The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Fro. 6.
It is a strange phenomenon in our state that dis-
tricts which announce in one post comparative abun-
dance, or at least a check to the progress of misery,
in the next fill us with details of horror. All is calm
on Monday, and on Wednesday the scroll of the pro-
phet is unrolled, and woe is recorded within
and without. Another singularity is, that the
week begins in silence and ends in dismay.
The inquests always crowd at the close.
One fact is, however, certain, that, notwith-
standing the greatest public and private exertions,
the famine—for it is really a famine—is making way.
Bantry had been generously relieved; bat, when food
grew seam again, death set in. On Tuesday LA
fourteen inquests were held in one day, and in every
cue the verdict was " Death from starvation."

The relief committees of Cork have resolved to give
one meal a day of plain and wholesome food to every
object of relief, until eitherthe workhouse be re-opened,
or until the ministerial measure comes into operation.
They have also humanely arranged to give a ration of
eight ounces of cooked Indian meal in three different
parts of the city, to be consumed on the spot. This
judicious course will effect much good.
The wicked spirit indigenous to Tipperary has
again manifested itself in outrage on a public officer,
and a great number of persons thrown out of employ-
ment. An overseer was attacked on Wednesday
morning last, within ten miles of Nenagh, and his
head severely fractured. He escaped from the
ruffians into a neighbouring field, and called on some
agricultural labourers for assistance, which was
refused ! The only effectual mode of check-
ing such enormity, though the process confounds
guilt with innocence, is to make the community
responsible for the crime. Mr. Dorgan did the same
in the same district, about 12 months since, and com-
pletely succeeded. The Commissioners of Public
Works have pursued the course which provoked such
an outcry, but really accomplished much good in
('lace and Limerick. The works were at once stopped
in five parishes, and 27 works brought to a sudden
close. Eleven hundred men, horses, and donkeys
have in consequence been unemployed. Two men
have been arrested on suspicion.
Application has been made to the Lord Lieutenant,
to know whether, under the altered views of the
government, and the change in the measures intended
for the relief of destitution, it was contemplated that
the public and reproductive works already presented
at the special sessions, should be abandoned or con-
tinued ;—wliether, when the sums presented have
been expended, new sessions should be called, as the
Hoard of Works will not, it is understood, sanction
any new work of a public. nature.
'The; following is the answer octhe Under-Secre-
tarlSsosh an alteration in the mode of affordmg relief will shortly
take owe, yet until the arrangements for carrying it into erfeet ran
be completed. it is obvious]: remmery that ;moot stao=l,loald
be afforded. It is very desirable that further PIES NI pew
emted for maim, for whkh the ALMS already seastiewei anwe ant
rased sufficient, and such ether labour prwidsd as will semi ma-
picryment Inv the next fortnight or three weeks, at alai War
penal ;should no unforwen delays Amer, it may be hoped thattbaramr
Measure for the temporary relief of destitution will be in operation.
The funds to the credit of the poor-law gaardilne
are very low in several districts. In some the rate
has not been at all collected: in others, the old ar-
rears have been generously remitted preparatory to
striking a new rate. In Nenagh. with 1240 persons
in the poor house, there is only the small sum of
three pounds to the credit of the guardians. More
cannot be received, and yet in this district whi re des-
titution is so dreadful, where, according to the muter,
" the screams of the applicants were terrible," and,
according to the clerk, " they are actually starving;
I never saw anything like it"—yet in this locality,
where a day's work is necessary for the austentation
of life, villains are found sufficiently remorseless to
peril the existence of a whole neighbourhood by their
crimes.

The late measures to tifcilitate the importation of
food are beginning to be developed. On every side
provisions are pouring in and prices going down,per-
baps not permanently, but still the benefits of a tem-
porary decline in the present condition of the country
are of exceeding great value. In Belfast provisions
have betzn accumulating for several days. Every
steamer fesun England or Scotland imports as

a portion of its cargo—lndian corn, meal, or
flour. Besides the regular traders, two other
steamers on Sunday unshipped a large quantity of
food. Besides the coast importations there have been
immense supplies from New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Nantes, &c. In Limerick and Cork several arri-
vals of Indian corn are announced. Speculation
does not wish to recede from the high prices of last
month, but there is a list of the future, which
whispers present safety. As yet the fall has been
confined to the wholesale trade, dealers in Hour, and
oatmeal, &c., asking for a close approximation to the
old prices.
The price of corn yesterday at the Dublin Corn
Exchange receded still farther, but the quantity sold
was very.limited. It is now stated that the recent
fall in prices was intended by the speculators to affect
the American markets, and that now the steamer with
the spring advice@ has sailed, the markets will go up
again. I know not what truth there may be in this,
but I know that moat of the holders of corn yesterday
were firm.

The sugar market on Thursday, was rather dull.
The sales were from 475. to49s. 6d. for ordinary ; 31a.
to 535. 6d. for middling : 200 bags of East India and
30 hhds. refined were offered for auction. but taken
in. Rice has declined Is. per cwt., or 2s. from the
highest figure.

FORCEFUL% ON TEI BANE OF IRELAND.—Ia my letter of
Thursday last, I stated that forgeries to the extent of 9,0001.
in which a house, hitherto con.idered respectable, was
seriously compromised, had been discovered. The affair is
now made public, informations having been received to-day,
and the case assumes a somewhat different aspect. It is as
follows :—A gentleman, resident in Carlow, Mr. Clayton
Browne, had some time since a sum of 9,0001. bequeathed
him. Ile appointed Mr. Lanauze, c s'ockbrokcr, and of the
firm of Lanauze and Co., his agent. The latter represented
to Mr. Browne that it would be indispensable to the
regularity of the transaction that the money should be
transferred at the Bank of Ireland to hi. (Mr. L.'s)
name and account. To this Mr. Browne assented, '
believing
all was right. The interest was regularly paid him, but a
few days since, baying occasion for some money, he went
to the bank. o make inquiries, but found, of course, that
nothing was standing to his credit, and that the sum of
9,0001., transferred to the credit of Mr. Lanaore by him,
the latter bad drawn out. Informations were received
against Mr. Lanauze to-day, at the suit of Mr. Browne, but
he has been admitted to bail.

DETECTION OP FORGED NOTER, BANK o IRELAND.—
On Thursday, Thomas Jones Atkins, late of Grattan-street,
and formerly of Wicklow-street, engraver; Thomas James,
of Mecklenburgh-street, engraver; and Henry Fitxsimon,
of Whitehorse-yard, printer, were brought before the ma-
gistrates at College-street, charged with being concerned in
the forgery of notes of the Bank of Ireland. The notes forded
were dated 11th May, 1844, and 6th December, 1840
A witness named Daniel M•Cormick, of Toomevara, who
bad been engaged in circulating the forged notes in various
parts of the country, was examined ut much length as to
the mode of operations. An officer of the hank of Ireland
was aloe examined. The prisoners were committed for trial
at the commission. The suite of Atkins has, it is said, been
arrested at Drogheda, and a large number of forged notes
found in her possession. She so at present in Drogheda
Pals