The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

The Limerick Chronicle of yesterday i'Justrates the con-
dition of the country by something km than the average
cases of outrage and plunder it has for some time contained.
The slaughtering of cattle and removing the carcasses seems
the crime of greatest heaviness and frequency. In one or
two instances attempts were made to take arms, and in an-
other instance an overseer on the public works was sworn as
to the rate of wages which the imposers of the oath esteemed
the proper minimum ; and in one case we find that a man
had been killed by the bursting of a gun which he had re-
cently purchased.
The sum presented at the sessions of Upper °monde, on
Friday, was 6,203/. In the barony of Owney and Arra,
9,882/. were presented.
There are 849 paupers in the Tharles workhouse.
The number of paupers in the Galway workhonse is 1,126,
the average onst of maintenance Is. 10,1.
An unobtrusive but praiseworthy society is established,
VITA the Limerick Chronicle, in the parishes of Lorrha end
Durraw, county Tipperary, by the benevolent Archdeacon
Knox and hie amiable lady, for the purpose of employing
f, males at knitting, &e., and its plan is to raise sabeer';,.., no.
and to maintain its funds ether by cash, wool, or m den for
stockings. It is cruel, adds that journal, to see many poor
women and girh at work nn the roads with labourers of the
other FCX.

Archdeacen K7le announcer the arrival of 1,182 leeks or
peas from the Bntish Association, for the relief of Ireland,
which arc placed in the stores at Hawlboline.
The Recovery, a erase' sent from London, laden with corn
for Ireland, and which put into Cork, is out from thence
twenty days, hut has not yet reached Limerick, her destina-
tion.

The Anne Moore (M'Fie, master), which left Limerick in
ballast on the 9th Jan., when seven days out, fell in with the
ship Elizabcth Bibby, of St. Stephen's, water-logged and
abandoacd. Iler bowsprit and jib-boom were standing. ller
main and wizen made were gene by the deck. Both anchors
on the forecastle, and bead how port stove in. This was in
let. 50 .40 north, long. 18.13 west. The Anne Moore expe-
rienced very severe weather, and put back into the Shannon
with loss of sails and spars.
Meats-teas' MONEY.—Therc was a meeting of the
parishioners of St. John's, Limerick, held on Thursday even-
ing last, to petition for the abolition of ministers' money.
The Rev. John Elmes, rector of the parish, attended, and
addressed the meeting, announcing that he was adverse to the
existence of the impost, and he stated that in those opinions
his colleagues (the Dean of Limerick and Archdeacon Knox)
fully participated. The announcement was received with
loud cheering.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 30.
The north of Scotland is nearly in a state of insur-
rection. At Burghend, two vessels laden with meal
for export were deprived of their cargoes. At Louie-
mouth and Findhorn, several carts laden with oats
were seized, and the raptured victuals lodged in store-
houses. The other places in the neighbourhood being
in a similar state of excitement, forty soldiers from
Fort George have been stationed at Elgin; and a
comirany. from Aberdeen has been sent to Port
Gordon, into which the inhabitants of Keith, an in-
land town, are said ti be pouring in large numbers.
Passing over intermediate districts, the food-riot folly
has also reached the south. In Strauraer, distur-
bance was raised because two meal-dealers would not
sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves
were also stolen ; but the promptitude of the autho-
rities prevented the riots from reaching any great
height.
The Edinburgh Destitution Fond amounts to-day
to 24,0991. 6s. 2d. The Scotsman's " commissioner"
to the Highlands appears to think that the High-
landers are by far too indolent, and that the distress,
although severe, has in some instances been ex-
aggerated.
A public meeting is to be held in Edinburgh on the
4th of March, for the purpose of petitioning for a
modification of the law of entail. The Lord Provost
is to preside.

GLASOOW.—On Friday, a six-story granary, near Port
Dundee, fell. It is said to hare contained grain to the value
of 16,0001., of which about one-half is supposed to be buried
amongst the ruins. °thee granaries are filled to repletion;
but the authorities are to emirates) them.—Same day, a clerk
in going from one bank to another was robbed of 1,2001. ;
the thief has not been caught. The dirk had the money in an
outside pocket —At one o'clock in the morning of the same
day a young man threw himself from the roof of the Globe
hotel, and was killed. The landlord and others tried all
their efforts to prevent him, even at the risk of persona
danger to themselves.
BERNER A.—On the 20th ultimo, sight men from the
island of Bernera were committed to the In TC111(1111 priaon
charged with stealing from the wreck of the barque
Superb, in the Sound of Harris, a large quantity of flour,
in barrels, and some lard. The theft was committed on the
18th ult. The prisoner—one of them an old and worn-out
man of 60—were yesterday liberated on bail, Mr. Sheriff
Tytler having kindly provided employment for them.

WALES.
Mr. LLOYD VAUOIIAN WATKINS, of Pennoyoe, haa beat
appointed to the lord lieutenancy of the county of Brecon.

PROVINCIAL.

A DOUBLE

sausation was pro-

duced at Wakefield on Saturday last, by a report diet
young man named Robert Harapeen, the son of the landlord
tithe Fountain inn, in Pincheon-street, in that town, bad
been foustthowned in the river Calder, not far from his
*Aker's box" and that a young woman, a dressmaker,
nosned UMW, whom mother was formerly in the service
els hoeseath beg is the neighbourhood, had been found at
tla ethoo tine me hoer, the deceased bodies befog tied
together by the or three silk handkerchiefs. It seems that
some atts bad sprung up between the parties which
led not been agreeable to the friends of the young woman,
hut no very strenuous opposition had been made to their
anion. About midnight on Friday, the young man went to
his father's brewhouse for the pupae of brewing as usual,
but from the state in which things were found in the morn-
ing it would appear that he bad not remained long. How
itherrties came together on that night has not transpired
as a,
mpson was not seen after going to the brewhouse till
the bodies were found in the water.
A COAL PIT ACCIDENT of a mat lamentable nature, and
attended with the lees of six lives, has occurred at one of the
Darley Main Coal Company's pits, at Worsbrough Dale, about
four miles from Barnsley, and ten from Sheffield. Some
men who were employed in one part of the pit fired a blast
of gunpowder for the purpose of bringing down a large piece