The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DVIILIN. M*aci I.
The Daily Areas, which may now be regarded
as a sort of semi-odleial organ among the Dublin
morning papers, say. that Mr. Wynne, of Halewood,
county Sligo, will accept the office of Under-Secre-
tary for Ireland. The same journal thus boasts of
the preparations of the new ministry to govern
Ireland:

We rejoice to be enabled to oongratulate the country upon
the (act, that the new government has resolved to earry out
efficiently the existing laws fur the protection of life and
property is Ireland. As an early evidence of this determi-
nation, the Attorney-General and tiolicitor-General will
attend at Armagh, on Thursday next, on the part of the
crown, to conduct the prosecution spinst the persons in
eu.toily fur the attempt upon the life of Mr. Chambre, and
other charges of agrarian outrage.
The judges' opening charges at the various assizes
continue to describe the state of the country as
highly satisfactory, so far as the prevalence and
enormity of crime arc concerned. In addressing the
county of Limerick grand jury on Saturday, Mr.
Justice Jackson said—

It afforded him very great satisfaction to be able to con-
gratulate the residents in the county of Limerick upon the
general decrease of crime, which was apparent from an ex-
amination of the calendar. The number of prisoners for
trial was unusually small in so large a county, and the clam
of eases was extremely light; in fact, they were all of the
most ordinary character possible, with the exception of one
which was denominated a murder, but alib', from inqui-
ries he (Judge Jackson) hid made, was more properly to be
conAdercd as a manslaughter.
The Dundalk Democrat publishes a petition to
the House of Commons from tho inhabitants of one
of the alleged disaffected parishes in the county of
Monaghan, repudiating the charges of ribboniam
made against the peasantry, condemning in the
strongest terms the agrarian crimes that have been
committed in the country, and winding up with a
prayer that their allegations may be taken into the
consideration of the house, "and as they believe the
imposition of rents which cannot be paid, and con-
sequent evictions, to be the cause of these agrarian
crimee," begging that the cause might be removed
by ggiv►ng a legal sanction to the measure introduced
by hfr. Sharman Crawford.
A Galway paper states that Sir T. N. Redington,
the late Under Secretary, intends to offer himself as
a candidate fur the representation of that town. Mr.
R. Potter, a solicitor, proposes to come forward for
the borough of Limerick; and it is stated that Sir
Burton Macnamara will offer himself for Clare, his
brother, Major Macnamara, retiring. The conserva-
tives say that they will have a candidate in the field
to oppose Mr. Fagan in the county of Cork.
A ceremony of a very striking effect, and which
excited unusual public interest, attended the removal
yesterday afternoon of the remains of the late Arch-
bishop Murray from the residence of the deceased, in
Mountjoy-square, to the Roman Catholic Metropoli-
tan Church, in Marlborough-street. Everything was
conducted according to the usage of the Roman
catholic church. The body, having undergone
the process of embalming, liy in state at the
late archbishop's house until four o'clock yesterday
evening, shortly after which hour the funeral proms.
sion set out, the remains being borne by the Roman
catholic clergy of the parish, and attended be a great
number besides of their order, beuring lighted tapers.
Several of the catholic gentry joined in the proces-
sion, wnich was extended to a considerable length
by the members of the various lay Itoman catholic
confraternities. At the head of the line of carriages
were those of the Lord Mayor and the ex-Lord
Chancellor; and in addition to the private equipages,
which were very numerous, a long line of hired
vehicles brought up the rear. The greater portion
of the population of Dublin and the environs, with-
out distinction of religion or class, seemed to have
assembled to do honour to the memory of the
lamented old man ; and thousands of persons were
unable to get near enough to obtain a glimpse of the
procession, although it passed through the widest
streets of the city. The body was finally
placed upon a splendidcatafalque in the centre of the
church, surrounded by lights, the church itself being
hung with all the emblems of mourni.,g ; and thus
it is to remain until Tuesday, when, after tho per-
formance of the last solemn rites, it will be deposited
in the vaults under the church.

The selection of a successor to Dr. Murray seems
to be a difficulty not easy of solution. Few of the
catholic clergy of the archdiocese occupy so promi-
nent a place in point of general ability and merit as
to indicate them as persons •cry likely lobe chosen;
but the Rev. Mr. Mailer, of Rathminca, a clergyman
who has always eschewed politics, and who appears
to combine all the qualities meet essential for the
episcopal office, would, according to the general ex-
pression of opinion, be perhaps the best appointment
that could be made. One of the professors of May-
nooth is also spoken of ; and there is also a probabi-
lity that one of the other Irish Roman catholic
bishops might be translated by the Pope to the va-
cant scat in Marlborough-street Church.