The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. JULY 28. '
The country papers report heavy defieiences in the '
collection of the county ceps. Roscommon, as I have
informed you, exhibits a deficit of more than 7,0001.
In the North Riding of Tipperary a considerable sum
remains uncollected, about 3,000/. ; while some of the
baronial collectors have not taken up their warrants,
in the hopelessness of any collection. There is
the germ of much future disorder in this state
of things. It will be impossible to here-
after call in arrears of mums now uncollected.
The state of the roads in Kerry is a fair sample of
their condition in other districts. The county sur-
veyor reports that about 1.50 miles, or 15 per cent. of
all the roads in Kerry, have been abandoned by the
contractors. " The public inconvenience from this
abandonment," observes the report, " would be much
greater, but for that very alarming feature in the pre-
sent state of the country, vir-, the continued diminu-
tion in the traffic on the roads." Under the Labour
Rate Act, the new roads measure 400 miles, of which
about 80 miles are completed, and the remainder
worked upon, which will be taken up by the pro-
prietors' memorials under the Land Improvement Act.
A tedious controversy is being carried on about the

tire merits of Valentin and Galway as American
respective merits of Valentia and Gaiway as Amseican
p.ket stations. A third candidate now eaters the
d, in the person of Sir M. Barrington, soliciting
public attention to the claims of Limerick. Bir
Matthew says, in a letter to the President of the
Chamber of Commerce, that Galway and Valentin
Rut he So pielni be put out of view, as there is no
sliwa communisation with either ; and assuming
k as the selected point, with the Great
Southern and Western line connecting it with Dab-,
lin, he enters into some interesting calculations to es-
tablish its actual superiority. Taking the extreme
south-western point of Ireland as a starting point,
mails conveyed by steam rid Limerick and Dub-
lin could be delivered in London 41 hours
earlier than by Liverpool, and 34 hours earlier than
Southampton. A steam voyage from the extreme
south-west of Ireland to Liverpool would average 60
hours in fine, but much more in rough weather, and
railway conveyance thence to London at least 0
hours; while a voyage from Limerick to same point
would be made in 10 hours; by railway to Dublin,
4 hours k and thence by the South Wales Railway to
Louden in 7 ; giving Limerick a clear advantage over
Liverpool of at least 40 hones. Such are Sir
Matthew's calculations.

A tenant league is about to be established in Tip-
perary. There was a preliminary meeting at Thurles,
to prepare rules, &c. There are other districts where
a more immediate necessity exists for a league than
the south riding, whore a large portion of the occu-
piers hold on their own terms. It looks, however,
well that they should be anxious to come within the
law, and settle their differences with the landlords on
an equitable basis, instead of by the musket and pistol.
SCOTLAND
EDINBURGH, JOLT 28.
The sheriff substitute of Perthshire is busily inves-
tigating the cause of the recent accident on the Perth
and Dundee Railway. Scotland has no system of
coroners' inquests like England, the practice in
the northern division of the island being for the
sheriffs to institute inquiries into casualties resulting
in death—a plan which, although not attended with
the publicity of the inquest of England, generally
answers the ends of justice, besides being economic in
its working.
A jury lately awarded 501. damages against a re-
tainer oi' the Earl of Morton, who assaulted a party
engaged in breaking down an obstruction put up on
a thoroughfare near Aberdour ; a consummation
which is regarded as a heavy blow and sore dis-
couragement to the road monopoly cause.

A SINGULAR BALLOON ACCIDiNT took place at Glasgow
yesterday. While in program. of inflition, a gust of wind
carried up the balloon, although held on by some thirty or
forty people, who bad to let go their hold at a good height
from terrofirma, an experiment well-nigh attended with a
fatal result to one of the parties. Fairly up in the air, the
balloon sailed off, and has not since been heard of. The
aeronaut (Mr. Gale) is in despair, and has offered a reward
for its recovery. At the time, the mob outside mistaking
the nature of the ascent, broke into the grounds and did
some damage.