The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

penult, Fes. 28.
Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the
Countess of Clarendon will hold an undress recep-
tion at the Castle on Monday, previous to their de-
parture. It is generally understood that their Ex-
cellencies will leave Ireland on the following day.
The following notice of motion stands on the books
of the Dublin corporation fur Monday :
That a committee be appointed to prepare an address
from the council to his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon,
expressive of the grateful acknowledgmehtsi,lthe corpora-
tion of Dublin for the valuable assistance afforded in the ob-
taining of legislative measures which have conferred ad-
ditional powers on the corporation tor the benefit of the
citizens of Dublin, and also for the uniform courtesy and
attention which have distinguished the couctuet of ha Ex-
cellency towards this council, and the Individual members
of which it is composed.
Rumour has been busy in disposing of the Irish
chiefjusticeship, which the appointment of Chief
Justice Blackburn to the chancery bench leaven
vacant. One rumour is that tlit• Right lion. It. W.
Greene is likely to obtain that office, while, aceurding
to another, which appears cilia:illy probable, Baron
Lefroy will be the chief justice, and Mr. Greene get
the scat in the Exchequer Court thus left vacant.
'lint conservatives are beginning to ft:l uneasy
about the re-election of some of their newly-ap-
pointed officials who have had Irish seats. Lord
Naas, Mr. Whiteside, and Sir J. E 'ferment, appear
to be all more or less in danger; but as the Roman
catholic electors have the representation of Kildare
in their hands, it would be strange indeed if they
allowed a member of Lord Derby's government
and an upholder of the Irish church establishment, to
go back to parliament as the representative of their
feelings and opinions. The L'eenis Mod feels tier-
VOUS on this subjtxt, and endeavours to smooth the
way for the new Irish Secretary by appealing to his
recent services to the country, which the Mail fondly
hopes arc not obliterated from the memory of the
electors.

Election rumours form the ch:ef topics here. It is
said that Mr. J, mice, a conservative member of
the Irish bar, iFto start for Dublin in co-operation
with Mr. Grogan, and that that party arc quite
sanguine about having the entire representation of
Dublin in their Lands at the next election. This is
not a probable result, but the struggle will be a se-
vere one. Various MCII arc spoken of as candidates
on the liberal side.

An active canvass is carried on for Mr. Kerr in
Down ; and on the whole the conservatives seem to
be as yet more active in their preparations for the
'general election than the popular party.
The remains of the late Mr. Shell were deposited
in their last resting place, at Loug Orchard, in Tip-
perary, yesterday.
A new candidate for Kildare, in opposition to
Lord Naas, has appeared to-day in the person of
Mr. William Cogan, a I toman catholic gentieman con-
nected with the county, to whom a numerously
signed requisition has been presented by the electors
of that persuasion. Preparations for an earnest con-
test have been set on foot, and there arc many chances
that the new Irish Secretary will lose his election.
Writs were this day despatched from the Ilanaper-
office for elections in the following places, in which
vacancies have been caused by the new ministerial
appointments : For Portarlington, in the room of
Colonel Donne; Tyrone, in the room of Lord Claude
Hamilton; Kildare, in the room of Lord Naas;
Enniskillen, in the room of Mr. Whiteside; Dublin
University, in the room of Mr. Napier; Londonderry
County, an the room of Mr. Liateson : and Cork
County, in the room of Dr. Power.
In the Court of Chancery to-day the members of
the bar at present in town mustered for the purpose
of conveying to the outgoing Chancellor the feelings
of the profession on his reUrement from his high
office. 'I he court was densely crowded by barristers,
solicitors and others; and his lordship having
gone through the list of cases, Mr. Greene,
Q.C., rose amidst the deepest silence, all
present standiug, and said he had been unanimously
requested by rho members of his profession to con-
voy to his lordship their deep sense of the zeal, the
ability, the kindness, and impartiality with which he
had discharged his official duties. After some fur-
ther observations, particularly with reference to his
lordship's uniform courtesy and kindness towards all
who had practised in his court, he concluded by bid-
ding his lordship a respectful farewell. (Applause
followed the conclusion of the learned gentleman's
address).—The Lord Chancellor, who appeared to be
deeply affected, acknowledged the compliment in
appropriate terms, and concluded, amid loud ap-
plause, by saying that he hoped he might safely ven-
ture to say that he retired from amongst them, as
regarded every number of the bar, with a conscience
void of offence. His lordship then refired from the
bench, and the court adjourned.
A deputation from the Royal Dublin Society
waited on his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon to-
day, and presented him with an address on his re-
tiring from the government of this country.

ANTI-MAYNOOTII M E ETI NGi AT TUNBRIDGE
WILL.—Two meetings of the Protestant Association of
this town and its neighbourhood on similar principles to
those of the Protestant Alliance in London, were held on
Tuesday last in the Corn Exchange and Town-hall, fur the
purpose of petitioning the Houses of Lords and Commons
for the repeal of the act of 1845, for endowing the College
of Maynooth. They were presided over by 0. C. Court-
hope, Esg., and the Her. Sir Henry Thompson, morning
and evening. Alter hearing speeches now the Hee. J. W.
Franklyn, George Junes (Huntingdon minister), J. Hal-
dane Stewart, William Chalmers Of Marylebons, London,
Presbyterian), Davis, C. R. Pearson, W. P. Lyon (Con-
gregationalist), Rigsby and Light, and Messn. Yuldwin,
Finch, and William Delves several resolutions and the
petitions were agreed to with only one dissentient. The
meeting in the morning was fully attended, and that in the
evening crowded, and the speeches, particularly those of
Rev. W. Chalmers, made a deep impression.

IMPORTANT DISCoVERT.—At the meeting of the
Philosophical Society of Glasgow, on Wednesday last, Dr.
Peony communicated the important discovery, made by
himself, of thu presence of a considerable quantity of potash
salts in the soot from blast iron turnar.s. The soot expe-
rimented upon was Odained from the Coltness Iron Works,
where it collects in the floes that lead the heated gases
and other products of combustion, from the top of the fur-
naces to the air hearers and steam boilers. Dr. Penny
gave the particulars of a careful analysis of the soot,
and exhibited specimens of the jotash salt, which had
been extracted in large quantities by Dr. Quinlan, of
Ilurlet. The salt has been pronounced by competent
judges to be a good marketable article, comkting
chiefly of carbonate and sulphate of potash, with a small
admixture of soda salts. According to the results of expe-
riments, described by Dr. l'enny, it appears that the toot
will yield about 50 per cent. of this marketable salt, con-
taining 43 per cent. of pure potash. It has been found
that the amouut of potash in soot proei.red from other iron
works is, subject to variation, arising, no doubt, from the
use of different coals in the blast furnace. From the well
known value of potash salts, there is every reason to expect
that this discovery will prove of considerable importance to
those who are interested in these commercial products, and
also to ironmasters, who will be enabled to turn to account
• substance which has not hitherto been applied to any
practical use.
MRS. C111:0104M'S EMt ;RATION SOPIETT.--•
Founded, or rather brought before the English world, in
May, 1850, it has NI far acquired the confidence of the emi-
grating elitism of the working order, that two thousand
have become members of it, paying from out shilling and
sixpence to ten shillings a week. The first ship, the Stains
Castle, was despatched on the 29th September, 18 t. It
contained two hundred and ,hirty.three passengt v.'s. among
which there were ten wives going to husbands, and twenty
children travelling to parent.. The two hundred and
thirty-three persons paid by invtalments, toward their own
passage, one thousand four hundred and three pounds;
and some of them Tee, ired loate,, varying from one to
six pounds. The Blundell sailed with two hundred and
sixty passengers, who paid one thousand nine hundred
and forty-two pounds, and received loans of from one to
four pounds per head. The Athaoan sailed with two hun-
dred and sixty-eight passengers, who paid two thousand
and ninety-two pounds, and received an average loan of
two pounds tar head. The Mariner sailed on the 2Gth of
February, with about two hundred and eighty passengers.
These emigrants have been collected by the exertions of a
lady, living in a small house, rented a.t 60111 C thirty pounds
a year, in an obscure street,. at Irltngton, with one paid
clerk, and ono old woman, at tour shillings a week, to open
the door. The letters, in answer to the inquiries of emi-
grants, have cost about one pound a week for ninety weeks;
on the last week of January, eighty letters were received
in a day. 'I he whole expenses—including four public
meetings, and twenty-four group meetings—have been under
three hundred pounds.—Diekens's " Household Words."

CLERICAL

1 • i;ett Rev. Wet. Brownie, terißeaktrl, Niirtalk
value, T 271. ; tape, Rev. Clop. Aug. Novas,
Rim Wet. to tit. Otago tb Martyr Rectory,
Southwark ; value, MC sad reaidesee ; patron, the Lewd
Chaarelldr. _

-Irv: limn,- WWI. is a taw? ia Ithathiathaso is am-
make with the Iris/ CIIIIITCh WINKS&

I4e. Wes. Hoehn a;7llies. W. Weed, to be Bodleian
Lecturers. Exeter, 1852-3; patrons, trustees of Fleeter
Church Charity.
it.,. J. J reline' (Perpetual Cur►te of Norton) to be chap-
lain to the Sheriff of Radnorshire.

Roe. T. W. Johnes (near of All Saints sad St. Leotards,
Leteemee), to be a surrogate, din. pmerborough.
Roy. Houyiirood d'Obyris Yale Scott, to Tibbertim Rec-
tory, (illoacest.rshire ; value, on his owa petal".
. Throbsl.l, Esq., to be Professor of Law tit the Eludes
College, Calcutta.
John Algernon 0. T. Woodward to the Head Mastership
of the Grammar School, Much, Isle of Ely.
Rev. Alfred Thomas Armstrong, to St. James's Pstisal
Curacy. Preston, Lancashire; value, 2iX/4. end reettc• ;
patron, the Vicar of Preston.
Rev. Johu Francis 113% tm, to Charlton (hy Dover)
Rectory, Kent ; value, talt ; patron, Rev. J. Monins.
Rev. Arthur Christopherson, to Caton Perpetual Curacy,
Lancashire; valise, lUN. ; iNtlfoll. the Vicar of Lancaster.
lies. livery lisaamil (Rector of Widford. Herta), to
be chaplain to the Sheriff of Csiuhrulgeshire and Hunts.
Rev. William Holm, Milner (% of Penrith, Camber-
land), to be chaplain to the Sheriff of Westmoreland.
Rev. William Wynne AVillt.nu. (Rector of Llangenie3),
to be chaplain to the Sheriff of Angl sq.

rsarrrcit. Crlttelle.—Caton.Laseathire, diocese Man-
rbester ; value, 1001. ; patron, Vicar of Laneuter ; Ker. E.
Thurtell, dee.
Chelrea Park Chapel, Middle.vc :dimes, London ; Penh,
Sir J. L. Paul, (tart.; Rev. W CAlinan, prom.
Famine Epiiicopa: Chap, I. diuceao Brectiiir ; Rev. D. A.
Irvine, deceased.
teLaivey.—Sierra Leone, Coluni ; Rev. T. B.
roar. deevaaeal.
Mastimistsr.—ilarrow School, Moldiest:, Asaistant ;
Rev. H. Krary, deceased.