THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, September 2, 1824 LINEN TRADE - On Tuesday last, pursuant to appointment by P. Bernard, Esq. of the Linen Board, a meeting was held in the Court-house, Newcastle, which was attended by the Ladies and Gentleman of the town and vicinity, together with the weavers and other persons interested in the Linen Trade. Mr. Bernard addressed the meeting in a most clear and impressive manner, and earnestly recommended the establishment of a Linen Market, to be held weekly. He stated, in consequence of the poverty of the weavers, that a loan should be procured to enable them to purchase thread, &c. He said that the town and neighbourhood of Newcastle would be greatly benefited by adopting the system recommended by the Board. In part of the North of Ireland there were upwards of seven hundred people to the square mile, all industrious and comfortable; while in part of the County of Clare, where the manufacture of flax is not attended to, although there are not more than two hundred people to the square mile, they are nearly all paupers. Mr. Bernard, accompanied by a Dutch boy, proceeded to a field of flax belonging to Mr. Furlong, where he explained to a concourse of people, the method of preparing flax according to the Dutch system.--Observer. LINEN TRADE, FLAX, &c. The crop of flax this year is abundant and good throughout the County; and we are happy to hear that the experiment which his Grace, the Archbishop of Tuam, with his usual benevolent attention to every thing concerning the improvement of our peasantry undertook to make, has exceeded beyond any person's expectations. His Grace took about five acres of land, on which he sowed equal quantities of Dutch, Riga, American and home-saved seed; this crop has been pulled, and t he return of the home-saved is better and more abundant than any others- a manifest proof not only that we need not, but that we ought not, to send any of our capital out of the country, on account of those articles of necessary consumption. There is a person now there from the Linen Board, for the purpose of rippling, steeping, &c. in the new mode, which the neighbouring peasantry, of course, will observe and imitate. ----------------- Between the hours of one and two o'clock on Sunday morning, as Mr. M'Naughten, of Grafton-street, was returning to town, he was stopped on the Donnybrook road, near Leeson-street, by three men and a woman, and robbed of a valuable silver watch and gold seal. He was held by the woman and one of the men, while the other two men committed the felony. He was prevented from apprehending one of the robbers by the woman; he however succeeded in securing her, and charged her on the Watch. She was brought to College-street Office, where she gave in her name as Jane Sunderland. She was fully committed to Newgate to take her trial. COMMITTALS. Mr. Burke, our Mayor, has taken off the streets and committed to prison about 30 of the most notorious vagrants who have frequented our streets; and will indict them as such at our next General Assizes. Mr. Burke's activity on this occasion is indeed very praiseworthy. PORT NEWS Arrived, this day, his Majesty's gun-brig Plumper, Lieut. Hutchinson, Commander. This meritorious and active Officer has, we are glad to find, been again appointed to this station, where his former services ( for nearly four years in the protection of the fisheries) have been so efficient and praiseworthy.- It had been the intention of the respectable inhabitants of this place to forward to the Board of Admiralty a memorial, praying his re-appointment; but the high sense entertained by the Board of his zeal and services, rendered this application unnecessary. On Tuesday, his Majesty's brig of war Harlequin, Captain Weeks, from a cruise. Previous to the arrive of the Harlequin our Roads, she fell in with the sloop Liberty, of this Port, the crew of which vessel Captain Weeks kindly accommodated with provisions, water, &c. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/