The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

LATE RAINS.

On Friday last, a Meeting of the principal 'ahem.
tants of the town and vicinity took place at the Court
House, to consider the propriety of entering into Sub.
scriptions, for the purpose of purchasing an immediate
supply of fuel, and also of provisions, to be delivered
under the management of a Committee to the Poor of
the town.—(Clare Jourrial.)
The whole south of Ireland is stated to be in a state or
extreme misery, and some parts threatened with a Ermine
among the poor. The following is an extract of a pri•
rate letter, which gives a melancholy picture of the con.
•lition of the labouring peasantry. It is dated the 20th
instant, from a place within about fifteen miles of lA.
merick

The Special Commission has sat in Limerick,
Eleven have been tried, and of these nine capitally con.
victed. Every kind of intimidation is used. Notices have
been posted up all over the country, threatening that
two Aristocrats,' no matter who they were, should
die for every Roekite' who should be hanged....
Every thing threatens a dreadfully severe winter to
the poor. The rain is incessant. The potatoe
crops have been very bad, and of the Mu.
grr.vth, part is so bad as not to keep fur the winter. This
is a real famine to the poor in this country, who"
chief food this is. There are several poor families
about me who have not as much as will last them two
months. The stock should last until May. Of firing
they are utterly destitute. The turf has been all de.
stroyeil in the bogs by the rain. So dreadful is the
want of fuel, that rich orchards and beautifal planta-
tions are cut down vi et emus, in open defiance of the
owners. The wood of every kind is carried away in
cartluads. If the military (who, by the bye, can't
compass what is more strictly their service against the
rebels, as they are called) interfere to prevent the poor
from plundering in this way to obtain tiring, the Coo-
*equence will be starvation."

The report of the loss of the Kite, Revenue Cutter,
Livt“. Collingwoad, is, we are happy to may, tilatrur.
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She encountered all the late storms, mud is now iu

Vestry Bay.

A gentleman, recently returned from a journey
!smug!' Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston, reportb,

hat the manufactories there are hi full troth, and that

all hands are employed.
As a proof of the improvement of trade in Birming-
ham, it is stated in 4tiB'it Gazette, that in the course
of the last year, 271 boys have left the Lancasterian
school in that town, the greater number of whom have
been rrmoved for the purpose of being placed in situa-
tions of active employment.

As an evidence of the value of labour steel may he
made three hundred times dearer than standard gold,
weight fur weight; six steel wire springs for watch
pendulums weigh one grain, to the artist, 7s. Gd. earls,
equal to 21. ss.—one grain of gold only 2d.
QUEEN'S PLATE COMNITTSIL.III consequence of
the many appeals on the subject of the Queen's Plate,
the gentlmen who contracted for its manufacture have
written to the Committee to assure them that they will
endeavour to have the model complete within a month
from the date of their letter.

A CHRISTMAS ANECDOTE.—The following anec
dote had used to be related by Mr. R C
a wholesale mercer, of Milk-street. London:—" I
was apprenticed to a sillc-manufacturer in Spital-fields,
and during my apprenticeship my friends allowed Inc
3s. 6J. a week for pocket-money ; 1 got a tin box made
with a slit at the top, into which I every Saturday
night dropped my extra sixpence ; on Christmas eve
broke open my box, and the following morning sal-
lied forth in search of objects on whom to bestow toy
bounty, which in that district were tolerably nosne-
rous, giving to each family in proportion to their num-
ber, and what I considered their deserts, not exceed-
ing half-a-crown to any, or lees then a shilling ; and
I assure you, that when I sat down to my dinner, the
reflection that I bad given one to many others was a
high relish to my own." An example worthy imita-
tion by young persons in general.
That destructive and depopulating malady, the
small-pox, has, we regret to say, increased to an
alarming height, in the city of Chichester, an evil
solely attributable to the prejudices of the ignorant
part of the community—prejudices, which have been
strengthened by the interested views of quacks and
empirics.—The National Vaccine Establishment has
communicated with Wus. Esq , the
Mayor of the above city, and, by way of caution, has
transmitted to him an admonition to the public. This
measure, it is to be hoped, will tend to impede the far-
ther progress of this contagion.
Last Friday, a small spermaceti whale, 29 feet in
length, was brought into Looe, which produced nearly
forty gallons of oil.
The Duke of Buccleugh has at this time on Isis es-
tate at Dalkeith, a crop of onions which equal the
war
of the largest produced in Spain, heavier for their hulk
Griner and more pungent, which were raised in the fu.'
lowing manner; as soon as the produce of the seed
beds attained a proper size, a moist day was chosen 1,,r
taking up the plants, which were then immersed in a
mixture of one part of soot and three parts earth, as.tl
then transplated by drilling, about four- inches asunder,
in tows, and afterwards carefully hoed.
ELEGANT GLASSES, FURNITURE, &c.—The nobility
and gentry are invited to inspect the Ware-roews 01
COOPER and Sox, 93, Ilishopsgate-street within, where
is exhibited an assortment of new and second-band Plate
Glasses, admirably suited to every description of draw-
ing or dining-rooms. In the furniture department is
comprised every new and elegant article of up!soN.eiy.
cabinet, and chair work, the pries' of which are redireil
,to such a scale of economy as to attract and senors ti.'
patronage of rank and fashion.

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THE
_RIGHT HON. MR. GRANT.
lower of the Right Hon. Charles Grant, his Ma-
y Chief Secretary of Ireland, to the Noblemen
';4oentlemen who presented to him the Address of
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the Roman Catholics of Dublin :-
41T Loans AND 6ENTLESIIIN-it IS with feelings of
losliar satisfaction, that rceive from the Catholics
direland, this testimony ofe their regard and good

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a I beg you will accept my thanks, for the assurance,
ost, in your judgment, the general tenor of my public
;induct has not been at variance with my early decla-
loons. It is no small debt of gratitude which I owe to
!of, that in quitting this country, I am enabled to carry
ith me this gratifying recollection.
Whatever way be my future lot in life, I shall never
cop to look back at the period of my residence in this
gentry with the deepest sense of the kindness, both
rblic and personal, which I have experienced.
The dissolution of my official connection with Ire-
land cannot impair my zeal in her service, and will not,
1 too. close my opportunities of promoting her we!.
ism"

TOLLS AND CUSTOMS TAKEN ore.—We are happy to
we an opportunity of observing, that Lord Stan-
ype, though a resident in the sister country. is not
anandful of the interests of his tenantry in this : his
Lordship has purchased the tolls and customs of Bal.
lynakill, in the Queen's county, from the person to
whom they were leased, and has generously bestowed
;hem to the public. He has also got a patent for Carr
sew fairs. This is the very kind of conduct which
feu Is to keep any country quiet : if trifling sacrifices
of this nature were to he made, generally, we have no
doubt of the gt.od effects which must be the result.—
We are not a little proud at seeing the fruits of our
early efforts to do away the toll system : we struck
the first blow, and rejoice that it has been followed up,
sill) success, by several towns, and even country places
is Ireland: bad customs should never be persisted in.
—(Cartme Atorning Post.)
Our accounts from different quarters of the country,
regarding the injury done to the conntry, in conse-
quence of the incessant and heavy falls of rain, ate
really deplorable. Every entrance to the city of Li-
merick is tlgoeleti to an unprecedented extent ; from
the hills of Ne%reastle, adjoining Limerick, to the
mountains of Clare, it may more properly be called a
us than a flood. The driver of a chaise returning
from Limerick to Nenagh, on Tuesday night, missed
his way at Oroirly-hridge,twhen he, the horses, and
chaise, were carried under the arch, and, melancholy
to say, the driver and the horses perished ; the flood is
so high, that the top of the chaise only is visible un-
der the arch. Owing to the great floods the Water-
ford Coach to Limerick did not arrive until several
hours after it was due. The arches of the bridge of
killaloe, have been carried away; O'Brien's-bridge is
in great danger if the flood rises, from the vast num-
ber of cocks of b.:, coining down the river.—(Dublin

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