The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

IRELAND,

DUBLIN, MAT 6.

The following bulletin has been issued this day
respecting his excellency's health :
His mellow, pamsd a good night; and the cough, which
for some days pest had been troublesome. has abeted.
THILISII O'CLOCK Tel/ Dsv.--The Indications of Improve-
ment Mill continue. His excellency is better and cheerful.
The city of Limerick has responded to the cry from
the rock of Cashel, and the dismissed labourers have
given vent to the first burst of irritation in acts of
unprofitable violence. A report having been circu-
lated that a riot would take place in the city en Mon-
day, by aa union of the town and county y labourers,
the authorities, military and civil, adopted the awes-
es tions, and stood prepared so early as Iva
o'clock on Monday morning. idome carts and breadatisps
were forced and plundered, and what aggravates dm
enormity of this disorderly ruffmaiem is, that the
friends of turbulence beast the building from which
out-door relief was supplied to the poor, and u the
wretched mesterei' emerged with their noggin of
meal or basin of gruel they were brutally as-
saulted—their vessels broken, and the food scattered
on the pavement. The ringleaders were seized, com-
mitted to prison and ought to be punished. Since
Monday all has kieen tranquil in the city.
In the rural districts of Limerick there her also
been manifested a very riotous spirit. At the village
of Annacotty, three miles from Limerick, two parties
met—called forth Mr. Howley, chairman of the relief
committee, and declared that the landlords were bound

to support them—that they would have no porridge
—that the public works should be continued, or "else
there would be bad consequences in the country.
They wanted no food, but work ;" when Mr. Howley
stated that the able-bodied might obtain work, while
the weak and aged would be supplied with food at
the depas, there was a universal shout of—" We
won't take your soup." In the south of the coeityLL
Adam and Patrick's-well —the band having com-
pelled those retained on the roads to strike 'work,
proceeded to the Earl of Dunraven's demesne, held a
meeting, and threatened to kill and plunder if without
employ meat.
In Connaught there has also been some slight dis•
order—to Galway and Castlebar—but no overt lets'
of violence.

I have already intimated that the order for dis-
missal was not intended to operate as a final reduction.
This view is partially confirmed •by the Mayo Tek-
graph of to-d.ty, which states that they " had reason to
know that the works discontinued on Saturday, May 1,
were to be taken up on Wednesday, May 5, but
that no women or children are to be taken on." I
presume that this is done in pursuance of a general
order. and that the same will take place in other
counties. Indeed, the non-dismissal is placed beyond
a doubt, if the fact stated by the limerick Chronicle
could be ,iepended upon—namely, that there were, ea
Saturday la.; 260,000 employed throughout Ireland
who had not been at all discharged. But the bet
is, these are labourers employed on
and other reproductive works, and not
the Labour Rate Act. It was to the parties I
employed under the latter act that •, the
order of complete dismissal alone applied. 'And
in the details of the discontent to which the dis-
missal gave rise in this very county of Limerick,
and to s, inch I have referred, it is stated that on
Monday last the turbulent labourers compelled such
as were on the works on that day to accompany
them in their demonstrations against the peace! a

positive prof that there could not have been a dis-
missal of the labourers from all the public works on
the Saturdly preceding.
How difficult the collection of the relief rate is ex-
pected to b.' may be judged from this fact, that in the
union of Cagtlebar the poundage to the collector win
amount to 2a. Gd. in the pound over 12 per emit
No distribution of food, under the Temporary Relief
Act, has et taken place in Castlebar ; but in West-
port, the adjacent union, the rations to be daily dis-
tributed have bf.en checked at 30,000, and the expen-
diture is estimated at 1,2001. per week !
REPEAL AgsoCIATION.-- tile special meeting of the
Repeal Anti. iatiou, convened for the purpose of agreeing to
an address uf is
to Americo, was held to•day. 'The
chair was ...opted by Alderman Keshan, late Lord Mayor
of Dublin. The address, which was proposed by Mr. John
O'Connell, and seconded by Mr. James O'llea, was strongly
expre-sive of gratitude, but mach leas exaggerated in poli-
tical sentino lit than some others which have been called
forth by air benevolence of America, from other bodies. It
was carried with loud acclamation, and will be presented
to-morrow at 11 o'clock, a.m., t) ) Captain Clerke of the
Victor, as the representative et the American people, by a
deputation ..f the Repealer,
SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, Mir 6.

Sir A. 1.. Hay has replied to the letter of his rival,
Mr. G. S Duff. The gallant knight dues not dis-
tinctly avow his creed for next election ; but seems, if
one may judge from the following passage, to favour
a sort t;.l ci ketic system of politics :
In so large a tonstituency as that which I have the ho-
nour to addre. [B:t6 by the almanac—no large number for a
Scotch conritueney], there are men of all shades of political
opinion ; and so long as I hold the situation of your r. pre-
sentative, I shall endeavour, as I have hitherto done, to
prove myself. to the best of my abilities, while adhering to
political principle, the zealous advocate of your rights and
interests c,ii.ctively and individually, irrespective of all
party feeling.
'that is the explanation given to the electors. This
is the one to Mr. Duff :
Should the person who advises you to demand explanation
as to w loth, r I am "liberal or tory, er a compound of
both," rea,ly show himself on the hustings at Elgin, I will
there give hint the proper answer, which I am confident no
elector will previously expect or require.
The quid-nwics of the north are looking forward
to the couti.st with some interest.
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Tracking the course of the county meetings, the
Inverness board was so busied with local matters,
that it does not appear to have taken up either the
Marriage or Registration Bills. At the Russ meeting
one gentle-man seemed so impregnated with Dr.
Varighan's idea and title-page, that this is " The Age
of Great Cities," that he actually proposed that the
county of Ross should verbatim adopt the petitions
emitted against those bills by the parochial board of
the town of Inverness. Unfortunately, two other
gentlemen candidly admitted that they had not read
the bills, and the result was that neither petition nor
resolution of any kind was agreed to, and the subject
dropped. At Fife the consideration of the bills was
postponed.
At a meeting held here yesterday, of influential
distillers brewers, paper-makers, and others affected
by excise restrictions, they formed themselves into
" The National Association for the Reform of Excise
Abuses," the object of which will be to secure the
return of members to parliament who will pledge
themselves to use their influence to obtain the removal
of the abuses complained of--to have the various
excise regulations clearly embodied in an act of par-
liament, no part of which the Treasury will have
power to alter without at least a month's previous
notice—to obtain the removal of all frivolous and
vexatious restrictions unnecessary for the due collec-
tion of the revenue—and to procure the revision or
repeal of those excise duties which were impolitic in
their nature or oppressive to the public.
Early and good news of the Greenland seal fishery
has arrived by an Aberdeen vessel, which has 0,000
seals for her own share. Five vessels are reported as
having caught 31,000 seals. This will go far to make
up for the loss of whales, who appear to have left the
Greenland coast altogether, and retreated to the
upper parts of Davis' Straits, whither they cannot be
pursued, except at the expense of a long voyage.
The prevalence for some time past of bleak easterly
and north-easterly winds is beginning to seriously
affect the progress of vegetation. From all parts of
the country similar complaints are coming in.

FUNaIaL or 81a WALTER Scovv.—Thu Edinburgh
Courant gives the following account of the interment :
Although considered private, it had more the appearance of
a public funeral. The tradesfolk of Melrose, dressed in deep
mourning, met the cortege, which consisted of twenty car-
riages, at the church, and receded the hearse to the Cross,
where they drew up is two lines, and uncovered while the
mourners passed. All the shops were shut, not only in this
village, but in Dominic. Mr. Walter Scott Lockhart, of the
16th Lancers, was the chief mourner. The funeral *anion
(as in the cue of the author of Waverley) was performed by
Archdeacon Williams; and the day being beautiful, the
ceremony, amid the ruins, wee highly Imposing.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
Qv art.tertnre AT LIVERPOOL W. ( Liverpool Messy)
have the highest atitharity for stating that the Lords of bar
Majesty's Privy Comma have, at last, taken the subject op,
and have given iustriesdoas to the superintendent of quaran-
tine, at this port, to pleas wittiest delay at the dispeeM of the
parochial authorities, two et the Isaarettos sow be the river,
to be used as hospitals lim the Silk. leatmensee ham also
been given to the enseenes• endierilise, to direst tilt ell pas-
senger vessels arriving hest ballad shall be beemlale a,the
ry tide-sueyors, who sita ewesM 611 yellow leg OM b
and kept flying at the geastned,lati sate wool aall lave
been exasnioed by the Needled clef aggelated Orr the per.
pose and until the sick, If there be gay ma ea beard, MA
have been removed direct to the lemmetto. In order Mill
further to entry oat these stsimgmt sagulationa, a madder
Lion will be given to the sommashiss WWI pumas' mush
from Ireland, that shoed my KW* •11111111- slam ben a
second time with ink eat heed, they will le sanest to
quarantine for a certain Mega et tini. Of geese the
mail packets which do net ger the lei poor,
will be exempted frost Ws
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A Mango or woainio Mae leek ;plea he the Tem
peemeelell, Bredford, as Tandegate she man et *Ede-
lstein, ad segehengg a prlim* it Waft a eseemill, in
2,0311 agree et IL ark.- The ledge of the Met-week
omen, le to suable the repringe•after Winos or laming
a earsedll, what their joint caned. le mew at their own
RIM, at all seeloas, Soar, " of melded paeley," at " from
2d. to 4d., or even dd. seme Lim the nada prim." A
Working Men's AaeiWa Is Is meow Waismstioa f r this
•too
sad the aretleg was sommod ter the of
the same nee pgademtly Win public.
was veal: a singe el negignee, pidgin the
is otteraege ands= ta diet the preset. mad in-
veighs owsmaanga ad wept* at all, idesatial as
well am Immihkrwere manned ;nig aidrewee lailisir sup-
port, were dgneered. Mr. Weft gme as etergegeg god
meat of the adgls ael pogrom et the ISM
Mjb %Watt II“ Whitby ; see d ling kens baga sla►
liad bt MN • century sr man The admeligge sammed
to the yeepeletoes were bee at IL asi velaGl. Magath
the market price, and ales Moor them glom diger, at the
sad of each half year, as • beaus epee sea the.
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NORTH Dustman Etascriow.—An address from Yr. Hed-
worth Lazabton, appeared, acnewasfag that it is not his
intention to offer him...lff for re-election. Colonel Beckwith,
of Sillueorth, near Sunderland, has addressed the electors,
haring been brought forward at the instance of the Reform

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fi
A.S.C.ZiaLIOII, in land. H. advocates household
suffrage, triennhal 'laments, vote by ballet, the abolition
of all state enta of the church, and a change in the
law of inheripmice, and the enfranchisement of copyhold
property. A maitempondent says.—" Mr. Liddell, the present
member, willr be a candidate again, and it is abo said Lord
&sham Wilbeffer himself, under the support of the United
ciimumagative party, whose recent differences, it is believed,
ikrgan. ovine of satisfactory adjustment. If this is a there
will be warm work, but at present nothing more is known
than what is stated above:'__

CIIEBHIBZ.
Tae Comm] Ettcrtom.—A oorrespondent says "There
is beginning to be • little movement in North Cheshire.
Canvassing books are being prepared ; but whether the divi-
sion will be contested or not is at present very doubtful. The
only names as yet mentioned as likely to go to the poll are
E. D. Davenport, Esq., of Capesthorn, and J. Cheetham,
Esq., of stalybridge ; both liberal,.
WARWICKSHIRE.

ELECTION MOVNIIENTS is BIILYINGHAM.—At a meeting
of the retail brewers' associxtion, on Wesinesday afternoon,
a resolution was passed pledging the members to use every
exertion to ensure the return of Mr. William Seholefield
(liberal), in the stead of Mr. Monts.
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