The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-08 00:00:00

then the Lords Justices uncovered and vaeated.their

seats, upon which his Excellency put on hie hat and
sat at the head of the council board. The room was

then ordered to be cleared, after which his Excel-

lency held his first Privy COuncil in Dublin Castle.
The Council sat for a short tune, and then his
Excellency proceeded to the Presence Chamber,
where he held an undress reception, at which the
principal persons who were present at the Council
had the honour of being presented to his Excellency.
It is not as yet known whether or not his Excel-
lency will return to London to-morrow or Saturday,
but it is understood he will not come over to resume
' the government of Ireland until the latter end of the
present, or the beginning of the next month.
The Earl of St. Germans has appointed the Very
Rev. the Dean of Leighlin to be his Excellency's
First Chaplain.
A numerous and influential meeting of the Roman
catholic clergy and electors of the borough of Carlow
was held in that town on Tuesday evening, and Dr.
O'Meara having been called to the chair, Mr. Sad-
leir, the late representative of the borough, who was
loudly cheered on his entrance, gave, in a frank and
lucid speech, a complete and satisfactory statement of,
his parliamentary career, from the period of his first
entry into public life, in 1817, to the present time ;
and also, of the circumstances which induced him to
accept office under Lord Aberdeen. After hearing
Mr. Sadleir's address, which was listened to through-
out with the most marked attention, and received
with frequent bursts of applause, the following reso-
lution was unanimously adopted by the meeting :
Resolved—That it is the opinion of this meeting that Mr.
Sadleir's statement of his parliamentar, career has been
' clew and satisfactory ; and that his political consistency his
been throughout strictly maintained; and that we, the
' lelectors of this borough, therefore, pledge ourselves to use
every legitimate and proper 'Beaus in our power to secure
the reelection of Mr. Sadleir, as the representative for this
borough in the House of Commons.
Among the gentlemen present at the meeting was
Mr. F. Lucas, kI.P., who has been one of the most
prominent in assailing Mr. Sadleir and his other
Irish colleagues for taking office under the present
government. - -

Mr. Gustavus Tuite D'Alton, step-son of the Mar-
quess of Headfort, has been appointed private secre-
tary to Sir John Young, Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Shortly after the conviction of William Burke
'Kirwan for the Ireland's Eye murder I stated that
snadry rumours were afloat of crimes of a dark na-
ture said to have been committed by the convict in
it former part of his career; but that, until his fate
would be decided by the granting or refusal of a re-
prieve, no publicity would be given to those rumours
through the press. The repnevo having now been
obtained, the principal difficulty has been removed,
and we find, iu fact, that the police authorities have
been for some time making enquiries which can no
longer be kept secret. The Evening Packet says:
Yesterday the magistrates of the Head-office of Police
were engaged in the preliminary investigation of a charge
of a most serious character against the convict Kirwan. We
uaderstand that it amounts to murder. An artist named
Boyer, who had been on intimate terms with Kirwan, dis-
appeared from Dublin in a most mysterious manner some
years ego. Ilia wife has tendered evidence calculated to
criminate this wretched culprit in his disappearance.
-The .Freeman adds the following further explana-
tion relative to this charge:
The above charge ha ban. the subject of public rumour
and reap ever since the proceedings were taken on the part
of the crown a discover and seise the property of the convict
elm his evanesce. The stortin circulauon, whatever be its
atmemeny, is. thus:—Mrs. Boyer, who had been receiving
sasasaity et 401. per swam from Kirwan for some years,
case forward and claimed the house in which he had been
living, in Kernels-street, together with other bosses, and
a asp portion of the furniture, pictures, and ornaments,
en the ground that Kirwan, who had been a constant cow.
pales of her knatuid, whose property they were, bad ob-
tained perreselea et them from hien ; that her husband sud-
denly and isysiseiessly pearied, and that Kirwan had
a deed whoseby, as he her kneboad had made over
tell his pagesig to him; bet that he agreed to pay to Mtnßore the east of 401. pee miasma daring her life. She,
isht being In a conditios to contest the point, was obliged to
swept the arrangement ; but when his conviction at own
stopped her annuity, and seised all that was his at the time
to the me of the crown, she threw herself upon the just 's.
and mercy of the law officers to regain possession of what
was hers by right. The examination into the truth or
falsehood of her strange story has led them, step by step, to
the investigation which is now pending ; and, if rumour
speaks truly, there will be even further investigations into
other mysterious matters connected with the career of the
culprit.
The Dublin correspondent of the Limerick Ex-
aminer thus alludes to an affair which is well known
here, and which has tended to oast a deep slur on the
character of Kirwan :
Now that there no longer exists a doubt of the commuta-
tion of the sentence of this man, there can be no injustice
done him by the mention of a passage or two in his previous
life, which would nut be so appropriate if his position were
unchanged. Some four or live years ago Mr. Kirwan in
dusted a young and interesting girt, of respectable con-
nexions here, to abandon her home and accompany him to
England, where they lived for some time together. After
the eagerness of appetite passed, the unfortunate creature
was abandoned in Liverpool. I have net learned what her
fate was since he returned to Dublin. After his return helwas
met by the brother of his victim, who attacked him and gave
him a tremendous beating, by which he was p ed for a
considerable time from appearing in public. So soon as he was
recovered, however, he summoned his assailant before the
magistrates, seeking informations fur the assault. The pro-
vocation, however, transpired before the magistrates, who,
after a no very complimentary comment on his conduct, dis
missed the charge. Much stress has been laid in the consi-
deration of the circumstances of this man's case, upon the
feet that it had not been proved on the trial that the de•
ceased lady was aware of the existence of the other party
who shared or owned Kirwan's affections. There was evi-
dense given to show that Mrs. Kirwan had called at the
house kept by her husband at Sandymount. But there
add have been, I uuderstand, farther evidence given of
**same fact, for I undentacid that Mrs. Kirwan traced
her husband to a house at the north side of the city, where
either this woman, now Mrs. Kirwan, or some other woman
resided—that she found them together, and that this was
previous to his tenancy of the house at Sandymount.
A house which Kirwan owned, in a remote part of
the outskirts of Dublin, and in which he was never
known to live, is now in the hands of the police, for
the purpose of making a strict search in the pre-
mises.
The following expression of opinion on the new
government, by the Londonderry Standard, should
nut be overlooked, that paper being, a leading organ
of the presbyterians of Ulster, and one of the most
respectable journals published in Ireland. After dis-
cussing the circumstances under which the new
ministry has taken the reins of government, the
basclonderry Standard says :
The inference we draw from all this is, that the govern-
ment of this empire by a single party is quite impossible.

Then can be no government without a majority in parlia-
ment, bat no party has that indispensable condition of
power. What, then, must be the consequence ? " How,"
as the great duo sisked—" how is the Queen's government
to be itarried on ?" Shall parliamentary government be
virtually abolished, and must we, as Sir James Ill'lntosh
remarked, submit for ever to a standing Court ministry,
while " the opposition must become merely a sort of Tribu-
nitian band, who, being unchecked by those hopes of suc-
ceeding to power, which at present moderate the temper of
their opposition, and prevent them from committing
themselves to rash opinions or impracticable rues-
' sures, would run into all aorta of violence, and produce
such shocks as would at last ruin the constitution..'
The experiment of Lord Derby has proved that a go-
vernment by the aristocracy, carried on in an aristocratic
spirit and for aristocratic ends, is impossible. Hence a cosii-
tion government is the only one practicable. But in the
present government the coalition is virtually between the
aristocracy and the people; and it is the only sort of enicis-
try which the centripetal and centrifuge) forces of the con-
stitution will keep moving harmoniously in its proper orbit.
As a contemporary has remarked, it is composed of the very
best administrators of previous cabinets, the very beat
speakers of the Commons, the very best statesmen to collect
public opinion—. a cabinet made out of the strength of
many cabinets." Lord Aberdeen and Lord John ltussell
have taken a great step in advance in not excluding from
office those who are pledged to the principles of tenant-right
as embodied in Mr. Sharman Crawford's bill—men who are
not bought and shipped off to places in the colonies, but ap-'
pointed to the most influential posts in their own country.
It is another great step in advance, that the ballot is an
open question in the cabinet; and still more significant, as
• sign of the times, is the fact, that so many gentlemen con-
nected with j ntrnalisat have daces under Lad Aberdeen.
We have had a severe gale from an early hour
this morning. The English mail of this morning
is now some hours overdue.

A most gratifying proof of the success of the best
laugar experiment is Ireland was afforded at Mr.
Stokes's sale yesterday. The .Mountmelliek Com-
nany's manager, M. Hirsch, had sixty-seven bugs
brought forward, representing three qualities. The
lowest (yellow grainy) (welled 41s. 6d. to 425. per
cwt.; the medium 445. 6(1., and the finest 455. 6.1.
per cwt., while. the finest white Bengal fetched no
more than 40s. 6d., and Demerara 41s. The finest
quality of the Irish beet sugar is very beautiful.
In colour nearly pure white—in grain almost resem-
bling crystallised Jamaica ; whilst its flavour is supe-
rior, and its saccharine qualities are quite unrivalled.