The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Demur, Nov. 7.
Tie Royal Agricultural Society held its ordinary
meeting yesterday, when several communications
were read conveying salneriptions from various quar-
tets. Lord Cork gives 251. His lordship or his agent
would have done better to encourage a locally raised
fund. So also would Lord Bandon, who gives 101.
But we all know that it will be very difficult to com-
plete the necessary 50/. from Bandon. Mr. Forteacue
of Louth, one of the best farmed counties in
Ireland, gives 251. Balling (Mayo), Ballinaaloe,
will make up the necessary fund, and accounts
of progress wire received irom South Leitrim.
Ardfinan, Lismure, Bandon, and Rathdown. Thus
much has Lord Clarendon's munificent contri-
bution towards the reintegration and extension of the
system of practical instructors already done, and
doubtless the exsmple of even so much activity will
enable him to do more.
Dr. Tighe, Dean of the Chapel Royal (Castle), will,
it is said, be named to the vacant bishopric of Down.
Should this be so, an excellent appointment will have
been made. The dean is a worthy man and a tolerant
Christian.
Dr. Cane was discharged from gaol on Sunday
morning, in compliance with a memorial on his behalf,
presented to the lords justices, to enable him to
attend the funeral of his son, who died two days pre-
viously.
Mr. Govan Duffy, in a letter to the Freemnn's
Journal, explains the circumstance of his bankruptcy,
which was, he say a, caused by a creditor who would
not be satisfied with the arrangement vesting his
property in trustees, though these will pay all his
debts in full.

Tits Assiut TO MOBUBB Mn. MOORB.—The follow-
ing letter gives full particuirs of the attempt to murder
Lord Anne,ley's agent : " Cavan, Nov. 4.—On Friday, the
3rd inst. William Armitage Moore, Esq., of Amore Lodge,
Cavan, left home at half past nine o'clock in the morning,
to proceed to Miltown, abut eight miles from Cavan, to
receive rents on the Earl of Annesley's property. Ho had
written to hisbailiff a tow days before, stating that, in con-
sequence of the bad state of the weather, he would not give
the tenantry the trouble of coming to his office at Cavan, but
would go to Miltown, and receive the rents there. He was
accompanied by his clerk and a lad named Maxwell, who
drove the car that conveyedthem. On arriving near Baker's-
bridge the car-driver and the clerk observed two men stand-
ing close together in the centre of the road, and called Mr.
Moore's attention to them, as very suspicious looking
fellowa.' As the car still proceeded on its course, one of
the men dropped off to the side of the road ; the other still
stood in the centre, with his hack turned to the party on
the car, and maintained that position until the end of the
shaft wee almost parallel with his shoulder. He then wheeled
suddenly round, and presented a pistol to Mr. Moore's
breast, so close that it almost touched him. He held it
firmly with both hands to ensure a steady aim, and pulled
the trigger. Happily for the intended victim the pistol
mimed tire. The ruffian immediately turned and fled. The
morning having been extremely cold and damp, Mr. Moore
had swilled himself in two outside coats ; this was unfortn-
nate, as he had a cue of pistols in the pockets of an under
coat—each pistol had 6 barrels, all were in excellent order,
and loaded with ball. llad it not been for the impediment
of his clothing he could have abet the ruffian dead in a ma-
mma. He mped off the ear, however, as likewise did his
dark, and both pursued the flying miscreants. The clerk
snapped a pistol at one of them, but it did not go off.
During the chase Mr. Moore extricated a pistol from his
coat posket and fired. The villain at whom he aimed then
turned from the main road that leads over Baker's-bridge
into a narrow road or lane, that leads towards Butler's-
bridge, called Hacket's-road. Whilst ascending a little bill
on this narrow pass Mr. Moore fired two more barrels at the
fugitive, bat without effect. There are two or three cabins
an the top of this hill, and at this point Mr. Moore and his
aaapan*on lost Bight of the fugitive. Whether he was skel-
tend those cabins, or threw himself into a ditch at this
not known. There were many persons at short
from the scene of this outrage, but not one of them
would give the slightest assistance in endeavouring to arrest
Use amens. There
thoughn particular five men working is
a field close by, and oug called on by Mr. Moore for armies
Immo, they would not stir, declaring they had neither MB* I
the men nor heard the firing. Mr. Moore, finding he had no
asses of aid from the people, immediately got on his ear, '
mai proceeded towards the police station of Milieus. On
Ws way thither he met three constables, whom he took on
ifie wisp and returned tolls cabins on Hacket's-road, whence
seenmeasseing the search, they scoured the country round.
They wooed in capturing the man who was NMI in com-
pany with the person who attempted to fire at Mr. Moore.
This follow has been fully identified, and now lies In Cavan
pet; his name is Kiofßlo, or M./Tiernan ; he is a tailor by
ersilis, and resides in that neighbourhood. Inconsequence of
ids outset* a meeting of magistrates was held at the court-
beam of Cavan, on Friday, Lord Farnham in the chair, to
sadder wtst steps may be meet advantageously pursued to
bang the perpetrators and abettor of the crime to justice.
We bow nth yet learned the result of the deliberations held
aswaeasfon, but we may safely trust to the wisdom,
esperienco, and determination of the noble lord and his coed-
',awe magistrates, to imam a prompt and effectual remedy
for the evil."

SCOTLAND.
no MURDER IN AYR9IIIRE.—In this paper of the
28th ult., the execution of James bi'Wheelan, at Ayr, was
detailed, with a statement that he had made a confession,
implicating another man as being the actual murderer of
Young, while he himself had participated only in the rob-
Hill,beryTh individuel in question named Edward Steuart
has been apprehended, and conveyed to Ayr for
exinknation.