The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Th: world is at length favoured with some infor-
nia•ion about the intended Catholic lkfence Associa-
tion, although it only amounts to the meagre fact
that the committee meeting which was to have been
held on the Ilth instant, to consider the rules and
address of the association, will not take place until
the pith, And that the first public meeting of the
body will come off about the 14th of next month.
It is quite certain that at the present moment public
feeling throughout the country has cooled down to
:ern in the agitation, and people seem willing
enough to turn their attention to other subjects. The
following notification appears in the Freeman and
Xid;ors of this morning:
We arc happy to be able to announce that the draft ad-
dress to the catholic,s of the United kingdom, and of the
rub* fur the triverilmost of the lief nee Alsociotion, have
eccsived the sanetits of the Palmate and th,Areh'iiehope of
Cashel and Tom, and that o genteel meeting of the com-
mittee, tit eemsidi r awl bnally adopt them, will he held
45, lower Sackville-strect, on the 25th inst., at 2 &that
Vpoti that occasion the general committee will fix the day ,
fur holding thi first public no cling or the association, which '
we have milieu to believe, in order to meet the convenience
oil the iiithope, will be the 11th of (*toner.
The Earl of t)onouohmore died yesterday after-
noon at l'almerstown House, his lorilship's mansion
in the counts of 'rho diveased nobleman'
wail in his filth year, and had been for a long time
in a declining state of health. lie is succeeded in
his estates and title by his son, Lord Suirditle.
The Ercoing Post has the following :
We r.joiee to state that the lion. George Patrick
youngest son of their Eseelleneiet the Lord Lieu-
tenantused the Countess of Ctirenillonlis recovering (roman
attaek of Worm which a few days ago threatened to prove
fatal. We have been favoured with tne following extract of
a tette: on the subject from a quarter upon which we eunh-
wastly rely --" I am happy to say that Lord and Lads
Cures.' roes son, George Patrick, is much better, and, I
trust, out of danger, although last week there were very
slight hopes of his recovery.- Shortly after the death of I
Cwir out daughter, a few weeks ego, a paragraph
natio' In some of the metropolitan or provincial press,whick
wont the round of the papers, to the c Met that tbt it Excel.
leucite.' youngest sun was dud. This, we are happy to
state, was incorrect.
The following very. gloomy account of the progre
of the potato disciow in the northern province is glom
is the Banner cf fr/her:
11 is impossible. to coneeal, or even to palliate the matter
any longer—the potato crop has, within the last tin days
repro illy, exhibited the destructive effects of the Might to
an talent hardly t tolled in thu experience of any torn,. r
'avow one, the fatal year 11416. We knew at an eaely
period, and we prepared our reader% for expecting, that the
pidenuc would re-appear with contideruble intensity; but
the evil has certainly tam-tiled all our anticipations. From
every quarter of the country the moat dtsponding accounts
are transmittal to us; and, thongli we are anxious to en-
courage, al well as to indulge, a hope that no actual scarcity
will eerie. yet. as a simple matter of fact, the loss which
hail already token place in the potato crop alone amounts
to si loner proportion of the whole runt of the laud itself.
Several corespondents also inform us that, in many
districts, a Lied die. ate has appeared amongst the pigs,
and has c metal eerious lasses to the farmer,. We have no
means of determining the extent rat this latter calamity ;
but, shoold it tura out to be widely prevalent, as it has
been reported to us, the consequences will be forams. In-
quiet -, we understand, have been tidily made in the Bel-
fast market., on the part of landlords and agents, iii order
to the reality id the c.v., in r..ptct to the potato
failure, and some of those gentlemen have gene away with
the isopressimi that the r salt is out so calamitous us mi.
pair t.. ir has sonar time. mule it to be. We beg to remind
usquiri•r, rat this elass that the public market. afford no
eliterioii of the actual lees sustained by the tenant farm, re,
a the potato., brought to market are invariably picked
; all the badly ilia well tuben Icing thrown
away at the tone of Jigging, so that no estimate Whatelet,
ran be Wined from data thus assumed. Still, even in OUT
Milintlet, It i• nun eeamly possijik to obtain any sample of
iadat.ses, Mourser limited, in .1i the fatal rot is not
more or kat apparent, while pears hate risen fully one-
Oaf( within the List fortnight.

Dral.lN, UPI'. 13.

This Account is borne out by those in the Northern
Whig, which ar• a day later.
'lke amounts from the• south are more favourable,
and describe the di case as spreading, but not to an
extent to cause very great alarm. Ilarvest affairs, as
regards other crops, are progrt ssing under the must
liivourable eirtunistuness that could be desired.

The Tipperary 4m/i,sitor attars, on the authority
of a well-informed friend," that the ('our-law Com-
tuissioners have consented that the payment of
advance* hum Cashel electoral divisum, which
already (goons under a 314 lid. rote, should be post-
poned. fIILY Ilewa, if true, would be important, and
would entourage the ruts Myers of other heavily
burdened localities to redouble their efforts to obtain
at bust a postponement of the payment. But the
commissioners act under the Treasury,sand have in
reality no discref in the matter; and they have
returned an answer to that effect to some of the
memorials on the subject that have been transmitted
to them. In Mime unions the repudiation of the
Mniine debts was openly advocated, but this course is
rejmted by every one who sets up any pretension to
honourable principle.

EMII.ItATION OF IGcu.t RI) ().GORMAN. ESti.—
This gentleman, one of the olde.t and must respectable
nterchanta of Dublin. boo left Ireland fur the United Stites.

THE l'utoTiisrANT t'oLonts.—At the liarylebone
vestry meeting on Saturday, Mr. Tins called the atten-
tion of the vestry to a must catragrilinary breach of con-
tract which had taken place in the recent fittings of All
boob' Church on the part of the contractor. instead of
the hangings and upholstery tieing .iceording to sample,
the unpretending crimson of protestantism, fittings of cloth
of the light scarlet colour had been subdituted, and that of
a material of a very interior quality to the sample. Mr.
Dwyer. the churchwarden of All Soul., said he had the
sample id the cloth for the curtains and fitting., which was
"Wend. and, on comparison with those which bad ac-
tually been supplied, he found that the prevent fittings of
the church, of which be also had a sample, were nothing
inure than scarlet baize. Great indignation was felt at the
pnsent glaring appearance of the church, and he had, as

churchwarden, riecivell several anunymoug letters charg-
ing Popery against them, and asking him whether ho
had not roblped Cardinal Wiseman of his cloak ?
Ile moved that the committee be re-appointed to see if the
contr.ict Lad been fulfilled. Mr. !lodpc• ~.econiled the mo-
twn. Mr. Scace, in answer to a qui,tion, amid that Mr.
Flood, of Charlewstreet, was the tontractor. The cloth

was of • lighter colour then the sample, but of very superior ;
itcliv. lle
use ofhaltak. pr Underwood, of actical meta: andw to
ose
manager pronounced the cloth which had been supplied the
best of the two. (eateries of the cloth were here hauled
round the vestry.) Mr. (kerne said, as a practical man,
that the colour of the cloth supplied was what woe
called " ponso" crimson, and was merely a shade or
two lighter than the sample. Mr. Hook, also a
clothier, said that the cloth supplied was superior.
Mr. D'lffen sen., said if there was any inferiority in
the materia, he attributed it to the niggardly practice of
the vestry in always accepting the lowest tender. and not
giving a man a prier for his work whereby he could live
end pay his rates. Mr. Hodges said he had made a dis-
covery. He had had placed into his hands a sample of the
cloth ordered by the board. which had been retained by the
surveyor, and which was of course the oMeial sample, and
on comparing it with the sample produced bv the church-
warden of All souts (Me. Dwyer) it was infinitely superior.
Mr. twace (the surveyor) Why, I tore it from the same
piece as Mr. Dwyer did. at the same time. (Laughter.) Mr.
Hodges persisted that no person examining the two specimens
would believe it was the same piece. Captain Probyn
denounced the waste of the time of the board about such
trivial matters. Mr. .1. Wilson denied that the cloth pro-
duced was of the Hornbill colour. Mr. M-Evily said the
question now became one of veracity. The surveyor
said he tore it from the same cloth as the churchwarden,
and Mr. 'lodges >aid it was not the same cloth. lle
thought from their knowledge of the character of the sue-
•l7o4 that they had no reason to doubt his word. He
cared nothing for the rubbish of Mr. Timms that the cloth
was the cloth of the scarlet lady, the a loth of the church of
Rome. It was proved that it was superior to the sample,
and therefore he opposed the committee. Mr. l'oland cer-
tainly thought the statement ul the churchwardens cut
two ways. The anonymous letters he had received might
be (ruin disappointed contractors. But certainly the re-
dections on the colour that he hail robbed Cardinal Wise-
man's robes would induce a belief that it was a superior
quality of cloth. The resolution for a committee was ne-
gatived. Mr. liodges wished to give a notice of motion on
the subject; but, bring informed before be could bring
it me As kill would be paid, the subject dropped, and
the vestry separated.
It cu Amt.% nos IN THE POTTERIES. &nee
the meeting at Hanley, imported in the Lepers, of
Wednesday last, Mr. O. Thampeon, M.P., sad Mr.
Rothe have visited Lengths, Berthas, and Tnritall, at
wide large and eithin meetings have bees held,
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