The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Ban. 18.
A southern paper circulates a rumour that the par-
liament will be called together for the statement of
the land question. It woutd be well if the relations
of landlord and tenant could be settled at last, bat I
cannot help thinking a great opportanity of settle-
ment was kat when the loan of a million and a half
wee given for the improvement of landlords' lands,
without accompanying the gift by a measure for ar-
ranging the fruitful sources of Ida turbulence and
discontent. The minister could then have dealt with
Irish proprietors with the high hard, for he was
conferring an immense benefit upon them.
A desppuutation from Limerick will wait upon Lord
Clarendon to-morrow, to advocate the construction of
a packet station there.
On Thursday last there was a distraint made for
rent near Wataford, but the people roes en muse.
arid beat away the bailiffs.
The Rev. W. Townsend, rector of Aghada, has in
a recent letter .ointed out to the landlords of Ireland
bow they yet may save themselves and society in this
island from ruin. The rev. gentleman's plan is not a
theory —it is a plain statement of what has been ppunt
in practice by a gentleman in his neigh
Mr. Charles °Ahura; This rntlemsn, finding on
the estate of his brother, Sir George Cottbus;
large quantities of improvable mountain and moor
land, set about reclaiming it. The public valuators for
tithes set this land down at 3s. Md. per aere.•
Mr. Griffith's Telugu,' at Is. per acre. After re•
clamation, now this land produces as good meadow
el say in the county of Cork, and seta freely as mea-
dow at IX to 81. per arm ; while Mr. Griffith's
valuators, en the final revision now going op, have
fixed it at 21. l(. per acre, as high as any valuation
ilted en any land in Ireland, not adjacent to large
towns or cities. Thus, concludes the my gentleman,
these gentlemen are " supplying abundant labour at
faipr
pwages, and are doubling
had their income, as would
kaa to others, who the head, the heart, and
the hand to do their duty to God and mare
A coneepondent of the repeal paper here speaks of
the audit= of Kerry as most melancholy, and
about Killarney the condition of the foram is pain-

fully aggravated by the dishonest management of the
wings banks. The fain of Um potato crop is all
but universal; me-third of what is now deg out is
unsound, and the blight rapidly augments in its bad
effects. The principal marketable produce of Kerry
consists of better, pork, and dry cattle, which the
breeders sell to the stock farmers of Leiner& and the
north. This year butter is extremely low, and pork
from many causes does not fetch its meal prams,
while, u most of the jobbers in cattle have been
heavy 10111111 by the =vine banks, the mountain
cattle remain on their native hills. The loss
this year% potato crop to such a people
is psealisrly disastrous ; nor are those carcuim
steams without aggravation in the conduct of some
who ought to afford a better example. One of the
largest end most pet tending landlords in the county,
who has bad a large loan for improving his property,
has, it is rumoured, been paying his labourers in meal
instead of cash, realising a large profit by the barter.
Whether he be guilty or not I am not in a position to
say, but he has been called to Dublin to answer the
statements made against him.
A new lunatic uylam in this county, which will
cost 30,0001. or upwards, and will accommodate VA
patients, is affording profitable employment to many
artisans.

From the adjoining county of Cork intelligence
reaches us of a disheartening nature. The rate-payers
of Berehaven, in a memorial to his Excellency Lord
Clarendon, state that in the barony of Berehavea this
is the fourth year's failure of the potato crop
—that the present i■ a total failure—and to
aggravate the calamity the fisheries have failed slam
To what this latter circumstance is attributable the

memorialists do not state ; but when we find that in
the neighbouring district of Ballycotton a local so-
ciety, under the management of the curate and coast
guard officer, has afforded much employment to the
destitute fishermen as that only five families out of a
I population of 3,000 or 4,000 sought relief in the work-
house, we can hardly avoid the conclusion that similar
exertions among the gentry of Berehaven would have
produced similar results as at Ballycotton. His excel-
lency of course had not the power to take the support
of the " majority, who are said to be reduced to the
condition of paupers," off the poor rates; bat he pro-
posed to mitigate the amount of levy, as his excellency
also did in Middleton, in that county, where, in consi-
deration of the condition of affairs, he limited the levy
for repayment of advance to 3d. in the pound.
Referring to what has been done in Ballyootton,
the local paper says
Combined with the aid to fishermen, which was given in
the form of lams an attempt was made to establish a null
manufacture which should furnish occupation to their fami-
lies, the rentuneratica being in food. This little enterprise,
originated end carried on under the pressure of necessity,
vems to have been entirely succerful. One is surprised to
lirar of such a thing among a rude ses.coast nopuletion es
the manutacture of over 1,000 yards of woollen and linen
textures, which the report states to have been mode. They
also make nets of various descriptions, for which, with the
other articles inanufmtured, the oinamittee desire to procure
purchasers.

THE ROTATORY PAELLA/LENT AGITATION.
Tsis new &citation does not appear to make way. Mr.
Bernal Osborne, M.P. has replied to the invitation to take
part Ia it in these term. :
" Sept. 11, 1848.—Dear sir, —I beg to acknowledge your
letter, together with the ameba from the 'Society tor pro-
mothss the periodic. .I sheeny of the Imperial Parliament In
Ireland.' Although lam not unfavourable to the considers.
Ur of such a project, having already spoken in favour of
some such a rerun from lay place in the House of Com-
mons, I must reepostfally 1141111Majoithiste any organised area
dation for the •1616111111110 of thee mast. Pint, bemuse I
&peeper the reltsernt stagy patrol saltation in Ireland
under existing eisenmeterse. ScesSlaigecause Ido net
*raider thew eldest es which the in Abby street
has " he eneueiewn' ' the periodisal
amt.( of the imprint Parliseret in Ireland," to be en&
aridly soweerioneir is sanding any immediate prosper
of ellevieffes Orr eves. ert•kill human legislation in pan
=al tie dlipmestlens of Providence in oar owe,has
he this ohiqw sountry.—l have the honour,
hits= Orroann—To Harare Itobineou, 11.."
AEI Kr. Samuel Gorden hoe released the following letter
le Lea William Fitzgerald;
"411. Arsiseetrese, Debit, Sept. 15,1848.—My Lord,—
I leadenly overtly as appernity of reading the promo&
lase of the amealmies err whisk yes preside, contained in 1
the eiresier sea abet erearoade resolved by me, and I am
bound to Mate lest, eithwegh I mollies having myself pub-
lished in the of 1840 and 1843, yaws similar to
them en hi year assonatioe, subsequent experi-
ence impels me to revert beak to the earliest opinion ever
held by me Ur That no nation which
soasidas hesesYhas lOW remedies but
those pointed out byel:Tra'of nations,' but without enter-
ing late this errors subject now, I regret to say that I do
sot satieipats asp buseasial resell from your well meant
elltre—der, sapped% thatpw dill obtain a firm and ism.-
saves drissmienereas In favour of your project,
depend epos my wed that the bide representatives would
watch year neemmtwale, relondre eyerstby and service,
until the MIMS NM he a ere upon your proposition,
when they raid vneyeely sell it to the minister OR
:ra. " ILT", thgr-secahlinneztes,
treasatesry deiZsrlayed the short Asiodiethat the nglish
minister has hoes mer in depriving on of ell the
coaritational rights siWer,Bes won by the swords, the
wisdom, end the unifier of ear ancestors ? Can we, dare
we, ever again turn them ? I am, besides, unwilling to
enter into another worse% for exclusively Irish objects,
from the contemplation ere bad results of all previous agi-
tations of the kind, eadiag ia the saceillee of the Irish few-
holders, the erbesalement eithelargefands oollectedforlrish
purposes, the nark/. the eiiirens to appoint
their sheriffs, es the kends of the WWI oainister's deputies, or
doers, is bored, the sender and mereseary intrigue be-
terra the Iria repealer, end the English }Motheaten and
phases, le shale this comb, be the point of insurrection,
under the pretext of repeas the set of legislative union ;
positively, my lord, these •‘, make a man buy his face
in his hands, when the degraded mar of modern Irish
patriotism, or agitation, is mentioned. But, viewing the
measure you propose to amomplish in its progress, I cannot
but perceive that en English and ?ketch majority could out-
vote you upon the proposition foe holding seera& et the
imperial parliament in Dublin, and them we should again he
brought before the enemy, without (Moen, plans, or re-
sources—our camp followers, the Irish members, es usual in
our rear. What I intend to de in pulls affairs, Is to join
the new body projected under the titled' The Great Re-
tons League of the Three Nears, for the achisvment of
the following objects, vitally essential to Ireland. well as to
England and Scotland. These objects are—the repeal of the
Septennial Act, extension of the elective franchise, vote by
ballot, the extension of =MUM of free trade, and the ex-
purgation elan the publia departments of the state. Until
those measures eve completed, no par lament sitting in
London or Dublin will do anything but job with the
minister ; ant none of the public departments will exhibit
anything but what we have already seen—insilideney,
plunder, and jobbing. The mere expresmon of the will of
the three nations earns their success, while on the other
hand, separate agitations by Ireland, for any purpose, pro-
mise, I fear, nothing bat Deal 804 fruit. In the mean-
time, the pagers of the law of nations lie open to Ireland, as
they do to all the other countries of Europe.—l remain, dtc.,
Sane= Gomm"