The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

r: a w more small presentments, the court rose, her-
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the gross sum of ten thousand five hundred
pounds on the different applications.
LIMERICK.—On Tuesday, a preparatory meeting of the
magistrates and eeFa payers, who ere to assemble on Friday
next, under proclamation, was held at the court-house, when
the following works are to be considered, so as to afford relief
to the disengaged labourers :—To repair the Cork road, near
Major Fry's ; to grant 2,5001. fiv the dock., to be repaid by
Treasury loan ; 9001. to complete A,hbourne road, to fill the
cavity in Pery-square, to reconstruct the at enues to Ask-
bourne-road, to complete the roads at Park, and excavate
for sewerage the Old Town.

ABCHlitallOP MACHALL me THE DVITITI:TION.—The
following letter from Archbishop Marl:hale to Lord John
Russell appears in the Freeman of this evening :
TO THE !LIGHT HON. LORD .1. BUSSKLL.
St. Janlath's, Tuam, Oct 7
My Lord: Short and rapid u is now the medium of oommuniest.
Men, yet ere this brief letter shall meet your lordship's eye, hun-
deeds, I fear, of the mitering people of this district will have fallen
victims to the horrors of famine. This will assuredly be their
usteatholy fate, if not provided with employment and with
Md. And yet while starvation thus stalks through the
lead, marking its progress with the victims it has already made,
the public Ls amused or insulted with cold and hearties% die
sertationa on the future consequences of the failure of the
potatoes. Parliament has legislated in order to save the famishing
wple. Stairi.stra'es and ces.spayers have presented in conformity
ith its seasonable and humane requisitiuns ; and yet, by a strange
and usu.-countable Ltahty, the people are perishing as if no legislative
measures hart been interposed for their protection. The people's
howls have been sustained by assurances of prompt and efficient re-
lief ; their patience has been stretched to a degree of endurance to
which human nature is seldom subjected ; yet, when they find the
enactments of parliament and the presentments of the sessions still
abortive of teller, it is to be apprehended that their suspicions of
being male the dupes of the underhand intrigue will goad them on to
✓iolence and outrage, which may meek the powers of the clergy, while
preaching patience, effectually to control. While we preach patience
to them, it is our duty to it %Mrs their rulers not to sulier such a
tendon of that virtue as to endanger its breaking under the pressure
of hunger. The question is not now about the preference to oe
given to the constructing of roads, or to the most remunerative
kbour, the question, the pree,ind, the imperative question le
about towing the lives of famishing thousands. All the other specu-
lations are unseasonable, n^y cruel, as long an the people are eagerly
stretching out their hands, and, in the name of humanity and of reli-
gion, crying out to be snatched front instant death. All your
works, whether productive or unproductive, are only the means to
save the people. Why, then, reverse this reposition, and have the
people.* lives subordinate to the coutingent improvement of property,
and dependent on the caprices of those cruel speculators who value such
property store than the people's lives. Similar was your fatal error,
said that of your colleagues, in leaving the providing uf food to mer-
cantile speculations. This would be Just in the onlinary circumstances
of society; but when the price sif provisions rapidly rises, as it is
doing now, to famine height, not to provide government depots would
be to abandon the peo:ile to toe merciless exactions of commercial
cupidity. But I must close, lest while witnessing famine that baffles
description, and menaces the uprooting of all social order, I should
be betrayed into anything like discussing theories when the times call
for the promptest and most extensive meaisures of relief. I care not,
while the people must otherwise starve, what may be the nature,
until there is tune for deliberation, of the works by which their lives
may be sustained. Better they should be making holes and filing
them again, than that they should die and in their death scatter pesti-
lence anions theme who may have no pity for their lot. Food is the
first requisite, and then employment—productive remunerative em-
ployment, if you can —but at any rate employment, to save the lives
of the people. I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
Joan ARCILIII,IIOP Ur Teat.

5t71.1,130 or FOOD BY GOVERNMENT.—By the following
letter from one of the government commissaries, it appears
that government have actually commenced operations with
reference to a supply of food ; but that their drp;ts will not
be opened so long u the market prices remain " within
moderate bounds."
" Limerick, October, 1816.
"My dear Sir—l have just returned from Cahireivecn, and with
reference to yours of the Elril ult., I now subjoin for your information
the extract of a letter which I have received from Sir It. Routh.
Our reserve supplies cannot be received from abroad, whence
they must all come, until the end of November and all
beeemb:r ; in the meantime committees will have to fall
buck upon the rcsartmcs of the country, which are at the present mo-
ment (the produce of the Lute harvest) abundant, and we must rely
on the active and generous exertions of the proprietors and gentle-
men of influence in assisting the government with all their combined
energies, In conduct the country through a great crisis fraught with
the must important changes. Our operations did not commence until
the IA of last month, and tune must be allowed for the termination of
the foreign ham eats, and the arrival of the new importations into the
United Kingdom. It it no:, even then, proposed to open our Deltas,
whilst there are dealers who are ready to supply the public, and
who must be encouraged and protected so long Ica their prices
are within modcrate bounds. The present high rates of
grain urisc, in a great &glee, out of the fact that prices have
been higher in France, Belgnun, and Germany, than they have been
In the United Kingdom, and that these nations are nut only very for-
midable competitors with us in the American and other foreign mar-
ket., but are actually drawing off large supplies from us, by making
purchases in our home market. I write you thus fully because I
know that you take a deep interest in this all-engruating subject. We
have great difficulties to meet, but if we all put our shoulders steadily
to the wheel, they will, I trust, be as suixessfully got over—though
more extended—as our late operations.—Very faithfully }cur's,
"To Major N. Ludlow Insuniah, he., Cork." "W. Ilcwarson.
AFFRAY BETWEEN THE SOLDIERY AND POLICE
AT CASTLECONNELL.
TILE INQUEST.
(From the Limerick Chronicle.)
At eleven o'clock on Tuesday the inquestus was held before
James Bennett, EA., county corone e body of John
Oleeson, in the dispensary of Castleconnell—John White,
Esq., J.P., presiding. Major Brooke Taylor, 85th, attended
from Limerick garrison, and took notes of the proceedings.
Captain Maxwell, 88th, Captain Butler and Lieutenant
Moeley, 69th, were also in attendance. Mr. Tracy, R.M.,
and Sub-inspector Williams, were present, with Mr. O'Don-
nell, solicitor for the police. The jury having returned
from viewing the body of aleeson, the first witness cx-

amused was
Bridget Oleeson widow of the deceased—Lives at Coolra-
Tee, near Castleconuell ; remembers Sunday night last;
was sitting in a neighbour's house between eight and nine
o'clock, when two girls called her out, and told her to
hurry down to the street of Castleconnell, that her husband
was shot. She went with them at once ; there was firing in
the street at that time ; she was pulled over a wall on the
roadside to avoid the shots. When she got to the house
where her husband was, she saw him stretched upon a door
in gores of blood, and the priest and doctor with him ; he
was not able to speak then ; he was taken home afterwards,
and spoke to her during the night ; he said he was shot;
he showed the wound in his side ; he said he was going for
tobacco—that he stood in the street, and was; shot on
turning round to go home ; he didn't say who shot him,
nor anything about a row in the town ; he spent the night
in great agony, and died at six o'clock on Monday morning;
before be died he said " Biddy, take care of my six orphans."
Dr. Thomas Riordan sworn.—Was called upon between
eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night to see two men who
were said to have received gunshot wounds; he first saw
the wouuded soldier, and then proceeded to the house where
Oleeson (new deceased) was; the man was in great agony;
upon examination he found that he had received a grn-shot
wound on the left side of his abdomen, which passed
obliquely across the spine and came out at the right side ;
from the appearance of the wound the bullet must have been
flattened; when first he saw Gleeson he pronounced the
wound to be mortal, and it proved so ; be visited him again
at one o'clock in the morning, and found him sinking ; he
said he had come to the village for tobacco, and was stand.
log near the railings of Davy Carroll's house when he re-
ceived tho shot; he didn't say who shot him ; I couldn't
say whether it was a bullet discharged from a soldier's
musket, or sue of the small balls fired out of the policemen's
carbines that wounded Gleeson.
John S. Dwyer, Esq., sworn—l live in Castle Connell;
I recollect Sunday evening last; I was in my own house
reading to Mrs. Dwyer, when I heard a bugle sound ; Mrs.
Dwyer asked " what's that for ?" I said for the soldiers to
assemble ; I went out then, and upon coming to the comer
of Dr. Riordan's house, I saw eleven of the 88th Regiment
with arms, and was told at that moment that a soldier had
been killed ; I said " 88th, halt," which they did ; I asked
them where they were going, and they answered the assembly
had been sounded. Their officer, Mr. Maxwell, then got
them in charge, and I came up the village towards the police
office. I was told I would be shot if I passed the police-
office. I went to the police barrack, knocked at the door,
and said I was a friend ; and they replied they would be afraid
to open it, for fear they'd be murdered. I said they were
perLetly safe, and told them not to fire any more. I was
joined by Mr. Maxwell, 88th, at the police-office. I sent a
messenger for Mr. Tracy, R.M. I sent for Dr. Riordan,
who examined the wounded soldier in Miss Ahern's house.
Went for the priest, and then saw John Oleeson, now
deceased. I saw a shot fired by a soldier near the
post-office, a little down from the police barrack ; the
shot was fired up the town in the direction of Carroll's
house; I made at the soldier to disarm him, but he got away
from me ; there was a crowd of people in the village, and
great excitement prevailed; I went on towards the -old
castle, and saw a soldier of the 88th in the streets, armed ; I
thought to take the gun from him, but he wouldn't give it;
I went to Capt. Maxwell and told him of it ; he and a serjeant
carne with me, and the gun was taken from him ; it was
loaded, but appeared to have been recently discharged ; the
soldier who fired the shot had his ammunition pouch slung
on his arm ; the second soldier had his cross belts on ;
swear that the gun taken from the soldier was recently dis-
charged, as I smelt it.
To Mr. O'Donnell, solicitor—l met Mr. Tracey in the
streets; there was shouting and confusion in the crowd:
there was a drunken fellow going about saying it was a pity
to let the Orangemen (meaning the police) kill a Catholic
soldier ; other expressions were used calculated to excite the
mob to attack the police ; Mr. Tracey took the drunken
man into custody; the women were particularly active; I
heard them say to the soldiers that they were chicken-
hearted fellows to let their comrade be killed without

revenge.
William Corbett sworn—On Sunday night I was in Cas-
tleconnell ; I heard; soldiers calling for " pigdrivers," near
the police barrack; I went down to the Island, and upon
my return in about an hour the soldiers were opposite the
police barrack shouting for " pigdrivers and number two,"
meaning the police; I heard the door of the police barrack
struck with a stick, and a voice cried out " boulagh "—that
is to hit it ; I heard a pane of glass broke ; stones were
thrown, and a second window broken ; I saw two soldiers
stoop for stones, and I told them they would be sorry in the
morning for what they were doing; they laid down the
atones then ; immediately after a volley of stones was
thrown, and all the barrack windows broken with a crash ;
the police came outside the barrack armed and said, " Here
we are ; what do you want of us? " the soldiers endeavoured
to get behind the police, and the crowd moved in upon
them ; the policemen requested the military to go away,
and called upon a serjeant who was present, to induce
them to do so, but his exertions were unavailing ; when
they closed in tightly on the police, stones were thrown,
and one of the policemen was struck on the head ; there
was an attempt made to force the police from their position,
and they retired into the barrack and fastened the door :
from what I saw and beard I knew the police would fire,
as they told the military they should do so if they did not
go away ; I moved off then, and when I went down the
street the police fired ; I was coming up the street again
with Mr. Watson, and after passing a couple of soldiers a
shot was fired from behind, quite close to us. The crowd
assisted the soldiers in pelting at the police barrack.