The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

order to secure the outlay of a sufficient we fa their sower
localities, or so is atilt r node of extending relief to those dis-
tricts must be devised. And it is with that view that I now
address you ; and, I ram sure, T0%11111184 feel that whatever is to
be done, should be considered and decided on at once, before
any further eirections are issued or arrangements made, and
before many speeialsessions are held toearry them out. I would
venture to suggest the following, at a simple mode of ob-
viating the difficulty, with perfeetjuatice and convenience t)
all: and you will find it to be the only means calculated to
secure an adequate out:ay in poorer districts, combined with
a capability of repayment, without taxing the richer locali-
ties for the reclamation and improvement of the poorer.
That when this disproportion necessarily exists in a barony,
it should he grouped fur the purposes of this asseermeut into
divisions (A, 8,C,) compo.ed of districts nearly similarly
circumstanced as to relative destitution and value: and that
the future repsyment of loans, necessary ter their relief
(expended in reproductive works), should be mule at a
per eentage rate upon the value of the district,
or the property improved by it, and not as at
present at 10 per cent. upon the amount borrowed; by
this the period of repayment in poorer districts would
be prolonged, and (if it was thought right) could be
shortened in the richer ones : an arrangement of which no
one could complain, and by which the government could be
no losers, obtaining, as they would, more certainty of
repayment, by which all districts would pay at a rate
uniform to their means, while the expenditure in richer
districts nerd not exceed their absolute wants, and that
in the poorer would be male come:team:ate with them,
and the repayment rendered equally easy to both.—Mr.
J. Iletnilton, n deputy-lieutenant, and presi lent of the
Donegal Farming Society, says: 11 the excellent purposes of
our Lard Licuteuant, who fins prayed himself " a friend in-
deed," for he has been '• a friend in need," be clogged and
hampered with mane details of ideetire as to the kind of
work, the pereons to be employed, the firms to be punctili-
ously adhered to, the tenure necessary to entitle a person to
obtain an advanne or a presentment of improvement on his
land, &c., then it will not work, and the well-meant change
to productive employment will he bet a torture or Tantalus,
bringing the d. sired draught to our Emilia without e mpower-
ing us to swallow it. The works for which preseutmentsehould
he allowed ought to be of permanent improvement, namely,
drainage of all kind., tulnoiling, fencing, and levelling old
useless fences, slaying or gravelling hog land, liming newly
broken hoe or moor, and the like operations within the
power of the labourer. The works should be presented sub-
ject to Cm coal:Lion th it the of:. r appointed approves on
inspection. The persons who c preseet should be the first
occupiers of the land, provided they undertake the repay-
ment of the portion presented in such instalments as shall
be required, and that the landlord does not object where the
occupier is a tenant. Seceadly, the 1 .ndlord, being owner
in fee, or by lease for ever, or renewable for ever, or lease fur
above 60 years unexpired—or by lonic under a enrpnrate body,
or by tolies geloties lease under another, hold-
ing such lease—(including in every case tenants for
life, whose estates are settled by marriage or other
deeds; excludieg these would neutralise the greater part
of the proposed benefit,) the tenant's assent being necesaary,
although in this case the landlord makes himself liable for
the repayment of the advance, making his own arrangement
with the tenant. Aetriculturtsts under the Board of Works
should be appointed as quickly as possible in every district :
speed is more needful now than anything else ; one, two, or
more in a paor-law union to inspect, approve, and pass the
works, and give weekly tickets anording to the work done,
payable by a paymaster &Vending once a week in the dis-
trict. So sae public works should be set on foot in every dis-
trict, so as to ensure employment to every individual that
might de-ire it. An 1 persona obtaining presentments on
their land might be obliged t employ a certain number of
those recommended by the relief committees, at such rates
as should be mentioned in their proposal fur the works.
BALLINA9I.OII Emits—Friday was country fair day. It
was held fur the sale of milch cows, small stock, &c., anti is
generally known by the designation of " the Poor
Fair." elileh cows were in great demand, and brought
prices varying from ten to fifteen pounds; the small stock
went better then those of a superior quality. On the first
day of the fair the Connaught Horticultural Show was held
at the Agricultural Hai at two o'clock, p.m.; it was attended
by nil the rank and fashion for many miles round, and ex-
hibited a very gay and brilliant scene. The show con-
tinued ler about three hours ; the tables were arranged
in the form of a square, and were tastefully set out with
geraniums and all sorts of dowers in season; in the
centre of the square were two other tables that groaned
und't the weight of grap,s, and a variety of other fruits.
Tae great annual cattle market for: ISO closed on Friday
evening. and though intimately conversant with the Baffin-
asks: fairs for many years (says the correspondent of a Dublin
piper), I have never seen a fair to pass off so quietly ; all
was order and temperance, nut a man taken up for intoxica-
tion during the entire week, and with the exception of four
or five roulette ruffians that made their appearance the night
before last, there was nothing to call fur the interference of a
single policeman. The Dublin traders are of opinion they
will not reap a golden harvest in Ballinaidoe this year; their
prospects, I regret to say, arc very gloomy. Somehow or
another there was not that interest about this fair that WWI
felt in other years; the bustle and excitement were compara-
tively nothing, and the general feeling of the inhabitants re-
,. arding it is, that it was a eery dull Air.
Pi/51140E or Inaennn.—The death of Lord Viscount
Allen, which took place at Gibraltar, muses a vacancy in
the Irish Peerage, which enables the Goys rnment to make
a new creation, a third title having become extinct. The
two previous were Lords Hartland and Mount Sandford.
The Erexing Meta makes the following sarcastic petition
to the Lord-Lieuteuant 'We would respectfully sug-
gest to the Irish Viceroy that this occurrence pre-
sents a fitting opportunity of further honouring the
' favoured family' of O'Connell, upon the members of which
so frauy marks of Royal, Viceregal, and Ministerial dis-
tinction have recently) been poured, by conferring upon its
venerated head the dignity of an Irish title—Earl of Derry-
nine; that of Viscount Caheniveen, fir Master Maurice
'mould +mend ; while the senior is qualified to assume
two " big beggcennen" for his supporters, the cap of main-
lenanceas his meet, and the motto, Pray, remember the
poor; ' or should his fancy take a higher flight, or his ambi-
tion mg patriotism require loftier miaistrattou—in respect to
the latter Prnwil has done the thing admirably in its last
number :
"fir r,liered his ecattry—of 12,0007. s-year..

AFL its oe' Hesitsta.—The patties in the affair nem-
tioned in m 5 co.unruaicatiqa of yesterday are Mr. John
Shea Lawlor, to gentleman from Yorry, and Sir. John O'Con-
nell. 'Mr.-Lawlor had adopto.l the views of " Ynuag Ireland,"
and iu desiring that his name should he withdrawn from the
association, rue leerned gentleman forwarded to thenont-
mittoe n letter, couched in terms citutmeterised by a resolu-
tion of the osinmistee (ordering its return to 'the writer),
as exhibiting mot( unbecoebing dieenurkey:" Mr. Lawlor
weertained that Mr. John:O'Connell was themover of that
:resolution is committee, and beam it was that he sought to
melee him personally responsible for the offence he aAeged
to be contained in those words quoted above. Mr. Lawlor's
Aril letter to Mr. J.-O'Connell is as follows :
t' Imperial lintel, Dublin, Oct. 10, 1040.
." My dearFtr-14r. Lay has communicated to me that yen were
the proposer in committee, of tie renabition of Use 24th uIL, lo con-
nexion with MN eummarieution of the 2uth nit, to the Repeal Associa-
tion. As 1 impomble to stow that renolation, the concluding
mitesee of which stigmatism my original communication at one
tootudied in team of most unbecoming disenartasyr to pas un-
estised, I have, ow the drat mamma at which I oadd disengage
smolt from duties connected with the sre.cut distress in my mime-
d 'Mr .landity, case up to 101.11 for the purism. of growths your. atten-
lothat manic inn. With the &chic'''. of the committee, *a far
rettlesk its kas-uut retained or rejected my orictinitt cumnutsicts-
st, , I knee nothing whatever at this moment-to my; nether
wed. t >y Anse entes....l into mj conumplation to ham tough' to
try, attached an personal respansibilit rto any oar ceirinected
wilt, 'hat prwatiecthg. But the caw Otngethor difera when
arse g "rifleman tionertsites to adjudicate upon the promiety or
iptie of the deportment of mother, and to pronoun. that
ethss being indecorous ur " unbecoming." ikwirty
tathierable, and the intercourse between mistletoes, even us
pubre qu Miens, unsrie and ends: shag, if individuals weer allowed
to suppose that, when nischarging what may appear to them public
duties, they tare autheeised in flying wade them just and proper re-
strains tmiu. mood by the ordinary rules of society, sod to OITOOree tO
themselves In withats unsuited to their poetical or powers. This I
cannot avoid I. Mot. g ynu hive dorm In my case; and thus feeling, and
that • recordedregistered, registered, and not a mere prising censure Ito
ri
been pro„..i„..et. upon my conduct, lam desirous, but in a manner
the least pus+!biy embarrataMpe or distressing to you, to state, in the
Not leutanee u, s feelings. und to await from ycurseif a communica-
tions" to the num. wre which Remy appear &qua these feelings can
be mertely satin: last and redreated.—l am, dear hlr, very truly
Loyal National Repeal Anemia-
s stirs L '1"44"
60.... To .171mE1,11g,sinellit s•totottwis.,„3ltro
Mr. J. O'CosNri.L reply.eoneudes with these words
"if lum to iitideritw silvr4 let OA flz a personal
quarrel omit me fur the di of a public duty towards the 2.0.
elation, assoiled us it wan In • hitter Wended Lobe public, sad written
fa • public rnpceity, I mat lkorther deny your right so to do ; and
I would submit it to your go 141 Judgment whether it may not weur
the appearance to the puhil- eyi t Qt. all 'Amin A Personal ietimida-
boo to Inn political deg..t • At Um same time, I have so hesi-
tation In saving to you, that i re will withdraw the offensive
esprit...ions (have alluded to in y, ter latter of the 2eith September, I
will at cans, and most cheerfully, 'disk the committee to allow the
terms you templed:ll of to be canoe. 104 I 2 their record of the rem-
lotion moved by me on receipt of you'letter of the 24th of the sane
month."

Mr. Lawlor, in his rejoinder, tents Mr. O'Connell—
" In any ordinary case I should have t onaldamvi a communication
such as that now received from you in rep ly to my note of this morn-
ing, as eft:gushy closing anything in the ♦ay of correspondence be-
tween the parties concerned. In yours, hos •ever, for many reagms
which I need not-refer to, I am willing to view the case otherwise,
and I will not be deterred, even by what I tru.t jou may excuse
for designating at not a very generous interpretation of my motives
and objects, from making a last and earnest qfurt to prevent a
fatality which i think but few could have been found to have im-
puted as an object of desire to the water of my communication of
this morning.
And in a P.S. he aids :

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"Pray do not misanderMand my motive in suggesting to Yen the
propriety of taking every precandon--4 thing gamily done—for=
venting this rmatter resetting the ear of our public authorities.
an accidrr.t would be injurious and discreditable, and would place the
party who might beeonmidered responsible for it in a very dlsarreable i
portion. On my side, two gentlemen only are acquainted with the
circumstances, and upon their eircumvectlon and caution I feel that
I may implicitly rely."
To these broad hints Mr. O'Connell replied:
"Loyal National Repeal Association, Corn Exchange
Rooms' luAlin, Oct, 11.
c•Sir,— AB from the tenor of your eemtml letter to me, which I have
just received, I am eonfirmod in the imptc,sion that you are melting
Ito Ix a personal quarrel upon me for the discharge of a public duty, I
premed at mice to the nearest police office, to put the authorities in
'Jammu/on of your intentions. Th.. right of free comment upon the
public SCLI of persons assuming a public capacity I have, even when
I exercised. its it has been so frequently against myself, always mag-
i nixed in the fullest degree. I sin twit allow that freedom to he now
s iolated, nor a precedent to be act for the in Initiation of
men discliarging • precedent
but an imperative public duty. Your
offemire--er, to the your cum words, • objecti.nable expri•-
i Mons, were applied to the ammeistiou collectively, and to indi-
. vidails in it, as is phial from the extract. I quoted in my letter of yea-
Veday. Yon ofrered these insult, in your public capacity "as a mem.
1 er of the amrcbtilon " (I quote your C.ll worth again) —I, in my
mimilar inalla c4parltr, was the mmith-piece of the committee in
resenting your mmilisti Your let;:e of last night's date I shall sub-
mit to ion I) sly ac thmim next meeting, :ss I did at their meeting of
ye-oterua:: 1 rl.h that winch you vent me i,l 'he morning. rdo not
dkipirdtla..- one to tin tor the interposition of the authorities between i