The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUMP, A coos: 3.
No section of the new Irish members hie yet
ventured to suggest any system of combined salon
in parliament except on the tenant-right question,
relative to which some steps were taken at a meeting
of the Tenant League Council yesterday. Mr. Ken-
nedy, the new M.P. for Louth, presided; and et the
motion of Mr. Brady, M.P. for Leitrim, seconded by
Dr. Gray, it was resolved :
That it is essential to the due conduct end adveseement
of the tenant cause that a conference of the leading friends
of tenant right, in and out of parliament, be held prior to
the assembling of the new parliament, and therefore
that the said conference be held in Dublin, on Wednesday,
the Bth day of September, and that all the members of the
Council of the League, the leading friends of the cause
throughout the country, and all the Irish membcre who
hare expired themselves favourable to the principles of
Sharman Cmwbrd's bill, be earnestly invited to attend.
All those members who are in any way indebted
foe their mats to the tenant-right pledgee which they
gave on the hustings, are especially invited and ex-
pected to attend; and it is hoped that the occasion
may be made available for healing the jealousies by
which the Irish party in parliament has of late been
divided.

Accounts of the progress of the potato disease
form, unfortunately, the most important items of
Irish news at present. From the provincial journals
received this morning I
.gleari the following parti-
culars. The Oprk Examiner says :
We regret to say that we have heard from quarters too
various to admit the idea of an **founded apprehension,
accounts of the oecurrence of the potato disease, In some
places to a greater and in others to s less extent. Sufficient
time has not yet elapsed to show what degree of virulence
or over what area the apparent symptoms effect the sound-
ness and produce of the crop, sod it must be remembered
that in other years the former have been present without
being attended with any very injurioits effect upon the
latter.

' The Clare Journal contains the followinN:
We regret to mention that the potato crops in different
parte of the country have suffered very much from blight.
The fogs that have prevailed very gearrally for the last
fortnight have, it is said, contributed to the disease. In
many parts the blight has been very rapid, and the effluvia
from the gardens very offensive. It is to he regretted, too,
that the people have entirely confined their towings to the
potato and neglected the turnip crop altogether.
The Newry Telegraph says :
Unhappily the actual existeece of the plague is now so
palpable that disbelief or doubt can no longer obtain. Be-
fore our eyes we have convincing evidence, and from every
quarter we receive the one sad report as to the return of
the visitation and the rapidity of its destructive operation.
It is to be hoped that early planting having been so almost
universal the disease may find somewhat of a counteraction
in the state of maturity to which the potato has now reached.
The Boyle Gazette says :
We are concerned to say, end we do so with deep regret,
that the potato generally, and particularly that kind known
as the 't Lumper," appears much injured. 'file stalks in
moat instances have the appearance of decay, and emit an
offensive smell, which such, for the Met lew years, presented
in eel latter end of August. We would not be meek
alarmed at the appearance and indication of decay (know-
ing as we do that the potato was pat down much earlier
then the people were in the habit of doing), were it not
that our attention hes been, by observing persons, directed
to it; and that we have met at table, within the lest tea
days, unmistakeable proofs that the life.preeerving esculent
is nut free from disease. The market in Boyle se at pre-
, sent well supplied with potatoes of every kind, from 34d. to
sd. per stone of lithe., and with few exceptions of good
quality, but we have been enured that the large supply is
owing to the fears apprehended !topsoils( the result.