The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MLy 24.
Respecting Mr. O'Connell there was ssme question,
I understand, as to the place of sepulture, whether on
the banks of the Tiber, or in the ivied ruins of Derry-
nane, among the graves of his kindred. But unless
any express desire of the meat man to the contrary,
his bones will be restored to the land he loved so well.

This day, being the birth-day of the Queen, was
kept a close holiday in all the public establishments
and government offices.
The crown business of Bkibbereen has been brought
to a close. There is nothing singular in the ordinary
history of a quarter sessions, but when the enormous
number of sixty-sir persons are sentenced to trans-
portation, this power is reluctantly and rarely ex-
ercised by the assistant barristers, the offences to
which that punishment is incident being of a suffi-
ciently grave character for•the jurisdiction of the
superior judges, so that we can well conceive the din-
organised condition of a district, where the pnisne
judge of a quarter sessions is compelled to sentence a
number to transportation which exceeded any general
gaol delivery for the extensive county of Cork for
many previous years.
The Temporary Relief Act is in operation in 1248
electoral divisions, or about two-thirds of the entire
number in Ireland.

THE BANTRY WOEIHOI7BI.—The Southern Reporter,
a Cork journal, contains some disclosures of a very extraor-
dinary character respecting the mismanagement of the work-
, house at Bantry, which, owing to the exclusion of the press
from the meetings of the board, and of strangers also, have
only just come to light. It appears that, inside and outside
the dead house, it has been the custom to pile coffins un-
buried. and leave them in that condition for several weeks ;
that into those coffins so many as three and four corpses
have been thrust ; but, more shocking still, corpses utterly
naked have frequently bean thrown, for days to-
gether, on the floor of the dead-house attached to
the workhouse, until the rats had partially devoured
them, and putridity set in. The Earl of Bantry, who has
been so severely taken to task by Mr. Shea Lalcr for his
obstruction of the new relief enactment, is chairman of this
union; Lord Berehaven, his son, is else a member. This
shocking state of things was partially admitted by the master
of the workhouse, whu appears to have been acting with the
fall knowledge and concurrence of the guardians. The
whole matter has been reported to the csmesussioner, and an
investigation ordered, which will doubtless be accorded, and
justice dots upen the delinquent guardians.
STATE OP THE COUNTRY.—The accounts from the pro-
vinces to-day speak! the meet cheering terms as to the
prospects of next year'; harvest. The papers contain fewer
outrages and fewer instances of hideous destitution, than
, have been spread over them for any week of the last six
months. l'everand dysentery are, however, on the increase,
1 and several persons in a respectable sphere of society are
annouccul to-day as having fallen victims to the former
1 disease.

ECOT LA YD.
EDINBURGH, IliaT 24.
Mr. Campbell has formally intimated to the electors
of Berwickshire his intention of withdrawing. Oppo-
sition to Mr. Morrison in the Inverness burghs is
vaguely talked of, and Sir J. M. Grant, of Ballindalloch,
is one of the candidates so named. As to the rumoured
opposition to Mr. Bannerman, in Aberdeen, the Herald
of that town says, " Nothing of the kind is known
here." Regarding Mr. Welford, one of the candidates
for Haddington, the Kelso Mail states that he is
opposed to the game laws, and on other points pro-
fesses to be of the Peel school of politics.
The application of the education minutes to Scot-
land,will, to use the Rob Roy phrase," set the heather
on fire." The parochial schoolmasters, it is well known
must be members of the Established Church—the,:
have each a small endowment, free house, school, and
garden. And, it appears. bat too plain, that whatever
state grants are going in the way of allowances to
monitors, normal pupils, or aged preceptors, the
Scotch schoolmasters, backed by the clergy, will
expect to receive, without any concession of their
present exclusiveness. They have already commenced
on agitation against the plan of additional endowments
for additional voluntary grants, as, in cases where dis-
senters put their hands into their pockets, and church-
men do not, the former will have better paid teachers.
That the church will abate nothing of its power is
manifest from occurrences not a month old. It claims
the presbyterial supervision not only of country paro-
chial schools, but of academics in large towns, built
and endowed by private subscription. Thus, in
Dundee and Elgin no little bad feeling exists from
this cease. In the former town the directors have in-
formed
the presbyterians that they will allow them to
attend school examinations along with other denomi-
nations as a matter of courtesy but not right, and
prudently the presbytery have allowed the matter to
drop. But the Elgin brethren have carried their cam
to the General Assembly, where high, but it is to be
feared powerless, views of the ecclesiastical preroga-
tive will be held. The church tenacious, dissent will
be aggressive. The free church, well skilled in at-
tack, the united presbyterians, now a compact body,
and the non-theological educationists, with
Combe and Professor Blackie at their hearrA
strike hard for the emancipation of the parish schools
—and although, on the principle of legislating for
things as they are, it may be possible to
give the parochial schools the benefit of the
privy council bounties without absolutely wrench-
ing them from the door-posts of the establish-
ment, yet government must lay its account to offend-
ing conformist and nonconformist, both or either.
Perhaps the intelligent and mild opposition offered to
the Marriage and Registration Bills will not predis-
pose the Lord Advocate greatly in favour of any
proposals made by tho Scotch schoolmasters. Not
that retaliatory conduct will likely be followed, beg
these gentlemen must " show cause," and not turn op

old "Scots' Acta," or reiterate certain sounding but
diffuse common-places about the Scottish parochial
school system having been alone the levers of the na-
tional prosperity. The real question at issue is, can
the lenr be elongated and the fulcrum raised ?
The documents sent by the free church aseembly,
suggesting an amicable settlement of the quoad sacra
chapel property, were received by the established as-
sembly on Saturday. A committee was appointed
to report on them, and the moderator authorised
to acknowledge their receipt. The total income
of the free church since May, 18E3, amounts to
1,322,54.31. Ds. 101 d. •