The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-01 00:00:00

21,00.' rateable houses. Of those 17,000 (and I em MUNI'
that the figures should go forward to the public) ere entitled
to the par2ementary and municipal franchise, being rated at
101. and npseurds. How many of those houses enjoyed the
municipal trywhise in 1848 ? Only 6,200. And why_?—
Because the people were too poor to pay the taxes. How
ee,;ny of those 6,e
liot4 200 houses will enjoy the municipal (ran-
chime now? Th
- the town clerk is now made up for
1847, any oyeL., 17,000 h gilled that ought to enjoy the fran-
chise, only 3,140 rill—than 'wing •diminution of 2,060, as
compared with the former date. A*3 how many of these
homes will enjoy the municipal franchise: when the city is
taxed to the extent of 180,0001. fur outi:oor relief? I believe
in my heart not 1,000.
STATE or rue COVNTIT.—On Sunday last a :-"feetieff of
the Young Inlanders was hold in Kilkenny, for the e'ETPOOF
of founding a confederate club. The meeting was a private
one, none but confederates being invited to attend. The
Old Inlanders, or rather a mob in then interest, endenvoured
to force their way into the meeting, end, not suoreedinr,
attacked the house. The consequence was a collision, in
which an old man named Neill had his head fractured by a
blow of a hemmer inflicted by a Young Inlander. It is
stated in the Tipperary Vmdieartir, that Mr. Bernal
Osborne, M.P., is " clearing" his estates in Waterford.
Fifteen families have been served with ejectment" An
accident occurred to the Kilkenny down mail on Tues.
day morning near the Royal Oak, canoed by a heap of clay
placed upon the road by the contractors for the Grail
Southern and Western Railway, who have at this epos
thrown a bridge across the road. A lady who was a pas-
senger had her leg broken near the encl.. The other pas-
sengers had descended from the coach.—The people of
Kerry, stimulated by the exertions making is other locali-
ties in the math-west to put forward their claims to a packet
station, have need a county meeting to recommend Valentin.
—The Mayo paper to-day speaks rather unfavourably of the
condition of that county. Fever appears very pre-
valent, and is carrying off more than an average
number of persons beyond the reach of want. The
recent high winds had injured the harvest, having shed the
corn, oats and barley more especially, to a considerable ex-
tent. Doubtless much of this was caused by the negligent
husbandry, which suffers the corn to become over-ripe ere it
be taken down. The farmers, in order to render the loss es
little injurious as possible, are " trenching in " the etuable,
that is turning the earth over, and thus preparing to rise the
'bedded corn for next year's seed. The country markets are
still rising in the more distant districts. In Castlebir oats
fetch 6s. per cwt., and barley, Si. AL to 6s. ; potatoes, by
retail, Bd. to fild. per stone. In Tralee prices are fully as
high, potatoes indeed still higher, being Is. per stone. fhe
jury impannelled on the inquest in the case of the bailiff
shot a few days since scar Cork, while stripping the slates of
a house from which a tenant was being evicted, has returned
a verdict of" wilful murder" against some person unknown.
John Northidge, the tenant evicted, is in custody on suspicion.