The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

THE IRISH PARTY.

The Irish Party assembled on Friday at their new
chambers, King-street, St. James's, for the special purpose
of considering the provisions of the bill recently introduced
into the House of Commons by Lord John Rumen, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Labouchere, to flail.
tate the improvement of landed property in Ireland by the
owners, and to afford employment to the labouring classes.
The Marquis of Westmeath presided.—The noble chairman
proceeded to read the clauses of the bill. It was agreed
that several amendments should be recommended to the
legislative. The limitation of the advances out of the
growing produce of the consolidated fund, for the purposes
of the act, to one million five husdred thousand pounds wag
regarded as injudicious, and the general impression appeared
Ito be that the Treasury Commissioners should receive per-
mission to ism, as from time to time might be required, sums
of money not exceeding in the whole the rum of two millions.
It was generally considered by the meeting thee the loans
should be issued by instalments not exceeding at soy time
one-tenth of the entire sum, instead of one-fifth, wad that
no instalment sheuld exceed in any case 5001., inelead of
3001. In the evens of an owner desiring to clear eff his
rent-eherge for loan more speedily than at the rate of 61.10 a
per cent. for 22 years, the fortieth section enacted that he
could do so with the sanction or the Treasury Commis-
sioners, bat the Irish party thought that in such case nettles
should be given to the reversioner, and his moment
obtained. _ _ _

The Irish party met again on Saturday, the Earl of
Massareene in the chair. Some clauses of the proposed Poor
Relief (Ireland) Bill wen again diamond. Mr. Smith
O'Brien announced that it inn his intention to propose that
the poor-law commiosionen should ream and reconsider the
electoral divisions of the @erasl unions in each a manner sii
that the pauperism of each district should bear to the pro-
perty liable for its relief al nearly an uniform proportion
throughout each union as circumstances would allow. Seve-
ral letters were read giving an appalling account of the daily
increasing state of destitution en Ireland. It was unani-
mously resolved that the fearful details of niery end suffer-
ing contained in those communications should be stated in
the House of Commons, and the necessity of immediately
providing food and seed for the Irish people pressed upon
government.

DEPUTATION OP IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY..
XEN.—The Very Rev. D. M. Canna', P.P., of Mallow, as
chairman of the meeting, recently held in Penney, of the
Roman Catholic clergymen of thetunited dioceses of Cloyne
and Roes, and the Rev. Justin M'Carthy, R.C.C., as a dem-
cation from that meeting. had an interview with Lord John
Russell with the view of making the noble lord acquainted
with the sentiments entertained by their order, in reference
to the necessity that exists for the introduction of a clause
into the new Irish poor-law act for the extension of out-door
relief to the able-bodied as well as the infirm destitute
poor in that country, and to suggest other measures to di-
minish the amount of destitution at present, and to prevent
a recurrence of the calamity. Another object was to inform
Lord John Russell that the proceedings of the Irish party
were looked upon with universal distrust by Roman Catho-
lic clergymen, the middle classes, and the people generally in
Ireland. Lord J. Russell did not enter into any lengthened
explanation of the course which he intended to take in re-
ference to the suggestions made by Dr. Collins. He
(Lord John Russell) thought that much depended
on the Roman Catholic clergy, who should endeavour to
rouse the people from the apathy into which they bad fallen.
After further remarks, the deputation withdrew, having
expressed to Lord John Russell their warmest thanks for
the courtesy with which he had received them.

THE REOENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.--Saturday, at
the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. Daniel, as chairman of the
committee appointed by the vestry to conduct the oppo-
'Rion to the proposed Regent's Canal Railway, brought up
a petition to Parliament for the approbation of the vestry.
Sir B. Hall explained that owing to Lord John Russell's In-
tention of bringing on the budget on Monday next, this
railway bill was not likely to be discussed during the ensuing
week. Sir P. Laurie raid he was glad to see this project
opposed by the Birmingham Railway Company ; he thought
such opposition would materially aid in defeating the bill
The petition was unanimously adopted, and it was resolved
that Sir B. Hall should be requested to present the same to
the Houle of Commons.—Respecting the opposition to this.
bill, a correspondent of Dossg&ss Jerrold's A estopoper mak.ea
the following remarks ,--" If the company would construct
their railway in the bottom of the canal, on the plan of a
railway in a cutting, and abolish the water, it would at owns
silence all opposition in parliament, and reconcile thousuels
of dissatisfied persons out of parliament. The canal b a
nuisance, as any one will testify who lives close to it, god
sees three or four dead dogs in various places tainting the
atmosphere with putrefaction ; besides, the stream is
the foundations of houses along its vicinity, as surely
rises upwards, spoiling or duitroying pictures, books, clothes,
and furniture. And I cannot but think that it is far behind.
the improvements of the age, to persist in keeping ep the.
snail-pace system of barge-conveyance of goods."
STATE OF NEWOATE.—Ata Committee of Aldermen.
on Saturday, the crowded state of Newgate, from Lord John
Russell haying refused to transport any more criminals, ems
brought under notice. It was imposaHlie to keeptle tried and
untried in the same gaol, and more preen room must be bras-
diately presided. Mr. Alderman Humphery proposed that
the Borough Compter, which cost 7001. a year, and dial not
contain a angle prisoner, might be allotted to the convicted
criminals. The Recorder said they could not be legally
detained there, being out of the City. The matter is to be
flusher considered.
Mn. Sraurr's RAILWAY BILL.—A meeting took
place in Bridgearreet, Westminster, on Saturday morning,
to consider Mr. Scott's new bill. After about two boars'
discussion the meeting were unanimous in wishing Mr.
Strutessetismil reeding to he put of for a week to enable the
various iekeeresei is eareriliet the clauses of the bill. A sem-
i mitts* wee appeiated He the purpose, consisting of the gnat
raldwazr letwen stem wintry and an application was made
I to Mr. Strata at use lewd of trade, to put off the second.
readies until Meek/ week.
THE QUEEN AND TI Aerate:4.—h in rumoured
that the highest pereeneepe in the realm has taken offence
at the conduct et a coeds peer who, on the day of the
opening of the present 0111111i011 of parliament, intodnoed to
the benches on which the peerestes sit, a lady whom name
ha for some time been unociaaed with the drama in a mass.
nor so poisulass as to obtain for her niche in the temple of
Fame. The lady in gunboat was introduced 111 the wife et
a peer, and the imposition was not discovered until her IL..
jesty, on paying a visit to the theatre at which the lady in
question is engaged, identified the heroine as the party who
had, but a few hours before, sat near to her while the wee
reading the royal speech.— Weekly Dispakh.

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THE HOUSE OF PEERS AND THE NEW BRIDGE.—
It is stated that Mr. Barry has intimated to the Marquis of
Lansdowne that the House of Lords will be completed for
the reception of their lordships after the Easter recess, with
the exception of the fresco paintings and the statues in the
niches—The new Home of Commons is not expected to be
ready for some time, We may mention here that the sur-
veyors have begun taking the levels for the bridge to cram
the Thames to the new park about to be formed in Battens&
fields.--AfAertertmer
SERMON O, PRICE TEN AND SIXPENCE. —The fol-
lowing advertisement appears in the JeAn Bull of yesterday,
under the lead of " Manner fp% sem= ea plied:"
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SUGAR FROM BIAM.—The Margaret Connal arrived
in the Mersey on Thursday, having touched at the Cape.
. Bankok, where the Margaret loaded, is situated on the river
Minim (translated the mother of waters) shout 20 miles'
• boss in mouth. After crossing a bar it is navigable for
&ipso( any size, having a depth of ten fathoms all the way
▪ yr to that city. The river is deep to the very margin of its
• rat. Sugar is the principal article of exported, but the
abounds with ivory, sticklack, hides, gamboge, tin,
4114:111112er articles of eastern produce in great abundance.
•Smesesise forests of teak exist in the interior. A considers-
• 1w portion of the inhabitants of Bankok arc Chinese, by
=the trade of the place is chiefly carried on. The
• themselves are of an indolent character, and
r auk of the banana is erected by their women. The
c of the Margaret Connal consists of 8,475 bags of
"Me sugar, of the first class, with '265 picols of sapan
weld, as dunnage, and two slabs of tin. Two thousand
• beg, were shipped on board at the city, and the remainder
0( her loading was completed outside the bar. French
and American missionaries are established in the country,
and the Portuguese have a resident consul and vice-consul.
There are two English mercantile establishments there at
present, that of Messrs. James Hayes and Co., and that of
Daniel Brown, p.m. Captain Marton (master ef the Mar-
garet Connal), is entrusted with a Siamese youth, for the
of being educated in the habits and acquirements
ree European civilisation. Captain he is said to have had an
interview with the mother of the Siamese twins, who
inquired concerning the welfare of her children.
GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—This celebrated
vernal is announced to be sold by auction on the 11th of
ant month.—Bristol Journal.
THE SCARCITY.—We alluded on Saturday to the
alarming estimates of the short quantity of stored food
which were collected from 36 counties by the editor of the
Gardener' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, and pub
fished in the last number of this journal. In corroboration
of these returns, we find in the Liverpool Chronicle the fol-
lowing facts, derived from the most grain producing districts
of England—the Eastern and Midland Counties. A cone-
spondent of the Liverpool Chronicle lays: "I speak within
compass and without fear of contradiction, when I say that
there are lewer stacks of corn now standing unthrashed
' than there were on May-day, 1846. It is the common
• remark in everybody's mouth. So astonished have I
0 been at the rapid disappearance of these smiling tokens
of plenty, that I have been anxious to persuade myself
that, as there was a short crop of straw last year, the
farmers had been at work merely to obtain bedding for
their cattle, and had stored up their corn in their granaries.
But I regret to say that such is not the case. Everything
lane and hereabouts has been hurried to market to secure
present prices, and the consequence is, that if, for the next
seven months, we have nothing to depend upon but what
remains in the stackyards, I tremble at the very thought
of the ordeal through which the country has yet to pars.
It is impossible to say whether buyers have wanted their
earn for immediate consumption or to hold for speculation.
speak only of what is in the first hands, and with regard
• that, you may rely upon the facts which I have stated. I
r freak, pertly, from what I have seen with my own eyes;
from what I have heard from others who may
id upon. I have allowed no one to pus me,
' hem any part of the agricultural districts, for weeks and
weeks, without examining and cross-examining them on this
meet intretant subject Landlords, farmers, yeomen, la-
' bowl% ONMeeters, millers, have ali come within the range
Ingmbise• tar and the information derived front all us of
Unease character. The only comfort is that the
~ wheel h et MOM excellent quality, and the yield abundant
. peperries IMP the straw. Still when, ' in my mind's eye,'
• I eat the Week in lurid against the time which it has to fill,
I have anythbg but pleasant sensations at the thought of the
' last pinch width we shall have to endure before turning the
corner which will bring us to another harvest."
A MIDLAND GENERAL POST-OFFICE.--A corre-
spondent suggests that, to relieve the great pressure of busi-
ness which ts now felt at the chief office in London, another
general post-office should be established at Rugby,
kam,or or Derby. " At this office," he writes, " should be
managed the whole transit bf letter from Scotland, the
north of England, and midland districts to the south-west and
west of England and the whole of Wales. As it is, all letters
&writhe north to the south have to pass through the London
arse, or generally so, being sent miles out of the direct
route. If any person receive letters in Wales, or an part of
the West of England, from the North, they go vie
instead of directly through Birmingham. If the latter route
were taken, a whole day would be saved.
ATTACK OF A MOB ON LAMBETH WORKHOUSE.-
- On Saturday afternoon considerable excitement prevailed in
Lambeth in consequence of a violent attack made by a mob
• of at least 100 persons on the pariah workhouse. It was
stated that several men, women, and children had applied
for relief, and though the parochial authorities paid every
. possible attention to their cases, some of them were discon-
tented, and bricks, MOM and other rubbish were thrown
against the doors, threatening at the same time a forcible
entrance. Things began to assume the most alarming ap-
pearances, end expostulation having proved useless, a body
• of the police of the L disisioa was sent for, end notwithstand-
ing the formidable number of rioters, the bobbies" suc-
ceeded in apprehending the ringleaders, and clearing the
neighbourhood of their violent followers. This workhouse
already numbers nearly 1000 inmates, the relief for which
body forma no inconsiderable item for the burdened rate-
payers of the parish.
FlAES.—lsur4oToN.—Yesterday morning, shortly
after six o'clock, a fire was disowned on the premises of
Mr. Hooper, Highbury-terrace, Islington. The cause has
been traced to the over-bating of a kitchen flue, which set
the jawing' and bond timbers in a blue. The pariah
engine was soon on the rpm, and the flames were subdued,
• but not until considerable damage was done to the premises
and the furniture. Fortunately the occupier ia insured in the
Licensed Victuallers' office.--BETHNAL GREEN.—,in the
morning a fire broke out at 7, Manchester-street, Bethnal-
green. When discovered, about thirty trusses of hay and
straw were burning in the stable at the rear of the private
houses. The engines of the London Brigade and the parish
one quickly reached the spot, and the firemen at length got
the mastery over the flames, but not until the roof of the
building was burned off, the stock consumed, and the floor-
ing_destroyed. The occupier was not insured.
FALL OF A PART OF THE SUN TAVERN, BISHOPS-
OLTE.--On Friday morning, about 6 o'clock, the neighbour.
hood of Sun-stmt, Biahopegate.atraet was placed in a state
of alarm, in consequence o the fallitig down of the whole
of the boundary wall of the Sun Tavern. The utmcet con-
sternation prevailed at the moment among the inmates, of
whom there were 18 in the house, the whole being in bed.
Mrs. Winds's, the proprietress of the house, instantly got
up, and in a few minutes some of the lodgers, with their
children, mine down stairs in a state of nudity. As the
eldest son, and one of the lodgers, were not among them,
a person proceeded to the attic, who found them both in bed,
exposed to the weather, as the wall had been cleared away,
and they were sound asleep—of course not at all aware of
their imminent danger. It was subsequently discovered that
the wall had fallen upon the bakery of Mr. Abbot, residing
next door, who was employed in the bakehouse, and who
had a narrow escape of his life. The surgery of Mr. Shaw
was also nearly demolished. Fortunately no injury of any
serious consequence was received by any one, though be-
tween 20 and 30 persons were nearly involved in the ruins.
CONFESSION OF A ROBBERY OF I,oool.—The
Shrewsbury police have sent information of the apprehension
of Charles Fielder, a young man, who states that be belongs
to St. Mary Lambeth, Surrey, and that he had been con-
nected with a gang of thieves in Landon, who some time
no robbed an auction-room in Smithfield of 1,000 i., in bills
• exchan , and had been concerned in various other rob-
beries.— .
Issuarre.—THE WOOLWICH Coy vicvs.—Before
Kr. J. Certrar, the Coroner for West Kent, at the Ord-
nance 'Arms, near the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on the
bodice of two convicts, vie , John Atkins, aged 70, convicted
at the Stafford amine, and William Tates. aged 62, convicted
at Liverpool. In both awes a verdict of " Death from na-
tural causer " was returned. Sir George Grey has issued
an order that no convict body in future is to have a post-
mortem examinatioa made upon it until the coroner and jury
have assembled and viewed the same.—Tm••• PERIOIIB
BULLED ALIVE AT CAILSHALTON.—Before W. Carter, at
the Greyhound Inn, Carshalton, Surrey, touching the re-
spective deaths of C. Cooper, aged 46 ; A. Cooper, aged 43 ;
sad C. Cooper, the younger, aged 6 ; who lost their lives
under the most painful circumstances. T. Bishop said—On
the afternoon of Wednesday last, I heard something had
happened at the house of Mr. Cooper, in the Chalk-pie On
flg the house, I entered the left band room, and maw
*weal person, therein. The brick wall at the beck, which
bad been built up against the chalk rock, had fallen with an
immense body of earth into the bedroom. A search was in-
meetly made, when the hand of a human person was found
protruding through the loose rubbish. The whole of the
perms present set to work and removed the bricks, earth,
vbc., and then discovered the lifeless bodies ef three pmons.
They were all lying on the bed by the side of each other, and
covered with the clothes. The bedstead was broken to the
ground by the violence and weight of the rubbish which
led fallen upon it. They were removed into an
adjoining room, and I have no doubt they were suffocated
by the earth falling upon them while they were "sleep
during the previous night. Elizabeth Wareham, a widow,
IVY next called and stated; I reside in a cottage near the
deceased person's residence, which is situated in Cloweer's
thalk pit. The deceased man was a labourer, and left home
every morning to proceed to his work. The female was his
wife, sod she usually went (rein home daily to some employ-
ment; the boy was their son. The cottage they occupied
consisted of three reoma on the ground floor, and was for-
merly used as a stable by the owner of the ground On the
afternoon in question I heard a female exclaim, "Oh, my
father, the house has fallen in." I ran out and saw the
daughter of the deceased man, who called me into the house,
and on entering the bed. room I found it half filled up with
bricks and earth, The hand of the man was visible, and
after considerable labour three lifeless bodies were found stiff
and cold. I discovered that the upper pert of the brick wall
had been reread in upon them. I have resided in the same
house, and never apprehended any danger. The back part
of the house was formerly a " rabbit warren," and I am of
opinion that the rabbits undermined the plan; but they
have all been destroyed some yearn since by the proprietor
the property. The accident is no doubt solely at-
butable to the rapid thaw, arising from the recent
.Leavy snow storms, which caused the ground to give
7ty• and force in the brick wall. Robert Allen, a m-
utate, basing identified the bodies, the coroner inquired if
an_ f were present on the part of the proprietor of the
chalk- 'o;vhesi a gentleman stepped forward and said, the
owner not able to attend throncth severe illness, but
3410,41./f Sr or jury might suggest for the preven-
tion of accidents would be most willingly end readily
needed, to. liter had already been taken, and where any
detect presented itself, the same would be immediately rec-
*inert Other corroborative testimony having been taken,
the coroner summed up the case, and remarked at consider-
able length on the melancholy nature of the investigation,

directing the attention of the jury to the evidence of the fe-
male Warnham, after which the room was cleared of stran-
gers, and when the public wet• readmitted, the foreman
mid they had agreed to the following verdict : " That the
deceased persons, Charles Cooper, Alice Cooper, his wife,
and Charles Cooper, the younfrer, were accidentally suffo-
cated, by the falling of a quantity of earth, which forced in
the wall of a certain dwelling house, as they lay asleep in
bed." The melancholy catastrophe has caused great excite-
ment in the village, where the deceased persons were well
known fur their industry and sober conduct.

THE TRTE9TE ROUTE.—Mr. Waghorn left Rams-
pte yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Austin, the
engineer, to obtain more land facilities (or the overland
route, by way of Trieste.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Faa. 20.
Every day increases the alarm for the future, and
despondency is beginning to undermine the faith the
people had in the advent of relief. There has
occurred nothing to abate hope or evoke despair.
Events are only realising what all must have fore-
seen that, with the diminished supplies of food, there ,
must have been destitution and even death among
the people. The country papers supply some very
melancholy details. The approach of death is borne
with a fatalism or a fortitude which calls to mind the
Mahometan or the Stoic. A gentleman, jast arrived
from Kerry, informed me that in the small village of
Ardfert, he had seen an entire family—father, mother,
and children—carried in a common car to the burial
ground of the village. They had died from want of
food. In the same village the peasantry some days
before congregated, scaled the landlord's demesne
wall, and in the open day collected his sheep—about
200—and drove them off for sacrifice; but on
reaching the outer gate they relented, mid the sheep
were remitted to their pastures. The patience of the
poor, under such terrible privations, is astonishing.
An important order has been issued from the
Treasury relative to the food to be supplied to Irish
emigrants. Mr. Trevelyan writes to the Commis-
sioners of Customs that the attention of the Treasury
having been directed by the Colonial Secretary to ob-
jections against the use of Indian corn-meal as an
article of food in emigrant vessels, the commis-
sioners are authorised to withdraw the permission
given last year for the substitution of Indian corn-
meal for potatoes on board ships clearing out under
the Passenger Act. The objections to the use of
meal is its liability to sourness on long voyages.
In consequence of accounts which reached Dublin
last night, the Rev. Dr. Miley proceeded this morning,
it is said, to London, to attend the member for Cork.

MREORIAL OP THE REPRODUCTIVE COMMITTER.-011
Thursday last this committee presented a memorial to the
Lord-Lieutenant on the constitution of the relief commis-
sion. The memorial states the regret of the committee, in
seeing the appointment of the commissioners made by the
Home Department, a power which they conceived to have
been vested by the act in the Lord-Lieutenant himself, a
reasonable provision in a measure designed according to Sir
George Grey, " to restore the ordinary relations between
owners and occupiers of land and the labouring class, and
to remove the alleged obstacles to the employment of labour
in the cultivation of the land." Without impeaching the
ability of the commissioners in their professional capacities,
the memorial complains that only a single Inshman,
Mr. Redington, appears on the commission, whose
other official duties must absorb all his time and
attention. The memorial further states that in the
present condition of the country, the principle of relief
varying with every locality, and a minute knowledge of the
wants and habits of the people being requisite for the benefit
of the poor, the protection of the public, and security to the
rate-payers, a board so constituted and permanently sitting
in Dublin cannot be a judge. of the required measures, and
" is calculated to cause suspicion and mistrust in the minds
of all claims of Irishmen." Under such circumstances, the
memorial suggests the addition of some Irish gentlemen, as
unpaid commussioners, and that the members generally
should be ordered to visit and personally inspect the state of
the several provinces and counties. The memorial emphati-
cally states that " country " alone is not the reason of the
objection, but that, in a commission solely affecting Irish in-
terests, only one of the commissioners should be an Irishman
is anomalous and inexpedient, and that a corresponding
i practice in naming a commission for the other parts
of the empire would evoke equal disapprobation.
The Lord-Lieutenant remarked that the commission could
not be reconstituted, as the commissioners were named in
the act of parliament ; to which the deputation replied that,
although Sir G. Grey in his letter named the commissioners,
the power of appointment was vested is the Lord-Lieu.
tenant. His lordship then urged the serious responsibility
' which the government assumed in carrying out the act, and
that all governments justl desired to. give effect to their
measures by their own paid and reeponiuble effieen. The
deputation then explained that the great objection to the
commission was, the absorption of their time in their re-
spective situations, as heads of public departments, which
precluded the power of effectually carrying out the temporary
relief act, that the same evils would arise as under the operation
of the Labour Rate Act, in which rates were rigidly adhered
to without any reference to peculiar local wants; and that
as the landlords were charged with the failure of the Labour
Rate Act, they now anxiously desired to co-oper.te with the
government In working the present measure. The Lord-
Lieutenant, in conclusion, stated that circulars, soliciting in.
formation, had been issued to the resident gentlemen, end
begged the deputation to wait until copies of other circular.,
now in course of preparation, had been furnished.
STATE OF TEE IRISH PROW/IC—The state of the Irish
prisons is greatly improving of late years. Cleanliness,
good order, and correctness of books and accounts, are gene-
rally reported to the provincial inspectors. Proper classifi-
cation and useful employment for criminals is still a want ;
but every year adds to the improvement, and we soon
expect the application of a regimen conducive to the pre-
servation of the moral health of the public. The first prison
in Ireland in respect of importance is Kilmainham. This
was inspected on Tuesday by Major Cottingham, Inspector-
General of Prisons. He left the following memorandum on
the visiting book " I minutely inspected this gaol, and
hope to chew by my report the great satisfaction I expe-
rienced at seeing the extreme good order in which I found
everything. The books are really models for other prisons,
and as such I purpose making use of them."
LANDO LET TO 00•111INKENT.—As an nigh-Edon of the
reasonable views of some landlords on the waste lands re-
clamation, a certain Mr. Robert Alloway very fairly suggests
that landlords having tracts of desolation, " be invited ' to
let them on lease to the government for twenty years. Dar-
ing the first /estrum, they should be rent free, and for the
remaining fifteen years, the proprietor to receive from one
to three shillings per acre as per value. These lands " hav
ing been built upon and tenanted by government commis-
semen, and reclaimed by drainage and tillage at the public
charge," should revert absolutely to the proprietor at the
end of the 20 years, with the tenants then in possession and
ell improvemen's ! Mr. Alloway conceives that proprietors
of wastes "ought to be well pleased at being ensured a good
estate which before was a desert," and which after twenty
years would revert to him or Lis hairy, meantime paying an
ac cable rent.

Danis cos Sraraws. —The coureil of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of Ireland having applied to the secretary, Mr,
lAbouehere, to have the several systems of drainage recom-
mended for this country tested by the engineer having charge
of the drainage in the Phcenix Park, near Dublin, Mr
Labouebere referred the matter to the engineer, Mr. Parkes,
who declared against it for reasons not of a general nature :
Mr. Lsbouchere, therefore, has declined to interfere.
A FIRE broke out in Waterford yesterday, in a merchant's
same, and property to the extent of 7,0001. was consumed.
BIRIOVE RIOTS —GALWAY,THERSDAT.—The sheriff did
not declare the return until nearly five o'clock yesterday, the
day being spent in argument by Mr. Kelly for the solicitor-
general, and Mr. Close for Mr. O'Flahsrty, on the disputed
votes. The numbers polled stood thus :—Monahan, 510•
O'Flaherty, 506 majority 4 The Sheriff then declared
Joseph Henry Monahan solicitor general, duly re
turned as a member fork town of Galway. Mr.
O'Flaherty proceeded to address the assembly at great
length, referring to the absence of Mr. Monahan, and
charging against hie agents bribery, intimidation, de. The
sexton of the Protestant cathedral had the joy-bells rung,
which excited the mob, who smashed the church windows
and the windows of Kilroy's Hotel. The magistrates had to
break open the church doors to stop the ringing of the bells.
The militarry were called out, and the riot act read by Mr.
Kernan. R.M., ; the populace then dispersed, and the night
paned off quietly. The military and police conducted them-
selves with very considerable forbearance. The police
orderlies of Mr. Leman, R.M., were struck with stones.
The only person seriously Injured, as far an I could learn,
was Mr. J. F. Blake, son of the late Sir Valentine, and it is
said that he in not yet out of danger.
SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, Fan. 19.
The Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry have received
orders to be ready for inspection by March 30. The
ordinary time is in July, but as many of the regular
military have been sent off to the north to keep down
the food riots, it is probable that this may have led to
the Yeomanry being called on thus early to keep
themselves in readiness.
The proprietors in Roes-shire have agreed to a
guarantee for 4,0001. to the banks at Dingwall, and
2,0001. at Taira, to form a fund for the purchase of food
to be sold under the auspices of a committee to be
appointed by them, which will probably prevent
further rioting.