The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-13 00:00:00

LIMERICK.

In Limerick, where almost everybody has some relative
or friend at the seat of war, the news excited the liveliest
emotion. The joybells pealed from the cathedral, tar
barrels blazed in the streets, several houses were illumi-
nated, esten.porarr fireworks were got up, and the whole
population was abroad, crowding the streets, and exhibiting
unbounded joy.

The following curious statement appears in the
Evening Poet of Tuesday night, and has excited a good
deal of surprise among the citizens:
A communication is now before us from a member of the
tenth cowbell, in which the startling fact is announced that
en Saturday last a committee was appointed to consider the
expediency of selling off all the estates of the corporation of
Dublin ! Other facts ate en. ationed by our correspondent,
tending to show that this monstrous scheme has been sot on
foot by 801110 persons of ii. fluenee nor needed with the corpo-
ration, who have succeeded for the moment in deluding
other and well-meaning persons into an approval of the
project. It is curious, certainly, that nothing on the subject
has yet found its way into any of our contemooraries; but,
nevertheless, we have ascertained that the committee re-
kneed to by our correspondent has actually been appointed.
Oa Thursday we shalt recur to the 'select, and, in the
meantime, we hope to obtain further information as to the
movements of the parties now engaged in this attempt to
sell off the property belonging to the cittheos, which is
practically • movement to extinguish the corporation of
Dahlia.
The Right Hon. Viscount Dungannon has been
chosen as a representative peer for Ireland, in the
room of the late Earl of Caledon.
John Lamb, the well-known Quaker correspondent
of the Northern Whig, gives the following " Notes
on the State of the Country," as the result of his latest
obeervatioos in the agricultural districts of Ulster :
Daring the last two weeks my business transactions have
led me more or less through the counties of Down, Loath,
Cavan, Monaghan, Armagh, Tyrone, sod Derry. Wher-
ever I went the harvest labour was progressing moat favour-
ably, but the grain seemed to be ripening faster than usual ;
in fact, it is what is termed a hot Is ," and there
seemed to be quite a west of heads to cut it There is an
unusual number of women and girls to be seen in the har-
vest field this year. The dearth of hands in the south and
west is mach greater than fa the linen districts.
The oat crop is much better in the west, which I visited
some weeks ago, than those eastern counties that I have just
been through. This year Connaught will beat Ulster in
oats, very decidedly. The crop is very —one field
of oats will be very heavy-looking, and the next to it quite
thin and light ; and some farmers tell me that the heavy
ems that was laid by the rains has not filled well. On the
e the oat crop will not be over ge one—no-
tlitglel an
like the produce of last year—so far as the north is
asesseesed.
AU the flown I have conversed with tell me their crop
of wheat is good, and some say theirs is moot excellent, both
as to quantity and quality—one, in particular, whom 1
stopped to converse with, midway between Banbridge
and Newry. He had thirty or forty hooks at work, cutting
down afield of time twenty or thirty acres of wheat, which
looked extremely good. Be said it was the best crepe
wheat he had gathered in foe the last seven years. The boa •
was long and large, and perfectly full, not a single grata
wanting, which, latterly, is quite an unusual thing. The ;
last few years, the pre of wheat were seldom more than
half full when ripe. From all I could learn, I believe the
' wheat is very little Injured by the heavy rains. The barley
Is • good deal the worse of it.
A great shower of hail, which fell some two or three
weeks ago, did serious damage to the crops in the county
Cavan, particularly about Beltothet ; the people said it wee
more like a shower of broken ice than ordinary hailstone'.
It passed from west to east, and extended about half a mile
wide.
The potato disease is nearly universal; but, so far, it is
very aupeeficiel, confined mostly to the leaves. We are, I
think, likely to have a large and good crop. Even it one-
fourth should be diseased, we °Quid spare them, and have a
most abundant crop after all. The turnips and green trope,
generally, are very much better than last year. Some
farmers complain greatly of bad flax-seed this season ; but,
where the seed was good, and the ground is proper con-
dition, the crop is generally good ; yet there will be a con-
siderable portion of interior flax—so the scutchers report.
The proprietors of the Bank of Ireland held their
quarterly meeting yesterday, when, beyond tb.
signing of the minutes of the last meeting, no bus&
ness was transacted.
An epidemic ophthalmia has become very prevalent.,
amongst the lower classes in Dublin for some time
past. It has exhibited very virulent symptoms in
the Sheds auxiliary to the North Dublin Union
Workhouse.

HEROIC Acr.—The Royal Horace Society have
awarded a medal to Master Andrews, of the Marset-hill,
Cambridge, for saving the lire of a fellow creature from
drownieg in the river at Sheep's Green, a few weeks ago.
Andrews, in the most gallant manner, plasged in, dived
down, and brought the men up when he had souk for the
last time. and with the assistance of an Irishman, a Mr.
Doyle, succeeded in restoring him to animation. The deed
is the more praiseworthy, as Andrew is little more than a
boy. The medal is now in the omission of Dr. Okee, the
Provost of King's Collegei and it is intended to present it to
Andrews at the dinner, or festival, to celebrate the comple-
tion of the waterworks.—fiery Pal.
THE Parnorm.mase—The German Journal of
Frankton states from Vienna, that the Hoards, of Wal-
lachia has requested Austria to izercin her nations with
Wurtembers and other Geratee States, to feline them to
allow 00,000 German families to emigrate to Wallachia.
The government of that province engages to grant them
reaad from the property of the religions foundations, and to
ampt ass has taxes fix tea years.