The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DIIBLIS, Die. 26.
Yeateriay being the festival of the Nativity was, of
coarse, kept a clam holiday both publicly and
privately. The public journals, as well those of
Dublin as the provinces, availed themselves of this
cessation from business, and did not appear.
The proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant has not
taken the country by surprise. Indeed, the tone of
the southern papers in the disturbed counties, is by
no means bitter. They simply state that the "dis-
arming" orders have arrived, and been posted up with
all speed. The public places of Tipperary display
the royal arms and proclamation, and, to-day, will be
gazed upon and perused by many a criminal eye in
those disorderly parts. The following is a more ac-
curate account than my last contained. Two counties
have been fully proclaimed, Limerick and Tipperary ;
seven baronies in Clare, six baronies and four parishes
in Roscommon, three baronies in Leitrim, two in
Cork, three in Cavan, two in Waterford, four in
King's County, and three in Longford.
The Gazette contained notifications from the
Lord• Lieutenant appointing officers to grant licenses
to carry arms in -the proclaimed districts. Eleven
in Tipperary, six in Limerick, five in Clam,
five in Roscommon, three in Leitrim and King's
County, two in Waterford and Longford, and one each
in Cork and Cavan. The whole number, thirty-six,
are stipendiary magistrates.
The following announcements also appeared in the
Gazette nosed last night :
" DUBLtif CASTLE, Deo. 24.—Her Mejesty has been
pleased by letterpatent under the Great Seal of Ireland,
to appoint the Right Hon. Richard Moore to be one of the
Justices of the Court of Quin's Beata is Ireland, in the
room of the Hen. Charlie Bones. deoneeel.
" Her Majesty has bean glowed, lq fatten paten under
the Greet Seal of ImlegfA, te egging by Ham liesahn,
Req. jitc:r tvlztymhatiriatiMessyanseelissitsk lesimiLuadar
the Great Seal of Initial, to eggent I /14.,
Qto be bort 3Leleetre fiefiniereenne is
CTS Las&Liemelenent len beau phew& to of the
following pathos bobs wiled for

the King'. county lion. J. C. Weetenn, M.P. vice Ben-
jamin Lucas, Esq., deceased ; Ambrose C. Eaci , vice J. P.
Vaughan, EN., deceased.
" His Exoellexcy the Lord-Lieutenant has been pleased to
approve of Lord Courtown being appointed a Deputy-
Lieutenant for the county of Wexford.
"The Lord. Lieutenant has been pleased to approve of the
Hon. Lawrence Parsons being appointed Lieutenant-Celonel
of the King's Coun Regiment of Militia, vice Lieutenant-
' Colonel Lateens°, deceased. Commintion dated December
22, 1847.
A correspondent of the Mail, writing from Cavan,
on Thursday, says that a Mr. Humphreys, with hie
family, passed through that town for Dublin, to escape
"the reign of terror" which prevails in the district.
Mr. Humphreys is described as au extensive proprie-
tor, a constant resident on his princely estates, liberal
as an employer of the ...r, and extremely charitable.
He was escorted from as hones by a troop of police!
The proclamation and its consequences are likely to
produce a tranquillising effect on the turbulence of
Cavan.
Sir Lucius O'Brien has addressed a very sensible
letter to the Ennis guardians. The honourable
baronet states that, while in the present distressed
condition of England, no aid is to be expected from the
Treasury to carry out the demand of the Ennis Board,
—namely, "provision for the able-bodied destitute,"
yet the government will aid in any reasonable
manner the general distress provided therates are vigo-
rously collected. The conclusion is worthy of general
attention :
In the meantime, I cannot impress too strongly 'the necessity of
every man, woman, and child in Ireland, exerting themselves to the
utmost, to crop the ground for the foliowmg year, by potting down at
once, everything that will grow and give them fool, and keeping the
land clear and well dug. It is just ;seeable, we may get mite ambi-
ance again this year from the 'National Exchequer; but it woald be
unreasonable to suppose that we should always be supported oci cha-
rity. and unties the land is cultivated, we shall have a suceeedon
famine, and the people will perish tram the face of the earth in mate
of all that can be done for them by the benevolent and humane, or of
the beet legislation that can be Jeri...l—it is by Industry alone and
attention to erosions that any class can be saved from annihilation.
Above all, I do trust there will be an end to the horrid' mimes
which have called down the vengeance of heaven on the land. The
law which ha been pawed for the suppreeelon of crime end outrage,
L am mild as could be dortued, and has provided as carefully as it wee
people should not be hammed one-peasant , nor the
friooent confounded with with the guilty, by vexatious reedtione cad
penal liabilities.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, DEC. 25.
Two of our exchange companies are about to close
operations. The British is to meet here on the 30th,
for the express purpose of winding-up ; and the
National discontinues granting loans, also with the
view of suspending operations. It is considered that
these institutions have caused great fluctuations in
railway and other stock, by regulating advances
more by the supposed stability of the applicants than
by the value of the stock on which they professed to
borrow. The shares of all the exchange companies in
Scotland are at present depreciated.
Notwithstanding the opposition of the Duke of
Buccleuch's pier at Granton, the Leith docks are
crammed—there being at present 171 vessels, or
21,664 tons, in the docks. This is pressing anew on
tie A.eltn commonly the neEssitvof iner",.l.:
commodation, and the old controversy is being re-
vived, whether it were better to finish the works
at present incomplete, or construct a new harbour at
Trinity, which lies to the westward, mid-way between
Granton and the present Leith harbour. Trinity
gives deep water readily, whereas the site of the
present works takes 833 yards to reach low water
mark; but proximity to the town, and the large sum
already expended, will probably incline in favour of
completion rather than the commencing of a new un-
dertaking. Leith has already lost the steam-boat
traffic, and when the Granton docks are ready, the
sail-vessel trade will go there too, if Leith continues
unprovidecl with the requisite facilities.
Mr. Graham Spero, the principal sheriff of
Edinburgh, died this morning. His complaint
was typhus superinduced on influenza, and very
general regret is expressed at his loss. In early
life he was in the navy, was passed at the bar
in 1820, and in 1840 received hie appoint-
ment as sheriff. In politics he was liberal,
and hazarded no little obloquy by attaching
himself to the free church, and taking a leading part
in its movements—more particularly in connexion
with the committee on the refusal of sites, of which
he was oonvenor, and the correspondence connected
with which he discharged with tact and pruil,„,
" ' with certainty s. • ce•
~,oing ssu.... nis saueseor.
Clasgow typhus also busy with official men,
three surgeons being laid up, and a parochial clerk
dead. . . .

The contributors to the national monument, on the
Calton-hill, have signified their acquiescence in the
bill for denuding it of its ecclesiastical character and
converting it into a gallery for monumental busts and
statues. 200,0001. will be requisite to complete the
proposed plan, which is to be raised in W. shares.

EDINBLRON CHAIR OF CLINICAL SURGERY. —lt is
understood that government is about to confer this appoint,
runt on Mr. Miller, the present professor of systematic sur-
gery in the University of Edinburgh. The patronage of
Mr. Miller's present chair is in the town-council.
BENEFICENCI.—Mr. William Dorward, of Montrose, has
given 1,0001. to the infirmary of that town. In addition he
has conveyed over property to the House of Refuge which
yields a yearly rental of 351. He has besides given over to
the managers 5001. as a fund for assisting on any emergency,
out of which sum he has directed that 50 bolls of oatmeal
be immediately purchased, in consequence of the high price
of that article having last year encroached considerably
additionalu ithefuennA sof o
thenetinor
4tutioz.
tttenidm.hereithasof (wont:client°
go to the funds, and be especially directed by the managers
to lighten the board of the pauper inmates, and thereby re-
lieve the poor-rates so far as It goes. With all these dona-
tions Mr. Dorward cannot be said to have given less this
week than 7,0001. to the charities of blontrose—a stretch of
generosity which is unprecedented, and which may well
entitle him to the deep gratitude and respect of every mem-
ber of the community, and which especially raises him above
the narrow-fisted tribe who bequeath their funds after death
(when they can no longer keep them) for the erection of
hospitals called by their own name, to gratify their vanity
and self-sufficiency.
FLOODING OF TIAN TAT.—The recent and repeated inun-
dations of the Tay, particularly at Perth, have led to serious
considerations u to remedial measures. The heavy rains
have doubtless been the leading causes, but their influence
has been greatly augmented by the thorough draining of the
ground in the neighbourhood of the river, and also,although
to a las extent, by the erection of railway bridges. The
alterations proposed for deepening, dc., will likely improve
the navigable properties of the Tay.