The Catholic Meeting of the Province of Munster is intended to be held at Waterford, on Wednesday, the 16th of August. Such Gentlemen as are, disposed to sign the requisition for that purpose, will be pleased to send their names to Mr. Dwyer, Catholic Rooms, Corn Exchange, Dublin, as speedily as possible. DANIEL O'CONNELL, Of the Order of Liberators. It is intended to have the solemn installation of "The Order of Liberators" take place on Monday, the 14th of August, at Waterford. The statutes of the Order will then be passed and published. The medal is in prepara tion. The ribbon of the Order is to be of precisely the same colour with that DISTRESS seems to prevail in every part of the Kingdom. The Irish papers tell us, that it is producing death from starvation in IRELAND. Indeed, the situation of the poor creatures in Here is a day fixed in the pleni-that country is the most deplortude of absolute authority for the able that can possibly be imaginneeting of a province! The day ed. Not a few of them are acbeing fixed, "Gentlemen" are in- tually stark naked. In SCOTvited, by public advertisement, to send LAND, of which we have heard in their adhesion-to give their direct hardly any thing till of late, the sanction to that super-eminent piece distress seems to be deplorable of mummery, the new order of indeed. There have been some Knighthood, and its ludicrous para-proceedings in SCOTLAND, phernalia of Grand Crosses!! The meeting is ordered to assemble which are very well worthy of atI will first insert from in Waterford. The reader will anti- tention. cipate that the respectable Catholics the Glasgow Chronicle of the of that county, whose noble disin- 20th of July, a description of the terestedness, whose splendid acts state of the people in that part of have amply compensated for the SCOTLAND. It is truly horrithousandblack and grained spots" ble; but it is just such as was which stain the wordy annals of our naturally to be expected: it is pseudo patriots, must have been consulted. It was due to the Catholics the natural fruit of a Ministry so of each county that they should be composed, and of a Parliament so consulted, even though it were only constituted! The state of the population of the out-put of the small note currency. suburbs of this city is at present It has been discovered that some alike calculated to excite sympathy empty houses have been taken posand alarm. In every quarter the session of, and are at present inhasymptoms of misery are visible-the bited by indigent families, without emaciated countenances and dejected the sanction of the landlord being appearances of the numerous human asked. A number of public works beings that are to be encountered that employed from 200 to 400 hands during a casual walk through the each, have been shut up for four extensive and crowded suburbs of months, and the condition of those Glasgow, sufficiently denote what a that were employed in them may be small portion of the necessaries of casily imagined. Some have been life fall to the share of the mechanic. forced to the hand-loom, and can It is a fact, that in some of the recent scarcely earn a few shillings a week. surveys made among a population of Others were employed in the green, 25,000, scarcely one of the working or breaking stones, and it was a sinclasses were found to have a comfort-gular contrast to find workmen, who able meal at dinner.. Numbers aphad been making 30s. and 27. a week peared to have nothing to subsist upon, in print - fields and cotton (works, while others were partaking of the during the heyday of the speculacoarsest fare, such as pease meal tions, glad to get work at 1s. a-day. brose only. Some few mecha- The cloth, shoe, and other clubs in nics, such as carpenters, saw this vicinity, to which the working yers, &c., had beef at dinner. The population generally resorted in houses presented a most dismal proof order to obtain their raiment on payof poverty-houses rented at 41. 10%. ment of a certain sum a week, are had not 4s. 6d. of furniture within the now mostly dissolved, the collectors walls-the inmates' beds were composed finding it impossible to gather money, of straw, without any adequate cloth- and afraid to grant credit. One coling, and if the distress reach winter lector in the suburbs, that would without material alteration, many will have drawn 401. in the week, and probably perish under the rigour of had credit with his merchant to the the season. The landlords are severe amount of 500l., was obliged to give sufferers, having lost nearly all their up the business, and cannot collect last half-year's rents; and they may one shilling for every pound owing.. now be said to be proprietors of the There is a striking diminution in the majority of hand-looms in this vici- quantity of apparel which the females nity. Many six-loom shops are employed in the public works forwholly unoccupied in the hands of merly required. Numbers of dressthe landlord from this cause. An makers, that supported themselves uncommon number of widows and from this source, having had scarcely single women are to be found inha- anything to do during the last six biting the suburbs, the rents being months. Private charity has, no cheaper, and the public burdens doubt, done much during the last lighter, and the manufacturing works few months to mitigate the appalling being carried on in the immediate misery that prevails; but it is obvious vicinity. These females are at pre- that it is far too extensive and deeply sent in a very miserable condition rooted, and the resources of every from the stagnation of trade. There man of business too much dimiwill be a heavy deficiency in the nished, to expect any further stretch local assessments. Hardly any pub- of effective liberality. Government lic works have been erected this alone possess the means, and to them do year, and very few private houses; the starving population look for relief those finished this season being prin- till trade revives. cipally contracted for during the active M the county, was unanimously called to the Chair. He briefly stated the object of the meeting, and said that the fund for the relief of the un Before I go further, let me remind Doctor BLACK of his repeated philippics against poor laws, and of his repeated asser-employed amounted at that time to the 1,67 17., while the expenditure was about 500l. a-week. He was sorry The Colonel More stated that he had had seventy people employed on his estate for eleven weeks. Provost Farquharson stated that Edinburgh ladies had sent 2004, which was on hand, besides the sum mentioned by Mr. Campbell. tions, that the distresses of the labouring people of England arose from those poor laws. Let to say, that the distress was still on the Doctor look at the above pic- the increase, and during the last ture; and then let him recollect week, there had been no less than that the Scotch are not afflicted 96 new applicants added to the numwith the English poor laws. With ber supported by the fund. lowest allowance was 5s., and the poor laws the poor may suffer; average ran 7s, a-week. but, without them, they must starve, or, must take food by force; in consequence of this state of suffering in Scotland, there has been a meeting of the county of Renfrew. I shall give an account of this meeting, as I Mr. Campbell said he had commufind it published in the above nicated every week with Mr. Peel, mentioned Scotch paper. This Secretary of State, for the home deaccount is as follows. The reader partment, and his firm belief was that will please to mark the language it was not the intention of His Maof the speakers upon this occa-jesty's Ministers to give any Governsion. The Scotch are apt to be ment grant; and if they were forced very prudent upon such occa`sions; but their prudence seems here to have given way to their anger. It will be seen that their main object seems to be to get a grant out of the public money. But we shall have more to say upon this by and by. Let us first see an account of the meet ing; for it is a most important matter. RENFREWSHIRE MEETING. to it, it would be the last shift. He then read a letter from Lord Glas gow, which stated his Lordship's regret, that he could not attend the meeting; but authorized Mr. Campbell to put down his Lordship's name for 1007., which Mr. Campbell immediately paid. Several other names were put down for considerable sums. considering the long continued disMr. Spiers, of Elderslie, said, that tress of the country was evidently becoming worse, he was fully of opinion that nothing but a Government On Thursday a very respectable | grant could be the means of restoring meeting of the noblemen, Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply, and Magistrates of Towns, was held in the County Hall, Paisley, for the purpose of considering the best means of raising further relief for the distressed part of the manufacturing population at present out of employ the country to its former state. His proposition was, that a full detail of the sufferings of the manufacturing classes should be laid at the feet of His Majesty's Government. If they conceded such a grant, it would be for the good of the country. If they withheld it, they did so at their peril, and they must abide the consequences. Sir John Maxwell approved of the proposition of Mr. Spiers. Sir W. M. Napier also concurred | want may be averted by the interposiin what had fallen from Mr. Spiers, tion of the executive Government. and hoped the proposal would be carried. The Lord Lieutenant again stated that he had a regular communication with the Government on the state of the country, and he did not doubt that if the case was taken into consideration, and Mr. Canning saw no other remedy, a Government grant would be given. 4th. That a Committee be appointed to carry the intentions of the foregoing resolutions into effect, and to co-operate with other Committees appointed for similar objects in Lanarkshire, or the neighbouring counties. These resolutions were finally passed unanimously. But, before Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, considered they were passed a Mr. WALLACE it absolutely necessary for Govern- proposed a Petition to the King, ment to grant a sum of money to which petition I shall now insert, alleviate the distress, because there as a specimen of what Scotchwas no prospect of its speedy ter-nien are capable of when once mination, and as the people of Largs, and the other towns in the district where he resided, were nearly in as bad a state as those here, the subscriptions of himself and others, which had been hitherto ap. propriated to the relief of Paisley, would in future be required to relieve their own neighbours. many Several other gentlemen spoke to the same effect. their backs are well set up; or, rather, when once their purses and bellies are well squeezed. The whole of this petition is well worthy of the greatest attention, and particularly that of the readers of the Register. I do beseech those readers to attend to every word of this petition. Here Mr. Murwell said he felt it to be Here are the Noblemen and Genis matter of exultation for me! his duty to do all he could for the mitigation of the present distress. tlemen of a Scotch county, reThis is a public duty to which every peating, like school-boys, all my private feeling must give way. He doctrines and assertions. had had a regular communication with those who had access to His Majesty's Government, and he believed that Mr. Canning would very probably accede to the proposition, and give a Government grant. He had prepared a few resolutions, which he begged leave to submit for the consideration of the meeting. 1st. That the privations of the working classes continue, and the funds for affording them adequate and necessary relief in the county are exhausted. 20. That their situation demands the most serious consideration of the nation, and of His Majesty's Council. 3d. That it is expedient that every measure be resorted to for making the case completely known, and exciting the sympathy of the public, in order that the consequences of To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1. We, the Noblemen, Freeholders, &c., of the County of Renfrew, have this day met, being convened by the Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff of the County, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of obtaining employment for the operatives. Resolved, that we have viewed with unfeigned sorrow the train of bankruptcy and ruin that has so generally spread over the country; and the no less distressing condition in which the operative manufacturers have been placed, to whom we give every commendation for their orderly behaviour and manly comportment, which has merited and obtained our approbation, and along with it our sincere sympathy. Such patient en durance is ever to be expected from those who are happily possessed of useful education, enabling them thereby to discover that no other course could benefit their condition, We cannot, however, in justice to the public and ourselves, conceal the fact of our not being able to discover a brighter prospect being near at hand, but rather cause to fear that a similar calamity may now, as formerly, overtake all classes of our labouring population, because it must be admitted by all, that this country at present is suffering under severe and general pressure. s. That within the short period of ten years, we have now to deplore, for the third time, a similar visitation. 4. That during these the Agricultural, Commercial, and Manufacturing interests, were reduced to a very low ebb, and then suffered, as they now are doing, great privations and incalculable loss. 5. That various causes have, from time to time, been assigned for these terrible visitations:-Too high prices for the produce of land; overtrading; too great an extent of manufacturing; and an over issue of papermoney, are among the reasons now set forth by His Majesty's advisers, and their adherents, as the origin of our present distress. 6. That these may in part be to blame, we shall not deny; but we positively assert that they are not the main cause. mitous state of this country to the causes it is the tact of our Government to ascribe it to. It might rest assured of our bearing too well in mind our recent misery, to allow of our being the sole cause of that now existing. 10. That admitting the accusation were well founded, of our gambling and dealing in delusive schemes, we can easily trace its adoption by the public to the evil example set them by the daily acts of our Government, who have trafficked with the public securities until they have mortgaged them for eight hundred millions of debt, while the delusion of the sinking fund is in constant practice. 11. That we deprecate as unbecoming of statesmen to deal out such injurious allegations as above alluded to; and we beseech His Majesty's advisers to lay such aside,and manfully come forward to meet the eventful crisis, by measures calculated to restore confidence, and consequent employment to the people. 12. That the chief and foremost interest in the State, the Agricultural, being about once more to be regulated so as to encourage trade, and foster every branch of manufacture, we, who are landholders, readily admit that the attainment of so desirable an object obtains our entire acquiescence, although we shall not conceal our knowledge of such being certain to diminish our incomes and the value of our property. 13. That we shall consent thereto, 7. That no nation can be in a accompanied by the just demand of healthful or thriving condition which obtaining a corresponding reduction does not supply its labouring popula- of taxation, which must either untion with regular work, and at a rate dergo a great diminution, or increase of wages sufficient to give them a to an insupportable pitch the difficertain and wholesome subsistence.culties under which we have so long 8. That while our labouring classes, suffered. on an average of years, have not been anything like fully employed, those possessing capital or credit cannot justly be accused of doing a national injury by its investment in the pro 14. That the recent changes, or those now in progress, in regard to our foreign trade, we look to with intense anxiety. We wish them the fullest success, but can see no good grounds to hope for it, unless our 9. That it is a gross and palpable whole taxation he modified and reerror to attribute the present cala-stricted; and while we express our duce of their toil. |