The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Drain% Sart. 1.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have lately
bustaitie d a domestic bereavement by the death sit
their infant son, who died a few days since at um
Grove, near Watford.
On Saturday a very interesting fete was given by
the directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway,
on Killiney-hill, to the children of the regimental
schools of Dublin garrison, and other schools of this
city. The guests of the company numbered about
I,alo, among them being between four and five ha.
dred non-commissioned officers and privates. Hat
a dozen military bands were in attendance, and vent
numbers of persons from the city and surrounding
country were attracted to the interesting seam
Amongst those present were one of the Lord heft%
Lieutenant-General Sir E. Illakeney,
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Right Hat. Lord Gough, the Right Hon. _.r W.
Somerville, Colonel Sir Duncan M•Grcgor, the Hon.
Lieutenant-Colonel M.Donald, and a number of other
military gentlemen.
Sir lt•rlerick Murchison, geologist, has arrived
from Connemara, on a visit to the Earl and Countess
of Rosso, at the Castle, Pursonstown.
There are several candidates for the Professorship
of Law in the Queen's College, Cork, vacant by the
death of Professor Walsh. Messrs. J. Barry, J.
O'ilea, J.E. Herrick, and some members of the
English bar, have been named.
Jelin Rawson, Esq., an English merchant engaged
in the establishment of a wine trade between Gal-
way and Spain, arrived at Galway last week, and
had consultations with the col' actor of customs, John
R. Richardson, Esq., P. M. Lynch, Esq., and several
other merchants of the town, upon the subject of his
mission.

A meeting of the friends of the Peace Congress
was held in Cork on Thursday, for the purpose of
hearing the Rev. Mr. Burnett, of London, explain
' the principles of that association.
Kamera (says tho Limerick Chronich) have ac-
tively resumed their harvest work in this and the
adjoining counties, which had been partially inter-
rupted by heavy rains, especially on Vi ednmtLy last.
Since that period a considerable breadth of corn has
fallen under the sickle, and been stooked in good
condition. The wheat is a good crop in general,
and the oats is very large and productive. There is
a good deal of heavy grass yet outstanding in the
meadows, and it will take another mouth before all
the cereal crops are safe in haggard. Potatoes are
coining in more abundantly every day, and the pro-
duce, though very partially blighted, will, beyond
any doubt, fur exceed in quantity any similar crop
in Ireland for the last five years. In potato market
this day 110 loads potatoes sold fri..m 3d. to 4ld.
per stone, and from 3d. to 6d. per bucket. Only one
load slightly diseased. Notwithstanding the high
winds which have prevailed the last few days, no
damage has befallen the standing crops, and the
harvest work is progressing with vigour and ac-
tivity.
A Meath gentleman, who is a deputy-lieutenant,
and extensive landed proprietor, states in a letter to
Saundtrs's News Letter, that after an attentiveexami.
nation, there is not, as fur as he can ascertain, any
ground for alarm about the potato crop. He says
that in places where every vestige of the haulms
had decayed, an abundant crop of perfectly sound
potatoes was still to be found.
The Limerick Chronicle says:—lt is true that in
many parts of the south and west of Ireland the
extra labourers employed at harvest work have not
a roof to cover them at night, so many cabins having
been levelled under the eviction system. The har-
vest labourers about Clonmel arc receiving ls. Bd.
per day with, and 2s. 2d. per day without diet.
The same journal states that a very successful ex-
periment of sowing the eyes of' the potatoes, and
also the potato itself deprived of the eyes, as they are
termed, has been made by the Very Rev. the Dean
of Kilmacduagh, a very good crop being thus pro-
duced. If this plan should be generally successful,
it would bo highly advantageous to the poor who
might consume their entire crop of potatoes, re-
serving only those small portions for seed. In
Invemgh the blight in the stalk has produced disease
in the tuber; but in no case equal to that of former
years. to the Tralee and Killarney unions the
prospects of the potato are must encouraging.
The Waterford Chronicle, on the other hand, has
the following on the subject :

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We have deemed it to be our duty to take eonsiderable
pains, within the past week, to ascertain, so far as we poe.
sibly could, the exact condition of the potato crop in this
district. We can affirm this of the counties adjoining, for
• circuit of twenty miles round Waterford, there is
fully thirty per cent. of the crop at present diseased;
and should it; progrev as it has done for the past few
days, we may moil expect it to be fifty per cent.,
if not more. We are no alarmists—we state simply the
fact. We have noticed a citcumstance, in connection with
the disease of the present
.year, which is rather curious.
The crop around the coast is 'try much worse than that we
have observed inland ; still, we regret to add, that although
it has appeared in the former at an earlier period, it is fast
advancing in the latter. Many fields which were green •
week past now present all the fatal symptoms of decay.