The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

Fever continues to rage in the country districts of Cork.
Capt. llpary, R.N., government officer at Kinsale, has fallen
a victim to the disease, and at llunmanway two men were
found dj ing of disease who had crawled into a dyke, whence
the purlieus, a. they returned from the workhouse, DA
them renewed to the hoagital. At Innishannon the lady of
the doctor had died of fever; and the Cork Constitution,
remarking that fever was "filling the graveyards" of the
county. illustrates the truth of its statem,•nt by siding that
one gentleman in Kilmore lost "seven tenants in one day."
Ise the vity of Cork, on Tuesday evening, three children of
one Cloudy died within an hour of each other, and the only
remaining members, father and soother, are in the
same disease, and considered hopeless. In a parish
in the county of Itoscemmon, Rosalsey, the priest, in a litter
to a weekly p.per, the Register, states that a townland in
his cure, on which seventy families resided a brief time since,
is no v entirely desolate, and not a house remains. The
poop', had either drooped under disease and famine, or had
fled tr rough fright. The rev. gentleman complains also that
a system of proselytising his dock had been put into opera-
tion, ,end 41 of them who, on Sunday last, had attended at
the service of the established church, were, he says, rewarded
with a snit of clothes each on the succeeding day. The
master of the workhouse at Parsons-town had fallen a victim
to fever, and the clerk of the union lay sick of the disease. In
Castlebar, the Rev. Mr. McManus, a Roman Catholic clef-
gym an, had died of fever caught in the gaol while attending
on the prisoners. At Belturbet, in Cavan, several " respect-
able inhabitants" have fallen victims to fever and dysentery.
Tie system of plunder has again commenced in the
cou.,try, and some of them we regret to find of a very heart-
lew character. In Westmeath, the hoarse of one man was
brolten into, and robbed by a large armed party, and 5 cwt.
of oatmeal, together with some articles of clothing and linen
yar 1, were taken away ; while in another instance in the
lame county, 1 cwt. of oatmeal was forcibly taken out of a'
poor man's house, and a RUM of 245. which he had gathered
to purchase seed oats for his land. In Yongbal, co. Cork, on
Welnesday, an organised attack was made upon the bakers'
thous, but little mischief was done—yet it is a farther proof
of the frightful progre sof disorganisation. Another fact I
may mention which I find stated in a Cork paper. A man
in that city committed three deliberate crimes this week, in
order to get himself maintained at the public expense.
Twice he escaped from disinclination of the parties
aggrieved to prosecute; but he said "He was
det Trained he would not starve." There see
ter d cases of death by starvation recorded in the
local journals ; in one of these cases, at Maryborough, the
aur:.• agreed to the following epode) resolution, which they
p; ended to the verdict: "That vast numbers have lost their
Beth from destitution, more or less prolonged, and many
ethers because they could not procure food suited to their
state of health."

Of 2,800 paupers in the North Dublin workhouse, 1,400
are not natives of, or have had any claims from residence
upot the union ; the relief eommittee have decided upon
tasking the rating under the new act uniform, a resolution
strenuously opposed by those having property in the rural
divi•ions of the union.

Tie police inspectors have got instructions to report on
the quantity of arms held by the peasantry in Ireland, and
on the characters of those who generally possess arms. This
would seem to point towards renewed legislation against
their indiscriminate possession.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, Aram 9.
A semi-official article, explanatory of the Marriage
Bill, was recently inserted in the Oiledoniun Mercury,
sad ns it is gradually being copied by the provincial
journ de, mac of the illusion prevalent with respect
to that measure will be dispelled. The Inverness
parocMal board has petitioned against the bill, and
apparently impressed with the idea that the whole
count' is oblivious to the national danger involved
in its provisions, they directed that copies of their re-
solati(ms be sent to all the conveners of counties in
Scotland, to be laid before the county meetings to be
held on the 30th inst.; and also to the provosts of all
the royal burghs in Scotland, with a request that they
lay the same before the town councils and parochial
boards in these burghs.
The Inverness Courier mentions, on authority
derived from a private source:
That a stringent measure is to be adopted with respect to
the poor on the estates of Colonel Gordon, of Cluny, in the
West Highlands. The Board of Supervision in Edinburgh
are m appoint a commissioner to proceed to the islands of
Borsa. &ate Vist, and Benbecula, for the purpose of taking
amalgams of the state of the inhabitants. His object will
bete place upon the poor's roll such persons so are entitled
S. temporary or permanent relief; and, along witk the com-
missioner, will be sent a supply of meal and provisions fur
lioldinition among the paupers. The supplies judged ne-
mesis/7 by the commissioner, and the additional burden
Impend by the operation of the poor-law, will be laid upon
Me proprietor. According to the statute, the commissioner
In ass ems a must be a member of the Scottish bar, and it
is expected that a gentleman will be selected who will arbi-
trate fairly between the owner and the people of those
islands—between tho duties and the rights of property.
It is said that certain merchants in London, de-
sirous of promoting the cultivation of the potato,
have arranged with several fanners in Perthshire,
that they (the merchants) will furnish the seed on
condition that the farmer furnish the ground, manure,
labour, and the crop, if any, to be equally divided
between the two parties.
As Scotland is sometimes spoken of as a well-
educated nation, which probably it is, comparatively,
the following table, e from a " Plan for
Ragged Schools," by the Rev. Thomas Guthrie, may
be opportunely quoted at the present juncture:
State of Edueatioa of Criminal Mermen committed (in Edinburgh)
in the Mersa Yeses ending Deoember, 1644.
1642. 1643. 1644.
weed 3,371 ... 5,731 ... 5,361
Immird as to Wends' 3,013 ... 3,263 ... 3,043
Coma read . ...... ......
Zed a little 1,673 1,3.:13 ?.!!!

Reed well i3B3 i,214
C 48804 write
Write •
little
Write

Education, beyond reading sad writing • 6 2 1
The Ayr Adrertiaer states that disease has broken
out among the workmen in the neighbourhood of
the Lugar Iron Works. In addition to a few cases of
fever, there is amongst them a very serious type of
land-scurvy, supposed to be induced by salt diet
and bad ventilation, in damp and unhealthy dwell-
ings. Their food, in the absence of the potato, has
been chiefly bread, salt butter, ham, herrings, and
coffee. The disease affects the limbs in spots, usually
succeeding catarrhal fever, or influenza, and dis-
abling the patient, from lameness in the knees and
aucles. The disease is said to yield readily to proper
diet, some vegetable acid, and quinine.

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followi is Dr. Candlish's speech in the Free Presbytery of
Sootla d, alluded to in our paper of Saturday:
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