The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-19 00:00:00

LAND.

Demur , Mazes 17.
The county of Tyrone has followed the example of,
its northern neighbours, and met against the rate in
aid project. Lord Claude Hamilton attended at the
matzo', and addressed it at considerable length.
The noble lord ia more laely to make himself heard
of as an agitator outside the Haase of Commons than
as a freakier within its walls. Iu the meanwhile,
oar Dublin public remains very quiet about this
agitatim
It appears that the news which reached us from
Carlow on Thursday, and which was published in the
Evening Post, was partly erroneous. The High
Sheriff declared that the amendment in favour of
the rata is aid was lost by a large majority
of &elided ratepayers, sad is is farther stated that
a vast number of persons were introduced at the
meeting, for the purpose of packing an anti-landlord
assembly. Carlow is divided into two bitter sections,
who detest each other, from the recollection of their
former fads sad electioneering oosteete.
At the Limerick assizes Micheel Gorman was sen-
tenced to transportation for life for Whiteboyism of
an aggravated character.
The cholera lass appeared in the south with much
virulence, and lima side its fleet appearance at Lime-
rick, a city which lies low upon the banks of the
Shannon. Active preparations have been made at
Cork, wider the management. of
to resist the progress of the ecoorre.
"My dear Ray" has reedived an appointment in a
I commercial house in this city, and has retired
from the secretaryship of the Raped Association.
Thus the ones formidable conhderacy has broken up
into splinters.
A movement is being made to get up an extensively
signed memorial for Kr. Gavan Duffy, eutreating.bis
Excellency to take no further proceedings against
him, on the grounds of his being en entirely.rensed
man, able health being utterly broken, of him having
published violent @disks only for a very brief time,
and of the excessive .state of excitement all *rug
Europe. It is also very generally felt amongst
protestant and unelevative circles, that itienCd to
press so heavily upon Mitchel and Duffy, while the
maid lad seditious agitators who worked at Cow
ciliation Hall are left untouched, oetwithitanding des
stet ratenbiof which they did to this Country.

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At a meting held in Dumfries in connexion with 1
the ragged school, the following statistics were
brought out :
60010 E Cana ix 1816 ABD 16{7.—Scows Orronmaus.
Doubles is 1836 76 lacreseed to 237 to 11817
Wigtown „ — 48 - IP 82 IP
alba ik " • 6l „ 1611 „
83 „
IP
Umiak 473
401 ii
7716
At inter 'oils of sax year. the numlers were, for all
Scotland :
In 1831 — 1,e63
Is 1841
III?.

lEngland sad Wales —.......— .. let 195.6
eland—A 2S, 1 31,109
And, taking the whole United Kragdonr, tt e
known offenders were 47,797 in 1836, and had in-
creased in 1847 to 64,677;
The only striking exception to progressive increase
lin a populous district ismthe essa of

- -t, •
Where the offends' were,seransa
in MR lda
fa 1147
A decrees ott2o per seat.
That this fare urable chance was due to ragged
schools is corroborated by the statistic' of other places
which have followed the example of Aberdeen in
forming such institutions. The tables for 1848 hare
not yet been completed ; but a similar fact was ob-
served butt year in Edinburgh, after the stAab:ishment
of the ragged school,. A published stottment by the
governor of the Edinburgh prison, shows thst "the
number of commitments to prison of boys 13 years old
and under, was about 50 per cent. lees in the thtee
months ending Marsh, 1848, than in the correspond-
ing three mouths of the merlons year." And in Dum-
fries the gratifying intelligence has been reported by
the superintendent of police that a similar result has
been experienced in the returns fur 1848, since the
Schaal Society began its operatious.