The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, ACOMIT 11.
Among the most intelligent, active, and economical
grand juries in Ireland may be ranked the grand jury
of Kerry. That body, including -Mr. Herbert,M.P.,
and Mr. Pierce Mahony, has just published en elabo-
rate and instructive report on the financial state of
that important county, which contains some very Ta-
leak information, and exhibits the progressive spirit
esirleined by the landed proprietors of Kerry in
&wow of their tenantry. The report states that since
1834 the sum of 141,3211. has been expended on
ark and public works, and the remit has fully jus-
did the most sanguine expectations of their pro-
sodies, inasmuch as the public communications of
tie county have increased in thirteen years from 520
in 1,373 miles. For the oonstruction of these works
,the Board of Public Works afforded in loans and
pants in aid 119,0001., and the landed 'proprietors
$411,0001. Of the mins advanced by the board there
is now due the trifling balance of 13,7431., while the
balance due by the treasury to the Killarney and
Take savings banks exceeds 90,0001.
Under the Labour-rate Act the sum of 242,1001.
has been expended, of which one. half is to be repaid,
sad adding damages for lands, estimated at 30,0001.,
the total charge on lands is 151,0341. By a series of
minute calculations, the report finds that, inclusive of
instalments, county ease poor rate at 2s. in the pound,
the total sums to be levied before March, 1848, will
be 77,6361., and for the rummer assizes of the same
year, 45,6131., or a total of 123,2311., the net poor-law
valuation being 348,6931. As a relief against this
eau drain, the committee look to the continuous
employment of the able-bodied labourers on reproduc-
tiveworks, and suggest the completion of the roads under
the Labour-rate Act, and extensive drainage works. As
to the roads, they state that of 450 miles commenced
may 80 are available, which, instead of costing
242,0001., should have been executed for 187,3001.,
including damages for land. Thus the total loss
through the relief system, independent of staff, in-
struments, &c. is set down at 157,4611.! A series of
resolutions founded on the ',port was adopted, of
which one dooms to be gusted in extenso.
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Sheedd le. sway saelYe Is eve enact to the Landed Pro.
surly 11161 at kg side. as Aare all, to adopt, as landlords, the
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The relief oxamisedoners have issued an important

circular to the inspecting officers.
having been made to the commissioners against closing
the temporary relief on Sunday next, on the three-fold
grounds—first, that the harvest will not then be in
fall operation ; secondly, the general want of means
among the poor ; thirdly, the want of funds in the
hands of poor-law guardians ; the circular, in reply,
states that the actual state of the harvest in the pre-
cise locality should not be the only datum for discon-
tinuance, since the reduced price of food and the in-
creasing demand for labour must afford means of
earning a subsistence. This is proved by referring
to the light tests established in several places. The
Relief Act having been passed solely to replace for
one season the failure of the potato, it was to cease so
soon u the crops of the ensuing season should come
forward and provisions become more plentiful. This
result having been attained, the guardians must take
charge of the poverty of the country, but in some re-
mote districts relief may be continued, by special per-
mission, for limited periods. At the end of Sep-
tember all advances under the act must cease.
Judge Ball, in his charge to the grand jury, gives
a distressing picture of the social state of Mayo. " I
find," said his lordship, " not fewer than 137 pri-
soners for trial, for crimes comprising every degree of
guilt it is the lot of human frailty to be subject to—
robbery, burglary, murder, larceny, and a crime
novel to this country—piracy." This is a fearful
condition, but not to be wondered at when we reflect
that of the 137 prisoners nine only can read and
write !

STATE or THE COVETILT.—The property of Mr. Carden,
of Barnette, Tipperary, has been sgain this year the scene of
disturbance. A few days since, a large body of men as-
sembled and cut and carried away 'five acres of oats grown
on lands, the former tenantry of which had left them. A
man named Stapleton was shot at near Nenagh a few nights
since, and severely, but nolidangerously, wounded ; he was a
land steward.