The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

will endeavour to obtain the continued services of the
finance and relief committees. Nor will the aid be
unnecessary, for the guardians are everywhere in a
mad state of confusion and alarm in the fear of cowing
event,. In the south Dublin unions various proposi-
tions have been made to feed the thousands under the
poor law. Nothing has been as yet definitively settled,
but the board baa pledged itself to indemnify the
relief committee for the maintenance of the poor until
Thursday next.
The Young Irelanders continue the assault on Mr.
J. O'Connell. Three of the two dozen who voted for
the Rev. Mr. Kenyon's candidate, including that fun-
gible dignitary himself, have formally demanded Mr.
O'Connell's qualification for the borough of Limerick.
In this,we understand, he can easilysatisfy all objectors.
The barque Wens, specially freighted with a cajgo
of corn for gratuitous distribution in Galway, has just
arrived in that port from Philadelphia.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBORO% AVOCIIT 14.
The free-church association for colonising Otago,
in New Zealand, held a public meeting the other
day in reference to this matter, at which Mr. Fox
Maule presided, and arrangements have subsequently
been made for pro secutlig the scheme with vigour.
The Church of BRANT Journal says :
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It is not very likely that tha'axpented legislation
will take place. In Scotland there are seven indi-
genous bishops, and somewhere about the same
number of presbyters have, in different parts of the
country, thrown off their allegiance, whether with or
without cause not being now the question. They
allege that they belong to the English not to the
Scottish episcopal church. Some of the congregations
were, it is true, founded by English clergymen, but
they were all, several years ago, at their own request,
incorporated with the Scottish episcopal church. No
English prelate can countenance the introduction of a
dissident bishop into& province where there is already
a regularly constituted bishop.

Tun EDINBURGH EINOMLN.—The Courant gives the
particulars of this case :—A drunken broker, named James
Me, attacked the executioner Scott, while standing at the
bottom of a close, on Thursday. He was, it is preowned,'
obootious to Edie from his profession. Edie smanited him
in the moat violent manner, knocking him down by repeated
blows on the breast; and on Scott being carried to an ad-
joining shop he was pursued thither by his assailant, who
again struck him on the head, which produced immediate
insensibi'ity, and gestated in death in • few minutes after-
wards. Edie was immediately taken into custody, and,
after en investigation of the case by the authorities, he was
committed to take his trial for the offense. Scott was
t. &waster," or dempeter, to the High Court of Justiciary,
and Ives been in the regular receipt of 12a. weekly from the
corporation of Edinburgh, with 51. per annum from the
Zichequer. This latter sum wail regularly voted in the
Hodic al charges for Scotland by the House of Commoas.
is appointment as hangman took place in July, 1836, im-
mediately after the execution of Bell, a soldier in the 6th
Dragoon Guards, who had shot his sergeant-major. On
that occasion Scott's predecessor miemansged his revolting
employment so mach as to bring down the execration of the
crowd, and he never afterwards dared to appear in public.