The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1847.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 6.
In the present agitated and confused state of Ire-
land, good sense and sage counsel come from very un-
expected quarters. At a meeting of all having pro-
perty in the electoral division of Fora, in the union of
Old Castle, of whom the chief is the Marquis of West-
Leath, some sensible resolutions were unanimously
adopted. The electoral division, it seems, contains
14,064 statute acres, with a valuation of less than
9,0001. Three labourers being considered as the pro-
portion of every occupier of one hundred acres, and
the probable number of able-bodied entitled
to relief having to be taken from 170 families, it was
proposed and agreed on that the proprietors and
farmers holding '2O acres and upwards should employ
in the above-mentioned proportion during the
ensuing winter and spring; and inasmuch as this
labour will be cast on the tenant-farmers when their
means of payment in money wages are much reduced,
the landlords agreed to employ one-third of the whole
able-bodied labour. The machinery consists of the
relief committee, who are to form a standing body to
give effect to the resolutions. A book and register
are also to be kept, in which will be entered the
names of all the labourers, the employers, and the
number which each proprietor ought to employ
within the meaning of the resolutions. Another
lord comes forward with opportune advice. At a late
meeting of the DungannonAgricultural Society Lord
Dungannon, as president, rethe assembled landlords
and ratepayers a homely but beneficial lecture, though
there are some statements which savour strongly of
absurdity. He recommended all to obey the law and
the commissioners in the execution of the law—to
look to the condition of the labouring poor, who were
in an awful state of destitution, and to provide
for them, by some means or other, "constant
employment and money wages." The good contained
in his lordship's advice disarms our criticism on the
indifferent or bad, such as that the chief weight of
employment must rest with the farmers instead of the
landlords. The course pursued at Fora is the true
one: wherever practicable let each take his fair pro-
portion.
The question of out-door relief is a sore puzzle to
the local gentry. The slowness with which the
boards act under the law is to be ascribed less to
reluctance than ignorance or fear. While, however,
they are deliberating, the multitudes are beginning to
roar around the workhouses. The most remarkable
of our guardians are tke Bantry—they meet very
often, and speak very long, but that is all as yet.
Speculation finds more favour there than practice.
At their last meeting it was suggested that work-
houses should be converted into reproductive institu-
tions, by increasing the quantity of land attached to
them. The results of this change, which occupied
the attention of former governments, and was
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Ths executive have read another lecture to the
gentry, in replying to a communication from Sir
Lamas O'Brien, M.P, for Clare. That gentleman re-
cently wrote to the Irish government, transmitting
" a petition " which the labourers of Clare and New-
market had presented to himself, asking for assistance
in their destitution. Sir W. Somerville, in conveying
the reply of the government, says, "liia excellency
regrets much to learn that at this early period, so
soon after the collection of an abundant harvest, com-
plaints should be made by the labouring classes that
they are suffering from want in the midst of the
abundan.,i which surrounds them;" and the chief
secretary intimates that it seems to his excellency
" they must be permitted to gain a livelihood by em-
ployment, or be supported out of the rates." The
Lord Lieutenant perceives that there mast be a
"struggle "in this country in its difficulties, and will
be prepared to lend his aid in overcoming it; but,
says the chief secretary, "it is impossible that the
difficulties which surround us can be suocesefully met
without a combined effort on the part of ail ; and he
traits that by a gentleman who, like yourself, poe-
tesses a just influence in the country, an example will
be set which will be extensively and beneficially
followed."

Ats Meeting of the town council of Cork held on
Monday, some statistics of the corn, butter, and prct.
vision trades of that city were referred to, which must
at the present moment be of interest. Returns of the
quantities of those commodities have been made up to
the 29th Sept. in each. year, from 1841 inclusive, and
show these results :-1841. Batter in firkins, 224,507 ;
corn in barrels, 435,240. (The return for 1842 is
not stated.) In 1843. Butter, 280,907 ; corn, 424,337.
1844. Butter, 279,876; corn, 373,754. 1845. Butter,
257,962; corn, 370,442. 1846. Butter, 433,647;
corn, 433,647. 1847. Butter, 249,239; corn, 319,399.
This return was accompanied by one showing the
quantities of pigs exported. From August, 1844, to
August, 1845, there were exported 73,308; from
August, 1845, to August, 1846, the amount was
78,224 ; but from 1846 to August of this year,
the total exported was 19,510 ; being a decrease
of nearly sixty thousand. There was, however,
an increased export of cows and sheep. The
number of cows exported from August, 1844, to
August, 1845, was 5,401 ; during the same period to
August, 1846, there were 6,050; and to August, 1847,
there were 17,532. The sheep exported from August,
1844, to August, 1845, were 48,744; to Auger, 1846,
there were 20,750; to August, 1847, there were
88,010. The number of carves during the same
periods were 263, 248, and 204.
In the county of Cork the applieettte to the drain-
age commissioners are as yet only thirteen, and the
total amount of the sums applied for about 14,2001.
a very small sum, when we consider the extent and
population of the county, and the heaviness of the
claims which this apathy or neglect is certain to
entail on property.

STATE or THE COTNTRY.—Two of the peasantry were
killed a few miles from Limerick, on Sunday night, by a party
of the police stationed at Cehbolly. A tea party had been
appointed to take place at a smith's house ; the neighbouring
peasants and the police were present. A dispute arose, and
blows were exchanged, in which the police were severely
treated. The party proceeded to their barracks, armed
themselves, and coming back, attacked the people, stabbing
one man and shooting another; MIl almost immediately
died. The murder of Mr. Roe, far vlids Isar men were
arrested on suspicion, le said to have boon tubed as well by
the rigour with which he ezessibsdi Ids Na deem as • land
lard, as the part he took in during the obis of his late

father-in-law, after that gentleman had been shot. This
murder has created the utmost alarm throughout the county
of Tipperary. The Magistrates have called a special meeting
to consult upon it. Mrs. Barry, the lady whose foot was
accidentally broken by the overturning of the Cork mail,
by Kilkenny, near the Royal Oak, has sincedied
of the injuries received. Tie occurrence is solely
attributable to the state of the road at that place,
The wail of fever is loudly beard from Renee' and Castle-
bar. In the first, the people are afflicted; in the second,
the disease has, in addition, penetrated into the county
prison. There are 10G pstienta in the fever hospital of
Nenagh, the largest which it has yet received. In Castlebar
severs] of the prison officers have been struck with the
disease, and the deputy-governor has fallen a victim to its
ravages. The system of " potato-pulling " and " corn-
pulling "is complained of in Tipperary. Parties proceed at
night to the corn-yards and potato-fields, and, dragging the
corn from the rick', or the potatoes by the stalks, out ot the
earth, carry them off. In one case, a party with horses and
carts came at night to Sir Them.. Dancer's rick-yards, and
were with difficulty prevented from carrying off a large
quantity. The clerk of the Castlebayning union has been
easumitted to prison for default in his accounts.
For several days past the tide has brought up to the quays
of Limerick immense shoals of codlings, ling, and sprats.
The people are drawing them ashore with shovels.
THE CASE or JOHN K•YE.—Sir,—The Ezprest of
the 27th alt. gives insertion to a statement attributed to John
Kaye, an inmate of the Mountmellick union workhouse, in
the course of which Kaye is reported to have said, " That
he and his iick family were sent away in a cart em-
ployed by Father Greene and Mr. Pepper. When this
statement first appeared in the Leinster Express newe-
paper, I lost no time in writing to the chairman of the
ffiountmellick board of guardians to contradict it, as far as
it related persinally to me. As the report has been repro-
duced in the Express, I hope you will afford me
an opportunity of freeing myself from the blame of
a transaction which in so severely animadverted on by
your correspondent. as furnishing a perfect resemblance to
the conduct of the Rochdale parish officers. The following
explanation of the facts connected with Kaye's case will show
that your report is incorrect, as far as it involves me in the
blame attached to those who sent Kaye from this
town; it will also prove that the individuals actu-
ally concerned in this affair do not deserve the
odium reflected on them by a comparison of their
conduct with that of the Rochdale officers. When the
owner of the cabin in which Kaye resided since his arrival
in this town discovered that his family wan in lever he turned
Kaye out of his dwelling. The unfortunate man came to in-
form me that his wife and children were then lying in the
public street and unable to leave the town, ea they were all
attacked by fever. I gave him some relief and hastened
to bring has hard case under the consideration of the Fever
Hospital committee, which held one of its weekly meetings
on that day. It was only in the committee•roora I learned
that Kaye had been removed from this town by two gentle-
men, who had found his sick family on the public street,
and to whom Kaye expressed his anxiety to be forwarded
to his native place. It is only fair to observe, that the tem-
porary fever hospital had ceased te admit patients at this
time, as it was crowded far beyond the limits of its means of
accommodation; and those gentlemen endeavoured in vain
to find a house which would give admittance to the fever-
stricken family. The result shows that they acted impru-
dently by interfering in the matter, and not leaving it in the
hands of the local authorities. That they are not liable to
the imputation of inhumanity, conveyed in your corre-
spondent's remarks, is evident from the above statement of
facts. But whatever judgment may be pronounced on their
conduct it cannot personally concern me, as I had no con-
nexion with, nor previous knowledge of, the steps which
were taken to remove Kaye from this town,— THolltla
GREENE, C.C.—Athy, Kildare, Oct. 5.
SCOTLAND.

EDINBURG/I, OCT. 6.
Road-closing is extending in the neighbourhood of
Edinburgh, Blackford hill, where Marmion surveyed
"mine own romantic town," being now included among
the interdicted grounds thst encircle the northern
metropolis. Some men have strange notions of noto-
riety, and one would think that in some future edition
of " Marmion," it would be rather awkward if, after
qucting the lines,
Blackford ! on whale uncultured Mese,
Among the broom, and thorn, and whin,
A 1.1.111 t boy I sought the nest,
Or listed when I lay at rest, &c.,
Mr. Lockhart should add a note to the effect that, to
prevent turnip pilfering, Blackford-hill was now ta-
booed by its proprietors. In Perth the shutting up of
Glen Tilt has been taken up by the town-council with
a spirit worthy of the descendants of Simon Glover.
The undernoted resolutions have been agreed to with
only one dissentient voice . . .

IrThat the counei4 es representing the community or Perth, being
now satisfied that the reports in regard to the interruption given by
his grace the Duke of Atholl to tourists when in Glen Tilt arc sub-
stantially correct, are of opinion that such conduct en the part of the
noble duke is unwarrantable and illegal, the public having nad right
of soma through the glen from time immemorial. 2. That the maned
recommend a public meeting of the inhabitants and neighbourhood,
to order to lake this matter into consideration, with the view of
forming an amixiation to use every lawful means for protecting their
own rights, as well at the rights and privileges of those at • distance,
or to do otherwise as they may think prudent. 3. That the Lord
Prevent and magistrate. be requested to call the said meeting in the
City Hall, at y y.
A committee of the Edinburgh town council has
reported, " Ist. That laymen are eligible to hold the
vacant Hebrew chair; and 2nd. That in regard to the
eligibility of persons of other denominations than
the established church, this chair stands on precisely
the same footing with the other chairs in the univer-
sity." The "precise footing of other chairs" is nar-
row enough, so far as statute law is concerned, but so
far as actual practice goes, the other chairs are at
present occupied by gentlemen connected not only
with the established but with the episcopal and free
churches, therefore, the conclusion of the report sub-
stantially is, that dissenters are eligible. But, as we
before took occasion to explain, the appointment being
poverty to a churchman, and starvation to a dissenter,
it is probable that a candidate of the former persua-
sion will be preferred.
The immunity from crime at present enjoyed by
Edinburgh, as compared with Glasgow, is explained
by the extensive transportation of Edinburgh thieves.
During the last two years 178 sentences of transport-
ation were passed, the periods varying from seven
years to the term of natural life. Barrington's lines
True patriots they, for, ben understood,
They left their country for their country's good
have therefore been well verified, bat then, as in the
case of Glasgow at present, when the cycle of libera-
tion returns, that is, when the seven years to which a
hundred and twenty-five of those criminals were sen-
tenced expires, a considerable per centage of the
number may, unless the new system works miracles,
be expected to revisit their old haunts, and thus an
augmentation of crime will undoubtedly be dis-
cernible. In Glasgow the police appear to be in bad
odour, judging from paragraphs, d la Punch, which
appear in the ail:M
Pasaret-no. or Tunvea.—lt was reported yesterday, in town,
that one of the housebreaker. who have been so industriously em-
ployed of late, bad been traced and apprehended by the police. This
extraordinary rumour needs confirmation, which 0 has not received,
hat we that take rare to publish any further information that may
Csc era Oceraamver..—A policeman was observed by several pas.
wagers 'away, between the home of 10 and 4, at the foot of thi-
chanan-attect. Cut the Ihnosfriat Courier match this?
Whether the police require such rebates may be
matter of opinion, but the mildness of the 0
judicial authorities to delinquents is less queetiottl er.
The fellow who confined his wife for six months in a
water-closet, has been liberated on a bail of 151., and
this in the face of the poor woman being at the
present moment in an hospital in a most precarious
Rate of health from the effects of his brutality.
While the water company continue tardy in their
artistic efforts to supply Edinburgh with the.ptire
element, nature has fortunately been propitious. We
have had two nights of rain, and never did Egypt
'rejoice more earnestly at the overflowing of the Nile
than Edinburgh has done at these cloud falls. Bal-
conies and terraces, wont to be adorned with jessamine
and other flower-pot productions, were on these pre-
cious nights filled with utensils of all sorts and sizes,
yawning to receive the long-lost liquid. Two days,
however, will do little to the tanks of the water com-
pany, and it is to be regretted that in an evil of such
magnitude the municipal thunder should have eva-
porated in the following tame resolution :
0 That the Water Oomparayie req•estrd to employ the police carts
sad berm* NM the Nos Nei barrels belonging to such tamers
=Wool Mda Wolin to carry water for the use of the
dodo, tie smart mereity, and that the representatives
or the same se se Water Onepters board be moaned to bring
this NAME ceder the inneelmee attention of the compusy,"
The conservative and liberal parties in Edinburgk
are squabbling with each other as to which of them
have been the guiltier parties in inundating Peebles-
shire with fagot votes. It really were well if both
of them were silent on the matter, for although it is
tolerably clear that a conservative began the system,
and that his party carried it to the greater extent, yet
the liberals followed at no slack rate, and so both are
decidedly implicated in a cause not over honourable.
Their disgust at the system being so far mutual,
it is to be hoped that it will now ter?ninate, and that
Edinburgh politicians will meddle as little with
Peebles as the latter does with Edinbn,,a,

EXECUTION OF TXOII/.8 LEITH.—Tuesday morning, at
Dundee, the extreme penalty of the law wet inflicted on this
unfortunate individual. Crowds from all quarters flocked
to the scene of the execution from an early hoar. It is be-
lieved that there could not be fewer than 12,000 persons pre
sent. On the night preceding, Leith slept little, and at
about five o'clock in the morning he rose and dressed himself.
Several clergymen were in attendance upon the unhappy
man from about six in the morning, and engaged in devo-
tional exercises with him until the moment that the fatal
procession moved to the scaffold. Leith walked up the steps
with great composure, and even declined assistance. On
presenting himself on the scaffold, a slight murmur ran through
the crowd, bat it speedily subsided. After looking around

him, the convict (being pinioned) requested • clergyman to
take off his hat, whereupon he addressed the assembled mul-
titude. He remarked that he had never seen so large an as-
semblage at any previous execution, and that, had he beta
tried before an impartial tribunal, he would not have beset
in the situation he now was. On the eve of appearing
before another tribunal, he solemnly avowed himself luso-
cent of the crime laid to his charge ; he was as innocent of it
u any one now in that mat assemblage, though, perhaps,
the unhappy differences betwixt himself and his wife may
have led many to think him • murderer. He forgave a
who bore witness against him at his trial, and he hoped they
would be forgiven by God. After addressing the spectators,
Leith stepped beneath the drop, when the executioner ad-
justed the white cap, and in a few minutes the unhappy man
was hunched into eternity. Owing to the shortness of the
rope, Leith seemed to suffer a good deal. Immediately be-
fore the closing scene, a clergyman stepped forward and put
the question to Leith, " Are you guilty or not guilty ?" and
the convict at once turned round, put his right hand on his
heart, and said, "I am not guilty." The parting of Leith
with his children on the previous evening was very heart-
rending. To them, toe, he maintained his innocence. By
his own request a cast of his head was taken previous to in-
terment within the precincts of the gaol.—Scotsman.
ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.-05
Tuesd week, while one of the goods trains was on its way
from Edinburgh, the engine-dnver, knowing that an ex-
press engine was followin and rearing that it would overtake
him before he could reachm, Dunbar, thought proper to take
the train off the main line at Beltonferd, so as to let the
exprempass him. He bad succeeded in getting the whole
train off the line except one van, when up came the carom
at full speed, and smashed the van to pieces. Fortunately
no other injury was done.
A GAMEKEEPER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On Monday lad,
' while Capt. Townsend, R.N., with Capt. Seymour, were
shooting over the lands of Polwhilly, Dumfriesshire, and
when about to cross a march ditch, Capt. Townsend slipped
his foot lit° a " blind hole "of some depth. Having- last
his balance, and being halt twisted round, one of the barrels
of his fowling-piece unfortunately went off, and the contents
were lodged in the neck of James Wylie, gamekeeper at
Cumloden, near Newton-Ste tram whu happened to be
standing behind the captain. Wylie fell, uttered a short ex-
clamation, sod almost instantly expired. Aa official inqtriry
was instituted into the circumstances, the result of which
has been to show that no want of care is attributable to the
captain, who is an old and experienced sportsman. Wylie
was a young man, • very exemplary character, and was
much esteemed by the Earl of Galloway, his employer.