The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. JUNE 11.
Election rumours are once more the order of the
day. Several candidates are spoken of for the county
of Clare, but strange enough they all belong to the
multitudinous family of Fitzgerald. We are told
that Sir Edward Fitzgerald is prepared to stand
with his uncle, Sir John Fitzgerald, should Mr. C.
O'Brien, one of the lately unseated members, retire;
and another statement afloat is that Mr. J. 1). Fitz-
gerald, the present member for Ennis, will get him-
self returned for the county, where be is popular,
and make room in the borough for his brother Tho-
mas. It is certain that Colonel Vandeleur will not
have a walk over, but it is also extremely probable
that the gallant colonel will obtain one of the vacant
seats, and that the interest of the county in parlia-
ment will thus be equally divided between the two
parties.
Sundry rumours about law changes are rife in the
hall of the courts. The following paragraph from
Saunders's News Letter embraces the most probable
of them:

It is said that Chief Justice Lefrov is about to retire, from
indisposition, and that he will he succeeded by the Attor-
ney-General in the Queen's Bench—that Baron Penne-
tauter will retire from the Exchequer, and bo succeeded by
Mr. Ilatchell, Q C., the Attorney-General under the last
whig government—and that Mr. Commissioner Masan, the
senior Commissioner of Bankrupts, will make way fir Mr.
John rennefather, one of the crown prosecutors on the
Leinster circuit. If these changes are carried out, Mr.
Keogh, M.P., will, of course, succeed to the office of
Attorney-General, which will create a vacancy in the repre-
sentation of Athlone; and he will moat probably be suc-
ceeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, whose
promotion would cause the necessity of a uew election for the
borough of Ennis, or by Mr. Manley.
Great anticipations are entertained of the aggre-
gate meeting of Monday next, on the nunneries
question, and, whatever may bo the weght which
the demonstration may derive from respectability or
numbers, it is pretty certain that it will be made a
vent for a good deal of strong language. The articles
and letters in newspapers, and resolutions of local
meetings, have already approached an extreme point
in this respect; lint it is still quite certain that the
great bulk of the Roman catholics are incredulous on
the subject, and that they do not expect that the pro-
posed measure will be pressed through parliament.
The question is one which in all probability they
would otherwise be induced to feel more warmly
upon than even the Ecclesiastical Titles Act itself.
Provincial meetings will be held in most parts of the
country to-morrow, and a flood of petitions will
no doubt be poured into the house before the
close of next week. A meeting has been called in
Cork for Thursday next, by the mayor, in compli-
ance with a long requisition, and special meetings
on the subject have been announced in other towns.
The town council of Kilkenny have adopted a strong
resolution against Mr. Chambers's measure ; and bnt
for the impression which is abroad that ministers are
making a whip against the bill, a pretty fair amount
of agitation might be expected.
A meeting of the Dublin Protestant Association
was held last night, at which, on the motion of the
Rev. T. D.Gregg, a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant
was adopted, and also the following resolution
That if the government give us that due protection which
we are entitled to claim, on Monday next, we shall, as
Anglo-e.atholics, accept the invitation which so many digni-
taries of the state have published, in order to petition against
Mr. Chambers's bill; and if not, that immediate steps be
taken to constrain those who convene meetings of the sub-
jects of the crown so to do as that they may not compro-
mise the rights or titles of any of the Queen's subjects.
The Roman catholic priests of the deanery of Mill-
street, in the county of Cork, have passed a series of
resolutions in conference, condemning in strong
terms the language which Lord John Russell has
recently used with respect to their church, and call-
ing on their representatives in parliament to with-
draw their support from the government with which
his lordship is connected.
Three small estates were disposed of yesterday in
the Incumbered Estates Court; the produce of one
in the county of Kilkenny being at the rate of 331
years' purchase, of one in the county of Cork 21
years' purchase, and finally, one in the county of
Wexford fetching a rate of 20 years' purchase. The
prices in the Irish land market are on the whole
well sustained.

We hear but little of late of the " exodus," and the
work of self-expatriation has evidently relaxed, but
this is to be attributed to the fact that the people
are waiting for the approaching harvest, and not to
any permanent check to the current of emigration,
which will flow out as copiously as ever when the
present growing crops shall have been converted
into ready money. The Mars steamer sailed yes-
terday, on her usual weekly trip from Waterford,
with 280 emigrants, en route for the west via Liver-
pool.