The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DI.7IILiN, JOLT 17.
I noticed in my communication of Wednesday a
meeting of the guardians of the Fermoy Union, to cot-
alder the circulars of the Poor-law Commission and
Mr. Rediugton. Since then another meeting has been
held which is likely to have extensive influence over
the country. A number of the local gentry attended,
including the Earl of Mountcashel and Mr. Burke
Roche, M.P., and a resolution was unanimously adopted
to postpone a rate for the levy of the first instalment
under the Temporary Relief Act. A petition was also
adopted with the same unanimity, praying that the
debt should be discharged out of the consolidated
fund, or by general instead of local taxation. To
enforce this view a recurrence to a formidable agita-
tion was threatened. Mr. Roche, remarking that
" all the bloody revolutions which had arisen in
Europe originated in financial difficulties"—a senti-
ment in which Lord Mountcashel concurred, for,
said be, " England must see the folly of looking for
what there was not in the country, and trusted they
would not put the whole country against them, and
occasion not only great loss of treasure but great loss
of blood."

The abuses of the relief system, which will soon be
matter for history, have been taken up on circuit by
some of the judges, and brought forcibly before the
grand juries. In Roscommon Baron Richards
dilated on the waste of the public money, and though
of course he did not point the shalt exclusively at
Roscommon, still any person felt the local force and
application of the judicial lecture. To show how
grossly the system has been perverted, I take a case
which has just been made public on a representation
to the relief commissioners of abuses in Donegal.
Capt. Fishbarne was sent down to inveleigate the
state of the lists. The result was that in the single
union of Glenties 2,000 names were struck off.
. .

The medical practitioners in the provinces are very
dissatisfied with the low scale of remuneration
allowed by the Board of Health. In consequence a
monster address has been presented to the Lord-Lieu-
tenant, signed by nearly 600 names, including some
of the most distinguished medical men in Ireland,
and complaining of the general insufficiency of the
fees. Mr. Redington, in reply, simply states that,
by the 10th Viet., c. 22, the salaries of medical officers
are subjected to regulations made by the Treasury,
to whom the huge memorial has been transmitted.
Public opinion is not at all with the remonatranta.
The Macedonian has arrived in Cork, after& voyage
of 29 days.
Addresses were presented to-day to his excellency
from the Itsyal Hibernian Academy and Royal Hor-
ticultural Society.
The Tamworth manifesto which appeared in the
Evening Post of last night, supplied, of course,
per slips through the Chronicle, is the subject of very
general discussion to-day, and most particularly in
clerical circles. To give any decided opinion on a
I question of so much public importance would be pre-
mature indeed; but, I may say, that many who here-
tofore repudiated the idea of state connexion as the
herald of Roman Catholic dependence, are now in
favour of a change. It is said the catholic hierarchy
will soon assemble to deliberate on the delizate pos-
ture of church affairs.

Limerick Is growing in commercial importance,
though from the activity of its trade in the past half-
year we should expect a larger return, aa compared
with the corresponding half-year of 1846. The gross
customs receipts for the half-year ending let of July,
1846, were 100,2881., and for the half-year ending Ist
of July last, 104,2561., showing an increase on the
half-year of 3,9681. The increase on inward and out-
ward shipping was very great, which is very easily
accounted for. On ships entered inwards for the
half-year ending Ist of July, there was an increase of
256, and on outward bound of 139.
The tenant farmers are beginning to think more of
their own, and less about the interests of party. The
Meath men, dissatisfied with the conduct of their re-
presentatives on the question of tenant rights, have
summoned a meeting of their order for the 21st, to
return members pledged to support the " right"
The conduct of the Castlebar and Ballina guardians
promises to become infectious. The hilmallock
board have also refused to levy a rate, and, in conse-
quence, they are threatened with dismissal. To keep
up the spirits of the refractory and the grumbling,
the Limerick Chronicle announces, without condition
or contingency, that the government will remit a mil-
lion of the 2,300,0001. levied under the temporary
Relief Act!