The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 12.
The interest excited by the preparations for the
Great Industrial Exhibition becomes more and more
absorbing as the time, now so very near, when so
many anxious wishes for their completion will be
gratified, approaches. Nor are these preparations
confined to the works at the Exhibition building, or
to its immediate precincts. They are visible all over
Dublin; and the hum and bustle of active life which
all its thoroughfares present were most probably
never equalled at any former period in this city.
We are informed that the Brussels committee for
the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin having
failed to obtain works frecp the leading celebrities of
the Belgian school, his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians has commanded that the picture of Louis Gal-
lait, representing the temptation of St. Anthony, in
his Majesty's collection, with several other Belgian
pictures in the royal collection, shall be sent to the
Dublin Exhibition.

Mr. Lucas has succeeded to some extent in show-
ing the Irish priests to be made of impressionable
materials, his threatened denunciation of them hav-
ing already induced some of them to come
forward for the purpose of vindicating themselves
against his charges. Such is the most probable ex-
planation of certain demonstrations made by local
bodies of the priests, who within the last few days
have adopted rmolutions condemnatory of the inde-
pendent course taken by some of the Irish represen-
tatives, and exacting from them a slavish adhesion
to what they call the Irish party.
The county of Dublin grand jury found a true bill
of indictment yesterday against the mate of the
Queen Victoria steamer, wrecked at the liowth
lighthouse.

CITY COMMISSION or BEts•elts.—Yesterday, this
commission met for beldam. The Chairman. Deputy Pea-
cock, said that the commission bad applied to the Woods
and Forests for a great of mead in Epping Forest for
the purpose of a cemetery, and were in daily expectation of
an answer. The yor presented a lengthened report
on the gas lighting or the City. Its principal feature was
a recommendation to let the inhli: lighting for three years
instead of one, as heretofore, on the ground that no further
immediate reduction in the price of gas is to be looked for
is compensation for the disturbanoe of the pavement caused
the transfers of the contract. The report was adopted.
Tbc general purposes committee presented a report on the
working of the present system of cleansing the public
thoroaghfares by what are called street-orderlies. The re-
port strongly condemned the orderly system as extravagantly
expensive, and as creating a nuisance by the pans of soil
distributed about the streets. The court adopted the re-
port, and resolv-d to advertise for contractors to cleanse the
streets thoroughly once a day.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MIL LANG, MASTER SERP-
Ifehillf.—Mr, Oliver Lang, master shipwright at Wool-
wich Dockyard, who wee quite well ■nd cheerful, and on
board the Royal Albert, screw steam ship, and Terrible,
steam frigate, en Monday afternoon, inspecting the pro-
ve.« of these vessels, died shortly before one o'clock on
Tuesday morning. Mrs. Lang observed at about 12 o'clock
at night that her husband breathed heavily, and sent for
Dr. Browning, surgeon of the yard, but before he arrived
Mr. Lang had almost enamel to exist, and died in a few
minutes afterwards.
TUE CONDEMNED CONTICTi AT LIVERPOOL.—
Terrell and Williams, the unfortunate convicts under sen•
knee of death at Liverpool, appear very penitent, and fully
sensible of their deplorable condition. Their conduct as
llMAiin of as very orderly and becoming. Should no res-
pite or reprieve be granted, they gni! suffer the extreme
?Malty of the law on Saturday next.