The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Scrr. 29.
THE LABOUR RATE ACT.
CORE.-11 tsr he .—The extraordinary presentm: nt ses-
sions were held on Saturday last at Ballyfeard. IV. It.
Meade, Esq., in the chair. The chairman estimated the
number of persons destitute of employment in the barony
at one in every fifteen ; the total population is about
20,000. The sum of 10,0001. was voted as sutli6eut to pro-
vide the required employment. Presentments to upwards
of 8,0001. were passed.
CITY or Coax.—The sum of 18,900/. has been presented
for works in the City of Cork.
DONEGAL.—Tvgnuon.—The extraordinary presentment
sessions were held in the town of Donegal on Saturday the
26th of September : Colonel Conolly, M. P., in •he chair.
20,0001. were apportioned for public works in the barony ;
but the business of presentment was only partly over at a
late hour, when the meeting adjourned till fuesday.—
Monday being the day for holding the adjourned sessions of
the neighbouring barony of Hanalei. A petition to the
Queen was adopted, praying that Parliament might he
called together "to deliberate as thoir wisdom and ex-
perience may suggest, with regard to such alteration of the
law as shall enable the government of this country to ex-
pend the advance of money upon agricultural, or oiher pro-
ductive works, and to rescue this people from the necessity
of expending their powers in works of a public nature,
farther than the actual wants of our country demand." An
opinion is oxpressed in the petition, that " by an alteration
of the application of the greater part of the labour under 8
and 9 Viet., cap. 107, and by allowing the same to he turned
to the improvement of the land, and to increasing its pro-
duativeness, the evil which we deprecate would be avoided,
and the happy result above-mentioned would bo produced."

POPULAR OUTRAGES.—The Cork Examiner of yesterday
contains accounts, the material portions of which I subjoin,
respecting the outbreaks of the people in loughal, at Crook-
haven, and at Castlemartyr :
Yoram% t.—" SATURDAT.—AII is quiet; business is re •
sumcd ; and I earnestly hope the eouatry people will not
prevent the corn from coming in here, as all our poor la-
bourers in the stores will be disemployed if the corn is not
allowed into the market.
SeNDAV.—I believe we have at length a paternal
government, who are determined, in this dreadful emer-
gency, to support our famishing people. While the Rev.
Mr. Leader was exhorting the people at last mass to keep
themselves quiet, and bear with patience this trial, news
arrived that Mr. John and Mr. Knaresboro—both of whom
have taken the greatest interest in the preservation of the
peace and procuring food and employment for the people—
accompanied by Mr. Benson, the county engi .eer, were in
the chapel-yard, and anxious to address the congregation,
When mass was over, the people assembled iu the yard in
front of the chapel. Mr. John addressed them and stated
the object of Mr. Benson's arrival, after which Mr. Benson
said that he was directed by his Excellency to come down
and give employment to the poor labourers at one shilling
per day ; and if they worked at task work they could earn
Is. 6d. He said that not one of them would be without em-
ployment—he would commence to-morrow morning. Such
glad intelligence was hailed by thousands; with thankfulness
and gratitude, and with prayers to that Divine Being, who,
though He chasteneth, still loves. They separated, joy and
happiness beaming from each poor man's countenance.
" CROORHAVEN.—Nothing could exceed the scene of
appalling misery exhibited here this morning by the desti-
tute of the labouring classes, who flocked in masses into the
village of Oolen. They came together to proclaim their dis-
trees as intolerable, and as having reached already the utmost
limits of endurance. They said they were living in many
instances for a lour time back on one had meal in the twenty-
four hours—that they were dropping of the hunger; and
that they might die themselves of want sooner than lay
hands on their neighbour's substance, but they could not
bear to see their little ones craving—crying for food, and not
a morsel to put into their mouths—that they were living
too long on hope, and that the Road Relief will come too
late as they will not be able to work. The catholic clergy-
men who were returning from stations addressed to them a
few words, assuring them no exertions were spared by the
gentlemen of the relief committee to smite known in the
proper quarter their distress, end that in order to its allevia-
tion, they would strive to get some roads opened at early as
possible. They listened to this latter announcement half-
grateful, half-grumbling. On the clergyman requesting of
them to struggle on a few days more, and disperse quietly,
they staggered in despair to their hungry homes.
CAIIITLEMARTYII, SATERDILY.—At ?resent all is tranquil :
the presence of the troops operates powerfully in preventing
outrage. In the account of what had occurred h-re on
Thursday last, published in this morning's Constitution, a
mischievous and ludicrous lie is told about the attack on
Lord Shannon'a residence in his absence, and the mighty
influence) of a J.l'., Thomas Bill, Esq.—the very reverse
being the fact. The writer of that article must have very
little Irish blood in his veins when he states that the mob
contemplated doing anything that could give the smallest
cause of alarm to Lady Shannon. On the contrary, when
one of the-crowd advised an attack on the house of Captain
P. Rose, of this town, he was rebuked by another, who said
they would be for ever disgraced had they done anything
that might possibly frighten Mn. Rose. Such arc the facts.
It is had enough that our poor people are starving; but it is
heartless conduct to calumniate the poor creatures, particu-
larly when they don't deserve it. May God forgive him.
THE RIGF.T SIZE. OF FARNIII.—" The landlords," says
writer in an Irish agricultural journal, " are not sufficiently
careful in proportioning the quantity of land to the capacity
of the farmer, or would-be farmer. In England, a man who
would do well, takes an acre of ground for every ten pounds
he has in his pocket. In Ireland, with not sufficient capital
to open a huster's shop, a man will venture on any quantity
of land ; and, as landlords have somewhere heard that the
large farmers elsewhere have more intelligence, and are
doing better than small ones, in their quick-witted heads,
they have set about increasing the farms, expecting that
capital and intellect would necessarily multiply with the
acres, Thus, we find a man holding twenty acres, who
really has not capital for five, nor, perhaps, two; and thus
we also find farmers complaining that they cannot pay their
labourers more than eightpence or tenpence a-clay. 'lf
landlords would carefully proportion the number of acres-to
the calibre of head and purse of the tecant, we should not
have so many complaints of high rents, nor ill-paid
labourers."

DEALINGS WITH HVCESTERS.—The. country markets in
Ireland are nearly aft •fretreatNl by hucksters, echo make a
Jiving chiefly by purchasing meat wholesale from the far-
-crs, end retailing it immecliat,ly, rod often in the very
same ..-arket. One of these hucksters, a few days ago, at u
small market in the county of Longford, purchased a ton of
slimed in the morning, inside the market-house, at IL per

ewt., ar.d retailed it iu half the day at 2a. 10d. per stone,
thus making 21. 13s. 44. profit. It is to be observed that
one huckster does thisinthr course of half a day. A correspn-
dent from Lmigford says that there are no less titan five
hucksters who, to his own knowledge, attend this same
market.
Courirr CLARE.—The Clare; Journal announces that
the Marquis of 'f homond has given his assent to the plan for
the drainage of the river Fergus. The immediate assent of
Syr Lucius O'Brien may be relied on; his absence from the
country alone prevents ita announcement. The following,
I from the same paper, bean ample testimony of the anxiety
of the poor people to obtain employment and their gratitude
at being gives "leave to toil :"—" On Monday night last,
the village of Ballyvaughaa was brilliantly illuminated, as a
mark of respect to Mr. Pratt, the government engineer, on
his return to that town to recommernx the public work, .
Barren. The poor of the town and neighbourhood assembled
in the streets, and m; sic and dancing were kept up till slate
hour, when tto crowds separated, after giving three hearty
cheers for Mr. Pratt, and expressing their confidence in the
measures taken for their relief."
SCOTLAND.
THE DEITIT OP A SCOTTISH RHYMESTER iS recorded at
some length in the Glasgow papers. Ills name was Alexan-
der 'Rodger, and it appears that one of his songs—" Behave
yerst before folk"—had the honour of quotation in the
.Voctes of ktlackwo..l ; whilst another--" Sawney, now the
King's come"—(a satire of much cleverness and great pun- i
gency, written on the visit paid by George IV. to Scotland
in 1822) appeared first in the London Examiner, and reached
Edinburgh almost simultaneously with the publication of Sir
Walter Scott's Welestne, entitled "Carle, now the King's
come." The coincidence (says tho Glasgow Herald), and the
similarity of the measure were remarkable, and specula-
tion was rife as to who the man could be who dared to write
se boldly and bitterly at a time of national enthusiasm.
Certain it is, it cawed much annoyance to the kind-hearted
Minstrel of the North, with whom loyalty amounted almost
to a feeling of devotion.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCABI.4I6.B.
THE COBDEN FUND was stated on Tuesday at Manchester
to amount to 71,0001. It was said that the London collection
was going on favourably, and it was expected would reach
15,0001; the collection in Manchester proper amounted to
28,0001. Mr. Evans asked if it were considered desirable to
fix a day when the subscription should close. Mr. Wilson
said the question had been often discussed, but it was impos-
sible to c mtemplate the close till fuller reports were received
from the Lancashire towns. Mr. Evans thought that perhaps
parties would exert themselves more, if a time were fixed.
The Chairman said they could not fix a time for the close of
the subscriptions only as far as that committee itself was con-
cerned. Mr. Nodal then reported that the sum received
through the street canvass in small sums during the past
week was 04/. 13+. Gd., which, with 101. paid into the bank,
make 1041. 13s. Gd. The total amount received from this
source was 589/. 9s. 7d. ; promises, 1671. 10s.- total,
7561. 19s. 7d. He said that only the principal streets
had been canvassed as yet, but that a more general
canvass was about to be commenced. As far as the subscrip-
tions had gone, many suuwribers to the Liugue had given a
much larger sum to the Cobden tribute than to the League
fund. The Secretary was then requested to write to the
different villages aroand this neighbourhoo t, requesting them
to complete the caucus as soon as possible.
THE MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION had a
meeting on Monday, to consider the salt monopoly in India,
and in an interview with D. C. Aylwin, Esq., investigated
the injurious nature of existing arrangements. The further
consideration of the subject wa_umtpont d.
MANSLAUGHTER AT THE WALTON RAILWAY TUNNEL.
—On Tuesday, an inquest was held on view of the body of
0. Lockley, who met his death from an injury received
under the following circumstances at the Walton Railway
tunnel.—R. Cain deposed that he was a labourer living at
Church-field, Bootle. lie worked at the new tunnel in
course of formation for the Liverpool and Bury Railway
Company at Walton. The deceased, who was about nine-
teen or twenty years old, worked along with him. On
Thursday, the 9th of July last, the deceased, witness, and
three others, got into a square wooden box, called a skip,
which is drawn up by a steam-engine through a shalt,
for the purpose of going to their dinners. When they
had reached the top of the shaft, tho engine-driver,
W. Hornby, could see them, and it was then his duty
to stop the engine ; and when the skip rose above the
top of the shalt, there was a table, or arch, composed
of wood, which was let down, and the skip being lowered
upon the table, the persons in it were thus enabled to
alight in safety. The engine-driver, however, instead of
stopping the engine at the proper time, drew the skip
up to the pulley, and in so doing the deceased and two
others fell out of it on the ground. The deceased was
rendered insensible from the full, and bled profusely from
a cut at the back of his head. Ile was immediately re-
matted to the Northern Hospital. On reaching the top of
the shaft, they called out for the engine to be stopped, but
no attention was paid to them. The engine was about 100
yards from the mouth of tke shall, but there was an open
place for the engine-driver to look out of and see when the
skip reached the surface ; and it was his duty to have looked.
Witness did not notice the engine-driver at all on reaching
the top of the shaft ; and in consequence of his inattention
the skip was carried fourteen feet higher than it should have
been.—E. Williams, a sub-contractor for a part of the tunnel
at Walton, said he considered there was great neglect on the
part of the engine-driver in not stopping the engine at the
proper time, and that had he been attending to his duty the
occurrence would not have happened.—A. Richmond, the
fireman employed at the engine, said it took about two
minutes to draw the skip up the shalt, and that when the
engine had been set in motion on the day in question, the
engine-driver went out of the way.—lt appeared from the
urgical testimony that the deceased died on Sunday lust.
When first admitted at the Northern Hospital, he had a
compound fracture of the skull. Upon a post-mortem exa-
mination it was found that the left lung had been ruptured,
and that was the cause of death.—The jury found a verdict
of " manslaughter " against W. Hornby, the engine-driver,
who, shortly after the accident, absconded, and has not since
I been heard of.
OXFORDSHIRE.
VALUE OF LAND AT OXFORD.—The Rugby Railway Com-
pany have purchased of the freemen of the city of Oxford,
four acres and twenty-six po'es of a portion of Port
Meadow (and the very worst par; of it) for the sumof 1,2841.
The money has been paid, and will be invested in the hands
of the trustees of Nixon's School Charity, for the batter edu-
cation of the sons of freer:a.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
Tire GAME L tws.—At the Buckingham Petty Sessions,
Joseph Holton and Charles Petty, two agricultural labourers
of Tingewick, were charged by George Beale, one of the
Duke of Buckingham's lookers-out, with having, on the
19tn September, at Rudelive, taken up snares for game.
Beale said he saw l'etty take up four, and Holton one wire'
from a hedge. The men denied the charge, and declared
they did not touch a wire. They said they went into the
field to get mushrooms, that Beale had sworn falsely, that
he had attempted to entrap them, and that he would not
mind getting any poor man from his Lome. The magis-
trates considered the charge proved, but, as it appeared the
defendants were not bad characters, they were ordered to
pay I ts. each, or to be imprisoned for 14 days. They soli-
cited time to pay in, and were allowed 14 days.
ESSEX.
THE DAGENHAM MURDEIt.—At the end of last week
it will be recollected the government offered a reward
of 1001. for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers
of the constable at Dagenham ; it was also stated that the
Commissioners of Police intended to add 4001. more, making
in the whole 500/. Yesterday being general pay-day at all
the police statism, the various superintendents had orders to
prepare subscription sheets, to be signed by the men when
they attended to receive their pay. The inspectors and
serpents were expected to sign far half-a-crown each, and
the constables one shilling, which sum, when collected, will
be sufficient to make up the four hundred pounds. The
money will, however, not be received from the men until
the apprehension and conviction of the murderer or mur-
derers, when it will be stopped out of the constables' pay.
The above has created much dissatisfaction among the men,
as they are of opinion that the reward ought to be taken
from the Police Fund, which is very rich, and not from the
pockets of the constables, who are not overpaid for their
duties.
THE PotsostNos.—The child of Lydia Taylor, for
attempting to poison which Mrs. Cheohain was committed to
Chelmsford gaol, having died on Sunday, an inquest was
yesterday held on the body by Mr. Lewis, at the Cock-inn,
Manewden, near Newport. The evidence was much the same
as that on which Mrs. Chesham was committed to take her
trial for the attempt to poison the child. The mother dis-
tinctly swore to three or more several attempts on the part
of Mrs. Chesham to tamper with tne child. She also
deposed that Mr. T. Newport, the father of the child, made
a proposition to her, before she left her mother's service, to
take some stuff to produce miscarriage, which she refused.
The surgeon proved that the child died from inflammation,
but from what cause that arose he could not say. To have
the contents of the stomach analysed the inquest was
adjourned for a fortnight,
KENT.
EARLY CLOSING.—In consequence of a requisition ad-
dressed to the Mayor of Rochester, a public meeting of the
inhabitants of that town was held on Tuesday evening, in
the Guildhall, to consider and adopt the best means of carry-
ing out the plan of early closing. Various suitable resolu-
tions were agreed to.
CoIIONER'S INQUEST.— A PRIVATE INTERMENT.—
Yesterday an adjourned inquest was held at the union
workhouse, Dartford, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner
for West Kent, to inquire into the death of an infant
named Frederick Talbot Fooks, the son of Mr. William
Craycroft Fooks, barrister, of Chancery-lane, and of Bow-
man House, near Dartford. The inquiry arose out of the
following circumstances:—On 11th instant, Mr. Fooks went
to Nunhead Cemetery, and wanted to have a child buried.
On the officiating minister asking for the usual certificate of
death, Mr. Fooks stated that he had not got one. The
burial wax then refused. On that occasion he stated that he
lived in Kent. On the subsequent day Mr. Fooks called at the
..7emetary Office, at Blackfriars, and there paid 7s. 6d. for
fees, giving his name, but describing his residence as of
Lonsdale-square, Islington. The body not having hewn
taken to the cemetery for interment, according to the ap-
pointment (4 o'clock on the Thursday, 3rd September),
suspicions arose, and a communication was made to the
police authorities, who directed an inquiry to be instituted,
a Lich resulted on the finding of the body in the garden
attached to Mr. Fookes country resideace, near Dartford.
The police communicated with the cornier, who then aunt-
moued a jury and held the inquest. The nurse who bad
attended Mrs. looks, Dr. Golding Bird who had prescribed
for Mrs. fools 4 arid Ow child, and Dr. Leann, chemical
lecturer at St. Thomas's, were the chief witnesses ex-
amined. Front their evidence :it risu:ted that Mrs. looks
was confined on August Ist, and that rile was not in a good
state of health. For a few days she suckled the infant,