The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-21 00:00:00

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the considn teatime of these productive
- Plt tlejtese-I would su et eherefore would be that we '
welka• 1 • itgeth ' el of ;his experiment,
e 00 yam
thatresolution for e tn. to
_mete works to the amount ef one-fourth the poor-
'. Lll"Wition, that is about 11,000 L, lasould be passed by
`.• P."..a. lf we take this course, we shall show that
I- oe to allow no pportunity to paw that will
els
1. ditoommlernent to the poor; and in taking She step we
--"' a course which I firmly believe will not eerily be
korso to the country but to the labourers thee-
should suggest the expediency of haling a lapse
e
ee} before the presentments are passed. The sum of
de
Oyer presented for, being one-fourth of the poor-law
edthe barony.
• STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
• loe° Comb.'.—Pit:stuen.—A Mallow correspondent
• miner wraes thus respecting
if ja Cork the state of
Exa
O. Killing cows and sheep, the property of
+
Makers, has become a favourite pastime with the
m
e Zeppeeas. Some of those scoundrels who are too hay
Wi
7polk, fate card-playing and whiskey-drinking the Genie
:01/ sisagrisa. A few days ago, a.leautiful cow of Mr.
MililibeiggiNia'spoweoeneeteolefeL ree. d
on
eyule's di tre lehne foorf
The police arrested a fellow on the Killer
• 00111 eg.w' • •
old lead, witha am
ear Gaitooulenntaushe e:whothgdeltioubs ofee
mutton
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08811211riettair houses ; and on last Saturday night two
• wee tilled and the skins left on a field within half a
sksit, thelsllo—eme town.
liov. 17.—As three tons of wheaten meal
, ...pews conveyed from the Messrs. Barry's mills, from
;:;esee to their stores at Killarney, about three o'clock
11"Thije day, a mob attacked one of the carriers who had
a...., a mile in advance of hie party, and plundered ,
la worth of the meal near Dlr. M'Cartis's, of
FiTelnegashe. The man prudently retreated, and con-
the •
es ammo remaining loads is the house of a
Mew.
goo PROSPECTS—THE PRESENT AND PUTURE.—The
iiirr of yesterday contains the following intr.
Lids• gad pleasing information of the fall in the prices of ood
teeetet the meeting of the Relief Committee, yester-
day, Mr. Jame? Daly stated that he had bees offered
bdian Coro—the bill of lading ready to be handed over to
eist, the insurance paid, and the vessel expected to arrive
kwe shortly—at 111. 4s. per ton. We have
ht i to
more annouvessele,nce the
geese since our last publication, of eg
wee with Indian corn, besides which a large number of
reeds, nearly all grain loaded end bound to this port, have
emu epoken and are daily expected to arrive here. We
of the sale of a cargo to
pee beard, says the Eraminer,
arrive at 101. 15s. per ton. The purchase, we believe, has
ben made by a Midleton house, and the vessel, having left
Legborn on the 6th instant, may be looked for very shortly.
Thee facts are significant of the future price of the article.
We may add that we have this momeut been informed,
ey a gentleman from Cove, that as many as fourteen or
fa maize laden vessels have just arrived at Cove.
Lienuce.—The accounts from Limerick are not so fa-
nurable ; the Limerick Chronicle of yesterday says The
applies of whest and oats to our market are this day very
Insignant, and we ascribe the deficiency to the purchase
and manufacture of grain in the country for home consump-
tion, by farmers, to the relief committees, in preference to
&pool of it at the outports. We have cargoes of wheat
this day at our quays, from Waterford and Dungarvan, to
answer the urgent demands of our local millers, who, we
repeat, have no stock on hands. Thirteen thousand barrels
of oats were shipped to Scotland, last week, from this port.
A miller imported a cargo of flour from Manchester rims
Liverpool to-Limerick, last week, which he sold at 20 per
coo profit, although during that week fine Sour has far.en
in price 4s. per bag. There were but 109 car-loads of pota-
toes at Limerick market last week, including 47 free
from disease. The price is raised from 101. to ls. per
stone. Of the future the same paper affords us the fol-
lowing unpleasant picture :—" Farmers in this and
the tuljoiniug counties were never so deficient, at this season
of the year, in the breadth of tillege land ready for seed to
row the ensaing year's crop, and this applies not merely to
Dun, but to vegetable gardens. They complain, and with
sad truth, of the want of farm lebourera, whom the public
works in every palish almost wholly engross at present,to the
serious detriment of field cultivation, and
ofdhusbanry pursuits
in general. It is not only a melancholy state things, but
an unnatural state of society, that the first occupation of
ma, the culture of the soil, beyond all others of indispen
for
•
table obligation, should be almost universally neglected
the execution of works of no general utility, and of no urgent
moment whatever. Unless the peasantry are induced to re-
am to their natural and
,accustomed labour, we verily
ellen the prospects of the year 1847-48, will be far more
disastrous to Ireland than people are yet aware of. We ear-
wetly direct attention to a circular from the Public Works'
board on this very important subject. The authorities
wear to be now sensible of the magnitude of the evil.
MISDIRECTION OF,EMPLOYMENT.—III corroboration, (says
the Limerick Chronicle) of what we stated relative to the
employment of comfortable farmers on relit f works, we have
to eel that a wealthy farmer, who keeps a shop, earned, not
be from Ballinkillen, by horse work alone, voleih than 17sk.
per day '.Only fancy shop-keeping farmers, large stacs
dcora in their haggarts, and wealth at their command,
patting their hands into the public coffers and depriving the
poor of the means provided for their relief.
DISTRESS IN STRABANE, COUNTY TYliONE.—lnquiries
baring been set on foot in Strabane, County Tyrone, it ia found
that there arc 6,000 persons needing employment in that dis-
trict. A large sum of money was raised by voluntary sub-
scription, and, by that means, a depot for the sale of pro-
visions was established. This depot is now in existence
about three weeks, during which time upwards of 300 fami-
lies have been supplied with meal at prices proportioned to
their means of paying, and to tho sire of their families: some
getting it at from 95. to ls. per peck, nearly one-half below
market price. A sum of 5001. is to be expended on the
breaking of stones, to he sold for repairing the streets and
the roads in the vicinity of the town ; and 2,0001. to be
laid out on a water-wall, to preserve the people from
the periodical visits of :whitey floods.
COUNTY OF DOWN.—The lielfast Vindicator thus depicts
the Istate of the county of Down, and the apathy of the
landlords:—" Last week 7,400 bushels if wheat were
shipped at the Quoilc-quay, Downpatrick, for export to Eng-
land; and, strange to say, that turnips were selling on
Saturday last, thZ 14th inst., in the public market, to the
poorer claws for food, at 21d. per stone, which, a few days
ago, sold in the same market at 12d. per cwt. for feed-
ing cattle. Yet sonic landlords say there is no distress,
and mock their tenants of small holdings, at rents from
one to ten pounds per year, by publishing, in certain
newspapers, a scale of allowances on payment of their rent,
well knowing that these poor tenants have not as much pro-
duce off the land as would sustain life until the ensuing
crop, and that many of them chiefly depended on feeding
pigs for the payment of, at least, one hell-year's gale, which
a now lost, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop.
It appears certain that, in a few days, there will be extensive
employment in the county Down tor bailiffs, and for police,
if necessary, as the landlords aro making arrangements on a
large scale for the levying of their rants.

HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS.— In reply to a memorial
forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant, relative to the improve-
ment of Dunmore Harbour, in the county of Waterford, and
by his Execlleney referred to the Board of Works, Mr. Re-
dington says that the qovernment does not intend to do any-
thing at this late period of the year, but provision will be
made in the annual estimates for whatever sum may be
MU/Site.
AN IMMENSE INIsIOVATION.—A Quaker, named Peat,
has recently been admitted to the Irish bar. On Thursday
last be commenced a motion by saying—" May it please the
court," instead of " May it please your lordships." This
enormous innovation appears to have caused a " sensation,"
and has been made the most of by the press. The mode
of address adopted by the learned member of the Society of
Friends " being," says the paper from'which we copy the
information, " so widely different from the invariable prac-
tice of conventional courtesy at the bar, excited some degree
of surprise, in which the crave and learned personages on
the bench seemed to participate ; but the learned gentleman
Preserved his composure amid the temporary excitement
which his innovation had created."