The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dvactx, Nov. 6.
The Galway paper states that the college is being
proceeded with at Galway, notwithstanding the dect-
sien at Rome, and that Doctor Kirwan, P.P., the pre-
sident, is in England. A curious question will not
improbably arise respecting the situation of the presi-
dency by this gentleman, should he retain it, which is
not improbable—one which will give rise to discus-
sions, diplomacy, and complications in the church of
which he is a minister.

The death of the Right Rev. Dr. Meet, Bishop of
Down and Connor, occurred on Thursday evening
last, at his pesos in the county Down. The deceased,
who was born in 1776, was the eldest son of Dr.
Mant, rector of All Saints, Southampton. He was
educated at Oxford, and after having held several
appointments in England, the last of which was the
rectory of Rest Horsley, Surrey, he became Bishop of
Killaloe and Kilfenora, in 1820. In 1823, he was
' translated to the see of Down and Connor, to which,
in 1842, that of Dromore was added.
The commission to inquire into the boundaries of
poor-law unions in Ireland is, at length, evincing a
determination to commence practical work. The
Express, for months before the commission was
appointed, pointed out the irjuatice and embarrass-
ments which must arise from the extreme extent of

many Irish unions and divisions of unions. From the
unions of Kilkenny, Callao, New Ross, Waterford,
Thurles, and Rourea, three new unions at Thorns,-
town, Castlecomer, and Urlingford will be formed. Cork
city will be divided into two separate unions. From
the unions of Rathkeale, Newcastle, Limerick, Kil-
mallock, and Tipperary, two new unions at Croom
and Cappamore will be arranged. The union of Bal-
-1 line, Mayo, will be separated into three—a signal
corroboration of your strictures on its enormous over-
extent and at Tulle and Kildysart, county Clue,
two new unions will be made from the outlying divi-
sions of Scariff Ennis, and Kilrush. Several unions
are taking the initiative in assessing for employment of
labour in preference to support of pauperism.
The movement will, it is hoped, be sncesesful.
At the same time no vigilance must be omitted in
protecting the rights of those who cannot labour or
cannot procure work. The salaries of auditors of poor-
law unions will henceforward be paid out of the con-
solidated fund.

The journals contain numerous accounts of out-
rages, which show the untoward temper of the people.
The house of the stipendiary magistrate at Galway
was robbed a few nights since of many valuables and
a sum of money.
An attempt_ at murder was made in the city of
Limerick on Wednesday night, and just adjacent to
the castle barrack. The cause appears to have been
private malice. Three brothers, named Hayes, the
perpetrators, are in cuatod7. The sufferer, a man
named Purcell, was stabbed in the breast and other-
wise dreadfully injured. He lice hopelessly ill.
Last week I forwarded the facts elicited upon an
inquest held on the body of a man who was said to
have travelled from Ballingarr7 to Newcastle, county
Limerick, three times to obtain relief from the vice-
of the union, but was unsucoessfuL A ver-
dict inculpating these gentlemen was returned.
The Limerick papers contain a worse ease—that
of a child starved to death, and a corresponding ver-
dict returned. It appeared in evidence that the
grandmother of this child, in whose care it was, had
gone two journeys to Newcastle-40 Lig miles going
and returning—and also four journeys to Hallingarry
—24 Irish miles—to attend the levees of the relieving
officer of her district ; but was unsueeeedal on either
occasion in having her claim investigated. On re-
turning home from her laid visit to this Aker, the old
woman was overtaken by the storm which raged on
the 27th ult., and, tnadd to her misery, was unable
to approach any house for shelter, owing to the dark-
ness and the paucity of dwellings in the district.
Next morning an inhabitant found the old woman and
the child in a field—the woman senseless from ex-
haustion, and the child (six months old) dead in her
arms. These facts having transpired upon the in-
quest, the verdict I have indiatted was returned.

LIBILLATION or STATE Pursoszas.—The Lord Jostles;
held a meeting of the Privy Council last Sararday, when
leave was granted to take bail for the smarties of the fol-
kerbs political prisoners, who are =fined in Dublin sad
elsewhere for treasonable practices, viz.: BERME O'Reilly,
James M'Kenna, John De Cooney Young, John Russia,
James Russell, Patrick Comm, Jams O'Donnell. Lau-
ranee Gahagitan, Patrick Conway, George Whelan,
Nicholas Michael Doherty, Robert Cave, Richard
Dalton, &War's' Ron, John Hickey, Patrick Dunne,
Thomas Hennessey, Anthony O'Ryant Thomas Parker
O'Flanagen, and Robert LaablLM. On 'Saturday morning
an order was received at the amity gaol (Limerick) tor the
discharge et Mr. Richard Deltas, of Tipperary, one of the
political offenders, on finding bail, himself in 1001. and two
enemies in 601. each. An order is also expected to admit to
bail Mr. Thomas M'Narnara, solicitor, of Rathkeale, and
Mr. William Hartnett, of Newcastle. The ether political
offenden remaining In eu.tody are Mr. R. O'Shaushningt
of Rathkeale, grocer, and Michael O'Neil, ortenessason.
Tat Fromm LEADEES.—The following inc siesta in
connexion with the neaps of Marrs. Stephens and Doheny
are furnished by the Limerick Rriam ,iner: ' When Mr.
Stephens had taken his exit from the Collieries, he di-
rected his wandering footsteps to Tipperary, suffering
from a wound be had received in the ads He meek
Tipperary early in the night, and, having disrobed him-
NU
walk, ed op and down the 'boob, tnking to meet
with some kind friend who might mat him in his mis-
fortune'. He met with some. He tolled at the house
of a respectable family in Tipperary, bet they, of mune,
received him coldly, aware of the penalty of the law.
Poor Stephens, however, made the beet of his way out of
town accompanied by friends, who shared his
and misfortunes for the night. They sees with ht&lliss
stack of hay. Next morning he disguised kimelf as a pow
scholar, and made for the Commentek mountains, where,
peradventure, he met his old friend Yr. Dobesy, who had
assumed the character of a schoolmaster. Roth sehoobase-
ten ' lived in the Colanteregh mountains fir some weeks,
baflling the police. It is stated that a pacteman once gave
Mr. Stephens a few pence, such was his forlorn appearance