The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-11 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

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FALBILOU CH, MONDAY.
Advices from Monte Video, May 11, received to-
day by the Swedish brig Hilding, report an engage-
ment to have taken place on the Ist between the
Beet of the Buenos Ayreans and that under
Urquiza. The former were beaten, two ships were I
captured, and many officers and men were killed.
Urquiza had redoubled his vigilance in blockading
and investing Buenos Ayres. Business at Monte
Video was, consequently, very brisk.
Freights advanced to 30s. and upwards for salted
hides and tallow. Coals selling from ship-board, 41.
per ton.

IRELAND.

Desais, JuLy
THE QUEEN'S VISIT.
The announcement that her Majesty's expected
visit was postponed earl quite a gloom over the city
yesterday, and more especially over those who were
assembled at the Great Exhibition. The platform,
which had been commenced at the upper end of the
Great-hall, and which was to be the scene of the
principal ceremonial on the ooeasion of her Majesty's
visit, was discontinued, and various other prepare- k
tions were broken off. The fact that his Royal 1,.
Highness's indisposition is not of any serious or to
alarming character tends in some measure to coun-
teract the disappointment; but it is feared that if re
the royal excursion to Dublin be deferred until after 171
the prorogation of parliament time will not enable s,
her Majesty to make her stay here longer than the sr:
brief period which was announced at the beginning I;
of this week. The following was the official note ic
communicated yesterday to the Lord Mayol., and to is
the Chairman of the Great Industrial Exhibition 23
Committee : is
Viceregal Lodge, July 8, 18.53. !g.
Sir,—l am desired by the Lt.rd Lieutenant to inform you
that it hos been notified to his Excellency that, in cense- u
quence of the illness of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, gt,
her Majesty's visit so Ireland must be postponed for the s
present.--I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient seer-
vent, HeNtte F. PoefIONDY. .1?
The number of visitors at the Exhibition exceeded 71.1
9,000, and amongst those present it was gratifying sr.!
to see several of our frieze-coated countrymen, and t
also a good many of the constabulary from different sal
country stations. It is now found n to devote et
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still further space to the pictures in the Exhibition, s•
the profusion of important works of art-sent into the Mt
committee is so great, that a third court wiil accord- rt,
ingly be appropriated to such pictures as the com- Is.
mattes have not been able to find room for in either t,
of those already employed for the purpose. The re'
scene at the Exhibition is now daily diversified by str
performances on one or other of the great organs, or
by fM
military bands. to,
The official declaration of the poll in Sligo was r,
made yesterday, and Mr. Sadleir declared duly as
elected for that borough, the numbers having been— 1
For Sadleir, 150; for Somers,l42; majority for Sad- w
ee.
leir, 8. Great rejoicings were made on the occasion a'
by the friends of the successful candidate, but the It
town was tranquil. so
Mr. Thomas Dennehy has been appointed stipen-
diary magistrate in Antrim; and Captain E. Talbot
to
has been sent in a similar capacity to Castlebar, in is
the place of Mr. G. Fitzgerald, deceased. ins
At the Monaghan assizes, which commenced yes- it
terday, billa were found by the grand jury charging
two men named Neale Quinn and Bevan Grant with
being principals in the murder of fir. Bateson, and l'
a man named Patrick Coon with being implicated
in the conspiracy to commit that crime.
The Loath oral Down Pilot has the following ac-
count of an agrarian outrage :
The house of Kr. Huzb Todd, of Ringclare, Donough-
more, a respectable former, was fired into on the morning
of the 30th ult. From the facts, as detailed to tie, it would
appear that the watch-deg became excited and the
man was called up to ascertain the cause, but he refused to
rise, and Mee. Toad herself proceeded to inspect the pre-
nisei. She bad returned; when a charge of slugs was fired
through the door, and passing close to her person, lodged
la the furniture on the opposite side of the apartment. A
second shot was then fired without effect, when Miss Todd,
an interesting young woman, find • shot out of • window
in the directi..n of the door, when • shout was raised and
the ruffians decamped. This is the third outrage commit-
ted ea Yr. Todd's premises within the last few weeks.
some time ego his plough and other farming implements
were broken. The inhabitants of the district should exert
themselves to discover the perpetrators of such foul crimes.
An outrage of an exceedingly violent character
was perpetrated in the house of a farmer in the
county of Leitrim a few days since. The ruffians
who made the attack were driven off, but the farmer
and his eon were badly wounded in the fray.
The following reports on our harvest prospects
have been received to-day. The Northern
says :
Our country reports of this day are happily of the same
satisfactory character as those of last week. The weather
has been all that could he desired. Fla: and oats are the
crops which are least promising—the latter will be deficient
in straw, and is in many eases thin, but it is likely to head
well; and strange to say, considering the late seed-time, it
is expected to be early fit for cutting. As to flax, accounts
are conflicting ; although much of it is a short and uneven
rrowth, • great deal is good and promising, and on the
whole we have hopes of an average flax crop. Autumn
Spring looks remarkably well ; the aearance of the
'own, as might be expected, is not o good. Upland
meadows are extremely light, and hay is expected to be
settee. That most valuable esculent, the potato crop, con-
tinues healthy and most luxuriant—for so far it never pro
raised better.
The Cork Examiner says :
The weather, theugh partially broken for the past week,
has been on the whole favouroble for the growing crops.
The heat, with which we are now visited, has come moat
opportunely, and should it continue for any time, an early
and propitious harvest may be expected. The most favour-
able reports are still given of the potatoes, and those that
arrive at our market, and which can be had at le. fad. per
weight of 211b5., are perfectly free from discolouration, or
any other eppearaace which could in the slightest degree
indicate the presence of the disease. We may oleo mention
another circumstance which is by many regarded as an
omen of good promise. On Wednesday night an intense
fog arose almost precisely similar to those which were sup-
posed to conta,n the malaria, and which immediately pre-
ceded the appearances of the disease in past years, but dif-
fering from these latter in this reepect, that it was unaccom-
panied by any offensive smell, and that its effects appeared
to be completely innocuous. At all events the roots are
everywhere healthy and vigorous, and the yield promises to
be much more abundant than for many seasons back.

THE MISSES SHARPLEY.—Theiffi ladies seem still
determined to and their lives by starvation, despite the fact
that there is mousy at their disposal, because they will not
submit to receive anything in the shape of charity. On
Friday, at the meeting of the Marylebone guardians board,
Mr. Messer, the relieving overseer, reported that he had
been to the Misses Sharpley's lodgings in Stingo-lane, and
that after much difficulty he succeeded in seeing them
through the slightly opened door of their apartment. Ile
offered them a sovereign, telling them that it was a portion
of 161., which the board of guardians held, end which was
sub,eribed for them when they were in the workhouse,
after attempting to destroy themselves by starvation. They
both indignantly rejected the produce of charity, and de-
clared they would receive nothing in the shape of parochial
relief. In reply to the urgent request of the officer that
they would take the money, they slammed the door in his
face. Mr. Messer stated that he underdood they had re-
ceived some money from Windsor, but he expressed his in-
tention to keep them under close inspection, and if he found
reason for believing they contemplated starving themselves,
he should have them at once removed, by force, if necessary,
to the workhoute. The proposed of the steps which
bad been and which wer to be taken by their re-
lieving officer.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—COVENTRY, SATUft-
DAY.—Yeaterday the district coroner held an inquest on the
body of a youth named Hose, son of a highly respectable
tradesman of this city, who lost his life upon the London
and North Western Railway by being cut down by the
evening express train to London, on Thursday. It appears
I that a Mrs. llerrick,of Coleahilhheath Farm, had contracted
for the bay cut on the embankment of the railway, and her
nephew, the deceased, had undertaken t see it properly re-
moved away. He bad occasion to cross the permanent way,
and was standing between the metals of the up line watch-
ing the progress of a down luggage train, when the express
for town came up, at its usual speed of 35 or 10 miles an
hour, and caught the unhappy lad. In an instant almost
the whole of the carriages had passed over him, when his
body iris found to be most selowLingly mutilated. ilia
head, neck, arms, elm and (Aka ;onions of his 11.21 tine,
were mashed and ost cut to pieces. It being shown
that the catastrophe was not the result of any neglect on the
part of any of the company's servants, a verdict of " Acci-
dental death" was returned.