The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Denuir, JULY IS.
The meeting convened for the purpose of paying a
tribute of respect and gratitude to William Dargan,
who originated and got up, at his own sole expense,
the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853, was held
yesterday in the round room of the Rotunda. The
object of the meeting, unlike that of a political as-
semblage, was not one for which popular passions
were enlisted, and the proceedings were intended to
consist more in actual business than in speechifying,
so that the great hall in which the meeting was held
was far from being so crowded as we have seen it on
many other occasions; but the attendance wasnever-
thetas very numerous.
The Lord Mayor took the chair, and the resolu-
tions were respectively proposed and seconded by the
Duke of Lcinster, the Right lion. Francis Black-
bourn, the Governor of the Bank of Ireland, Sir Wil-
liam Hamilton, Sir Edward McDonnell, Sir Robert
Kane, the Marquis of Westmeath, Mr. John Ennis,
D.L., Mr. J. Perry, Mr. Lentaigne, Dr. Gray, Mr.
J. F. Maguire, M.P., &c. It was proposed that the
subscriptions be limited to one pound, but an amend-
ment to the effect that they should be " from one
shilling upwards," thus setting no bound to the
liberality of individuals, was carried by a vast majority
of the meeting.
Yesterday, at the Limerick assizes, on the judge,
Baron Greene, entering the court, a policeman,
named John Mulligan, who was described as a young
man of respectable appearance, and who had been
convicted the preceding day of the murder of his own
illegitimate child, was called on to receive sentence,
when the gaoler announced that the prisoner had
' just committed suicide, having hanged himself with
a handkerchief over one of the pi ison staircases.
ghAt the Monaghan assizes, the jury have not been
alio to agree to a verdict in the trial for the murder
of Mr. Bateson, but although kept twenty-four hours
without food, they had not yet been discharged
when the last account left yesterday evening.

AUSTRALIAN PACIFIC MAIL STEAM PACKET

COMPANY.

Yestirday the first half-yearly meeting of this
compan took place at the London Tavern, Eishopegate-
street ; Mr. Davitmox in the chair.
The report stated that four of the vessebt contracted for
—the Kangaroo, Emeu, Menura, and Dinorniswere ap-
proaching completion, and the Black Swan wse well ad-
vanced. It was expected that the Kangaroo would be
ready for sea about the middle of September, and the
directors hope that before the end of the year
the whole of the company's fleet will have left
England to take up their station on the Pacific.
The directors had been unsuccessful in inducing her
Majesty's government to subsidise the Panama route, but a
deputation of Australian merchants had been informed by
the Mbettnaster General that under the circumstance of
the Panama line bring projected, no other contract for the
Australian Mail service would bo entered on for a fixed
term. In the meantime a temporary arrangement had
been made for the conveyance of the mail by sailing ships,
eia the Cape of Good Hope alternately with the bi-
monthly service by way of Singapore. Oa the 16th Apr.,
ens of the dirootoes,lio A Currie, left for Australia, to make
the preliminary arrangements at Melbourne, Sydney, and
New Zealand. At Panama the Company's business ell
be managed by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company,
with whom an agreement has been entered into for that

purpose.
The report was then adopted, and the meeting sepa rated

(Be ELECTRIC TELEGRAMS)
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, 10.30 A.M.
Wind S. moderate, and fine.
Arrived.—Mariner, from Maceio; Shanghai, from
New Orleans; I)crei Wyn, from Hamburg.
Off.—City of Glasgow steamer, from Philadelphia;
Rattler, Chariot of lame, and Avon.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 11.
Wind W., moderate.
Otf.—Gambia, from Africa, and proceeded for
London.

DEAL, SATURDAY, 9 A.M.

Wind S.W., blowing strong.
Passed.—Catherine Green, from St. Kitt's, for
London ; Albiou, from Jamaica, for London ; Spartan,
from Jamaica, for London; Samuel Boddington,
from Jamaica, for London ; Camden, from Quebec,
fur London; Meander, from Bombay, for London
(not Leander, as reported last evening).
Achored.— Supposed, Waverley, No. 2,540,
second.

RAILWAY MEDICAL STMT.—The medical staff of
the Great Western Railway Company, 36 in number, dined
on Monday last at the Fleece Hotel. The style of the fes-
Deal, and the quality of the wines, were prorouuced nue:-
eeptionab:e by the staff.—Chelectihatn Examiner.