The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. flirt. 22.
The apprehended visitation of the cholera has na-
turally occupied people's minds a good deal of late,
and, it is to be hoped, not without some useful effect
in inducing the adoption of precautionary measures.
There has been some difficulty in arousing the atten-
tion of our civic authorities to the subject. Indeed,
as yet no actual step can be said to have been token
in the matter by any official persoos,notwithstandiag
the daily remonstrances of the press ; but the public
generalfy seems to have been awakened to the ne-
ccssity of taking care of themselves, and sanitary
lrecautions are talked about and acted upon by a,
arge majority of the people. The Royal College of
Physicians assembled yesterday in their college hall,
and sat fora considerable time in consultation on the
sanitary state of the city—a step which has given
considerable satisfaction. The usual precursor of
cholera, diarrhoea, has made its appearance in
Dublin, but not in any virulent form; and on the
whole the public health here is considered to be sa-
tisfactory. I regret, however, to say that a case of
Asiatic cholera has presented itself in Belfast. The
liWast Mercury of yesterday says:
Yesterday morning, shout five o'clock. a girl named Mar-
garet Smith, aged fourteen years, who lived in Little
Patrick-attest, was attacked with this disease, and soon
after all the symptoms set ia in the most confirmed form.
At site o'clock last night she had considerably revived.
The Beffaet Chronicle thus notices the circum-
stance:

Ws fear that the cholera has made Its appearance am
us sooner sad mars suddenly than the town was pre
too` A young woman was taken on 'Tuesday from Little
York•strest to the hospital, and, if war information be cor-
rect, there can he no doubt that the disease under which
she laboured is Asiatic cholera. It Is now high time to
take vigorous 1001111411111.

Yesterday two of Prince Albert's stewards, Mr.
William Wilson, Shaw farm, Windsor, and Mr. Alex.
Toward, Osborne, Isle of Wight, who have been
sent by his royal highness to inspect the model farm
at Olasnevin, &c., visited the Auxiliary Workhouse
Farm, situate at Cross Guns. They were conducted
round the farm and sheds by Capt. Lindsay, chairman,
and minutely inspected the crops, the boys being at
work at the time on the farm, and listened with
much satisfaction to the answers given by them on
farming operations both theoretically and practically,
their efficiency in which reflects the highest credit on
Mr. Casey, the agricultural instructor. The following
is the report of Prince Albert's stewards:—

We hate inspected the crops upon the workhouse fun,
and found them very superior, and the management good;
and were much petalled by the answen given by the boys
Wien swained in agriculture.
(Signed) Wn.sow, Windsor.
ALIT. TOWIIID, Osborne.
The public meeting of the Queen's University in
Ireland will take place in St. Patrick's Hall, on the
10th of October, when degrees, honours, and diplo-
mas will be distributed to the candidates who shall
have passed for them at the present examination.
The following statement with reference to the late
suicide in French-street appears in the Freeman :

An agent of a London insurance company received a
letter, yesterday, from the secretary of the company, en-
doing a slip from a paper about the late suicide in French-
street, and giving a description of the wretched individual.
The secretary states that the particulars correspond exactly
with the personal appearance of a clerk of theirs, who ab-
sconded from them in July last, under diegracefal circum-
stances, having embenled money to a considerable
amount; and, although they bid a detective offi-
cer after hire, they never could find out his where-
about.. The absconded clerk is described as being
of sallow complexion, dissipated appearance and
about the age given in the Freemen for that of the un-
fortunate man who committed suicide in French-street. lie
won a wig; had lost some frost teeth; had in hie preemies
a miniature of himself, aid played on the accordion. The
secretary having requested that the clothes of the deceased
should be examined for any name or initials marked thereon,
and that the miniature found la his possiesioa should be
transmitted to Lim for inspenties. Kr. Sysdnes, the ea-
rner, c,ased the clothes to be ozonised very 'dustily yes-
terday, bet every +nide being (left* sew s• initial or other
mark could be discovered on them. lie. Hyaenas, iacom-
pliaaee with the secretary's request, gave the agent of the
company the miniature and the ell pedeell-beek el the de-
ceased to be transmitted by pest to Union for the pavane
of being inspected there.

A "national soiree" is to be given to the Irish
members of the "independent" party on the bth of
October, the day following the tenant-right confe-
rence. The soiree is to take place in the Round
Room of the Rotunda.

The number of persons who visited the Exhibition
yesterday amounted to 9,816. The attendance was
both numerous and fashionable, and the receipts at
the doors much above the average of last week.

MB. DAROAN.—This gentleman arrived in Belfut
on Tuesday. lie proceeded to Portruah to to present at
turning the first sod of the Ballymena and Pertnish Junc-
tion Railway, which ceremony took place en Wednesday.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—FATAL ACCIDENT. THE
Putnam Pea=.—if. Davis, Hsq., county coroner, held
as kanest at the lliliqry Hospital, Phenix Park,
on the body of Isaac It.. egad 21 years, a private in the
. Royal Seem Artillery Corp., stationed Dublin. It ap-
pal:4d been the evidence that daring military practice on
the Massa Acres the previous afternoon, the demised,
while psusssdiog at gallop with others of bis troop in frost
of a gnu, was throws from hie hone by the animal falling,
art bean sidstese. could be rtadered, a wheel of the pia-
ennisp pared ever his body about the shoulders. The 111-
fated yoong man, is almost a moment after, got on his legs
and ran ten or twelve peon at a very rapid pace ; he then
fell prostrete, and woe in an instant a corpse. Not the
slightest sign of injury. or even of a scratch or bruise, was
visible on any pert of the body. No blame whatever was
attributed to the drivers of the gas who, it was proved,
could not, from the speed at whisk they scriser going at the
moment, have possibly palled up Is t time to pro-
' vent the fatal accident. Verdict—Accidental death.

A MAN KILLED IT • BOLL.-011 Tuesday last Ed-
ward Thompson, a farm servant in the employ of Mr.
Thames Boon, Preston Patrick, was gored and crushed to
death by a bull. It appears that with almost incredible
rashness and folly the young man had needlessly gone into
the pasture where the ball, which was known to be of a
savage nature, was ocailned, and after irritating it by
throwing stones at it, and driviag it about, bed actually
attacked the infuriated anima with •• " hall-stick"—a stick
shod with iron, used in coercing these aainiale—end had
entered into a sort of single combat with the poworfal and
ferocious brute. The consequence may ashy be antici-
pated. The bull, maddened by the attacks, rushed at his
presumptuous assailant, and having got him in his power,
tossed and gored him in the most frightful manner. The
fellouservants of the unfortunate man endttaroared to
rescue him by attacking the bull with spades and pitch-
forks, but so maddened was the animal that It was quite
hacked and mangled before it would quit its victim, who
expired in a few minutes afterwards.— Watmoriond
Guatte.

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MYSTRBIOCS DlSAPPELEANca.—Considerable sen-
sation has been excited in Belfast, during the pest three or
four works, in consequence of the sudden disappearance of
a young girl, named Hagan, connected with the Frederick-
street Industrial School. The girl, who is about ten years
of age, lost her mother by death some Ave or six years ago,
and was soon after deserted by her father, who, it is be
Herod, proceeded to Scotland. She wee taken under the
care of a family in Hardinge-street, who treated her in the
kindest manner, and sent her to the Ladies' Industrial
School, in which she received all the benefits and advan-
tages of that excellent establishment till the let of August
last, when she suddenly disappeared. What has be-
come of the girl is not known, as, from the morning of the
day stated, when she left her home to go to school, up till
the present time, not the slightest information has been
obtained to lead to her discovery. It may be worth while
to mention, in connexion with the circumstance, that the
girl's father was a papist, and her mother a protestant, that
the girl herself conformed to the protestant faith, and that
shortly before she disappeared two persons beonging to
Tyrone were known to have waited on her and to have told
her that her soul would be lost if she continued to go to
church. The police are making vigilant Inquiries as to the
child's whereabouts, and so also are the Revs. Messrs. Mar-
tin and Allen, to whom her mysterious departure was early
communicated.—Banner of Water.
HERRING MAI:IL—WICK, SEPT. 15.—The herring
fishing terminated here on Thursday week. Some attempts
have since been made by a few crews, but without obtain-
ing more than served ter bait for cod fishing. At Peter-
head and Frsserburgh the fishing was abundant last week,
and tile average now runs little short of 150 crane at both
these pieces. The weather since last report has been such
that little good was expected te be done, and the fishing may
now be said to be over at all the stations except at An-
etruther and Lerwick. We are glad to have to record that
the fishing on the whole coast of Scotland has this year
been fully an average one, which the state of matters in
the middle of August did anything but indicate.—dohn
o Grog Jon cal.