The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1846.

Daily News. A deputation was named to proceed I
to London, for the purpose of having an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. Thanks were then
voted to the Mayor, and the meeting, aft.r a few hear',7
cheers, separated at a few minutes to four o'clock.

IRELAND,
DUBLIN, Not 24,
ARMIN° OP THIS Pzofizi.—The north is quit:e as active
60 the south in giving 'practical effect to its ideAl of citizen-
ship. Limerick siza ipperarT are e_qualled, in zeal b 7 Ty-
rone and Fermanagh. The AnniskiUnt ijhronick, received
this mailing, gives the following ahrming account of the
dangerous extent to which the traffic in fire-arms is carried
on Within the last few months, several shopkeepers in
this town have commenced to retail guns, pistols, &c. A
respectable merchant, who has lately entered into the trade,
informed us that in one day last week he could have sold 15
or 16 guns if he had had them ; but his stock, although the
fourth or fifth importation, having run out, he was obliged
to mend his customers away. The difficulty of obtaining
guns in Birmingham is also so great, from the very pressing
and extensive demands from all parts of the country, that it
is impossible to get them executed, without experiencing the
most considerable delay. We have heard an instance of an
order given upwards of six weeks ago, and which has not yet
been attended to. The manufacturers of Birmingham are
puzzled to know what to do."
MILITARY LIBERALITY.—FoIIowing the example of the
Soots Greys in Tipperary, the officers and men of another
Scotch regiment, the 92nd Hie:lenders, stationed at Bally-
, shannon, have contributed 5L to the local relief fund.

EXTRAORDINARY PREfIENTME.,;T lESSIONB.IAI-ery ex-
traordinary presentment sessions was held yesterday, at
Hells, in the county of Meath. My informant states that
upwards of one thousand of the labouring poor assembled at
the place of meeting, requiring that something should be
done, and that quickly, for that not oae of them or their
families had a morsel of food. The Marvis of Headfort
took the chair, but very soon retired to deliberate in secret
with the other teas-payers, on the amount and character of
the presentments. The multitude became exasperated, rushed
through the town begging for bread in the fashion of the rob-
ber in " Gil Blas." One baker helped them gratuitously to a
batch which had just escaped from the oven. They were in
the act of imposing peremptory conditions on another baker,
when the police arrived and they dispersed. There being
comparatively little tillage in the neighbourhood of Kells,
as the country is all laid under pasture, the distress of the
labouring classes is consequently more general and acute.
TILE RATIONALE OF THE SMALL FARMER'S CONDITION.

—The Rev. Mr. Sheehan in the Chew Journal of yesterday,
dwells at much length on the distressed state of the peu-
entry in that country. The following extract describes very
forcibly the probable state to which the secondary class of
Irish farmers will be reduced without the forbearance and
protection of their landlord:.
Did you ever know a tenant to be buying provisions for three
months of summer, who was not almost reduced to beggary, and who
had not to struggle hard for a year or two to regain his former posi-
tion 1 How often did it require the most determined exertions of
industry, and the most stringent economy, aided by the help of a
good landlord, to enable such a tenant to pull up in a year or two,
and who would never get on his ler at all if it had not been for some
such indulgence, some such artificial assistance, and what will
it be now when the tenant clam in general have to
be buying provision, not for two sr three months, but
for ten months couseeritiody, and perhaps more I if the
odd tenant baying only for two or three months wan so reduced
in means, and found it re difficult to regain his former place, what
will become of the great body of the email farmers of the country
buying up at famine price, with the prospect before them of having to
du so for many months without any interruption After so severe an
ordeal far au long a time, it cannot be a matter of surraire if they all
became banktupt sad were put hare du. combat. 1 would have the
pauper provided for; I would have no one starve; but, ocrtaialv, I
would not leave the corder tenantry behind, as at present, for it they
fail, and tail and fall, and sink they must, unless taken in hand and
kept up stoutly, moiety crumbles, and the idea of property as it at
present exists, quickly vanishes and disappears.
OF THE SLESSINCITON ESTATllB.—Yestenk7 was
the day fixed for the sale of the estates of the late Lad of
Blessington, husband of the Countess of Blessington, and
father of Lady Harriett D'Orsay. They are very extensive,
consisting of 68 townlands in the county of Tyrone, com-
prising 32,000 statute acres, let generally at low tents, and
on long leases; besides the demesne and residence of Mount-
joy Forest, in that county—the demesne comprising 2,600
acres. The rental of this portion of the property is 10,0001.
per annum. The Dublin portion of the estates comprise a
large area on the north aide of the city, on which Mountjoy-
square and some fashionable streets are erected, and present-
ing besides several valuable sites fur building. The rental of
this • .rtion is principally made up of chief rents, producing
13,111 2. annually. The gale took place in Master Litton's
office, and the first lot put up contained 1,969 acres, produo-
ing a rental of 1,3071., but valued, at the fall of some old
leases, nearly expired, at 2,6001. per annum. After several
bidding., the sale was deferred until this day. To-day, it
opened again, but the utmost languor appeared to prevail
amongst the bidders, of whom the attendance was large.
After the whole day bed been again spent in tempting pur-
ctasers, the sale was adjourned until to-morrow, after the
disposal of three small lots, which brought about 3,090/. It
is expected that the sale will not conclude this week, cer-
tainly not before Saturday. There is a portion of the Bles-
aington property in Kilkenny also to be offered for sole.