The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dome, Sapr. 1.
I believe I may state confidently that the arsistant
poor law commissionership, vacant by the demise of
Mr. Hancock, has been tilled by the nomination of
Capt. Haband to the office. This gentleman was en-
gaged on the relief system and the labour-rate works
during the last two years, and afforded wry valuable
aid to the commissioners and the government.

The pcor•law authorities, Haiti that the guardians
are very slow in carrying out the recent intruction
respecting a large and immediate rate for maintenance
and repayment of advatmcs—finding, indeed,that some
postpone while others refuse to strike the rate, have

aste;mined to address another circular to the guardians,
requiring an immediate compliance with. their former
ceder. The next step, if rendered =avoidable, will
be far more action..

In Mr. Fox's letter, refusing to join in the agita-
tion for a rotatory parliament, the boo. gentleman
offers some 'mod suggestions for the guidance
of landed proprietors and others during the now
almost inevitable period of scarcity. Ile says he will
himself ecdeavour to bring his own estate and all Long-
ford under a system of arterial drainage. The land
will be thus made to produce more, the people will be
provided with advantageous employment, and the
roped" of the country will not be swamped by
maintaining them in idleness. Mr. Fox contemplates
that the Irish landlords would obtain money for this
in the open market, if they manifested a proper deter-
mination to meet the difficulties of their position. But
he says that, if immediately after the going out of
one agitation in which the people were interested
they find the gentry organising another, they will
believe Irishmen incurably distrait, and will keep
their money in their desks. The suggestion and the
reflection speak equally for Mr. Fox's humanity and
good sense. Let us hope the suggestion will not
be last.

The Clare paper states that the weather has been
favourab'e for some days, and anticipates that much
of the ill effects consequent on the late rains will be
obviated. 'ftie only other intelligence we have from
that county is, that some persons have robbed the
church of the village of Clare, and a party had attacked
and robbed the house of a widow. _

On Wednesday last the police, in pursuit of
a man who had absconded, taking money from his
employer, examined a vessel jut on the point of
sailing for Boston. They did not succeed in securing
the person for whom they were in search ; but they
did succeed in arresting a Mr. B. MacManus, who
bad recently escaped from two police at Cove, and who
had come from America to take a place in the late
Weeded insurrection ; and also a Mr. Daniel Corco-
ran, who were both about to leave for America. They
were committed to prison.
I understand the government have determined upon
issuing a special commission for Limerick as well as
Tipperary, it being deemed desirable, as well for
public convenience as example,. that the several par-
ties whoare charged with participation in the recent
outbreaks should be made amenable in those counties
in which the overt acts took place.
The magistrates of two baronies in Kerry met on
the 28th, the High Sheriff in the chair, and passed a
series of resolnuone, expressing their fullest confi-
dence in the government, a determination to support
its authority, and a recommendation to those who
have offended that their only hope for a merciful ad-
ministration of the law is "an immediate, a penitent,
and a voluntary surrender of their persons and arms."
To these sentiments they invite the adhesion of the
guatry and the people. They acknowledge the mu-
nificence of parliament, express their gratitude for
the relief extended them by the people of England,
of the colonies, and of foreign lands. Recommending
vigilance in getting arms surrendered, they claim
exemption from poor rate for seven years on the in-
creased value of lands improved by drainage.
I have heard on good authority to day that the
arrests are not yet ended, but that parties whose posi-
tion renders them important will yet be made amenable.
New disclosures come to the knowledge of tho autho-
rities every day.
In a portion of the Newcastle union, Limerick, the
troops have been called on to assist in collecting the
poor rate. I have heard many persons, proprietors of
land, anticipate, and without condemnation, but the
reverse, that it would be u difficult to collect the rate
next winter as it was the tithes in 1832 and 1833.
General M'Donald will fix his head-quarters at
Kilkenny for the future, but it is said that an encamp-
ment will remain in Tipperary until the leaders yet at
large are made amenable, or those in custody dis-
posed of.
Numerous letters have, •it is said, been found
amongst Mr. S. O'Brien's papers, compromising very
deeply certain influential priests in Nations parts of
Ireland, and bearing what purports to be their signa-
tures. Some of the parties' names have" leaked out."
and these gentlemen, or most of them, deny not only
the letters, bat asseverate that they never had either
sympathy or correspondence with the priecipal leader.