The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Denim, Jets 23.
Lord Arundel, it seems, will not have a walk over in
Limerick: Mr. F. W. Russell, the wealthy merchant
of that town, is resolved to contest the representation
with him, and has already addressed the electors,
offering himself, as "an Irishman and fellow-
citizen, in preference to "an Englishman and a
stranger; and claiming their suffrages as a "friend
of civil and religious liberty, without distinction of
class or creed." Mr. Russell is a protestant, but he
and his family are very popular in Limerick.
'the Lord Mayor presided, yesterday, at a meeting
of citizens convened by one of the societies recently
established here for the promotion of native manufac-
ture; the principal object of the meeting being that
of co-operating in the efforts now made to obtain the
establishment of a transatlantic packet station in
Ireland. His lordship, in addressing the meeting,
said :

He attended a meeting in London on the 3rd of the month,
at which between sixty and seventy members of the House
of Commons were present, and he never saw at any meet-
ing more enthusiasm than was manifested by those gentle-
men, withview to carrying out the great work of an Irish
packet station. They had certainly been, he must say, un-
fairly treated by the commissioners. He did not tax them
with any wilful unfairness; but it seemed to him that they
had forgotten altogether that Ireland was an inhabited
country. (Cheers.) They entered into calculations as to
the time occupied in transmitting individuals or goods from
New York to Liverpool, and from New York to Holyhead ;
but they appear to have last sight altogether of the fact that
Ireland was inhabited, and that there were Irishmen and
Irish goods to be conveyed to America. They considered
which was the shortest way, and they considered British
and American interests, but they Lott Irish interests out of
the question.
Several highly respectable mercantile men ex-
pressed their opinions on the subject under considera-
tion, and it was agreed that an aggregate meeting of
the citizens should take place to dismiss the ques-
tion .

An amalgamation of the two bodies into which
the Society originally established for the Promotion
of Irish 'Manufacture was split is about to take place,
the secretary of the original board, to whom the fault
of the division is attributed, being, by a resolution
adopted yesterday, dismissed from his office.
The Earl Fitzwilliam appears as a petitioner in
the Encumbered Estates Court for the purpose of
selling a property in the King's County.
In opening the Tipperary Assizes yesterday,
Judge Moore addressed the grand jury in the fol-
lowing terms :
I regret to have to state that the calendar now before me
presents an appearance of crime serious with respect to the
number of persons, there being sixty individuals upon the
crown book, and although I uucleistond the number to be
less titan at former assizes, yet the cases to be disposed of
are considerable, when we look to the very recent departure
of the assistant barrister. I regret to perceive that you
will have much business to discharge, and as regards the
nature of the crimes with which parties stand charged,
many of them are of a very serious nature. There are no
fewer than six distinct cases of murder, but I have reasoa
to hope with regard to some of them, that they ntuy not
turn out to be offences of such an atrocious class; and with
regard to one of them, you will have nothing to do, as the
bill was found at the last assizes, and the trial postponed
until now; but there is another case to come before you,
gentlemen, to which I feel it necessary to call your par-
ticular attention. It appears that a female, Ellen Machen,
stands charged with the wilful murder of two illegitimate
children, and John Phelan is accused of being an accessory
before the fact to the murder, and charged with having in-
stigated and procured the commission of the munler by that
woman. I understand from the informations which have
been sworn by this woman, that it is the intention of the
er two to accept of her as tut approver, in order, if they can,
to bring home guilt to the other person. Now you will, iu
considering this very serious case, bear in mind that there is
no species of evidence more open to suspicion, or requiring
more carefully to be investigated, than the testimony of a
person standing in the situation of au approver; and you
could not safely act upon the testimony of an accomplice
unless corroborated. I ant not aware of the corroborating
circumstances of this case ; but if there should be no suffi-
cient evidence to set uo the testimony of the actual perpe-
trator of the murder, then you ought not to find the bill.
There are no other murder cases upon the calendar to which
it is necessary to direct your attention ; but, gentlemen, I
am sorry to find 12 persons charged with a most serious
offence, namely the burning of houses. I have read over
the informations, and find that no less than eleven of the
individuals accused are females; but I have reason to think
that those offences have no connexion with the agrarian
outrages which used to disgrace the county, but have origi-
nated from personal motives and for personal objects.