The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

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-.k i to b--..--• moist oa the i'm whicleocas . "was at night, arid
IRELAND. simultaneously Fug te order for lowering the stone ; that
MVO. MAY 7. two other men disappeared there about the same time, sup•
The letter of Mr. Ildd Pratt to the Freeman's posed to have been murdered, and that a nian who bad been
Journal discloses Dome curious phenomena of social wined in the murder was shot reeentlj, ttarleultrtneetat-
MOM ludas:riot life in Kerry. It shows the absence dwene tallloa;alitutlyig without
leen:i ques
of the capitalieing spirit among the people, and the uodund to establish
thaorrible and exusordinary charge assn man, aimed
reference of the rats of per tentage afforded by the Barnett, who swore that he was one of the soma employed
savings bank, Isom@ it is enure, to the chances of in building the b
rider and WI
preeent at the surdor. kits
ts more remunerative return in the wider field of evidence was f most oontrolictory kinecini
oanntehesucrektet
speculative industry. Mr. Pratt had claims for sums tali
ofthirlot
conlnresso.
I:rw3ll:riteve.r.fl.rheeniaminai:g t
istralates disbelievedjthe
between 1.0001. and 3081., all beyond the limits pre- charge, and restudy the application. Proceedings for per.
scribed by law, rind it is to be eared, in consequence, jury against some of the witnesses will, it is said, be
bat to the depositors. Not toy enter into the question stituted. DORM'S.
between the trustee,. and claimants, the exietence of
1 Mat CATMEDRAL.—Last week, whilst level-
such large sums, combined with another remarkable ling
eastern
nd of the choir, the workmen uncovered
fact stated by Mr. Pratt, that the avenue amount of
, th!tombstone ofli Bishop Beaumont—two massive stones
savings bank accounts in Kerry reached to 43., weighing shout tonne ns. This monument was prepared in
proves something more than ere " fat contentment " the bishop's lifetimand is record, ,d to have been inlaid
Of the depoaiton with their poor interest of with brass. The design is yet visible, though the brasswork
21. 17s. Id. per cent. It proves in distinct has altogether disappeared RRNT.
.
and legible characters the evils of tenure insecurity. is
,OsT OP ELECTIONB IN SMALL Boaotions.—The
.The great majority of the deposits were made by. the Dover Chronicle says ;"A dividend of 14e. i*ihe pound eil
farming class ; and had they enjoyed that certainty the debts incurred 1)y the protectionist interest at the LA
and security of possession which would exist under general election has at length been paid. The eapsns.e of
• system of sounder relations between landlord and the candidate were at lust
OLotcroTER;;IIRE.
tenant, the thousands of pounds which had been so Ditsvaecriow oe Tilt BiTION PAPER MILLS.—
long locked up in the banks, and are now lost to the On Sunday tut •a fire broke out in the eat. wire paper mills
agricultural capital of Kerry, would have been at- at Bitton, near Bristol, known as llevan's Mills. There was
tracted to the soil, increased its productivenesn, and, • large stock of paters, of which a considera'ale portion was
With the augmentation of the tenauts' sources, im- saved, buttlrt mills are reduced to a mass of blackened
1 ruins,
vei
proved the laid for the proprietor, and extended his !" r.!
Thed buildings Ilij? patom•°!, isheunderstlYtoOldurinisnuerr 41 could
the Imperial.,
esourity for the rent. The Kerry banks prove most and the anemic ianntre Sun utile.% The catastrophe has thrown
forcibly the evils of land tenure in Ireland. a large number of hands out of employ.
Limerick is unusually tranquil after the effort of
Sunday week. The proclamation has tended not a
little to induce sobriety. Target-shooting is over, and
the soldiers of the " &infield" regiment k .per ose to
their barracks. At a meeting of magistrates on
Friday, to give householders license to carry arms
outside their domiciles., several members of the " Con-
federation" snd the club applied, and of course were
refused the privilege of disturbing public order at the
public expense.
The number of stipendiary magistrates in Ireland
is 83, of whom 13 have been military men—tb
five
e re-
mainder civilians. There arc seven in 'Tipperary,
four in
each in Limerick, Caterer, and Ruecommon,
Cork and Clare, three in Mayo, Kerry, Kilkenny,
Cavan, and Leitrim, two in Armagh, Antrim, and
Lug's County, and one each in the remaining 13
counties.
The Citizens' Club of Cork have postponed their '
" banqnet to the prosecuted patriots.' Among the
refusal' is the Rev. Mr. Kenyon, who " is so situated
that he cannot accept the honour." Mr. Kenyon
maintains a stubborn silence. lle persists in holding
out against the ban of authority, but he must soon
seen the banner under which he is to do battle—the
drum or the confederation.
Toe emigration from the port of Galway this year
has reached nearly two thousand ; of these, the great
majority. were bound for the States; the number for
the British colonies being only about five hundred.
The repealer. of New Russ, as well as those of
Waterford, are to entertain Mr. Smith O'Bren and
Mr. Meagher at a enir;e. In both places the most
ample precautions have b en taken to maintain pub-
lic order, and, if necessary, to save the Old and
Young Inlanders from attacking each other. Mr.
Mitchel, of the United trisheuin, is not, according to
the last accounts, to visit either town. Sir Charles
Napier, with the Dragon steam-frigate. Medusa, and
Advice tender, remain in the river et Waterford anal
to-morrow. The soiree in that city is to come off this

ROYAL SOCIETY 0? FkMALE MUSICIANS.—Litt
evening this society had its annual concert at the Hanover-
squire Rooms. There was a crowded audience, and the re •
cult, we true, has been of considerable benefit to the funds of
an excellent institution. The fair manageresses produced a
well arranged and conducted entertainment, which passed
off very agreeably. There was a string master of musical
talent, both native and foreign; all the performers contri-
buting their gratuitous services. The voceilies were, Mies
Birch, Min Rainforth, Mica Swain°, Miss Dolby, Miss
Duval, Mire 8. Novell°, Miss Steele, Miss Cubitt,
Madame Castellan, Millie. Alboni. Millie. Anna Thillon,
Mr. Reeves, Mr. W. Seguin, Mr. ',whey, Mr. Weiss, and
Signor Tamburini. As usual on such occamions, there was
little novelty ; the performers,
for the most part, choosing
thies already familiar to the üblic. The two or three
new gvocal pieces were by no meap ns remarkable. An Eng-
lish ballad, composed for and sung by Mr. Reevos, was
trifling and common-place; and • loyal mid patriotic song,
sung by the same gentleman with a chorus, had, at all
events, the merit of frond intention. Mr. Reeves has a
tenor voice of the finest quality ; but we hope that, in hi.
English balad 'Outing, he will beware of thatw loud,
shouting style which is mi,takenly called poerful.
Mdlle. Albooi sang Mozart's Non pia dclarineti Sori,".
She
with
the orchestra and Mr. obligato
executed it beautifully; and, be ing encored, sang (Irish
fashion) her famous anacreontic "11 segreto per
Tam, ewer
relict," with immense spirit and brilliancy.
burin', too, was encored in Figero's song, " Largo all
factotum." There was a little instrumental magic. The
overture to " Fidelio" was well plaed variationsthe orchestra.
Bbigniee played on the violin some on an air of
Bettie.; cleverly executed, but, in themselves, very com-
mon and trivial. The Megrim. Main placed on their
sex-horns a quartet from " Lucia di Lammermoor"
with great beauty and a completely vocal effect. And,
last but not least, Mr. Kalkbrenner and his son
performed a duet on the pianoforte. Retaining a de-
lightful recollection of Kalkhreener'a piaeofo playing rte
n'
playi in
former days, sod greatly admiiing many of his compo
ondon after
sitio,
we regret that, on his first public apps
so in L
so many years' absence, he did not produce something of a
more " distinglie " character. The piece was a good com-
position, in the old regular form of a sonata ; but there was
nothing new or strikieg in the ideas, or their treatment;
and in playing a part in a duet he could not display the
delicacy and finish of his style.
TUE BEETHOVEN QUARTET SOCIEIY.---TIHR society
held its meetirg last evening in M. Coulon 's rooms, in Great
I Marlborough-street, the " Beetirven Rooms," in Hailer
street, being now on sale, as pout of H. Jullien'
were enter.
s estate. Aa
exceedingly crowded assetublage of amateur'
tained with four of the great master." finest quartets, writteni
at distant periods of his life, and furnishing specimens of
aY
the varieties of his style. They w.re, the second and Usti
quartets of his Op IS. compiled in 1792; his eleventh, en F
minor, composed in 1815 or 1818 ; and his seventeenth, in F
major, belonging to the period between 1823 and 18H26. 'the
performers were Messrs. Molar., Swinton,, ill, and
Rousselot ; who into rpreted the wild and capricious but
beautiml and original fancies is the last ainnu4r composi-
tion in a manner which charmed every listener.

evening.
In accordance with a request set forth in the Bel-
fast address to the Lord-Lieutenant, his excellency
communicated to the Queen the expressions of loyalty
and duty to her majesty contained in that address ;
and a letter from the Home Secretary to his excel-
lency makes due ackhowledgment o! the manner in
which I:er majesty was pleased to receive such a de-
claration. This letter has been forwarded to the
mayor by the Irish under-secretary, Mr. ltedington
the
Whitehall, May 2, 1818.—My Lo.rd,—l have bed
honour to lay before the Queen the addr, a to your
excellency from the inhabitatts of Nast, trans-
mitted to me in your letter of the 26th ult.; and
I am commanded to (sprees to you the satisfaction with
which her majesty has received this gnstifying
htened proof
of loyalty end &Mc ion front so important and so enlig
a portion of her people. lam further commanded to con-
vey to you her Majesty's approval of the answer which your
excellency returned to Vse deputation by whom the address
was presented; and I am to express to you her Majesty's
confident hope that such declamuona of opinion as than
which are contained in this &darer, will afford the most
valuable support to your excellency, both in the maintenauce
of law and order, and in the development of the industrial
resources of the country, by which the permanent welfare
and prosperity of all classes of her subjects can be most
effectually promoted.—l am, with great truth and regard,
my lord, your excellency's obedient servant,
The Lord-Lieutenant, &e.. G. Oast.
THE BUCKINGHAM Talon MotATEN.—The gals of this ex-
tensive property has, with the exception of the Westmeath
nate, been nearly broaeht to a close. At the auction of
the Queen's County estate, several valuable lots were bought
in, owio.g to the English mode of conducting such sales, by
?nerving to the vendor the lot bid. For the Clare and
Longforl estates there were no bidders at auction, but they
have been sold by private eontreet—the former to Colonel
H. White, and the latter to Mr. Luke White, at a
ret
sacrifice. For any part of the Westmeath eatate the was
only one Lt, compneing Clare Island, sought after, and for
which W. Granby Gen, Esq., was the highest libider. The
lot was, however, reserved.
A TUT MR THE FRIENDS OF IRELAND.—A meeting of
citizens was held yesterday, at the Theatre, Lower bstreet, to adopt a tat by which the people might be e `blew
distinguish between their real and pretended friends. That
test wu thus descrihed by the chairman, a Mr. Coyne: That
any candidate for a seat in parliament who would not plc dge
himself to oppose every administration but that which would
make univenal suffrage a cabinet measure was not only an
enemy to the pew, happini and profperity of the king.
dom, but • knave in politics and a hypocrite in religion.—
This, in the form of a mo'ioo, wasp assed with acclamation,
and the meeting adjournrd.
WOULING or THE POOR Law.—The working of the
Door law does nut rem to mend upon in re practised action.
No matter whether the machinery he set in motion by paid
guardians or unpaid there would seem to he some screw
ler se." In Lim. rick, where the elected guardians are yet
in the managem. nt, a clergyman hes repreanted to Lord
Clarendon, that through the hewlect of the guardians 30 of
his parishioners in a suburban district, about six miles from
town, had died of starvation, and an investigation in con-
sequence his been ordered. In Cork, where the guardians
seem to be particulsrly intelligent, they have en•ered upon &t-
-ether dispute with the cemminioners—the guardians desiring
o dismisseerOnrelieving officers,and the latter in-i-ting that
the law will not warrant a compliance. While such is the
working of the system among unpaid guardians the Galway
paper places to-day before its readers two eante of death by
destitution. One ebbs dead was on the relief hat, but the ra-
tions allowed did not support life.

SCOTLAND. I
EDINBURGH, MAT b.
Scotland has performed some feats in the way of
pauper relief, but the following aeconnt of llawick
benevolence, taken from the North British Moil, is
the maximum of good at the mitimum of coat to a
degree hitherto unprecedented.
Ilswica.—No fewer than 2.500 serum, of whom one-third were
Irish, have been relieved at the Howe a Refuge here, during the
hut twelve months. It may *dime other towns anima ided with ouch
an establishment, to state that the entire rood for the year, including
house rent lad manu get sa I fir y, was arty MN. Aromas other b
notenefits
attendiug it, the entire duppreadwaiof autaia begging has been the
least important.
Another illustration of Scotch poor-law economies
is afforded in the fact that the Edinburgh parochial
board ha 51,372 claims again'-t other parishes for relief
to casual paupers—of which 439 have been examined,
and been found to involve 2,0621. The continued
multiplication of Ranh cases, and the sums lost in liti-
gation, will force on the question of a national assess-
meat.

TH. SALE OB MR. JOHN A. BALI-ARTY:4e9 LIBRARY
took place to day. The catalogue Maud. d the proof-sheets
of several of the " Wain rley Novels," and of the " Life of
Napoleon," with the correction.. of the author; with the
original manuscript of the " Black Dwarf ;" also the original
manuscript of ou'hey's " Curse of Kehama." The
Si-
script of of the " Slack Dwarf" brought 28 guineas ; Sir
Walter's brook of his " Lim of Napileon," in 9 vole., were
sold far 45 guineas; and 12 volumes of proofs of the " Wa-
verley Novels "'fetched 41 guineas. S iuthey'a MS. was not
offered for pale. It had been sent to some person at Cam-
bridge, who had failed to return it is time for the sale.

Sbt ItTaata.
FKveCR PLATIL—ST. JAMES'S Tit EATHL—We
now
the new jewepreinier here, M. Jelien Deschamps, last night,
and are disposed to think not untavourably of We qualifime
does. He has good looks and • gentlemanly mien, with a
delivery perhaps all the better recommending itself to
English taste, from the absence of that extrievivartity which
characterise* the majority of French histrionists of the
second order. The piece in which be appeared is entitled
Susanne de Croissy, and has for its plot—if we may of the
the
1 term plot in the matter—one of those impoesibilitae
period of Louis %V., to which Pari•ian dramatists are so
I addicted. A young nobleman informs • party of fellow-
galbuste that he is hourly expecting the
whom,
arrival
of his bride, the daughter of a goldsmith,
two years since, he has married, in a pecuniery extremity,
by reason of her fifteen hundred thousand lime, but whom
be has not seen since the ceremony, pursuant to the mar-
riage articles, founded on the youth of the fair one at the
time. He himself enamoured of Guintord, the all-
admired da'ssetise of the period, is altogether indifferent
to his expected sponse and readily signs a treaty
with his friend Clu:mailicie, Gitimard's existing
proprietor, by which he agrees to give Chamaillac
every facility with Madame de Croissy for a fortnight,
in eonsideration of being allowed a similar leave
and license with Guimard. When his wife comes, how-
ever, he foils is love with her, aed wants to his odeb herselfar-
gain ; however. insists,
and the,
becoming jealous of Guinsard, favours for a while his pre-
tension., but ultimately matters are cleared up, and the
youthtul pair retire to the pnavirces, leaving Cha-
rnaillae, represented by an animated flaxen (Monta/and),
to console himself with Mdlle. Geimard. Achard ap-
%mend in two pieces' Christpee le Curdier" and " La
Veuve Pinchon," * popular Parisian vaudeville, which we
may take a future occasion to remark upon.
PRINC.sx'I4.—A two-act drama, entitled "A Da
F. y
at Dover," met with an average cocci to last evening. The
materials of the plot are tar from new, and base been strung
together to introduce an effective character for Madame
Thillon. The period of the arti nis during the latter part
of the short rule of Richard Cromwell, wnen Catherine of
Braganea had arrived in England to join her husband, in
anticipation of the restoration. Count Carvatho, a Portu-
guese nobleman in h. r ii.ter, at, in urd. r to divert the atten-
tion of the authorities, from the movement, of his royal mis-
tress, persuades Ifenriette, a French grisate, to cross with
him from C leis to Dover, and contrives to invest his pro-
ceedings with suffici nt mystery to cause her to be mistaken
for Catherine, thus giving the real queen an opportunity
of passing unnoticed. Ilenriette, without knowing
the part which she called upon to perform, is
induced to accompany the Count by Incense( a promise from
him that he will remove tile oily difficulty (a pecuniary
one) in the way of her marriage wet, a certain French
sailor. At Dover the fact of the distinguished arrival is
buzzed abroad, and the soi.disant queen is made the victim
to the ridiculous homage of the crowd. As may be sup-
posed, the character of the Que, n dues not fit so easily upon
Ilenrtette as to enable her entirely to forget that of the mil-
liner ; and this struggle was so chaimingly rendered by
Madame Thillon as to constitute it the best portion of the
piece. A pompous countess, personated by Mrs. Selby,
contributes by her caricatured loyal. y to fur-
nish food for the mirth of the supposed queen,
' until the arrest of the letter, which duly takes
place by the authorities. Ilenriet e, h iwever, is re-
leased from this difficulty by the announcement of the suc-
cessful movements Gen. Monk, and the arrival of the King
and Queen in London. Her lover,who has of course turned up
meantime on thi. aide of the Channel, then attains his re-
ward, and the orthodox terror ation is attained. There is
some graceful and melodious music icittered through the
piece, by Mr. Leder, which owed a great portion of its
charm to the Invoice in which it wait given by Madame
'fbillon. A song in the first act. the burden of which is " I
would not choose to he a gut en," Lag some elemeuts of popu-
larity in it; it aas deservedly encored. The remainder of
the characters were vary fairly supported by Mr. C. Fisher,
Mr. Conway. Miss Val re, and Mr. Compton, who was
particularly clever in the character of a r. publican, who ex-
hibits • characteristic not unfrequent among the elem—
....sheets namely, aleahing towards aria oveacy.
Life of

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
OXFORD, NIAY B.—The tr..osher ot g audoiates for the
public examination, onnmeneing on F. JO y nest, or, as it le more
commonly c dled, the " Great Ito" hat, arc 22.1.
Cnlinninnli —At the congregation nn Wednreiay, the
lath Mat., the fohowing meets aril be nffered to the senateettachrf :-1. To
pn tent en NdW. e 4. to the Queen expreetong the loyalty and ont
of the to ',entity to her MateaWe pantos and prim:anent. 2. To aillo
the unirertity 'eel to a letter of congnaulatioo written by the public
orator to the Arehbtallop of Ointerttut y ohi
n . :rare's clean:ion to Ma
• .ter. 3. 'le o.nler the degree of on IL W. Cookson, 8.0.,
of Bt. ['else' College, by lanai mandate.

PREFERMENT —Rev. J. W. Ceb Bt. Margaret of
Woolwich, Norwich; hOl.; p tithe Bebop of Nor% ids.

NAVAL.
PORTSMOUTH. MAT B —The ii^rsfordehire, Captain G.
Rie,Yardman, arrived this afternoon, bevies left Halifax on the lath
ult., havine on bowl her insjeety'e 46t0 regiment. The lieromed-
Wire bas conveyed duties er trip to Oil:. miter, be Weet Indies,
Nova Scotia, owl this port, 2,5R2 pervons, .übd during the whole time
not a sinew ..ceident or death happeted. The Etelloiele, also with
troops has arrived, bat owing to the calm weather anchored this seed-
ing at St. Helens.
DRVORPORT, MAY 7.—Gorgon, Cent. J. A. Paynter, a
ntor-
ding from Portsmouth yesterday, bound to the Pacc, and OHM i
harbour to wait Real .Irde re. Papt. Kingoowe, ar-
rived off the port yesterday, about 7 r (row North America, and
alter making her number proofed, d to the eastward.
WOoLartCH, MAY B.—The shims which ate to sail for the