The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dviotix, Dcc. 9.
The present flourishing state of the whisky trade
iu Ireland argues badly for the temperance habits et
the people; and unfortunately we hive had evidence
enough of the rapid decline of the Mathewite
re-
formation hero for some years past. The Galin;
papers say that such is the demand for the whisky
manufactured in that locality, that in two extensive
distilleries there the quantities required cannot be
supplied. And it also appears that, notwithstanding
all the efforts of the licensed distillers, on the one
side, to produce an abundant supply, and of the
revenue officers and police, on the other, to prevent
illicit distillation, the latter mode of making whisky
is still carried on briskly. The Galway Parket says:
Lieutenant Moloney, Sub-officer Brennan, and No. 43
Revenue Party, have been on duty in the Conuemara
mountain. for the last eight days without intermission,
where they succeeded in seizing upwards of 200 bushels of
malt and several hundred gallons of pot ale. None of the
parties engtged in the illicit manufacture have been appre-
hended.

The Cork distillers have this week reduced the
price of whisky 3d. per gallon, so that the present
price is fixed at 7s. sd. per gallon, 25 o.p.
A private sale of property was effected yesterday
in the Incumbered Estates Court, when an estate in
the county of Galway, of 7,414 acres, was purchased
in trust by Mr. Miller, estate agent, of Dublin and
Edinburgh, for 55,0001.
The Waterford Mail gives the following under
i the head of " good landlordism :"
The Earl of Donouelimore, with his agent, S. E. Goold
Adams, Esq., and suu-agent, Mr. J. W. Fitzgerald, of
Dungarven, visited his lordship's tenantry in this county
on Thursday last, and minutely inspected the new buildings
lately erected by three of the most respectable of the tenants,
which pleased his lordship 40 much that he allowed them
every penny of the expense of them. To one he allowed
130/. for his out offices; to another 95/. for the same, after
building a very good dwelling-house for him last year ; and
to another 92/. for out•offices, and to build an excellent
dwelling-house next summer for him, the site of which his
lordship selected on Thursday ; and promised to build, at his
own expense, such ether houses as his lordship will see neces-
sary, for the other tenants, when he shall visit them, as he
promised to do next spriag. His lordship also pointed out
a place in the village of Crowbally, where he is to erect a
blacksmith's forge, for the benefit and accommodation of his
tenantry, and after viewing and going through nearly each
tenant's dwelling-house and offices, returned to Dungarvan
with the blessing and acclamation of each of his tenants.
His lordship has kindly directed his agent to appoint the
23rd or 24th of June to receive the September rents, and
9th or 10th of November the March rents in each year,
from the tenants, being the days after the old and best
fairs of Dungaree°, which will be the means of affording
the tenantry ample time to dispose of their cattle at the
beet markets, and procure the best prices for their labour.
Thomas Sydney Smith, Esq., son of Carew Smith,
Baggot-street, Dublin, late Recorder of Lime-
rick, is appointed Advocate-General in Madras, at a
salary of 3,6001. a year.

TYNEMOLTII BRIBERY COMIIISsION.

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The inquiry was resumed °lee more on Thursday
last. Mr. Wasene was re-examined relative to the orders
which he hod given to publicans. He said that he never
asked a single publican for his vote. The sums of money he
paid out of his own pocket were paid independent of anyone,
but not independent of the eltction, though it was not
for the purpose of influencing the electors. lie did it for
his own aggrandisement, as he was a brewer; and he found
that his business had considerably increased since the
election. (Laughter.)
Mr. Commissioner Vaughan requested Mr. Wascoe to be
particular as to the manner in which he gave his answers,
as he stood in a very perilous situation at the present time ;
and on asking Mr. Wascoe whether the money which he
spent at the last election was partly fur his awn aggrandise-
ment and partly for the purposes of the election,
Mr. Wascoe said that bad it not been the time of
the election, be certainly should not have given such
orders. He gave them because their recipients were the
supporters of Mr. Taylor, but not to induce them to
vote for Mr. Taylor. If he had thought that a large order
for allowance would have secured a vote Ye would have
given it.
All the evidence having been heard, Mr. Commissioner
Davison intimated that the inquiry at Tynemouth would
now close ; and he begged to thank the authorities and
legal gentlemen for the great weistance they had rendered
them in pursuing their investigations. He said that suck
witnesses as desired certificates exempting them from legal
proceedings must write to the commiuioners at London,
when their applications would be considered.
The court then closed, after sitting eleven days.

THE BILLINGSGATE WARD AMICABLE
SOCIETY.

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The fourth anniversary dinner of the members of
this society took place yesterday evening, at the London
T , under the presidency of Mr. Bons&Id, the enter-
tainment being of the best description. On the right of
the chairman sat the Lord Mayor, and the company in-
cluded many of the leading inhabitants of the ward. After
the usual toasts, the chairman proposed the health of the
Lord Mayor, and in doing so bore testimony to the estim-
able qualities which bad issued in his lordship's elevation
to his present exalted position. In responding to the toast,
the Lord Mayor defeoded the corporation from the charges
which have been brought against it during the progress of
the inquiry conducted by the royal commission. Ile said
that notwithstanding t►e efforts made to damage the cor-
poration, there had been no charge of corruption
established against it; all that could possibly be said to
have been proved was, that theta bad been too much libe-
rality in some matters in which the members of it had no
personal interest. Adverting to the charge that the corpo-
ration consisted chiefly of tradesmen, he said he had yet to
learn that any more wisdom was required to trade with
foreign countries than with their own, and until it was a
disgrace to be an Englishman it could be no degradation to
early oa trade with Englishmen. If pecuniary resources
were a test of fitness for civic government, the Court of
Aldermen had nothing to fear. They were worth at
least three millions and • half, and if that were not
enough the citizens must look to the Traverses and
others who deprecated the present system. (Cheers.)
He hoped the public would not be led away with the no-
tioa that the past was to be despised, and that the present
was represented only by Clog and Mem. (Laughter.)
His lordship concluded by inviting the members of the
society present to dine with him at the Mansion-house in
February. The nest toast, which wu proposed by bit.
Gibbs, was " Prosperity to the society." Several others
followed, and the proceedings were protracted to a late
hour.

APOTIIECARIE HALL—Names of gentlemen who •
passed their examination in the. science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on T►ursday,
Dee. 8, 1853:—Edward Pearl, Hexna, Suffolk; George
Wright, Tatham, Lancashire ; William Gabb Jenkins,
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

IRON STRONG-ROOM FOR AUSTRALIA.—Meeere.
Chubb and Bon, of 67, Bt. Paul's-churchyard, have just
completed one of their large moveable fireproof wrought
iron strong-rooms, for the Adelaide branch of the South
Australian Banking Company. Its external dimension's are •
7 feet high, 7 feet wide, and 7 feet deep, and, after deduct-
ing the necessary thickness of the fire-proofing chambers,
the internal contents amount to 154 cubic feet. The inte-
Tier of the room is fitted with tiers of shelves, sufficient to
accommodate a great quantity of books, deed boxes, die.,
and at the farther end with two distinct strong iron closets,
for the deposit of testi, bills, and other valuables, which will
be accessible only to the officials who possess the keys of
these depositories. The room is lined throughout with
hard steel plates to render ineffectual any attempt to
gala access to the interior by means of drilling, and the
thickness of the iron plates forming the body of the room
is three-quarters of an inch at the thinnest past. It is so
constructed ea to be taken to pieces for convenience of pack-
ing and transit, and can be erected in its new
position in a few hours. The fireproofing compo-
sition is enclosed in separate chambers, which are
steered to their proper positions when re-erecting the roam.
The entrance is secured by a pair of strong fireproof wrought
iron folding doors, fitted withChubb's Pate nt Detector Looks,
on their recently improved principle, throwing 20 =alive
bolts all round ; secondly, by two ease-hardened iron
scuteheon locks, over the keyholes of the main locks; and;
*ether, by two of Chubb's bank locks with twelve turn-
biers in each, as additional cheek locks. Each door is made
"to open independently of the other, so that in case of the
accidental loss of any of the set of keys belonging to either
door, access to the interior may be obtained by the other,
in order that the business of the bank may not be impeded.
The weight of this huge strong box is nearly six tons.
PRINTING FROM NATI:MT.—At the last meeting of
the Society of Arts, the secretary called the attention of the
meeting ton large dumber of specimens which had been re-
ceived from the Ilisperial Printing-office at Vienna, pro-
duced by the process known in Germany as " Naturselbst-
druck, and in this country as " Phy.toglyphy," or the art,
of printing from nature. These specimens included every
variety, botanical, geological, entomological, fossil, and
fabrics. le the year 1831, Dr. Ferguson Branson commu-
nicated to the society " An account of a method of Engrav-.
log Plates from Natural Objects," which was read at a
meeting held on the 20th March in that year, and which
was published in the notices, of proceedings at the time.
Dr. Branson only contemplated the application of the pro-
em% to ferns, leaves, seaweeds, and other flat plants The
method he adopted was to impress the object itself into
gutta-perch, or other soft material, and then to obtain an,.
electrotype from the mould. The novelty. in the present
process consisted in the use of lead for receiviog the lawna
soon in place of gutta yerthe ; and also in applying to the}..
polished outfaces of minerals a weak acid, which acted with
dlifferent *mei of intensity on the materials of sthigh the .
fillitral empoled, and so Waste greater or Ana in-.
. dentatioa. The cmotada tram the bank were
.eaken. by
iliquid gotta percha. Specimens were also eixhibi4ed by ,
Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, who are working the process
in this eountry.—Journal of tie Sotiety of Aria.

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322

It
1911
377

1712
283
188
41
9.

167
6
26

4i31
126
37
60
166

Aberdeen
Belfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Birkenhead, Lam., ilk Cheshire
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian and
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Chester and Holyhead
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage
Cork and Bandon
Dublin and Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath
Dundee,Perth,Aberdeen J tine
Dundalk and Enniskillen

Bast Anglian
East Lancashire
Masters sCounties and Norfolk

21114
131

Easter; -
Edinburgh, Perth, & Dundee
!Suter and Crediton

Tyrant
0111(1011 and South Western
Great Northern& E Lincolnsh
Great Southern it West/ro(Ir)
Great Western
Irish Swath Eastern
Kendal and Windermere
ILilleeney Junction
Lemomeer end Carlisle
Lanorgaire and Yorkshire
LiverpooLCrosby, & Southport
Londonderry and Coleraine
London and North Western
Looks sod Blackwell
Lendea, Brighton, and S. Coast
London and South Western
Londonderry and Enniskillen.
Blanchester, Shell., & Lincoln.
Manchester and South Junction
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland
!Midland Great Western (Ire )

iiii
131

Monklands
Newcastle and Carbale

iigl
94
392

North British
'North Western
. .

Oif.,Worc.,tt Wolverbasoptonl
Scottish Central and
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
.ihrewsbury and Chester
Shro Union
Soupshireth Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
SouthYork.,Doneastert Goole'
Tat Val*
Ulster
West Hartlepool & Co.'s Doc.'
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall

ees
164
31

Whiteman Jo-action
York, New.& Berwick, &York
& N. Mid. & LeedoNorthern

Foltzlox.

I Dutch Rhenish
'Lyons and Mediterranean
,Maria Antonia _

Nontereau and Troyes
Namur and Liege
Northern of France _

Orleans and Central*
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbargh
Raven and Ham
Sambre and Masse
Western of France

filKi
2,785

0531
1,035
2,149
2,739
728
1,571.

1,743
12,307
3,269
1,481
3,246
1,172
1,892
172
638
512

7,761
205
1,026
1,681
27,3%

29,445
17,026
7,644
20,036
3,606
497

• Tbe receipts Wendt tbe testae ce tie Orin= iad °Meal. °r-
ift'. sad Beedeeas..un loon and Mesta lime.

THE WEATHER TABLE.

—....
SaTtIDAT, DEMMER 10, 1863.
The state of the weatiter at sash isf the following *am
at aim o'clock yesterday ravening. The stations are
&malted in order of latitude.
Toxemia's—N.; Gentle Breese ; Partially Cloudy.
Gass:4 wic ; Gentle Breeze; Partially Cloudy.
Biwooo—W. ; Gentle Breeze ; Partially Cloudy.
Binwnon—N.E. ; Light B ; Cloudless.
Caltnitinon—N. ; Gentle Breeze ; Cloudless.

sics;;;tursta frssUathe following pfaces did not reach this
aka is time for publication yesterday ; they, thereon,
dieate the state •f the weather on Thursday morning at
alas teolook.
Limanicit—E.; Calm ; Overcast.
Mou.twoun--N.W.; Calm ; Partially Cloudy.
Foutnesous—N. ; Calm; Overcast.
Causuinou—S., Foggy.
Taznottru-9.W.; Gentle Breen; Cloudless.

A HUNDRED FRANCS FOR A Joann.—Alexandra
Damao, in his bl,; moires , published in the Praise of October
kit, aliened that the late M. Etienne wrote, in the Cooed.
testiest:set of 18.11, a violent article against his play entitled
" Antony," in consequence of which the perfoemana was
forbidden. 14. J. Dumaine, nephew of 111. Etienne, wrote
to the Press* to say that the article in question was not writ-
ten by that gentleman, and requesting that the erroneous
assertion should be contradicted. The letter was referred
to M. Dumas, and he wrote to the Presse requesting that it
should be published ; but he caused it to be amompeaied
by another letter signed "P. Hut," in which the
writer, with great apparent solemnity, protested ageism a
statement in the Missoires that he had once been nearly
choked by swallowing the bone of a sole, whereas he said it
was the bone of a trout which had caused the calamity.
M. Dustin* considered that this letter was intended to
met ridicule on his own, and he mused M. Dams and M.
May, 'lsle editor of the Prem, to be cited before
theme- • of the 3rd arrondissement, sad demanded
tam ekes 300 f. each as damages. The apse was beard
rargs7--Me megoArimais diemissed the deamadogaMet
sii=e4bawitsi.M•daillSei I• pay 1 sad