The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dr eLrx, Ocr. 19.
One of the wont features of Irish agrarian crime,
as it has been frequently remarked, consists in its
general effects on the population. I may not here
speculate upon the causes—but one fact contained in
the Clare Journal, proves that crime still finds its
abettors and sympathisers in circles as yet untainted
by the act. On Friday last a party attacked the
house of a peasant, named Mc.Mahon, who with
the aid of his brother repelled the assailants, and made
one a prisoner. The shots attracted the neighbouring
villagers, who, instead of putting handcuff. on the
marauder, and marching him off to Ennis gaol,
washed and dressed his wounds, and then set him at
liberty! The local paper is inclined to parade rather
a strong " state of the country " column, but there is
intrinsic evidence of truth in the Craganfeigh narra-
tive. The personage who presides over the midnight
turbulence of Clue is a " lady" of that name. She
has, in the exercise of her high calling, lately issued
an edict prohibiting her subjects from risking their
lives in the nightly search for arms. This apparent
call to order may Ise referred to the cheap terms, says
the Clare Journal, on which a musket might be pur-
chased.

Prices took a downward tendency at our corn.
market to-day, though supplies were very limited.

PROPPIITIES in CHANCEKT.—The following appears in
the Evening Post :
We Mill with deems that the Lord Chancellor, eel the ether
ambers of the Cheri of Chesear7, have receally whoa every deers
he Mew all riewewiereasigalleef bibs Oiled um the abbe
maw the mirelet eseet.le mobs enhe Ind eel spirt for thet
try be leebbiere. miler the mildew et the "Ad br
el LEM Pripet, in IrviraL" AWL=
the el hie Web* Mr. Cirsplee, of
ebb wire hide entombs boa efewelea ewe b
war sewed sewed aloft ebbe the met, bee arensall be meter of
en mime predliel feeetwew he the were ef rift Wm to
sminsimfisig leis the wienereas et lei Meta. ewe theme, and
revers be het method of derideeleg Mai! pradtietimi cowers.
• geed be anted If this aerie he wiented generally. We
here seam brawn up by Mr. Ombra, with the aid of this
gentleman, reberleg le 110 Web the property of a minor, • ward
of the (bort of draws et Nye relaerahly circumstanced, from
went outs miles rumen lib" breeeht to beer. nom the state-
Mad tt that by an outlay et shout 470 amok at pea
cant tonproductive, wean berm good arable land, the
sereeble robe el which would be berewel lth yearly.
Mb wadi omenet inwelif ..-- £3ss 0 0
While the lee* bakelwent be the regegreenot of the prin-
cipal and blend et el. 10e. br telt 1001. expended
would be

£144 0 B
Thas showing • clear aimual profit to the tenant of 1441., without any
mat whatever to the inheritors of the new in gumbo. We hope
dila good example will not be kW sight of, and that a step .0 tiroely
and so wise undo' the present disistrous cireumshusoes of the eauntry

will operate ee an bwentire to renewed and farther emotion on the
pert ot the owners of property In Ireland.

SCOTLAND.
EDINDOION, OCT. 19.
" The bottle" is in the ascendant at Glasgow. On
the evening of last Saturday, twenty-five persons, of
both sexes, were lodged in the central police offioe in
such advanced stages of intoxication that most of
them had to be conveyed in barrows and other ma-1
chines. The oldest policeman had not for five years
seen such an influx of inebriety, and the only way of
accounting for it is the rifeness of money among the
labouring classes, from their having been so exten-
sively employed during harvest. Glasgow also
threatens to furnish an addition tothe list of matrimo-
nial murders. The victim is a man named Keenan, a
labourer. He died on Sunday last, and the autopsy
proves that he had been poisoned by laudanum.
Suspicion resting on his wife, she is now in custody.
In Edinburgh, a crime of less enormity has been
brought home to the accused at the expense of some
ingenuity. About 70 pigeons having been abstracted
from a dove-cote belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch,
and two parties having been, apprehended who were
proved to have supplied large quantities for shooting
saloons, it only remained to prove the identity of the
birds in the hands of the police. To settle this several
ofthe pigeons were on two differentdays let off from the
county hall, Arthues-seat, and Calton-hill, small pieces
of scarlet cloth being tied round their legs, and as some
fifty per cent, of the number found their way to the
duke's cote, other cotes requiring to be in their
course, the proof was held sufficient, and the
were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
The raged-school system is not progressing in
Glasgow. fhe schools, it appears, have been open for
about three months : the attendance is half what it
ought to be, while juvenile mendicancy is not percep-
tibly diminished. The police, it is complained, do not
co-operate with the school committee, only one police-
man being authorised to enlist pupils for the service.
The committee also complain that people having 245.
and 2.35. a week would, if permitted, allow their chil-
dren to attend the school. Now, it appears to as, thattbe
Glasgow authorities are hypercritical, and that they
will never carry out the ideal of ragged seminaries if
'they are so particular as to the kind of fish that may
come into their nets. Juvenile begging should be
declared penal, and the punishment should con-
sist in being summarily handed over to the
ragged school. The moment that an urchin
commences his "Please, sir," no time should
be given him to finish the sentence; the police
should be called as promptly as if his fingers were in
one's pockets, and in this way the streets may be
cleared and the schools filled ; but certainly under the
I eclecticism of Glasgow the negative sign will never
be shown in the streets, or the positive in the semi-
, nary. No doubt it is hard that people having an in-
come of 245. or 235. a week should allow their child-
ren first to beg, and in due course to steal; but how
is this to be helped? Mr. Squeers well observed that
throe was no act of parliament to prevent a man from
calling his house an island ; and assuredly there is no
statute compelling the persons in question to send
their children to school. Such being the case, the
question stands--the ragged school or no education;
if the latter, begging will swell into pilfering, and
then follows the old rivime of the gaol, hulks, gal-
lows, &c. ; but without requiring the imaginative
faculty to realise such results, the adult drunkenness at
the Glasgow police-office last Saturday should teach
the importance of correct dealing with young beggars.
The academic visit of Lord John Russell to Glas-
gow is to be taken advantage of by the Lord Provost
and magistrates, who meet to-day for the purpose of
resolving as to the best means of bringing the state
of the money market ander his lordship's notice.
Lord John will find it easier for the rector of the
university to give the ingenious youths of St.
Mungo advice as to classical and scientific study,
than for the first lord of the treasury to calm the
fears of their parents as to the harmlessness of Peel's

The Glasgow Reformers' Gazette alleges that on a recent
Sunday Mrs. Butler, the actrem, said, " open sesame" to
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and getting a special
train, travelled from Glasgow to Edinburgh—the line, as
is well known, having for the last twelve months been shut
on Sunday to every other body. The Gazette account
runs thus

Let Sodas, Mrs. Butler, the celebrant metres% rime
from to Gram, She landa at ewe of our =thgnalale
hotels, get tar from the railway statinm, la M. George's-square.
She asked to proceed to Edinburgh thug Meg. The night, be
t dmi was Sendai. application, by elm moms or other,
twiswlidie the railway guidon. We hate hoard that Mr. Peter
Blaeltheen Weep era In twee. We are not M rare of Mat. But
we aze lehealy ewe of this, namely, that a sada Mai ammilly
=sl*au& Hatter, and old she went teen Olarow to Baer
yer this atm& Salt Sunday night The Ml* onteeed
to be Iwoa“prelliewi rent ;" but how raid tt he hea a prebend
secret w3b sea Malay end Woman, at " wwwweenehle homy"
whoa qv det are an prebably the mat may ataawYMt
We shale* lie dinettes to esefteffia oet moat, V they we.
If they awert wr Yai a It—lt they 'moot look oak OM=
In as bee sleet kw weals, whet they will say aMr
Agnew, sr tether, we woke whets ffet will ay to than it
he neat Was Olemew. Una. Halter sea drive aa Malay per as
=y, or Mr. litesktme. the drinesa. do la Way Mee es
esekall dein at wee that eB Batten awl have the Vie
prrikwe ? We auk Mee dleeeews. as geed dad arm asa, why they
ooneede to an wren se hasity. that wash they any to a sturdy
presbyter lan, in mane if merieney, on the sans (be