The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DEPUTATION TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.
DUBLIN, OCT. 16.
Great interest was felt in this town to-clay, to
know the reception which would beaccorded to the de-
putation conveying the memorial for clemency towards
Mr. S. O'Brien, and to learn the tone his excellency
would adopt, and, perchance, the recommendation he
would make. It was thought not improbable
the noble earl would point out some course,
which, if adopted by the country, or so muck
of it as the confederates can Mance, would
induce a merciful consideration of the prayer'
of the memorial on the part of the execu-
tive. The answer of his excellency, however, was
formal, and characterised by that considerate reserve
which may be thought not less due to his
own position than to the feelings and
expectations of the memorialists, of whom
upwards of 25,000 affixed their signatures. The an-
swer,. it will be perceived, is confirmatory of the im-
pression abroad that mercy will not be withheld from
Mr. O'Brien. Several noblemen, in addition to those
I have named, have signed the memorial, and fifteen
Roman catholic prelates and one bishop of the esta-
blished church.
Half-past one o'clock having been named for the
reception of the deputation the Lord Mayor and six
other gentlemen waited on his excellency at that
hour. The deputation having presented the memo-
rial, and handed the signatures to the proper officer,
his excellency said that, lest there should arise
any mimappredon respecting what he felt bound
to offer in reply, he had reduced his answer to writ-
ing, and would read it for the deputation. This he
did u follows :
As it appeased to be the wish of Mr. Sharman Crawford
and the gentlemen who accompanied him here last weak,
and, subsequently, of the lord-mayor, that I should receive
from the heads elf this deputation the memorial so aniu-

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O'Brien."
His excellency, having concluded, bowed to the
deputatioo, and the Lord Mayor and the other gen-
-1
Cemen
It is reported that Mr. Duffy has been discovered
in an attempt to escape from Newgate. The trial of
this gentleman will, most probably, be by a county,
and not a crit7 of Dublin jury, and the offence
charged will, it is said, be high treason. The let-
ter found in Mr. O'Brien's portmanteau, and proved on
his trial to be in the handwriting of Mr. Daffy, will
be the principal evidence against him. &me words
originally written in that letter, but obliterated, and
others substituted by the writer previous to sealing,
have been restored, and it is alleged that they mast
have a material effect upon the case.
On Saturday Mr. E. Traa:.on and Mr. Martin J.
Burke, wbo were confined in Newgrul.; under the.
selospn:esliobily of
rai weaylia. I:"Thase pCaorrrtleauswiterect, awnmeremo sen edn t on
behalf of Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, to be examined as
witnesses on hie trial.

SECOND EDITION.

141-ons the GAZETTE of THIS. NIGHT.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
CHAIM= BODLIT, Exetrr, merchant, October 6.

BANKRUPTS.
butrionieas Ssassux. Rupsrcstreet, Coventry-start,
JOEIPS Darys, Northarapt,a, innkeeper.
JOSE Somme, Jun., Dorchester, draper.
Joixes RIDGE &snow, Sheffield, spring knife asst
leatarer.
Wttstax Cons, Birkenhead, Chester, estate spat.
Bin? HAW and Jaws enannagew, Higher
800 W:, Whalley, Lanaariiire, *mon spinners.
Josann Us, Dianaheiger, payer banger.

SCOTCH SEC/SSTRAiIONS.
DONALD KiburSDY, Inverness, chip owner.
Jams* MATNU, Calton, Glasgow, baker.
Sammy. &max. Glasgow, spate broker.
Jams Hums, Greenlaw.

BALE OF EFFECin OP THE LATE LORD LAKE.—
Scarcely has the sale at Stowe ceased to be an .bject et
public attention than other relics, worthy of being preserved
from such a fate, if only for the reminiscences they bring of
past glories the British
ic arms,
of areh bee
iatigttoirroduertikltt teo the
about to be sold by Messrs. Debenham and Store. The uni-
forms, robes, plate, pictures, and trophies are included in the
catalogue. Foremost amongst these is a representation, la
silver, of the Temple of Vietne7, a testimonial presented MGalena Lake by the officers who served under him in the
campaign 0(1803 in India. Far less in value, but curious
and interesting as a matter of history, and as the gift of an
Eastern emperor is a bran trophy, in the shape of a Mak
presented to Load Like by Shah Aulum with the title eif
Prince of Delhi. Of the pictures but 'few need be mentioned;
that which is worthy of the first notice is Gainsborough's
of George the Fourth when Prince of Wiles, a
portraite s given by the prince himself te the general. It is
fresh and well preserved, and may be accounted amongst
the good, though not the hest of the productions of the
artist in that branch of his profession. A portrait of the
first Lord Lake would not be, we are sore, what the cata-
home &nectarine it, an important addition to the gallery
of a nobleman, unions some historical or personal value be
attached to it. A fall length portrait of Mrs. Lake, by But
Rehm Reynolds, is remarkable for the contrast it beers to
the Gainsborough near it. A portrait of the mother of the
Bret Viscount Lake, by Kneller, has also lost any brilliancy
of colour it may have once possessed, possibly by ege.
MR. BLOKE AND WESTMINSTER ABREY.—Really
it is high time that Mr. Blore should man to be allowed to
do what he likes in Westminster Abbey. If deans and chap-
ters cannot do without him, let him go to Chester, or Culls*
or even York—to some place, in short, with very few or no
associations to remove. Why detain him in Westminster
amid monuments and repolketions which he cannot under-
stand—and can destroy ? Dean Ireland (Gifford's Dean
Ireland, by the way) permitted him to destroy the identical
anal, square stone, with " 0 rare Ben Janson " upon it,
which Jack Young put over Jenson in the north aisle of the
nave of Westminster Abbey. The man who smashed the
Portland Vase the cook at Mr. West's, who singed geese
at Michaelmas with Massinger's unpublished plays ; and
Malone, who painted Shakspeare's bust at Stratford-upon-
Avon, were destructive. of the same kind. But this is net
all that Mr. Blots has done or is doing. He induced
the Dean and Chapter not to repair the monument to
Chaucer because it was not a monument of Chaucer's sge,
and therefore could not and did not (which it does) °oa-
ten the ashes of the father of English poetry. The saute
Mr Bine actually took up the blue flagstone enemies
Cowley's grave, and bearing Cowley's name, and packed it
away as a atom of so many square feet and nothing more.
A primrose by a ricer's brim
AAllow primrose wee to hue,
d it was nothing
And now this identical Mr. Blore permission of Dean
Buckland, Mr. /Liman the poet, another,, has destroyed
ene-half of glorious John Dryden's monument, and removed
Sir Godfrey Kneller's bust and Pope's ennobling epitaph to
where the bust cannot be seen and the verses cannot be read.
Poor Lady Kneller! Have all her activity and desire for a
lasting perpetuation at Twickenham and Westminster Abbey
been to no purpose ? She was busy enough to get Pope's
monument to his father and mother removed from the place
in which it is still to be seen (unless Mr. Blore has been re-
cently called in); and the poet, who opposed her at every
turn, paid her with a kind of epigram-epitaph :
One day I mein to fill Sir Oodfrey's tomb,
If for my body ell this church has room.
Down with more monuments; more room (she cried),
Par I am very large and vary wide.
If " Down with more monuments! " be Mr. Blnre's ay,
then " Down with Mr. Blore ! " must be oars.—Allsenesurs.
THE CONVICT M'LIISKT.—COMMUTATION OF SRN.
trencs.—The Lori Provost of Glasgow, in answer to memo-
rials in favour of this convict, has received the following
intimation from the Home-office:—" Whitels .11, Oct. 12
1848.—Sire—Secretary Sir George Grey having can fully con-
sidered your application in behalf of John Id•Lusky, I have
the satisfaction to acquaint you that, under all the dream.
stances of the case, he has feat warranted in advising her
Majesty to commute the prisoner's sentence to transportation
for life.—l am, sir, your obedient, humble servant, H.
Waddington.—Alexander Hastie, Esq., Glasgow."
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT 'W ESTERN RAILWAT.—•
As the ten o'clock up-train from Exeter, on Saturday morn-
ing l, was proceedig on its destination, bout a mils
beyondastthe Bridgewatern station, the passengersa telt a alight
Jett of the carriages, and directly afterwards the driver of
the engine gave a signal whistle, whereupon the train stopped,
and some of the officials and a portion of the male passengers
ran back to ascertain the cause, when they discovered that a
man, with two horses and a waggon (supposed to belong to a
farmer named Flower or Fowler), had, most incautiously,
attempted to cross the line in the very face of the train.
Both horses were cot to pieces and killed instantaneoudy,
and, such was the force of the shock, that the hones, toge-
ther with the shafts of the waggon, were knocked a datums
of 30 to 40 yards from the body ref the waggon. The man,
who had hold of the front hone at the time, most providen-
tially escaped injury, but his garments were very muck torn,
end be was too much frigh-ined then to give any explains.
ton. The hones were stated to be valuable, and one of
them was in foal. No blame whatever attaches to the driver
of the engine. The line, at this opt, is on a perfect level
with the adjoining lands, and the approach of the tram
could be observed upwards of a mile distant. The train was
detained about a quarter of an hour by the oecumenic=
*midget happened at about a quarter to 12, at which
the train was nearly half an hour behind its proper time.

STATE OF THE WIND AND WEATHER,.
(By Eleettie Telerraph.)
r BOW Swag TO NINO O'CLOCK TRIO MOE/11M the
wind and mother at the undenntationso pines were u Nicest
Landon .. . .W.byN. .Cloudy
lelnalnetuun N.W_Cloudy llavehester..N.b) E-41411es
Brandon N.E. „Cloudy Mashed N Pim
Chelmatord-N.byW-Cioudy Newoutte.N.ElN ttrel
Chteterfield .N Phu
I herierford .Variabls lteiny. cold Nonunion. N..... Illse
o:Wainer...W. by N andy
=me, N. Cloudy Nattiest= ...N Cloudy
PetakuroseiN.W Mus
Esat Denham N. Cloudy Poole W- Pins
Edinburgh ....N. .Pins Falmouth ... W..... Pine
lily N.E.. Cloudy Rugby ... ....8.E...=
Gateshead NE. by N. Foul doutluannonY..W...,
Olsagow .11 rhoy
Fins Trine 81....C10udy
ilicr E.&E. .Very litis Wakefield N...,...Ftes
Holyhead _Mel.. Mittally
Hole
W.N.W..Me Weymouth—NAß-nes
Leeds N.W. Fin Wiaboack N.L.
Leioester N.w....mody Wolverton. .... MX. Very ies
Leith N Plus % swum* N.E.. Puts
Liverpool .. LICA -lir York XX-. Pius
Dover, Oct. 17, 1 a.m., wind, N. One.
Krishd, Ost. le, Spa., wind N.E.; mutable.