The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-27 00:00:00

Dcatos. Dec. 23.
According to old usage in Ireland this day is ob-
served with such strictness as • holiday that no
newspapers are published, and all the ordinary
moms of public intell gener are shot up. A late
edition. however, of yesterdsy's Freeman, ignited this
morning, gives in • telegraphic communication of last
evenings date from London the still unsatisfactory
news that uo official announcement of the new cabinet
hod yet been made. The protracted delay in the
formation of the coalition ministry, but still more its
conservative character, as far as it has become
kuowa, have, however, caused the
.generality of
people here to feel, by this time, quite indifferent as
the subject.
We were visited this morning by one of the most
terrific storms ex ' here for • loog series of
years. The w. , which was from the south-west,
freshened into a gale iretnelistely after midnight;
and in lees than an hoer from its commencement

came on to blow with all the violence of the wildest
tempest. which did not begin to abate until after
three o'clock in the morning. During a great part!
of the: time that it continued scarcely a speck of cloud
eu to be observed, and the moon shone forth with
peculiar brilliancy. A
rs
re portion of the inhabi-
tants of Dublin we • htened from their beds i
the hawse seemed to with the tome of the
blast; and in the morning the streets in the older
quarters of the town were found strewn with the
debris of roofs, chimneys, and parapet walls. Be-
yoed slight injaries of this nature I have not how-
ever heard (deny damage sustained on the occasion.
The Semi, Post, which may already be regarded
m "in dies, as the Irish organ of the new ministry,
imbeds, mime good for the luckless editor of the
.eleglo-Coif. The Pest says:
Mr. Wake*, hog Sage, had withdraws the charges—es
wry umoraiderstely attend a: a mesiest of eatitement—
straiag the enrage sad military weemstioa et the Slit
Neva/tat; sad Ms diem sad within of that mimed
44 set stead is and of a state preareaties ter their
eiadi-
eatra. Ceder these eizessaitasen, Ur. Napier eight, we
that'. tee* allowed the CUM to drop, without eigusheing
nit trees elks by • mese prooreotlen. However, we
think there is se great Liaeltheed that Mr. Valiant—who
has elnedy marred keenly is nets sad ha the worry
led excitement of preparing far We deies-4—will Lave he
tmderge yf further penally. The verdict of a jar, has
terra obt.iled *mama him, sad hen In hope the matter
waA be allayed to rent.

It is stated that a junction has taken place
tetween the Grand Canal and the Midland Cheat
IVestern Railway Companies. The junction is to be
effected on the terms of giving 301. in the united
company fur 1001 Grand Canal stock.
Ths Erraing Mail summons up the following re-
miniscence of the antecedents of one of the Irish
members of the new administration:

Of Me. Keogh, man aWe advocate and manly represen-
tative of his party, we desire to speak in no terms save
those of the buttheet vespers ; bat, limeade, spas him as her
Maiesty's Solicitor-Oeseral elect, it would be s gram demo
lanes of duty were we nut to recall to the natmogy of oar
reed.-rs certain antecedents, which, though they may be &r-
-eenact by Lord Aberdeen, will, we ars convinced, not fall
to operate epos Mr. K b's owe seadset, and upon the
erpectations mid dtaosaeh of his asseciates. It was Mr.
Keneb's fortes., good or bad, as be may Lad in think, to
insist at a dinner gives to him at Midges last October by
his constituents, where, after the health of " Our Soy,-
remn Lord the Pope" had been drank before that of
the crams, the hoe. member announced himself to be an
*deism* of asiverad suffrage, of eats by ballet, and of
Stumm, Crawford', Cosikscotios Bill, sad • determined
enemy of the sacrilegious hones of Hawn. Having laid
down them elementary articles of his political faith, Mr.
leNti thus prooreded If all the Peelites in the house
pintd a whit, administration, I would be their unmitigated,
%Lir untiring, their indefatigable oppooest. I will set
mipport party which will not make it a first Ingrodiest
of t'uu re earitesee to peal the Ileclesiaatical Titles
(Load cheering.) I will nut join any party that will
not go moth farther than that-1 will ham nothing to do
lei!' IS, party that will net &output to remove from of the
eatholic, of this eimistry the intolerable burden of sustaining
a eherch ratAldiebotrat with which they are not in comma-
pion:. 'ls iodates in a ward of comment upon this plais,
etraiebtforward, and mealy exposition of sentiment, would
be 'Mord. We have only to say that we do Mr. Keogh
the lenity to believe that whatever coiseassion, may be
restored to bring him into the admiaistratios will not be
made by him.

Tut: LAU WM% IN XALLIPRATTS B*lllev-T6te
ortAbeertwod of the wrier of the brig Athena, announcied
me heeler( gone le pietas of Llendeleryn is the Daily News
.f Thursday, peon nts a lamentable lisped, the *bore for
upward. of a mile beiug thickly strewn with heaps, which
Israel the cage Si the ell feted vessel, and other *ere of
the wreck. Ihe peasantry of the district hats bees se-
rved during the week in collecting them sod bream
them Into licAr. Hopes an eat. r.ained that the sails and
fleetalt will be saved; bat the vessel itself is rapidly break
ist cop, bee build having bees eery slight. The rescue of the
captain and %brawl men tonging her mew, ell of whom
were Greeks, WM MOP provideutisel—the lib bast linking
three attempts to combat the Uteri& sea that broke neer
Lleedderya Point, ere they could reach the ship. The un-
fortunate men were in a most pitiable state having clung to
the ngging end brayed the elements for upward,' of nine
how.: Neither the captain nor Crew could speak althea
English*: Welsh, and their intercourse with the peasant,
to whose cottages they were takes to Waite the hospitality
much needed, wt, necessarily restricted to signs. They
km once been forwarded to Liverpool at the ezpease of
the Shipwrecked Madsen' 80ciet7.