The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

rossms, OCT. 15.
The first public meeting of the Catholic Defence
Association has at length been officially announced
'for Friday next; and this day a meeting of the
committee of the Catholic University takes place, to
the expected proceedings of which mach importance
is attached, as it is supposed that the organisation of
the projected institution will be finally arranged.
' Several of the Roman catholic prelates have antra
in town, fur the purpose of attending both of them
meetings.
A meeting of the Senate of the Queen's University
was held yesterday in Dublin Castle. The followim'
candidates passed for the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine, having been duly examined for seven days:
Robert J. Black, James Dickson, Charles G. Lester,
John Moore, Washington Murphy, Thomas Plaine,
and Thomas Wheeler. Mr. Dickson obtained the
first, and Mr. Moore the second exhibition. On this
occasion the following gentlemen passed for the
diploma of agriculture, having been duly examined
for three days :—George Evans, John V. Ulnas,
Thomas O'Hara, and Thomas Skilling. Mr. Skilling
obtained the first exhibition, and Mr. O'Hara the
second. The day for conferring degrees is not yet
fixed.
Yesterday there was a meeting of the Trinity
College Government Commissioners at the arch-
bishop s palace. Present—The Archbishop of Dub-
lin, the Lord Chancellor, Dr. Longtield, Mr. Cooper,
and Professor Hancock (secretary). The next meet-
ing of the commission is fixed for Thursday, the 30th
October.
It is somewhat amusing to observe the variety cl
arguments by which the poor law guardians through-
out Ireland are endeavouring to show why govern-
ment should not call upon them to refund the famine
loans, at least for the present. The Kanturk guar-
dians appeal to their " geographical position" as a
reason Mr non-payment, and make out their case
thus, in a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury :
The ratepayer' would impress on your lordships that
their union labours under many natural disadvantages, tram'
its elevation above the sea, from a great part of it being
mountain and bog, and a great extent of the lower lands
Lung heavy clay. Owing to its geographical position, it is
Reinject to a greater quantity of rain than many pasts of the
country a few miles from at. The distress caused by the
failure of the potato crop is too well known to your lord-
ships. The ratepayers have suffered lose besides, to a large
amount, by the death of their cattle from a distemper which
still prevails to an alarming degree. The reduction in the
prices obtained from the produce of the land since dialoged
of the corn laws, has diminished the means which the rate-
payers formerly bud for discharging their liabilities. Under
these disadvantages, rates have been paid in the Kanturk
Union from March, 184.1, to March, 15.11, to the amount of
94,1141. 14e. Sd., on a valuation of 103,0001. The rate-
payers fully acknowledge the obligation of discharging debts
voluntarily incurred; and when it shank in their power to
pay the money advanced fur food, they will do so willingly.
As to the money advanced for making roads, the ratepayers
are of opinion, for the follawing reasons, that the debt ought
either to be cancelled, or greatly reduced in the amount to
be paid :—The officer appointed by the Lord Lieutenant
stated frequently, at road sessions, that work must be found,
that the people must be supported, so that the ratepayers
were obliged to give their assent to the making of many
useless roads; and the ratepayers humbly submit to your
lordships that, as government undertook to make the roads
commonly called relief works, it was the duty of the go-
vernment to obtain as equivalent for the money expended.
We find, on the contrary, that the money expended ex-
ceeds by a vast amount the value of the works executed.
Further, the ratepayers can assure your lordships that
some of these roads were never brought before the road
sessions, and many of these, if finished, would be useless,
or worse than useless. Neither the poor law guardians nor
the nitepayere had any control over the works or tho ex-
penditure on there roads. On the contrail, any interfe-
Mise or remonstrance was looked on by the government
officers as unwarrantable. A very great number of the
ratepayers do not live in the same degree of comfort, nor
have they as good food us the paupers for whom they pay
the rates. The ratepayers feel they are subject to
great headship in being called on to pay money
not expended for their benefit. The ratepayers
feel that great distress has been caused by the
high rates paid under the pressure of difficulties greatly
increased by the poor rates. A considerable extent of laud
is unoccupied; =My of the farmers have gone to America,
and many more will follow those who have left, rather
than viatiuue to suffer under the pressure of poor rates, not
only fur the relief of ordinary destitution, but also for the
relief of a vast amount of want caused by the famine--an
object very far from the original intention of a poor law,
and which, the ratepayers humbly submit, being a national
calamity, should have been relieved by national resources.
For these remote., the ratepayers of the Kanturk union
humbly beg that the Lords of the Treasury will take their
caw into consideration, and that their lordships will defer
the demand fur money expended for food, and for the build-
' ing of the workhouse, fur some time, or until the rate-
-1 payers shall have ceased to suffer under their pre.ent severe
pressure; and that their lord-hips will cancel either the
whole or a very large proportion of the money demanded
fur payment fur relief roads ; also, that interest on the ori-
ginal debt may not be charged.

THE POISONING CASE AT BATH.
CORONER'S INQUEST.

This extraordinary ease excites greater interest
daily, both in Bath and Bristnl. On Monday, A. It.
Eng-
lisle, Ent , coroner for Bath, with a jury composed of highly
respectable
e tradesmen,cll who, as stated in Monday's is lcate:lP:lt' the
sheet on Saturday last, at the Sessions Court of the Guilds
hall, but a. a postnaortem examination and analysis of tie
' contents of the stomach were necessary, the jury, after
viewing the body, considered that it was not desirable le
enter further upon the case until the medical evidence was
ready, and the inquiry was therefore adjourned until Wed-
nesday morning.
The inquest was resumed at nine o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday) morning. The prisoner being in the custody
of the magistrates was not present, but Mr. Crosby was in
attendance and took notes of the eviuenee.
W. lierapath, Esq., analytical chemist, of Bristol, having
repeated his evidence before the magistrates, then deposed
to the result of his analysis of the contents of the stomach:
—On Monday I received a prepared teat, but found es
arsenic in it. I ant not quite satisfied with au aamlyeie et
the borax and honey, as the usual mode of msoOsis Y blip
pliable to that subetance, and I hare been tee bully em
gaged since with the body to return to it. On 1I y, it e
13th inst., I attended at Mr. Searle's, and wiMmilei • jig.
martens examination upon the body of• fseiebWhetiYs
about four months old. The body go MA OW
Mated, and the countenance exhibited esteem animaters
the eyes were deeply sunk. On the lower put of the beep,
the buttocks, there was an extensive red miliary empties,
something like the measles when very strong. This is as
appearance found upon the body of persons dying of arsenic,
after it has been received into the system several days.
There was also a large boil, or pustule, on
the groin, which had been discharging pus. The
stomach and intestines were opened in my presence. Tho
whole surface of the stomach was gelatinised. It was so
tender it would break into a hole on the slightest touch,
and there was a large ulcer on the interior small curvature,
snarly half an inch in diameter, from which the mucous
guana, was entirely gone. On the intestines being opened
from below upwards, all the intestines, from the anus to
the meal valve, were covered with the same eruption which
1 lewd apeaehe external skin. It was exactly as though
seddesttest of seed had been dropped upon the sur-
lier. TIN lemma decreased upwards. There were
ems of the ism in the glands above the
valve, bat lon 4 yaThe whole of the abdominal
Ascent were removed )he me in m presence, except the
lisfigneys, womb, and Mailer, and I had cut out for me the
small pustule in the grey. 1 put them all in bottles, and
look them with me to Bristol. I should have said also that
there was an ulcer in the cereal valve, and a redness in the
upper part of the cesophagus. On subjecting the liver and
intestines to analysis 1 discovered in them small but un-
doubted traces of arsenic. I produce to you two
'small polished plates et Meeppppeer with anomie sispealted
epen them, and she sewiow acid, Sobeele's
end orpiment. I thee poises you four tests, the Mitt
would have been no me ee bring, as it would be injured by
tie light. Wishing le determine whether the eruption
mere trout amnia. I gutted upon the small pustule, sad
dbeovered fiedbmisee et anemic upon copper. I have,
wfore babe AM the pustule and eruptionis what is
id emembeittesme.
Bp aropmie found were not of
tbeembees eellskeit emu die& I never, except in
MS if ere INSISMISI. *Ma Illatiest arsenic remaining in
dr dome w Min aliek As the symptoms and arsenic
mese Berl teember, I bows se debt fast death was maul
Sea from the er wens I shall eeppete that*,
&all nu a slow One. The Oen urn hem bees nibl
ellaMeed in small quantities. no were set
Ilk• illwe of a person suddenly ileiteede,
By the Coroner—An eighth of a gads et snub midi
be a large doge fur an adult—that is, it might be
ous ; and for an infant it would :of course, an
be more dangerous.
By a Juror—lt would be possible, I .death =et
carry under a person's finger nail in three
arsenic to produce the results found.
The inquest was then adjourned until the evening.

CHRIAIRA MILITARY COLLEGE.—Napoleon Bona-
parte, son of Jerome Bonaparte, governor of the lovatides,
at Paris, visited Chelan Hospital on Sunday. He was re-
ceived b the military sad civil authorities. He minutely
Inapsslad the interior of the establishment, and particularly
impaired rats all the arrangements so beneficently roads for
the losalset et the old veterans.
QM= OF MURDIR AT Davisralt.—The laest
ia lib oaro, partimahrs of which appeared in the Daily
Ars of Mealy. Ire boa brought to a close. The
halm rotorsed a vardiat of " Wilful murder" a
balk Prkkhard, and Ys we woman wmtaPacia-
Ward on the orcosres waszaat for trial at tho Spates
Arises.