The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dr ALIN, MAT I.
A meeting of the advocates of tenant-right, on the
principles of the Irish tenant league. was held yes-
terday, in Belfast. Great preparations had been
made for the occasion, and the meeting was looked
forward to as one which was to advance the cause
moist materially; but it does not appear that there
was anything in the proceedings to distinguish them
from those of the other meetings held for the same
object a few months ago. The chair was occupied
by Mr. John Greenfield, of Jackson Hall. The Music
Hall, in which the meeting was held, was tolerably
well filled with tenant farmers, many of whom
had come from a distance, and the speakers
werelhose who have been heard over and over again,
at most of the tenant league meetings of last year—
as Dr. M'Knight, the Rev. Dr. Kearney, Mr. J. F.
Maguire, of Cork, tee., tee. A letter of apology was
read from Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., who stated
that as the object of the proposed meeting was to
form an organisation in connexion with the tenant
league, and as he presumed it was based on the same
principles as those put forward by the league in
January lust, and to which he had a decided objection,
he could not co-operate in creating an organisation
based on such foundation. He was prepared, how-
ever, most cordially to join the tenantry of Ulster,
" in every just effort to obtain those objects declared
at the head of the requisition—tenant right, fair
rents, and security of tenure."

BeittOCGII or TTNEMOPTII.—The report that a
content might be expected in the (sent of a dissolution of
parliament has been rapidly followed by electioneering
Increments. An address was hewed by Mr. ltalph Wm.
Grey, the present member, stating his intention of again
soliciting the suffrages of the elector.. This was immedi-
ately succeeded by an invitation to the burgher* to refrain
from promising their votes, as Mr. Hugh Taylor was hourly
expeeted. The two candidates were not long in making
their personal appearance, and they are making a vignroua
canvas of the borough, and the walls are coolers' with
squit and addresaes, as in the height of a contested eke-
tion. Mr. Grey's principles arc those of the present admi-
nistration.—Norreatle I Aromirle.
THE WILLS Ater.—A cave occurred in the Preroga-
tive Court of Canterbury, nn the 23rd ult., which affords a
remarkable illustratiem of the unjust operation of the Wills
Act upon the claws of society who cannot afford to pay
irlieotor. to draw their wills. The testator, a labouring man,
died on the lith of March last, haring a will, disposing
of the little lomperty he had saved. It occupied the first
and nearly half the secemd side of a sheet of letter paper.
The attestation douse was no the third side, immediately
opposite to the concluding paragraph of the will, and the
testator signed his name just below the attestation clause, in
the sinsultanesms Ira one of two witnesses, who then duly
attested and subwribeel the will. The neat day the will was
shown to the menical attendant, who very properly observed
that the testator must sign inunoliately at the foot or end of
the will. Aecordingly, in the presence of the same two
witnesses and the medical attendant, the testator again
aign.d his name in the proper place; and the two witnesses
pes,pseal to sign theirs again, hot the medical gehtleman
(unfortunately not being acquainted with all the nice dis-
tinetions of this law) said that war unto crwarr, as they had
aln aly :attested and sub.( robe ol the will. '(his will was
dielanal invalid beeause the signature of the testator at the
foot or end of the will w.r not attested, and the signature
(which was duly attested, though at the foot ur end of the
attestation 1141.., and nearly opposite to the last line of the
will) was not at the foot or end of the will. The same day
several other wills were ticelArral inrulid hcenu, the *Sena-
tors of the to-stators appeared, not at the foot or end of the
will, but at the end of the attsstatiem clause on the neat
page, which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Lave deciolell is not a sufficient compliance with the require-
ments of the statute.

GIFT OF A PAKK Tel TOE TOWN OF GREENOI-K.
Sir Michael It. Shaw Stewart has pmentrtl to the Town
Council, to fern-meting the r munity, the very valuable
piece of ground, in the neighbourhomd of the ancient
noandon.lonise, known as Well-rack. A portion of the
pork might, withmat ninth carom, and w itbout uncnsich-
iom unduly on the pert of it which will no doubt be marked
otf for nervation, be laid out ON a botanic Raritan. Not a
finer spot could have ben selected to make a present of to
the public. or easy metes. from all sides. it commands a
mud admirable and extrusive view, bounded by Glasgow
on the cant, lien Venue, *hose boo, Loch !Katherine
washi--, on the north, Anil the Argyleshire mountains on
the west, while at the bottom of the hill the river flows,
with ship. and steamers constantly moving about, and ',re-
lenting a ,41.111. Or corr.:trying interest unit towline.. In
milk* to the Well-park, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart h.,
atwi of, 1,4 a lam, held in the east end of the town, fur an
experiment in tin mu intime, but, if a sum...Nl 0n.., then
a. a free gift to the molder the moilition being that the
younsor and onsmativelirinell, of the community show a
wails to "'joy on the spot in out-uf-dour and
manly •portoo.• -Grrework .I.lcurtist r.
risti A 111.10:i.tn.- John King alias (livers,
the notorieu. burglar who, on the 4th of May loot, broke
into the ilwillitio-haute of Mr. Thom. Clark, of Bridg-
water, Alio; thentrom a quantity of plate and other pro-
perty, has at length been npprvhyoiled. King was disco-
vered at work in a brickyard near Cardiff, where the police
proceeded to apprehend him, but as soon as King saw them
coining he immediately decamped, and a warm pursuit was
made alter him. Ile ran acmes the country for overly
eight miles, when, finding hi. pursuer. close at his heels,
ho• took to a river and swam a rimoiderahle itUtaiier, but
the hue and cry hail now iiirrea..l so much against bun
that he perverted his capture wax inevitable, and at laugth
sumoutend. TM. took place on Friday lest ; on Saturday
he was brought over from Cardiff, and 011 !Holiday was
timuolit up at the Town Hall for examination, and w.l.
re-
manded until Tuesday the 6th inst., when Collin" his
accomplice in the rubbery, will be brought down from the
Penitentiary in London, to appear against him. There is
every reawis to 1., Here that King has been concerned in
moat of the rohlariio which took place in this neighbour-
hood during the early part of last year.—Sioroutoe

TUI) M►:N Bran:!) At.ivv..—on Timmins. after-
non, a fatal and drewlful neciilent took place at ilhicking.
For mime week. pod, a man mimed Sutherland, a brick-
layer of that place. had been, with the amixtanee of some
labouring men, sinking a well in his yard. Ilut 1111111
they had .auk about 11• i feet, as might have been ex-
jaeted foam their want of knowledge of the art, and the
prevariotes nature• of the mil, they were obliged to abandon
the undertaking. A well sinker of considerable experience,
immix! Pile, living in Holt, was applied to: and, on Wed-
nesday morning, he, with his son and an amiatant, act
about the work. The man, who came from Plumatend, •
and l'ik the younger. went down the well to the depth of
AO fret, laying a scaffolding on some brick work that had
been improperly built. while Pile, the nia.ter, was at the
mouth of the well giving thi-nt orders and arranging things
above ; when, dreaillul to relate, the bricking faithsl
down, and orie aide of the mil gave way, bury ing both men
under ail feet of roil, anal lid feet from the surfact..—.Vor-
pa (Arming..
Iturru. AssAef:r.--At the Plymouth Police Court,
on Saturday, \Valiant Mobs, a base jockey, and a man of
known iti,reputable character. was remanded upon a charge
of a violent and brutal assault upon a horse keeper in the
employ of Miming Ward and ilex. It appears that while
l'atrieli Lyons wa. following his work in his masters' yard,
Moles came up and struck hint tir.t with his hands and feet,
and Own with a pitchfork, and beat him on severely that he
was obliged to b• removed to the Sonth ltevon and East
Cornwall llimpital, where he still remains in a preearinus
state ; at the latest information Saturday evening) he was
suffering from lockjaw. With a lively recollection of the
difficulty arising in the can of Mr. Brown Ambroec, in
connexion with whoa.• murder Timothy Barrington is now
undergoing aentenee of transportation for life, as soon as
they had knowledge of the circumstance,, the police in-
formed Mr. t 'oryndon, one of the rnagistratesof the borough,
who attended at the bedside of I.yons, in the hospital, on
W.-lin...day. and his stat.inent, upon oath, RBA taken down
by the magistrate's clerk in the presence of Moles who had
been taken in custody by the police. Moles is kept in
custody awaiting the crisis of Lyons' sufferings. Lyons is
an Irishman, and reputed to have been a quiet harmless
G•Il

Mtivirttouf ACCIDENT AT ATIL—An accident
of a most distressing nature occurred on Wednesday morn-
ing at Ayr, in connexion with the Circuit Court them. It
having been undelytood that the ease of two colliers, who
were accused of murder, was to come on, a gnat crowd was
collected round about the entrance to the court-house, cup
before the hour to which the court had, on the previous
night, adjourned, in order that they might, if possible, oh-
tam admission into the kali ; and for this purpose, we un-
derstand• some of the master colliers in that quarter had
granted a holiday to those in their employment, in order
that they might hear the trial of their fellow-workmen.
The gates by which entrance is had to the court house are
hung upon pillars, two of which stand alone on the pave-
ment, and the other two form the termination of a wall
which encircles the building. The space betwixt Owes pillars
isp occupied by two foisliag iron gates, one of which is hung
Tea th one pillar, sad he oten te oth so that
he twoe pillars whiek stant d alone i unp then centre '
have two
half gates attached to each. The two pillars in the centre
of lb. offtwida, mid also, we presume, those which form
the termiostioa of the wall, are built of granite, being
sheet I feet ammeter at the wee, and Si feet in height.
A large meted of poise, esspered thinly of colliers, and
of the lower padsof seamy. bed congregated before $
o'clock, 'ad by the time that *Week arrived, the crowd
was tremmasea wade the gates were seedeaed about
she or tea peliewsra to resist the taultitade ; and et 9
o'clock, whoa the pais were epos* the rue; to got is b y
the large maw wee wok thud their preens, epos Me of the
ousts ovecturned it, the bride. It hil ups as of the
pliereasa with web weight dist le wee Med ea the scot;
aad so the irou psis elaiteeled with itAd with it, ether two ma. whole wenn me Row,
Back. and Dimes MerdAllanterieui, teseivod easider-
aide *jurist —Oleeper ' Me&
CiLiadOW AND WINN mina RaLwAT.—At •
wspiel poke of this *maw. itsid ea Waits*, it
reedeed. fa coasequease of die rejsedea of the tdifer
emeadlur their borrowief powers, to delve the dot of
MAK gaited ea the dlertil of Jemmy IA, R1:174.11:
ham bees "SI In the Matilda and Ayr
breeches. as sail &skew ponhate, tad to peel&
far the Ambles Ciadde italead of he lap-
in et mikria