The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-25 00:00:00

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Tbe journals from Rome of
the 16th inat., announce that the Pope, befogs con-
gesting to return to Rome, requires the dismissal of
the present ministry, the dissolution of the chambers,
the suspension of the liberty of the press, the dissolu-
tion of the national guard, and the suppression of the
clubs.

Lett, rs from Gaeta, of the 13th inst., say that if the
Pope does not go to France, he will go to Caserta,
near Naples. He was to have held a consistory on
the 18th.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Du. 24.

Yesterday the lord mayor and corporation of
Dublin proceeded in full regalia to the Castle, to pre-
sent his excellency with the address of congratulat4on
on the state of Ireland politically, and of thanks for
the manner in which he had used the extraordinary

powers wherewith he had been entrusted. The depo-
tion, which includ, d many of the meet respected of
either side in the town council, was rendered even
more extensive by an attempt, made since the adop-
tion of the address, to damage all those concerned to
it se bad citizens and placelunters. His excellency re-
ceived the deptna,ion in the " painted chamber,"
' upon the vice-regal throne, surrounded by his •
household officers, aides.de-camp, &c. His reply, ,
which I subjoin, was brief, decided, and confident:
May it please your Bxoeilency— We, the lord mayor, ,
aldermen, and burgesses of Dublin, beg leave to offer to
your exeelleney our heartfelt wanks for the temperate,
able, and humane manner in which your excellency ,
exereised the powers entrusted to you by parliament, for
the suppression of the late iv:happy disturbances In this
country ; sad public order heal now perfectly established,
we would earnestly impress on your excellency the strong me-
amity existing for an extended end diligent inquiry into the
awes cresting inch general discontent, preparatory to the
introduction of such a system of remedial legislation as
would create public confidence, tend to materially alleviate
the condition of our untortucate co. ntry, and he calculated
to remove the manifold p &moue so justly and generally ,
complaint of.
His excellency returned the following reply:
My Lord Mayor and Gentlem.m,—l beg to ogee you my I
bealtanks far this address. It has been my earnest en-
d I
to use the extraortinary powers entrusted to me by
the legislature solely for the oisintenanee of public order, ;
and i.ot alone to protect the peaceable subjects of her Ka-
jesty, bat to abstain from a;1 unutcessary severity against
those by whom the safety and well-being of society were en- ,
&erred. I em, therefore, much gratified that the corpora.
Lion of Dublin should now record their opinions thatthe duty
whien dee. Iced upon me has been performed with modem-
tam and ben been attended with 'access. On the part of
her Msjee'y'e government, and on my own, I can assure
you that dives exists a incite desire carefully to investigate ,
the causes of discontent in Ireland, and, es far as
puedhle, to remove them by improved legislation. To rely,
however, upon legislation alone ea a ewe, or even a pal-
liatioo, tor evils that sri• chit fly social in their character,
would be to foster a vain delusion, and to neglect theseremedies which an within the reach of individuals, sod
meet depend on the strenuous and mealy exertion of
every ekes in the oommunay, rather than on the wisest ,
enactments of parliament But that which, above all things
Ireland now stands most in need of, as the basis of her future
Improvement, is internal tranquillity ; no progress is possible
—no country ever did, or can, prosper under a system of pa-
hical siltation which arrays against each other men who
should be united for their common good, and which is alike
Mal to the purseitsof industry and the employment of capital,
and to that goad ord r upon which public confidentodependa.
This system has long hem practised in Ireland. I need
not dwell upon the mulls it has produced, bet I will ven-
ture to express my earnest hope that the warnings of expe-
rience nosy not los disregarded, and that the ingenuity and
talent by which Irishmen are pre-eminently distinguished
may henestorward be devoted to the true Meerut' of this
tenantry, and to the impe •vement of these great natural caps
Willies which might long since have rendered Ireland a
land of onnt ort and prnewrity.
On Wednesday three additional cases of cholera
occurred in the hospital of Belfast ; two proved fatal.
On Thursday there were no new cue,, but on Friday
two children were attacked. The discus has also
unhappily appeared in the town ; a nailer, whose wife
had recently left the workhouse, was attacked with
the disease on Friday, and died in a few hours. His
wife has had a premonitory attack of the disease also.
A southern paper states that a meeting of Irish
, members will be held early in January, to agree to a
prog. ammo of measures, to the accomplishment of
which their efforts next session will be devoted.

There were 1,482 prisoners put on trial at the
quarter sessions of Limerick during the past year, of
whom 132 were sent.-nced to transportation. For
January sessions, 1849, there are already 140 pri-
soners. The crime charged against the greater
number of all these was larceny.