The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. IS.—RAILWAY DEPCTATIONA TU THE
Loati-LratrreNiter.--The following is the substance ot the
answer given on yesterday to the Meath deputation, which
waited upon his Excellency to solicit his approval of the
construction of the table of the Dublin and Cavan Railway
through Meath, at the expense of the latter county His
Excellency replied that he would be most anxious to assist
the deputation in every way in his power, but the question
was quite new. There was no act of parliament authorising
the construction of the projected line. The Board of Works
might perhaps authorise the formation of the embankment ;
but the line of railway thus projected had been already be-
fore parliament, and he was afraid the Bowl of Works
woulrl not autberiie the toreador' of a line which had not

obtained their bill. The difficolty Fly is limiting the Trea-
sury to content to authorising the Board of Works to assist
ins plan which had been rejected by parliament, and which
rni ht heavies rejected. He would,liowever, send forward
a memorial to the Treasury, and give it everything in the
way of recommendation he could ; but the difficulty was as
he had stated. His Excellency then put several other ques-
tions, to the answers to which he listened with the greatest
ponible attention, evincing throughout the audience the
greatest desire to comply with the prayer of the deputation,
The deputation then withdrew.
WNTI:ItFORD AND Lratetuc•x RAILWAY.—Another de-
putation, headed by Lord Glentrall, subsequently waited on
his Excellency with reference to the Limerick and Waterford
Railway, and handed to his Excellency a memorial, praying
that the Board of Works should undertake, under the provi-
sions of the Labour Rate Act, the formation of the line. HIS
Excellency raised three objections to the prayer of the me-
morial, the mint striking of which was, that the Board of
Works could not, under the provisions of the act, confine
the employment to the class of men best able to work on a
railway, but should grant it to those in the greatest state of
destitution, which might probably cause the engineer to ob•
joct to the men so employed. Some of the deputa•ion having
admitted that his Excellency's objection was certainly one
for consideration, the deputation withdrew in order to re-
I consider the terms of the memorial, which his Excellency
promised to forward to the Treasury when they had recut-
sidered the matter.

THE BOARD or Woaxs.—Strong and grievous com-
plaints reach Dubin from all quarters, respecting the delay
of the Board of Works, in giving effect to the presentments
made at spacial sessions. The following extracts from
letters which I find in the journals of to-day, will explain
the nature of those complaints. The first extract is
from a communication of the parish priest of Louisburg!'
in Mayo:

"Fitly in the season the government had statement• relative to
the total loin of the potato. All to no pupae; food i. not to be had
now on any term, /fme painful it to ace poor creatures with
hunger in their ontustenanees returning from this town, ay, and
tram Westport!, a distance of twenty milee—twenty Irish mile.:—
without one particle of food for t‘ernwlvat and sharvina famine,
Who can describe the scene when the emanated parent returns
fatigued and heartbroken' I have seen such scene, but I am as
unable as unwilling to describe them—it might be called poetry, if a
harsher term were not applied. The Marquis of Sligo assured us
yesterday in the court house that he had repeatedly urged on
the government the tieweiviity of giving immediate employment, and
that he had received promisea that the works would be opened six
woeka ago..

The second letter is from the County Surveyor of Mayo,
who was accused by the Board of NVorks in Dublin with
having been the means of obstructing the commencement of
the public works in that county, and he unequivocally lays
the whole blame at their own doors, and at those of the
local committees:

"To be worked like a slave, both day and night, and my life
rendered a burthea (tom my diaagree:btr and anomalous position, is
bad enough ; but to be charged with delay, and to have the odium of
a whole peuple raised against me for no e.m.1.4e, to too bad. Surely the
Board of M orks could not mean to say that the fault lies with one
who has done as much work so any six Purveyors in Ireland I sent
the report, lta, co Cuatelloe a week since (In two or three days after
the acbcdule was sent to me'. Since thee I have not got an order for
a single new work In the barony. Those heretofore in operation are
ready to be pat in bands for the last ten days if the commiticias did
their duty—bat they have not pent a list."
THE LABOUR RATE ACT.

GALWAY. —Bstiosr or MOSCULLEN.—The present.
ment sessions for this barony, pursuant to the proclamation
of the Lord Lieuteuant, was held on Monday last, at the
court-house of Outerard. The attendance of the magistracy
and other landed proprietors of the district was very nume-
rous. The barony embraces a large extent of country from
the merings of the county of the town to a considerable way,
into Counemara, and from the sea coast to Lough Corrib.
From almost every village in this extensive tract some of its
poor people attended at the meeting—from Furbo', Spiddle,
Garomna. and the islands on the coast, together with the
population of Muckrus, Kilnanin, and Outerard.
The result was, that it constituted one of the largest assem-
blages that ever met in that district. Still never did we
observe an assemblage of the people whose conduct was more
characterised by decorum and propriety of behaviour.
Robert Martin, Esq , of Ross, was called to the chair.
Thomas B. Martin, Esq., M.P., was also present.
Mr. A. O'Flaherty detailed the state of the barony.
He had, he maid, estimated that 20,000 of the population of
that barony would require to be relieved, and to be provided
with food for the next eight mouths. (Hear, hear.) The
amount he calculated at 3,290 tons of meal, and taking this
at 10/. per ton, it would make a gross sum of 32,0001. to be
provided. He feared that in t stimating the price at which
the food would have to be purchased he was under the mark,
but he wished, if possible, to avoid all exaggeration. Pur-
suant to the instructions of the Lord Lieutenant, their first
duty should be to provide for the wants of the barony, and
to do this he considered it would require from 32,0001. to
40,0001. He was of opinion that 40,0001. was the sum which
should be presented for. (Hear, hear.) That sum will
have to be allocated according to the assessment of each
electoral division, and it would be for the magistrates and
sass-pavers subsequently to apportion the works to be axe
muted in each for that purpose. A resolution to this effect
having been seconded by Mr. G. E. Burke, and put, was
unanimously passed.
SRONY OP CLANWILLIAM.—The extra-
ordinary presentment sessions for the barony of Clanwilliam,
under 10th Victoria, to preside employment for the poor,
was held at Ballyneety on Monday, pursuant to the Lord-
Lieutenant's proclamation. The sessions-house was crowded
to excess—so much so, that standing room could with ditfi-
, milky be obtained, while it was still more difficult to note the
-preen,
no accommodation having been afforded the
anti the reporter bad to write on the shoulder of
Michael Purnell, Esq., who condescended,says the Limerick
Chronkle, to bear the weight of that " mighty engine."—J.
Croker, Esq., 1) L., was called to preside, and the county
surveyor, Mr. Kearney, proceeded to say that he had, in
pursuance of a resolution adopted at the preparatory
meeting of the magistrates, prepared a list of weeks, which
were to the best of his belief distributed fairly over the barony,
so as to give employment in every portion of it. The execu-
tion of these works would enable the labouring population
to earn subsistence and maintain their families for the next
three months ; as the money to be expended amounted to
over 13,000/. Ile had endeavoured, as well as he could, to
distribute the works, so as to give a fair proportion to each
locality, but it would be for the meeting to say, when he
read the list, whether works of greater benefit or advantage
to the district could not be substituted. Independent of
road works, he had also prepared a schedule for drainage,
which was to be submitted to the Booed of Works along
with the one to which he referred, and should the board
entertain the drainage project in preference to road works,
care had been taken by ham that, under any circumstances,
full employment would be given. Works to the extent of
14,000/. were presented fur, when the sessions adjourned
for three months.
Ssuorev of COONAOH.—At the extraordinary present-
ment sessions of Pallasgrean, for the barony of Coonagh,
held on Tuesday, Maurice Crosbie Moore, Esq., presided.
The schedule submitted by Mr. Kearney, for road works,
amounted to 6,6001., which was approved of, exclusive of a
sum of MO/. for drainage.
DUBLIN COUNTY— BARONY or NETHERCROBI.—The
sessions for this barony were held yesterday at Swords,
county of Dublin, and a sum of 1,0001., being Is. 3d, per
acre on 13,000 acres Irish, were presented for. The pro-
vedings otherwise were uninteresting.

CORK AND CONCILIATION HALL.—The citizens of Cork
have set themselves to the task of endeavouring to reconcile
the irreconcilable dispute between " Young Ireland " and
"Old Ireland." At a meeting held there on Tuesday night
last, the following resolutions in furtherance of that object
were agreed to, and it wan decided that the meeting would
adjourn until the reply of Conciliation Hall should be re-
ceived ; if that should he unfavourable, one of the speakers
threatened that " the people of Cork would then know how to
act :"
I. Resolved, that we deeply deplore the tinhappy dirimOns which
have lately sprung up amongst the adherents of ° 1 rah Nationality "
—divisions which have been followed by the seeension from the Ne-
i halal Association of so tang talented, energetic, and sincere adva.
cater of Ireland's Legislative
2. That whilst we, so members of the Association, steadfastly
support the moral force doetaine (so essential to the auesedul
issue of our political struggle, and so wisely inculcated at all
times by the Great Leader of our Counter, wr respectfully tag-
ged to the National Association--a raeonsiderattoit of the ter.,
rs
which that doctrine is set forth, in the resolutions adopted at the
Conciliation Hall on the 13th July last, with a view to ronfinetheir
aa test, to this' who nor seek amelioration to the
of the British .grapire,bythe Repeal of the hate-
ful Act of rnios--and to remove any expressions that may seem to
involve the abstract right of vindicating national asdepeadetice by
the strord—as regards other was or other lands, is past, present, or
future history.
3.—That we do so is the hope and in the belief that thin modifica-
tion In the terms of the resolutions adverted to, without at all detract-
ing from the integrity of the principle originally established as the
bads of the association, 'could restore to it the terriers of William
Smith O'Brien, and those gentlemen abase 'home front our national
deliberations is a cause of jeering triumph to Ireland's foes, and of
disheartening diaisiona amongst her people, and may happily restore
amongst no that combined action and medal ea-operation, which,
under the guidance of O'Connell, cannot fail to achieve the crowning
work of his long career—his earliest aspiration, and his latest hope—
the Repeal of the Union.