Star.
London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

. IRELAND.

CORRESPONDUCL
DUBLIN, Dxc. 23.

The Marquis of ANGLESEY-has given great s 6:file-
t:on by certain legal appointments which he has re•
cently made. Yt.o are aware that a great part of Vie
litigation, particularly amongst the poor in Ireland, is
managed at the Quarter Sessions, and that a Barrister,
of six years standing at least, presides on the Bench. It
is a good plan, and if the Barrister were unobjection-
able in point of politics, would, -no doubt, serve to
correct the tendencies of the Magistracy, which you
need not be told lean rather against than in favour of
the people. Until Lord WELLISLEY's time, the As.ist-
ant Barrister was selected without a single exception
from the ascendancy part of the bar. During the Ad-
ministration of his Lordship, tome change took place,
and two Catholics were, for the first time, appointed
to this really important office. Three vacancies have
just occurred, and no little anxiety was felt as to the
names of those who should be appointed to fill them.
They were declared yesterday, and the satisfaction of
the Liberal party was unbounded, when they learned
that the appointments fell on Messrs. CUItaAN,
Tic-
KELL, and NUNN, three Liberals, and Gentlemen of,
very competent talents and acrwirements.
The following copy of an important letter, asl think
you witl deem it, from the Duke of WELLINOTox to
Dr. Corns, the Catholic Primate of Ireland, sill prove
interesting at this period to the people of England. 1
shynld acquaint you that a long intimacy has subsisted
bets een his Grace and the Catholic Archbishop. The
latter was Rector of the University of Salamanca when
the Duke fought the memorable battle at that place,
and it is understood rendered very important services
to rite army, from his great influence in the city and its
vicinity—

LIMA THOM THH HOCH cis WILLINSTON TO DIA. MI MS, CATHOLIC

NAMARA or 'ARLAND.

" Menus SW—I have received your letter of the 4th instant,
and I assure you that you do me justice in believing that I am sin-
cerely anxious to witness the settlement of the Roman Catholic
question, which, by betiefitting the state, would confer a benefit on
every individual belonging to it. But I confess that I see no pros-
pect of such a settlement. Party has been mixed up with the con-
sideration of the question to such a degree, and such violence per-
vades every discussion of it, that it is impossible to expect to prevail
upon men to consider it dispassionately. If we could bury it i■
oblivion for a short time, and employ that time diligently in the
consideration of its difficulties on all sides (fee they are very great),
I should not despair of seeing a satisfactory remedy.
" Believe me, my dear Sir,
" Eves your most faithful servant,
" WELLINGTON."

" London, Dec. 11.

The price of the 41b. loaf, best quality, is continued
at 19 sous for the sec3nd fortnight of Decenube., is
virtue of police ordinance.—Paris Paper.
A lamentable accident occurred on the 21st tilt. at
Naples. The cupola of the church at T-rre del Greco
fell down with a tremendous crash, and not less than
fifty persons were killed on the spot, besides a number
wounded.
Last week a dexterous thief succeeded in ext►acting.
no less than twelve silk handkerchief; throuAt the pin-
hole of the shutters of a shop-window in Salisbury.
There is no accounting foe taste. On Sunday last
A man unknown to fame walked into the river Eden,
near Eden-bridge, pulled off his CO4l, and wasred it in
the gleans ; then extending it on the grass, as if to dry,
returned to the water, and bathed his head 411 over.
He afterwards gave his co t another washing, pot it
on. and walke.f away, apparently much grati6ed. Toe
object of his ablution is not very perceivable. Some of
'the woudefing Spectators thought him a wat:r-wor-
sh Peer; of ets, with more reason, pri.nounced. him:
cr Zio• Carlisle Patriot.
It is repotted that the Brazilian Ambassador t.as
c %unteimanded the orckr for the vr•yage of tie
geese refugees to Rio de Janeiro, and that they a4l be
sent to Terceira.

Some time since, a Gentleman who resides in an
opulent town on the confines of Glouce:tershire place)
a humane mau-trap in his garden, for the purpo.e *of
preserving the crop of a very fire peach rite, which he
bad every reason to suspect ILIA excited the cupidity of
a neighbour,who, although to respectable circumstances,
9, as distinguithed by an orifortunate propensity
thieving. About five o'clock one morning he heard
sgii.l+ of distress from the garden,sanfl on looking out
of the window he discovered h;s neighbour in the trap,
near the forbidden fruit, where tie resci).ved.tite intrudes
should remain. As soon as the inhabiialit; of the town
were stirring, he sent the crier thiough the streets, in-
viting them to Kpir to his garden, if they wished ti:
see a thief in a trap. As it will be suppose!, hundre.t,
flocked to view the novel • and interesting spect.cle
*hick while it cured the party principally interested of
his unfortunate propensity, si,l remain as a st.nding,
jest for ever.
It is calculated by the astronomer, ENCICB, that the
cornet now moving ssithin the solar Syslein will, at the
expiration of two hundred and nineteen millions of years,
come in contact with rur earth ; and, of ci nose, one or
the other must be &sit ti)ed. "floe cornet alluded to is
the only one ever ei,elivered whose orbit is cor4fiiiro
within the solar system. Some astronomers ascribe the
present favourable tel perature of the s eatbrt to i s
influence.
MII:DNESS 07 Tree SEASON.—A Gentleman yeste -
day morning (Wednesday) brought to our office ((.he4
fathom Chronicle) a bean stalk in full leaf, and hem jog
bloiaom t and informed tv, that lilac trees and other
spring shrubs may also be sien in full leaf in a neigh-
bruiting garden. The hedge rows near the town are
spangled with primrose., and in the garden via friend,
a rose tree bearing buds, and a honeysuckle in full.
bloom, bear testimony to the genial warmth 41 the cli-
mate on Christmas Eve.

The first division of the Pottuguese troops was to
have embarked on Saturday last, under the command
of tieneral Saldanlia, who arrived here on Thursday:
'last, but owing to the vessels not being ready, the em-
barkation did not take place, and we are now inclined
to think it will not so soon as was expected ; and that
when it does take place it will be under more auspicious
circumstances than were some time ago anticipated.—
Plymouth Journal.
Tuesday se'Doight, a melancholy accident happened
tea fine girl, 16 months old, whose parents teside in
Bridge greet, Montrose. The poor int int, in an unfor-
tunate moment, took hold of a cip in an expose)
sito-
.tion, containing oil of vitriol, and swaliov.,ed part of
is. She was immediately seised with vomiting, and
notwithstanding that a 6ciss.6.,s. of soda was quickly
administered, ‘..ntinued to throw up a great deal of
fb 20,4 -.iled the same evening, ex ictly nine hours'
wa accident. The servant in the family acknow-
ledges that she had been in the practice of keeping this
Poison 4enerally in a teacup, for the purpose of clean-
ing thw Copper vessels—a practice which should not be
a 1 owed, as they can be
perked/ clouted without the
aid of vitriolic: acid. • •

REMINISCENSES OF THE KENT MEETING.
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TO THE .EDITOE.
Sot—The presnnsptuons attempts of the Papists rid
the fundamental laws of the British empire have not
for many years received such a check es they did by the
Kent Meeting. The Men of Kent, in the decided cha,
racier of that assembly, took another step in advance of
their fellow countrymen, which will pass down to pot.
terity hand in•hand with the other features of their his.
' torical renown.
Not that I less value the spirit shown by the Othei
counties, cities, and towns in England who are promptly
standing forward in the same cause ;, or believe that
any collective body of the inhabitants of the empire
will remain one step behind their brothers of Kent,
should circumstances arise which will summon dr rn
to raise their voices; but to the Men of Kent belong the
glory- of having taken the lead, and in their Meeting 60
Penenden Heath they seem to have so effectually re-
presented all England, that ever since that event the
Popish plotters and their ac rdigiox advocates have
evidently appeared quite paralyzed, and at a loss how
proceed.
But the real friends of civil and religions liberty."
the first parents. indeed, of those inestimable blessings
in Europe. the British Protestants, must not. suffer them-
selves to be lulled into fancied security by this ; they
mu't remain watchful at their posts; for in the Papists
they have the cunning of the arch enemy of human
liberty to deal with, and they must stand buckled in their
armour, and ready for the attack on all sides. '
The Men of Kent were not terrified by Sheil telling
them that the Popish peasantry in Ireland were "reap-
ing luxuriant harvests with famine in their faces." and
thereto'e must rebel; because they, judging in their
usual common sort of way, thought the 66 famine in dr.
faces" of these poor men must be the fault of the pro-
prietors of tho.e " luxuriant harvests," whether my
good Lord A. B 'or the Right Honourable the Mar-
quis of C. D. or his Grace the Duke of E. F. or any
other Anglo-Irish proprietor, or absentee, arid that
the secret lay in this—that those high and mighty
personages, rather than take the trouble of putting a
stop to the rapacity of their agents, or cutting down
their revenues to such a proportion with the natureil
their lands as would allow the poor reapers of their
" luxuriant hat vests" suffiCient food to drive " famine"
out of their faces, would rather cat up the Constitution
of the kingdom, and share it with the Popish Avatars
and Priests, thinking, by their influence, to keep their
reapers content with the 66 famine in their faces," and
make them, for the forgiveness of their sins,star ve quietly.
• Neither were the Men of Kent disconcerted by the
Lists sophist changing weapons on them, and telling
them of the high • dudgeon that seven milinris of his
countrymen were in, and their actual distaste of natural
nourishmen., because he, O'Connell, and a few others,
were not admissible to Sberiff,hips, Ju Igeships, and the
higher offices of the law; and because ten or twenty
Irish Gentlemen were not admissible to seats in Parlia-
ment. c hard-heintA Men of Kant, I say, were not
even moved to pity and commiseration by this, because
many high. minuet!, happy, and loyal English Gentle-
men were amongst theniselres who were not admissible
to such st -tior's, and yet'were contented with the rights
they possessed, indite from the clime of conterplated
rebellion.
But it warfortnnate for the Irish orator thvt the Men
of K. nt were disposed to be somewhat noisy during his
harangue, and did not hear all he said, or at lent all
he has wrrtten ; for had they hearcfhirn *len he accudd;
the English /ration of- bring the cause Of the "famine
in the faces" of the stares of his delusions in Ireland,
methinks he wr uld scarcely have escaped a transit in a
norm pond ;- for • .
Ingratitude i. stronger than trait*. aeons:
That Ireland is benelitteal by. her centsectioti
'land. .even his own inad a.sotiater; in their` intervals of
reit on, do nest deny ; anion man who jodgestationally
can .toubt, that, if it had not been for the selfish and
tviereznary asachinations of incendiaries like him, the
benignant influence cf 13s wish sway would ere now have
'ens/eyed Leland prosperous, peaceful, and happy.'
I have, Sir, taken this se‘ond glance at the Kent
Meeting, because I consider the spirit which was evinced'
in it, and which has since been so, warmly fnllowed up
by other divisions of the empire, as ju t came of national
j,,y and congratulation; it affords strong and solid
evi-
den -ti'that the vessel of the State yet rides in safe anchor
ground, and that the:Acted laws and institutions which

e derive trom the exist rience of ter fathers will se-
curely weather every blast which the audacity of Popery,
and the blogering of giddy thedribt may raise agaitiPt
them. , • 'x.

L is a anions •fict, and One ithicb.is wotthr
vestigatioo by medical men, that pet ions who are iii the-
habit of chinking hugely of malt lirpiors are tare!".
ictlowri to be seized with typhus, or other slol fevers,
what,eer other effects these liquors may have upon she
corwitution.
XALAPAs OCT. 12 =The King's Bridge (el t-meile
del 'ley) has been taken by the Government !Mops;
• d ti a cavalry that escaped, in order to join Santa
In have been made prisoners to a man.
AB ASCE or MIND.--A short tine since', a Gentle.
matt in Cheltenham, who had paid his friend a larfe'
sum f money, observed him,.whil-t eagage.l in im-
p ;• lint convet s.:tion, kiting small bits of paper out of a
p:ece which he held in. his hand. On asking him what
he.o a, shoot, the abcerit man discovered that he had
been engaged in the interesting occupation of destroy.
ing i 501. not., Fortun-tely, the sighature remained
between his thumb and finger, and with some difficulty
,everal bits were found to compose the number, which
enabled him to obtain the amount 'at the Bank of
En4land. •
Letto.rs have been reeeivecifrom Valparaiso dated the
15th of September. A perfect silence is maintained in
th.rii rela.ive to the disturbances which broke out in
July, from which it is interred that thcy had- been so
far suppressed as not to have any longer occupied the
public mind at the above-mentioned date. A peat
number of vessels hid arrived Irom the United States,
England, and Ilambiirgh, which had given much acti-
vity to the mat kets both of imports and exposits. Of..
the former the largest stock seems to consist of winc.
the price of which
_generally had considerably fal:en.
IS was believed at Valparaiso that the Peruvian decree
of the 13th of June (respecting prohibitions) could not
be put into execution at the period fix d for that purpose.
GLAstrow, Dec. 23.—We have now arrived at the
shortest day ; and, wi•h the exception of two nightie
there has not been frost severe enough to hurt the ten*
detest vegetables. The frosty nights cut down the
dahlias; but the passionflower still blossoms on sae:
protected walls, and even in exposed gardens apple
trees, polyanthuses, auriculas, wall-flowers, and scarlet
roses) might-, a•few days ago, be seen in blossom.—.
Such has been the extraordinary wetness of this year,
that Cia. ground can be scarcely laid' to have been at
anytime properly dry. The youftis wheats, howcyerii
notwithstanding the unusual cniust t1iPc.,112.9"644 a
very premising appearance.

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SHIPWRECK 01. A BRITISH WEST INDIAMAP.
Friday morning last, the 19th Inst.& large brig, sup-
posed about 250 tuns, seamen aslrste about six o'clock
in the morning, on a dreacsful reef of rocks. a quarter of
a mile to the Westward I f Fatelle, two mi es east of
Bulthigne, and very shortly became a total wreck, and
all hands perished: she proves to be the William, of
Liverpool, from the West Indies, with a cargo of cotton,
coffee, sugar, logwood. &e. It will scarcely be credited,
but it is a fact, that not the least exertion was used on
the part of the French Authorities to save the lives
of the nofortimate crew arid passengers, though some
poor fishermen. p'.ssessing mote of the Milk of human
kindness than the ausaniers, succerd,sl in getting on
shore a poor black fellow dreadfully elliau,ted and
bitrsed, who walked, supported by these worthy fell:Ars,
some distance on shore, and gave him a dram of
brandy, and were in the humane act of takiog him into
their but, when they were forcibly driven away from
the poor fellow at the point of the bayonets of the dom.
niers, and the wretched creature was left on 'the ground
exposed to the cold and wind, and in a few hours after-
ward. found dead ! In the course of the afternoon seve-
ral bodies floated along shore, bat the sloth, lilies pod-
tively refused to allow any one to pick them up, and on
the ebbing of the-tide they washed to see again. The
inhuman conduct of those whose duty it w?: to protect
the lives and propetty of the shipwrecked, has caused
a feeling of disgust in the minds of the English and
better classes tit French ioll.)ulogne. The reason as•
signed by the dew:Niers for their barbarous conduct on
this melancholy occasion is, that they were apprehensive
the vessel was from an unhealthy.pott : but if this bad
been the case, surely more was t i to apprehended from
the cotton and other like article if tie cargo, which
they run no little risk in securing tor themselves, at the
very moment they forced a fellow creature to misera-
bly perish on their inhospitable shore. exhibiting a sad
contrast to the conduct of the English towards the pa -
sengers and crew of Li Jeune Emma, a French West
Indiarnan,votecked on theWelch coast a few weeks bask.

Bottom Coaw.—Within the last two or three weeks
there have been remove d from the bouding wateh-u-es
at this port nearly .25.000 quarters of wheat, 7.000
quarters of barley, 4,000 quarters ot beans, arid 1 500
quarters of peas, for borne consumption.--Hull Packet.
It appears by. the (Andel returns, that in the 'meth
of November 4.40,746 quarters
.cf foreign grain, nearly
all wheat, paid duty for home consumption, ant 414,256
quarters (of which, however,'only.lo4,99l vatic, a wets
wheatrremained in warehouse'at the end of the moth.
The quantity 4( foreign grain actually Antro43oced is
November, and that remaining evadable for house (004..
sumption at the end of the make, therefore,
about 850,000 platters in ill.. Considerable.iniporta=
lion? seem to be still in prigiess, so that the aggrep.aist
supftly to be detivei fr..m abroad promises to be gtestet
than, under the unfavourable- citcutstances of the bar•
vests of other countries, could have. been at first anti.
It is stated horn MosccStv, under the 15th ult. thiskt'
notwithstanding the abundant harvest e f wheat in at-
most
-all the provinces most productive of the .article,
prices have been ma.ntained very high in the govern. •
ments of Or el, Tatieby ff, and others, owing to the ince,•
sant demand kept up for the
.ports of the Baltic, and a
the ititelliga-nce b.td clops )ti other cot:butes. The
same accounts are given from Tagatiroc, Under date of
the'sth (17t!,) tilt: An eider 'had_ been received by a
•eommes teal house, horn T. ieste, fur 22 000 chetwerts,
which immediately forced up the price of the article
/roe 81 to 10 Foubles.. I: is not stated, howevei, how
this oraet is to be executed t and, under existing cis-
cumvances,che issue ot Black Sea wheat through the
Hilleapont is iniprecticab:e. Att the mai ket of-Amater•
Jam, wheat rose hum 10 to 15 florins on the I6:h insts
aud consideraFle purchases were made for exportation
grid on speculation. Other kinds of grain remained
stationa.r..
A chimney swes-per of this town, named Motris‘•
haling been engage] to sweep the (Lumley of a house
in Fot street, tepaired thither, accompanied by Samuel •
I,e s is, one of hi. climbing boys, on Tuesday mottling
lasi ;and the usual arrangements being made, the latter •
was sent up one of the back room Rum Some time
alter the Foy had gone up Morris observed that smoke
was coming, down the aperture, and, (eating danger,
instantly called .to the little fellow to. make speed and
return. He replieJ that he would, and Morels fancying
that from same connecting flue, the vapour issis,ht have
got into the stack in which the boy was from the one
in front, I st 1.0 time in taking out the file, which had
been kindled in the grate in the front room. The
poor child, •lioss eve., did •nnt make his apy eitance,
and Mortis tin to fetch two others, his appren•
tice ;.one of i'unn
.was Ist ourptly dispatched up the
chimt.erinto which Lewis. had gone, but, to the sur-
prise .11. all piesent, came, down again 'without-any tid-
ings of him. The chimney' in Boot was nest hied, but
with.the like success, and all patties sere at fault. At
fait it was iuggested that a trial should be made of a
chimney in the adjoining warehouse. The supgestion
was adopted, the fire in the warel:cuse extinguished, a
boy,,was sent up, and retuned, .sure enough, with MI
account of having fouild.poor Lewis ; but tie flue in
which he 'had discovered him was so confised that be
could not be brought down.' The measures nem nary
for theextricating the boy were promptly resorted to;
and by the removal of part of the stone-wort -at the
back of the premises, the. little fellow was taken out#
but we lement to say, quite dead. To aci..unt for the
singular circumstances undei which this poor child met
his death, it must be explained, that although thok
warehouse in question is at the extremity of the bed&
ing in which the accident happened, and the chimneys
engaged to be swept are at the other, the due of the
former takes a direction all along the back of the
licuse, and at last joins the chimney into which the
boy had proceeded. It is, therefore. evident, that the .
deceased,-op his return, unfortunately missed his way,
and crept into the flue of the warehouse. se: ere he was, •
no doubt, smothered, in his vain endeavours to force a
passage. This unfortunate boy was between eight and .
nine years of age, and had been appremiced to Morris
from the Lancaster workhouse. An Inquest was held
•sn the body, the same dab.before J. TiIOVGIITON, Esq.
and a verdtct of accidental death returned.—Preston
Pilot. • f*,

CORN-EXCHANGE, MA RK-LANR, Dec, 26, • ,
Our market this morning had the appearance of a complete
Christmas holiday ; not a sale has been effected, and prices mug
be quoted nominally as on hlonday.
usruassnons since 'IIO3IIIA/r
Whe.it, English (qrs.) I,obo Foreign
!rids Oats, English
Foreign 114,600 bids
Barleys Entlibb , 6,01:0 .loreign
Irish . , •—••••• Flour (sacks)
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Du. 26.

;SOO

4,000
2,7011
4,100
4,020

CATTLI AT MAIIXST.
Beasts 130 I Mseep aid Lambs 1,65? I Piss SO I Calves 44
Beef . . 44 to 51 Od I Veal ..b.44 to e, `AI
Matton . 41 44 6e lid Pods . . s. 44 SPA
atirer load, Aga SOL to Ai 00, Mott ats to. to 4s or
s•
11 196 ti 3411.

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