The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Inn 27.
Sir John Power, the wealthy and popular Irish
distiller, died yesterday morning, at his residence,
Roebuck House, at an advenced age. This is the
third remarkable man connected with the same or
a similar branch of manufacture in this country who
has died within the space of a few days, Arthur Guin-
ness, the head of the famous brewing establishment,
and Mr. Busby, the distiller, being the others. Sir
John Power was one of the most effioiest supporter&
of the late Mr. O'Connell, both by his purse and his
influence ; and it was he who laid the foundation
stone of the O'Connell monument at Glasnsvin at the
close of last year.
John Lamb, the well known agricultural corre-
spondent of the Northern Whig, has communicated
to that paper the result of the observations made is
his spring tour. He says:
No doubt our own crop of potatoes last season was unpro-
ductive, and our wheat was quite under average as to quan-
ti!y, bet the oat and barley crape were bath extremely good.
We need not expect either to be better this year, wader the
most favourable circumstances, end we ought to be very
thankful If they are as good, or nearly so. In the earl)
part of my spring journey the wheat looked thin, poor, and
sickly, with a great number of patches where the seed or
plant was quite lost, eitlser from the savers weather, or else
cut off by a worm but latterly it has greatly improved
everywhere I have been, and looks now very like an average
crop, but thaw, fields where the plant perished will continue
to be very thin.
He states that about thirty-two or thirty-three
years ago, we bed quite as late a spring as the
recent one, and that the harvest was one of the most
abundant he ever witnessed.

DEATH OP ADJUTANT-GENERAL ESTCOURTT—OK
Tuesday evening last Lord Penmen received intelligence, per
telegraph, from the Crimea, announcing the death of J.Thick-
nall Estcourt, aged 53 years, Adjutant-General of the Forces
in the Crimea, of cholera. His lordship immediately com-
municated the mournful intelligence to the deceased's eldest
brother, Mr. Botheron, M.P., of Eton.place. The deceased
moth oat last year with the staff of Lord Raglan, and
thelenithout the severe mister campaign be enjoyed tolerably
send health; indeed, his last letter from the Crimea, which
mm meshed in London on Monday morning, was written in
the meet confident and cheerful tone possible, giving the
fullest manna that according to his judgment Sebastopol
would soon be in the hands of the allies. The intelligence
of the adjutant's death, however, has cast the family in deep
gloom. Mrs. Butkusll Esteourt has been visiting her
husband, and for the last few months has been at Constanti-
nople and Balakiava.
BLOCKADE OF THE WHITE SEA.—AECHANGEL,
Jules 13.—The blockade of ell pore, roads, h , and
creeks in the White Sea, was notified on the 90th May (11th
June), 1865, by the Commander of her Britannic Majesty's
Forces in said sea.
VISIT OF THE ROYAL CHILDREN TO THE ROYAL
PANOrTICON.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, the Princess Helens, and the Princess Louisa, at-
tended by their suite, paid a visit to the R ryal Panopticon,
Leicester•square, yesterday evening, between the hours of
public exhibition. Their Royal Highnesses were received
Melding,sad Mr. A. J. Tapeon, members of the council ;
the Rev. Dr. Biber, the director, and Mr. T. J. Brown, the
secretary. The first object whick attracted the attention of
their Royal Highnesses was the diver in the large crystal
cistern, at the bottom of which he exhibited the antotreone
eleetrie light. The next object presented to the view of
their Royal flightiness was a series of diormnic views of
Pompeii, alternately in ruins and in restoration, followed
by a view of the bey of Naples and of the recent eruption of
Mount Vestries. Their Royal Highneseee then proceeded
be Inspect the gigantic electrical machine, on which several of
the more striking experiments were exhibited, and which
seemed particularly to interest the Rival Princes. The
series of entertainments wee concluded by ad display of the
luminous fountain, with its ever-varying and brilliant hues,
which drew repeated exclamations of admiration from the
royal visitors. Before taking their departure their Roysl
Highnesses expressed, in the moot gracious manner, the
gratification which they bad derived from their visit.
DIOCESE OP CHESTER.—The Rev. Thomas Major
Lester has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of Chestir to
the perpetual curacy of St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale,
Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, upon the nomination
of the patron's trustees.
On Tuesday the Rev. Joseph Woolley, 8.D., was
licensed to the perpetual curacy of East Bergholt, in Suf-
folk, on the nomination of the Master, Fellows, and Scholar
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
CRYSTAL PALACE.--SHILLING
Admissions on payment, 8,004 ; ditto by season tickets,
1004.—Total, 9.008.
CITY ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, HATTON-GARDEN.
—Yesterday, a fete chasmpeire under mist distinguished
patronage took place in the beautiful grounds of St. Mar-
ialeworth, near Richmond, in aid; f the funds of
the above institution, founded fore the gruitous medical
and surgical treatment of poor peons r.filieted with club
foot and other deformities. There was an eiceilentesurical
programme, in which the band of the Hoe. Artillery Com-
pany took part, and Miss Helen Beaufort and Mina Lavinia
ithwell sang some charming ruorceaux. There were
several hundreds of elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen
present, and at a late hour in the evening the company sepa-
rated, evidently much gratified with the dry's entertain-
ment; and it is to be hoped that the results will be equally
avertable to the hospital.
Since the war with Russia s new kind of domestic
fowl has been introduced into England from the Black Sea,
and is likely to prove a formidable rival to the Shanghai
and Cochin China. It fir q
as large as the bra-door
fowl ; is crested, has feathered legs; is (moue is generally
all white or black—when he latter, of a raven hue, and
glossy. This bird is plummiest, and its movements are
very lively. It/ MONA distinguishing peculiarity is, how-
ever, in the arrangement of the tail leathers. These are
very few, and do aot projeet as in other birds, but drop
down and lie close to the body, so that the ere PP•aro
tailless, and when hi head is erect scarcely has he appear-
ance of a bird. Severnal Of these ird are to be sees at
800ttiomptosi when they hire Is landed from the was
tesaspods.