Star.
London, England, 1818-02-04 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

Sir IL PARNELL presented a Petition from the High She-
riff aad Grand Jury of the Queen's County, complaining of the
employment of the military force in cases for which the police
of the country should be amply sufficient, and praying the House'
to take such steps as they might deem most proper to put an end
to so unconstitutional a practice. The Honourable Baronet stated
it as his opinion, that if any addition were necessary to the police
of the county, it should be entirely separated from the military
power. He moved for leave to bring up the Petition.
Mr. PEEL said he was sure he would be funy borne out in
stating, that in no period had recurrence to military force in such
cues as those alluded to in the Petition been less frequent in
IrcJand than during the last two years, and that in no case whith
he knew of had recourse been had to it unless where It was ab-
solutely necessary. At the same time he thought it necessary to
observe that by an Act of last Session, Grand Juries were au-
thorised to appoint efficient constables, with adequate salaries, in
the room of those whom they might judge inefficient.
Sir H. PARNELL said something more must be done to in-
crease the civil power. He should find it his duty, if nothing
was brought forward in the course of the Session, to move for a
Committee to inquire into the subject.
Mr. FITZGERALD testified that military force had been
more rarely had recourse to in Ireland within the few last years
than at any previous time.
Mr. DOMINICK BROWN said that Constables in Ireland
were inefficient, l.ecause they ware inadequately paid. Some of
them had not more than 4f.a-year.
Mr. PEEL said, that with respect to the salaries of Consta-
bles, the Act of last Session authorized Grand Juries td
them salaries of 201. a-year.
After a few words from Sir W. Tinawasosts, who thanked his
Honourable Friend (Sir H. Parnell) for brltging forward the
subject the Petition was brought up, read, ordered to lie on the
table, Loi to be printed.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. CURWEN gave notice, that on Thursday he would
move for a revival of the Committee of last year en the subject
of Tithe%

Mr. WYNNE gave notice, that he would tomorrow move
for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the duration of Poils at
Ekctions.
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Committee
of Supply, which was received, and agreed to.
On the Motion of the Cuaricsuoa of the Excnituuss, an Ad-
dress was ordered to be presented to the Prince Regent, praying
that the usual Estimates for the public service of the current
year should be laid before the House.
There was laid before the House an Account of all Exchequer
Bills issued under the Act of the 56th Geo. HI. cap. 14.
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD moved the third reading of
the Bill to suspend the operations of the Act of the last Session
to regulate Grand Jury Presentments in Ireland.
Af!er some conversation between Sir F. FLOOD, Mr. FITZGL.
IlAt D, and Sir H. Pianists., the Bill was read a third time, and
paszed.—Adjourned.

THE EVE NWO STAR:

," LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1818.
Ass-Wasom►*.-Holiday at the Bank, Esehequar, aid South-
. Sea House.

It is always gratifying to the best feelings 9f our
nature to witness the labours of humanity in favour
of the destitute, however their misery may have been
occasioned ; but especially when the suffering, by its
locality, involves a community, and precludes the,
possibility of relief from their own exertions. This is
strikingly the cite with the sawn, by the late fires
in Newfoundland►

How cheering to the philanthropists to see men
en-raged as it were in a race for the relief of the help-
less. While in London collections were making and
a Committee occupied in devising the best means for
sending speedy relief to the sufferers, the inhabitants
of New York had promptly taken up the same sub-
ject, as we stated yesterday : and we now find, by an
article in a Philadelphia Paper, that at Boston also si-
milar prompt and efficacious measures were pursued
for the same benevolent end, as soon as the news of
the calamity reached that city.
At the former place, as already stated, the sum of
9000 dollars had been very speedily collected, and
application was made to our Minister there, Mr. BA-
GOT, for permission to load an American vessel at
that port with provisions, &c. The " &c." we find
explained by an advertisement in a New-York Pa-
per, inviting the inhabitants to send their spare blan-
kets, clothes, and coverings of any kind, with what
could be given from their private stoves of rye and
meal, to houses appointed for their reception.—At

&soca a Ineitiztg Was held, wiled tattle of the

respectabie Citizens were appointed to act as a Com-
mittee for receiving, soliciting, and applying relief
a brig of 150 tons was instantly hired to proceed to
St. John's, loaded with provisions; even the common
truck-oten offered their gratuitous serviees to transport
the cargo to the vessel ; and the stevedores td put the
same on board, and stow it without charge. The
Boston Committee Was labouring also to extend their
relief to the supplying the sttfierers with means to
erect shelters for themselves.against the extreme seve-
rity of the winter in Newfoundland, by sending them
a cargo of, joists and boards.
May the period soon arrive in which Britain, and
the descendants of Britons, shall be found engaged
in no other rivalry with each other than what has for
its objects the comfort, the happiness, the improve-
ment, and independence of all the nations on earth !

We heartily rejoice in the opportunity afforded us
oftongratulating the Public on a reduction in the
price of Porter. The Golden-lane Brewery, has pub-
licly notified its deference to public opinion on the as-
certained injustice of the late rise, and has reduced
their

charge to Sid. per pot. There is little doubt'
but the other great Breweries will follow this exam-
ple. ' If the reduction is made generally, a daily
saving of a Thousand Pounds will have been made
-for the labouring poor. of the Metropolis through the
exertions of a single individual, aided by a free and
patriotic Press. If the other• Breweries hold out, it
will furnish an additional illustration of the mis-
chief of the arbitrary licensing system, which by
interdicting the opening of any new houses pre-
vents the public from receiving generally the boon
of reduced prices thus offered to them. In either
case, the public importance of competition must be
manifested. On a former occasion, viz. in 1804, the
Golden-lane Brewery caved the labouring classes of
the Metropolis nearly a Million sterling in one year's
consumption, by causing a reduction equal to one
penny per quart.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning.
The Duke of WELLINGTON and suite arrived in
Paris on Saturday evening.
A Royal Ordonnance appears in the Menriteur,
which bears, that the KING, being desirous of giv-
ing a " new testimony of his satisfaction at the good
services" which " noire tune, le Contle de Cazes," has
never ceased to render to his King and Country,
raises him to the dignity of a Peer of the kingdom.
At a moment when every person has been supposing
that, in consequence of the signal defeat which the
Ministry lately sustained in the Chamber of Peers,
the first promotion of noire ame" would have been
to the bottom of the retired list, this decisive expres-
sion of the continuance of the Royal favour will
serve to set speculation at rest, however much it may
probably disappoint the hopes, of many well-wishers
to the prosperity of France.
The Chamber of Deputies advanced on Saturday
to the 20th Article of the Recruitment Bill, and again
adjourned.
_ _ _

French 5 per Cents, Saturday, 66 1. 60 c.

Two Hamburgh Mails arrived to-day;but, except
some details as to the proposed military organization
of the Germanic Confederation, they bring no intel-

ligence of any importance. In time of war it is in-
tended that there shall be taken from the collective
population of Germany two men from every 100 for
the army in the field, which will make it 570,000
strong, and one more out of every 100 for garrisons
and recruits. Hamburgh Exchange on London—

January 23 33-3 33-6.
January 27 33-2 33-3.

A Dutch Mail has also arrived, with Papers to the
Ist. inst. They contain some details of the proceed-
ings of the Second Chamber of the States General
respecting Finance, in which several Members objec-
ted to the Ministerial Estimates, particularly of Mili-
tary Expenditure ;—the Government carried their
measures by a considerable majority.

The PRINCE REGENT, on the occasion of his late
visit to Windsor, arranged the time at which her
MAJESTY'S next Drawing-room is to be held.
The distance from Windsor to Brighton is sixty-
three miles. This journey was perforthed by the
REGENT on Monday in five hours and a half.
The Earl of SEFTON continues in a state of con-
valescence, with Every appearance of speedy recovery.
At the London Adjourned Session yesterday, no
business was transacted, there being only two Alder-
men present, and three being necessary to constitute
a Court.

_
Sir GREOOR M.Gainon arrived at Liverpool on
Monday, in the William Ewart, from Nassau, New
Providence.

A Message was received in the Senate, on the 29th
of December, from the President of the United States,
by his private Secretary, communicating the follow-
ing Report, in compliance with the Senate's Resolu-
tion of the 16th :
4. Department of State, Dec. 24, 1817.
" The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the Re-
solution of the Senate of the 16th inst. requesting information
touching the execution of so much of the first article of the Treaty
of Ghent as relates to the restitution of slaves, which has not
heretofore been communicated, has the honour to report to the
President, that no answer has been received from the British Go.
cerement to the proposal made by order of the bite President,
on the 17th of September, 1816, that the question upon the diffe-
rent constructions given by the respective Governments to that
article should be referred to,the decision of some friendly Sove-
reign ; that the late Minister of the United States in England,
before his departure from London, renewed the request for an an-
swer ; and that the present Minister at the same Court has been
instructed to invite again the attention of the British Government
to the subject. All which is respectfully submitted.
(Signed) " JOHN CLUINCY ADAMS."
The Message and Report %ere ordered to be printed.

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LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY
Arrived the William Ewart, FISHER, from gastaiii
New Providence, with Sir Gntocin MiGnsoon phss.
senger on board. The True Blee, FLAT, for_Poly-
head, was lost Slct ult. on West Hoyle the KllSteri
his wife, and one'man drowned, and one man ,stioed.

PALVOUTH, FEI3RUART 1.
Wind from W.N.W. to W.S.W. fresh breezes and
frequent rain.—Arrived the Dutch ship Catharine
Theodora, VANWALNE, from Liverpool for Surinam,
with loss of fore-topmast.

pLYMOUTII, FrITHIL/ARY 2.
Came in the Speculator, TIiOBINON, from Terceira4
HARWICH, FEBRUARY s.
Wind S. W.—Arrived the Castlereagh, M•Do-
:woo's, with mails and passengers, from Helvoet ;
and the Lord Nelson, Li vi sos, with Mails from Cua•
haven. Sailed the Lady Nepean, LIVINGS, with mails,
for Cuxhaven.
• DOVBtt, ItIIBRUARY 3.
Wind W.5.1.V.--Sailed the Venus transport, and
the sloop Roston Packet, for Calais, for troops. Ar•
rived the sloop Fortitude, RANDAL, from Jersey to
London, with loss of boom, gaff, and bulwark.

FEBRUARY 5.
Wind S.W.—Came down from the River last even+
ing, and sailed, 'several ships, particulars thlknovrn.
Remain the Johanna Maria Constantia, HADDIN, for
Surinam.

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• RAMSGATL, FEBRUARY 1.
It has blown a heavy gale from the Southward all the morning,
but is now quite fine.—The following vessels have come in for
shelter, viz.—Yak Merchant, —, from St. Andrew's for
London, lost both anchors, Atc.; Farmer's Delight, —, from
London to Hastings, lost anchor and cable; Fsbbut, —,* from
London to Bilboa; Robert and Mary, Slave, from Dartmouth
for London, damaged, and several others.
GRAVESEND, FEBRUARY S.

Arrived the Duke of York,' Fryer, from Rotterdam ; Good
Friends, Sherratt, from Dublin; and Fortuna, Hughes, Irons
Ostend.—Sailed the Princess Amelia, Balaton, for India; Lon-
don, Campbell, for ditto ; the Kingston, Bowen, for Java ; Mary.
Ford, for St. Mary's, Sierra Leon ; Valency, Bryant, for Lisbon ;
Williams, Williams, for Dublin ; and Minerva Smith, Mien, for
New York.