The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

THE LABOUR RATE ACT.

CAVAN.—Lowe Tlteadjonrned sessions
were hehl at Belturbet on Thursday. The ma.ristrata
agreed t., present the sum of 4,5761. to meet the destitut.on
for the next three montl
TI'LLVIII:NCO.—On uesday the parish of Killisbaadra
was il spotted of; amount artnted, 3,4;d/.
LOUTH.— Altor.e.—At nn extraordinary presentment
sessions fat the barony of Ardee, held at the court-house on
Friday, t.tl,:dional presentments under the present act were
passed to the amount of 3,8171., including the 1,230!. of the
furmer presentments. under the Ist Vie., thus making a
tuts) to be expended in the barony, under the Board of
Work., of 7.8141.
LIMERICK.—PCABLE BRIV.C.—The extraordinary pre-
sentint nt sessions were h• Id at Patrickswell, in pnr•uaaee
of the proclamation to that effect which appeared in our
paper of Wednesday. Lord Clarina took the chair. There
were very few of the peasantry at the sessions. Previous to
the riadiag of the presentme•.is Ir. Illonsell classified the
works coming under the Relief Act, and the drainage
works, with a view of forwarding a memorial from the
me.tiug. r.•quc.ting the governor lit to nrslife the present
arts, .o as to make the publ.c labour productive. Mr.
Mnns•ll subsequently read n m-•morfd which was adoptid
by the meeting, the purport of which was for extending
the cun•tructi•m of the act 9 and 19 Victoria, so as to
have remu ierative works inelu•ldd in the principle and
uperation of the net. 'Lnais F. Besan, Esq., Lemonfield,
then proposed to be pre•ented as a public work, a line of
railway, cailed the Limerick and Charleville, a project sur-
veyed and levelled, of which Mr. Kearney was cegineer, and
about which he could give every infwmation. The meeting
eventually refused presenting for the railway.
COItIi.—BAII,ONY or k ERNIOY.—The rnaAs•rates and
cc's-payers constituting the court of presentment sessions for
this barony, met on Friday, at Castletown-roach. to pass
work+ fur the purpose of giving employment. The total
amonnt granted WWI 40.846/., of which one item, 690/., was
freay altowed for the building of a Catholic chapel in the
town, the Rev. Mr. Fitxpetriek engaging that it should be
expended exelusively in lab.ur, as the materials had been
already provided.

ANTI-RENT DEMONSTRATIUNS.—Under this head the
Erea;n9 Mai! csidains the following :—" borrisokane Oct. 3.
—Without note or comment, I send you particular* of two
Jemmetrations (whether physical or moral. I must have to
the judgment of your remiers) which came off in this neigh-
bourhood on yesterday. A Mr. Lloyd, having made a dis-
tress fir rent, had the cattle remov..d to the ground in the
village of Lurrah ; the cattle were hailed and returned to the
pound-keeper yesterday, being the auction day. for the land-
lord to sell (the tenant having refused to sign an adjourn-
ment of the sale, or make any terms with Mr. Lloyd.) Lung
before the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon, being the
time appointed for the sale, large bodies of men armed with
sticks and spade-handles—several with pistols, from dif-
ferent districts, the greater number being strangers,
residing more than ten miles from thuwene of action—were
in motion towards the village of Lunt& ; and according as
they moved along, they swelled their ranks by pressing into
their service labourers and workmen of every description, and
in many places on their route they made several respectable
farmers and gentlemen's servants leave their work and join in
their procession, and among others, a very quiet a td inoffen-
sive dissenting minister, who was in the act of cleaning some
wheat for market, and resolutely refused to quit his
business, when they immediately convinced him of the pen-
&nee of joining their ranks by a rigid application of an oak
stick to his loins, from the effects of which he could with
difficulty keep marching step with his company. Mr. Lloyd
made no appearance at the hour appointed, and the pound-
keeper gave up the cattle to the owner, amidst the most en-
thn•tavttc eheerimt of the demonstrator+. The assemblage,
coasisting of upwards of 1,000 men, filed off in companies,
1 each di-trict having a lifer playing some loyal air at the head

PROVINCIAL.
LANCAsIIIitE.

DIMINO THE FOIIIIATION LTA NEW SEWER in Mtn-
ch,,ter o Saturday, a bricklayer named Watson was killed
by the tol.ing-iu of the earth. The wooden framing is %op-
to have been t weak for the great gra...ore of the
Mr rmil. too weak
The snfferrr I, ft a widow and three children.

THE OPEN CY.LLAYAGE NUISANCE i i Liverpool lad to
10.4 of life last week in that town. On Wednesday an itirptcst
wag held tuna:l'l4z the death of Emma Smith, a child aged
eight yearn. It Blip(' ired that the deceased Was at play on
the steps in front of her parenti house, in Hai3li.,treet, and
tit (t, when in the act of turning herself round, he MI down
the cellar leading into the kitchen, and struck her head
against the bottom step. She Wit, pieked up in a .fate of
insensibility, and althouah :hr received proper medical
attend utee, she d:ed on Monday week. The re are no rail-
ings what. rer inutel the cellar. The landlord is one George
Brown. Mr. M'N icolls, surgeon, attended theee-ed up to
the time of her death, wh;ch had resulted from inflammation
of th.!btain, brow tht un by the fall. Verdict, " Accidental
Death," accompanied by a very strong (ensure, both from
the coroner mid jury, a. t..) the shameful state of the premises
where the accident occurred, and Lulling the attention of
the eommis•iouers to the m.hject._

of the party. The other demonstration occurred at Milferel, I payiog the penalty of his imprudence with his line Its
the residence of Italp`i S. Smith, Ego. and urine nut of the effects were very etnieting. &wets of the uotetunate
following transiction:—Mr. Smith's grenclf.the r made a leeee men who were engaged di:merging the sulphur were
of uine acres of land, part of his estate, adjoining the house dreadfully burned, their bodies in aotue parts being literally
of Milford, for three lives, at a nominal rent of a tee shillings, roasted by the dame and b'ackened by the clouds of vapour,
to a retainer of hie family. This farm passed jute the Suspended in the skip, about eighty yards down the shaft,
perzowsien of a man of the name of Gavnor, who sublet :wren which is sunk to the depth of the. e hundred yards, were
acres to a persou of the name of Blears, at R rack-rent John Rohinson, the eneineer, and William Hadley, a work-
of 141 a year. Meara becoming embarrassed in his circus- man en fated in repairing the shaft, when the explo.ioe took
stances, lied unable to ply the rent, proposed to Mr. Smith, place. The hot air, which rushed up the shaft with irre-
owiiittlseiinvetnlieaclasrets.muo.netaha,bte
hail.' htoimemhiiirras intecrewsitthititthi,cf•,..aemwiloyent,_,
aviia.t.tgihltetpeuiplweaalcord:
~etairre.ie.ilt t6h;Asmkiep
~annhdontae men
loom ft'irmsorompee
America; 'mil although the ground wan so reduced by Meara to which it was attached, and these two unfurtueate per-
ils not to lie worth one-half the 14/. a-year (reserved to Gay- sans were precipitated to the bottom of the pit, a depth of
nor, .luring the term of his lease, now being fur the life of nearly SOO feet. They were awfullv mutilated, and, in their
one old woman, ago el 72), Mr. Smith gave elearao-if. foe his biackeued, ematten d, and mangled remains, it woeild have
interest and good will, and undertook the pa meat of therein( been ditneult eveo to trace the outline of humanity. A lad,
due Gaynor. Nu sooner was the meney ;coil than Mr. S.uit'e named Joshua Cash, about 17 rears of ate, was dreadfully
received a ltoekite notice, threetenine its life,sheuldbeinter- scorched. Ile had been at the Horton of the pit at tar time,
fere with the land, and requiring him togive up same to Gay- and was enveloped inflame-. Mr. Baylis fortneately observed
nor. Next followed au attempt on last Sunday evening to his condition, net to his aesietanee. ant succeeded in eatin-
shoot his steward ; and Mr. Smith being ..c termieed to guishing the burning clothing which hung abut is holy.
support his riebt., was preparing to plough .h' land on yes- Ile was carried h me, but his injui ice were of such e nature
tent iy, and when about to do se, was intiinued that over a,. to preclude all hope of recovery. and after euehicieg in-
three hundred men were on the land and its vicinity, the tenet agony, death terminated hie sufferings on Tuesday
greater number of them arav d, ready to oppose hint to the forenoon. With the exceptinn of one they ore all inurried
'teeth. Mr. Smith was then uhligea to bsmeade his houee men, having families. On Monday an inquest was held at
and eut-utfice- and keep his workmen with tacit ploughs and West Ihsinaveich. All th • evidence 'smut to show that there
Imre, within ;loon, and i -immediately cent an e :pros to C• l. was no criminal oeglieence on the part of the man:ewes of
Dwyer, who was the next magistrate to him, and another to th_, pit, and that the dreadful occurrence which bud deprived
Mr. 31aerath, the officer in command of the police in Borneo- these meu of life had been purely the result of nee:Went A
kene, iliforming them of the p rid he was ie, the multitude verdict to that (Stet was ReetWatillEf!V returned.
b: ins within view of hie windows, when lie received a reply ss.tHWlclisllli,E.
from the former that he had forwarded his emmstunicetiou to COMMI"NIeITION wren Tile Ilueziee.—At Ilirrainehant
thepolice authorities in Borrimkane. I inmed,ately after, an
answer arrived from Mr. Magrath, that he coo J not repair on Monthly, a memorial to the Lords of the Treinury was in
nour,e of signature by the merchant,. and manufacturer,' of
to the place of siege witho-it a magistrate accompanying the town, for an early improvement iu the pre rent in-tifii
him. Mr. Smith was therefore obliged to keep hi. house neat aud oiletore mode of commit:de:ding wide the Brazils
barricaded during the el ty, hevint been several times invited and the River Plate.
nut, by the assailing p4rty, to make the light chine through WOItCESTERSIIIRE.
CommasteN. ny Tile Luau Late I'EXANT.—S. Sanderhim. In the evening this party of demonstrators retired to
son, Gent , to be Lieut., vice Janes ..,. J. Q. Palmer,. Lieut.,
their respective district., making no coacealment of their
being fully armed and prepared to meet any opposition. Mr. vicelluthes, and S. S. Burton, Gent., %ice liege& ,to be
Eintith is to mike application this clay to the au.horities for a Ensign.; 11. 1). Mitchell, (acute to be Ensign and Surireesn's
sufficient for eof iiiiiitery and police to protect him Mr one Mute, vim Coomr ; E. 11. Courtney, Gent., to be ',Reign,
day, while pleughing the had. You will sac, a very happy eke Jones, of Woreesiiterheireuiel..cilltistitaint...
proeicert for gentlemen who reside up in their estates, and a BgISTOL FREI: Putter ASSUCIATION.—The decline of
great inducement for nun-residents to retie heck am ,11%t ion, Brietolonve the second and moo tioarishing port of the
to perf den the duties and receive the rights beleughig United Kingdom, as a port of foreizn commerce, ono •,,rious.
to Tmperary property.
Leery yea ',.. uceouuts te,tilies to the progress of decay, and
Tut: Hovel. ILUISPITAL, KILMAISRAM.—Some time since to the increasing prevalence of that elconoudi g feeling which
a veceney having occurred in the Mike of matron to the leads numbers of the community, more eepeciaily of the above institution. Sir Edward Maloney, Commander I.' the elan which een alf.rel the coet, to transfer themschee their
Fame in Leland, resolved, with the consent of the Horse families, with their industry and the wreck of their property,
6 wird-, that the appointment, though comparatively an in- to other and mare thriving placni, such as Liverpoel anti the
ft nor woo should be conferred on the widow of a military- nw,:e.polia. The great and glowing dem,‘.ii,,,, „f pro.
oflieer. The annual salary is 70/., with retinas, eke. Apple pert, eonsequent on this decay of trade and commerce, could
cutiens were received from upwards of 4.1 e maid des i
' , most Rat fail at length, however tardily, to exeite
can
.mina
service whose husbands were stated to have either faden in the the citizen., suet to lettuce inquiry into the Callss, ss
service of their country, or to have R.lll &MSC diStiugni.hed view to the 'mouser reincely, an [a the restoration, if
sere ice. After • careful (onside, ation of the chime of each, Ode, of former prosperity. 'the result of into-communion
Mr.. Burge., widow of the late Captain Burgess, of the
and inteedienge of ideas led to the drawing up of a
10 Ii 1,-rt.r.ui Battalion, was declared to be then successful memorial to the Town ('ouncil, signed by I,.ieei of the
competitor.
rate-payers, in which the conviction was expected
that the exithitancy of the duck an 1 ether port
charges and town dues lay at the root of the evil. Sub-
eceptently, het week, a meeting was held, attended by many
et the leading merchants, bankers, members of the corpora-
tion and other, of the city, to cenobite. the propriety of term.
ing a league or association for the purpose of making Bristol
a tree port. It was stated by Mr. Rowe, who moved the
tint res lotion to that effect, that vesicle coming from ports
within the Str tits of Gibraltar had to pay 4... per ten regis-
ter, a' one it: the port charge', besides a heavy tax on the
cargo, in the "Nape, we suppose, of town's dues... The cosetiog
trade Was suth rine also hum thew" accumulated bunions, RI
well as foreign and (*tenths' commerce. Time freight of wine
frum Lon lon was •le. per pipe, and the dock dues se. The
cemeeptinge of these heavy cherges wait that wine wes dis-
patched by railway. "A friend," said Mr. Rowe, " had
offered to 5..1111 him 100 pipes of wine," but when advised of
the charges lie immediate!? dmieled to -end them by railway.
The On at Westera, Mr. lio:,er said, had to pay 120/. to the
'lock tomkney far lyino, down at Kingroml, and therefore
not remising any duck omommodatiou at all. What With
line/ on goods, town's due., dock dues' and the wharfage
charges of die Serie). of Merchants, the trade of the port
appellee to be vitirely overwlieltued indeed. It is high time,
therefore, fur the citizens to bestir the:nsel vete Mr.
Matthews, the publisher of the I)irectory, bore a striking
testimony to the emigration going on from the city. When
going his reura, to collect names and (-hinges of reed. gees
or the next publication of the work, " In many, very ninny,
inetiences, lie was met with the re quiet not to put down
Parties, as they we ea the. point of Lasing the ell). being
unable to hear up al.:wino the sleekbess of trade and the
heavy taxatien." I'.i show the depreciation of werehouse
property, Mr. Vieeer meitioneti that " thooe excelltat ware-
houses, crested by the Messrs. Acraman, in the beet sit cation
possible, wild for due third of the coat cif erection." The re-
mouelv. and it may be Loped will lead to a new Cr., of pros-
perity for Bristol.
FIRE AT tot: 111 RUIN:OIIAM AND Gmit'ea,ri:tt ItAi MAT
STATIUN.—GLOVERRTER, Tueeo te .—Laat evening a tire
broke Olt 011 the premise. of the Birmingham and (Bon.
ender Railway Company at Gleuceeter, a Melt destroyed the
engine-house, but the engines were removed from it iu safety.
flew the fire originate .1 is net known.
et nt ElteETelll Kit.
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TUE lit:l4Am; or TRI: LATE EARL WALDRON VR Were
yesterday removed from Ilarptree court to the Bath ,tation
on the Great Wtvern and thence by ilbecial train
to limdon.