The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dant.tw. Az°. 13.
The approaching royal visit is a topic of general
conversation, but the absence of any official announce-
spent or public preparation of any kind gives reason
to fear that the visit of her Majesty will be attended
by lees pomp and circumstance than the popular wish
would have it to be. The following paragraph in
the Post of this evening is semi-official, but conveys '
little information on the subject that the public were
not in possession of before :
We are enabled to announce, with certainty, that her
Melesty is salemputle recovered from her recent illness to
fulfil her imams°a of visiung Inland. Her Majesty and
his lend
_Meow Prince Albert are to arrive in Dublin
ea as Nei WINK socompaaied by their Royal Rightism*
the Prime of Weiss sad Prises Alfred, sad weeded by
Bad Granville sod the Masons of liseadelbares.
At the great masa banquet of the Roellireylraiah
Agricultural Society, which took plass in
on Thursday, sad which the Lord Limmemart
honoured with his the Duke of lLslaster,
president of the eesiaty, took the chair. His Excel-
lency, in reply to the teen of his health, expressed
his gust 'stannic's at the whole appearance of the
show, and in referring to the progress which agri-
culture has lately made in this country, said :
Under the *Eighty circumstances of agriculture, it is
necessary that all agriculturists must be up and stirring. ;
(Rear, hear.) These are not times for slovenly farming. ;
(Rear, hear.) The farmer must improve his land or quit
it. (Rear.) When I say that there mast be so slovenly
farming, I do set mesa to convey that farming
mast necessarily be expensive. I say that the great prob.
lea which the agricalturiste of the three kingdoms have to
solve is, hew the greatest amount of produce may be oh-
tathed at the least possible cost. (Hear.) And when I
say at the least possible cost, I do not mesa you to under-
stand the least possible outlay ; for I as sure that for good
cultivation a large expenditure is in the Int instance as.
onsary. Ton cannot have good stock, or good implements,
or good belidiap, without a considerable outlay ; but that
outlay is women, and that ou•lay will soon repay itself,
sad without that outlayso good cultivatesa is possible.
(..Hear," sad cheers.) Iforever, I think that no cultiva-
tion can be ratable which is not condemned on scientific
principles; and therefore it is that I would strongly re-
commend the egricultaralista of Ireland to apply them-
selves to those ornentilic modes of cultivation, with regard
to manure sad implements, which new occupy the atten-
tion of agriculturalists in other parts of the United King-
dom. (Hew, hear.) I have witnessed with great sada-
fettles the spread of agricultural knowledge throughout
the length sad breadth of Irelaad, and I can myself tes-
tify that ethos the period of my former residence in this
county, some tea years ego, the importance of agriculture
in all parts of** eoentry has become more extensively ap-
preciated. ("Bear, bear," and cheers.)
Mr. J. F. Merits, M.P. for Dungarvon, having
consented to resign his seat at the close of the ses-
sion, on condition that Mr. Edmond O'Flaherty, his
opponent at the late election, should withdraw his
petition against his return, and that they should
thus fight the battle over again at the hustings,
instead of entrusting their fate to a committee of the
House of Commons, has addressed his constiniente
previous to his accepting the Chiltern Hundreds.
Mr. Maguire appeals to the servicee which he has
rendered the popular cause during the session, and
seems to have a tolerably fair chance of getting his
scat back again.
It is stated that Mr. Bemis)), the liberal candi-
date for Cork, has received promises of support from
several parties who have hitherto thrown their
interest into the scale with Colonel Chatterton ;
while the recent conduct of the latter will certainly
not have the compensating effect of serving his in-
terest among the ranks of the liberals and Roman
catholic.. The High Sheriff ham, as was expected,
fixed the nomination for Wednesday next.
The shelving of the Irish land bills in the House
of Lords will have the natural effect of restoring
vitality to the Irish Tenant League. The committee
of that body is summoned to meet on Tuesday next
to reorganise their agitation, and the whole question
will be opened anew. Had those bills become law in
the shape in which they passed the House of Com-
moos, or even with some slight modification, any
further agitation of the subject in Ireland would have
been scarcely possible.
The harvest accounts to-day are as favourable as
they have been for several days past.
The Irish Formers' Gazette of tins week publishes
44 letters from practical agricultural friends in refe-
rence to the potato crop, from which it would ap-
pear, that in nearly every locality some symptoms of
the &mesas has appeared. In nearly every ease they
are, however, very slight—in some few the reverse
is the fact. In the west the development is more
slow, and more than two-thirds of the correspondents
speak of the disease se being of a " mild " or " miti-
gated" form.
Arrests have been made in Belfast of parties
against whom there are very strong proofs of nom-
plicity in the abominable society of Ribbonmen ; and
several documents of a most conclusive character
have fallen into the hands of the police.
The town-hall st Limerick was destroyed by fire
Man early hoer yesterday morning.

VW) lint cinema.

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Cul.kiliTT V. CANDLIN.-SIXOULAZ CASS.

The di leedant in tiiis use had been is custody 36 years,
having been committed to Montgome gaol in 1817. He
was subsequen'ly removed to the Fleet, and when that
prison was closed to the Queen's Prison. He now attended
on • writ of habeas corpus, and applied for his discharge on
the ground that be was unjustly and unlawfully kept in
prison and had been so for more than 20 years. He urged
that when the prison in Wales was closed ha was entitled to
his discharge. A return to the writ of habeas was pro-
duced by the officer of the Queen's Prison.
Two gentlemen attended in opposition—one from the
office of Messrs. Blosam and the other from the office of
Milne and Co. They informed his lordship that • similar
application was made two years ago to Mr. Justice Wight-
man, and he had told the defendsat to file his schedule in
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, where some years ago • vest-
ng order was made, and a firm (Lewis and Lewis) hal
offered to proceed for him free of expense, but he would
nut let them.

The defedsnt declared that it was not true. He pro-
duced several papers, at d entreated his lordship to order
his discharge after his long imprisoament.
His lordship told the old man that he could not assist
him; he must file his schedule.
'fhis def ndaut considered that he was unjustly detained
and would not file his schedule.

Mr. Justice Williams said he toast take the consequence
of his obetinecy and remanded him to prison.