The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

This closed
atiemaproceedings of the evening, and the
Wyndham whale the band an the gallery played
the " QUM% ASII4114" The whole proondangs were con-
cluded by aims Vick.

IRELAND.
Duette, Die. 29.
After the special commission shall have terminated
in Limerick and Ennis there is some doubt as to its
utsooloo to either riding of Tipperary. Future events
will determine the solution. But of the non-exten-
eke to Itoosomma there is no doubt. The prisoners
then no too few and the evidence against the most
oupostod not anilleiently clear to warrant. the expe-
riment of a special tribunal, both cumbersome and
ooetly.
If ecclesiastical reform be a necessity on your side
of the water, how much more on ours, where seven-
eighths of the people dissent from that church whose
members enjoy the most complete monopoly of the
ecclesiastical court : judges, advocate., proctors—all
must be of the established church ; and the two first
must also be doctors of the canon and civil law—a
test of merit dependent on the university books and
the stamp offioer, but wholly unconnected with pro-
fessional ability—to argue marriage or testamentary
questions. In a Roman catholic country like Ireland
this anomaly is felt to be a great injustice. It is not
easy to understand on what principle of reason a
handful of proctors and quasi doctors should have the
absolute monopoly of a profitable department of pro-
fessional business, and thus be enabled to fleece the
public as well as to cause injurious delay. If reform
be needed in England, it is a fortiori in favour of Ire-
land. The subject is much talked of in the law circle,
and is likely to be pressed upon the government

ALTIR DISHNCIATION.—Your readers will probably
recollect some proceedings had against the rev. leader of
Young Ireland, for having intruded a boundary wall
I built by him open the public highway. The county sur-
veyor had the rev. gentleman summoned for the nuisanos,
and it was directed to be taken down. The Rev. Mr. Ken-
yon raised his parishioners against the magistrates' deciaien,
but having defeated the officers of the law in one attempt to
remove the wall, a force of police and army made the
second attempt successful. This gentleman was not, how-
ever, thus quietly (?) to be subdued, and accordingly he
caused the wall to be rebuilt by his parishioners. Ms
was again smumened, and the cue came on for hearing on
Monday last, before a bench of magistrates, at Nenagh, over
which Mr. Caleb Goring presided. The intrusion of the
wall on the footway having been proved, the chairman, in
pronouncing the decision ofthe bench, said, "The adjudication
of the magistrates is, that the wall be ordered to be levelled.
There are circumstances which I wish to lay before the pub-
lic, on the minds of many of whom a misconception may
exist to a certain and rather dangerous extent. 1 feel that the
whole transaction should be exposed in its true and unvar-
nished colours, es it has been the subject of much discussion.
Mr. Crawford summoned Mr. Kenyon, as was his duty, and
I conceive, bad he not done so, be would be unworthy of
holding a situation as county officer." The result of this sum-
mons was that Mr. Kenyon was fined by the bench 11., and
the wall ordered to be removed. After the adjudication
bad been made, Mr. Kenyon made use of the following
words: " A man may be got for money to commit murder,
but no man will be got to throw this wall." This ex-
pression, connected with his previous conduct, exhibits the
ground from which be calculated success to his resistance
of the law. In pursuance of the magis rates' orders per-
sons were sent to throw the wall. They were met by a
party of 6 or 600 persons, several of whom were armed;
they were then assaulted, deprived of their implements,
and obliged to retreat. Informations were taken and for-
warded to government, who directed that the law should
be enforced. Accordingly, the resident magistree, with a
sufficient force of military and police, attended, and the
wall was thrown. While Mr. Pollock was in attendance, he
said to Mr. Kenyon that if he would take legal steps end
seek for a presentment at next road sessions to build this
wall, that be was confident Mr. Crawford would not oppose
it. Mr. Crawford, who was present, said, if sought for in
a legal way, he would give it no opposition.—Mr. Pollock:
lie did sayers while Mr. K eaj on was pouring torrents of an-
measured abuse upon hire.—Chairman : But, notwithstand-
ing this, the wall wee again built. Now, to show the feeling
and spirit of Mr. Kenyon through this matter, I happened
to he chairman on the former occasion when this ciao was
brought before the petty motions, and although Mr. Kenyon
and every one knows that the chairman is merely the instru-
ment fur conveying the sentiments of the bench, such is Mr.
Kenyon's animosity towards me, that he has spoken of me
from two altars in such a manner that the feelings of the people
have become hostile toward me, and I, as well as other gentle.
men now present, have received information that my life is
in danger, and that I am on the list fur assassination (great
sensation in court).—Mr. Bayly : I have received 4milar In-
formation.—Mr. Pollock : So have I.—Mr. O'Dell, S. I. :
So have I.—Chairman : These are the exact circumstances
of the cue, and the public will judge whether any grievance
was committed en Mr. Kenyon. He has given every oppo-
sition and metopes to the law, u far as lay in his power,
end held up the chairman who presided on that day to pub-
is odium ; because it is well known, as he does himself, the
Imminent danger which a person is subject to who is made
I the object of hie attack. I think Mr. Kenyon's conduct is
highly reprehensible, and deserving the reprobation of the
public."—This seems the most direct case of " altar denun-
ciation " yet brought under public notice ; how will the
authorities deal with it ?
Tae LATI Ma. Rol.—The person named Lonergan, for
evicting whom it Is generally credited that Mr. Roe was
assassinated, was arrested on suspicion of the murder on
Christmeeday. He had been away from his residence since
the period of the murder ustil that day.
Tae LATE Rev, Ma. LLOYD —A person named Walsh,
who had been arrested on suspicion of the murder of this
rev. gentleman, and who bad escaped from Elphin Bride-
well, has again been made amenable.
EITATI 01 rag COUNTRY.—On Christmes-day, in cons..
quince of some information which Constable Whitei of the
Cap-well station received, he proceeded to the barrack,
where he arrested a private soldier of the 67th Regiment,
named John Darcy, who was on parade at the time,
charged with the murder of a man named Michael Smith,
late a labourer employed on the Great Southern and Wes-
tern Railway at Ballybropby, in the Queen's County. It
appears that in November last the deceived was working
as a ganger on the railway, and in consequence of his having
refused to comply with gems orders given to him by a
number of persons who were on the torn out he was at-
tacked and murdered, his head being beaten in with stone-
hammers. Soon after the murder Darcy absconded and en-
listed in the 67th Regiment, that corps being under orders for
the Mediterranean. Sinai the arrest such additional infer-
mation has been obtained as will lead to the capture of two
more of the persons engaged in the murder. The speedy ar-
rest of persons in this city charged with the crime of mur-
der speaks well for the activity of the police force stationed
here, no lees than five persons charged with serious offences
in the neighbouring counties having been captured by them
within a few weeks. The Mayo Constitution contains an
inquest on the body of a man named Heunally, murdered
early last week. The Constitution says: " Much credit is
due o the townspeople who, in the absence of the police,
bunted down three of the murderers, and handed them over
to the authorities." A verdict of wilful murder was re-
turned against three persons, the jury adding their gratitude
to the inhabitants of the townfor having arrested end com-
mitted the prisoners.

' SCOTLAND.

BEIM/IEBOEI, DEC. 29.
It is said that the blast furnaces of the Ayrshire
Iron Company, at Dairy, are to be stopped ; an an-
nouncement which has caused much dismay in the
district, as a vast body of workmen will be thrown
out of employment at the meet inclement season of
the year. At the anniversary of the Glasgow Master
Iron-founders' Association, held the other day, it was
stated by Mr. Neilson that since the introduction of
his hot blast process the manufacture of iron in Scot-
land had increased from 40,000 tons, which it was in
1828, to now nearly 500,000 tons annually.
The old system of quarrelling about poethumous
trifles connected with men of genius, in direct propor-
tion of intensity to the neglect shown to men of
genius when alive and in real need of sympathy, has
been exemplified in a controversy between Dumfries
and Ayr, as to which of these towns should be mi-
-1 trusted with the keeping of the manuscript of Dr.
Currie's Life of Burns. This document is, it seems, in
the hands of a gentleman in Whitehaven, who, after
illustrating it with views and portraits, intends send-
ing it to the Ayr monument. Dumfries grumbles at
this, and reasons, that, although Barns was born in
Ayr, Carrie was born in Dumfries, and there too the
bard was buried. Ayr admits these facts, but con-
tends that " Currie's manuscript would form an ap-
propriate companion to Highland Mary's bible,
already in their mausoleum"- With all deference,
we would recommend the Whitehaven gentleman
to hasp the manuscript for the amusement of his own
friends. In the first place, Currie'e "Life," although a I
respectable performance, owes its chief interest to its
being the first of the many biographies of Burns pu-
shed —a better literary cariosity .would be the " Life"
by Allan Cunningham, which is intrinsically the best
of the whole, besides being written by "a hither
poet." Burns died heart-broken at Dumfries, mad
was " cut" on the very streets by its town andesaidep
gentry ; and as for Ayr, did one of its " honest mea"
go to Dumfries to attend the burial of the peat
did one of its " lasses " put on a black ribbon u a tit4l
buts to his memory ? Time was when we might have
mid the Edinburgh Antiquarian Museum might have
been the place; but, alas, after the anomaly com-
mitted by the baffles in putting Flaxman'i statue of
the ploughman-poet in the university library, the
metropolitan modern taste is as bad as the metropoli-
tan gratitude of the Edinburgh aristocrats of last can-
-7, who, after a winter of turned off the

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