The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

not Howley are to be tried 230 peons, charged
with rations kinds of offences, in wlich are 46 of
great personal violence. This, hoverer, shows a con-
siderable diminution as compared with the three
preceding month,. Generally the offences against
property have declined, on which the assistant bar-
rister congratulated the northern division of tbt
county. The south riding, of which Clonmel is
the capital, also presents a diminished caltndr.r. At
the coming assizes there are 64 cases for trial, but of
these there are 17 for murder, and 23 for robbery of
arms.
The malpractices of the passage brokers have in-
volved hundreds of emigrants in ruin, notwithstand-
ing the activity and vigilance of the government
officers. A remedy comes lata in the present season,
but the precautions adopted lay the Cork magistrates
will produce an excellent effect in checking fraud. At
a meeting of the magistrates of the city, held on
Tuesday, no license will henceforth be granted to any
broker until it has been approved of at a general
meeting convened for that 'pedal purpose, and at
which the attendance of the emigration agent should
be requested.
The small pirates of the coast of Mayo, whose
plunder was so pertinaciously pursued that no vessel
provision laden was safe in passing that part of the
coast, have received a check within the last kw days
which it is hoped may terminate such practices.
During last week three small vessels—hookers—were
attacked. Two were plundered, each of five tons of
lnclian meal ; from a third 170 barrels were carried
off. Emboldened by impurity, the schooner Emily
Maria WlO3 attacked, with the manifest intent of car-
rying off her whole cargo. 'The crew resisted, and
called oa the Emerald rename cruiser for assistance.l
A few men were sent to their aid, hot the plunderers
persisting were fired urn. Four were killed and
several wounded. Merest retreated.
The Nelms& relief committee (it is a subject of bit-
ter eomplaizel have been distributing to the poor
Indian meal*" crawliag with vermin?'
A novelty, rare, I 'believe, even in England, may
be seen in•the neighbourhood of Dundalk—a fine crop
of mummy wheat to the extent of two acres. The
owner of the land, a Mr. Eastwood, fostered a few
grains, •received by him some five years ago, and now
he luso breadthof two atres.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, JULY 14.
Two education deputations recently lett Edinburgh
for the purport of conferring with government in re-
Serenest to the extension of the education scheme to
Scotland—the first was from the free church educa-
tion committee ; the second from the parish school-
masters. The result of these negotiations is under-
stood to have been en intimation from the privy
council that no separate scheme for Scotland would
be introduced this session and tho practical effect of
this will be that the pariah schools will derive no im-
mediate benefit from the grant, but that voluntary
seminaries may do so on complying with the condi-
tions prescribed in the general scheme; and,
in conformity with this view, it is further understood
that the free church has made application for aid to
its normal schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce have re-
solved to make a determined stand against Sir R.
Peel's Bank Act. An extraordinary instance of the
recent state of the money market was mentioned in
the fact apparently well authenticated, that a house of
known stability had to pay 5001. for the discounting
of a three months' bill for 3,000/.
The Customs' revenue at Leith for the year ending
sth instant, exceeds that of the previous year by
41,452!. Bs. 10d.
The annual convention of royal burghs is presently
sitting in Edinburgh, but although 66 representatives
are entitled to attend, only 16 have this year made
their appearance ; their proceedings are consequently
exciting no interest. This body was constituted in
1522, and as its organisation might be turned to some
account, it is to be regretted that it is so likely to fall
into desuetude. Perhaps the inequality of represen-
tation—Berrie, Culroes, and other Caledonian Old
Barnms having delegates in common with Edinburgh
and Glasgow—is one great cause of the dry rot in
this venerable confederation.
A curious case of Irish piracy has transpired.
When off Eagle Island a Garlieston sloop was sur-
rounded by boats and taken possession of by 116
marauders, but while on the eve of getting the unfor-
tunate sloop, a person came on board and ordered off
the pirates, who to a man obeyed the call, and with-
out committing any damage. The protector, instead
of being a brother buccaneer, turned out to be an
Irish tenant-farmer, who has shown great kindness to
the peasantry daring the recent distress.

TO. DUCE OP LEBOa raiLait.Vl.—A correspondent of
the Dumfries Courier gives some particulars regarding this
famous monopoly of the sod. The deer in the forests of
Mar and Invert:geld, till lately, were lean and poverty.
stricken. Throughout the paring of 1847 many, it is to be
feared, died of starvation : bat now that warmth has gene-
rated a sufficiency of rich verdure, the fawns have become
excellent nursing mothers. A careful observer counted 75
stags in one glen, and around Mar Lodge about 400 rains.
The Duke of Leeds rants the forest from the Earl of Fife
at 1,8001. per annum. The grouse shootings are leased
with nee on favourable terms; no lack of customers,
and just as little of shining sovereign, when pay day
comes round.