The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Barr. 1.
THE Pour OP DUBLIN.—NOW that the government has
set itself earnestly to aid in developing the resources of this
country, its agriculture, trade, manufactures, commerce—in
brief, to help the people to help themselves—it may be worth
while to consider a few of those grievances, often of a local
character and partial influence, which have long been com-
plained of, bat in a small voice that could not make itself
hand amidst the din and clamour of party politics and sec-
tarian ravings. Foremost amongst these is the management
of the port of Dublin. It is urged, and the truth admitted
by good authorities who have no personal interest in the
question, that the mercantile body and shipping interest are
not represented at the Ballast Board, and their complaints,
therefore, are not properly attended to. There is also a want
of general views, or collective agency in the Board, be-
Mile the practical management of the port, and of the
lights, is entrusted to one or two members only, who
do the work. Nor is it among the least of the com-
plaints, that the proceedings are conducted in private ; and
that the accounts are not published in the local newspapers ;
so that those who pay the dues know nothing of the manner
in which they are expended. The money may be appro-
priated to good purposes, or to bad ; to some thine not
necessary, while very important things are neglected. Those
who pay, therefore, consider tkat they should be allowed
to judge of the good sense, if any, which is displayed
in the distribution of the funds. The substance of all
we have been stating is to be found in the Report of the
Examining Commissioner (Captain John Washington), who
also enters into the details of various grounds of complaint,
from which we extract the following:
That*, balsa tioggisd to Snipping Is of se bad • quality as to
have ben issoplebri of la 1343 by vine& Of 74 illystastm ; rd
main In 11146 loss fleoly do Isom di 1114.4155 e tbs Eves sod at
this
ballast
swift atm ; sod shot Ilk IS dip ts to& lbs
ballast hr lb" kr sWik..ll/ an psellimot. lie Mho
Bowl ls. ILL. an. sr lasniagclin sit Itifitit It Welt be
obtsiod. sod SIMIINMS an assuplia dot *we is a
Poit gust et dubs, se Int mods lamas So Dalin are
le me tf is ispirsi; *ado pet imps see wiry
I al" ahigellgell" to esbalullestlon~ ; lot aloe los
- et mulsggslls along lioxi=psni lust nip rusks Is
taut Ss mot midi ssepsety min at Ow a est
then Is bit or yddlsours.isi a swsiont swag • fa/-
shim tope up &lonising ; rat Is aim any &am OR-
&ARNO AIM wit'
Surely thee siesphiats are ermstedei awe di=
nary evils; war As Ilbs, need that a son doll be
interested Is order to seals him to nespis then. They

=themselves in the simplest, practical, counien-plate
vexations *MAO and potty abuse of authority.
"It has Ines brae opmemoil no • empleasas bases le
ventse at thentlesVis MOW WM; Met Os hell at the
Nies 1.1011101 he hepresll; that the irk ths river
=INE2sw
me
me; tad IMO' serge at senses err*. carps
MI Mink mit ihdrsiongs mOs; that Ohs sea plhes
am moyll p me me sew limn at massidelnemse et In= ;am
Modem Wiled ths eempseleek et Se me owes mime le
NM pis mom. met ammo of width Is ass as the raw_.-`
len thst 00 the remiss Mae port Is SUM& a year, • alt
bee bees of aserly MAK"
But akkessk smeral cd Mese abuses may be designated as
petty grieving:ls, Ike oosisequencee to which theza=
lead are DT as UM= of a nature to be lightly
being nothing lON than sundry add iticeal elallelni in loser
of shipwreck. As for the debt which b. bees contraded
in the face of so large a revenue, it is prediglees, and 410
'Litotes an unanswerable ground fur the damned that ea.
amounts of the port should be published. The omelnislimi
of the Board, se to the qualification of its rmaltses,b Os
worthy of comiderstire.
" The Harbour Board; rays Captain Washington. Nle erspeeell
of twenty-two manhere Mc of whin are &biomes. be. at Ms ellsr
corporation ; for the remenlng somism the Act of Peelbmeme tie
Teresa' quallleation : it is not messnry that then:ooml sisseal
to 1111 a mow shoed be a meramella era m. se
wits
the dinasciderens, or a mg wry le esonsela sulk k
ti she It wIS int masts mons 000 semelselm of e'ls'e.
sae the mulls afllt, me newel wilt smiambis
illlmatlnhedismA
''ewes of the rawnsOfla Indy me by the pelillsomenlM
amt. after enamenethe worn, muses at wiyamM la the .barboar.
7n II; eMience. ' Ask the merchants of the eft I f timplent a to the
wd Board arc attended to r -

These arc grave accusations ; and when such a state of
things is considered in its various requisitions, it becomes
worthy, not of further inquiries into " inquiries," for the facia
are publicly known, but ofgreater publicity and severe dentin.
elation. Here is a Board established for the public service
with reference to the port and harbour of the Irish metropo-
lis, having the exclusive management of all the lights (a most
important and extensive work in itself, and requiring the
mist accurate practical knowledge), and of all the buoys,
beacons, and landmarks along the ceast of Ireland ; and the
members constituting this board may have no accurate
knowledge as to the sandbanks, rocks, and shoals of the
coast, nor indeed any nautical skill or knowledge whatever,
since no due examination takes place for their election, and
no qualifications are required by the law. The construction
of the Board is obviously bad, and the results as bad
as might be expected from it. It is only a week
or two ago that the Prince (mail steam-packet), having on
board Mr. O'Connell, Mr. 'John O'Connell, Sir It. Kane,
Sir William Verner and his daughter, The O'Conor Don,
and the " Head Pacificator," Mr. Steele, ran foul of the
Hill of Howth, in a fog, and smashed her bowsprit upon the
rocks. Of course it was an extremely narrow escape of ship-
wreck, with the loss of the lives of all on board—a truly rich
"Irish cargo," it will be readily admitted—and all for the
want of proper signals at Howth ! Mr. Steele has sixes
made application to the 13.41a5; Board, with suggestions for
certain coloured lights, fog-horns, and a gong ; all of which
have been politely received by the Board, like many other
excellent suggestions concerning which they never more
trouble their heads. SErTEMBIR 1.

MR. PIGOTT'S SUCCESSOR AT CLORMEI:I-K Y —LW to-
day, that the lion. Cecil Lawless will be the sew represen-
tative fur Cloumel, iu the room of Mr. Pigott Au attempt
was made to render Mr. Monaghan, the new Irish Attorney-
General, acceptable to the constituency, but it was unsuc-
cesofuL

Tug i'Vntra QUAKERI4.—Tho following paragraph ap-
pears in .6i:sunders's News Letter of this day :
.h.UVA J.COL —After a lengthen,' imprisoruncnt in the Your
Courts Manshalsea, the trader of the sect, denominated White
Quakers," Joshua Jacob, was on Friday Let liberated. Ms health for
some time has been declining; it is even supposed that be labours
under confirmed dmpsv, and upon application to the Lord Chanornor
to release him upon the ground of in health, and the presuriousficas
of his situation, his lordship was pleased to refer the consideration
of the matter to Master Brooke, who reported that Julies
could not be any longer detained in custody with safety to
his life. Acoantingly his lordahip granted the order for his
liberation, and, as we have already stated, he wa • remorrd on Friday,
and so feeble and unwieldy was hie state from dbaeme, that four men
were required to lift him in to the conveyance procured fur him. The
residence to which he has been taken ix certainly more likely to restore
an Invalid than a small low mono in the Marshals...a, even though
adorned by the choicest dowers and kept In the inset scrupulous
etc:oiliness, asthe apartment of Joshua and Mimi] Ik'ale has been
nine,' their oecupation of it Joshua has gone amongst "hi. own
people," and is now the resident patriareh of the Whits Quaker
(Vilinty, whose local habitation is the antique building, once the abode
of the late Lord Kilwarden, on the Sans-road; and a very rural coal
salubrious situation undoubtedly for any patient.
°MCAT SOUTUILILE AND WESTERN RAILWAY. IRELAND.
—Open to Carlow, 661 miles. Return of traffic for week
ending Saturday, he 31st day of August, 1816. Passengers
only. 7621. 7s. 3d.
DIERASED POTATOES.—Mr. Edward Davy, lecturer On
chemistry to the Dublin Society, brother to the late Sir H.
Davy, has written a letter on the subject of the potato
disease to the society, from which I take the following ex-
tracts :

ht Experiment —On dimmed pinks planted whole, 16 inches
asunder, May ath.—Manure, Peruvian guano, 5 lb.. weight, mixed
with 10113 a. fine roil, and 2 or. of the mixture placed under each
potato. The plants were very tine till the blight, which, if I adshibe
not, made Its and appearance early in July; affecting the leaves
in spots, then emending to the stems. The previous sultry weather
was followed by much thunder, lightning, hairy rain., and high
wind., by which lambent of the potato stalks were broken, and
the plants otherwise ro much injured that Mlle further growth
could be expected. The potatoes were dug about the middle
of Magma, before they were 9uite ripe. On carefully examining the
produce, which wax nut considerable, one-half of the crop nearly was
dammed; or, to epesk more oorreetly, the diseased part of the erw
was to the sound part as 17 to 19. 2nd Experiment.—On the sound
parts of the dimmed pinks, planted in eels, May 12.--Manors,
dimmed potatoes, with about a meat spoonful of the mixed Perso
guano, end soil similar to that used in the preceding ex t,
under each mt. These plants were remarkably vigorous healthy,
till they were, like those in the former experiment, affected by
atinoapheric influences. These potatoes were dug the 19th August ;
the produce was small, and there wise a COTlAlliffilltAr N1.11111M7 of
the tubers below the usual site. Not one, however, could be found
diseased, but several were atom-eaten ; In fact, nearly one-fourth of
the whole.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT MALLOW.—A melancholy accident
occurred on Sunday morning at the farm of the Messrs.
O'Connor, mail coach proprietors. A man of the name of
Shea, in their employment, went to look after the herd,
when a fierce bull turned at him and gored him in such a
frightful manner that he died in a few minutes after being
brought home. The deceased was a trustworthy man, and
has left a wife and large family, who were solely dependent
on his labour.
REPRESENTATION OP Tilt COUNTY RERILT.--On dit
that Mr. Herbert, of Madams, will start for the county at
the next election, supported by the Kenmare interest.—
Twice Chronicle.
Inlets RAILWAT COMPANIER. —Mr. Laboucliere has
stated that he would entertain the grant of leans to Irish
railway companies which had obtained acts of parliament,
and the parliamentary deposits on which had been botui fide
paid up, and continued in bank to the credit of the companies.
Serrixo IN OE RISE...SR.—A writer in the Cork Examiner
says that "common cholera," meaning what is called
" English " cholera, has set in decidedly at Listowel, owing
to the diseased potato food eaten by the people.
THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPI.E.—A statement was
made some time since, and published on the authority of
Mr. Gibson, a dissenting clergyman of Mallow, to the edict
that • woman had actually sustained life in three of her
children for several days by feeding them with her own breast
milk from a cup. The story was too extraordinary to gain
credence in London, and the editor of the Standard wrote to
the Protestant rector of the parish to inquire whether such a
circumstance really had occurred. The ray. Mr. Gibson has
published the following further letter upon the subject. His
visit was paid in company with the Rev. Mr. Collins, the
Catholic clergyman lathe parish :
" I waited on Mr. Collins to rimy me to the home ; he did no ; the
mother was out. It was about eleven o'clock at noon. The cabin
was poor and dark, so dark that I could not discern a child lying
sick in a bed in the corner, or even the bat on whkt it lay. There
were two or three (I cannot now really gay which, other crush chtl-
dren sitting in the chimney corner. The Rev. Mr. Collins asked the
eldest child, in my presence, What had your mother to give you
when I was here last The reply was, ` Sara, sir,' • Did she
give that child any !" She did, Mid she flee Ong
else any r 'Yes.' Itow did she give it!. • With • spoon,
oat a., a cup. This was sufficient evidence for me; I may
just add that Mr. Collins stated, that the family was in fever.'
The child in the lied was in fever) when I called I went from this
house to the ounintittee, when the Rev. Mr. Collins and myself slated
whit had Mat occurred. I request Mr. Baldwin to accompany the
Rev. Mr. Collin. to the house of this family. The Rev. Mr. Collins
requested him to do au; he refused to do so; I asked Mr. Baldwin
what reply he had made to the communication he had received. Ile
said, he replied that be had made strict inquiries in his pariah, and he
found that no such circumstance had occurred. I asked him, Oaring
been furnished with this further evidence, to write again. /le said he
would not interfere any more in the matter.' Mr. Baldwin bad an
opportunity at any time of asking Mr. Collins all about it.

SCOTLAND.
POTATOES Are selling in Glasgow at the extraordinary
price of 10d. per static, or 68. Bd. per cwt.
IN REVERENCE TO THE CROPS, the Glasgow llerald says :
" Nearly two-thirds of the grain in this district has fallen
before the scithe or sickle. A large portion has already been
transferred from the stook to the stack-yard, and the quan-
tity, would have been much greater, had drying breezes pre-
vailed; but, instead of this, since Monday, the air has been
very sultry, and the heat at midday intense."
A CURIOUS CIRCVMBTANCE is narrated by the Kilmarnock
Journal. Last year, in a field being under green crop, potatoes
were raised ; like many more in the neighbourhood, the crop
proved a failure, owing to the blight, in consequence of
which, the sound ones alone were gathered in, and the dis-
eased ones left to rot on the field. No sooner had the spring
time of the year conic round, than vigorous stems were ob-
served shooting up in every part of the field, indicating a
ittli state of health in the tuber quite unexpected. The crop is
prolific, and, what is of greater consequence, both bulb and
plant are free from any disease. After reaping • plentiful
wheat crop, the farmer has resolved to dig up the potato crop
at the usual time.
A DEER AT SEA !—Thursday morning OW of the hur
boatsat Burghead landed a fine buck, about two years old,
of large size, and fine head of horns. It is not known how
long the tenant of the forest had been at sea, nor whence he
had taken his departure from his native hills. He was first
observed about five miles off Burghead, and strong efforts
were made by several crews to obtain possession of him ; but
he did not seem at all to relish the proffered assistance to
rescue him from the mighty deep. He preferred to brave
the dangers of the ocean to the kind offers of a- safe landing.
After considerable exertion, however. i'— -"
ceeded in capturing the prize
swim, and that his head and
y the "-- of the fishermen,
ore

After considerable exertion, however, one of the crews suc-
ceeded in capturing the prize ; and, notwithstanding his long
swim, and that his head and horns were somewhat injured
_by the oars of the fishermen, he wu brought in safe to
shore and is alive.
PROVINCIAL. •\. 71,
BERWIMON -TWEE D. •
THE BAHL ROBEEST is still the subject,' • • doe,/
here. A very strong feeling of_sympethy is toeothitfif
the town on behalf of Mrs. Thom a, `Li_of_kia t
maaeser of the bank, more • Y ' 'IW ''
wawa Inhabitants, with whom she aad • —7;
irsodseed. Few of the cinuastatoes z
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