The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

FATHER MATHEW IS LONDONDERRY.—On Tuesday
evening, Aug. 17, the members of the Total Abstinence So-
ciety, accompanied by several thousands of the inhabitants,
wow. ded to meet the apostle of temperance, on has way
boo &unearths to Derry. They formed a regular procession,
accompanied by music, all parties joining in paying respect
to Father Mathew, without regard to party. or sectarian
feelin In the evening a wine took place mthe Town
hial, g.
Alexander Lindaay, mayor of Derry, in the chair.
Bit hundred persons sat down to their • frugal fare." At
one end of the hall " God save the Queen" appeared in
letters formed ef gas jets, and at the other,_ " Welcome,
Father Mathew," in the some form. After the usual
loyal touts, the chairman gave " Father Mathew,"
remarkieg upon the vast benefits arising from his
labours. The tout was received with loud and repeated
cheers. In returning thanks, Father Mathew expressed his
gratitude for the enthusiastic reception they bad given him
in Londonderry. He had never been more warmly received
than in the province of Ulster, and could never forget the
reception he had met with from all Glasser that day. He
hadleng wished to come to that part of the country, and
await the enemy in his atroaghold, the barony of Isiphowen ;
but his lordship, Dr. hi qiin, and the clergy of Londonderry,
had already nearly conquered the enemy. The chairman
text gave the health of the Right Rev. Dr. Msgin, Roman
catholic Bishop of Derry. The toast having been enthusi-
astically received, his lordship, in returning thanks, said that
temperance, aa the poet or philosopher, or both, expressed it,
was • virtue lying between two extremes. The question
with them was not about the virtue, hut about the means
to the virtue; how the habitual drunkard, or nations ha•
biteally drunken, are to be brought to temperance was the
'ortion at issue. To say take a little, or, take enough and
ao more, was to suppose the man or the nation to be already
temperate; but this was not the case in their hypothesis.
They supposed both to be intemperate; and, therefore,
scold not say to the intemperate man, "take a little," or.
" take enough ;" for the intemperate nation or individual
most, from the very nature of things, be disposed to take
mare than enough, otherwise they would not be intem-
perate. But it might be asked, why should the tem-
perate man be waked to abstain altogether ? The reason
was dear—ea Father Mathew has well expressed it
t" He is bound to do it, not so much for his own
sake ea the public good." He wu a member of society, he
held by his fellowman, and his fellow-man by him. If his
example be contagious, and if he be to his brother the
proximate occasion of sin even by taking • little, he was
bound to abstain altogether. The entire services of Father
Mathew were owing to • perfect knowledge of the true
ethical and social trinciple that man was bound to sacrifice
his own pleasures for his fellow-man, and that to arrive at
the virtue of temperance, nations, as well as individuals,
when habitually intemperate, =lit have recourse to total
abstinence as the only certain means to the end. He was sure
the clergymen of all awed, with whom he that evening had
the pleasure of associating, and who had had any, the least,
experience in the cure of souls, would join with him in the
seed= that the only remedy for the inveterate habit of
tiembemithe line Father Mathew's principle of total abed.
nom. mooam that principle, under the divine guidance,
he V wain' the greatest modern miracle the world ever
Whom& Lae them look what Ireland is now—and what
II bin bees: thrsmerly a bye-word ameogiebe nations- now-1
*sigh but partially recovered, and gi here and then
/irk were, signs of renovated diiitiaiea amnia a meta
pieta anew the pee
_mei kingdoms oldie earth. 'total
abialneakolfthiliron msokenialve kw a lebkr sta.
line= the hod ever yet aspired to. The slighted knew-
Ei.histrwr proved that taproom, like juetice, elevates
mallet inteb=ce dermas them; that frugality,
end a , built op doom end empires, so
isle ails than the world's wonders; whilst debauchery,
o:ll=and the criminal indulgense of the tuners
, laid them in rains. Man sad kingdoms
Wad by the one, perished by the ether. The fra-
td, detentions boo was • giant in power • victor
• hundred VW. Intemperate, be Decants as
Sethho as a child, sad the glory of his days malted
like virgin mow la the hilted bowl of isebriatioa.
The right rev. while this pemod is rooky the rime end hn
oldie greet anon sad wears easilesee tracing the we to
~lead del, fmgelity, and studennee, soli the other to Mem.
Mae which be semisded no eie=ifipooth
amid eathaelunie diens. A few ether tomb been
drab, the reosting, nil& throughout wee esninebed the
met whelp neserw_ _ , ropareted._ giving load sheen for the
43.0.4 AMR ilrikew, the Eight Rev. P. Ibex, and the
Nese.
SCOTLAND.
EDINDLIIGH, Afro. 23.
Monster railway trips are at present the order of
the day. Another cheap excursion to London is to
be made io a few weeks, and for the gratification of
the Londoners, arrangements are said to have com-
menced fora Scotch tour, which is to include the
original Highland route of the Queen. Last week
forty four carriages came from Newcastle with the
workmen of an engineering firm, but having sipped
tee freely of the distillation of the north, many of
them had to be placed in " durance vile " for a time.
The Glasgow subscription for a testimonial to Sir
Harry Smith amounts at present to 3001. A public
mark of respect le also to be presented to Mr. Ban-
nerman, the ex-M.P. for Aberdeen, whose long and
faithful services to the granite city will deserve it.
The member for Roxburghshire is also to be similarly
honoured.

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The Perth statists note that this year there are
fewer boxes of game going south, as presents, than
usual. If the Perthshire slaughter be lees there ap-
pears to be no diminution in Inverness-shire, and pos-
sibly the great influx of visitors to the northern
regions may call for local consumption, and so limit
the export supplies.
Some complamts have been made as to the
balance in hand of the Edinburgh section oflarg
Highland Relief Committee. Lately it was 85,0001.,
but that included some sums not remitted; by last
return the balance in bank was 45,0001. There is,
however, no cause for alarm ; the committee is com- '
posed of gentlemen of great sagacity and prudence,
and it is to their credit if they have staved off
starvation by a minimum monetary expenditure.
The social evils of the Celts, although immediately
developed by potato failure, have been long accumu-
lating, and slow diseases require slow remedies.
POTATO CROP IN Sconstro.—Altkonfth the proemt
appearance of this crop is healthy, and promises an abuedent
mum, there is still so much uncertainty as to the ultimate
muntlems of the root, that hitherto few es/es have been
effected, or, indeed, have been offered to the public. At a
reup of growing crop near Methven, last week, a trial was
made of one field, and the result showed that confident*
prementnatem over apprehension. for the whole was sold off,
I" lieu& from 261. to 271. per acre. This tally exceeds
the price of 1846, which was the highest ever known here.
There are, unfortunately but few who will benefit by it ; as.
on um farms, the breadth planted does not exceed five
am. In several mess the tumor has divided the risk with
the speculator; the one amply*. the manure and the
labour, and the other the red; and halving the net pro-
mil. There are two exceptions to this characteristic caw

don on the pert of the arrinsiturits in this rafter—one in
in Strathmore, who has forty awes under to crop at his
own riot, and another in the Cane, will nears fifty.—
Anlsshire Courier.

WALES.

EDUCATION.—TKIS FOUNDATION-STONE of the Lie-
nay School, Carmarthen, wee laid on Saturday s.'nnight,
by D. Morris, Req., la the prawn* of snarly 10,000 persons.
The day had been anximmly looked for; the shops were
eland is the afternoon, sad the work* pia*, m-
inima hem the toils of the day gram tiai usual,
memodied
to to suet the moislesr, lobo wa
th s able
stchls to
be earsogad in • roil work, la whiok irdrn
are be reaps nant The Moisrmsa of the town
aoleVe. na the epee at early bra. sad the Oddfellows
ad din 1111111 leaps amradal in their noncom. The pro-
lemitm, while ININIFII AIM the lee about 6 *Nilotic, paraded
the prinolpel saroelo,ead then lonommi to ft, when the mem-
ber alighted hem Me anise, anklet detiming cheers, and
having bad a trowel sal mallet hondsi to him laid the
corner stone of the oebooL Mess bike mean& Mr.
Morris said that the time lad poleokwhan o kapemoka pre-
vailed that the education of the pimple led a tendency to in.
dispose them to labour, to make them Elmatiserd with their
condition, and to elevate their ideas alarm their situation in
life. Happily, a chew had Wino pease in public; opinion,
and et this day all down it the emaulay, sad ell de-
nomination of Christieee, combined in aemilaraling the
progress of education, believing that it improved the
moral and social condition of the people, induced habits
of prudence and industry, and promoted their happiness
end prosperity here, whilst it held out a brighter hope of
happiness hereafter. It bad been proved to be the beat
corrector of vice and repress.? of crime, and the school-
master was discovered to be a better supporter of the
authority of the law than either the gaoler or the executioner.
Talent and genius were not wafted to the noble or affluent,
they were found in the cottage as well as in the palace, and
there were not wanting instances in our day of men arriving
at the highest places of distinction in the state, and on the
bench, who bad received their education at charity schools.
The mind of man was like the ore in the colonel furnaces
they sow before them—when in the earth it was valueless,
but when fashioned by the chill and labour of man its worth
was immeasurably increased: so it was with the mind—when
uneducated it was rude and barbarous, but when cultivated,
it became valuable to it possessor, sad to society in general.
He was glad to me so numerous and respectable an atten-
dan oe, as it augured well for the pperocssppeerity of the institu-
tion. He hoped all would unite in advandag this great work,
which promised to confer inestimable benefits on the labour-
ing claws, by diminishing pauperism and crime, and afford-
ing to the promoters the aatLfic 'on of seeing around them
a grateful and contented population. He prayed the bless-
ingot Him on their labours in whose sacred volume it was
written, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and
when he is old he will not depart from it." It was re-
marked by the Rev. D. Rees that during Mr. Morris's visit
to Llanelly, a few days previous to the election, not a single
person asked him for money for beer. It may here be stated
that the money thus sated, amounting to 1601., has been for-
warded by Mr. Morris to the people of Llanelly, to be ap-
plied to relieve the distresses of tho poor, and for other
benevolent and useful purposes.