The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-23 00:00:00

the confederacy extended. and they here received
steeling information ns to the counterance and rep-
port its (Alec at met with from inthential parties to
the conetry —parties support d to be fur removed from I
sympathy with illegal practices.
Mr. O'Flaherty, who has proceeded to America as
the agent of the confederates, is a solicitor, and was
agent foe Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher, and for
Mitchel, on the trials of the former for sedition and of
the latter for felony.
A report prevails to-day that one of our highest
legal functionaries is much indisposed.
The son of a gentleman holding an office under the
government of the country, acd of much personal es-
timation, wee, it was confidently stated, arrested
under the Helves Corpus Suspension Act at a late
hour on Saturday night.
Mr. lit no, Q.C., with Mr. Whitesi le, will defend
Mr. O'Brien in the coming trials for treason. Mr.
Butt will deend Mr. Duffy. It is not stated whether
Mr. Meagher has engaged any counsel.
The eurgeon-General held a medical examination
yesterday into the state of health of Mr. Martin. The
result is not known. Mr. Martin has always been of
feehle constitution, and studious habits have not tee-
th ned it. His chest looks very much contracted, and
his extreme roundness of back &rotes great weakness
there.
The Reynard, from Belfast, with political prisoners,
returned to Kingstown this mornine.
Theis has bee some speculation in bread-stuffs in
Dublin within the last few dam but the parties
entering into them are cautious, and act only to a
liltdted extent. The principal article looked after is
American flour, as it is now regard, d as almost cer-
tain the' whatever may be the yield of our crop the
quality will b: inferior. Contrary to the arrangement
mode by the matter bakers committee of Dublin. that'
tho 1-rice of bread should advance this morning, no
rise iu price took place. Potatoes sold to-day in quau-
tit, in our market at 9d. per stone.
On Sunday evening, about 9 o'elock, the mercury
in rho barometer here suddenly tell several inches.
Within two hours it commenced to ri:e graduilly,
and tha glass now promises fair.
The farmers of Down are conducting an agitation
against the northern corn and provierun merchants, I
fur the deductions made by the latter on account of
tare and allowauccs which the form, r wholly refuse
to agree to. A merchant was fined on Saturday
h-t in Belfast, at the prosecution of Lord Downshire,
for insisting on those deductions, which the noble lord
contended was illegal. It would be well if more et
our marquises were similariy employed.
The 1 indlords have opened the agitation against
the rating. Col. Knox Gore, lieutenant of Sligo, and
chairman of the union of Ballina, Mayo, has pre-
sented a memorial from hie union, in which, amongst
other things, he states that the rate called for by the
c ,minis-ioners would "destroy all industry." Now
if there be a union in Ireland which has less reason
than another to oppose the levying of any rate e'oort
of coafiscation it is Bathos, in which, as ap-
pears by the poor law report, the average of rates
co:lt:era for nine mouths of the past year did not
amount to one-third the average expenditure of the
came period. The other two-thirds coming from that
source whence, as I have already informed you,
10,0001. a week have been diebuzsed for that and

similar purposes.
Lists of defaulters in the poor rate were presented to
the hoard of guardians, Carrick-on-Suir at the last
meeting. when it appeared eight members of the
board, three of them magistrates, were in default.
The rate collector of one division was himself in
arrear.
The prisoners recently transmitted from hence to
Belfast arrived there on Saturday, and were at once
conveyee. to the Brideweli. Tteir presence in the
nort`i created very little sensation, though their ar-
rival was previously known to the townsfolk, so
m:•ry of whom recently talked gunpowder in the
clubs. A few police and a troop of the carabincens
were awaiting their arrival at the dock, together with
the prison van in which they were carried to their
new place of confinement.
Eviction on a large scale is said to be in progress
at Ardmore, county Water:ord, and at Carrigaholt,
in Clare. _ . .

A provincial paper says, on "good authority," that
the writer of the articles in the Dub/in I rehmg Post
denouncing the clubs is one of the most prominent of
those who advised and aided their establishment.
In reply to an address from the grand jurors of the
county of Cork promising support to his Excellency
Lard ClJrendon, approving of his government, and
calling upon him to use the full powers committed to
him for the repression of insurrection, his excellency,
by Mr. Connellan, his private secretary, says, " It is
his firm intention to use the great powers confided to
him by parliament solely tor the maintenance of law
end order, and the preservation of those institutions
which secure the liberties, the properties, and the
licce of all the subjects of this great empire." A
well timed and constitutional declaration.