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outrage was the signal for a more general riot ; 

 the numbers increased to an alarming extent, and 

 they proceeded to rob every provision store they 

 came to ; there is scarcely one in the whole city 

 that has not been plundered. On the first break- 

 ing out of the riot, the shops were shut, but this 

 proved no protection ; they were broken open, 

 and any thing like the destruction of property 

 cannot be conceived bread, flour, pork, and 

 bacon were seen carrying off in all directions. 

 Up to two o'clock in the afternoon this destruc- 

 tion was proceeding without being checked. 

 Seven people, however, had been shot by indi- 

 viduals in protecting their property. At two 

 o'clock, the provision stores being all ransacked, 

 the mob commenced breaking into the spirit shops, 

 and drinking to excess. J ust as our correspondent 

 closed his letter, stones had been thrown at the 

 soldiers ordered out by the authorities, and they 

 had consequently commenced firing. 



June 21. The price of potatoes has risen in 

 Ennis market to sixpence for the single stone. 

 This is beyond the reach of many, and conse- 

 quently the distress increases hourly. The state 

 of the market on Saturday was a scene of the 

 greatest confusion, and those who could not pur- 

 chase a basket or load were left without a potatoe 

 for the support of their families.* In the country 

 parts the potatoes are at famine price ; many 

 persons depending for support upon one meal in 

 the day. The distress of the people in the neigh- 

 bournood of Ennistimon is extreme, and several 

 gentlemen have made exertions to procure food 

 for the people. 



Potatoes have been very scarce in Galway for 

 the last week. A deputation of the tradesmen of 

 Galway waited on the magistrates on Wednesday, 

 and gave a gloomy picture of the state of trade in 

 that town. The tale they told was truly melan- 

 choly. 



All the preceding information is extracted from 

 the Dublin papers, June 26. 



cutting down the Victory (so endeared to us by 

 many associations) to a 74. Since it was under- 

 stood this step was contemplated, the public have 

 been loud in their lamentations that such a na- 

 tional object of interest should not be suffered to 

 remain unaltered. She is to be fitted to receive 

 the pendant of the Captain of the Ordinary (in 

 lieu of the Prince); thus rendering the Victory an 

 object of double interest ; for whilst we shall look 

 upon her with a mixed feeling of pride and 

 melancholy, as the ship which bore the flag of the 

 immortal Nelson at the glorious battle of Trafal- 

 gar, and in which he fell, we shall regard her as a 

 nursery for our seamen, who will be stimulated to 

 emulation by the remembrance that the ship in 

 which they were early instructed in their duties, 

 owed its celebrity to the bright renown of the de- 

 parted hero. Portsmouth Paper. . 



DEVONSHIRE. On the proclamation of His 

 Gracious Majesty William IV., on Tuesday last at 

 Plymouth, the Kent hoisted (by order) the Com- 

 mander-in-chief's flag, and fired 41 guns, a short 

 time after noon. When the seamen's dinner was 

 ended, a deputation of the petty officers came on 

 deck from the seamen, to solicit Captain Devon- 

 shire to permit them to drink the health of King 

 William IV. in extra grogs on the quarter-deck, 

 as he was the first blue-jacket King that ever 

 reigned in England, which they did with enthu- 

 siastic cheers. Plymouth Pilfer. 



At the county sessions the calender contained a 

 list of 60 offenders committed during the short 

 space of three months, a fourth part of whom 

 were under the age of 21 !* 



IRELAND. We have received an account 

 from Limerick, written yesterday at three o'clock, 

 which gives a frightful relation of the state of 

 things there. It appears that at seven o'clock in 

 the morning, a large mob of persons collected and 

 seized some provisions from an open shop ; this 



* The chairman (Mr. Lyon) said, he mentioned 

 this melancholy fact, for the purpose of expressing 

 his regret that there did not exist in this country 

 a more prompt and summary mode of dealing with 

 juvenile delinquents, which the present state of 

 mankind seemed imperatively to call for. He felt 

 that he should be wanting in his duty as a magis- 

 trate, and particularly in the situation he had been 

 chosen to fill at that time in that court, were he 

 not to mention it, and to say farther, that no 

 method appeared more likely to effect the intended 

 end than the almost instant assembling of juries 

 before some competent person or persons, and on 

 or near the spot where the offence had been com- 

 mitted, so that punishment should not only closely 

 follow on the heels of the offence, but, that the 

 law might be carried into effect before their fel- 

 lows, and in the view of others similarly ill dis- 

 posed, rather than as now by transmittal to the 

 county prisons, to cause an interval of months to 

 elapse, in which not only the example was lost 

 sight of at home, but the character of the offender 

 farther deteriorated, by mixture with, and it was 

 to be feared greater contamination from the ex- 

 ample and instruction of, older offenders; for, he 

 was compelled to admit, that whenever these ac- 

 cumulations of vice came in contact, the utmost 

 vigilance could not deter the old practitioner 

 from imparting to the young a knowledge of the 

 methods in use among themselVes when at large 

 for preying on mankind, and thus the youthful 

 offender, who had probably been previously re- 

 moved but a single step from the paths of virtue 

 and of honesty, emerged, from the confinement 

 that was intended to reclaim him, with a character 

 completely vitiated!!! 



* At a meeting of the inhabitants of Kelmore 

 Erris, held this day, at Binghamstown, for the 

 purpose of devising means to alleviate the present 

 unexampled sufferings of the poor, the following 

 resolutions were carried unanimously : That the 

 population of the Barony of Erris exceeds five 

 thousand families ; of which one-half at least are 

 at this moment in a state of starvation, owing to 

 extreme poverty, want of employment, and the 

 present high rate as well as scarcity of provisions. 

 That this extensive district contains no internal 

 resource whence to derive any adequate relief 

 upon this most trying and melancholy occasion. 

 That for the last fortnight the greater part of the 

 labouring classes had little subsistence besides 

 green herbage from the fields, with weeds and 

 shell-fish from the shores. That in the event of 

 our petition to Government not being attended to, 

 the Rev. Mr. Lyons be respectfully solicited to 

 proceed without delay to England, and endeavour 

 to call attention there to the heart-rending con- 

 dition of the peasantry of Erris. Tliat, in the 

 meantime, a subscription be opened, and an active 

 committee appointed to apportion such relief as 

 may be obtained from time to time with economy 

 and strict impartiality amongst the poor, accord- 

 ing to their respective families and necessities. 

 That James M Donogh, esq., be requested to act 

 as secretary and treasurer to the committee, and 

 that he communicate these resolutions with as 

 little delay as pessible to all persons who are 

 likely to sympathize with, and contribute to, the 

 relief of the suffering population of Erris. Wm. 

 Everard, Chairman ; J. Nugent, R.N., Secretary. 

 Binshamstown, 3d July, 1830. 



