The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-13 00:00:00

greet physical strength, and a very harmless and inoffensive

person.
DESPERATE ATTACK, ON SHERIFFS' BAILIFF/.—On
Saturday, the 31st ult., an execution was put in force at
Creasenolina, against a man named Knox, residing in that
town. The bailiffs, after taking an inventory of the goods,
closed the concern, and about the hoer of one o'clock in
the morning one of them went out, leaving his comrade
behind. Immediately after, a knock was heard at Knox's
shopdoor, and on the bailiff asking who was there, a person '
outside stated that it was Mr. Knox himself. On the bailiff
partially opening the door, for the purpose of admitting Mr.
Knox, a desperate rush was made from the outside by a
gang of :upwards of twenty men, who succeeded in foresee
an entrance, and dragging the bailiff to the yard, deprived
him of his pistol, and trampled him in a dreadful manner.
They then proceeded to tie him in a strong rope, telling
him, at the same time, to prepare for a watery grave ; the
river being at the end of the house. The cries of the use.
fortunate man arrested the attention of the police,who, ha*.
climbed over the yard wall, arrived just in time to save lie
life, and took into custody a man named Bourke, who wee in
the act of pinioning the bailiff.
(From the Tipperary Vindicator.)
ARREST OF PERSONS CHARGED WITH MURDER.—On the
night of Tuesday, the 3rd instant, Constable It'Donough, of
Newport, succeeded in arresting the persons charged; and
who, we understand, were fully identified, and who have
been committed to the county gaol, for the murder of John
Ryan, who died in the Limerick Infirmary on Thursday
last, from the effects of injuries received from a party of men
who waylaid and attacked him at Cooreas, about two miles
from Newport, when on his way to Limerick to sell a load of
oats. Their names are Michael. Brian (Con), Michael Ryan
(Larry), and Thomas Ryan (Small), all of Ballynaninch.
Thady Brien, the principal, was previously arrested when
attending Thurles sessions, where he was seeking to prose-
cute an ejectment against deceased.
SRINRONE, MoN °Av.—The public works have partially
commenced in the locality of Shinrone, principally about
Towra and Kilcommon. Mr. Mason, engineer, went on
Friday to Moneygall to lay out works there in consequence
of a partial rising out of the people through extreme dis-
tress. Mr. Sub-liumector Butler had to proceed thither
on Yriday, with a large party of police; but owing to the
exertions of the Rev. Mr. Egan, and Lieutenant Hamilton,
of the Board of Works, the people separated without com-
mitting the slightest violence. There is to be • full meeting
of the relief committee on to-morrow, for tlle
.purpose of
memorialising the Lord-Lieutenant to proclaim another
Extraordinary Presentment Sessions to be held at Shinrone,
in consequence of the Board of Works rejecting a large
amount of the presentments, principally in the parish of
Kilmurry (where numbs rs are living on cabbages). In
use of his Excellency complying, it is the intention of the
gentry and persons concerned to apply the sums to be
voted to the performance of productive works, according
to the suggestions in Mr. Labouchere's letter. The works are
at last commenced in the parish of Ballingarry. There is
not a parish in Ireland where the labourers are worse off,
having in some cases so low a rate as 6d. per day wages, Bd. I
being the maximum. Last season numbers went to
the railroads for want of home employment, though there
are a few parishes where more land could be reclaimed by
drainage and reproductive works. Had the gentry due re-
gard to their own interest, and that of the industrious poor,
the case would be otherwise.
RORBERY.—A correspondent writes saying, that comine
on the coach I heard near Maryborough, that a pay clerk
with about 2001. was stopped by two men and robbed, hut
that the men on the public works turned out in pursuit,
overtook and captured the robbers and got most of the
money with them
UNERRING EVIDENCES of POVERTV.—There are at
present seven hundred and twelve inmates in the Newry
Workhouse, of whom seventy-one were admitted on Satur-
day last, being the largest number ever known to apply on
any one day since the opening of the house. About twenty
applicants were rejected, most of them able-bodied men, who
expressed their willingness to work, hut could not obtain any
employment whatever. The Board of Works, so far back
as the 20th of October, ordered the works presented at the
extraordinary sessions at Ballybot, on the 2nd of October, to
be proceeded with ; yet the officials to whom has been
entrusted the duty of making preparations, have, to the
present time, shown no intention of commencing. This pro-
crastination is truly deplorable. Government should look
after its own officials.
INDIAN CORN.—We feel a pleasure, says a Cork paper of
yesterday, in announcing the arrival in our portof four more
vessels laden with Indian corn, since our last publication.
ARRIVALS or FOOD IN ICEURY.—At Dingle, during the
past week, the sterner Acheron arrived with 50 tone of
Indian and barley meal for the Relief Committee, and a
large quantity ef biscuit for the Government depot At
Valencia, arrived the smack Anne, with a cargo of oatmeal
and Indian meal. Also, the steam-sloop Blazer for the
Government depot at Caherciveen, having on board 250
sacks of Indian meal.
Decteuartees OP L ABOVRERS IN CORl.—it the meet-
ing of labourers at Castletoworoche, County C.,rk, of which
I sent you an aecount on yesterday, the following petition
and resolutions were adopted :
"To NKR URACIOt, lIAJENTY VICTORIA, QUEEN or GREAT BRITAIN AND

IRELAND.

May it please Your Majesty, The Petition of the undersigned
labourers of the Barony of Ferinny in the County of Cork, Ireland,
most humbly sheweth, that )our petitioners approach your Majesty
with sentiments of loyalty and attachment nit surpassed Sr
those entertained by any other portion of your Majesty's subjects.
That your petitioners entertained hope, that the present Premier
would follow out the humane and wise policy, in regard to this famine-
stricken country, marked out for him by his enlightened predecessor,
who with that comprehensive mind which proved him a great states-
man, amply provided against a deticieney partial and trifling in ex-
tent, when compared with the present awful destruction of the staple
food of the humbler claims of your Majesty's subjects in Ireland.
That your petitioners heard with disappointment and alann, the
canting and unfeeling plea of political economy advanced in op-
position to the remonstrances of the benevolent individual., and de-
putations who urged on the government the necessity fur providing a
su nrient quantity of wholesome and cheap Moll to guard against
the unscrupulous exactions of forestallers and famine mongers. That
your petitioner. have for months been enduring privations and suffer-
ings unparalleled among any people in the civilised world, and now
when employment on public works, which was long and cruelly with-
held is about to be given, the wretched pittance of lid. • day will not al
the present high price of provisions enable them to support their
families on the lowest description of human food. That your peti-
tioners respectfully, yet earnestly, entreat your Majesty to (Lionise
from rour councils a ministry, the Viceroy excepted, who have
proved themselves totally incapable or unwilling to go. em this coun-
try with consideration to our necessitits or advantage to the empire,
and wbo have placed in jeopardy the lives of millions of your Majesty's
subjects in compliance with the interested views of private traders
and speculators, who hope to realise inordinate moats by their nee.s.
sales. Mod your petiuoners, as in duty bound, will ever pray."
let. Resolved: That the petition Downed be adopted and forwarded to
her Majesty. 2ndly. Resolved : That a Memorial to the Lords of the
Treasury be also forwardisl, requesting an increase of hire commen-
surate with the present high price of provision.% and that it will be
such as will support a family depending upon one individual. 3rdly,
Resolved, That in future the hire to be given by our employers per
day to an ahle-bodied man, be what will purchase a stone orsoicje.,..l
or one way flour whatever that maybe. 4thly, Resolved, That we request
of our fellow-countrymen and countrywomen not to enter the house or
shop in which Scotch or English goods are sold, even foe the purpose of
buying Irish manufacture until the ports are open, and the expor-
tation of fund from Irel ind is forbidden. lthly, That being our-
selves tce-tMallere, we deprecate the use of spirituous liquors
under any circumstances, but particularly at the present crisis,
when the food that would be aequirel to feed a famishing people,
is deatroyed in distilleries without advantage is the community, and
we here fervently express our hope and anxiety that government will
interfere on our behalf by suspending distillation and brewing from
grain of any description. Stilly. Resolved—Teat seeing government
G deaf to every entreaty regarding the prohibition of the exportation of
corn, we feel compelled to have recourse to the only legitimate means
in oar power of preventing it, which is earnestly and emphatically to
request that the portion of the labouring population engaged in sea-
port towns, In conveying provisions for exportation to revels will de-
sist from the smile whatever hire may be offered, and that they will
not unship from any importing vessel any article either of English or
Scotch manufacture."
OPERATION OP RELIEF COMMITTEES.—The following
letter appears in a Cork paper—it presents a useful lesson
local committees:
Commimariat Relief Ofßee, Dublin Cottle, Oct. 28.
Sir,--Commissary General Fir Randolph E. Routh begs to state in
reply to your letter ot 2Jrd instant, this day received, that there is
not any hold at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant, to be adv
danced
nsln
loamloamfor providing supplies of food, or granted in onatio
for the purpose, except in the latter case),where there
shall be local subscriptions placed at the disposal of Relief Com-
mitters. It is recommended to the Caatletown Committee, to
use the balance in hand for providing food, (purchasing at pravent
home produce), and to have it said on commision by individualsth of
character at prices sufficient to repay the fleet cost with e com-
: mission, and all charger. The committee must be aware that, if a
lower price be adopted than traders m!ell at, a pressure would be
invited which the Relief Fund could not sustain, and it is be retnem-
bered that there are ten months, during which supplies must be pro-
vided before another harvest shall arrive, long before which time any
Relief Fund that could be formed would be exhausted, and in the mean-
time all chanced the intervention of traders would be stopped. It will
in like manner be apparent, that if a government depot were opened in
the district, the prices of food issued from it abould be Etch as to Ward
an opening for the competition of traders, otherwiae the substanee
of the whole labouring population of the district would depend on
the depot, and it is not intended that the supplies to be provided by
government shall in any case be more than auxiliaries to rill local
exertions in meeting the existing exigency. The itallat of Os
committee is requested to the consideration of an serampaallok
lily
forming and managing a Local Loan Fund, to be rejig* Is pror
riding sunplies of food. It le found, that in one of the eqvsllg..aimie
districts of Llonegal, the landlords have placed a fund dale
pounds for this object, under the management of a relief committee.-
1 hare the honour to be, Sir, your obedient ',errant, W. STAN-IAT, Sec.
—To Eugene O'Sullivan, Esq., Treasurer, Relief Committee, Castle-
Berehaven.

SCOTLAND.
TEE STIRLING Btinons.—A meeting of the electors and
non•electors of the burgh of Stirling, convened by Captain
Spiers, in order that he might have an opportunity of ex-
plaining his political principles, Iris been held in the Justi-
ciary Court Hall, Stirling. Hardie Dick was called to the
chair. Captain Spier' denied ',hat he had come late into
the field, and divided the neral interest.
nothing said
would
have induced him to come forward in opposition to a man he
thought so well worthy or. the suffrages of the electors. He
was charged with cord .ng forward as the nominee of the
Whig clique in Rain' ourgh, but he denied that he came
forward as the nominee of any. body of politicians. There
was another charge l• caught against him which was equally
unfounded, namely , that he had withdrawn from the contest,
and intended to str ,nd for Renfrewshire. Nothing could be
more erroneous. No man could become the representative
of Renfrewahire without getting the support of three or four
of the principal families in the county, and he would rather
be the simple, burgess to represent that district of burghs
than the noc.inee of the greatest family. in Scotland. Several
question% were put to Captain Spiers, in answer to which he
exprer.ed himself favourable to the abolition of university
teats and in favour of household suffrage. Mr. W. Rankine
proposed a resolution to the effect, that the meeting having
neard Capt. Spiers express his opinions, and considering that
both in and out of Parliament he had been a consistent and
zealous advocate of civil and religious freedom, when a
' vacancy occurs in the Stirling burghs, he is a proper person
to represent them in Parliament. The chairman put the
motion, which was received with loud cheers, intermingled
with cries of " No," from 'Afferent parts of the hall, and
without any more formal vote being tan, he said he pre •
mussed the motion was carried