The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Aro. 30.
The mortality among the Irish emigrants to Canada
has filled their poor relations at home with dismay,
and every account is devoured with the most intense
anxiety. Connaught, which supplied the very lowest
class, has fortunately supplied the smallest number of
deaths, or unhappy settlers at Grosse Isle. A con-
servative landlord in the west—Mr. Kirwan, of Castle-
Hackett, late candidate for Galway—has written to
the public journals to the effect that of 129 persons
who emigrated from his estate there has been only
one death, and that not from fever, while many are
represented as being in a very happy condition,
already inviting their friezds to come over and share
in their fortunate lot.

Dr. W. C. Taylor has been for some days in Dublin,
and from all I have heard is likely to add perma-
nently to our literary society. Education, in some,
shape is connected with his probable retention ; but
whether the national board, the " godless " coi-
-1 leges, or the meditated schools of design, I have been
unable to ascertain. Assuming the educational cause,
the last perhaps is the most probable.
The friends of the " freedom and purity of election"
lin Dundalk are to celebrate their own and Mr.
M'Tavish's triumph to-morrow night. All the repeal
leaders are invited, and some will attend, including
Mr. J. O'Connell, and Mr. J. Reynolds.
Sir Arthur Brooke, member for Fermanagh, in a
letter to the Mail, says that he " has no confidence in
any leader or party in the house."

REPEAL ARSOCIATLON.—The usual weekly meeting of
this body took place to-day. Mr. J. P. Somers, M.P., pre-
sided. There were present besides, Mr. Reynolds, M.P. ;
Mr. N. V. Maher, M.P., and Mr. James Fagan, M.P.
Mr. John O'Connell again urged the assembling of the
Irish members previous to the meeting of parliament. He
referred to the distress of the country at considerable length,
and stated that distress of a most aggravated character must
pervade Ireland during the winter, as the people could not
procure labour, and the potatoes were gone. England
should interfere to save thelrres of the people, and encourage
the introduction of food into the country. ;It could not now
interfere with mercant:le operations. Mr. O'Connell re-
ferred to the proposal of his father for the relief of the
famine, namely, a loan of 30 millions, and stated that it
should yet be urged on England. An address to himself,
from Philadelphia, was read. conveying a remittance of 501.
The rent for the week was 119/.

LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND) IMPROVEMENT
ACT.—Applications for loans under this act, which appear
in the Dublin Casette of the 27th Anaust:

Applicant..

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I Ballibinch

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J.L O'Feenll

A. ieTionam
J. R. MIMS

James ylabcs

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Roclogher

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E. Waller ll,7;l3nienel. k:Pernr7 ...
W. B. Jones East
SW PeruNagent ,Corkartel,s, Ililleygnith:iYe-staseath .
R. C. Melton Corkagsday ....... ILITrY
Sir J. N. Straw. Granny
W. anti J. Osborn*. Kenllll=
J. A. O'Neill
W. R. Yielding ... Shanid
W. Orme TYYs•II Mayo
F.. Hussey 'Corm1"1" Kerry
T. B. Jones Leitrim i
C. Elia lGlenquin
P. Kirwan ,Eilmaina Kg*
1 Wesuida. 1
S. W. Blaclinil .. 1 ilEnYgnislas Ask i /Ambit i
The Earl of Shannon' Linokilly Cork

SCOTLAND.

E s. d.
1,15 0 0

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9011 3
1,700 0
3,191 0
4,746 17
1,933 0
400 0

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14,000 0
301 0
2,4351 2
11,269 0
I:193
0 0
2,120 0
I 1,000 c
1,300 0
6,6271 7

660 0 0
4,330 0 0

EDINIII.7IIOB. Aro. 30.
A portion of the following appeared in a second
edition last night ;
The storm which rent the canvass awnings of the
Queen's household at Laggan has done fearful
damage in other parts of the north of Scotland. At
Thurso, a vessel called the Britannia, of Ardrossan,
was wrecked, and two of her crew drowned. Another
—the Triad, of Dundee—was lost; crew saved. From
Shetland intelligence has arrived of the loss of the
packet-boat from Dunrossness, when six persons
perished. At Fraserburgh one herring-boat
went down, with all hands, and many more,
it is dreaded, have met with a similar fate. An
Inverness sloop is also on shore there, but the crew
escaped. The most melancholy casualty, however, is
the loss of a supposed emigrant vessel at Loch
Erribell. A Thurso correspondent of the John 'Groat
Journal states that sixteen bodies have been cast
ashore ; and an Aberdeen paper gives the vessel's name
as that of the Canton, of Hull, and adds that she
carried 300 passengers, which it is to be hoped is
rather premature information, and it is so far negatived
by the fact that the bodies found are those of seamen."
The drought which is ripening the harvest is also
drying up the springs, and the Scotch metropolis has
for some days been on short allowance of water—the
natives borrowing small quantities from each other
much in the same way as if they were in a besieged
city. The supplies are brought in by a joint-stock
company, which charges a high rate and is extremely
intolerant of all opposition. As water is at present
tarnished, the sanitary cause will be little advanced ;
for not only should there be enough and to spare for
domestic purposes, but there should be a perennial
supply coursing down the water of Leith the
great sewer of the city, which at present is a mass of
stagnant putridity flanking the houses for some two
miles. And yet the inspector of cleansing, when
writing on the nuisances of the place, has overlooked
this semi-liquid nosegay.