The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

THE EXP4ES6, WIMNESDAT EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1848.

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liberated. &nos the death of her soother she had disap-
peared. The police had charge of the roma cad had looked
the door.-31z. Wright, • surgeon, said ha had made • pose
csorfent examination, and attributed death to • diseased
'orain ',satiating from •sturnl MUSIC—The Coroner said if
that was the Ms there was so necessity to make any further
inquiry, and if the woman. lad received twenty blows it
would not affect the daughter.—The Jury then returned an
open Verdict of, "Found dead apparently from gainful
muses."

MR PIOOU AND NATIONAL DEFENCE.
Bir,—As you are probably u jest as you are able,
you will allow ma to vindicate myself briefly from one
aspersion in your journal of yesterday, that cf being influ-
enced by personal motives when I press for national defence.
In the DM place I beg to disclarm them, which goes for
nothing, unless I join to my disclaimer something own
solid, which may be ascertained to be true on inquiry in the
proper quarter. It is this : the Ordnance contracts are now
conducted with so strict a regard to economy, that it is
doubtful if the merchant gains any advantage from them.
The terms at present are just one-half those of the last war,
the materials and labour quite as costly.
I do not presume to blame that department for so close an
attention to the public interest; I merely state the fact,
which is as creditable to it as disadvantageous to the con-
tractor. I will, however, my, that in taking the part that I
have done in this controversy, I ran the risk of incurring
the displeasure of that board, which might very well have
resented the disclosure which I made of the deficiencies in
their arm, as well ea in many others, and I certainly have
not escaped the censure of the Treasury. lam free to own
that I had not4foreeeen this last consequence ; but I make
bold to say, that if I had, it would net have deterred me—the
sale, poplar being in my mind the suprenso kr, antecedent
to private interest. To sneer at a man because he is &trader,
you must allow me to say, will net succeed in a country like
thin, where every second family is traced to the heart of the
City, and in which the greatest noblee and the oldest gentry
are directly and deeply interested in 010 sale of their iron,
copper, coal, and slate. The late Lord Dudley often bowed
of his driving three trades. Re said he was 111°. ironmaster,
a cost merchant, and a quarrier.
If, however, trade and its bias are to be imputed to every
person who proposes any public measure, who is more ob.
nozioas than Mr. Cobden ? Any ungenerous antagonist
might allege that his motive in abolishing the corn law
which his energy and
.sagacity brought about in opposition
to both the great parties, was that of doubling his profit,. Yet
none did so but the very fanatic or the very selfish.
In conclusion, I amen that I do not yield to him, or any,
in my desire for universal pesos and goodwill. I have advo-
cated nothing like aggression, but have thought the best
method of securinc those great boons was an attitude of
defenoe, one that is adopted by every ether power. I am
aware, indeed, that yourself and many other persons of
talent and worth, decide that a fleet dispersed over the whole
face of the universe, empty arsenals, no militia, no store of
arms, a scanty artillery, and a slender army, are the best
means of security. It is my misfortune to differ from this
conclusion, but I do not therefore impute discredikble
motives to those who think differently.—Fasuzaica PIQOU.
—Travellers Club, Pail-mall, Jan. 25.

IRELAND.
Dram!, lAN. 24.
The comminsion opened to-day, at a late hour, in
Clonmel. Between three and four o'clock it was ex-
pected the charge would be delivered, and as the
Cork mail which passes through Clonmel at half-past
five p.m. is the vehicle to transmit the report, there
will scarcely be time to supply a transcript of the
charge. Among the persons to be tried at the com-
mission, and to whom local interest very anxiously
attaches, is John Lonergan, charged with the murder
of Mr. Roe. Able counsel, it is reported, are specially
retained to defend him—Mr. Brewster, late solicitor-
general, and Mr. O'flagan. The former selection a
little surprises.
Dr.Maginn has discharged his third epistle at Lord
Stanley. It is very elaborate and learned in the his-
tory of ancient persecutions against the Roman
mtholics. Dr. Magnin lays down two propositions—
let, That the catholic clergy connived at the crimes
of the peasantry ; 2nd, That they abused the confes-
sionaL Let," he says, " your lordship prove either
against any clergyman in Ireland, and I pledge myself
to his perpetual degradation, and the full concurrence
of the priesthood of Ireland in any punishment the
laws of the land may inflict."
I communicated last week a paragraph from a local
paper containing some suspicious circumstances about
the death of the Rev. Thomas Maguire. It was said
he and his family had been poisoned. Whether the
transaction has been fully investigated I know not,
but a chemical analysis by competent medical men has
discovered poison in the stomach of the sister and
brother-in-law of Mr. Maguire.
A correspondent of the Freeman announces a very
melancholy fact—that the ltev. Mr. Moore, a pro-
testant clergyman, committed suicide on Friday last,
in the gaol of Enniskillen. The unhappy gentleman
was confined for debt,

RETIAL ABSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this
body was held to.day, the Right Hon. Jeremiah Dunne,
Lord Mayor, in the chair. His lordship, in reference to the
omission of the memory of the late Mr. O'Connell at the
recent civic banquet, caused a letter to be read, in which he
explained that the omission was made inadvertently; that
be had always been a sincere and devoted adherent of
O'Connell, and that no one outside his family more
revered his memory. A letter Will read from the
Right Rev. Dr. O'Higgins, coveting a remittance of
ell. from himself and the clergy of his diocese.
In referring to another letter, Mr. John O'Connell said he
owed it to the country and to the safety of the people to refer
to the dangerous, and he would say the seditious, doctrines
promulgated in some recent publications of the Young Ire-
hinders. He did not wish to point the notice of the law
against any party, but he thought that in a time like the
present, when intense suffering had made the popular mind
peculiarly susceptible of excitement, it was the duty of every
man to oppose the dissemination of principles which must
impel the people into insurrection—an insurrection in which
they would either be hewn down by the English troops, or—
if the troops but collected the food into the towns and con-
sumed it there, surrounding the coast, as England could
do, with a wall of ships, an insurrection in which the
people must be starved—utterly annihilated without • blow.
He thought these men must be paid ; for would any men be
mad enough to venture such lengths, unless they knew what
ground they stood on. He called upon the government, if
a would not be held accessary to the results inevitable from
the promulgation of such doctrines, to prevent the disse-
mination among the people of such publications as those
with which some recent advertisements threatened them.
He would have what was passed left untouched ; but the
ordinary law, not any coercion law, should be brought into
operation to check them for the future.—The rent for the
week was 1091. Is. Bd.
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DIB.ECTIONII TO 1it.1311 MAOIIITILLM.—The following
letter from the chief socretar7 has been addremed to the
Marquis of Donegal, Lord-Lieutenant of Antrim, for the
information sad direction of the magistracy of that county
Dublin Castle. .4th January, 1648.—My liar4—la amegumei of
the prevent disturbed mate et many parte of ime. hde
comddere it right to draw your *Minion to the pretlisse eirtrZ
and Ini Maim IV, Up. 1110, which pad eppelogmad of
special eimettim Is welt ewe TM emcee imptimaima for
the yaMeatben of Mmetivehrgy, Oka various astir stliditlety lave to
prams. sad W dWaity siperleemel Y sees Nttg a stalest
moan, et demi ma is weftm Imo iaems et the
dare* ditti ismina. meter it a lavaim• dm. whom mimes-
oar. MOM ssisstinlft aide be seem who, seem is mewl with
the amila= emit be eseblel ee belp up a sysma paerelling,
sod at mar the pare of the dlidet. Br
the lb* alseles 21.4"..4, en, two or are Maims men upon
the Ma at asy aulitside mear that angtanolh sew Mt, et
Mean Ye Sim Om. rey crash te Is est
Mitriet, that the Mdwary essalabalsgy le sellelese tte the
premerestim et eat perm pawed= et die Imbelit=es=
at sesperle, ems Is be emus Is, le die esesest
sty misber etbeeeetwilden, se ups emetelau HY eneellesay
wet
strzrirstipte earellelmgduty, with
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eibitoillg, to supprem mounal Mita are, to
ems Matrists, so prevalent, and haws abet upon the
tumid mem of the district. BMWS asp wales of to. county of
rard.srm.ere Ueoteoent require the argaMistimi this lane, the
t begs that you will sail the attention et tle=
Wafts to tbs provisions of the act referred to, the pranged
▪ ebleb, It le to be hoped, will be attended with math etweetese, by
emboss; the eal-eup;sel inhabitants in the aims et ewe end
order.— 1 hare the homer to be, my lord, your lenleWa nett elm
(tient servant, Wm. M. Sournoviaa.a.—Tas Mamie et Doellele.
Lwatenant of Antrim.