The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dumas, Allover 22.
The annual festival of Donnybrook commences to-
day, but stripped of all its frolic and its fun. The
drunken " glory" of the Irishman is clouded, or alto-
gether extinguished. The " Brook," " St. John's
Well," and the other extra-mural localities, where of
old all the moral and social impurities of our nature
were cultivated to an extent which filled good men
with dismay, are now so many deserted shrines, re-
membered only for the unhallowed worship once
offered on their altars. All tke old haunts of vim
are rapidly passing into tradition. The present ge-
neration knows them only by name. By-and-by they
will be muffled in a mystery as close as the
origin of the round towers. Within the last
few years no people in the world have made such
rapid strides towards the social and good as the Irish.
It v only by a comparison of the past with the pre-
wet—with the Ireland of twenty years ago and the
Ireland of to-day—that we can estimate the extent or
value of the progress. Elections now are quite sober
affairs. No largesse of silver—no chairing—no
furious riots. Herein we are far in advance of more 1
fortunate England. Fairs are common commercial
gatherings, which ths peasant enters in sobriety and
leaves is sobriety. The my of a " Two
_y!sr old " or
a " Shanavest," in same of a Carlini," is as ries as
the baying of the old native wolf dog The " Rounds"
and " Patterns" have been reduced to limits MOM oar
astent with the bermes al Ws. The rut
famous am stall bat the pure darks. of
the Irish =tow is absorbed in the gases loci. and I
dronkennem no league follows in the wake of adore-
tion. Donnybrook Is a stall more powerful illustra-
tion. With the refire al a ci/ Portion pouring
nightly into that ore Ames des prosti-
tutes, chalkers, and pleigeslesta, with the cover it
affords for any species at arime,—it is astonishing to
see the general order selfish pervades the lower
classes. In the ebbing ssil forring current of human
beings you will not an alb per cent of drunken-
nem A good demi of the
.regoluitzr is owing
to the exertions el the hivta, with-
eat any exception she Illhasertitlyfor eraslas
Move.
With the coat of mail, helmet, and jack-brat of your 1
Reese Guards, they would look a raceat giants. 1
Frederick the Oral, fora brigade of seek memoroold
be,. 'named arbor provisos. Besides this sestrol
ea Grist the blends or tempersses, Dr. bpratt,
Jams Horeb" ko,wlll MY tali sad ward on
the " Orees," sod wise fa lbe Sided orgies of to-
morrow with listens sad *kw An a further ne-
;..l.e..poliss summimiewors -bave issued an edict,
Ideal spirlbserliquers in all imlicanned
VanowTrintir er booths, bare 9 a.m. and after 6 eat.
The contract for the evply of mail coaches in Ire-
had has been obtained by Messrs. Hartley and
Browns. The period is five years. The late Mr.
Purcell had been ousted by Mr. Croal ; and the ques-
tion involving a suspicion of unfairness against the
then Postmaster-General, Lord Lowther, was dis-
card in the House of Commons. The transfebt
the manufacture to Ireland will be productive al NM
*null good ; but the main lines, south,north, and east,
are, or soon will be, in the possession of the railway
toulasieg,
Tire are some illustrations of the enomalousesedi-
boa of what ought to be our indepeaiset
Papalation contained in the goal jjoommfmaall~ti of wlfsh
to instance or two may sot be smile. Us
Pape Oates, that catifebesday these win 4
",_,lntallh, at the stsdist Gress, sot fewer them PSI
'mowers= to liebired by the femora, division
sot lop c, • engagements. The wages paid de
eat exceedfireperies per day, with diet, and Ibis reds
it Prevented from imam by the bass et Marin
from Connaught into Tipperary, theV them-
*lllll for 4d. per day with food. On emir band,
at Belturbet, in Cavan, the farmers are conowisining
timt they have to pay Is. 3d. per day to harvest

Lberarers, which they my is oarg to the public works i
almerbing a greater amount of labourthan nasal.l
And this is true, for the northern landlords improve
their estates-,the squires of Lower Ormond leave the'
fertile plains of lipperary to the ears of nature.
Another cones tends to overstock the labour market in
the south ; the farmers are adoptinthe practice of
emitting corn with the scythe, and . are mending
even the female members of their es to outdoor
labour.

lkorammrt.—The psrtiis commreed Lau of the elope.
meats mistimed yestesday we thus whoa of by the
Franowneelearwel:—Thelr mums, to t further pato
cm seek a Mme, are ter thepremet wMWii The Injured
Imebead is Massa
dibetei=sats Yam gilllD
het asme a hlsh plese It lie said that
up to a ream puled** lived oaths meet eleseleaste
tense ; bat that seas y mimed tee have a pertleakt Thias
fw " the red set*" mar* bine* were welisaged, lahmeleve
Oxalis.% *Di the bay (so report gem)! ia tn. abeam
het teia• spent a good deal et bra Mae is Me ellissee
compsay. £ bm days sime she *sped with Ma. The
afar BOOM belles ll k=szoll s h
es alt Ile inbred kwhated,
by the advice *ltia las set pedestals,' ea Mk*,
say step in the muter. whereabouts of the hwitime it
not at prima "elms et. The lady, who winkled ia a ruhicet•
alio seelat at theme* sided the dab tedescribed as " young
and way lawdassaa." Is was whisplas4 yetterday, that next
lam my rem* sweedilag repetUmg SIM unpleasant affair.