The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCH 25.
The grand jury of the county of Cork having ap-
plied to the Lords of the Treasury to adeaace money
to enable them to pay the amount of damages
awcuded for the lands h.jured by the proceedings
under the Labour Rate Act, Mr. Trevelyan has re-
plied for their lordships in the negative. They ap-
plied also for permission to present a certain sum "at
each assizes to remunera' the parties engaged in
aseertainii.g the amount of those damages: This
also has been refused. -

The Lord-lieutenant has refused the prayer of a
memorial of the grand jurors of Cork to appoint •
stipendiary magistrate at Clonakilty ; and he has re-
fused to call an extraordinary presentment sessions in
that county.
The great centre of turbulence is beginning to
show symptoms of improvement. The assizes new
going on in the North Riding are likely to purge off
many of the vicious characters. The transportations
will be very numerous. The indications of social
improvement appear in the comparative facilities of
prosecution. The crown witnesses are more numer-
ous as well as courageous, and prisoners are identified
with far less reluctance than in the good days of
intimidation. The Nenagh Guardian says, that mach
of this improvement is owing to the Catholic clergy
and constabulary—to the former, for their prompti-
tude in recognising and candidly admitting the good
or evil characters of the parties charged—and to the
latter, for their admirable organisation in tracing
crime and bringing it to justice. Another symptom
of returning social health in the North Riding is the
expressive fact, that agrarian outrages since the last
assizes have been unusually few.
William Foster, of Norwich, who has been engaged
in a tour of humanity along the north-west and west-
ern bord"r, reports on the state• of the Mayo prison in
Castlebar, for its "good order, cleanliness, and general
appearance." He suggests—what should be more
rigidly attended to in oar county prisons—that the
male prisoners, and particularly the young men and
boys, should, out of school-hours, be employed in
some useful and industrial occupation.
Lord George Bentinck, who has been feasted with
resolutions and addresses, still revels in the banquet.
His pen was scarcely dry after the dashing reply to
the Limerick panegyrists, when the Mayo magnates
invited him to a renewal of his profound apprecia-
tion" of the " warm-hearted nation," &c. Lord
George, too, kicks at the " Irish party," which lies
not between two, but many stools.

THE RECENT MURVER IN K mar.mtv.—No tort of the
perpetrators of the late barbarous murder has since been
obtained, sad, melancholy to relate, as yet those miscreants
hare got clear off with the blood-earned booty, through the
guilty connivance or equally reprehensible apathy of the
peasantry. The assauiti who received the lire of the unfor-
tunate gentleman whose murder he was assisting at, still
continues to linger on, and some hopes arc now entertained
of his surviving the effects of his wound, to pay the penalty
which outraged society demands for his crime. —Kilkenny
Journal.
DEATH or SIR H. Canntat.—The Freeman's ✓ournal
announces the death of Sir Henry Carden, of Bantam, county
Tipperary, baronet. He was an extensive landed proprietor,
and constantly resided on his estate.

SCOTLAND.