EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POOR O...
The Times, 1824-07-09T00:00:00

EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POOR OF GALWAY.-Th1e fol. lowing is a copy ot the answer which was written by order of thl Lord-Lieutenant to Ilr. Blake:- " Dublin Castle, June 26, 1824. Aly dear Sir,-An order has been eent to the Engineer, actini under Mlr. Nirnmo, to proceed forthwith to the execution of tflt works that have been commenced in the neighbourhood of Galway andin Cunneunara, which the Lord Lieutenant trusts will give inme- diate employment to the labouring classes in those districts. I remain. my dear Sir, your faithtl obedient servant., 'ValentineBlake, Esq., Mento Castle. "W. GREGORY." The number of Banks in Ireland, exclusive of Dublin, amounts to ten; five of which are in M eunstr, four in Ulster, one in Leinster, and none in Connaught. The names of the counties in whiich they are established are_Waterford one, Cork two, Antrim three, Arnagh one, Limerick one, Tipperary one, Wexford one. - faterford Mirror. Oil Wednesday, Evans sold in the library of Doll -Josef Antonio Conde, a copy of " Columtu,s's Letter to the Kinga oj Spain, on the Discomcry of Amnerica." It consisted of only three leaves, and brought 34 guineas. John Paul Jones was the son of the head gartlener of the Earl oF Selkirk, in Scotland. In thegardens were two summer. houses corresponding to each other. The gardener wasa most steady methodical Scotchmnan. One day Lord Selkirk, in his walks, ob. served a man locked up in one of them, and looking out at the win- dow-and in the other summer-house, looking out of the corres- ponding window, appeared young John Paul. "Why are those lads confined e" said Lord Selkirk to the girdener. " Aly Lord, I caught the rascal stealing 3our lordship's fruit." " But there are two- what has your son done; is lie, too, guilty ?" "Oh no, please your lordship, I just put hinm in for symtmetry.".Amnerican patper. MELANCHOLY ACCIDEnrT.-On Stunday forenoon, about eleven o'clock as a number of persons assembled on the east side of the Prince's I5ock, Liverpool, and on a long stage extending to a ship lying the second from thecjuay, were watchinlg some boys who were ryiing to take an empty bottle out of the water, their accumu- lated weiglht broke one of the under bearers or cross bars which was lashed to the spars, and upon which the planks rested, and imme- diately upwards of thirty persons were precipitated into the wliter. The contasion consequent upon such an accident, in such a confined situation, may easily be conceived; but the greatest exertions being promptly used, with the active intrepidity of an American seaman wvhose name wre could not learn, thev were all, except sis, rescued from a waterygrare. 'lhe bodies of those six persons were convey- w c-houses, in Robet-strcet North, where they were attendedet by Mr. Thos. W'. Davies, surgeon, St. Paul's-square, who was on the spot very soon after the accident; and his exertions succeeded in restoring the suspended animation of n young mnan of the name of Griiths; and he also perseveringlv, for geveral hours, tried every means with two of the others, but without suc- cess. Thte suffierers are-Peter Wilkieson, recentlyfrom.uanchxes. ter, a volunteer from the Laneashire Alilitia, going totthe 84th re- ghnent, in Ireland; Richard Thomas, 16, son of one of the street watchmen; Thomas Rose, 19, apprenticed to a blacksmith; Johnl Ainsworth, 19, appreaticed to a cabinet-maker, and son of one of thje police-officers; and John 16olbert, 16 apprenticed to Mr. Crompton, paper-dealer, Bachelor-street. X.esterday an inquest was held upon rhem, and a verdict of accidental death was returned mn each case. The coroner, Win. Molynettx, Esq., particularly noticed the laudable conduct mf the seaman we have mentioned, who will no doubt receive a suitable reward.-Billinge's Liverpool Ad- IJAnh!NG Rom3FutY.-.Oz Monday evening last, about 4 O'clock, a miost daring robbery was com%ittd tite house of the Earl of uharleville, inCavcndisli.sqisare. The butlerlhad just been preyaring the plate in the pantry for the usC of' the family that day at inner, and hiavinig gone for a moment t'lo the uper par, of the hau8e, leavinig thie pantry-door open, he found on his return that sornedating 'hiief'had got down the area, the-door of'which hiad been opend b a pcklck~ nd,enteingthehouse, cro. sed the servants'. hell;and nothr pasagebefor he ame o ih panry, hichl he nnerd, nd crrid of tw dozn o siler abtes1ons,18 -dessert spons i4 Uve foks,andmay oherartcle ofplae,the whole isiake~wit thfamly re~t, " Mor'shea riingoutof a dtcal ~~~~~~~~~oronet."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~