The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-21 00:00:00

IRELAND

Desna, Ti.. 20.
At Ncnagh and nt Loughrea. on Sunday last, the
Roman cathodic• soldiers were ordered by their officers
out of the chapels whin the priests were about to
address the coubrn•gutiuns on the subject of the " new
penal law."
A great tenant-right demonstration was held in
Limenek yesterday. Mr. Ryan. of Rowrec, the de-
feated cutalidate at the late Election, presided, and a
letter of sympathy. and approbation was received
from I tr. Kean, tIU: newly-appointed Roman catholic
Bishop of Rom.

PARLIAMENTARY co

ST. A 1.8.C.4.14 EtEertow.—The petition of J. H.
land agent, and otW. Bennett. builder, of St.
Alban'.. who voted at the last election. has been referred to
the election committee. It complains that during the elec-
tion, Dlr. Jacob DeUl, the sitting member, was guilty of
divers arts of bribery and corruption, whereby they pro
cured is runs to give their votes, in favour of Mr. Jacob
Bell, and to forhear giving them in favour of Mr. Carden,
the other candidate, and that gross, extensive, and Syste-
matic bribery and corruption errs practised by the friends
and partmaus of Mr. Bell. They state that Mr. Bell was not
duly eleited, and ought not to have been returned, and pray
that the house will direct the return to be amended by the
substitution of the name of Mr. Carden for that of Mr. Bell.
MILIARVar ELICTION.—A petition in similar terms has
bees referred to the committee of elections by Messrs. .1.
weirdos anal (1. Ilium. electors, complaining of the return
by bribery of Mr. Frederick Calvert, the sitting member, in
Ilea of Mr. John Boughton, the other candidate.
DVNIILAXE. Il,octta, •• I. C ALL VCDPIt RAILWAT.—
/int ewe wider the Abandonment of Railways Aet.—
Yesterday, the report of the commissioners of railways,
waled for by the House of lords, was presented. It stated
that the application of the company for authority to
abandon their railway under the Railway Abandonment
Act, was reei ised by the commissioners on the 19th of
September. 18io, representing that out of the 3,200 shares
of which company's capital consisted, shareholders holding
2,384 share had assentext to the application fur its abandon-
ment. awl that other shareholders holding only 42 sham
had dissented, upon which and other requirements of the
act being complied with the commissioners granted a
warrant for its abandonment. The applicants stated as the
rowed for their application that the expense of the works
woeld far tarred any reasonable remuneration that could
be expected from so short a railway being worked as an in-
dependent line, though their act contained a power of
leming the line to the Scottish Central Railway, and as no
objections were brought before the commissioners by the
latter company, or by the landowners or the local interest,
and as the line did not form a link in any principal line of
communication, it did not appear that any public interests
were Modred that could render it advisable to hold the
company to their undertaking. The statement of the
financial position of the company as rendered'to the com-
missioners set forth that the line was ten miles long. capital
80,0001. in 3,200 shares of 2.51. each. The tall or deposit
21. 10s. per share had produced 8,000/. Parliamentary ex-
r;1,469/., law charges 1,4451., engineering expenses
275. /., kering a balance in hand of 4,2681.

NATIONAL AND PARLLSIMSTART REFORM ASSOCIA-
TtoD.—Last evening, a large and influential meeting of the
inhabitants of Clerkenwcll was held at the large room of
the Green Man and Still, Coppice-row, for the purpose of
extending the principles of this association. Mr. Fusael,
Mr. M'Donald, Mr. Hinton, and other speakers belonging
to the industrial order addressed the meeting, and called on
their fellow workmen to join a society which was labouring
to obtain for them the franchise.

ADMIRALTY, FY.B. 20.—APPOINTNIEN1
ter's-Assistant John G. Mongon, to the Victory.

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