The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

IRELAND•

DIIBLIN, luxe 30.
As the question is now exciting considerable in-
terest in parliament—the railway advances to Ireland
resting on it in a great measure, your readers will be
anxious to know the amount of advances made from
the Treasury for the relief of Irish distress, by public
works, &c. Under the 9 and 10 Vic., c. 107, the
amount on warrants issued up to the 17th June instant,
was 5,174,9751. 10s. Id.
The exhibition of native manufactures opens to-
day, and contains a great variety of products, ex-
hibiting the mechanical skill of the Irish artisan in a
very favourable light. They chiefly consist of Li-
merick laces, exquisitely designed and wrought, ta-
pestry from the once famous Liberty, tabourets and
tabisets of remarkable beauty, woollen fabrics, gold
and silver plate, jewellery, bijouterie, in Irish oak,
and light fancy articles of all descriptions. The ex-
hibition, according to the opinion of competent
judges, is superior in the number and excellence of
the articles to all previous exhibitions, and reflects
great credit on Irish industry. Sir Robert Kane
ushered in the exhibition with the first of a series of
lectures on arts and manufactures. The subject was

the manufacture of steel and iron, whose pro-
cesses were practically illustrated by a portable
apparatus. The most interesting portion of the
lecture was the manufacture of gun barrels from old
horse-shoe nails, which was exhibited in practical
operation, by a number of gun-smiths from the estab-
lishment of cur Manton, Rigby, of Suffolk-street.
'rho second lecture to-day will comprise the manufac-
ture and history of the various other metals—their
application to manufactures, &c., &c.
The declaration of Mr. John O'Connell at the Re-
peal Association on Monday, that he would give no

pledge not to accept place or solicit places for his
friends and supporters from the government, as re-
quired by the Cork fraction of the Young Ireland
party, has called forth a reply from the Dublin frac-
tion. At a " council of three," held yesterday, they
call on the confederates to withhold their votes from
J. O'Connell, and denounce his conduct, in not bolting
their prudent obligation, as worthy only of "an
anti-repealer of the most deep and malignant dye."

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The authorities here are already entering on the entbar•
memento which must necessarily await them in their en-
deavoun to assess the moneywhich has been advanced to relieve
Irish destitution. A sum of 1.4001. has just been advanced by
the poor-law commissioners to the board of guardians of Ne-
wish, being so much remaining unlevied of a former rate, and
which the guardians declared themselves ready to dissolve
the board rather than re-assess through another rate. Of
course this sum will have to be made up from the govern-
ment advances for Irish relief, but how the authorities can
have that sum reclaimed as so much advance is snore than it
would be prudent to speculate upon. In another instance—
that of the Castlebar union, the funds of which are also
in smear, the commissioners of poor-laws have written to the
guardians te express their surprise that so no my landlords,
or large holders, should be permitted to remain in arrear.
Amongst those thus referred to is the Earl of Lucan, Col.
McAlpine, and Mr. Kearney, all members of the board.
The accounts from Tipperary are unfavourable. There
are several outrages on property recorded ; and one or two
against individuals, the latter, contrary to the usual wont,
not being attended with violence.
SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH JUNE 30.
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At length something like reasonable fever treat-
ment is about to be attempted in the Scotch metro-
polis. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests
are to be solicited for the use of a small portion of the
Queen's park, for the purpose of erecting tents for
the accommodation of the patients. Meanwhile, as

symptoms of abatement have not yet made their ap-
pearance, the authorities continue talking without
working. Swine are kept in all parts of the city,
and even in upper floors of houses ; butchers ply
their vocation in every quiet corner, there being now
no public slaughter-house ; burying-grounds heave
up to the windows of the inhabitants; the water of
Leith, the great sewer of the city, is full of stagna-
tion and putridity : and when any of those matters
are discussed, each pundit looks the other in the face,
and asks, " Have we any power ?" and then follows
some dry legal discussion, and there the matter
ends. In most cases they have the power ;
where they have not, why does not a libe-
ral town council ask a liberal government
to confer on them powers to promote sanitary
regulations, seeing that the government declared, in
taking office, that " the health of towns" would be
one of their leading objects? As an instance of the
strange notions that the town council entertain on
public health, they announce, with something like
triumph, that no more paupers are to be buried in
Greyfriars churchyard, but that, for fifty guineas per
annum, they are to have the bodies of those unfortu-
nates interred in one of the new cemeteries. But
where is this fifty guineas to come from ? Why,
from the sale of ground in this very same Greyfriars!
—a place packed with corruption, and bounded by
the walls of crowded houses.

Like all corporations, the University of Edinburgh
is rather close-fisted. It had wont not to confer
medical degrees on others than its own students, but,
as this was felt to be rather a tight regulation, a re-
laxation was allowed in favour of parties prosecuting
part of their studies at distant medical schools ; but no
such dispensation was allowed in favour of the extra-
mural medical school of Edinburgh. This being
reckoned a hardship, the magistrates, as patrons of
the university, arranged that candidates for university
degrees might attend a few classes out of doors. The
11 university professors, who previously were, almost to
a man, extra-lecturers themselves, were at the time
understood to agree to this ; but subsequently they
must have changed their minds, as they have now
commenced an action against the magistrates. It
is unfortunate that the administration of the Reid

Music Fund allows them to indulge in legal experi-
ments without risk of personal lees.
APPaIiY AT BARRICEAIE MAN ICILLID AND
Tunas WOUNDED.—On Saturday night, being Barrhead
fair, a party of labourers, employed on the railway, amount.
ing to about 200, paraded the streets of the village between
11 and 12 o'clock. The mob was headed by an Irishman,
named M'Leay, or M'Lean, who was tipsy at the time, and
rather noisy and insulting in hie demeanour towards the in-
habitants ; when within a few yards of two policemen, and
without any previous quarrel or challenge, a man rushed
into the crowd and stabbed M'Leay to the heart, who in-
!dandy fell dead. In the commotion that ensued, James
111 `Nally, a labourer, and another man named Flannigan,
were also seriously stabbed. The person who committed
these acts of violence was so sudden in his movements, and
made such a hasty retreat, that he was not secured. An old
man, named M'Kechnie, before whose door the disturbance
took place, came out of his own house, and meeting a person
in the entry, he asked him what was the matter? A
dangerous wound was the reply. The ruffian forced his way
into M'lLcchnie's house. Mliechnie's wife, on hearing the
people outside crying out to secure the murderer, became
alarmed, and, not knowing that her husband was injured,
refused to open the door. The person made his escape by a
back window. Another labourer, named Connally, who was
I passing through the crowd at the time, on his way home from
his work, was also stabbed, but apparently by another hand
than that which inflicted the wounds on the other persons, as
his wound does not appear to have been given by the same in-
strument as thereat. The whole affair occupied no more time
than five minutes, and the parties effected their escape with-
out detection. Flannigan and M'Kechnie are both seriously
injured. Connally, we understand, is able to walk about.
On Monday an examination was made into the case at Barr-
head. Suspicion rests on two parties as being guilty of per-
petrating the horrid deed.—North British Mail.
THE MOOllB.—A correspondent; of the Elgin Courier,
who dates from Rothes, writes an follows :—" I am sorry to
see, by the statements in the newspapers, that disease is
again prevailing among grouse. It is said they arc dying in
thousands on the southern moon. We had plenty of this
dying the last two years, which has reduced them very much
in numbers; I may say that there is not above half the num-
ber of breeding birds that I have seen on the Rothe.. Birne,
and Ilallas moors, but I have not seen a dead er diseased
bird this season. They are somewhat unequal, owing, I be-
lieve, to the cold in the beginning of the season. We have
I some strong young birds getting on wing, others very small,
while others are only beginning to hatch ' • but if the season
continues favourable, al will be ready in good time, and the
sportsman will have a fair show of birds in August. Par-
, tridgeo are doing well—plenty of breeding birds, but I have
I seen no young as yet. Hares are also doing well, although
not quite so plentiful as last year —some leverets nearly, in ap-
pearance, as large as the old ones. A gamekeeper near
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, writes me that the hares were
diseased there last autumn, and are very scarce. I have
seen nothing of that here."
New Iletniova AT WIOTOWN.—We are happy at being
enabled to state that this harbour, which will be a great
'acquisition to the shipping trade of this port, is fast approach-
ing completion, and will be ready to receive vessels about the
beginning of July. It is built in the most substantial man-
ner, and extending, as it does, to upwards of 200 yards in
length, it will afford ample accommodation to steam and
other vessels. Great thanks are due to those enterprising
and spirited gentlemen in the town council who were the
means of its erection, and for the assiduity and attention they
bestowed upon it while under the process of construction.
The splendid new steam-ship, the Countess of Galloway, new
plying between Wigtown and Liverpool, will take her
station at the new harbour as soon as it is opened ; and the
directors, with their usual liberality and kindness, intend
giving a benquet on board of her on the occasion of her first
appearance.—Dumfries Herald.
THE LATE RIOTS AT INTEROORDON.—The first
cue before the High Court of Justiciary, en Monday,
was that of Donald Holme, Bridgend of Alums and John
Munro, from the same district, who were charged with
mobbing and rioting, and with assault. The libel contained
four separate charges. The first charge was for having, on
the 2nd of March last, formed part of a mob which assembled
in the village of Invergordon, parish of Romkeen,
and violently prevented the shipment of some grain ;
the second, for having remained in the mob after
the Riot Act had been read ; the third for being in
the mob which assaulted Mr. Cameron, the sheriff-
substitute of Roes and Cromarty, and others of the
constituted authorities, a party of the soldiers of the
27th Regiment, and the farm servants in charge of
the carts containing the grain for shipment, and throwing
stones at them to their injury, especially to the serious hurt
of Mr. Cameron and one of the carters : the fourth charge
was for being in the mob which assaulted and attacked the
officers of the law, soldiers, Etc., while in the act of conveying
sonic prisoners, among whom was the prisoner Holme, to the
Commercial Inn, Invergordon, and afterwards breaking open
the door of the inn, whereby Holme was enabled to escape.
Holme not apperring at the bar, was outlawed, but
Munro, being placed in the dock, pleaded guilty to the
fourth charge as libelled, adding, " I throw myself upon
the mercy of the law, and upon your lordship's com-
passion." The plea having been accepted by the Solicitor-
general, Mr. J. Miller, for the prisoner, addressed the court
in mitigation of punishment. He pleaded that the wounds
which the parties assaulted had received would not be of a
very serious character, and that the prisoner was now influ-
enced by most sincere contrition. The learned gentleman
also referred to a certificate by the minister of Roskeen, and
to another, signed by eightytive inhabitants of Invergor-
den, which testified that, up to the recent riots, he enjoyed
a favourable reputation, and that he was a person easily
imposed upon and misled.—Lord Moncrieff said, that had
the other charges been included, the court must have
' awarded a sentence of transportation ; hut, in the circum-
stances, he would propose that the prisoner be imprisoned
for nine months. Lord Wood concurred. The Lord Jus-
tice Clerk said, it was very fortunate for the prisoner that
he had not joined in the mob at the outset, and that the
acts of outrage to which he had pleaded guilty as art and
part enabled the court to pronounce a sentence very different

from what it must have done had he joined in the mobbing
and rioting early in the day. It was necessary that every
one should be taught that, whatever part they individually
took, they were held answerable for the general acts of the
mob of which they formed part, and which they sanctioned
by their presence, He hoprd that the prig.. .tier was guilty
to this extent only. Nevertheless, great difficulty was ex-
perienced in identifying persons engaged in mobbing, and
it we- necessary that such as were found should be suitably
punished. He trusted that the prisoner's contrition was
sincere, and that be would take care hereafter to lead an
orderly and exemplary life as a peaceable subject. The
prironer was accordingly sentenced to nine months' impri-
sonment. —Seotariloot.