The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 3.
The Her. Dr. Coulter. P.M., a member of the
Irish Tenant League, and one of its most zealous
and able supporters, has been elected, by a large
majority, Moderator of the General Assembly in
Belfast.
The following resolution has been adopted at the
monthly meeting of the Tenant League:
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It is th. derision of the council that lir. ;shaman Craw-
Aresl's sassmamil hill is is sabmismaa support
• d dialstias, as ma immtabaast of emir airs; that Kr.
Orawllord'i attention be respectfully directed to certain
amendments of detail of which the secretary has taken
note ; and that a deputation he sent to London forthwith
to communicate with Mr. Crawford and other members of
parliament to urge the Liking immediate steps for having
a discussion on the bill in the present stuaion.
The tropical heat of the last ten days has been ex-
changed for a pleasant temperature which commenced
last night.
The Limerick CArinsiele says :
It i. statist that the army in Ireland is to be reduced neat
year
/I;',.:..7".iivt7elritraunet trinitlit'•nntatr:Trirwmantes": and
that
u,UUIThe same journal has the following on alit:
An Irish marquis is named for the governorship of the
Virgin Islands, vacant by the death of Sir Murray )1 AC-
gregor ; and Sir Winston Baron, M.P , and the Right Hon.
W. Baines, M.P. for Hull, are spokes of as likely successors
to the Lite Mr. Shell, at the court of Florence,

F %TAT. ACCIBENT.—Monday evening, two private
soldiers of the 90th Regiment, named Robinson and Sten-
nine, were Oriented in the branch of the river running'
under the queen's College, Cork. About 6 o'clock, •
number of soldiers of the regiment went to the baths on
the wail and proceeded to undress, when Constable Grate
perceiving the river swollen from the rain that fell during
the preview day, and also the spring tide, told them that
any of them that could not swim would be certainly
drowned if they went beyond some poles which he pointed
out in the river. Immediately after, Lance-Corporal
Browne took Stenning by the hand, and both went in to the
river and dashed forward beyond the poles. Stenning sunk
and grappled Browne, who could swim, but he shook Sum-
ming off and swam from him. Stunning again rose, when
Itoliiieon, who was on the bank, threw off his jacket, sprang
into the water with the rest of his clothes on, and the next
moment Stunning caught him and both sunk. Constable
Beale perceiving the danger they were in, and being unable
to swim, ran off to the Baths lodge for a ladder, kept there
to save people drowning, but the ladder had been removed.
Ile got a rope, and returning with it, threw it to four or
Bee soldiers and a civilian who were swimming round the
drowning men, hut their confusion and frieht were so great
they made no effective use of it, and Stenning and Robin-
son were both drowned is this narrow river, in view of
some hundred spectators. Rubinson, who was an expert
swimmer, had amused a number of spectators during the
day by diving in the hole in which he was sub,equently
drowned, and bringing from its bottom an egg.

BF.LF-ACCrIiATION OF MI:RDEII AT MANCITESTER.—
An Irishman, calling himself Eugene Keenan, apparently
18 or 20 years old, has surrendered to the county police at
Eccles, near Manchester, stating that he is guilty of mur-
dering a man named Francis Conellan, at Dublin. The
substance of his statement, which has already appeared in
the P-rpress, is, that Conellan and he were draughts-
men in the Government Valuation Office at Dublin, and on
the 9th ult. had some porter together. Ile drank part of
the porter, and then put some emetic acid in the remainder,
and gave it to Conellan. Ile says: " I homed the porter at
Thompson's ; the acid I got from a bottle which I found
in • cellar under the office. This was on the 9th of
June, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and he died at
half-past 12 the same day. I drank part of the porter my-
self before I put the acid in, and he drank the remainder
with the acid in on the top lobby in the office. There was
an inquest held on •iew of the body at the time, and a ver-
diet was returned to the effect that deceased died of dis-
ease of the heart." The prisoner, after making this state-
ment on Saturday before a magistrate, was remanded,
and a letter was written by the superinten-
dent of police at Pendleton, near Manchester, to
which the following answer has been returned
Dublin Metropolitan Police-office, 3, Exchange-court,
June 30, 18.11.—Sir,—Your communication of the 28th
instant, respecting Eugene Keenan, having barn directed to
the Inspeotor-Cleneral of Constabulary, instead of the Com-
missioners of Police, there was some delay before it came to
my lunds, I only having received it at 12 o'clock this day ; and
as a post mortem examination must be held on the body of
Conellan, I respectfully request that you will be pleased
to have the prisoner further remanded until you hear from
me again, which will be as soon as anything certain con-
nected with the ease shall be ascertained. It is true that
Francis Conellan died suddenly, and that the verdict of the
jury at the coroner's inquest was, as stated by Keenan, *ho
. was in the same employment with Conellan at the time, and
on searching the cellar mentioned by Keenan a bottle
marked " Oxalic acid, poison," was found. I am, sir, your
obedient servant, W. Campbell, Superintendent of Police.
Mr. Charles Bullock, Inspector of Police, Pendleton, Man-
chester."—After reading this letter, which gives so serious
a complexion to the case, Mr. Trafford, a magistrate before
whom the prisoner was again examined yesterday, asked
him what he had to say against a further remand. The
prisoner said his former statement was made when he was
not in his right mind. The magistrate told him whether
his first statement was true or not, it had been singularly
corroborated by some !acts in the letter received from
Dublin, and he mast stand remanded till Saturday.