The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Atm. 30.
A gentleman connected with a government inatitu-
tionwhich has intelligent agents through everycounty
in the land stated to-day, that the result of the intel
ligence of which they are in receipt as to the fate of
the potato crop leads them to the conclusion, that
very probably one-half the crop of this year will be
lost. But this also they are assured of, from the data
before them, that one-half this year's crop will be
equal to two-thirds a full crop of any year previous
to 1843.
Two candidates are mentioned as likely to succeed
Mr. Smith O'Brien in Limerick county, viz., Mr.
Caleb Powell, the late member, and Mr. A. M'Carthy,
the late M.P. for Cork city. The vacancy will not
occur unless Mr. O'Brien is convicted.

PROF INCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
THE COLLISION ON THE LANCASTER AND PRES-
TON RAILWAY.—After a three days' sitting the inquest on
the body of Harriet Mrey, the female who came by her
death in the late col ision on the Lancaster and Freston line,
terminated at an advaneed hour on:Tuesday evening, as far
as the evidence was concerned. Among this evidence,
which was mainly a repetition of what has already been
given, that of Mr. Errington, superintendent of the line,
went to show that the driver of the express train had not the
signals of (linger given him which hr might reasonably ex-
pect. Further, that the driver of the express train was a
most expert and trustworthy man ; and that the accident
cculd not have been of nearly so serious a nature had the hut
carriage been made of sound wood. Some fragments of the
carriage were brought into court, and were of such rotten
wo.d as to crumble when touched. Other evidence proved
the inefficiency of the signals, especially at the Bay horse
station, and the various complaints which for a length of
time past had been made of this tact. The jury, after two
hours' deliberation, being unable to agree on their verdict,
adjourned its delivery for a week.
UTVIMTPR,MTRP.

LEICESTER ELECTION.—Heory Paget, Esq., of
Hirst&ll, near Leicester, has addressed the electors, offering
himaelf as a candidate. A meeting was held at the Bell
Hotel, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of forwarding
his interest. He professes whig principles, but appeared to
be supported on Tuesday evening almost solely by tories.
The chairman (Mr. T. Melon), and the movers and
seconders of the resolutions, were men of this party. Mr.
Paget expressed himself in favour of such reforms as were
wanted, but was of opinion that comparatively little
was wanted. He would vote for a decrease of the
expenditure of the government, snd for the abolition
of all sinecures; he would even go so 'far:ss tesay that
royalty itself should be mulcted in a tax for the support of
government the same as other folks. He was a dissenter,
but not oppcs,d to keeping up the established chinch. He
would say, " keep a strict eye on the clergy ; give,them no
more secular power, but keep up an establishment by all
means." The meeting was not very numerously attended.
Meetings of the liberal electors were held in the various
wards on Tuesday evening, at which the feeling ran in
favour of Messrs. Harris and Ellis, and many volunteered
their services as committeemEAenSEL to secure their election.
ANOTHER CASA OP POISONING was investigated by
the coroner on Tuesday, at the Teadring schoolroom. Toe
crime is supposed to have been committed by the woman
May, who was executed at Chelmsford a short time ago.
Tne victim was one Thomas Ham, and the evidence given
on Tuesday tended to expose a guilty knowledge of the
crime on the part of Ham a wife, who is new in custody on
suspicion. After Ham's death she married a man named
Southgate, for whom, during her first husband's life, she
openly expressed a strong partiality. Other bodies are to be
exhumed and examined. The inquest was adjourned.