we give relief to above
2000 famishing persons, at the rate of half a pound of meal a day,
and that sold at the third of what we buy it for ; but even this, I
do most solemnly, as a Clergyman, declare, does not give relief
to the one-tenth of the misery that nourly presents itself to view.'
,1 In concluding this heart-rending Report, and in order to
furnish all the alleviation of such frightful miseries that this Com-
mittee can provide, we beg leave most respectfully to suggest and
to urge that the largest contribution that your funds could afford
be forthwith remitted to the County of Mayo, in such sums as
will insure the most beneficial distribution. For we declare it in
the most solemn manner, to be our conscientious conviction, founded
upon the diligent perusal-of the communications of your correspond-
ents, that we items-EATT the extent of the calamity when we estimate
that not less than SZVZNTY TUOUSAND of our fellow-creatures, in-
habitants of the County of Mayo, being less than a fourth of its
population, are utterly destitute of food or the means of obtaining it.
That a large portion of that number has been in that deplorable
condition of dependence upon public charity for more than a
month past, and that the entire number must continue thus de-
pendent for eight weeks to come, at the least ; at the same time
that many thousands of them are pining away under the griev-
ous aggravations of malignant disease."

Mr. BARNARD WIDDICLIT, of the Hampstead road, died on
Saturday night from the injuries he sustained in having his gig
turned over on his return from Epsom Races on Thursday. The
accident was occasioned by the chaise getting foul of another at
the foot of 'Westminster-bridge, when both were overturned,
and Mr. Wironatar was taken up senseless, besides having his
collar-bone broke. His wife and son, who were with him,
escaped unhurt.
Dunn, the jockey, who was killed on the Cheater Race
Course, was interred on Sunday week at Delemere Church, at-
tended to the grave by a number of relatives and friends, by
whom he was beloved and esteemed. Mr. Mirrrotr, the owner
of the horse from which the unfortunate man was thrown, has
acted in the most liberal manner to the family of the deceased.
BETTING AT TATTERSALL: S, MAY 27.
This was an awkward Monday for many, it being settling-
day, when Moses brought them to book. There were no .Le-
meters upon this occasion, and so great stake was won or lost..
It was paying money backward and forward, with much equality.
There was but little betting, as follows :

IT. LIGSII.
I; to 1 apt Swap I 12 to 1 apt Papelick
7 to 1 apt Ajax I 14 to 1 aget Newbytk
NZWILLINETT ST. Lama—Even on Moses.

ALBANY STA EIS AT ASCOT.
Moses and Stamfcrd are both in this Stake. The New Mile;
and Mows gives Vbs. as the winner of the Derby; 2 to I on him.
Pastille and Stag are in a Sweepstakes at Ascot; worth 1,000
guineas.
DRIVING.
Mr. BaoAnnuasv's match to drive to Reading, and to carry
fourteen stone in a single horse chaise in three hours and ten mi-
nutes, for 100 guineas, proved a failure. lie did half the
dis-
tance (90 miles) in one hour and 29 minutes without drawing
bit, after which the horse proceeded at a losing pace, and was
pulled up at the 28 miles.
BOXING. _ _ _

Dawson, the navigator, said to be a better man than either of
his brethren of the pick-aze, who had a turn-up at Epsom Races,
is matched for '25 guineas to light Ha►ry Ford, the watebir,
man, in Berkshire.— lord is the favourite.