The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DCBLIII. AVOIIIIT 14.
A preliminary meeting of the friends of the Rev.
Dr. Newman was held yesterday, for the purpose of
taking seeps to raise 1121 indemnity subscription to
cover the expenses of the late trial of "Achilli v.
Newman." Archbishop Cullen presided, and among
those present were three other Roman catholic pre-
lates, lettcrs of apology from some six or seven
others having been read by the secretary. Mr. J.
D. Fitzgerald, M.P., Mr. C. (3. Duff', Mr.
Lucas, M.P., Mr. Grogan, M.P., and some other
rich members took part in the proceedings, and
a committee was appointed to carry out the object
of the meeting, the subscriptions to be raised to be
styled " Ireland's quota of the Newman Indemnity
Fund." Subsequently to the dissolution of the
meeting, a letter was received in Dublin from a pro-
fessional gentleman in London, iu which he stated
that the costs of the trial would far exceed t 4,0001.
lie believed that 10,0001. would be nearer the real
amount.

The Gazette of last night contains the official an-
nouncement that the Queen has been pleased to
appoint, by warrant under her Royal Sign Manual,
Edward Senior. Esq., to be a Commissioner for ad-
ministering the laws for the relief of the poor in
Ireland, in the place of John Ball, Esq., resigned.
The mayor and town council of Belfast have
availed themselves of the opportunity of a proposed
♦ico.regal visit to Belfast, during the sittings of the
British Association there, to invite Lord Eglinton to
a civic entertainment. The invitation has been so-

oepted by his Excellency.
The weather is still unsettled, with frequent and
exceedingly heavy showers, a sky for the greater
part of the day overcast, a very little ripening sun-
shine, yet still the accounts of injury to the crops are
not many, nor very alarming. It is true that more
or less damage must be inflicted upon at least the
heavy grain crops; and, on the whole, it could not
be said that the harvest prospects are at all satisfac-
tory ; but from one cause or another the hopes of the
people have decidedly rallied. A marked proof of
improved confidence might be observed to-day in the
Dublin money market, in which the prices of all
kinds of stocks and shares advanced from to per
cent., and a most pleasing change from the gloom
and despondency of the last six or eight days was
exhibited. I subjoin from the provincial papers re-
ceived to-day the latest particulars about the potato
blight (which has evidently assumed a milder form)
and the general prospects of the harvest.
The Northern 1114 in its weekly summary says:
The alarm which, by oar reports of this day week, ap-
peared to pervade nearly every district of the province
regarding the potato crop, would seem, by those of this
morning, to have subsided considerably. It is, we admit.
hazardous to speculate on the probable progress of a disease
so mysterious es that by which this esculent has been
attacked, year after year; but, as if the blight had now
assumed a milder type, it certainly has not advanced during
the week, nor has it, we are informed, in most instances
extended beyond the stalks, from beneath which, although
spotted, fine sound tubers are still being taken. Cereals of
all kinds look well, and are either at, or rapidly approach-
ing maturity. The oat crop is particularly fine, and pro-
mises to he -above an average. We cannot yet speak with
certainty relative to the yield of new Sax : what has been
brought to market was prepared hurriedly, and does not
afford a fair sample, but the general .mpreseion is, that the
crop will be ezcellest, both as regards yield and quality.
Complaints we have received of its pulling light in some
localities, but thew we regard as merely isolated cases.
The Newry TekgrapA enters more into details.
That journal says:
The potato stalks and leaves are partially discoloured,
but symptoms of blight or disease decrease as you advance
towards Dungannon, and we shield say that the crop in
the neighbourhood of that tows is less affected than iu the
vicinity of Armagh. Ws observe no harvest operations of
say description along the road from Armagh to Dungannon,
eze pt hey-making, and this only in • few instances. Some
superior fields of barley and oats have been reaped in the
county Armagh. The yield is considered an average, and
the quality is unexceptionable. Several farmers, in the
apprehension of the spread of the disease, are digging out
potatoes before they have attained to full growth, and send
us them for sale at market. It is feared that the wheat
will, on the whole, turn out a deficient trop, though there
are many fields which have escaped visitation from insects
or blight. Both turnips and marigolds promise w-11, and
even as regards the potato, the disease does not seem to be
much on the increase. There are some species of the root,
or some "sort," an they are popu'arly called, which are
altogether uninfected. The worst feature in the ease is,
that the most of the potatoes for sale in market are more Of
less tainted—Out this again may arise from the digging out
cf the injured portions of the crop in particular.
The Leinater F-rpress, which is well informed in
the agricultural affairs of the midland counties, says :
The blight seems to have subsided very much within the
last six or eight days, end as far as we an judge, the blight
has, generally speaking, come to a stand still. Many fields,
we understand, have been recently dug in the Queen's,
King's Counties, Kildare, and the neighbouring district. To
the eye, beforehand, they present a uniform dark look in the
stalks and leave., giving forth the usual disagreeable odour;
on brine brought to light, however, no more than from six
to ten per cent. of the tubers exhibited symptoms of disease.
We have heard a few complaints of worms and mildew in
the wheat, but such caws are pure exceptional. Oats and
barley will give excellent yields. Turnips, marigolds,
sk well. A large area of the sugar beet has been sown In
the Queen's County, but not as much as will answer all the
demands of the company's manufactory at Mountmelliek,
which has of late hail the addition of some experienced su-
perintendent■ from the oostinent.

THE ELECTRIC TELEORAPIL—The arrangements
for extending the electric telegraph to Heveet Castle, in
Hampshire, are in progress, in order to communicate the
arrival of the American, Alexandrian. West Indian, Bra-
titian, and Peninsular mail packets off the Needles rocks in
the Isle of Wight, by which the approach of the packets to
Houthampton will be known in that town two hours before
their actual arrival.

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