The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dess.nr, Fut. 21.
In the cue of MDonagh v. George, in the Court
of Common Pleas, the jury last night found a verdict
for the plaintiff fur 2001.
A general meeting of deputations from the Irish
boards of guardians will be held in Dublin on the
17th of next month, to petition parliament and me-
morialise government for the remission of the consoli-
dated annuities tax.

The following soldiers were lost in the fatal ship-
wreck of the Queen Victoria last week :—Sergeant
Wood, 3rd Draeon Guards, with his wife and child ;
a gunner and driver of the Royal Artillery; a private
of the 54th Foot ; and George Flatman, private of
the 52nd Regiment. The following soldiers were
saved on the same occasion :—Nbrm. Pearson and
William Melton of the 52nd Light Infantry.
The commission for the county of Clare opens to-
morrow. The idea of a military encampment at
Ennis during the assizes has be;n abandoned, and
the " firing party" of the 31st, who are to stand their
'rid for the Six-mile Bridge affair, will be escorted
this morning by two companies of the 14th infantry
and a troop of the 3rd Dragoons to Clare Castle,
when they will remain during the assisem Captain
Eager and Lieutenants Staunton and Hutton have
'meal at Ennis to be present at the proceedings.
The inquest on the bodies recovered from the
wreck of the Queen Victoria will be resumed to-day
at Kingstown. The wreck still holds the same po-
tidos, lying in 10 fathoms water about 200 yards
from the rock at the foot of the Bailey lighthouse,
es an even keel in a sandy bottom. Her place is
marked by a flag from the foremast head, only 3 feet
of which is over high water, and by a wreck buoy.
The sea has not yet been calm enough to allow a
dire to examine her, but no great difficulty is anti-
cipated in raising and floating the wreck, the work
tx which will be commenced immediately. No
mete bodies had come ashore up to last evening, no:
bad any portions of the cargo floated in at Howth.
Mr. 14 ilson, of the Crown-office, was on Satur-
diy sworn in Clerk of the Crown ad iekrise before
the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the office
having become vacant by the death of Mr. Pismo
A Waterford paper of yesterday tells us that the
"Exodus" still goes on from that. port without inter-
mption. It is stated that on Friday the quays were
literally alive with to Liverpool en route
to America ; no fewer t 380 or 400
crowding the deck of the Mars steamer at ?:::.°llse-
partme, and bidding a long farewell to their native
Mad.
On the other hand, we hear from various direes
bons of pogrom made at home, showing that all at
bast ere not agreed in giving up hope of prosperity
in Ireland. Thus, for instance, the Galway Packet
of yesterday says :
Yesterday we visited the weaving factory Is Whitehall,
'hack use lees got ep under the supenatendeaes of Dir.
Omuta. laden woe delighted to God eleven looms at
work. The flighty 111•14/b of three lofts capable of tom-
taigi Ansa heels each, so that the entire building will
mfiellanleMMedailesi for thirty-three looms. Carpenters
at present Petting it up for the reception of
Se twenty-two, which will be placed is it ina-
Millfidy. he weavers are employed at present in the
meedietere of checked muslin and coloured calico, which
tarn ug out most creditably. They can earn from
to ten shilliags a week; but when they arc accustomed
Istks fly-shuttle, they will be able to make nearly one pound
Ise week. There ha, been ne prosperity amongst us since
the toned of the loom ceased in the cottage homes of Ire-
hat With the decay of her linen trade the ruin of !the
line,try cretmenced. Her artisans emigrated and sought
osomerseut abroad, and the country gradually sank until
the famine came and plunged it into the lowest depths of
awry and destitution. However, as the staple trade of
Inland rapiJly risiog, and as the demand for it in the
earth has even now reached Connaught, we have reason to
b 414 that the darkest hour is past, and that the sun light of
r.p.ity.will shortly bunt upon the land. The factory is
hitehafi is being eqablished by a Belfast house at the
11111grotion of Mr. Overend, who collected a number of
ewers who preserved their old looms through every vicis-
situde of fortune and privation of life.
The Mountmelick sugar manufacturers had their
third sale of Irish sugar in the past week. The
!lasstity offered was larger than heretofore, amount-
to 142 bags of 3 to 4 cwt., and the whole, except
Portion of the two finest lots, found purchasers at
firs Priers, although not equal to those realised at
the first sales. The quality and flavour showed a
urled improvement on the first lot, and it may now
°, regarded staple product. The following are the
Prices :—Low brown, 335. • good yellow,
tid.: white, 42 ii. to -135.; finest white,' 445.
The question of the leasing of the. Grand Canal
f.r.iins Dublin to Ballinasloe, to the Midland Great
wertern Railway, continues to produce an unusual
loicunt of excitement among mercantile men and
!Len interested in the traffic between Dublin and
;terg Le Western province. It was the subject of a very
dik.usion at the half-pearly meeting of the
.tri_•-sh Southern and Western Railway Company, the
'41r613121 Sir E. McDonnell, explaining at great
4134th GO the part of the directors, the part which
'4l had taco in the transaction—a course which
Irl3 the more necessary as they were charged
with some remissness or ill-inanagement in

suffering a rival company to get the canal into their
hands.aThe chairman', explanations seemed so far
to be satisfactory; and Mr. Ennis, the chairman of
the Midland Company, was also present, and gave
every assurance that the public had no reason to ap-
prehend that the monopoly which his company were
thus acquiring would be abused. Notwithstanding
all the assurances, however, to this effect, a good deal
of dissatisfaction seems to be felt on the subject,
though apparently without any sufficient ground, and
it is probable that a strenuous opposition will be made
in the Rouse of Commons to the proposed transfer.
In the locumbered Estates Court on Saturday, a
property in the county of Waterford, held by a lease
for 500 years to come, at a head rent of 221. 55., and
subject to a tithe rent-charge of nearly 81., the nett
rental being 1881. 145., was sold for 2,5731., equal to
16 years' purchase. A leasehold in the county of
Down, the gross yearly rent of which is only 1271.,
while the heed rent and tithe rent-charge amount to
over 1831. per annum, was sold for 501., the value
being only nominal, or rather, in its present state,
being a negative quantity. The property of Mr.
J. P. Somers, late M.P. for Sligo, held by lease for
ever at a nominal head rent, and producing a profit
rent of 2101. 10s., was knocked down for 3,2751., or
at about 151 years' purchase on the present nett
rental. This estate was purchased by a Mr. Cogan,
a Sligo merchant, and the Waterford property men-
tioned shove was bought by Mr. J. Donnel, a mer-
chant of Liverpool. The 26r m:stile Advertiser says :
We have ►earned that the Irish estates of Earl Fitawil-
limn are to be sold in the Ineumbered Estates Court, and
that the necessary petition for that purpose has already
been filed, the noble earl himself being the petitioner.
These estates are situated in the counties of Wicklow and
Carlow, sad yield an annual rental of about 30,0001.
The Lord Lieutenant has directed John Andrew
Kirwan, Esq., R.M., lately restored to his magiste-
rial functions, to take charge of the district of
Castlecomer, count• of Kilkenny, under the provi-
sions of the act 6 Wm. IV., C. 13, daring the absence
of Major John Roberta, KM., from that district, on
I sick leave.

Lord William Fitzgerald, uncle of the Duke of
Leinster, in a short letter to the Dublin Telegraph,
treats the question of preserving thelrishViceroyaty
as one meriting nothing better than contempt. He
says :—" The people of Ireland in general care not a
fig for it, as was well and clearly proved (also in
Dublin) in 1846. Lord John Russell moved the abo-
lition in that year. In a House of Commons of near
300 members only 17 were is favour of this mark of
catholic degradation; and so it is, let the Telegraph
say what it will"

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday last,
while Mr. Thomas Campbell was attending the funeral of
his son in the Homan catholic burial ground of this city, be '
fell down dead at the moment the coffin was lowered into
the grave. Mr. Campbell was highly respected by his fel-
low-citizens, and will be lamented by • large circle of
friends.—lrry Standard.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF THE MILITARY AT r 41- '
witon.—Serious work had nigh taken place on Monday
night between the military sad police, arising out of the
following circumstance :—On Sunday evening a moldier of
the 68th, while in a state of intoxication, attacked in a
violent manner one of these improper characters that in-1
fest our streets. and would in all probability have indicted
serious injury on her were it not for the polio., who took
the disorderly soldier into custody, and placed him in
laureate vile till a file of the guard arrived, and conveyed
him to the barrack. This, it would memo aroused the evil
Ironstone of the more disonierly portion of the 89th, and
they remind to hare setisfamien for such an insult on their
comrade. In order to carry out their determination with
greater spirit, they agreed to take a "drop" before they,
eommenard the grand attack on the peelers."
Having satisfied their sppetite so far on Monday night, they I
formed themselves into a body, consisting of about 40 men, '
and proceeded in a breast, with side belts in hands, shout-1
ing in a terrific manner, to the new pollee barrack in Bar-
rack street, when there are only twelve men stationed,
moot of whom were out at the time, and endeavoured to'
erect an entrance into it ; but before they could do so the
deor was barred against them. They then attempted to
break into the Wreak, but, being foiled is this also, they
proceeded up the street, extending themselves throes from
one side to the other, and, having arrived at the coach.
office in Castle-street, they met five policemen on the
flags, whom they surrounded In menacing attitudes and
threatened them in a savage manner. The police, who,
up to this, were unconscious of what was th-ir intent,
drew their bayonets, which deterred their assailants from
carrying their threats iato execution. Some of the more
respectable of the townspeople here interfered and kept
the soldiers at bay till • strong piequet, under the com-
mand of Msjor Smith sad Lieutenant Nichol!, arrived and
arrested several of the delinquents. Police and military
piequem then continued to parade the town ti 1 a late hour.
We were sorry to hear that ease partite, who put on the
garb of respectability, were actually uniting the mob to
assist the soldiery and attack the polies. We understand
that yesterday morning, en parade, the major commented
in very meow terms on the proceedings of the preceding
night ; and, to mark his indignation at such outrageous
conduct, ordered that they should all be confined in bar-
racks. We regret:the foregoing occurrence should have
taken plate, as it will no doubt tend to the speedy removal
of the 68th from Nenagh. The departure of the *Melee of
the depot will be regretted by the gentry of the tom and
neighbourhood, to whom amusement they
aneenleibu=
keeping a first rate packet harriers. The now
oMeers helped is no mall degree to enliven the town sad
man the inhabitants, by having amateur theatrical. ens
a week, and which would he sestinued up to the preenny
had not the late stars swept away their tempered, hat
neat little theatre. 'Viewing the OW altogether, it is melt
to be regretted that even a few disorderly scoundrels could
for • moment either met a slur or tarnish the high reps-
-1 tattoo of so disti sighed& seeps as the 68th Light Infantry.
—Newish Osmrdi n.

SECOND EDITION.
FROM THIS NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FIX 11.—The Queen his been
draeionsly pleased to appoint Jolla Green. Esq., now her
Majesty's Consul at the Pirrone, to be her Majesty's Consul
at Alexandria.

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FOREIGN-01710E, F. 18.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Don Placido de Jose y Hevia as Con-
sul at Malta, and of Don Joaquin Gonzales as Vies-Consul
at Gibraltar, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain; also
been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel Solomon as Con-
sal at St. Helena for the Free Hanseatic city of Haaaborgh.