The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 29.
In pursuance of the recommendation of the Dublin
magistracy, I understand the Lord Lieutenant is re-
solved to proclaim the city forthwith. I have it on
good authority that the draft of the proclamation,
whilst I write, is in the hands of the government
printer.
The first division of the 71st Highland Light nl-
fantry disembarked at the North Wall this after-
noon from Glasgow, per the Viceroy steamer, and
marched into Aldborough-hoase barracks. This
sudden movement, coupled with the continued
active preparations by the government to meet
some expec ed emergency, has again thrown the
peaceable citizens into alarm, and people begin to
regard an outbreak as indispensable to the com-
mencement of the ensuing summer. Everything
continues quiet in the provinces, but the calm
is likely to be interrupted by a threatened open-
air meeting, with a procession of trades, &e., which
is to come off at Curk on Monday next, to do honour
to Messrs. O'Brien, Meagher, and Mitchel. With
respect to the first-named gentleman, his appear-
ance in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on Mon-
day being required by the Attorney-General, his
Cork admirers must of necessity excuse his absence
on that gala day. The Classtitution calls upon the
authorities to interpose and prevent the demonstra-
tion. The same paper says :
Government preparations continue. Arms are trans-
mitted to various parts of the country. An intimation has
been received in Bandon that a large number, with a pro-
portionate supply of ammunition, will be at once placed in
the barrack there (or the use of the loyal inhabitants. Yet
Bandon is not badly off as it is, most of the Isyal inhabitants
heing, we believe, provided with urns, and 100 stand, besides
500 hand artistries, with blue lights, carcases, &c.—in fact,
all the requisites for a siege—being at hand in case of need.
A meeting of the confederation is announced for
Wednesday night. Some say the proclamation will
apply to seditious assemblies, and consequently to the
meetings of the confederation ; hut inasmuch as the
basis of the proclamation is the Crime and Outrage
Suppression Act, public assemblies will be exempted
from the proclaiming powers of the privy council.
Mr. Mitchell applied to-day by counsel to be
allowed to appear by attorney, but the court refused
to reopen the question, and rejected the application.
This will incommode Mr. M., who was to have
attended the Cork soiree to Smith O'Brien on Mon-
day. It was rumoured to-day in court that he had
another abatement shot for the Attorney-General.
The substance of the alleged plea is stated to be that
the ex officio informations had been sworn before the
original informations had been quashed in due form.
This, if true, would be scarcely water tight.
The United Irishman to-day is remarkably tame.
The alleged cause is sufficiently remarkable. Mr.
pardon, the proptietor of the Farmers' Gazette, sup-
plied the machine power for printing Mr. Mitchell's
paper. Now Mr. P., it appears, r. ceived notice from
the Attorney-General that he would be considered as
a principal in the first degree if he published felonious
matter in the old way, whereupon he insisted on sub-
mitting the " leaders" to counsel before he would
peril his liberty. This will account for the " stars"
and breaks in the leaders of the United It Allman,
with Mr. Mitchell'■ pithy observation—" The learned
censor considers the remainder felonious."
A remarkable document appears in the Freeman of
this morning--a letter of Dr. Brown, Roman catholic
bishop of Elphin, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The
prelate replies to some former charges of the noble
earl relative to the murder of Major Mahon, and the
denunciations of the parish mica of Strokestown.
The bishop regrets the warmth of his previous lan-
guage, if he has been betrayed into unbecoming 'v-
elour ; but he appends a document containing the names
of three thousand and six individuals evicted from the
estate of Major Mahon, by far the largest number
ever hunted from a single property in Ire-
land. The number of districts which had been
so remarkably cleared out were 28—the heads of
families 605—number of widows with their families
computed at 84 —most of whom are supposed to have
perished, and the grand total 3,006. "We ask the
people of England," says the Preeman," to consider
the fate of those three thousand victims to a horrible
code of laws, and then say whether any suffering un-
der heaven is equal to that of the Irish peasantry. If
three thousand, or three hundred, Englishmen were
visited with such a scourge, would not all the reason
and intelligence, and humanity of England rise up in
insurrection against such enormities, and sweep from
the statute book the infamous laws that sanctioned
and engendered such a wanton waste of human life ?"
The alumni of the Belfast Academical Institution
have been touched with the spirit of the times, though
their enthusiasm took a very practical direction. In
moving an address of confidence to the Earl of Cla-
rendon the opposition took their stand on the Ulster
tenant-right, and refused to support any address which
did not explicitly put forward the claims of their
sires to the recognition by law of the ancient usage of
the north. After a desperate struggle the address
was sent back for reconsideration, when is was again
brought forward with a clause ioseited, (1. minding
the legalisation of the right according to ~trirnyin
Cray rd's principle. The address wis •: with
the add'. rdum.
The trustees of the Cork Savings Bank, startled by
the recent disclosures and defalcations in Kerry, have

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. MAY 1, 1848.

had a meeting to investigate the state of their ac-
counts, the result of which is most satisfactory. The
amount in the funds to the credit of the bank is
292,2241. 16s. 9d.; in the bank of Ireland
27,6191. Bs. 11/1., being 8401. over and above all
liabilities.

WICKLOW ILICTION (12011IDAY).-CLOIll 07 MIR FOL
Howard RS
Monck
The High Bheriff then declared Bir R. Howard duly
elected. Both gentlemen returned thanks.