The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dennis, MAY 21.
The rescript said to have arrived from Rome, eon-
firming and approving the statutes of the Synod of
Thurles, lets not yet made its appeAMICC, nor has
any allusion lava made to it in the Fee,mon's Jour-
nal since that which I transmitted on Saturday last.
The MIA t, the weekly llama catholic organ, however,
alludes to the matter es a thing about which there is
no doubt, and further adds, that " not merely are the
Thurles statutes confirmed. but new halls are to lie
issued;" and that " parliament will not be risen
when we shall have most, if not all, of the new
liaglish secs, provided with bishops and eceksiastics
consecrated for that end under colour of authority
from the see of Home: " " The Pope," continues
the TidiG t. "does not, of course, take this step to
brave the English varliament, or to brave anybody ;
but, having matked out a course for himself, he
solves to walk steadily in it ; neither delaying nor
hastening his steps, ignoring the English parliament
as lie before ignored the Anglican lierasy ;
deliberately, and s•dierly, doing his own work at his
own time, when it seems most fitting and convenient
fin• the spiritual well latingofthese over whom he rules."
Still, notwithstanding the boastful and insolent toneef
the rabid, the generality of people here seem mydt i tied
on the subject, and no one appears to know the pre-
cise purport of the documents, whatever they may
be, which have been received from the Roman see.
Some progress would seem to be making with the
limitation of a so-called Catholic Defenee :boccie-
ti,m," and the approbation of such a project by. some
of the Romau cath die bishops is paraded in the
newspapers. There appears, however. to be a lack
of such men us enukl eth-ctively work such en orga-
nisation, and hitherto at least, the association has
assumed no tangible form. It is arranged that the
first pubiie meeting of the proposed association will
take place on the 11/th of next month.

A requisition, very numerously signed by the
electors of Newry, gas ken conveyed by a deputa-
tion to Mr. Dargan, the extensive railway contractor,
requesting him to lseome a candidate for the repre-
sentation of the borough. No reply has yet been re-
ceived from Mr. Darwin, who is Isl
According to the latest accounts from Van Die-
men's Land, Thomas Meagher one of the " Irish
exiles," has area also subjected to close confine-
ment for having broken the conditions of his ticket
of leave to 'risk O'Brien. The Nal i.Pu discredits the
report that Smith O'Brien had nceepted a situation
in a gentleman's fitfully and that Meagher was about
getting married to a Eiriner's daughter.
A man identified as one of the principals in the
attempted murder of Mr. Billing, has been com-
mitted for trial.

The local magistrutea, after a len4thened enquiry,
have came t i the conclusion that the burning of
Downhill-home, in the county of Derry, was the
work of an incendiary.

AIY'ELERITII)N Or THE MAILS FROM InEt..txn.—
T:o Postmaster-general purposes carryiii.: into effect, in
conjunction with the authorities of the London and North
Western and Chester :mot Holyhead Itailasys, an arrastim-
meta by which pasion ter-, ',Deis, and h. wspapers leaving
Dublin at 7 p.m. each evening will reach London ut 19.30
a.m. the following dsy, instead of at I p.m. as at pr,sent.
This will ...Ave a day fn. the course ut post tweeu London
and the whole of Ireland.

AN OrTII.ULL: .t PARgONA-torus is dins described
by a vorrespoutlestt of Sermaers' News 1.1-ffer:—•• Wed.
nesolay night last, about the hour of half-past ton
o'clock. three shots were discharged thruserli the window of
tb bedestom of 3lieltael Youn, at Clonong-hill, within one
mile and a half of this town. 'rho sas's and Live panes of
glass were broken: the contents (large slugs anol pellels)
were lodged in the oiling of the noont, stool in the opposite
hall. Young's bed n3o grite edose to the window. Ile
was afraid to get up or look out led be should Ise shot. If..
did not, therebore, see any of tilt• party, but he heard seve-
ral voices outside his sham On the following morning
Young found posted on his dour a notice, ordering hint to
gait that neighbourhoosl, or h. would net the death of
Pike; the notice farther stated that nu ether members of
Young's persuasion would be allowed to reside iu Chu-mg,
hill in future. Young is only a fete 'lays Hs big et! bill; his brother lived there before hint. The cause
assigned fir thi. work is that Young, who has seceded
from the Roman catholic church, is entplosyssl as a Scripture
reader by the Ike. Or. Cathie, preshyterian minister, and
in that capseitr ti-its several Roman catholic families in
that locality. 'I he Mr. Pike referred 1 in the notice was
shoot dead some few months ago, in the 11011t1 day, within is
short distance of Youta,i's Louse. Attootiter convert was
also cautioned in the notice 'to hold his chat in future.'"
A IYOILNLIOrsIi E1'154014:.—.: local journal gives
the following curious statement, slated Cashel, May 16:—
Oa last Friday week the child of a pauper in the house
died. The smother was filni.3l3 not iv bar.• it cast into the
"omnibus" grate, and she got leave to take it to the
burial place of family. A ,tll aged about 50 years,
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also a pauper, and reissterel as •. 31)1•7•110died," 21%31111p:1-
uic.l her. They took the soffits is turns, the dowsed
ham; fourteen yesrs of age! The pear man ate his break-
fast the morning of the funeral—(uh, think of an Irish
funeral with two attendants!)--he helped the mother to
carry her chit!' tt Ardmayle grave-yon', a distance of four
miles. They left Vs! workhouse at .1 o'clock in thee.% sting,
and staggered on to the bridge of Arright (half-wa).)
when the man got faint ontd coal go no further. The
mother struggled on with h'-r dead child fur another mile,
when she too had to yield from weakness. Some litimane
persons going by saw the state of affair-, and they carried
the coffin to the churchyard, where thsy fastened it to the
branch of a tree to preserve it from slogs, until morning.
It was then buried by the neighbour. The poor mother
was so exhausted that she had to be broil ;lit sack to the
workhouse in an stss's ear! The poor man who volun-
teered to aid the woman crept front the place where he
faintest on the Thorles rood, where he lay until morn-
ing! Ile was found almost insensible, and, being put on
a car, he died on his way to the workhouse ! On his
stomach being opened it was found empty! Yet, mark
you, this rota was the day before Cassed amongst the
" able-hedied" paupers.

Tilt: Sret'Ess ATTENDANT tPoN THE PEAT OPERA-
TIONS ix InCLANn, and the dionanil which ha. arisen in
these markets for peat charcoal, lue, Cans. d attention to be
paid to its manufacture in Eughoill. Perhaps the peat-bogs
of England have been mer: neglected than those of Ireland,'
but them u is growing impression that their products are
capable of utilisation. In Ireland, very naturally, the ap-
pheation of peat for fuel has claimed the must attention, but
here, wle re thu supply of coal is abundant, and its Me
general, and where even the artificial fuel, are dairfiy coin- 1
rased of coal, there is little opening far the manufacture of
peat fuel. There is, however, another branch of applies.
tion which has been eagerly 'wiz,. I upon, and that is the
employment of peat charcoal in the pr. paration of manure.
The competition to which the English farmer is subjected
ha, led him to great exertions, and MI, produced a large de-
mand for artilichil mawares, as the MUMMA: trade, whiqh
basso suddenly -prong up in guano, prone. We cannot,
however, but regret that 10 little is done for appropriating
and c-cononthing our home supplies. It is, indeed, is la-
mentable thing to consider, that in this metropolis alone
manure sufficient to grow corn for two millions of I an
beings is yearly wasted, will nay elheacious step being
tak-n to remedy such xenon. waste. 'I he application of
sewage manure for irrigation is a palliative of such partial
application as to alined nothing like an adequate remedy.
While we imported guano from abroad in DIM to the
extant of 116,9'26 tons, and at a cost of 1,000,000 f.,
a much greater quantity of manure of equal
quality was washed into the Thames to the de-
triment of the public health. Although no large
measure is to be expectod, it is some satisfac-
tion to find that the authorities have given en-
couragement to the British Peat Charcoal and Manure
Company. Th.: Duchy of Cornwall have made a grant of
peat land on adrantagi ous terms, and there is some pros-
pect of obtaining einvict labour from the great Penitentiary
on Dartmoor, end immediately alter obtaining the act of
parliament works are to be commenced at Dartmoor and
other station-. We cannot, however, but think that in a
subject of such inyortanee the company should not be sub-
jected to the delay of obtaining an act of parliament, but
that a charter should at once be granted by the govern.
aunt, as there are no existing private interests which can
be interfered with It is likewise stated that the extent of
peat land in this island is upwarls of 2,090,000 of acres, af-
fording material of the greatest value to agriculture, if pro-
perly applied, and for which great encouragement ought to
be given.—Doif!, Sera.

TUE CIIAEGE AGAINST TUE MASTER OF ST. PANCRAS
Wountsucse..—At a meeting of the directors of the poor of
St. Pancras, held on Tuesday, Mr. Cr. W. F. Cook. the
clerk to the directors, laid before the board a communica-
tion ho had received from the poor law hoard, calling on
him to furni-h, without delay, the copies of all evidence, as
well as minutes and resolutions of the bond, in reference to
the recent charge againn Mr. John 11. Eaton, the master of
the workhouse. Ile (3(r. Cook) had to apply to the board
for permission to employ and pay a person to cop y such
documents and evidence as, from the vast amount of other
business on hand at that moment, it ma+ impossible
he could do so without assist ince, as the evidence
alone would make one hundred brief sheets. Indeed, lately
there were so many einiununications from the poor-law
board, that it required one clerk alone to answer them.
Mr. T. 11. Smith should most certainly object to sending
the origiaal documenv.—The Chairman said that they hail
forwarded the original documents in the ca., of the chil-
dren going to Bc =oda, and they were returned.—Mr.
Billets doubted etc right of the Poor-law limed to the do-
cuments at all.—Mr. Burrows said the documents and evi-
dence were open to tho Poor-law Bawd it they thought
proper to tend and copy theist ; and, if they did not send
and copy them, and at their own expen-e, let them go
without them. Mr. Godilen, Mr. Timpson, and other lien-
tlenv n ,:cike upon the question, and it was ultimately re-
'Weird to 'errata the original evidence and documents to
the Po. ir-law Board, on conilit ion tiat they ,:lVe a guarantee
to retort them %lieu demanded.