The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

flees are some eon statementst;a:licit;y today respecting
the pelstssa We may hops that it is a partial failure which
brims led slam this year, the more especially because it is
now anallod upon good authority, that the withering of the
lower Laws, said to be • symptom of the disease, has been
cannel Wfbe resent AO winds. There are recorded in. the
Lawrie* airenisie Swag, a succession of manes on pro-
pert:rind mein, of the 4arecter usually prevalent in the
south fie 11000 aleathlL Cattle and sheep are still borne
lawny nightly, sad boor are attacked for arms without the
interruption of a day. One of the latter attacks, noticed in
the present 11111100/1, bad nearly ended fatally for a geutleman
and has net begrebably been fatal to one or more of the
pmantry. Oa Miley main the house of Mr. Peter
sobs mils dime screen miles from Limerick,
in Clan mmV, Iree attseked. A party of men, disguised,
burst it the Moira door, - to find in the servants'
hall, some firomme. They were ted, and retired.
Another party albs same body round to the front of
the house, ane O'ltalberes dyer with a young
gentleman, debt soidhbosebstel. Yr. Camay. One of the
party fired at them gentlemet, and the charge the gun
ins loaded with, these thet, grazed Mr. Canny's face. He
instantly ran and me& tap a double-barreled gun, the only
one in the house, Waffled and fired both succes-
sively at the fallow, who was approaching, and his
shot must lave told, as blood was found on the place next
morning. The attacking party fled on this, and Mr. Canny,
jumping through the window, pursued them with his gun
e . retreating party fired two shots at him, and
vhetheas do one barrel of his rail at them. He saw one of the
men gees; hut the cep having fallen from the other lock
the gentleman returned to O'Halloran's, so further pursuit
would be fniltlees.—A ruffian named Ryan, resident at New
Market, county Clare, having quarrelled with his mother et
Tureanalbp/znisight last, attempted to cut off her head with
a -hook, and inflicted a dangerous wound on
his who interposed his arm to save her.
There an ;ratifying accounts to-day from Galway. The
naps are good, and the promise of full employment is most
chanting. The Lough Corrib &ablate will immediately
comateste ; and the female industrial society already gives
employment to 418 persons daily. Destitution exists to a
considerable extent, and fever also in the rural districts ; but
this will, Ist us hope, be remedied, when the relief com-
mittees an fully at work. A poor man a working carpen-
ter, was crushed to death in the machinery of a mill within
the lest few days.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, JuNi 5.
Dr. Chalmers' funeral took place yesterday, and
was all that an admirer of genius, of whatever shade
his opinion may be, could reasonably have wished.
The funeral was the largest ever known in the city.
The mourners on foot might have been about 2,000,
the carriages 40, and the procession occupied twenty
minutes in pairing a given point ; and the character,
as well as the number, of the mourners was worthy of
notice. There were lords of session, and the humble
sitters in the Westport church—a sort of ragged
church, wholly raised by Chalmers—professors of the
university, and students of the normal school ; the
commissioner and moderator of the established church
assembly, and the officials of the free church assembly ;
episcopahans, presbyterians, and independents ; tory,
whig, and radical ; old men, and the boys of the Mer-
chiston academy : and there, too, was Principal Lee,
who contended with Chalmers in the mxleratorship,
and who succeeded to his vacated chair in the univer-
sity; Dr. Wardlaw, of Glasgow, who fought with
him on church establishments ; and Provoet Black,
who contended with him about seat-rents, made up
for his absence in London by sending his carriage to
swell the funeral cortege. The gazers looked on
with a silence intensely expressive. It could be no
common loss that soothed into order and sadness an

indiscriminate moms of on-lookers extending along the
aides of streets for nearly two miles.
It is sickening work to be always recurring to the
statistics of fever; but the increase of poor-rates in
Gleagow, from 24,0001. to 48,0001., does certainly
warrant the authorities of that city in expecting that
parliament will comply with their petition for the
extension of the Liverpool quarantine system to
Glasgow.