The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Deaux, Oct. 23.
Lord Clarendon is to have the veer:A garter, and
never has that distinguished honour h
,ern bestowed em
*.tiat distinction, or
who had earned it by prouder •
a statesman who more deserved
•IT higher servic.s to
the empire. The lord Justices sworn in on Friday
were those usually charge? with that high responsi-
bility, the Lordk,P:ancellor, the Archbishop of
Dublin, and the O'Jmmander of the Forces. Lord
Clarendon is "prated to be absent for a few days
only.
It is stated that the government have it in contem-
plation to argment, at an early date, the concabwary
force in Ir.:land to 30,000 of all ranks. This formi-
dable bPdy are to be emplcled, .n addition to proent
constabulary duties, in all descriptioLs of service for
which the regular military are now !Ignited; and

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upon a new footing, and comprise cavalry, infantry
(Including rifle corps), and horse and foot artillery.
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At a Privy Council held on Thursday last, an order
was made for the discharge of several prisoners in
custody under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.
The following parsons have received notice, that, on
theding bail for their appearance " when called upon,"
y will receive the benefit of,
that order: Charles
Taaffe (barrister), Justin Supple, William Mathews,
Patrick Morram, James Coothy, William Walahe,
James Baker, C. Rocbfort, Owen O'Neill, Francis
Oabbett, and James M. O'Ryau.
The whole body of the catholic clergy of the
diocese of Clogber have signed an address praying
for clemency to Mr. S. O'Brien. The other Roman
catholic dioceses will adopt a similar method of
moving the mercy of the executive. The established
clergy of Limerick have adopted a memorial for the
same object. The inhabitants of Clonmel have held a
public meeting for the purpose, and the quarter ses-
sions jury of Cavan have added their prayer for the
same purpose. Lord Farnham has signed the memo-
rial on behalf of Mr. O'Brien.

Teoaut eviction proceeds in the south with a
most determined regularity. Not a journal is
published in which we do not read of one or
more of those proceedings which however legally
authorised, and even though socially their ultimate
effect may be good, produce much present hardship.
Yesterday several houses were levelled in the imme-
diate vicinity of Limerick, and preparatory notices
have been served on several tenants of Lord Clare, in
the west of that county. All these levelling. are
effected in the presence of the police and military.
A Limerick paper states that a Mr. ('Ryan, who is
at present a political prisoner in the gaol of that
county, owes his incarceration to a neighbouring gen-
tleman who was desirous to obtain the succession to
some land agencies held by the prisoner. No sooner
was the victim in gaol than the transfer of the agen-
cies was applied for by the plotter. He was not so
successful, however, in obtaining the advantage as in
raising the suspicion. Of course one is prepared to
hear such stories in all such conjunctures as that
which we at present feel, and they may or may not
be true.

The subject of the continuation of the services
of agricultural inspectors was brought before
the last meeting of the Agricultutal Society,
and the result of the disAissien on the pro•
position was not encouraging. Tho valuable
results which followed from the instruction given
last year under tle plan suggested by Lord Clarendon,
induced his Exn!lency, with a view to per-
petuate these advantages, to offer a contribu-
tion of 1,0001. towards a fund far the pay.
ment of an adequate number of instructors for the
several districts of Ireland. It appears trom the pro-
ceedings that the fund is not likely to be much aug-
mented by the gentry of Ireland or the Agricultural
Society. Lord Clancarty, speaking the sentiments of
the general body, in a letter to the society, plainly in-
timates that the proprietary of the country will not
contribute. In those districts, says his lordship,
where the instructors are moat wanted, the people
who could contribute are but few or none ; in those
more favoured by the residence of the gentry, contri-
butions for the purpose of sending instructors gratui-
tously to those districts may not be expected. There
is assuredly not overmuch generosity in this, and
notwithstanding all the pressure of the times, the
gentry of Ireland might, one would think, be a little
more patriotically liberal. As, however, the society
desire to make Lord Clarendon's subscription reach
as far as possible, it has been resolved on
to appoint instructors at fifty pounds per annum,
which Lord Clancarty thinks persons might be will-
ing to accept, as, if found useful, they might be per-
manently engaged. How valuable a permanency of
that kind would be is rather questionable, as also
whether competent persons will offer on such terms.
The instruction of any others had better be done
without.

The Board of Works, anxious to promote employ-
°Dyeintnein plerilarler—ogr,t ',tee
want of it, and alno
laudably desirous to encourage habits of industry and
energy in the fishermen on the coast,have made a grant
of 5501. towards the construction of a pier at Burren
in that anion, on condition that the sum of 275/. be
subscribed in the distr;ct, and a like sum levied on
the division. It is to be hoped that this advance will
not be lost for want of promptitude or a little gene-
rous liberality on the part of the proprietors.
A case was tried here on Saturday before the ma-
gistrates, of interest to maritime and mercantile
parties. Miles Dunne, a seaman, shipped at Dublin
for a voyage to Quebec and back to some British port.
At Quebec he left the ship, aid the commander was
compelled to engage another seaman at greatly ad-
vanced wages. Dunne returned to Leblin, and was
here proceeded against by the master, will Whom
engaged for the voyage out and home. The magi.,
trates ordered Duane to pay 131. 10s, the difference of
wages, and in default sent him to prison for one
month.

- .
Mr. Serif. Howley has sentenced four men to im-
prisonment for two years each, and to be kept at hard
labour, for having pikes in their possession after Tip-
perary had been proclaimed. Two parties charged
before him with having assaulted witnesses for the
prosecution against the prisoners accused of treason,
were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each.
An investigation into the recent accident on the
Waterford and Limerick Railway has resulted in the
conviction of Webster, engineer of the train from
Tipperary, of gross neglect. He has been fined 101.
It appears he disregarded the signal of danger shown
from the rear of the other train.

It is gratifyiug to find that all useful progress is
not &meted, even in Waterrord. An iron steamer
was hunched there on Thursday from the Neptune
foundry.

Mr. J. B. DILLow.—We have authority for stating that
this gentlemen has landed safely in New York.— Wexford
1119°Pen!Ira - .

MITCRIL.—The Limerick Chronicle states *hat it is
iteneraly rumoured, by a letter from one of the 42nd, that
Mr. Mitchel has died at Bermuda.

Txa MURDEBA AT BANARA.—A due has been disco-
vered to the perpetrators of the horrible murders of the
three caretakers at Bansha. It appears that th, coaspiretors
and assassins concerned in the murder of three bailiffs placed
in care of property seized for poor rates in the neighbour-
hood of Belisha, have been discovered. This case has proved
the wisdom of the taxing provisions in the Crime and Out-
rage Alt. The murders were perpetrated on a Sunday
morning, and the following Wednesday the Lord Lieu-
tenant sent down ten policemen, five to be charged upon
each of the two townlands where the murders were at-
tempted and perpetrated—the bailiffs having been folbwed
by their assassins from one townland to the other. On the
same day warrants came down from his Excellency fur the
immediate levy of a rate upon the occupi. n of the two
towulanda for the expense of the ten men teethe coming three
months. This rate sinoun,ed to 18s 4d. per acre on one,
and 81. 7d. on the other, in addition to the poor rate then
in collection of Bs. 94d. in the pound, a musty cells of
Is. Bd. per acre, and the moiety of the Labriur Act rate.
This caused much discontent amongst the farmers, which
was further increased by the knowledge of the feet that if
the murderers were not brought to justice within the three
months a further levy would he made for the expense of the
additional force for three months more, and so on. The
lower class was also m►de to suffer, for the board of guar-
' diens stopped all out-door relief until such time as the con-
spirators ant perpetrators were made amerable. Tt.e con-
sequence of these proceedings has been that such informa-
tion has been communicated to the authorities as has led to
the arrest of the criminals. The perpetrators wen• strangers
to that part of Tipperary, and, having been hired fo- the
work, were brought. 20 miles to perform it.
PRIBONIIB IN lISLAND.—There are 12,328 prisoners in
the several vat 1. throughout Ireland.
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SCOTLAND.
ACCIDEN't ON THE EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN
Rati.we.t..-00 Friday merning, while the 7 o'clock train
Prw'4esdinjr at its u-eel spied from the of Marne.
the (aige of one ot the wheals of the engine gave way. The
,Alf,ine started off the ;Me, and ran down a for emoank-
inset. The couplings a the engine luckily mapped, 60 that
' neither the tender i.or any of the *terrines were displaced
from :be rails. Mr. M Olashan, the chief manager of the
goods department on the line, at.d Mr. Thnohon, who has
charge of that department at the Perth statics, u, re on the
snaine with the driver ai.d stnktr. Dlr. 'Thomson jump.
oil augins, and tamped with a few blight brunet. The

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