The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

IItELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY,

The X'icry Eramister of this morning has the
following statement relative to a conspiracy to
murder Mr. Fortescue, of Ravened:do-park, in the
county of Louth:
We have been informed on the best authority that with-
in the lost few days Mr. Forteseue has received information,
upon which the fullest reliance can be placed, that a con-
spiracy has been organised for his assassination, and the sum
of 401. collected fur the purpose of having the hellish pro-
ject carried into execution. Now wo arc aware that a
recent valuation of Mr. Fortewue's property has led to a
misunderstanding between him and a number of his tenants,
th, y conceiving that the valuation was too high aa an esti-
mate for rents, taking into account the permanently de-
preoed prices of agricultural produce; but we cannot for
an instant believe that this is the origin of the conspiracy
to which we have alluded, and it would be a foul libel epos,
such a respectable busty of men as reside on his estate to
impute to them the guilt of aught ao atrocious and result-
ing. Mr. lortescue drove from llavenslale-park, on
Thursday, to the union workhouse, near Dundalk. a di.-
nine* of live miles, guarded in his carriage by two men
armed with guns.
1 presume that it is to the above-mentioned cir-
cumstances the Dublin Daily Express alludes in the
following paragraph. under the head of " the murder
conspiracy in the north:"
We have heard it stated, and in all probability truly
stated, although we have no precise information on the
subject, that the emissaries of the Ribbon conspiracy are
at present actively I ngaged levying contributions in the
county Louth, as the wages of the executioner of another
s idiot when death has been decreed by this atrocious tri-
bunal. The name of the gentleman thus marked out for
violent death Ism also been mentioned, but we, of WHIM ,
refrain hem publishing it. The government, no doubt, is
on the alert, and ready to resort to every means at its dis-
posal to prevent further murder; but we think it right,
nevertheless, thus publicly to notice the rumour that has
reached us, in order to:put the landowners and gentry ol
the county Louth personally on their guard against the
contemplated designs of these audacious assassins.
The account received this morning of the health
of Mr. Eastwood, the last victim of the Ribbon con-
spiracy, is, I regret to say, extremely unsatisfactory.
An abscess has set in, and the worst consequences
are to he apprehended.
The Tebbe this week chalks out a formidable pro-
gra mine of labour to be undertaken by the Catholic
Defence Association, and would lead- us to expect
extraordinary efforts on the part of that hotly for the
new year. The protestant church establishment is
to be among the first questions which arc to be
pressed upon the attention of parliament; then pre-
cautions arc to be taken that the mortmaia commit-
tee of list session be not followed up with any at-
tempt to deal with the question of charitable trusts,
and to touch the property of the church. The sub-
committee to consider the question of proselytism
must be active; the state of the workhouses, as re-
gards morulity'and religion, must be attended to;
the suggestions made by the Synod of Thurles with
regard to the national education system are to be as
fur as possible carried out. The condition and treat-
ment of Irish emigrants arc to have the attention of
the association; and finally the land question—the
social grievances of the people—arc to form part of
.the objects of the defenders.
The Irish Tenant League promises a revival of
its agitation by the middle of this month.
The new Angloirish and ultramontano organ, the
Teleyraph, has made its appearance to-day, but enuu
elates nu new idea.

BATT EDAY EVENING.
I regret to say that news has reached town this
evening that Mr. Eastwood, the victim of the recent
agrarian outrage in the county of Louth, had at
length sunk under the effects of the wounds he re-
ceived from his assassins. It is stated that he
expired this morning.
The ~Vorihren 1171ig of this day has the following
statement confirmatory of the rumoured conspiracy
against the life of Mr. Fortescue:
The following sentence is ea extract from a private
letter from Dundalk received by a respectable gentle-
man in Belfast—'. Thomas Fortescue has been unit hilly
informed, that • sum of fifty pounds has been raised
to remunerate the man who will assassinate him; he,
in con., quence, drove through this town to-day, with
a man on each side, armed with a double-barrelled
gun." The gentleman here referred to is the proprietor
of Itavensdale, and bears the reputation of being one of
the best landlords in Ireland. The property was in a
very bad state when it came into his hands; and Mr. For-
tescue has done much to improve it, and elevate the condi-
tion of the tenantry. Ile is said to be greatly respected by
men of all chimes. We fear much that, making a trade on
tho bad reputation which the district of country where
the recent outrages occurred has gained, parties who live
by such evil mesas are getting up these secret proceedings.
It is not the first time such machinations were resorted to
by scoundrels who traded in blood-money. From what
we have heard of Mr. Fortescue's character from unim-
peachable authority, and of the reepeet the people entertain
for him, we can give no other interpretation of thi' occur-
rence. But there is all the more nonessity for a rigorous
exercise of the law.
The Lisburn election takes place on Monday next.
It is not expected that there will be any opposition
to the return of Sir I. Emerson Tennent.

The unprincipled l)ublin journal—the World—
whose editor and prorietor figured the other day in
the case of Birth v. Sir William Somerville, an-
nounces its own death in its publication of this day.
It has the candour to admit, in nearly so many
words, that it was hopeless to struggle any longer
against outraged public opinion.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
SUMMARY OF THE ORDINATIONS,
CHRISTMAS, 18.51.
Ordaining Prelate. Deacons. Priests.
Archbishop of Canterbury
Yolk
Bishop of London l9 .... 8
Durham
Winolmahrr U .... 18
Ilsnrcor 4 .... 4
(*halt:stem • ' 7 .... 10
Ezi ter
Gloucester and Bristol
Hereford
Lichfield
Lincoln 9 .... 11
Llandaff
Manchester l3 . N
Oxford 24 . . 27
Ripon
Rochester lO .... 10
St. Asaph
St. David's
Wisher, ll .... 18
&Aar awl Mem 0 .... 6
Archbishop* Armaib
Bishop et lliMli
Cashel. 1141.
Cork, &a. U .... 10

Total 22s
Of these were

Cambridge Uaimnity 73 .... 72
Oxford
Durham 8 8
Leedom
IMblin 3l .... 39
St. a idea's College, Birkenhead 4 .... 1
St. &glee College l4 .... 7
St. David's College, Lampeter
Literate persona

Total

Ito,. John Aldous (e. of Wellingborough) to be rurrogata
dio. Peterborough.
Rev. Timothy Unthank °lbsen, to tho chaplaincy of the
Workhouse, Renown Bridge.

. LoehthrdCWWCadwdnd Chonh of
Armagh; Het. &temp HalU, dm; pima, the Lord
Primate.

-
Racroataa.—Westeott, eonnty and die. Oxford ; value,
17W ; patrons, the representatives of the late rector, the
Rev. 8. Y. Seaways, eke.
London, St. Alpha's, value, 3131. ; patron, Bishop of
London ; Rev..l. T. Hutchins, dee.
Lougligall, comely and dia. Armagh ; patron, the Lord
Primate ; 11ev. 8. Y. begrime, dee.
VICARAOIL—Troe sr, Compton-Wynyates R.,Warsiick-
shire ; dirs. Woreseter ; valor, 26W and residence ; patron,
Marquis of Northampton ; Rev. S. Y. Seerrave, dec.
LICTURINSHIP.—London, St. Anne and Anna, and St.
John Zachary, Alderstate ; Rev. J. T. Hutchins, dec.

THE RAIRMARMII COLLIEUY EXPLOSION.—Off
Friday last a public meeting was held at the Cotencil.hall,
to take steps to raise • fend in Sheffield for the relief of
the sufferers by the disesteems explosion at the Warren
Vale Colliery, near Itawaersh. His worship the mayor
(Mr. J. Carr) presided. Mr. Plimsoll announced the sub.
mriptions already given, and added that he never found
collecting less unpleasant in his life. He had only re-
solved one refusal, and those who had contributed did so
willingly and in liberality. He also read a letter from the
Hee. William Ross Mahon, rector of ltawistarsh, who'
stated that between 70W. and 11001. had already been pro-
mised to the Rawniarsh eramaittee. There were 21 wi-
dows and 63 children left enprovided for. Mr. Birks
moved a resolution to the effect that while the meeting
deplored the too great !coheir of security indulged in by
the managers and workmen employed in the Warren Yale
Pit, it was still of opinion that the deep and pressing dis-
tresskers into which an many women and children had
beets plunged by the es esmitituted as argent call
far beeevelease. Me. esesnied the ineelea, and It
Maid it
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