The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duetix, Dac. 5.
The Westmeath paper, which reached this morn-
ing, announces another murder in Rceoommon on
Friday last The name of the victim is not commu-
nicated, bat it is stated that the event took place near i
Castlerea at noon-day, and within a few yards of the
gentleman's own house. As murder is now abroad
on the wind, perhaps the last may be a rumour with-
out
foundation. To-morrow, however, will confirm or
refute it.
In the Globe of Friday evening appears a corre-
spondence from "Outs," headed, "Two more Mur-
ders." The pretended victims are " Mr. Arthur
Wellesley Young," whose assassination is fortified by
what the lawyers call his " addition," as agent to
Lord Mountsandford and Mr. Wills." The other victim
is " a rich farmer, named Tristan," and the scene of
his dispatch Mayo. If these murders be real we, at
least, have heard nothing certain of them in Ireland.;
though, as to Tristan, there is an unconfirmed
rumour. The aristocratic prefixes of Mr. Young
could not fail to attract public attention. Both are
simple fictions, and the Globe was imposed upon.
The peasantry of Roscommon have crimes to expiate,
but it is ungenerous to add to the catalogue by sheer
inventions. The immolation of Major Mahon and the
Rev. Mr. Lloyd, is quite sufficient to bring the county
under the ban of the new law, a result which the
Globe correspondent seems anxious to facilitate.
As one proof of the depression of the times the
Limerick paper states that attestation of the service
of 16 writs on various gentlemen had bean made
before a single master extraordinary of that city
daring four days. The same paper records a more
pleasing symptom of the times however, in the fact
that the Marquis of Waterford keeps constantly em-
ployed eight hundred men. If every Irish noblemen
and proprietor did proportionately as much we should
have little difficulty for parliament to deal with.
STATX OF THE COVNTRY.—TiIe siTelta of noted charac-
ters goes on efficiently. In the Limerick Chronicle of yes-
terday we find recorded the comrotttal of " a captain of a
gang," Matthew Sheedy, who had fled to London some time
since and on his return was seised by the police. In another
quarter three " notorious characters" have been made ame-
nable ; and in a third ease, two who, having been coneemead
in an abduction in Limerick, were seized in Cork by the
police just as they descended from the coach. Ontrew
have not ceased, and the plunder of property is much on this
increase. An attack was made at Birdhill, awe
Nensgb, upon a labourer, who came from a &s-
-tares to succeed another, who had been discharged;
his arm was broken. In another, shots were fired at a man
on the highway who bad been stopped by footpads. Fortu-
nately he bad no money. A poor carman was stopped on
Friday evening on the highway, within three miles of Lime-
rick, and robbed of five pounds, and on the same day, seven
tarts conveying flour from Cahn, Tipperary, to Limerick,
were stopped at Boher, in the latter county, and the whole of
the flour carried off. Amongst the suderen by the plunder
of sheep the last week has been the Roman catholic Dean of
Cease].
MILOZANDA or Caists.—The Limerick Chronicle pub-
lishes the following :—"The following was found in the
pocket of Michael Skeehan, whose serest we announced, by
Sub-Inspector Heard, and Constable* Keane and Lee, at
Roxborotigh, altar a sharp ran, and who has been fully
Identified and committed for attacking the house of Win.
Walsh, Esq., of Trough, and taking therefrom a double-
barrelled gun and a brace of pistols :—Auguat Ist, got 11.
for aq cursed shoot; cat meat Ash•Wedneecley ; fell by
impurity Ant with woman ; neglected Easter and Christ-
• man dues; neglected prayers morning evening ; got 11. for
my cursed shoot ; eat eggs Ash-Wednesday ; neglected
ftrzlnies morning
thaisas
,antod iaeaniz. ThLambovo;
is supposed, by
unfor-
tunate man was about to confess to his clergyman."

SCOTLaND.
EDINEII7IOII, DEC. 4.
The people here feel wrath at the taunt of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in stating that a proof
of the instability of the Scotch banks was afforded
by some of those institutions requiring assistance.
Surely, if a man's hands and feet are tied, there is no
pusillanimity displayed if he uks the party who im-
posed the bonds to loosen them ? If a Scotch bank
have some thousands of its own gold lying in its own
coffers, is it not a perversion of language to say that,
latter being prohibited from using its own property,
the relief vouchsafed by the which padlocks
those coffers should bedignified with the name of
" esslatanoe ? " Let the Scotch banks be made free,
and government will hear as little et them as they do
at Sod* insurance Aces. Aa iminese. although of
esedwe kid, of the iseespelesey et do *Ate to die.
chewy the functions d bssshsq i • illededbirtlaie
low rate of interest lama to eschwiNalk i-
tem by the Comisionos he the Rawest the
National Debt Govossasot =drew* tbs patronage
et thew banksla wise to bonsat the tracking classes
—but how are they doing so P In the National
Security Savingullaak the interest on deposits is not
S per cent. ; whilst in the Greenock Provident Bank,
and others of a similar character,3 percent.isallowed
on accounts under 201.
In Glasgow the extensive mortality among poor-
law officials has led to the idea of their lives being in-,
eared at the public expense ; and as gratuities are
slowst always given to their widows and families the I
plan has economy in its favour. But what an ,
amount of sanitary declension does such a
the
indicate. A preliminary movement of the w 1
Health Asocial= has been announced by the .
Mr. D'Orsay to the parochial board. In addition to
the canal °Moe-bearers in such institutions it is pro-
posed to have sanitary wardens and sanitary mUsion-1
tries, whose duty it will be to inculcate the virtue
and enforce the practice of cleanliness. No assess-
ment is contemplated, the whole of the funds being
expected to arise from voluntary contribution.

iA second game-law ease of Capt. Nemyas, late
M.P., is reported, and the decision recorded is, that
the tenant is entitled to damages on account of the
game being " excessive." The decision in the first
ea" referred to yesterday, was to the effect that a
tenant was not entitled to frighten game by blank
shuts and muzzled dogs, but at its announcement one
I of the judges remarked, that the circumstance of the
tenant being prohibited from scaring strengthened
his claim against the landlord for damages. Latterly
Capt. Wally's has been acquiring wisdom on the game
qaestion, as it is now understood that he allows
tenants to shoot on their own farms. The Earl of
Eglinton has also been making a good use of his sur-
plus game, having distributed several deers amongst
the poor in Kilwinning.