The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

kno.vn fact that the best informed of the working classes have
taken no part in the late turbulent preceding' in the
I different parts of the country; they had sot impudence
or couragv enough to confront the braggarts who have
talked of aaggers and death; but had they been enabled to exer-
cise their legitimate influence through that silent but power-
ful and impressive monitor the press, freed from its shackles,
the pike and pistol orator might as well Dave bid the dawn
of morning come at sunset as bid the people seek reform in
civil war. And even the very men who tare made the most
violent speeches would be the last to commit the same Beau-
meats to paper, however much applause might greet their
public ut'erance. Throw open the press to the working
classes in the manner we have indicated, and we shall have
the full benefit of working-class intelligence, without heirs •
compelled at brief interval to place our cities and towns in a
state of sieoe lest " bloody treason" should reduce surety
to its elements, and make our country a wilderness.

IRELAND.
Derunr, JIILY 1.
The accounts from official quarters in England
leave it no longer doubtful that her Majesty will visit
her Iriab dominions about, it is said, the second week
in August. An official communication from the Lord
Chamberlain has been received by the Kingstown or
Royal Irish Yacht Club, informing the committee
that the Queen bad been pleased to give a cap, value
100/., as an annual prize to be contended for at the
club's sailing matches, which take place each year in
the first week of August, and expressing regret that
she "cannot reach Ireland in time to witness" this
year's contests.
This was quarter-day in our corporation, and as it
has hitherto been usual to nominate on such days the
lord mayor for the ensuing year, some anxiety was
'felt in consequence of a rumour prevailing that a cer-
tain alderman of the body was intriguing for the
baronetcy, which it is anticipated he: Majesty will
confer upon the head of our civic body. Mr. Maurice
O'Connell is a candidate, but he refuses to accept un-
less at a salary of 2,0001. The point of the intrigue
was said to turn upon this. The alderman would
take 1,000/., and trusting to the known disrelish of
the present lord mayor for his office would enter im-
mediately as successor, and thus be the fortunate
occupant on the Queen's visit. " The pear is not yet
ripe," it is said, and the election, or rather nomination,
is postponed to the Ist August next.
There is no doubt there will be this year a mar-
shalling of the orangemen on the anniversaries of
their "glorious days of July." The government is
not inattentive to this movementnor apparently with-
out knowledge of its gravity, for the Gazette, besides
the appointment of one or two additional " resident
magistrates"—as they are called—has taken the pre-
caution to send seven additional stipendiaries on
"special temporary duty" into the counties of Down,
Cavan, Monaghan, Armagh, and Derry. The " con-
federates" boast that they have made great way with
the orangemen of late : the present anniversaries are
likely to speak otherwise. At taut so say those who
know Ulster beet.

MELANCHOLY SCICIDE HY AN OFFICER.—On Wednesday
last a melancholy occurrence took place in the barrack at
Castlecomer. A young officer, T. Stewart Lane, Esq., a
lieutenant of the 83rd Regiment, had been ill of fever for
some days previously, and in charge of two servants, and,
being labourzog under the effects of delirium, during the
temporary absence of the servants, he left his bed, took a
pistol from a table, charged it deliberately, and shot himselt
through the head. The unfortunate g nUcman only sur-
vived a few hours afterwards.
Da. RELY, ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF FERNS, AND
THE CARLOW CLUB.—We have beard with unfeigned
sari-faction (-sys the Carlow Sentinel), that the above
respected prelate, on Thursday morning last, from Ilse
pulpit, took occasion to denounce that mischievous and
Illegal confederacy lately established in Carlow, and with
much earnestness and energy he warned the people
of the evil consequences, both to themselves and to
their families, of countenancing such dangerous assts.
ciations, alike injurious to their spiritual and temporal
welfare, as subversive of peace and social order. He
dwelt at considerable length on the confusion and
anarchy that prevailed in that devoted city, Paris, arising
from the organization of clubs and revolutionary factions,
and on the massacre that ensued in a struggle to protect the
lives and properties of the citizens. After pointing out the '
folly and wickedness of any project having for its object a
conflict with disciplined troops, he particularly addressed
himself to the working classes, strong.y recommending them
to depend upon their labour and industry, as the more safe
and natural mode of supporting their families, instead of
following the councils of those who would first lead them
astray and then betray them. The observations of the right
rev. prelate, of which we have received but a faint outline,
appeared to have made a deep impression on a crowded
congregation.
THE EARL OF ROSSE AND REPEAL.—The President of
the Royal Society has addressed a long letter to his tenantry
in the King's County, on the subject of repeal. He invites
them to sign the Anti.Reptal Declaration, and sets forth at
length, in plain and perspicuous language, the arguments
which should convince them. Of the chances of success in
'civil war, and the injurious consequences of agitation to so-
ciety his lordship observes
Of those who think repeal desirable many, believe there would be
nothing antler CM the consent of England, than to resort to what
=icallas aid Irish constitution; but the thing iv impossible t the
de net exist. The old proprietary boroughs are extinct;
progerty se blew returns the Irish county members; Catholic
Ms been conceded; and the influences all friendly to
=lairdrisb tiled the old Irish house of Commons would not be
iNami Y the a Me ; there would obviouely therefore be an lona.-
dine *Alm Mowed by a complete separation, and that follows:*
=stela warm ampainary as any on record. In such a contml
would be teastrained to interfere, and with all her power
bat were ehe merely to blockade the Irish coast, and prevent the id.
part of warlike stores, the issue would not, I think, be for a moment
doubtful; for on one side there would be the property, the grist
majority of the people of education, and a very large part of the
population, with ail the appliances of modern warfare—on the other I
I side, there would perhaps be a numerical majority of the peasantry
without supplies, without even gunpowder, for the principal in-
mMient of gunpowder is the natural product of the hot countries—
(we import it from the East Indies;—and although in this climate, by
on
artificial promo of two years' duration, it might be procured in
mullqueintities, that would be of no avail. The contest over, many
inallaUe lives would have been lost. The peasantry, their cottages
bused down, their provisions wasted and destroyed, a 'prey ti cold
and hunger, would have been swept off in immense numbers, and
Ireland would once more become an integral part of the British em:
• Believing repo* to be utterly impossible under any circum-
stances, it would be useless to do more than to glance at the come.
quencm. The repeal agitation, however, is a great evil, as it remade
the progress of the country, and is a variety of ways keeps the people
poor and unemployed. England, rich se she is, felt very severely the
effects of the short agitation pending the progress of the Reform Bill.
What must have been the effect of so many years of agitation in Ire-
land? Capitalists know well that a country cannot prosper where
agitation is in the ascendant; they have therefore actually sent
capital to Spain, to South Am..rica, to North America, and to
France, in preference to Ireland. In our Mt Farming Re-
port it was stated that the preliminaries for four large public
drainage works in this union had been completed ; but two have been
proceeded with, for want of capital. While the minds of men are dis.
trotted by agitation they cannot apply themselves to practical ques-
tions; hence we find that no remedy has been provided far the crying
evil that it is impossible to buy or sell land in small quantities. These,
however, are but examples of the many ways in which agitation
works so injuriously; and I think, were it possible to get rid of
agitation altogether, Ireland would soon revive from its present de-
pression.
THE CONDITION OF NORTHERN TIPPERARY appears to
be pitiably distracted and distressed. It seems there is in
Nenagh Laion not leas than 16,000 persons receiving out-
door relief daily, and yet we learn from local sources that the
town is every day overflown with paupers who are in so
wretchedly destitute a state, that they commit trivial lar-
cenies, for the purpose of being committed to prison. The
per. law union, as may be well concluded, is in deep em-
barrassment. The expenditure in food alone in the union is
4521. Is. 4d. weekly, and the weekly receipts of rates
do not exceed 3501.; the consequence is, that the debts of the
union, on the 31st May, were 3,1021. exclusive of those
due fur primary advances and under the Relief Act. The
uncollected testes amount to 6,0001., and the guardians have
received an intimation that they must forthwith strike an-
other, which shall cover not only the estimated expenditure
of the union, but also the 3s. in the pound instalment on the
relief advances which were postponed collection in considera-
tion of the distress. The guardians do not appear ready to
deal with a case of such difficulty, and it is not unlike', that
paid guardians will be sent to that union also. As might
perhaps be expected in such &condition of society, there have
been three nocturnal attacks on homes within the week—a
serious number in summer period.

SCOTLAND.
JCNE 30.
The Glen Tilt case comes before Lord Ivory in the
outer court of session to-day, and the first point to be
disposed of is the title to pursue.
The parish schoolmasters are wroth at Lord Mel-
gund's notice of motion regarding the parish schools.
In ordinary cases it should not excite much attention,
as its object greatly wants definition ; but of late the
teachers have become sensitively alive to the slightest
appearance of encroachment. It is understood that
they have to a great extent succeeded in carrying
their objects before the committee of the House of
Lords. A majority have decided that the present
session clerks should be registrars under the new
system, except in cases where a multiplicity of other
duties occur. The existing machinery is also to be
retained so far as it may possibly be compatible with
an improved method of registration.

AMBILICAN LIBERTY 114 BRITAIN.—One afternoon last
week one of the seamen on board the barque Pilgrim, of '
New York, now at Glasgow, having had occasion, as he con-
ceived, to be dissatisfied with the way he had been treated
by the master of the vessel, went to his cabin and requested
to be paid the money due him, as he wished to leave the
' ship. Some high words ensued, which resulted in the cap
Min giving the seaman into custody. The charge preferred
by the captain was of such a trivial nature, amounting to
nothing mote than that he had been insulted by the seaman
asking him to drink along with him, that the officer on duty
refused to take it up, and the parties were accerdingly dis-
missed. The captain then went to the residence of
the American consul, who was unfortunately nbeent
from %own, and received a piece of advice from his 1
eon, which appeared to accord erectly with the views of the
captain on the eublect? as it wit immediately put in execu-
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