The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MnT 18.
The lamented death el the Earl of Beesborough
absorbs all clams of chisels, and circumstances come
to light which prove the deep interest he took in the
sufferings of Ireland, when he stood himself on the
ao.f.dissolutioo. He continued to transact the
business almost to the last hour of his life. On
leg he wrete to Lord John Russell on the
etemilltias of the country, and on Friday directed
thieassel weekly revoke to be read to him. He then
dictated a mooed letter to the Premier. Oa Satur-
day, he sent for hie private secretary, and delivered
to him the badge air the ceder of St. Patrick for
Ulster King-at. Arms. " In the event of my death,"
said he, " this hedge should be in the hands of Sir
William Betham. 11tke it to him." He retained
his senses to the latest moment, and immediately
before his death took a fareivill of all his family.
It wee generally believed the body would be interred
in the Castle Chapel t but it will be conveyed to the
family vault at Fiddavrill county Kilkenny. This day

the remains will be removed to the chapel, where
they will continue until Friday, strictly pnvate. On
the evening of that day the funeral will leave the
Lower Castle yard for the tA rminas of the Great
Southern and Western Railway, where special trains
will be in readiness to convey tho body and proms-
skm to Carlow. On Saturday evening it will be de-
posited in the final resting place.
The royal letters investing the Lords Justices with
the adminiiration until a successor to his late ex-
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osliewey be appointed, will be received to-day at the
Castle, when the Lords will be sworn. Meantime, as
the act directs, t proclamation has been issued to-day
to the sheriff of Dublin, signed by the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland, and which the latter has posted
through his bailiwick, calling a meeting of the privy
councillors of Ireland for the let of June next, to elect
Lords Justices as successors to his excellency, unless
the Queen's pleasure should meantime be made known.
The citizens of Cork are singularly fond of public
meetings, speeches, and resolutions. Every day bas
its civic gathering. The last projected, which comes
orlon Thursday, will be apt to divide the middle and
lower clauses. The requisition calls all together to
adopt the best means for protection against a system
of assessments which must end in the ruin of the citi-

wens and ratepayers—in other words, no out-door
relief! If it were possible to reconcile the support of
the poor with abstinence from taxation, the trading
and commercial classes of Cork might have a claim to
exemption. But that is impossible, and all must bear
their portion—be it with or without murmur.
The Clare Journal states, that in consequence of
the supposed reluctance of resident magistrates to act
against the people, warrants have been made out to
military officers to issue any orders to the soldiers
under their command to tire in case of necessity.
Whoever knows snything of the respective tempers
of magistrates and military knows this, that the
first are not quite so merciful as to throw on the se-
oond the responsibility of manslaughter. There is
nothing remarkable in the warrants, but in the pre-
sent state of public feeling the cause should be ex-
plained why or when such orders became necessary.
The Trake Chronicle has a very pathetic story of a
dead horse being contended for by the population of
a parish ! The supposed locale is in the south-west of
Ireland, well known as Ballinaskelligs. There the
famine was so terrible, that thousands contended for
poisonous carrion ! This may be either rejected as an
invention, or cut down to the fact that the horse was
seized for some other purpose than human consump-
tion. There are three food depots within a very
small circle from either of which a people reduced
to such desperate circumstances would have been
supported.

STATe or Tie. COCNTRY.—There is an amount to-day in
the R0W010.1.11. Journal evidencing in au extraordinary de.-
gree the deteriorated circumstances of the cottier poor. It
is well known that the cattier peasant of Ireland, and to
some extent the small farmer also, relied upon the pries of
" the pig" for the payment of the landlord's rent. It must
have been anticipated that, to a very great extent, the pig
would disappear with the potato; but that that useful
animal should become utterly extinct in certain districts,
even under present pressure, is a circumstance for which we
could not be prepared. And yet this would appear to have
already happened. The fair of Castle Plunkett, county Roe.
common, was held a few days since. There was not one pig
en sale, the quantity heretofore on sale annually nt that fair
being not of leas ♦due than 10,0001. In such a district one
expects to hear of fever, distress, and destitution. And they
prevail to an afflicting extent.
ANOTHIIt MUILDEIL—An account reached town this
morning, from the office of the Limerick Examiner, of the
murder of a gentleman named Watson, who was shot on
Monday morturis from behind a hedge, on the road between
Bridgetown and Killaloe. Mr. Watson had recently become
agent over some property in the vicinity of Bridgetown, and
it was upon that property he met his death.
IidePEAL Assoctation.—The weekly meeting was held
to-day, by adjournment from yesterday. Mr. F. Burke,
• barrister, presided. The proceedings present no features
of interest to your readers. The repeal rent for the week
was 491. _ _ . .

GALWAY BLECTION.—Captain Burke was yesterday re-
turned for the county of Galway unopposed.
MURDER IN TIE COVNTT or DOWN.—Tbe Newry Tele.
graph gives the following particulars of the shocking murder
of Mr. James Paxton. Suspicion, it will be seen, has (Allen
upon the nephew and brother of deceased, who are both held
to bail until the proceedings before the coroner's 'lvy shall
have terminated: " As already stated, the de who was
a bachelor and • wealthy farmer, eged about Si, residing in
his own house at Dechomet, in the parish of Draragooland,
about five miler* distant from Rathfriland. The other in-
mates were an aged housekeeper, a female servant, and a
boy, who slept in an outhouse in the yard. Early on the even-
ing of Tuesday the deceased and his household retired to rest.
In the morning it was discovered that the former bad left
his haimusa and the house but this was not considered
'aibirentlasoy as ha ma habitually an early riser. It
amp net moil Visit that the servant-boy, pmeeding
down the suss% ageliestally discovered the body of his late
muter lying In a peg at water, within 60 yards of the hall-
date. The body was frightfully disfigured. The boy ran
ileansellately to the hones of John Paxton, brother to the
tlinsaid, and announced his appalling dissinery. His son,
Jarmo Paxton, returned with the mama& to the
scene of murder. told him ask te mho any nilina. hot le
go for the police, sad say lb* his MAW IRIS Illeuri Bede
lOW that he hhaloir !ITU write * the ofearM The
bay
sikbatiowitordingly yeeessgso as dingle& Neffadmifa
having rewthied, it wee mon sonalainsi
from appearance*, that • violent and mortal straggle
had taken place, end teen maintained for sans
time, the ground for upwards of thirty yards being
torn up and trampled, and the stones here and there, as
well on the avenue walls as on the road, besprinkled with
blood. On Thursday the coroner, Dr. Tyrrell, arrived, and
a jury wu sworn. Evidence was given as above, and also to
the fact, that robbery was not the object of the murder, as
the sum of Bi., in notes and silver, was found on his
The inquest was then adjourned until Saturday. person.
following day the local magistrate, Mr. F. C. Beers, who had
been in Dublin, returned to the neighbourhood; and, in
consequence of some information given him, he, amoompa-
nied by Mr. J. P. Hill, sub-inspector, and • party of
police, proceeded, at night, to the house of John
Pantos, which they searched. In an upper room
they discovered a coat, the left sleeve of which was
deeply stained with blood. The family attempted to account
he hilly stating that the old man, John Paxton, had been
hisedieg settle; but the statement was not borne out in such
a way as to satisfy the magistrate, or remove the suspicion
that the ithenvery of the blood-stained garment had created.
Conseemeettly, end bemuse of the further circumstance of the
foams:its isdatted in the sell, at the spot where the deadly
smuggle had taken place, appearing to correspond with
the pesnihr shoes worn by the young man, James Paxton.
the 'Mut sea of John Parton, wu taken into custody, and
**ate/71y WI to bail, in conjunction with two pumas,
named Bubo, War and son. On Saturday the coroner's
jury again assembled. Some witnesses were examined, whose
evidence, however, added nothing material to the facts al-
ready mentioned. The inquest was then further adjourned
to Thursday next. It is believed that the deceased had been
roused from bed, on some pretence or other, about daybreak,
by • person with whom be was familiar. He was dressed in
his usual apparel, excepting his cravat and stockings, which
remained at his bedside. Other statements, equally well
authenticated, have been made to us touching this dreadful
occurrence; but which, for obvious reason', we withhold for
the present."
THE GREAT BRITAIN BTIAYER.—The Newry Telegraph
has the following " Since the fine weather bas set in pedes-
trians and equestrians, by dozens at a time, have been visit-
ing We ship, the great paint of attraction bein the break-
water. The spring-tide beginning on Wednesday last, the
labourers deny the bay were taken on board the leviathan,
and it war WOE known that the effect of the work which had
been going on inside, with smiths and carpenters, was to be
tried. The pumps were known to be working, as the this
rose, by the streams of water seen issuing ham her
in several places. As the tide rose it wee
evident that the ship rows slightly also ; but the was
not • high one. Thursday morning, however, it roes mash
higher, and the same efforts were repeated; sad ra
water it was quite visible that the Telld was nearly
and very little by the head. At law-water it wu
that she stood out of bee ell IA two or three feet ; sad an
aaaalag quantity of soil small Wass were thrown into
the had,ow left boa befshing, fame of the Limns. who
have hot ea her from the list mm intelligent ma, sod they
steasi that she was sli in lulls& sad quite afloat eargerbere.
No Abet wen mile is INfiletp. It blew strong, end the sea
was very high. The ship Nerd to have settled beak shah,
bat ft is quite sloe than to oohed* have her in had, al-
though the hype bele is Minot high wrath for peteltins."
SCOTLAND.

WAY le.
The aura perV are entertaining confident hems
that the Mum szpreemmd towards the Mar-
riage sol Registration Nib by the Seel& umbers
who mat in the Clarendon Hotel on Elatardity lut,
will have the effect of the bird Advocate to
withdraw them altogether. opposition, it should
be remembered, houwer, is imiseestod and indis-
criminating, and is only fornidaMe homes of the
lormahntion et the elfestare. M is 'idler assn ner
lese Oen the elm the malsoluestere, mad a few
bilikalnee=lth slat:to:autism:l :Mundy-
demi regoisitien, the lard Provost et Glesgew has
ailed a 'abbe meeting to be held as Wirbanday, for
the pupae of cmidering the =ild an aP-
plinths to goverm ent, or to Sr per-
mittinf the various banks in Seethed bellied,
for a limited tim, to convert die spode psee.th.
bald by the. cote t or ether tseueitix
Sines the pabi in spdag, 1846, by Mr.
Pagan, et Oyer Pge, of alba Sze abolishing tarn-
*, tolls, asi road and linuirmy ansemeals, end
providing read &Ms by an ameal en bar..., the
question of toll bars or sat lea best mich hooded,

in Scotland, by the press, es well as by county and
district and burgh meetings. All parties arc becoming
anxious for a change of the present costly and cum-
bersome system, which, in emoluments of toll-
tacksmen and their collectots, in advertising and
rouping bars, in building and maintaining toll.houses
and gates, in enasting toll-bar statutes and paying
lawyers for interpreting them, &c. &c , swallow up
some forly or fifty per cent. of the tolls exacted from
the public ; and Mr. Pagan's project for laying the
road rate on horses, and making tue surveyor of as-
sessed taxes charge it is his rounds, and the collector
levy it with the other taxes, is decidedly a favourite.
Among the Scottish counties, Banffshire has requested
that the Lord Advocate of Scotland should introduce
a bill to legalise the plan. In I lsddingtonshire and
Ayrshire, where some new toll-bats, to catch the rail-
way stations, or some new toll statutes, are in
progress, the popular ferment has just found vent
in large public meetings, unanimously con-
demning the present system, and resolving to
use all means to overthrow ir. Though a second
and cheap edition was published, this time
twelveino:ith,the plan does not seem vet to have been
I much discussed on the south of the 'Need. But we
hear of meetings to be held in London, to organise
some measure on the subject. It is quite clear that
the discontinuance of stage coaches and carriers carte
over all the railway districts, will make the toll-
keepers little other than sieecurists, so that the
sooner the country gentlemen and farmers dispense
with their costly services, and raise the needful funds
by a plan so simple as the horse-rate—a plan akin to
the penny post—so much the better for themselves,
and all about them.