The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

worthy of all belief. Ilia grace closes in a lively I
vein of sarcasm against " the joint-stock firm of the
prufesson of French cookery, and the itinerant fol-
lowers of Talalcain."
A seam of coal has just been discovered in the
Queen's County, 3 feet 2i inches in thickness. Ope-
rations for working are already commenced.
The port of Balling, Mayo, hitherto a port in con-
nexion with Sligo, has been declared by the Lords of
the Treasury an independent port of the fifth class.
P 4 ptC.ll

I informed you that the government lad
every precaution to preserve the public peace, in the
event of an attempt to resist the disbandment. Every
available soldier has been dispatched quietly from the
garrison, and the police depot in the park has been
thoroughly emptied. It is, however, generally hoped
that the gentry and clergy will be able to keep down
the public impatience until the cultivation draws off
and sliserbs the numbers.
In the midst of our distresses it is gratifying to
discover any indications of industrial progress. I
shall mention an instance or two. Mr. Classon, a
very energetic and enterprising citizen of Dublin, has
now nearly completed upon the Dublin mountains,
seven miles from the city, • granite mill, for pre-
paring and dressing granite principally for the
London market. This mill is built over the granite
quarry, of which the supply is inexhaustible, and it
will be worked by that cheapest dell motive power,
that of water; of which, if necessary, he could avail
himself of a fall of 70 feet. Mr. Clawson expects to
have this mill completed before Easter, when ho con-
templates employing, in the " dressing" process before
the expiration of the summer, from 70 to 100 persons.
In Thurles, employment for females on a large
scale is conducted under the superintendence of a
society of religious ladies—nuns. Over 300 young
remake ere thus employed in " the school," as it is
termed, or rather the factory. Besides which, 100
obtain out-door employment. These females spin,
sew, and embroider lace; the work is sold in the
market, and the produce is found fully adequate to
their clothing and maintenance. Were it net for this
well-directed exertion, those females must be thrown
upon the public charity for support, or perhaps they
should even descend to the labour of road-spoiling.
Great briskness is, I may add, now manifest in the
linen trade of Dregkeda.
The accounts from thp provinces to-day are of the
usual complexion. From Limerick, from Clare, from
the south-west of Tipperary, from the north-west of
Mayo, the details are distressing. Fever is overtaking
the healthy and the weakened.
The finance committee of the Limerick relief dis-
trict, acting under the temporary relief act, have
addressed the owners and occupiers of lands within
the union, impressing upon them the value of em-
ploying the people on reproductive works, the govern-
ment affording every facility for advances, instead of
allowing the people, under this new act, to eat up the
capital of the country. It is to be hoped this appeal
will not be made in vain.
Two thousand five hundred men were discontinued
from public works in the northern division of Tippe-
rary on yesterday. The district inspector of the city
of Limerick declined to act in accordance with the
minute of the treasury, under which 1,300 men must
be disemployed. He has represented that there are
no private sources of employment to absorb them.
The quantity of food imported into Limerick from
the Ist September last, up to the last week, was
30,000 tons; and, on Minday last, there were 150
sail of vessels in the port and harbour of that city.
Notwithstanding these enormous arrivals, the prices
of cereals in Limerick maintain the highest rates,
while in Waterford and Cork, corn, flour, and meal,
have fallen very considerably.
The process of cultivation is proceeding very exten-
sively in the south of Ireland. The landlords are, to
a considerable extent, supplying their tenantry with
seeds—corn and green crop; but the very small
holders of land are not favoured in this way, the
object manifestly being to cause them to give up the
land. The more need is there, therefore, for a system
of out-door relief.