The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Donuts, Pam. 9.
The Lord Lieutenant and the Countess St. Ger-
mans held their first drawing room for the season
last night at the Castle. The company were an-
omaly numerous, and comprised all our rank and
fashion, the names filling two closely printed
columns of this morning's papers. Their Excel-
lencies entered the throne-room shortly after nine
o'clock.

The DO✓)'in Exprest states that a committee of ma-
gistrates has been formed in this city with a view of
raising subscriptions to defray the expenses of
the defence of Mr. J. Delmer, who will be tried at
the Ennis Assizes in connexion with the Six-mile
Bridge affair. The judiciousness of this move-
ment on the part of Justices of the peace is very
generally thought, to say the least of it, doubtful.
Six mortal columns of the Freeman of this morn-
ing are tied with speeches delivered at a meeting
held in rastlebar ou Monday, and which was in-
tended to be an echo from the west of last week's
meeting at Yells. The principal speakers were Mr.
G. H. Moore, M.P., Mr. Wilson Gray, and a few of
Ik. M'Hale's priests. The proceedings had nothing
attic slightest interest about them.
After two nights of frost the first shower of snow,
for the winter of 18:4-3, fell yesterday morning,
and during the day the white flakes came down
thickly and continuously so as soon to cover the face
tt the country with a fleecy mantle of tolerable
thickness. Although rather late in the season, the
wintry visitor was welcome; and it was hoped that
mine of the complaints we have been hearing from
the &grin'? urista might be removed by it, as well as
some purifying process effected in our atmosphere
which for months past has been filled with fogs and
Immure. baring last night no snow fell, and a
thaw has set in this morning with on cast wind,
which promises soon to remove the white patches
from the surface of the soil.

Owen Griffiths. David Roberta, John Williams,
Richard Charles Davis, and John Perri, na-
tives of Wake, were found guilty, yesterday, in the
ciraroisaion Court, of the manslaughter of a labour-
Leg man, named John Byrn, who they threw over-
hcaid from the deck of the schooner, Sardine, a few
tights since. They were sentenced to be transported
Lr t I years.
Alcxander, M.P. for Carlow, has nearly re-
covered from his late dangerous indisposition.
At the last meeting of the Royal Dublin Society,
'letter was read from William Dorgan, Esq., dated
junt39', 1'353, proposing to advance to the executive
committee a further sum of 13,0001. for the purposes
of the Exhibition, upon the same terms as the former
rotas of 20,000/. and I,ooot. have been already ad-
'laced, and requesting that tho court and cattle
PAL of the society might be placed at the disposal,
lithe executive committee for the purposes of the
Exhibition. The council came to a resolution highly
!Pllrce.iating Mr. Dargan's liberality and patriotic
!rectums in proposing to advance additional funds
a trder to give increased effect to the approaching
*hibition; and being desirous to evince on the part
the society their anxiety to co-operate with him to
flle.t practicable extent, have placed the cattle
V court yards, and other available external space,
the disposal of the executive committee, fur the
lion of buildings according to plans agreed ear

THE AMIT.—The Genera! Commanding-in-Chiel
has been pleased to approve of Captain the Ili:mumble
Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot, of the Coldsteam
Guards, being appointed an Aide-de-Camp to his father,
his Excellency the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, site Captain Arthur Lennox Peel, of the 52nd
Light Infantry, resigned. The Ist Battalion of the ilat
}Upland Light Infantry is now at Cork, awaiting the
arrival of the ships Emerald Isle, Santipore, and Flora,
. .

which have been chartered to convey tho *IRVIN companies
of this battalion to Corfu. The 81st Regiment, from Dub-
lin, has relieved the 71st at Kilkenny and adjacent sta-
tions, but the former regiment has not yet been replaced in
Dublin garrison.