The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 19.
His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle held his first
levee in Dublin Castle yesterday, when the attendance
of the nobility and gentry was the most numerous
witnessed on any similar occasion here for many
years, except at the levee held by her Majesty on
her visit to Ireland. Among the general company
were :—Marquises of Kildare and Headfort ; Earls of
Clonmel, Bandon, Milltown, Howth, Beetle., Dun-
raven, Meath, Clancarty, Mayo, and Granard ;
Viscounts Mount-Morris (Very Rev.), Messareene
and Ferrsrd, and Avonmore ; Bishops of Down and
Connor, Meath, Cork, Cashel, Derry, and Limerick;
Lords Castlemaine, Itheemore, Crofton, Bellew, Dun-
sandle, and Cloncurry; Baron de Robeck.
When the levee was over his Excellency, attended
by Lord Seaton, commanding the army in Ireland,
the Lord Chancellor and the officers of the household,
proceeded to St. Patrick's Hall, and inspected
invalided soldiers who had arrived the preceding
night from the seat of war. With one exception, all
the gallant fellows were severely wounded; one had
lost his right leg at the battle of Inkermann; another
his right arm in the same engagement ; several had
been wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol, and
one man, belonging to the light division of cavalry,
which suffered so fearfully in the gallant charge of
Balaklava, exhibited with evident satisfaction the
bullet which, while he was in the thickest of the
melee, had deprived him of the use of his bridle-
arm, and caused him to receive a sword thrust
in the hand from a Russian artilleryman.
The poor fellows were quits communicative, and
freely narrated the perilous events connected with
the service in which they had been engaged. In their
accounts they all agreed as to the frightful suffer-
ings they had endured from excessive fatigue in the
trenches, and the want of food, even after they had
performed the moat laborious duty. The treatment
they had received in hospital, at Scutari and else-
where, they stated to be as good as could be expected.
The distinguished party having formed a group
round the wounded men, his Excellency stepped for-
ward, and, with a paper in his hand which contained
the necessary information, proceeded to question
them one by one, as to the regiments they belonged
to, the nature of the service they had bees engaged
in, and the actions in which they had been wounded.
He likewise inquired about their respective families,
and always concluded his examination by expressing
a hope that they would soon be completely recovered
from the effects of the injuries they had suffered.
Hie Excellency quitted St. Patrick's Hall, having
spent half en hour in the inspection, leaving the
wounded men apparently much pleased at the interest
they had excited.
The polling commences to-day at the Cork election,
end the result is considered very doubtful even by
those who possess the best information on the sub-
ject. The Cork Examiner says:
Lord Bonismore will have the support of the leading
conservatives, who regard him as less opposed to the* views
on the tenant question than the other candidates. Still,
each is the overwhelming number of voters under the new
franchise—thirteen or fourteen thousand—that it is thought
the votes of that party alone could not materially affect the
result. Os the other hand, the friends of Mr. M'Certby
and Mr. Deny ars exerting themselves very hard, and an
immense machinery of profeeeional eloquence is engaged on
their behalf throughout all parts of the county. The catho-
lic clergy ars divided is their support of the three candi-
dates, the greater Ember, to judge from the committee,
Mug apparently in AMU,' of Mr. Deasy, Mr. M'Carthy
coming next, and Lord Bunismore having the fewest ea his
side. Altogether, the contest being one is a great measure
of merely personal influence, and the chief elements of
party strength Meg distributed among all the candidates,
the issue is involved in great uncertainty.