The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Drntax, MkECK 28.
Many here are moat anxious to learn who is to be
Mr. Twisleton's successor. Whoever be the new
official, be will have no bed of roses, and may, after
a little while, expect to be treated much like his pre-
decessor. There is a general feeling that an Irish-
man of proved talents and known character, with
official aptitude, should be nominated. In its present
crisis, personal knowledge of the country is almost
absolutely necessary to any high official under the
poor-law system.
The furniture of Conciliation-hall was auctioned off
yesterday, and the goods sold fetched high prices. The
words " Goinz--gong—gone," sounded strangely in
many ears there ; and the last word describes " re-
peal" in this country. Never was any subject so
gone.

Tun PRACTICAL Istaviincron Branca.—This favourite
project is now in full and active operation. Thanks to the
Indefatigable exertion of the council, combined with the
cordial and active co-operation of the local committees formed
for the purpose, then are no less than tweaty.seven of these
truly useful men quartered and at full work in the different
districts ; and it is to be hoped that the number will be in-
craned to thirty before the end of the month. Instructors
have also been lint to the following additional districts
gratuitously, where the necessary local committees were
ionised to superintend and direct their movements, viz.:—
Kenmore (North), co. Kerry; Cahirciveen, co. Kerry;
Galway (West) ; B.llinrobe, Co. Mayo; Swinford Union,
co. Mayo; Scariff Union, co. Clue. Arrangements are also
in progress to send instructors to Dingle, Tr.lee, Kilmallock,
Macroom, and other locslities, which are making the neces-
sary exertions to secure them. Some of their addi Tonal re-
ports we understand give a melancholy_acoount of the real
state of things in the south and wait. They ell agree, bow
ever, that little or no actual reaction has been as yet created
in these remote and neglected districts; and that the poor
ignorant creatures are bent more than ever en manuring
their stubble. for grain crepe, and cultivating their treacher-
ous old friend, the potato. It is almost hopeless to be deal-
ing with such icfatnoted beings as these, who, in addition to
these fatal propensities, have neither weds to sow green crops,
capital or machinery to work them, nor stock to consume
them In a profitable and proper manner. While our gentry
and rulers are squabbling upon abstract and useless points of
economy, and wasting their time and energies in seniless
demonstrations and divides, the real interests of the country
are forgotten, and the proper cultivation and improvement
of the land itself neglected.—/risA Farmers' Gazette.

EDINBURGH, MARCH 27.
A public meeting was held in Glasgow to day, the
Lord Provost presiding, for the purpose of petitioning
in favour of some amendment of the Poor Lsw Act,
but until the HOMO of Lords disposes of the appeal/
cases before them it is not likely that movements of
this kind will be attended with any practical benefit.
The question of Irish immigration, however, is one
which might be considered and legislated on sepa-
rately from relief to the able-bodied unemployed.
The Lord Advocate's Marriage and Registration
Bills are now being assailed on all bands. The esta-
blished church courts are, as formerly, adverse
to all kinds of marriages except those celebrated by
clergymen—the old dissenters regard the measures as
expensive and centralising—while the free church
party condemn the monopoly of registrarship conferred
on the parochial schoolmasters. The finance reformers
suggest rather pertinently that the sinecure
salary
of 1,5001., enjoyed by Lord Dalhousie as Lord gig
Register, should be thrown into the fund for defray-
ing the expense of the proposed registration ; and, in
short, all parties are contributing their mite of ob-
struction to two measures which intelligent and im-
partial people must ace are very much needed, how-

erer they m..y be mewed by crrors in detail. Toe
most cmtrudwary s'n'ements Sr. abroad as to the
exper.se of the proposed reAistrefoa. lhe Lord Ad-
vocat• enimates it at 10,000/.; the clergy at
100,000/.; the free church calculates that each regis-
trar will eost 50/. to 100 i. while the schoolma,tars
consider that 10!. will be On maximum.

Dr. likiener, the Pr:mus of the Scotch Ep'scopel
Church, bag got into a new difficulty. Aocoeding to
the Aberdeen papers a young divine, who recently
received a presentation to St. Andrew's Chapel of
that city, has been adhering to lineation observances
to a greater extent than is agreeable in the north,
and having declined the modifications suggested by
the bishop, the latter refuted to induct, whereupon
the Enseyite presbyter, in imitation a nis evangel-icy/
brother; tier William Danaar, has threatened ro.murse
to the civil power. Ire this ome the bishop lays-
°riving more sympathy then in the other ht.gation
ROW before the Hones of Peers.
In Edinburgh church affairs continue to receive
their usual share of uttent:on. The Anti-Annuity-
Tax Davie having heard of severe proefeutions
being instituted spinet defaulters have issued a
manifesto inviting parties to detail their grievances to
them, no doubt wish a view to inquiry and exposure.
Subscrip:ions have been commenced simultaneously
in Glasgow and Edinburgh, to raise a monument to
the Scotch poet Motherwell, and it is probable,
therefore, that this object will be effected without
much delay.
Cholera has disappeared in Edinburgh and Glw-
gow, bat has commenced in Campbelton, near Fort
George, under circumstances which strengthen the
theory of contagion. The clothes of a woman who
bad died of the disease in Glasgow had been sent in
a box to Campbelte n, and on being taken out and
washed, two men, a father and son, who were at band
when the process was going on, became ill and died,
both having exhibited the customary ebotera symp-
toms. In Edinburgh the standard of health is high,
as will be seen from a comparison of the deaths re-
corded in the newspapers in the first two months of
the years 1847, 1848, 1849, which individually were
145, 132, and 121. This is a rough method of e.ti-
mating results, bat in the absence of vital statistics
the data are of some value.
A public meeting is to be held on an early day in
Edinburgh for the purports of prooanng suitable
house accommodation for the working classes. A
=man punt at one of the preliminary meetings
that he bad been furnished with a design by
an architect, by which forty-eight houses could he
erected oa an acre of ground, each having a separate
entrance, with kitchen, bedroom, scullery, and
pantry, and separate bleaching greens for every low
II *Millet, the rent for each house being five pounds.
It is probable that some joint-stock companies will be
started to Carry acme such improvements into effect,
and there can be no question that if the movement be
earnestly carried out, a powerful arrest will be laid on
the progress of disease and crime in the old teen of
Edinburgh, which, as at prewnt constituted, is a dis-
grace to roam n

FAIIIIIIII WHO DOleT rasa Pa= TILADI.--Tho farm
of Gresalleld, the property of A. Suter, Eq., of Docabolei,
lately advertised, wee let ea Tuesday last, says the Ayr Ad-
vertiser, ea • 'theta= yeses' lease after Martinmas next.
The want is &boat 87 arable &stab aeres of fine land oath*
banks of the river Does, user to Burn's Mosonsent. It
was during last loath let at • grain rent of three sad • hall
balk per sae, averaging about foe:places in money. Pros
an appearances the Lenin in this quarter do not mom to
partake of say alarm as to the Wefts of free trade being
injurious to farming, as the new leas* has been taken up at
81. 6e. per acre. There was considerable competition for the
land.