The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

De BLIP, SUNDAY.
It would appear that the Irish government has
already begun to feel some anxiety on the subject, as
the following letter from the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, which was read at the last meeting of the
Dundalk board of guardians, is most probably a cir-
cular addressed at the desire of government to all the
Irish hoards of guardians :
Poor Law Compilation office, Dublio, Aug. 4, 1552.
Sir—The commissioners for administering the laws fur
the relief of the pour in Ireland are desirous of obtaining an
elect report of the present state of the potato crop, it any
be planted on the work house site, from each union is Ire-
land. The commitaionets request yes will bring this sub-
ject iminsuistely before the guardians of the union, with a
view to their prucunng from the master of the workhouse
of the agriculturist, if there is one, a precise mcount of the
Mate of the crop on the workhouse site, or on my land in
esenoation el the guardians. Any information which the
guardians may be desirous to send regarding the state of
Me mop generally in the union should be given is a sopa-
rate suture, which can be prepared at more lassie, the
etimmimioners being desirous to obtain • report of the week-
, biome crop with the least possible delay.—by order,
W. STLNLIT, SOCTOCIIITy.
To the Clerk of the Union.

Some of Lord Derby's friends think that tho blight
maybe productive of at least one favourable result, that
of affording government • fair excuse for shelving
protection for the present.

The following are a few of the accounts of the
blight received to the provincial journals of to-day.
The Northern Whig says:
Ws regret to learn, from our reports of this morning, that
throughout the surrounding counties a general feeling of
ahem prevails regarding the state of the al -important
potato cep. It is mentioned, as a strange fact, in attraction
with this inexplicable blight, that sandy and moory moils,
where the crop was hitherto most exempt from disease ap-
pear to be that worst off; in the neighbourhood of Liras
and Islandmagee, several instances ere given to prove this
so regards the former description of soil, and from about
Yillinchy and beinnield as regards the latter. We are,
however, still wilds g to hope that the danger may be ex-
aggerated, and that from under-spotted or discoloured stalks
a lair proportion of sound tuben may yet bo raised ; for it
is fearful to contemplate the effects upon our struggling
farmers of the failure of a crop epos which they have
staked so largely this year—indeed, already their cry is,
bow will high rents be paid, should the crop fail I—How,
indeed /
The Newry Erannner, to illustrate the rapidity
with which the disease develops itself, says :
Oa Friday week list we saw a basket of potatoes por-
-011111111111 laths ranker of Dundalk, and used some of them at
Maass. They ware Asa tolerably good : then was a eer-
I Nis iodisation of dhow Just ea sad radar the skin, but,
that Wig voisoved. the Wows were good to at, sad dry ;
' the ant day, bownor, a part of the lane lot brought to
' table woe quite walk far um, and in feet, with few excep-
tionss they were madams.

The -Kilkenny Moderator, after describing the
favourable prospects of other crops, says :
To those e.heering facts, however, nothing can present •
more melancholy contrast than the accounts of the potato
crop, and although there is a vast difference of opinion as
to the extent of the injury already sustained, and in the
estimate of the future mischief to be dreaded, yet all
agree that the blight of this year, in addition to being a
month earlier, is far more canaille* and destructive than
that of the last &MIL It appears to be beyond doubt that
the late-sown gelds will be nearly if sot completely unpro-
ductive ; the tubers being only half formed and weak, and
vegetation entirely stopped, they are rapidly rotting and
Millltisi away in the ground. The bed upon which so
hugs • portion of our people were dorpesding, hoping even
against hope, literally disappearing frees the soil I From
some districts accounts are not quite as bad, and fields are
described as basing es yet altogether escaped the blight,but
these an clearly isolated exceptions.
The It'aterford News says :
The crops, generally apeakirg, seem good and prolific,
with the exception of the potato, the unfortunate potato,
the tsbers of which are now as withered as they were wont
in October or November. The root itself, so far as we can
learn, seems as yet but little affected ; but we know not how
loos this may be.

The Naitleern Standard is more encouraging than
any of the preceding journals. It says :
Since our last the pnigress of the disease appears to
have been arrested. Some few fields ham to a certain ex-
tent recovered their healthy appearance, and the quantity
in market would not lead us to suppose that farmers were
obliged to dig out and bring to market in consequence of
damage.
Lord Palmerston has arrived at his estates in
Sligo and Donegal, and it is expected that his visit
will be proloeged for some days. His lordship was
received with the warmest welcome by his tenantry.
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Mr. Sharman Crawford has accepted the invitati

of the Tenant Luise to attend the Tenant Right
Conference to be ben in Dublin at the beginning of
next month, bat declines the honour of presiding as
chairman.
The convict Brophy, condemned for the murder at
Ballymack, in the county of Kilkenny, was executed
on Vfadaseday. He persisted in wetting his in-
note's= d the crime.
Ae Walliber, though still broken and uncertain, is
fin Bahl since Saturday evening, when a change
d am lush place, and this morning is bright and
fry, with a cool breeze blowing from the west. The
Mid assellift of the potato crop are, as usual, con-
noting, but upoi the whole rather better than those
meaved in the course of the last week. The Galway
state that in many instances the disease has
}seers
checked, and the farmers admit that
the enseti of the blight have been much more trifling
rip they were led to anticipate from first appear-
sae/D. Reports from other quarters are of a similar
Isadency; nevertheless, there is no doubt whatever
did a gc proportion—at least one-third—of the
h irretrievably gone, and will be totally unfit
ne sustenance.
The Wexford Independent mentions by way of
"minion," that Mr. M'Mshon, the recently elected
amber for the county of Wexford, has been ap-
plated by the crown to conduct the prosecutions on
as of the English circuits.

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