The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Donnie, Ocr. 28.
At a meeting of the senior board of the university
this day a resolution was adopted, refuting the prayer
of the miner fellows that the remains of Professor
M'Cullagh might be interred in the college vaults
beneath the chapel. Provosts and the highest digna-
tories of the church who had been fellows are only
admitted there, and the suspension of the rule in
favour of an individual, even so eminent as the late
professor, was conceived to be more injurious
than any good it might accomplish. The
body will be conveyed from Dublin, on
Saturday morning, to Strabane Tyrone, the birthplace
of the Professor, where it will be interred. It is said
he was preparing an edition of Butler's " Analogy,"
confirming the original arguments in favour of revela-
tion by the modern discoveries in science.
The poor-law commissioners have issued a general
order directing the boards of guardians to have their
books prepared for more frequent inspection than
heretofore. This department will fall within the
duties of the lately appointed inspectors of unions.
Social disorganisation has put on a new, though
rather antiquated, form. Faction-fighting has set in.
There was a furious battle at Bannagher, in which
the opponents were King's County and Connaught
men. They fought with desperation; and, among
the wounded, was one whose right hand, from the
wrist downwards, was cut off with a sword-blow.
The women, as usual on such occasions, appeared in
large numbers, armed with the usual weapon—a
stocking with a lump of brown stone in the heel. The
military appeared and dispersed the rioters. The
judicious severity of the assistant barristers checked
this barbarous effervescence some years ago, and the
same powers will again reduce it to control.
A courageous man named Kelly, steward to Mr.
3lolony, of Craig Clare, resisted successfully an
attack made on his masters horses while conveying
corn to the Ennis market. The executive, which
rewards all Bach acts of courage, has forwarded to
Kelly a reward of 10!., with the following letter:
Dublin Ensile, Oct. 92, 1847.--Malachy Kelly, I ern directed b the
Lord Lieutenant to inform you that Captain Leine, K.M , will my
to you the sum of tin pounds, whkh hk mall, nay has awarded to
you as • reward for your faithful and epirited conduct in the recent
attack on you master's property, as well no on a former similar =a-
don.—l am, your humble servaot, T. N. R6DINOTON.

Lose or Ina Scum Tatattex This ill-fated
Teasel, belonging to the Dublin Screw-steamer Company, and
plying between London and Dublin, was wrecked yesterday
morning (Wednesday) on Carnsore Point, County Wexford;
all hands saved. High winds and a thick fog were the causes
of the (Luster. The vessel was fully insured, but none of
the cargo, except a few chests of tea. Mr. Allen, secretary
to the company, goes down to-night to save as much as pos-
sible of the cargo (or the unfortunate owners.
SCOTLAND.
EDINBIIIIOH, OLT. 28.
In advancing money at 8 per cent, the Scotch
capitalists are of opinion that the government moun-
tain has brought forth a mouse. Here the banks,
daring the severest pressure, have been accommo-
dating their regular customers at 6 and 7 per cent—
I interlopers of course being entertained at a higher
I figure. No doubt the government interference, by
bettering their English debtors, is so far an accommo.
dation to Scotch merchants; but the direct benefit to
themselves they rate very low. The Scotch system
of banking has so nobly survived " the battle and the
breeze," even under the restrictive system, that if
comprehensively transferred across the border, it
would work with equal benefit What has it done
for Scotland ? Destitute of natural facilities she has,—
with an incessant drain on a small population, and with
no fertility of soil—elevated herself to a commanding
mercantile position, and that not mainly but exclu-
sively by the elastic and adaptative chagicter of her I
banking system. Yet, in the midst of her lorogression,
comes the restrictive act of 1844 to put the handcuffs
upon it. Nov is the damage thus inflicted merely
local ; it reacts upon England—how, has been ex-
plained by Lord Kinnaird, in a letter to the Cidedo-
num Mercury of to-day. The distress for gold which
has occasioned the recent commercial disasters has
been partly caused by that locked up in Scotch
banks, as the act directs." "In Scotland alone," says
his lordship, " there is nearly one million and a half
of gold in the coffers of banks, in liea of the securi-
ties formerly held. Were the gold liberated, it would,
in conjunction with other measures which might
safely be adopted, tend in some degree to relieve the
present distress in the money market."
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident happened yesterday
on the Greenock Railway, to Mr. Roes, the superintendent
of the line, whose care in preventing accidents has been pro-
verbiaL A specisl train was deintched from Greenock at
half-pest 11 o'clock, end Mr. Ross, as was his usual custom,
accompanied the train, taking his place on the engine.
When the train reached the Port Glasgow station, Mr. Ron
was in the set of stepping down front the engine upon the
platform when his loot slipped, owing to which he fell en
the platform, and his legs having unfortunately got en-
tangled between it and the engine, the motion of which bad
not been fully stopped, he sustained severe injuries in both
limbs. He was speedily conveyed to his own house. Am-
putation of both limbs, we understand, bu been found
necenary.