The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Barr. 28.
At 8 o'cicck yesterday evening the Countess of
Clarendon was safely delivered of a son. This morn-
ing the following bulletin was issued :
Her excellency passed a good night, and is going on as wel
u possible. The infant is quite well.
At a later period of the day it was ascertained that
the noble countess and her infant were going on most
favourably.
The Venerable Mr. Trulock, Archdeacon of Kil-
lala, died on Sunday last, after a few hours' illness, at
the rectory in Skreen, in the 51st year of his age.
The deceased had taken an active part in alleviating
the sufferings of the poor during the last calamitous
winter, and his letters in the public journals, descrip-
tive of the frightful condition of the district where he
resided, attracted considerable attention at the time of
their publication. His death is greatly lamented by
all classes in his neighbourhood.
The Kinvarra relief committee have published their
final report. The district includes a portion of Clam
and Galway counties. The number of rations distri-
buted was 786,898, and the daily average was 5,120
rations for adults. The greatest fortnightly average
of rations was 7,478, being for the middle period of
July. The average cost of a ration, including ex-
, pease', was lid. The whcle amount expended in
temporary relief was 5,534/. 16s. 2d.
The Cork relief committee have published their ac-
counts also. Their expenditure in the city of Cork
was 4,8841. 50., and they gave daily rations to 8,500
individuals. The expenditure on coffins was
3431. 1 le. 4d., which, at the rate paid for each, indi-
cate 2,600 deaths, independent of those in the work-
houses, or amongst those whose friends defrayed their
burial expenses.

IMPORTANT LETTER OF TILE LORD
LIEUTENANT.
The following correspondence between the Lord Lieute-
nant end the Duke of Leinster, respecting the next year's
crops, was published in the Dublin Evening Poet this
afternoon :

" Pine:lit-park, Sept. 23, 1847.—My Lord Doke: Feel-
ing the deepest anxiety fur the objects of the Royal Agricul-
tural Improvement Society, in which I have been honoured
with the office of vice-patron, and knowing the interest takda
by your grace in all measures for practicably ameliorating
the condition of Ireland, as well as the zeal with which you
have laboured in promoting agricultural knowledge, I am
induced to suggest for your consideration an arrangement,
by which I believe very considerable good may be effected,
and valuable assistance given to the farming classes at the
present time. I think it most useful to address your grace in
your capacity of president of the Royal Agricultural Society,
as 1 believe it is through the numerous branches of that most
useful institution that the agricultural classes can best be
reached, and as I consider the mesas of bettering the condi-
tion of the Irish people must, for a long time, at least, be
looked for in the improvement of the processes adopted in
the cultivation of the soil. Between the termination of the
harvest works of the present season and the commeesoment
of the operations for the ensuing spring there will intervene a
period which, although in a proper course of husbandry fully
occupied by its peculiar and important labours, may be coast-
dered as agriculture is carried on,at least in the remoter parts
et I reland, to be of comparative inactivity; and I believe that
advantage might be taken of the leisure which the forming
classes will then have, to supply them, to a certain extent,
with sound practical instruction as to the great and well
established principles upon which their operations should be
based, and the means by which, in the milling anima they
may be enabled to raise upon their farms the greatest pos-
sible quantity of food, and thus obtain for themselves increased
pecuniary profit, and secure the state from • recurrence
of the great calamities through which wo have just passed.
With this eldest I would suggest to your grace that a num-
ber of perms should be selected, possessing sound prac-
tical knowledge of the 1110114 improved systems of agricul-
ture applicable ltssl sil, and of such general education as
may enable tleatS emsannicate that information orally in
• natisfactary mesas, and that those persons should be em-
ployed_ to whoa tends a circuit through a certain district of
Ireland,
to eroeltc=r grace rosy decide upon, and to deliver
lectures on agriculture the farming population.
For those oda • mall number of lectures in each locality
would stales. Your grace may possibly consider that three
lectures, devoted respectively to the demonstration of the
advantages-Ist, of draining and sasoifing ; 2d, of rotations
and of green cropping ; 3d, of economy of manures and house
feeding, should embody most of the information of which the
farmers could, under present circumstances, practically make
use. Your grace will, probably, agree with me that it would
be highly important that those lectures should not be con-
ceived or delivered in an abstract or purely scientific style
unsuited to the habits of thought and state of education ,
of the agricultural cleat's; they should be couched in 1
clear but simple language, and might, in some cues,
be usefully illustrated by practical demonstrations. In
the delivery of three such lectures, your grace will, pro-
bably, find that a week may be usefully occupied; and,
as each lecturer can embrace in his circuit about eight Ices-
lities, his journey may be considered se likely to occemy 1
eight weeks of that dead season of the year. In the arrange-
ments of inch details as you may consider proper to carry
out the object of this communication, your grace will, I
am sure, be fully aided by the council of the Agricultural
Society ; and in the selection of the lecturers required,
your grace will probably derive assistance from the co- '
operation of Sir Robert Kane, whom I have made aware 1
of my wishes on the subject. The number of lectures to be
delivered, and of localities to be visited, as well as their
geographical distribution,will of course be decided on by your
grace, according to your accurate knowledge of the &cum-
stenos and the wants of those localities in this respect. It is to
those remoter districts, where cultivation is imperfect—where
the mind of the farmer is depressed—that our efforts should
be specially directed, to assist him, by explaining to him the
means of his own advancement, which really he within his
reach, and teaching him the modes by which alone they can be
made available. On such grounds I rather think that the pecu-
liarly favourable circumstances under which the province of
Ulster has been so loss placed,. and the resulting superiority
in agriculture which characterises it, removes ti, in a great
degree, from the circle of our present objects ; and similarly,
it la probable that your Grace will consider the province of
Leinster as being generally so far advanced in agriculture as
net to require at the present time this peculiar form of assist-
ance. It a, therefore, specially to the province of Connaught
mad Munster Olga eel altoolieet sty be directed, and in
those districts the fat the delivery of lectures
maybe aillOted II MOM : " Whenever • terming society ex-
ists, be essamittee et it may, is conjunction with
the proprietors, snoop a place of meet.
ing, notice as may secure a satisfactory atten-
dance Mao Omen athe surrounding country, and it should
be a peculiar admin. of those local farming societicsin con-
nexion with your until institution, that, arter or between the
lectures there misktbe dimussitute or explanations of the mat •
tees lectured upon, which ahould render more definite and satis-
factory the information given by the lecturer. In those
places where no farming society exists, and where, for
that very reason, the beessity for supplying instruction in
agriculture is motor, the local gentry, who, I should hope,
would all aides* mill la promoting the public good, might
arrange • pion of ,autos le the school-house—they might
give notice to their tamatry--advise and explain to them the
value they may derive from attending inch instructions.
The selection of places should naturally rest with your grace
and the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society ; and
I would only recommend the principle, that, on the present
occasion, it in not to those places that already possessing
some knowledge, ardently wish for more, that we should
direct our efforts, but rather to those less favoured districts
where even that imperfect knowledge has not yet made its
way. For carrying out those objects there will of course be
funds required ; and I believe that for so much as may safely
be undertaken on the present occasion the sum of 3081. will
be required. I am aware that the Agricultural Society pos.
amass no hinds applicable to this purpose, and unfortunrtely
in the present condition of the public revenue it would be
vain to look to the government for any grant. Further,
it will be indispensable, in order to open the benefits
of those lectures to all classes of farmers, that admission
to them should be perfectly gratuitous. I cannot, however,
believe, that for carrying out so important and so beneficial
an object as diffusing that agricultural knowledge upon
which the very safety of the country now depends, the noble-
men and gentlemen who, under your Grace's presidency,
have already done so much, would hesitate is give them
pecuniary assistance. I shall with pleasure myself contri- '
bute the sum of 501., which I shall place in your hands, pro-
vided the residue be made up by your Grace and others, and
applied to the purposes that I have suggested in this CJIII-
- Your Grace will, I am sure, fully concur
with me in the importance of considering these sugges-
tions as noon as possible. The period for executing
them will rapidly pass by, and should we not
exert ourselves, we may lose for another year the valu-
able Opportunity of contributing by this means to
increase the comfort and promote the happiness of our

people.—l have the honour to be, my, Lord Duke, your
obedient servant, (Signed) CLAIM/WON.'
We now subjoin the reply of the Duke of Leinster
"Carton, Maynooth, Sept. 25, 1847.
"My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving your Ex.
oellency's letter of the 23rd September this day, which I will
forward to the council of the Royal Agricultural Improve-
ment Society of Ireland, and request of them to take it into
their consideration. I will subscribe 501. towards the very
desirable object your Excellency hu in view.—l have the
honour to be, your obedient humble servant, (Signed)
LEIN,ATEL—fIis Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, &c. &c."