The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dusinc, JAW. 31.

Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P. for Tralee, has
pablished an address to his constituents, in which he
lakes the judicious and manly course of disconnecting
himself totally from those Irish members who have
been endeavouring to get up a factious opposition to
the Aberdeen administration in this country. In
adopting this course at the present moment Mr
O'Conoell exhibits no small amount of moral
courage ; but there is little doubt that if other honest
Irish members, and prominent liberals entertaining
the same opinions, had the manliness to speak out
with equal candour and openness, they would find
an adt gusto response among the people at large. In
the course of his address Mr. O'Connell says :
My humble opinion is, that the present ministry should
get $ for trial. There are amongst them many excellent
men of business, conversant with all the details of official
duty. They sail under the flag of tree trade. A consider-
able number of them advocated your religious liberties at
the •ime of that greatest legislative bungle on record, the
'eh...ionic:al Titles Bill ; they are the declared supprters
of the progress of national liberty, civil and religious;
and until 1 find that they fail in the support of the rinci-
pies which I believe they honestly mean to uphold, I, with
TNT approval, will give them my humble support. . .
No man more deplores the enactment of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Act than I do, or can be more simians for its repeal.
It we., to ass Talleyraud's phrase, " worse than a crime—
it was a folly." But its discussion roused the spirit of bi-
gotry Limit in the English breast. Need I tell you the
consequences of the evocation of that evil spirit ? I have
only to name Stockport, and the question is answered. That
spirit is still abroad and active. Time must pass before it
can be laid. fhe passiag of that act was the heaviest blow
and the deepest discouragement received by the cause of
religious liberty in our time. But its repeal
will he a work of time and labaur. I ask you,
men of Tralee, whether I, me your representative, should
pledge myself to oppose any and every ministry which should
aut attempt the immediate repeal of that act, though (allow-
ing it to hang rusting in the legal armoury) they support
and carry measures fur the benefit of the empire. and most
particular)) for the benefit of Ireland ? I know what your
answer will be. Some Irish representatives have been
blamed for taking office under the present government.
The gintlemen may have been rash in promises and pledges,
perhaps, like lieneriict in the play, who, when he said that
he would die a bachelor, thought that he should not live to
get married; and that, in my mind, is about the utmost
that could be said of them. I have the honour of knowing
those geatlemen, and I feel convinced that they would not
have accepted office save on terms honourable to them-
selves and advantageous to Ireland. Their conduct in office
will prove whether lem justified in the conviction. But
let me be permitted to sa: that there is one appointment
for which I specially rejoice—that of my esteemed and
valued friend, the present Solicitor-General for Ireland.
On that matter I shall only say that I am sure it is Judi-
clew, and snticipste that it will prove a most useful ap-
prontment for Ireland.

The 1/üblin University Commission met at the
palace, S'ephen's-green, on Saturday. Present—His
Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Bishop of
Cork, Edward J. Cooper, FAq., and Professor Han-
cock, secretary. The next meeting of the commis-
sioners wag fixed for Tuesday, the tad February.
The public have been taken by surprise by the
sale or leasing of the Kingstown Railway to Mr.
Bergen. The subject is thus mentioned in the Free-
nun of this morning:—
Negotiations blue been going on for some time past, and
we are now, we believe, practically brought to a result for a
treader of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to Mr.
Deegan, and Messn. M'Cormick, Hussey, sad Pito, on be-
halt of the Dahlia and Bray, and Dublin and Wicklow
Railways, in both which the first-named gentleman, who
has taken the chief part in the matter, hu a paramount in-
tenet. The terms of the transfer, as well as we can learn,
tie as follow :—The Kingstown Railway is to be leased to
the parties named fur ever, at a rent of something like
31,000/. per annum, which will pay a dividend of 8 per
cent. to the Kingstown shareholders, and leave a curs
plus of small amount. The receipts of the line over
h 2,0001. *oft) to be participated in by the present share-
hoiden. Calls to he route on the halt and quarter shores.
The two companies (W.W.W. and Dundrum), or Mr.
Dargan for them, to make the lines from Dublin to Bray,
through Dundrum, and a junction line to be made from
Kinsitown to Soanganagli, to join the other line, and pr.:r-
end on to Bray. The possession of the Kingstown lino
▪ to be given up until the ether lines are completed.
oh. it the Kingstown shareholders are to have the security
of the three lines fin their rent. Such are the outlines,_
whit, altiough, perhaps, not perfectly act rate, will be
found is substance correct, of this magnificent priect,
which at . are puts an end to the ruinous oompetitios
whieh would otherwise have ensued. The resell will, of
course, be to enhance the value of Kinptowe shares, of
which, we believe' Mr. Dugan himself is onset the lints',
if sot :he largest, holder.
The Limerick Chronicle, describing the favourable
change that has taken place in the weather, and
which now promises to be a permanent one, says:—
A complete civilize of weather has oetturred since Weil-
sentry tut, and we are new is the midst of a dry bright
ettoophere, with hard frost, which is likely to con.inne.
The wintry floods are fast subsiding, and the low lands will
so abe fit for tillage. Monday was the coldest experienced
winter, and we lope it is the worst of a most unpro-
Pi'ous, protreted season. Farmers are all astir for spring
epsruiorts, en long retarded. The ice this morning was
one inch thick. &s much has the sharp keen atmosphere
alr.srly etfi:eted in drying the higher tying fields that in
net soils the ploughs are now at work. Oats and pota•
toes are likely to occupy a large space in the crops of the
hett.coming season.

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