The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

• • DUBLIN, Nov. 30.
The country papers received • this morning poems. very
little interest. The chief fdittlirei COnliat in details of rob
beries and outrages of a minor character, not inseparable
from a condition of society in which hunger is the prevailing
element. Sheep axe special objects of theft, and the losses to
the farmers, chiefly in the midland counties, are numerous.
At a special sessions at Eyre Court on Thursday last, several
presentments were put in, under the Malicious Trespass Act,
for sheep killed or stolen. All were objected to by the
magistrates, on the very intelligible ground that they were
robberies and not malicious injuries Mixed with accounts
of outrage are complaints against the Board of Works, for
delay in the employment and reduction in the wages of
labour. The complaints may be well grounded, but a more
bard-worked body than the commissioners of public works
there does not exist in Europe. Their toil is unintermitting,
Sundays not excepted. No amount of activity
could be adequate to the numerous demands on
their attention, and the selection of the most urgent works
in the order of their importance is all that might, reasonably
be expected. Delay in the payment of wages is inseparable
from the nature of task work, and the few causes of com-
plaint prove the excellent machinery of the board, as well as
the general satisfaction of the labouring classes. The plan
of the board is to allow one shilling a day on credit, as " sus-
tenance money," until the work be measured and calculated,
which could not be done in the short interval of a week. The
landed proprietors are horrified at the waste of public money
on road-making, and yet they will not provide the necessary
remedy. At the presentment sessions for Knockmahon,
county Galway, on Thursday, Lord Clonbeack stated that
" every road in the county was spoiled." Lord Clancarty
was more encouraging, as funds are in hand to give em-
ployment for 15 weeks, making allowance for the spring
employment on farm labour which would occupy a portion
of January and all the succeeding mouth.
The distillers share in the indignation of the practising
physicians at the inexorable conduct of the chancellor. A
correspondence appears in this morning's Freeman, between
a Mr. O'Donovan, one of the proscribed, and the secretary to
the Chancellor, in which the latter states the foundation of
the rule to coexist in the circumstance, that " some import-
ant functions of the magistracy consist in the administration
of the Excise laws regulating the licenses of distillers, and in
the granting retail licenses."
The Irish shareholders feelverynneary under the pressure
of the calls, and relief is sought in the liberality of the State,
which, however, refuses to lend a favowable ear, notwith-
standing the assurances of perfect solvency and security. In
the Railway Gazette of this morning, the demand is urged
with much force, and upon a principle which, it is hoped,
will attract the attention of the government—namely,
That any Irish railway company basing actually expendixi. 20 per
cent. of its capital upon its orig.., should be entitled to participate iu
the government loans.—That after such expenditure, the government
should advance 10 per cent for every additional 5 per oent. paid up
by the shareholders until such time as the entire expenditure had
reached a per cent. of the capital—being 40 per cent. paid by the
shareholders, and 40 per cent. advanced by the government.
In the same journal is a long complaint of the extortions
practised by the landed proprietors against Irish railway
companies, and the facilities with which attorneys for the
landowners run up bills of COMM. As an instance of the first
complaint, the Great Southern and Western Company,
anxious to obtain possession of the land between Thurles and
Cork, a distance of 77 miles, had the land valued by theirown
valuator, and offered to the owners 'of the land required in
Tipperary to have the value ascertained by their own valua-
tor acting in conjunction with the representative of the com-
pany. The offer was refused, the works are delayed, and
not less than twenty notices for inquisitions and special
juries were served last week on the solicitor of the company.
YOVNG IRELAND.—I gated on Saturday that the " Young
Ireland " party contemplated an appeal to public opinion.
An advertisement appears in the morning papers headed,
"No compromise; no place-begging; no whig alliance,"
announcing a public meeting at the Rotunda, on Wednesday
next. The chief orators and leaders of the party will attend.
SHRIEIVALTY OP CORIE.—Mr. Jeremiah Stack Murphy,
brother to Mr. qerjeant Murphy, has been appointed High
Sheriff of Cork for the ensuing year.