The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAW. 30.
The Reproductive Committee have been busily em-
ployed in canvassing the ministerial measures. Certain
approving resolutions were laid before the committee
yesterday, and will be discussed, and, I am informed,
adopted to-day. In the " temporary" scheme, speed
in execution will be strongly recommended to the go-
vernment ; and in the " permanent," the most impor-
tant of all, the extension of the poor law will be fully
approved of. This, perhaps, may be a yielding to
destiny, but from the outset there was a strong party
in the committee in favour of the extension. Mr.
Godley, the intelligent author of " Letters on Canada,"
was at this progressive body.
Lord Mountcashell has fallen back on the Mail for
I sympathy. He states the impossibility of the Irish
landlords to beer up against a poor-law which would
involve the ruin of estates and rate-payers. When
II three millions of the Irish are removed to the col--
:ties, be expects prosperity and progress—not till
then. The following statistical oompilations by his
lordship, is prepared with the design of showing the
destructive immure of a poor-law on land so bur-
thened

An salads diastase's, usasesstlag hadb Inlai4
the rental a etiolt is, pot smuts, about /13,000,000
Bolds, aortesaa, sad alba judasmat debts. secured
taict the lad mask 11111100 i b tied Taro' Toot,
£1110,000,000
Lima at S par oust tbasta, ia £3,000,000
tarry sad sessibnliste: Is. loathe pound, is t5500,,C00
I Joishiess, ismemileft et tam hums 650,000
IZ:why
MOW sow gals yam, bona or
Or Masa= all& 0,000,000
Pral4l%llrt alto rosa.sharda, par ram,
ad assaly lass, say
110,450,000
Lard Portarlington, through his agent, has offered
seeds of all kinds to his tenants, on condition of
having the ground properly prepared for its recep-
tion. The Irish landlords generally should look to
the seed necessity with more seriousness and earnest.
ness.

Mr. Monahan, the Solicitor-General, went down to
Galway, I understand, last night. The " Irish
Confederation " has denounced the " salaried official
of a British government;" but Mr. Monahan will be
in the House of Commons, and for the ancient burgh
of Galway. Few could more worthily represent the
capital of his native province than one of the most
distinguished men at the Irish bar.
Mr. Jacob Harvey, a New York merchant, and a
native of Ireland, states, in a letter to Mr. Pim, one
of the secretaries of the Central Relief Association,
that he had ascertained from five mercantile firms
that within the last sixty days the poor Irish—it is
not stated whether of the state of New York alone, or
of the Unions—had remitted to their poor friends in
Ireland 150,000 dollars, or 30,0001. sterling. The same
houses give a return of similar remittances for the
entire year, amounting to 650,000 dollars, or 130,0001.
Mr. Harvey alleges these facts as a sufficient reason
why the humbler of our countrymen in America are
so dilatory in contributing to the General Relief
Fund, their savings having already penetrated into
every perish in Ireland.
The markets have again receded in Dublin. They
were fully is. per barrel lower yesterday than on the
preceding Tuesday, on all kinds of grain, save barley,
which sustained former rates. The supply at market
was very moderate in all descriptions, holders re-
fraining from bringing in, in consequence of the de-
pression, and speculators holding off for the rise. An
instance was mentioned to me yesterday which
occurred towards the close of the market. A farmer
held 500 barrels wheat and 200 oats, on Friday week;
he was offered 495. for the wheat, and 24e. 6d. for
the oats. He declined sales, anticipating a rise.
Yesterday, at the close of sales, not wish-
ing farther to bear the expense of storage,
or to trust the temper of the market,
he offered the wheat at 47a. the barrel : ho could get
only 465. ; he offered the oats at 233. ; but he found
no purchasers, and he was obliged again to withdraw
them. In Mullingar, the market seems to have been
quite panic-stricken. Oats golden the 28thinst for 18s.
which, iu the market one week previous, would have
brought 255. to 275. Oatmeal is down to 203. per
cwt. In farthest Donegal the fall in market prices
equals 10 per cent