The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dennis. Barr. 12.
The accounts of the potato crop are unfavourable.
The Evening Post of lest night " regrets to state that
the blight has in many instances extended from the
stalk to the roots, causing a serious loss.' Private 1
letten kom the south speak of the loss of a consider- ,
able portion of the crop. Bat on the whole the great
portion of the crop will be 'aced, and, though lacli-11
viduals may suffer, there is ground to hope that there
will be no dearth. But the letters of the " Prunes'
lastructon" contain many unfavourable Eassages..
We take the following from their last commanscsa-
, time. Mr. M. Bale, writing from Spiddal, county
Galway, on the 27th August, says:
POLSOIS was pretty extensively sown this season, and
latish earlier thee usual. They grew meet luxuriantly, and
no disease appeared until about the first of this month ;
eines then, however, the ' blight' has been gradually pro-
with all the bad symptoms of the fast four yean.
Cadnietase, although generally appareat as the leans sad
stems, has yet done bat little injury to the tubers."
The second given by Mr. Patrick O'Connor, whims latter
is dated !twinned, county Kayo, 3rd September. is more
discouraging ea regards the potato. Hs observes :
" NAM my list report I ken been over all my exteasin
district. The crops look well—wheat, oats, and barley will
be, to all appearance, a full avenge crop; reaping has par-
tially began, and will be very general this week. Potatoes
the stalk m blighted, sad the tuba!, mom or less attested;
in 11011110 d they_ are mon than others; in part of the
deetoral aivieloa of Killseden I have seen °weird! tainted,
sad some entirely mom ; the disease is still programing—
iadesel, at the present time, there en be no oesjeetures
formed (dhow far It may proceed."
The practical imournor In the Okada nabs, Mr.
Wrosao, whom Utter was written before the pessedlog, says :
" I have Wee carefully watching over the potato crop,
sad have to say that disease has made its appearanm fa
each locality, on which I will report se fully as I sea ia my
seat."

Mr. P. Giblia, who writes hom Coker [nen, Kerry, on
the 29th Amos/tattles :
" The potato weft with few exceptions, was very good ;
up to this lb. partial Mine has, however, showa Baia coo.
oderably. Utile ahem lees sot incomes (of which tarmen
entertain seekers eggrehmione), there will be enMaient to
maintain; the pignaselen until the latter end of April next,
and Is *.. fasemiare throughout the entire year. Ode and
barley leek era, end pientlee an abundant return."
From Gouty Leitrim, Mr. John Amber writs, on
the 3114 Avow. His account le more encouraging %Masora.
others. Hems:
"The e—the greet dependence of the inejiwity of
the people is this district—are still holding out well; in
way instaame, however, in the vicinity of, or under the
shade of, woody plantatitens, or sear hedges, or in fields en-
closed by trees the leaves of the potatoes have suffered in
some degree from the late lightaing, and truss frosts ; but es
yet mutely any of the tubers have tailed. In many Instances
when bed reports prevailed, I have gone in person to see,
and make inquiry on the spot, and I have the pleasure to in-
fant yea that lavariably I found the reports of a rot in the
Taber Is be manic I have not seen this season ail rotten cr
dissesed potatoes in all my walk, and even the brown or
Mask of the leaves does not extend to the stem,
and is Mt very partial ; so that, on the whole, I trust there
aged he Lenz apprehension of a general failure and con.
sequent
The leen of Mr. Jena Simpson, dated Itanistyste,
meaty Clan, Aagpt 81, contains this parse:
" The potato creamhas molested la many Aelds, more
especially is risk.low, and bog lands."
Mr. John M. Hilly, writhes bow Balliarobe, Mayo, oa
the same tarechsays ;
" I am tad to inform you that we are now, thank
God, in the midst et &imperative plenty ; the mope in gees-
ril good ; not much men cat as yet, but next week I
expect moping will be very general here. Oar market in
liallinrobe is well supplied with fine potatoes from 214. to
4d. per stem of 16 lb. ' • and, notwithstanding the great noise
the potato blight has mad*, I can dad bat very few dis-
eased potatoes amongst them. Monday is our mar-
ket day here on which day I closely examined
the different loads brought into town, and I am
glad to say there is very little disease in the potatoes
yet, and the people moire is. that they most but an odd one
when digginit them. That we have disease there eats be no
doubt ; bat my Arm madetion is, it will be very mild--for,
thougo the leaves are greatly blackened, the tubers in
general are quits sound. The first symptom of It I dine-
vend was at Pastry, oa the Bth of August, and I undentand
it was there it first appalled in this union for the last two
years.'
Mr. J. H. Favreett, whose letter is dated Bantry, county
of Cork, August 29, observes—.

" The potTato disease, whappeared to be held in &ber-
me* by the &Inas ot thewather, hes, &Wog the lute
rains, aeseined rather a threatening upeet. It first appeared
wear the Atlantis, sad gradually extended inland. The
leaves sad steno are now seziseely affected threePtout the
entire *Wrist ; the tubers, up to the present, are coopera-
tively sate, but bus dams befog dimmed. Froo the asatered
state of the crop, sad its pest abssdasee, it is hoped little
lose will be sustained."

The Cork If:gunner ham • very severs article on
the present Irish members, chargiog them as " im-
bud* ambulates-like, corrupt, fawning, and rotten
to the heart's con r and saying that " gamblers and
broken-down blacklegs," are its legislative ruin ! It
is worthy of remark that the armada of some of the
Irish M.P.'s, as given by their brother members, dif-
fer not very widely from the description of the Cork
Ezoosiwr.

The private accounts from America remittent
Father Mathew as bufferirg very much from the
heat of the climate, and the labour of reesivisg &po-
tations and attending public meeting?. The party
ipirit which runs so high in some 'ties,
especially amongst some of the Irish, has been
• cases of much annoyance to him. Some fault
has been found here, with an answer alleged to have
been given by Mr. Mathew, in reply to an address
from some violent Irish politicians. 'Awe are reasons
for believing that he never wrote, or caused to be
written, a angle line of the answer; and farther, it is
believed that he never saw the answer la question,
until it want back morose the Atlantic in the Irish
papas. This much is certain, that the sentiments in
the answer are at variance with the entire tone of
what fell from Mr. Mathew, both in public and pri-
vate ; and it is extremely improbable that any society
of Irishmen in America could force him to express
political opinions hostile to the English government,
a thing which he refused to do, again and again,
during the rale of O'Connell and the repeal words-
tioa. These who centers an absent man, should re-
member that Mr. Mathew has lost his health in the
temperance caner, and notoriously injured his tastily,
besides expending his own means.

SPORTING.
DONCASTER RACES.
DONCLIIM TIDISDLY NIGHT.

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bet co the nee, arra to take 1,300 to 100 that his hones
were Ent and snood.
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