The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Fan. 14.
The following extract of a letter from Archbishop
Cullen, received by a Roman catholic clergyman in
this city, and which has just been permitted to tee
the light in a Dublin newspaper, would appear to
set attest the contradictory reports about the mission
of Mr. Lucas to Rome:

Irish College, Rome, Feb. 3, 1855.
• • Up to the present day, no appeal hu been
lodged with the authorities here against the Bishop of
Ossory, or any other Irish bishop or archbishop. Neither
has the famous memorial, so much spoken of, been pre-
rented. The lay and clerical deputation so often Re-
nounced has not as yet appeared. There is indeed one
gentleman here who took an active part in the meetings
of Callan and Thule*, but he hu not exhibited ereden-
tials from any party ; and, indeed, I believe he is very
meritoriously employed in seeking spiritual advice and
instruction from the authorities of this city, who
Wag anxious to gain all to Christ, and to bring those who
are astray to the right path, receive all with truly paternal
kindness and Christian charity. Should the members of the
deputation arrive at any future day, they, too, will receive
instruction and advice which may be very useful to them.
From what I now state, after having made inquirite at the
Propaganda and higher quarters, you may form an estimate
of the value of the reports spread in Ireland, that the
appeal was going on sucousfully, and that the deputation
was most active and zealous. The truth is, nothing what-
ever has been dons as yet. There has been no display of
zeal or activity.—Your devoted servant.

PAM. CrLusx.
Should the representation of Cavan be vacated by
the appointment of Sir John Young to the Lord
High Commissionership of the lonian Islands, the
Hon. Cavendish Butler, brother of Lord Lanes-
borough, has consented to come forward as a candi-
date in the Derbyite interest.
A rumour, which happily was untrue, prevailed
yesterday of the death of Mr. Justice Torres., who
has been seriously indisposed. The venerable judge
is progressing favourably.
The liorthern Whig publishes the following ex-
tract from the will of the late Earl of Leitrim:
Forasmuch as all the property which my son will inhe-
rit is situated in Ireland, as I. was himself born in In-
ked, and that his family and nearest connexions are all
Irish, I trust that be will ever consider himself an Irish-
man, and that he will not adopt the very contemptible mo-
dern fashion of looking down upon his country. Attach-
ment to Ireland and attachment to England are perfectly
compatible, without either renouncing the former, or feel-
ing jealousy of the latter. I hope he will always feel strong
attachment to both countries, for, upon the mutual attach-
ment of the inhabitants of each to the other, their
united strength and happiness must depend; but
he should recollect that he never can be of
consequence, or even respectable, in I
Eagland sa-
lsa is he respectable in Ireland, for which purpose trust
he will consider it both his interest and his duty to have at
least his country residence in Ireland, to visit his estates as
often as he conveniently can, to attend to the wants and
interests of his tenantry, and to °titivate their attachment
and good opinion. Should he ever attain a seat in either
house of parliament, let him regard it as his most essential
?uty to watch over the interests of Ireland—a duty now
more peculiarly incumbent on every one connected with
that country, since the parliament of Ireland has merged
in that of England. Whatever objects of ambition he
may have, I trust that he will never pursue them by any
but honoerable means, and that if he attaches himself to a
party he will connect himself with men of strict constitn-
lintel principles, of liberal, enlightened, and disinter-
ested views, but, above all, with men who an friends to
Ireland.

A considerable quantity of snow fell in the course of
last night, and no appearance of a thaw has yet pre-
sented itself. The river, at both sides of its banks,
from Carlisle•bridge to Riogsend and Halpin's Docks,
is still thronged with shipping of all tonnage. The
steamer wharves along the North•wall are crowded
with the boats of the Dublin, London, Glasgow, sad
Bristol Companiaa. The terrible experience of last
and previous winters has shown the propriety of
preferring a temporary delay and the lots of a
market or two on the other side of the Channel, to the
fearful hazard of life and property involved in sea
navigation in weather like the present, when it is
impossible to see ahead further than the head of the
bowsprit.

SPORTING.

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THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN.

The following description of an appearance ob-
served by Captain Charles S. Richardson, of the brig
Abeona, on the 4th September, 1854, let. 58 south, long. 13
east, oa the recent voyage of that vessel from Liverpool to
China, is taken from the official log of the captain :
" Sept. 4. At 5 p.m.—light winds and smooth water—oh-
served broken water on the larboard quarter, about three
ship lengths' distance, when presently the head and part
of the body of an enormous sea-monster appeared about 31)
feet above water, in an angle of about 80. His head was
long and narrow—eye' not discernible. From the top of
his snout, about 12 feet each side of bia head, was a white
steak, about • foot in width, which I suppose to
be his mouth, which he kept abut. About six feet
frog the termination of the white streak (or jaw)
there was a_protuberance on his back, like a small
water. cask. His body, at the surface of the water, was
about the sic round of the long boat. Underneath big
jaws there wee a quantity of slack skin, like unto the
pouch of • pelican. It was of • lighter colour than the
rest of his body, which appeared quite black, and free
from any description of hairs or bristles, being quite smooth.
He appeared about 180 feet long, as near u could be
judged. The water broke in several plane along his body,
which I think must be caused by similar protuberances to
the one behind his head. He was visible about 15 minutes,
during which time he went under water three times, stop-
ping about a minute each time. He kept moving hie head
from side to side, making not • straight but a serpentine
coarse through the water, just keeping way with the vessel.
From the position in which be lay in the water, and being
so close, I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that
it was the celebrated great sea semint, seen by Her
Majesty's ship Models in 1849 or 1850, between the Cape
of flood Hope and 8t Helena."

OPHHONS or THE WEST RIDING rpox THE WAR.
—Two of the resolutions adopted at a public meeting of the
inhabitants of Stddleworth, held on Monday, were as fol-
lows:—" That petition' to both Houses of Parliament be
prepared, preying that a most rigid and searching inquiry
be feethwith made into the causes of those calamities under
which the British army before Sebeetopol has been suffer-
ing; and that all persons in authority, from the highest to
the lowest, through whose fault or neglect those sufferings
have occurred, shall be dismissed from her Majesty's ur-
eic*, acd that further punishment shall also be awarded
wherever the cue may demand it. That, as Mr. Cobden,
sae of our county members, does not represent our honest
anavictioos on the subject of the war, and Mr. Denison, the
other member, voted against Mr. Roebuck's motion for
inquiry, now before the Hones of Commons, our petition
to that Honourable House be forwarded to Sir Edward
Bawer Lytton, with &request that he will present the same,
and give it his best support ; and that the petition to the
House of Lords, with a similar request, be forwarded to
Earl Fitswilllam."

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THE CLERK OP THE Oamwrca.—Accordiog to
the Lassriek Reporter, Mr. Howell has resigned his office
for the rasa that from the want administration "im-
measurably less is to be expected by the catholic@ of the
empire than from the late government." Mr. Monsen,
however went through his official duties yesterday as natal.
DEATH oP 812 W. C. Euirrecp. K.C.H.—Thie
general °Ear died on the Bth inst., at his seat in Baez.
He had seen much service in the Irish rebellion in 1798, in
Italy and Sicily, and in the Peninsula. He commanded
the Chaseetwe Btitanniqua at Fuentes d'Oaor, was at Sala-
manca, the capture of Madrid, Burgos, and the battle of
the Pyrenees, where he wee sovetely wounded, and for his
@avian he revolved the order of K.C.H., a gold medal, the
wet medal, and three clasps.
THE FRENCH Exam ix GlinAxe..—M. Louis
Blanc has published a letter from one of four remits
who have *leaped from Cayenne, giving a pitiable account
of the hardships indicted upon Ilia fellow-countrymen in
Guiana. decordioe to this account they an tasted much
wane than sag clans.