The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Avo. 29.
We have each day renewed preofs that whatever
government may legitimately do for the improvement
of the country, for the augmentation of employment,
and the amelioration of the people, will not be ne-
glected. We find to-day, from the Limerick papers,
that the new floating dock has been contracted for
under the superintendence of the Board of Woriss,
and that a commencement will be made with it forth-

with. Other docks called for by the commerce of the
port will be put in course of construction, and to-
' morrow an important deputation will be received by
the Lord-Lieutenant, the object of which into impress
on his Excellency the desirableness of appointing a
Packet Station for American intercommunication at
Limerick.

The statement confidently put abroad that the un-
finished works under the Labour Rate Act would
be completed forthwith is premature. The board of
work reply to all representations, "We have no
power to do what you require."
The Society of Friends in Limericic have succeeded
partially in their mediation to remit the punishment
of death to two culprits there. Michael Lea's execu-
tion has been respited—his punishment will be com-
muted to transportation for life. Howard, who mur-
dered Mrs. liorrigan and her son, is left for execution
on Wednesday next, when one of his fellow-prisoners
has consented to act as " finisher of the law.'

A case of some importance to the mercantile world
was tried before the magistrates at Limerick, on
Friday. It was a prosecution for fraud, under 9 Geo.
IV., sec. 44. Mr. Galwey, a country gentleman in
Kerry, and an extensive land-agent, on the 24th Feb.,
in the present year, purchased from Mr. Horatio
' Nelson Seymour, of Limerick, since become bank-
rupt, a quantity of Dantzic white wheat, equal to
1,700 qrs., at 78s. per qr., besides insurance. The
wheat had not then arrived. The amount was to be
paid by an acceptance at 3 months, and by two ap-
proved bills. In April a second agreement, changing
Ithe mode of payment, was entered into, by which the
first bill, for 2,0431. 18s. 3d., was made payable
lon the 28th June; the second, for 2,0001., oa the
13th July; and the remainder to be by cash
or bill paid when the shipping papers were
handed over by the seller to the purchaaer.
' On the sth of June an agreement was made by which
Mr. Galwey authorised Mr. Seymour to dispose of
the cargoes of the Wharfinger, the Rose and Ellen.
and the Claudia (the vessels containing the corn par-
chased), to any respectable house in London, payment
of the bills passed to be secured.' On the 15th
of June, in consequence of the non-arrival of
the cargoes, Mr. Seymour wrote to Mr. Gal-
wey, requesting him to pay the amount of the
first bill, falling due on the 18th, or to give a new ac-
ceptance. To that communication Mr. Gulwey did not
reply, but having received a more pressing one by
hand, delivered by Mr. Merrick, Mr. Seymour's book-
keeper, who went down to Killarney, Mr. Galwey
complied with the request, not being aware at the
time that Mr. Seymour had not only discounted
the bills for 4,0001., but bad actually raised 5,8431.
on the bills of lading. This was the fraud com-
plained of, and upon it Mr. Cralwey grounded
his informations, which were drawn up, and
ready to be sworn upon oath. That Mr. Seymour
had raised 5,8131. on the bills of lading, and
discounted Mr. Galwey's bill for 4,0701., the entire of
which (9,9134) he had in his pocket when he applied
to Mr. Galwey, could not be disproved, and therefore
the crime he had committed brought him fully within
the meaning of the statute, inasmuch as ho had falsely
pretended that the bills of Mr. Galwey had no• been
used, and that the ships' bills of landing were in his
I possession, ready to be handed over, when they were
at the time h4d byother parties as security for 5,8431.
advanced. Mr. Galwey, under these circumstances,
applied to have informations for fraud received
against Mr. Seymour. It was contended, on the pert
of the latter, that the case was purely mercantile; that
the bills of lading were offered to Mr. Gal wey in the
first in stance that he could not advance m oney on them;
that he knew the sum of 5,4831. had been railed
when he gave the second acceptance, and that two of
the bills of lading had been offered to Mr. Galwey,
with a demand that he should pay the amount of the
cargoes in cash, as the bank bad refused to do his
bills, and this demand was, it was contended, not un-
usual in mercantile affairs. It was admitted that the
money had been raised on the bills of lading at the
time the second acceptance was sought from Mr.
Galwey, and the magistrates granted informations.
Mr. Seymour to stand out on two sureties in 301.
each, and himself in 1001.

Ttie glut of herrings in the little bay of Kilkee, and
up the Shannon, was so great last week, that the flab
sold retail at Is. 6d. the hundred.

Mr. John O'Connell and his brother, Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, arrived amongst the constituents of the
latter on Wedneeday last. The people of Waterford
gave them a moat flattering reception.
A line young woman named Byrne was accidently
killed near Ardee, County Louth, a few days since.
A young man of the neighbourhood presented a gun
at her—he knew not it was charged—and having
pulled the trigger, the contents lodged in her breast,
causing instant death.

Tax Loan Lizt-renarer.—On Friday his excellency
visited the line et the Great Southern and Western
Railway, and was entertained at Carlow by the directors.
The health of the Lord Lieutenant having been pro
posed, he returned thanks en a speech, which, being more
than one of form, may be with propriety perpetuated. It is
thus reported : His excellency stated that he seldom expe-
rienced more gratification than on that day, having passed
through a beautiful country teeming with the products of
the earth, and upon a line of railway that reflected credit on
the energy end enterprise of the company. At home or
abroad he had never seen so beautiful a line of railway, one
which exhibited in its construction a rare combination of
science and art. He felt delight in witnessing the
Cgr:of railways in Ireland—in whose prosperity he
leaeply interested—independently of the kind treat.
!Dent he had received, and the reception he had met with
from all classes of Irishmen, since his arrival in that coun-
try. Railways would prove of vast advantage to the country
by the development of its industrial resouroes, and tae impetus
they would give to every branch of traffic. Ireland was *ma-
daily an agricultural country. The farmer required a market
for his produce, and the railways, by sieedy transit, afforded
him the accommodation he required on reasonable terms. It
was needless to allude to the past year, to point out the necessity
of industry and perseverance in future. All that we/required
was a spirit of industry, and a greater reliance on Deltas-
, action to place Ireland in that proud position which at no
distant day she was destined to occupy. England was now
closely essasseed with Ireland, by the twofold power of
railway and rear navigation. There were many in that
room old enough w resellect the evidence given before a
committee of the Meer of Commons with the object of
proving that steer essigstion between England and he-
land was a Utopian seirne—in bat. impracticable—bat
they now sow I end the deber eneatry connected, if
he might me the messis, by a beldgetarseed through the
agency deter,by-whisit the soda end Silielocial inter-
course of both esentries had bees leafy seedwatod
Ram* BOAILD.—Tho anima el the Fame,
guardians is likely to Rod imitator. The Itilkosny
_bleed
refusal to impose a higher rats for the nospowery riddle*.
poses than Is. 3d. in the puma, to which ihe earesladmie
will not listen ' • and in the rote sober norlt—rea *the
good town of Enniskillen—dte guardians re veer reaseber
to increase the pa** laud* by geising the doubly
rate. Mr. Otway, rebisanessaidedessered the ern-
missioners rut rend be a dieduden ef the lewd, list
without rude**. se kelpnedea. One gentlema *dad
that not ail farmer is the *dee end* rest the vete 's-
quired. A. reoolutios, adopted eta redone restine, wee ear-
• Mr_ff • mdsiftfy te_pepeeed bithe iirs ease-
d* 9,our. peed MS Pia Ult. ; bta heaths didgered
Weindidea ef eseeley they dedbae, ite dr Imes% le mid
ac ia the gennii ; with " verb@ be pee," howeeerdja
the art
Tas (77gso= Moirceert.—Tbe esnentree of tke
"Nader* Meneord to O'Oenneil " lave irshibbed their
nag* heal the label A. rid* rise set r EL 01
the eabrelptkes forty tome d IL, her of IL, age ef
and tweety-lhe ef 11 *eh.
Outs OP ten Ootarrat.—The Tipperary
were le bard rends a murder width was et
Bards, in that county. The skein wee
thineeta. a pour farmer, who landing pereareedtblebas"tergab
wilt" at • Min* in • fors, omajt., bm=alin. woe
arsaraesn mew hanseuVeled
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dee relbrey weeks. They Ara ese errs bra
lbe Wiener ef glee latter, and theastoma OreC
life *es* be itendser to eariowitals bbahia
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without takinggelither kod or resit. Larkin preserved his
limner, bat 'sten thig had reached the prime-room,
and the pinioning rjok game, fainted away. I; is said he
had not ra' aver„l up to the niemenit et bring puabcci from
the drop into oirobt;Tlts Tfpostory Vindicator mo-
ttoes the ckse of a of bwikrootris to the amount of
7600%. The name of the Walt Y sot given, but it le stated
Vaal dates parade wen Esopsialted be Dublin to a certain
the south--hem tbe tmeleWpeßlen 'ace to the bank's
One digested*** wal head all right ; the
other two wersdetgMebsistla irdsMieMYs.Thetwoparcels
arrived at a amnia ; ors Mims& than was opened
and the contests Ism* menet. The Wird was forwarded
to another hranclr-arrived, was ovoid, awl, instead of
7.5001. in hank non*, which ought to bine ham there, was
found to contain t. welt bound parcel of tan, carefully tied
and papered. the aid of the police has been called in to
investigate theater, and it is said the train is laid for the dis-
covery of the guilty. The dreadful crime to which
I adverted on Thursday last, as having ben per-
petrated at Cashel, is now quite public. The par
ties are Mr. Frank 011yan and his eldest son. The
muse of the dreadful net, as stated by the father,
was, that young Crßyan had been discovered in
an lattice* with his step-mother. There is a second versioa
of the affair, however—that given by young 011yan, which,
for the honour of our nation. is, we trust, the true one. It
is this: Mr. o*Ryan's property is under settlement. The
young gentleman, who will be of age in a few days should
he ',armee, was Raked by his father to join him in certain
lessee, but he retuned, upon which, as the story goes, his
father became so exasperated that he shot him. The ball
struck the young gentleman just at the eye, but did not
enter the brain, having glanced along the brow. It is said,
however, that the young gentleman is in a precarious state.
The elder O'Ryan is in custody.