The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-27 00:00:00

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Aver' in the county gaol at Nenagh. Costello was tried •
with two others. The jury were unanimous in their acquit-
tal of the two who were tried with him ; but one of the
brats disagreed with the other eleven as to Cr:Utiles guilt
It is said that the wretched man 'suffered greatly in mind
lately; and that the agony he thur endured hastened his
death.—Tipperorp Vindicator.
Bairwascia AND Loss or Lin.—During the meet
steno, says the Newry TelegrepA, the schooner Ida, of
Ifewry, Juba Benson, muter, bound from Ruacorn to
Newry with a cargo of rock-salt, was driven into Dondrum
Ray. The violence of the gale drove the vessel on a sand-
bank, opposite to Tyrella, where she capsized, and the mas- ,
ter and a crew of five persons were drowned. Thesehooner
has since gone to pieces, and two of the bodies been washed
ashore.
iIIittWDDCIS to TRAMORD BAT.—At nearly the same
time the Mystery, bound from tha Black Bea to the port of
Galway, laden with Indian corn, was stranded about the
centre of the strand. Immediately after she 'track, her mew,
consisting of the master, Capt. Williams, Berea men and a
boy. took to the rigging, in consequence of the tremendons
surge for which this bay is so fatally remarkable in bad I
weather one of the first breakers having car-lea away their
boat. They remained in this perilous situation until about
three o'clock, when they were reward by two small boats
=wend by air fishermen in each, who, regardless of their
own lives, rowed bravely through the awful breakers, and
brought every soul safe on shore, amidst the cheers of hue-
duds who were witnessing the scene. The vessel, in the
course of the nett sunning, completely upset and went to
pieces. A large quantity of the corn is driven in with each
tide, and is eocupying thousands of the poor creatures, who,
although obliged to be up to their waists in the water this
inclement season, are carrying it off in cars and baskets.
These disasters,-which simians, occur in this bay, would
be prevented, and numbers of the industrious population
gain a livelihood, if a small fishing-barbour, or pier, so
much required, were erected here. The vessel was highly
insured.

SCOTLAND.
NATIONAL GA LLERT. correspondenceheaktet bt'tn
brought to a close which will probably lend to the establish-
ment of • Scottish national gallery in Edinburgh, the im-
provement of the Scottish Academy, and increased opportu-
nities for the refinement of taste.
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Tue CANONOATT JAIL —Thls old and unhealthy prison
is now tenantless, the occupants having been removed on
Tuesday to the new jail on the Calton Hill, which is now in
nee
SiTl3.—The people (says a correspondent of the inertness
Coserjer) who went south for work last glimmer have almost
all returned home; and some of those who are careful and
were loagesPout have, I understand, brought home s very
fair amount of each from their saving', which will make the
winter the more comfortable to them, and, perhaps, leave a
little for them even when that is over. There are a number
of them, however, wanting ; end, from one district alone of
Skye ( Waternish), half-a-doses of men end lads have met
with death by accidents within the last year, and other dis-
tricts have also probably suffered ; some of those killed have
left wives and children to lament their melancholy end. The
pot to &erase has done its office upon almost all the materials
it has had to work upon, PO that we have here now got back
the time\ of our grandfathers, when they reckoned it a
pretty fair crop of potatoes which lasted until Christmas, or
New Year's Day at farthest. What we are to have next I
do not know, but it is reported that no meal is to be given by
the contral board of relief but for work upon a new road be-
tween tertree, which wil! shorten the distance between,
these places by one-third of the present, reducing it to 13 or
14 miles, but no work of any kind can be commenced with
such weather as we have had for two months pest, Captain
Fithborne has come to Skye as the general inspector and su-
periutendent of the boards affairs, and is spoken of as an
active efficient person, but I have not met him yet. It ia
said that he was hut year in Ireland upon an expedition of a
similar description.
MOUSTACHI TAX. —ln proposing this new impost,
the Dumfries Courier says :—lt might be, at first sight,
supposed that each an article was beneath the notice of the
Lords end Commons. This quite a mistake, however; not
to !Teak of the unrepealcd tax upon hair powder, there is
ancient precedent for parliament taking this subject into
consideration. In the 28th year of the reign of his Majesty
Henry the Eighth, an act was passed restricting has Majes-
ty's suejecte in Ireland from being shorn or shaven above
the ears, or from wearing (mullets) long locks or hair on the
upper lip, called eromesl. Now, we do not mean to advo-
cate the restoration of such an set of coercion to the statute.
book ; we only propose the more just, though not less effec-
tual, in certain iestanees, method of taxation—" no compul-
sion upon shaving ; but, if you will sport the eromeal, you
must pay for it ;" the amount we would leave to the deter-
mination of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but our own
idea is, that an annual payment of one guinea would be
about the proper figure.