The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dersuw, 13.
The revision of the parliamentary voters'SlPT. list for
the city of Dublin commenced yesterday, when the
liberal party were almost wholly unrepresented,
while several active agents were present for the con-
servatives. The apathy of the liberals, if unchecked,
seems, in fact, in a fair way to abandon the repre-
sentation of the city to the tort' party indefinitely.
The subscriptions for the Dargan Institute are
coming in, although not as rapidly as might be ex-
pected. At a meeting of the committee, yesterday,
letters were read from the representatives of several
trades, stating that collections were in progress in
aid of the movement, some trades having already
sent in their ontributions. Twenty pounds each
were acknowledged from Thomas Hone, Esq., N.P.,
the Earl of Meath, and Messrs. J. Warden and Sons,
Birmingham; and ten pounds each from Lord
Dunally, Charles Patland, Esq., Judge Crompton,
Sir John Kingston James, and Sir Benjamin Chap-
man. The Dowager Lady Chapman and Mrs. Gib-
bon are amongst the foremost of the ladies to join
the movement.
The number of visitors 3'estarday at the Great
Exhibition was 9,873. The arrangement of the
Dublin and Kingstown Railway for conveying per-
sons to the Exhibition for greatly reduced fares has
begun to take effect.
The following harvest report appears in the Meath
Herald :

Within the last week a great quantity of oats has been
cut down in this district, which, in general, bears a good
head ; and, to all appearance, superior to that of last year.
In some field• the stem is short in growth. From such
Crops as are being thrashed the yield is favourable as to
quality, and when the complement of ground comes to be
considered, we should say that the produce will be ens-
fourth more than that of last year. As for potatoes, they
have not been so productive nor so good in quality for the
last seven years, at least so far as the season has ad-
vanced ; what the future may do remains to be told. At
present the disease is chewing itself in every quarter; and
it is much to be feared that a portion of the crop will
perish. The crops of mangold and turnips are doing
well ; some little failures appear, bat still there will be an
abundant crop of turnips, so much so that in all probability
the price will be considerably under that of '52. If the
early meadows were light, the late ones exhibit an go
crop. On the whole, the people of this country have every
reason to be truly thankful to a kind Providence for having
blessed the land with such an abundance of food both for
man and beast.

Flax produce and manufacture are beginning once
more to attract a largo share of attention in Ireland,
and the new mode of preparing flax from the green
straw, invented by Mr. Davy, of Crediton, in Devon-
shire, has been brought under notice here with good
effect. The flax prepared by Mr. Davy's process,
as shown at the Great Exhibition, is thus noticed in
the Freeman's Journal:

The flex prepared by Mr. Davy arrested our attention, as
doubtless it hes that of many other observers, by its beauti-
ful and delicate pale green colour, and by its wholesome,
fresh, and agreeable smell, differing so much in both these
respects from flax prepared in the ordinary way. The pe-
culiarities of Mr. Davy's flax, and of Mr. Roche's cordage,
arc attributable to the flax having been prepared in both
cues without steeping the straw, whereby the natural
colour, quality, and s'rength of the fibre are preserved, to-
gether with its oleaginous and other valuable properties. So
much with respect to the specimens of flax and cordage.
Mr. Davy, however, does not content himself with effecting
by mechanical means a perfect separation of the fibre from
the plant in the manner described, but he proceeds to soften
and bleach the fibre when separated by a novel and peculiar
process, which forms a part of his invention and patent,
and the yarns to which we have referred serve to show
how well he has succeeded in this respect ; they are beauti-
fully white, and remarkably soft and silky. Some bleached
fibre is also exhibited by him of like character. The machine
invented by Mr. Davy for separating the flax fibre,
and which he designates the " Decorticator," is so light
and portable that it might be put on an Irish car and con-
veyed from farm to faun, wherever flax is grown, and
immediately set to work by means of very slight steam,
water, or horse power. Having speedily effected the tape-
ration of the fibre and seed, without the tedious and costly
process of steeping it leaves the refuse but valuable husk
and shoves for fudfng and manuring purposes, to be used
where the flax itself' has been grown, amply replenishing
any exhaustion sustained by the land in its growth. The
machine delivers the fibre in the form of a sliver, which,
when token away from the farm, is to be converted into a
loose roving, then reeled into hanks and in this state
softened and partially bleached according to Mr. Davy's
further and new mode of treatment. Another prominent
advantage in Mr. Davy's new machine is that it prevents
that great waste of fibre, in the shape of tow, which takes
place under the ordinary mode of uutching. We under-
stand Mr. Davy is come over to Ireland, and intends very
shortly to set one of hs mulaiuse at weak at Mr. Reeho's
mills at Trabolgan.