The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1848.

General Sir F. Adam,
Kite. dined with Leient..General Sir
Edward and Lady erreson yesterday vening in Great
Stanhopettreet. The general receives another large party
on Saterday next.
Lord John Russell bas a dinner party on Wednes-
day next, the 17th inst., at his residence, in Chi:sham.
place.

Mr. Macaulay is, it is stated in an evening paper,
about to retire front the Cabinet.

A drawing-room will be held by the Queen to-
morrow, at St. James's Palace; another on the 27th inst.,
to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day; and a third on the
2nd of June. On the 17th inst. there will be a levee.

[From last night's Onzette.L
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY B.—Thie day had
audience of her Majesty the Baron de Cetto, envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary from the King of Bava-
ria, to deliver • letter from his Majesty King Louis of
Bavaria announcing bis abdication ; and a letter from his
Majesty King Maximilian, notifying his accession to the
throne of Bavaria; and also to deliver his new credentials,
to which audience he was introduced by Viscount Palmer-
ston, Ci.o 8., and conducted by. Col, the lien. Sir E. Cult,
K.C.11., Master of the Ceremonies.

•
CALLS TO THE BAIL—LINCOLN'S-IEN, MAT 9.—A
further call to the her of the students of this society was
made this evening, and they compriee the following gentle-
men:—Henry Sargent, Esq., the lion. F. Byron, Henry
Forester, Esq., Alexander A. Weston, Esq., William S.
Ferrero, Esq., and Philip Jennings, Es%
PRIVATEERS IN TUE ENGLISH CHANNEL.—A cor-
respondent says, under date Cowes, Tuesday morning,
May 9, " The intelligence of the blockade of Hamburg,
Lubec, and the German ports, arrived here yesterday ,• and
in oonsequeace our roadstead is rapidly filling with Ham-
burgers, Holateiners, 414., no less than 17 ships having
some up during the night. One of our pilots reports, that
yesterday, whilst coming up Channel on board of a Prussian
ship, he witnessed the capture of a Holstein schooner by a
privateer under Danish colours, which fact confirms a report
current for the hut few days, that there were several prin.
leering vessels in the chops of the Channel, looking out for
prices. '
CI t: Reit PASTORAL AID E OClETV.—Yesterday
morning the annual general meeting of the supporters of the
above society was held at Exeter hall. Lord Ashley, M.P.,
was in the chair ;
_and amongst the persons on the platform
were the Earl of Waldegrave, the Bishop of Norwich, the
Bishop of Manchester, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, the Hon.
and Rev. B. W. Noel, and other friends of the !society.— I
The chairman having read letters from the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of Winchester, and tho Bishop of
Ripon, expressing themselves favourable to the principles of
clerical aid upon which the society was founded, the secre-
tary read the report. It appeared from this document that
the prospects of the society were highly escoursging, though
its present financial condition gave cruse for anxiety. Nume-
rous reports, received from the incumbents of populous dis-
tricts, where the society had provided additional curates and
assistants, testified to the beneficial results of the plan pur-
sued. Spiritual instruction had been given in districts where
the incumbents were so few that without such assistance it
would have been impossible to attend to the religious welfare
of the people. The receipts ef the society amounted to
21,7671.95, fel., and the disbursements to the larger sum of
29,5371. 14s. &I. The sum received from auxiliaries was
2,6971. In May, 1845, there were 77 grants vacant out of
320, while there were at present only 24 out of 360. The
outlay had increased inn corresponding degree—viz., by about
.s,oool.—The Bishop of Norwich moved, the Bishop of Man-
chester seconded, and the Rev. J. Harding supported, a re-
solution for the adoption of the report and the appointment
of the committee.—The motion was carried ; after which fur•
ther resolutions were moved and seconded by the Rev. H.
Stowell, the 11ev. T. N. Nolan, the Rev. Dr. Burnett, and
the Ilon. and Rev. B. W. oel, and also carried unani-
mously.—A vote of thanks was then passed to the noble lord
in the chair, and the meeting separated.
ARCILEOLOOICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND ittetartu.—The annual general meeting of the
members of the above association was held yesterday at the
Institute of Civil Engineers, Great George-street, West-
minster. Sir Philip de Malpas Egerton, Bert., presided.
The chairman having opened the proceedings the secretary
(Mr. Hudson Turner) read the report, which stated that
during the past year upwards of 200 members had been
elected, amongst whom were his Grace the Archbishop of
York, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, the Earl of Yarborough,
Lord Hastings, and Lord Beaumont. The proceedings of
the association at York had been published. Tho next
swung provincial visit would take place at Lincoln,
which the committee had no doubt would give general satis-
faction to all the subscribers, the city of Lincoln being
peculiarly interesting on account of its great antiquity, its
beautiful Roman remising, its magnificent cathedral, and
ecclesiastical buildings. [The excursion will take place on
the 2.5 th of June.] The balance sheet of the society showed
the receipts to have been 7461. 175., and the expenditure to
within 110/. of that sum. Some routine business having
been gone through a vote of thanks to the chairman closed
the proceedings.
CHARTIST ASSEMIII.T.—At the meeting of this
body yesterday notice was taken of the absence of agitation
in the metropolis, and a suggestion was made that public
meetings should be hell in different parts of London and
Westminster in favour of the movement. A delegate moved
that as open-air meeting should be held during the week in
Smithfield, but after much discussion the matter was left in
the hands of the executive. On a report from Rochdale
being presented, the delegate mated that there was a de-
cided severance between the chartists of Lancachire, in con-
s/ qUenCe ef the recent conduct of Mr. F. O'Connor. The
consideration of the organisation report having been re-
sumed, it was res,,lveil to appoint provisionally twenty com-
missioner., such appointments to be subject to the confirma-
tion of the country. Other points of the report occupied the
remainder of the sitting. More thou one delegate stated, in
the course of tho day's proceedings, that the people were
getting dissatisfied with the course pursued by the assembly,
and that a recall from attending it was daily anticipated.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAY 8.
The open defiance of constituted authority, and the
very insulting form in which Mr. Smith O'Brien set
himself up against the government of Lord Claren-
don, is about to be punished by his removal from the
list of magistrates. Many were suprised at the tole-
ration of the Lord Chancellor in suffering the honour-
able counter-proclaimer to remain in the commission
of the peace. But the Chancellor has at last deter-
mined to vindicate the claims of authority and re-
spect; and as will be seen from the subjoined corre-
spondence, to remove Mr. S. O'Brien from the list of
magistrates.
Secretary's Office, Court of Chancery, Dublin, May 5, WM—Sir,
—1 um directed to inform you that the Lord Chancellor has real a
document in the public papers, purporting to be signed by you. avid
entitled " Proclamation by the Council of the Irish Confederation,"
and I am to request you to side as a magistrate, if that documenting
signed by you, or has been published as having your signature with
your sanction, and whether you wish to offer any explanation of a
proceeding which appears to the Lord Chancellor to be greatly at
variance with the conduct to be expected from a gentleman holding
her Majesty's commission of the peace.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant Functs WILLIAM Basuv. William Smith O'Brien,
Eat, M.P.
Dublin, May 6, 1848.—Sir;I have bail the honour of receiving
your letter of the sth of May, In which you inquire whether "a do-
cument, purporting to he signed by me, and entitled a proclamatior
by the council of the Inch Confederation, was actually published
bearing my signature with my sanction." In answer to this inquiry,
I have much pleasure in otating that the document in question
(though I cannot claim to myself the honour of having composed it)
wao signed by me, and has my full nuection. Conceiving that his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant bad by means of a government
proclamation propounded to this country i.pinions mconnotent
with the laws of the land, release to certain ourgeolions which
bad been offered by tho council of the blab Confederation.
hatching the formation of a national council, and of • national
guard, I felt it to be my duty, with the concurrence of the
council, to warn the people of Ireland that they ought not to place
any reliance upon the illegal and unconntitutional doctrines set forth
in such proclamation. With regard to my commission of the peace,
I beg to remind you that I resumed it upon the invitation of the Lord
Chancellor, at the inotance of twenty-two magistrates in the county
of Limerick, who spontaneously, and without my knowledge, Spa-
tted their opinion to the Lord Chancellor that the public interred re-
quired that should be invented with the office of justice of the peace.
I connoted to resume that office with a view to maim in preferring
social order ; but I shall very cheerfully surrender my coatmintion
if
its retention involve any son of pledge that I will uphold an usurped
power in this country,. or that I will treat, no deserving of respect,
proclamations emanating from Dublin Castle which are not munition
by the laws of the lond.—l have the honour to be, lie., Wisuom 8.
O'Bnis.s.—To the Secretary of the Lord Chancellor.
The Ulster Tenant-right Association will meet at
Dungannon on the 25th, and the tenant farmers of
the north will assemble with their appetites sharpened
against many of the Ulster landlort,s. The spirit of
eviction is almost as active in the north as in the
south and west, though the materials are imbued
with a far stronger spirit of resistance and resentment
on the Hertford estates. 500 declarations in eject-
ment had been served for the last quarter sessions in
Belfast, and 67 decrees obtained, the remaining cases
having been settled. The law coats which will
fall upon the tenants have been over 5091. The
Hertford tenantry are all sound and unyielding pro-
testants, many of them Orangemen of the finest pur-
ple, but neither their religion nor their loyalty saved
them from the ejectment and the bailiff. The meeting
of so much irritation at Dungannon may involve
serious consequences, which it would be well to dissi-
pate by a better system of relations between landlord
and tenant.
The past week has exhibited a decided improvement
in affairs monetary and commercial. The panic has
subsided, and the run for gold completely checked.
Indeed, a reaction has taken place, for the Cork
branch of the Bank of Ireland in one day last week
received 10,0001. from the savings banks. The stock
market has not shared is the improvement of the
share market. In the latter a great many transactions
have taken place, and in all cases an advance has
been had.
Subjoined is the reply given by Lord Clarendon to
the address of the Dublin Corporation, which was this
day presented to his excellency by a deputation from
that body
My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen.—l trust that the excitement to which
you allude, and which has called forth the renewed and gratifying
A9BIIIIICeS of your loyalty to our gracious Sovereign, may now be con-
sidered as fast approsching its termination ; but I beg to assure you
that I havens knowledge of the designing or intentsted body of men
who, by the continued circulation of unfounded rumours, have in any

way influmeemithaaalseflaellelesty's advisers. floatere you have
been se medhsailinaed copes tie subject as pou base bees with re-
spect to Ow =ala brought tato lire an 'base to acquaint
you that, saw& Ike garrison was saloroed, yet that Ile
wails raft of amp here, that penmen, stab time he
sacred lons* ism then amt of the sumba shishaa state
to have ham asset* bap this ay; while mom reins limn
imported stelae' pawls. ma la Do cemaiduals qyasala. lave
chiefly tees maimed lie ROO IR the ootelry. It on odd wow
that the tram doom nos Dialio for Rao inikpei lows lam
to a state Optima la I deeply moot R; teal lon b.
deal surprised to lass the otty Ins am vapid b a
consequence of the pttosailme W 3 to pooled Alma owl pa
Perthea of the chines] woe so, it to notecase lama battiest of
the metropolis thee Oar more than two ears ad without in.
termiselon, the sasat aim ad systematic esteellens have been made
to excite the popiisitsa at Dublin to alma, la that thew designs
have been sweat end inaleced by WOMB et public meetinga, and
by publications salimeehe at all ossisty;that extensive pre-
parations have been made to provide the most deadly weapon., avow-
edly for the roomplisimeat of those design', and to organise and
instruct the people for setwal conflict with her Majesty's forms in the
event of their being called upon to defend the city from attack. It Is
lb en slarming demi manikins, and not the precautions which it wee
my duty to take for the preeerration of gad order and the safe:7g I
the metropolis, that have produced and maintained a state of
utterly destructive of that credit and oontiiii•noe which are tab. I
pcnsable to the properity of trade.
When bad men ennopire against the state, it Is the duty of no 1
governtnent to be ioforated of their proceedings; and that duty has
not been neglected, nor to there any difficulty in procuring germ'
information. But I should be the first to repudiate, and to punish
so far as laid In my power, any man who endeavoured to foster
discontent, and to lead others into the commission of crime, with the •
object of delivering them Into the hand, of justice; but I have no
reason to believe that any such acts have been committed.
I fully agree with you as to the loyalty of the people of Ireland, end
their aversiom to revolutionary principle", and I therefore firmly
believe the present excitement, however alarming it may have been
for a time, will leave no permanent traoin behind.
Discontent, doubtless, and perhaps not unnaturally, Mot sprung up
amid the eppalling miseries of a nelamity from which ttis country le
yet but slow lyemergieg; and though many of the evils that afflict Ireland
have certainly been the result of misgovernment, yet there also east
many of a iv dal character, depending for their remedy rather upon
society itself than men legislation, and all arc aggravated by that
velem or inerasaist agitation which must be injurious to the peaceful
habits and industrial progrew of a people. I must observe, also,that
I r many years past the eystem of laws here has Le no eawntial par-
ticular differed from that of England and Scotland, and
under that system pierce porti n of Ireland has been prosperous and
contented; but when you state that the wants and the wiehen of the
movie are totally neglected by the government, and that parliament
never smear" to have time for putting measures of relief you appear
not to bear in mind how large a portion of every tendon is devoted to
the discus-ion of lash affair', and that no practical measure for the
benefit of Ireland is ever proposed in parliament without meeting the
meet ettentive eanisideratenn, and that last year, owing to the men.
amen cheerfully and without hesitation pawed by parliament, and the
means taken by the government for carrying thew memo,s into ef-
fect, the wants of 7,000,000 persons, steering under the Helene= of
providence, were at one time relieved by money—that subsequently
more than 3,009,100 of peewits were relieved by daily retinae—
that asaistance was given to Irlih railroads when aimiLer aid was
refused to the English, and that various other means of relief to
Ireland were edopted, at a time, too, when, owing to the ex-
orbtuud price of food, the protracted monetary cater' the failure of
the cotton crop in America, and other MUMS, the whole mercantile
and manufacturing community of Great Britain was plunged in the
deepest diatreee.
No port of the money advanced to Ireland ham yet been repaid, and
it became unavoidable to increase the income-tax in England and
Scotland, from which burden thia country wee altogether exempted
by parliament in considerution of the wane and willies of the Irish
people.
It must be unneeemary fur me to inform you that the government
was in no way converned with the meeting that belt place of the ma-
weareree of the meaty and city of Dublin. certainly have no reaaoo
to doubt the intelligence, loyalty, told real of any gentlenyin who may
have attended that meeting, nor have I any right to impow limits to
the interest they may take to any part of the country ; but I appre-
hend that they must be more or lent interested in the welfare of
Dublin, as no eventcould materially affect this city without exercising
a correepending influence in the country.
I tweet that you should consider the loyal address ward at that
meeting to have been wholly uncalled fr, an, from the public report
of the proceedings, I was led to believe that it would have been carrell
unanimously but for the last paragraph, to which an amendment was
moved. In my answer to that eddies* I showed that I in no way
&rented tram the terms of that amendment, and I gladly take the
opportunity of wowing you also that her Majeety's government are
meet deeply weenie to promote the pruererity of Ireland, and by every
mesas in their power to promote content by the removal of all just
cauere of complaint
I beg now to repeat what I said oo a former invasion with refer.
teed to the Fame aubject, that I entirely respect your convictions,
and feel sure that you look to the repeal of the Omen for the establish-
ment of perfect peace, tranquility, and prisrperity; and I doubt not
you will believe me equally nineere, when I declare my deliberate
conviction, that consequence the reverse of what you expect would
flow front that measure, which must inevitably be attended by com-
plete separation from England ; and there who looked for increased
prosperity, or even the rusintenaisce of order and security to life and
property, under a different form of government, would,wben too late,
discover the fatal error they had committed.
I therefore deeply regret the continuation of popular excitement
with respect to a measure that never can be °beams! without • com-
plete change in the policy of the statesmen and people of Great Be nein,
and of the opinions of the vast majority of there who represent the
property, the Mulligenee, and the industry of Ireland.
I trust that, me the danger of disturbance hue now panted away, the
excitement and alarm which it has created throughout the country
well speedily subside; and I cn, with sincere pleasure, give the
assurance you ask of me, that the government ham rel:ante on the
people ; for, by diseountenancine, as they have done, the efforte ea
perseveringly made to midead them, they have given the hest proof
of that loyalty ond true alit gimlet which afford" the wrest founda-
tion en which the existence of the government can be based.

EX OFFICIO PROCEEDINGS.
The argument on the plea in abatement occupied the
Queen's lunch on Monday without any definitive result.
Judgment has been postponed until Wednesday. On behalf
of the crown appeared the Attorney-General, with Me.irs.
Henn, Whiteside, Baldwin, and Perrin. For Mr. Mitchell,
Mr. Holmes, Sir Colman O'Llablen, and Mr. J.
O'Hagan. There were two motions: one by the crown,
being • demurrer to the plea in abatement ; and a second by
Mr Mitchell being a demurrer to the replication bled by the
crown. Mr. l'errin, in support of the first demurrer, shortly
' stated the nature of the motion. Ile said the Attorney.
General, by the undisputed exercise of the prerogative, hail
filed an ex officio, to which the traverser pleaded that
an indictment bad been found againt him for the
same offence, on which he was duly arraigned. To that
plea the Attorney-General had demurred. Mr. Perrin
argued, first, that the plea was bad to the information, even
if the indictment was binding ; and second, that if it were
not bad under such circumstances, the nolle prosequi had
removed all objections. Mr. Perrin referred to nu-
merous cases in support of his argument, and was followed
by Sir C. O'Loglilen on the part of the traverser. He sub.
' mitted that upon the record as it stood there was a disconti-
nuance, and that therefore the crown was out of court and
must begin de novo. The crown had treated Mr. Mitchell's
plea as one in bar. whereas it was strictly a plea in abate-
ment. This operated as a discontinuance of the record. It
mattered not whether the substance of the plea was
in bar, provided the commencement and conclusion
were iu abatement, which the plea in the pre-cot
case decidedly was. Mr. Holmes followed on the
same side, and the Attorney • General in reply
contended that in form the demurrer was correct. All the
cams cited by Sir Coleman to prove the discontinuance
were civil cases. The matter stated in the plea did not pre-
vent him from filing an ex officio. He had nothing what.
ever to do with the formation of the grand jury, and he felt
bound, when a technical objection had been ruled by " this
Mr. Mitchell," who boasted of his anxiety to go to trial, to
give him that opportunity by filing an ex officio. The se.
mind argument was then proceeded with, and differed very
slightly from the first. The Attorney-General gave up the
entry of the nol. pros. as a quashing of the informations, and
the question now for the judgment of the court was simply
whether the first information pending a plea on abatement
will lie against an ex officio information for the same ellence.
It would of course be r-eh to form any opinion of the deci-
sion of Wednesday, but I conjecture that the plea will be
held bad by the whole court, arid that the replication, which
instead of praying judgment over prayed a conviction on
the information, will be held bad by two and supported by
two. it is probable that Mr. Mitchell will be tried at bar
on the first day of next term.
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THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
This body met to-day as usual. Mr. A. R. Striteh, a memo
ber of the town council, occupied the chair. Mr. John
O'Connell proposed a resolution to the effect, that the
msociati,m do call upon Mr. Reynolds to assent to a second
adjournment of the repeal debate, now standing for the
10th inst., until the 24th of May. Mr. O'Connell, in mov-
ing this resolution, said that he was induced to do so for
several reasons. The repeal members would find it incon-
venient to attend on the 10th. Many of them also were per-
loaded there would be a farther adjournment ; and for
his own part he had an especial reason, which was,
that the progress of events on the continent might
speedily become of ouch a nature as to turn that which
would now be certainly an immense majority into a rei•
nority, or induce the proposal of measures to satisfy Ire-
land. Therefore he was not in a hurry to have this division
taken.—Mr. Reynolds said Mr. O'Connell had brought on
this question before Easter contrary to his (Mr. Reynolds')
opinion. He had pledged himself, besides, publicly in that
hall to proceed with the dehete, if he had life, on the
10th of May—therefore Irish repeal members must know
it would not be postponed further. Notwithstanding
this, however, and his persuasion that it ought not
to be postponed again, be would, in deference to the associa-
tion, and in consequence of a request from the hon. member
for Limerick, Mr. S. O'Brien, and Mr. Keating, consent to a
further adjournment. Mr. Reynolds here entered into his
reasons against postponement, and those against the original
motion, in the course of which he was several times inter-
rupted by Mr. John O'Connell; and a declaration from the
former gentleman that lie had sustained Mr. O'Connell
when he had been assailed caused the latter to tell him
very tartly "he did not want his protection." Mr. O'Con-
nell then sought to withdraw his resolution. Mr. Reynolds
opposed his doing so, bqt Mr. O'Connell having asked leave
of the meeting, Mr. Reynolds declared, whether withdrawn
or not, he would adjourn the debate. Mr. O'Connell, not-
withstanding, withdrew the resolution, and thus a regular
" split" was established between the members for Dublin
and Limerick.
Mr. O'CoNweLL then proposed the following address to
Mr. S. O'Brien:
TO WILLIAM SMITH ~'sett(, wr.
We, tho members of the Repeal Al °elation, desire to express
the sincere pain and regret with which we have heard of the shame-
ful acts of violence offered to you by some individuals in Limerick,
and our utter and indignant reprobation of thaw acts and of their per-
petrators. We b:g of you to swept our very earnest assurances
of unfeigned sympathy and sincere personal respect. We are deeply
convinced that nothing more disastrous to the great use
of real
—nothing more deplorable on every amount, private or public
—no-
peal
thing more eilculated to give a triumph to the enemies of Ireland
could by any possibility have occurred. And, in so far as our decia•
rations may chance to have influence with any of the Individuals
who waned you, we declare that we would rather abandon the
:struggle altogether, dear as it is to our heart., than cement to remain
connected with it if its progress la to be marked by any violence or
outrage to any party or parties whateoever.—Once more repealing
one earnest eminences of respect, we have the honour to be, sir,
your faithful servants (signed on behalf of the meeting, and by order
of the same), Jour CrCorsucx, Chairmen; T. M. BAT, Secretary.
New Rose, MAY s.—The repeal meeting advertised
for to day, took place, but only abuut 300 persons were pre-
sent, and all went off quietly, without any result. About an
hour before high-water, the Advice and Merlin steamers
were brought up, and anchored elate to the bridge, by Capt.
Hall, of the Dragon. The largest of the steamers was full of