The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MANCE 13.

! At a meeting of the grand jury of 'Galway, held
'on Tuesday, sonic communications front America re-
lathe to the packet station question were produced,
which would lead to the conclusion that an American
experiment, of which Galway would reap advantaw,
is really about to be made. The writer of a letter,
read by Mr. J. F. Blake, stated, on the authority of
a pt neon just returned from Washington to New
York, that leading statesmen there were even speak-
ing of giving the same encouragement to a line of
steamships running to Galway that had hitherto
been given to Collins's line ; and that, provided the
and Dieslin Railway be completed in time, n
motion to that effect will be made in Congress next
Ikvember. There is probably sonic exaggeration
about this statement, and another letter, written
by Mr. Poor, of the New Brunswick government,
and describing the rapid progress making in
the extensioa of the railway to the east in that pro-
vince, with a view to making it the terminus of the
steamship rood between America and Europe, holds
I out much MUM encouraging prospects for Galway.
The writer of this letter stirs:—" It is no exte7.11ra,e
• tioll to stay that no enterprise ever put firth on this
side of the Atlantic has made so much progress since
its inception as the one in which we are mutually
engaged; fur I regard the project of making Galway
the Eusoperui trans-Atlantic packet station, in which
you arc engaged, and that of the European and'
North American Railway, in which we arc embarked,
as ruts of oar great national enterprise."
Ronun catholic meetings are still held in various
parts of the country.
At the amnia assizes two men, named John
Dillon and James Danaluy, comfortable-looking
farmers, were indicted for a highway robbery on
Mr. Thomas Baker, a poor-rate collector. The pro-
secutor in his examination said:

In February last I held the office of poor-rate collector
for the Tipperary union, and on the lith I left Tipperary
about thr.s. o'clock. I was on horseback, and was proceed-
ing to the glen of Ahcrlow, when at the foot of a hill I dis-
mounted and g4VC my hurse a drink. I had the bridle in
my band, and had gone a yard or so from the well, when
from the Cognition on the left over me I heard a oilier
call out "stand and deliver." I looked in the direction
of the not, and new a man armed with a gun, double
barrelled, and with his face blackened ; another man then
appeared armed with a blunderbuss and his face was
partially disguised. I moved to the other vide of the
mid, and trying to get my pistol from my coat
pocket when the man with the gun stood on the ditch and
tired at me; the rem of the bridle, which was then on my
inn, was struck by thy discharge. This person then jumped
down un the road, and I took very deliberate aim at
hint. Ile was then four yards and a half from me. Ihtth
barrels of my pistol missed lire. The cat, only exploded.
Ile th.m tired at me again but missed. My horse broke
away utter the that disehar4.. The man who discharged
the glut then rushed on no., mid the second person then
came on the road from the plantation. The first man
seised the pistol and wrenehed it from my hand. The
other swore he would blow out my brains if I stirred.
They both demanded my money, and I gave them my
purse, rout:doing 31., and about IGs. in silt sr. They then
broke the Chitin of my watch, and took away my gold
watch, an ivory tablet, tobacco pouch, and some keys. A
part of the gold chain remained, which the second man
took. They also examined some poor law papers, and a
warrant, which I told them was a public document. They
said they should see, and having inspected it, handed it
over to me. They titen desired me to go on about my
business, and not to look hark. They followed toe a few
yards. I had seen both of the men before. Danaher was
the mum who tired at me, and Dillon was the other who had
the blunderbuss.

Bernal witnesses Laving been examined to corroborate
thi4 atateutent, the prima n were tlinvieted.
At the are te....irea, 1)r. John O'Flynn was nut% ieted for
an aoqiult on a bother phy.ieian, Dr. Francis Durgem,, and
a.,nteueed to a mitigated penalty of 101.

QcEENsTows.—The bay of this delialttful water-
iag-plsec stJll rontinue• tilled with fortign corn res.els. On
Satunlay over two hundred of them were to be seen.

EltnatartoN.—On Saturday, no fewer than 600
emigrants bit thin port, per the Cork Steam and City of
Dublin reads, for Liverpool, intending to emigrate for the
Cnitcd Stubs.. They were all comfortable in appearance,
youug and healthy, mot apparently tit for any deveript.
of labour. In the course of the day one of the river
steameN ennvled to the Marion, at Passage, about 200
emigrants, which veawl is to leave for New York. These
emigrants, like the former, were comfortably clad, and
appeared in high spirits at leaving the country. Yesterday
the St. Lawrenc.: dropped down the South Channel with
her full complement of emigrants fur St. Johu's.—Cork
Coneitution.

Myamin.—Niatthew Dwyer, a respectable farmer,
from Monahill, near Ula Ilille, tvturning home from Tip-
perary raroa, was met at the railway bridge, near the Lime-
rick junction, by four men, one of whom strue: him au the
head with a stone, fracturing his Own; he lingered in
agony, bpeeehless, till yesterday morning, when death put
au end to him sufferings.