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CSO/RP/1825/1431

Letter from John R Hunter, [secretary to the Turf Club committee], 4 North Cumberland Street, Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, enclosing a record of race meetings in Ireland showing location or venue [Downpatrick and Hillsborough, County Down; the Curragh, County Kildare and Londonderry, County Londonderry], prize money attached to each race, date of foundation and also includes an ‘Observations’ column [with value calculation].

Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1432

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting on a complaint over the absence from office on 3 December of Frederick Homan, comptroller of the British Mail Office in Dublin. Reproduces an extract of the reply of Homan who admits he ‘happened to be away’ from his place of employment on the date in question and had no expectation of the mail vessel coming until a later hour. Annotation on top from Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, remarks ‘the excuse is not sufficient’, 12 December 1825. Also copy letter from Gregory to the Post Masters General relaying the displeasure of the Lord Lieutenant at Homan’s explanation for his absence [plus earlier draft copy of same], December 1825. Also copy letter from Lees to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, offering an explanation over a failure by the post office to deliver newspapers to the Lord Lieutenant. He admits that Homan was at fault in the matter and undertakes to make an alteration in procedure to prevent further irregularities, 7 December 1825. Also letter from Homan to Goulburn, expressing apologies for failing to transmit some pieces of mail that were left behind in the office box. He undertakes in future to carry out a thorough check of government mail prior to despatch, 26 October 1825.

26 Oct 1825-c12 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1433

Petition of Major Denis Bingham, magistrate, Bingham Castle, Binghamstown, [Crossmolina post office], near Belmullet, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining an application to hold fairs at Belmullet is in contravention of the law and requesting that copies of papers upon which such claims are based be forwarded to his attorney. He claims in 1819 he obtained a patent for holding fairs in Binghamstown in the barony of Erris. Should the present application succeed, he warns, it would be ‘most materially injurious’ to the village of Binghamstown. Expresses his intention of taking legal action against those who seek to establish a fair in Belmullet, which is only 600 perches from Binghamstown.

8 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1434

Letter from Alderman Frederick Darley, Major Henry Charles Sirr and Peter Low, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on an application from Simon Hatch, supervisor of watch tax [head office of police, Dublin], for an increase in remuneration. They comment favourably upon Hatch’s service in the role of supervisor and recommend his retirement on an allowance of £100 per year. The income of watch tax for the year ending January 1825, they note, is £7, 755 10s 8d. With query from CSO on base and answer by John Sealy Townsend, King’s Counsel and legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office, stressing the law does not permit the Lord Lieutenant to grant more than two-thirds of the original salary paid to an officer. Returns memorial from Hatch to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting for his past labour a salary of more than £100 per annum. Points to his long tenure as supervisor comprising a period of 30 years and adds he has a family to ‘maintain and educate’. Compares his own income to that of employees of the paving board, one of whom, he claims, has been awarded a salary of £200 per year.

11 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1435

Petition of the inhabitants of the parish of Portarlington, diocese of Kildare, Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of financial aid towards their school establishment which consists of separate accommodation for male and female children. States they have the school rooms rent free from local proprietor John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington, and that subscriptions amount to about £35 per annum. The deficiency in need of supply, they observe, is to enable payment of teachers’ salaries and to purchase learning requisites. They stress the importance of the school for children in the immediate district ‘remain expos’d to the danger of vice & ignorance’. Signed by Bernard Fitzpatrick, treasurer, and 8 other parishioners.

14 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1436

Letter from Reverend Charles Dickinson, chaplain and secretary, Female Orphan House, Circular Road, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing regret over a delay in furnishing an account to the commissioners [?of the Consolidated Fund]. Indicates the cause of the hindrance is due to uncertainty over some items on the account prepared by Mr Farrell. He states the financial statements called for, since the year 1819, were not in the hands of Farrell until the month of July last. Affirms ‘every effort shall be made to prevent further delay’. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

17 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1437

Petition of the inhabitants of the parish of Emo, diocese of Kildare, Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of financial aid towards payment of teachers salaries and to furnish and equip their new school premises. Observes they have recently constructed a school and chapel on a site given ‘free of all rent charge for ever’ on the estate of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne. They stress the importance of the school for children in the locality and note that annual subscriptions amount to about £20. Signed by Michael Lalor, treasurer, and 7 other parishioners.

14 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1438

Letter from Thomas Finlay, register and paymaster, Foundling Hospital, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, communicating the intention of the board to issue a retirement allowance of £65 per annum to Winifred Innes, superintending school mistress at the hospital, for the duration of her life. With query from CSO on base and answer by John Sealy Townsend, King’s Counsel and legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office, stressing the payment proposed is permissible under the act [50th of George III, chapter 192]. Encloses an extract of the minutes of the board of the Foundling Hospital, stating their readiness to pay a pension to Innes upon getting the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant. Also encloses memorial from Innes to the governors of the Foundling Hospital, requesting payment of an allowance to carry her through retirement. Remarks she has been employed at the hospital for a period of 10 years, but due to a deterioration in health over the past 5 months, is now unable to perform her duties. Emphasises the heavy workload attached to her post; states her working day normally begins at 6 in the morning and continues until 10 at night; remarks in her role as mistress she has sole responsibility for the ‘Education, Morals, Work, Meals, Dormitories, personal cleanliness, and Comforts of seven hundred Girls’. With certificate added below by Reverend Henry Murray, chaplain of the Foundling Hospital, stating her submission is true and authentic; also certificate from John Creighton, surgeon of the Foundling Hospital, indicating Innes is suffering from a severe debilitation. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

10 Oct 1825-20 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1439

Letter from Wray Palliser, Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a memorial seeking the assistance of government in connection with the state of fisheries along the coast of Dungarvan, signed by local magistrates [not present]. With note on top from Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, describing the application as ‘very proper & judicious’ and worthy of the consideration of government. Also draft letter from the CSO to the board of trade [commissioner for the assistance of trade and manufactures] calling attention to the need for new regulations to govern the fishing industry [followed the expiration of the 59th act of George III] and seeking advice on same. Points to the disturbances associated with the use of trammel nets to fish on the coast of County Waterford, and conveys the Lord Lieutenant wish to know how far any discretionary powers might go and whether they should apply only to Ireland or the rest of the United Kingdom. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/1335].

13 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1440

Letter from H Broome, [executer to the late William Broome], 43 Denzille Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting the death of William Broome, late master of the riding house at Dublin Castle, on 13 November.

23 Nov 1825

1825