The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 0,

Their Excellencies the Earl iinelCouUtess of St.
Germans entertained a large and distinguished party
at dinner at the Castle last evening. The vice-regal
lodge, Phoenix Park, will become the residence for
the season, of their excellencies, after this day, the
9th inst.
Thu weather has again become broken, and during
this day it has rained almost incessantly, but the
accounts from the country of the progress of spring
work continue favourable. The tillage operations
arc carried on vigorously, and there is a fair pros-
pect that they will yet he completed in sufficient
time, notwithstanding the lateness of the season and
the scarcity of hands in some districts. The Northern
1174 indeed says :
Our usual weekly agricultural reports are, we regret to
say, rather gloomy, the week having been wet and unfa-
vourable ; still it would appear there is much more sowing
per'ormed than is generally thought. Farmers have been
everywhere on the alert to take advantage of each favour-
able hour, and much progress has been made in field labour.
'foe 'rain of thorough-draining was never more fully cell-,
hard than it has been this year. As we stated in our last,
the potato planting of this season will be on a large scale ;
very little, however, has yet been done in this line, although ,
this time last year the general planting was completed. I
Several of tho provincial papers to-day are occu-
pied with accounts of the emigration, and some of
them mention fresh fans about its progress. Two
large vessels have sailed from Dublin this week with
living freight, and almost every steamer which leaves
Dublin for Liverpool carries off a number of emi-
grants, who make that their route fur the far west.l
A Louth paper, observing on the subject, says: "The
emigration to which we now direct attention is not sim-
ply emigration as it has been witnessed in other coun-
tries, but also depopulation—in fact an exodus in en
extended sense of the word, and there is a closer pa-'
rallel than we desire to institute between the flight
from Egpyt and the flight from Ireland."
The Irish Tenant League have published their be-
lance-sheet for the past year, from which it appears
that they received about 8001. within that period,
and had at the end of it a balance of 521. in hands.
The proprietor of the Axylo-Celt has received the
usual official notice from the Crown-office to sur-
render on the 18th instant, in the Court of Queen's
Bench, to abide judgment iu the case of the Queen v.
Wallace.
Mr. Charles Towneley, M.P., has presented to the
Royal Irish Agricultural Society the sum of 501. for
a challenge cup, to be competed for by tenant-farmers
exclusively, who have hitherto contnbuted very little
to the shows of the society.
A correspondence has passed beta cen the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, as chairman of a meeting of Irish
distillers and spirit dealers, and the Lord Chancellor,
relative to the complaints of the Irish spirit trade, on
the subject of the excise regulations. The following
is the reply to the Lord Mayor's letter :
Downing-street, 6th April, 1853.
My Lord,—l am instructed by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated
the lit instant, forwarding to him a copy of the memorial
which was agreed to at a late meeting of Irish distillers and
spirit dealers on the subject of home made spirits in bead,
and requesting him to receive a deputation on the Dah-
-1 ject. The Chancellor of the Exchequer desires me to mare
you that the question has already had his attendees lea say
statement which you may do him the (avow et addressing
to him upon the subject will meet with his careful con-
sideration ; but be regrets that he I. compelled to request
yen to postpone for a short time your amplinatirm fee • per-
meal interview, as his time is so mesh essapied at ,neat
in preparing for the approaching Inemeig 'tenement. I
have the honour, to., my Lord, your obedient servant,
The Lord Mayor of Dublin. R. W. WILDZAHAIL
The following letter from Mrs. Harriett B. Stowe
be. been received in reply to an invitation from the
Anti-Slavery Society of Cork:
Andover, Mass, March 16,1563.
To John Francis Meguire, Esq., M.P., Francis B. Bounisk
and othen.
dentlemen,—You will exam me, I ass rare, from
attempting to express my pleasure and gratitude at the high
honour which has been paid to ma by the Anti-Slavery So-
cieties of Cork. You will readily barge that sash a teal-
menial of approbation for my lames, enemieg from •
strange and distant, though hardly • kweign, city, meld
not have been received by me without emotion. 1 am
happy, both oa my owe part sad en behalf el Professor
Stowe, to accept your gratifying invitation. I regret, how-
ever, that the state of my health compelled me to defer, I
trust for a short time only, the day of my embarkation.
Whenever I shall enjoy the pleasure of crossing the seem
to oar fatherland, it is my earnest prayer that oar j
may not be without some good results to the cause We:ZS
we all feel a common Lateral- Very truly our',
11. B. STOW,.
The Northern Whig says :
Daring the past week, the electric telegraph, the laying of
the wires of which has been completed the satire length
of the line of the Ulster Railway to Armagh, has been
occasionally seed in eneveying mamas connected with the ,
badness of the Cesqlsay, to sad frees several of the stations
as the line. The stations of the telegraph are Belfast, Lis-
burn, Fortadown, sad Armagh. It is expected the
wires will shortly be in full workbag order, when an an-
nouncement of the sharps far maveying messages will, of
course, be made.