The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Deem, Dec. 16.
An Armagh paper gives the following particulars
with reference to the arrest and identification of two
persons charged with the murder of Mr. llateson
The names of the prisoners are Owen Kelly, of Lurgan.
boy, and Francis Kelly, of Tullinagrovc, both in tho
county of !Monaghan. Two witnesses, named Milk and
Casey, were also arrested. When the constables arrived at
the house of the prisoners, they were engaged packing up,
as preliminary to their departure for America on the neat
day. The men seemed terrified at the approach of the
police, and their mother fainted. Mills and Casey are two
of the four young men who passed in a cart Mr. Batmen
and his alleged murderers. Mills and Casey have identified
one of the prisoners, and one of their companions has sworn
to the other. The prisoners have liven fully committed to
Monaghan gaol, on the charge of " wilful murder." Tim
police are, it is stated, close on the track of the third
man, suspected of this foul murder. A large body of addi-
tional constabulary has been despatched from the
park to Castleblaney.
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An additional constabulary force has been dis-
patched to Tuam to preserve the peace there, which
the late religious excitement had disturbed.
The Very Rev. John Cheyne, Dean of Connor, was
discharged yesterday in the Insolvent Debtors Court,
without opposition.
The Mansion-house committee, appointed to con-
sider the question of an American packet-station on
the Irish western coast, have at length announced
their report as ready for publication. It is to appear
this week, just in time to anticipate Mr. Wagstaff's
solution of the question, provided that gentleman
has kept his engagement by starting his steamer
from sew York to Galway yesterday, the lath.

TILE RESULTS OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN INDIA
are thus summarised in an article in the last number of
the Calcutta Review :—.. At the close of 1850, fifty years
after the modern English and American societies had begun
their labours in Ilindustan, and 30 years since they have
been carried on in full efficiency, the stations at which
the Gospel is preached in India and Ceylon,: arc 260 in
number, and engage the services of 403 missionaries, be-
longing to twenty-two missionary societies. Of these
missionaries, '22 are ordained natives. Assisted by
651 native preachers, they proclaim the word
of God in the bazaars and markets, not only at their
several stations' but in the districts around them. They
have thus spread far and wide the doctrines of Christianity,
and have made a considerable impression, even upon tho
unconverted population. They have founded 300 native
churches, containing 17,356 members, or communicants,
of whom 5,000 were admitted on the evidence of
their being converted. These church members form the
nucleus of a native Christian community, comprising
103,000 individuals, who regularly enjoy the bless-
ings of bible instruction, both for young and old.
The efforts of missionaries in the cause of education aro
now directed to 1,345 day schools, in which 83,700 boys are
instructed through the medium of their own vernacular
language; to 73 boarding-schools, containing 1,992 boys,
chiefly Christian, who reside upon the missionaries' pre-
mises, and arc trained up under their eye ; and to 128 day-
schools,with 14,000 boys and students, receiving a sound scrip-
tural education through the medium of the English language
Their efforts in female education embrace 354 day schools
vaintdh I.lo,slogiarlinstiiann d 2.951 boarding-schools,hwmithents2,.4solgirvo,
taught almost exclusively in the vernacular languages. The
Bible has been wholly translated into ten languages, and
the New Testament into five others, not reckoning the Se-
rampore versions. In these ten languages a considerable
Christian literature has been produced, and also from 20 to
60 tracts, suitable for distribution among the Hindu and
Dlussulman population. Missionaries have also established
preaching the Gospel regularly in these numerous tongues
of India, missionaries maintain English services in a
chapels, for the edification of our own countrymen. Tho
total cost of this vast missionary agency during the past
year amounted to 187,0001., of which 33,6001. were contri-
buted in thi% country, not by the native Christian com-
munity, but by Eurepearts."—Calcutta Review.
TUE ESTATES OP LORD WHARNELIFFE, in W=
Yorkshire, have recently been re-valued.. . . ... ;
stances reductions of from 20 to 30 per ea, '''‘• - .:11.1.1....0,
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