The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MANOR 20.
The prospect becomes somewhat more cheering.
Late arrivals from America have inspired the country
with hope, and the markets everywhere indicate a
decline. In some places the operation has been very
sensible. For innance, in Dublin, prices have been
better sustained, but this can only be temporary, as
Dublin must follow in the wake of the other markets
of the country. In the chief provincial ports the ac-
tivity is very great in discharging provisions. The
atrivals of vessels, grain-laden, on Thursday, was ten,
and yesterday morning three additional vessels, simi-
larly freighted, were announced. There are at pre-
sent over 200 vessels laden with grain in Cork har-
bour. Between Monday and Thursday, seventeen
foreign and coasting vessels, similarly laden, arrived
in Belfast. The only exception to the general decline
in the markets is Mullingar ; but this is swing to a
most agreeable cause, namely, the pressing demand
for seed, which raises the price of oats and
oatmeal fur present consumption, but ensures
a future result, for which no compensation
can be too great. In the south, also, sowing
progresaca rapidly, which will be still more stimu-
lated by the withdrawal of the small farmers from
the public works. Another subject which excited
some alarm, and bad been talked of at Music-
hall, u an element of ruin, was the state of the wheat
plants. Since the change in the weather the young
plant has recovered its luxuriant appearance ; and all
looks like a plentiful, though perhaps a late, crop.
A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal states
that " a large proprietor in the west," whom I suspect
to be the Earl of Clancarty. " has adopted the follow-
ing judicious course to ensure the cultivation of the
small farms :—He gets four occupiers to join in a pro-
mimory note for seed and the expense of laying down
the crop, which it is their joint interest to make as
light ss possible, because all are liable for repayment.
On the amount of the note for seed and labour being
paid, the tenant has the choice of paying his year's
rent is the usual way, or of giving the remaining
half of the crop to the landlord, after deducting the
amount sold to discharge the note." The proposition
is a good one, but rather cumbrous in the number of
securities it involves.
The commissioners to whom have been entrusted
the duty of carrying out the " Temporary Relief Act"
have published the scale of rations which local com-
mittees appointed under that act will have the power
to distribute to the destitute. For adults and all
children over nine years of age one ration may con-1
sist of half a pound of bread, or one pound of biscuit,
tapes pound of meal flour or any other milled grain,
of oae quart of soup thickened with a portion of
meal, and one-fourth of any of the before-mentioned
cereals. Children under nine years of age are Ushers
one.balf portion of either of the above rations al-
lowed them.
The stream of emigration augments as the spring
season advances. I have learned, on competent au-
thority, that there is scarcely a day for the last fort-
night in which from 200 to 300, and sometimes 400,
have not passed across Channel with the determina-
tion of emigrating to Canada or the States. Frees
Dublin alone there have already sailed four vessels
of large tonnage, and six others are preparing to sail.
Noise of these vessels will contain fewer than 400
emigrants. An emigrant vessel from Liverpool, the
Princess Alice, a Canadian built ship, on her outward
voyage from the above port, struck on Howth pier,
on Thursday night, in a dense fog. The Primus
Alice carried over 200 passengers, and I have just
learned that she has become so leaky as to leave little
doubt of her going down. The passengers are about
to Mars spin to Liverpool.
His Onto Archbishop McHale has addressed an
other long letter to Lord John Russell, in which he
reviews the past and present policy of the government,
without introducing any very original dements into
the discussion. He deals very roughly with the
" Irish party," and deprecates any increase to their
power in the new poor-law. His lordship, who lives
in a very wretched country, declares that the people
lave not seed to till the lands, and his statement is