The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUGUAT O. '
An inquiry has been held in the Kilrush work-
house to investigate certain charges made against
the guardians and officers of that union by a reverend
correspondent of a London journal, whose letters on
the subject of the Clare unions have obtained a great
deal of notoriety. One of the charges in the present
instance was, that a guardian named Burke went at
night, while in a state of intoxication, through the
female wards of the infirmary, causing sonic of the
inmates to rise in their beds, and acting otherwise in
a most shameful and indecent manner. The gate
porter, house porter, assistant master, matron, and
assistant nurses. were examined on oath, and from
their evidence it would appear that Mr. Burke was
sober on the occasion in question; that he visited the
infirmary late in the evening, and that, in going
through the house, he was excessively annoyed
and excited at finding several persons absent
from their beds, the hospital nurse absent, and other
irregularities going on which he deemed very dis-
creditable It would also seem that the charge m:vle
against him was propagated by some of the officials
of the house to whose conduct he would attach blame;
and a Nlr. Shannon, who admitted that he gave in-
formation on the subject to the writer of the letter in
the London paper, refused to be sworn, or to tell the
names of those from whom he obtained it himself.
The Downpatriek election takes place to-day, when
the Hon. C. S. Hardinge, son of N iscomit Hardinge,
will have a walk over.

A special commission, or adjourned assizes, was
held in Dundalk yesterday, when one of the men
charged with the murder of Bernard Nl'lntaggart
war tried and acquitted. The verdict of the jury wan
received with loud cheers by the populace. The
murder, it will be recollected, was an agrarian one,'
and attended with circumstances of great atrocity.
The Freeman's Journal says :
We have been informed on good authority that the sys-
tem recently adopted of issuing tickets all through tram;
Dublin to London, Liverpool, Chester, Birmingham, Man-
ehester, Lim via Holyhead, at moderate rates, has been
attended with the most gratifying results, both as regards
the company and the public. Several hundred persons ,
within the last few days front various parts of Ireland have
availed themselves of the " through " ticket privilege, and,
the traffic, both outwards and ;awards, has increased to an
' extent far exceeding the expectations of the projectors of
this moot judicious aad spirited arrangement, which has
been admirably well-timed, so as to meet the convenience
and facilitate the transit of parties going to the Great Ex-
hibition, anti also of strangers and tourists visiting Ireland
this season. We believe the Dublin and Kingstown Rail-
way Company have it in contemplation to postpone the de-
parture of the late up train every evening until after the
arrival of the steamer—thus enabling the pamengers to
proceed direct to Dublin on their arrival.
The :Vander News contains the following curious
' statement

TIPPERARY, Aro. 6.—The town of Tipperary was
thrown into a state of the utmost excitement, on yesterday,
by the report of a woman having been buried alive. The
following are the particulars :—Mary Neill, a young
woman, died on Sunday in the poorhouse, and was buried
on Monday in White Church, about four miles from town.
On the morning of yesterday. a man beard her cry as he
passed close to her grave, and he ran as rapidly as possible
to town, and gave the alarm. Many of the inhabitants
hurries! out; the master of the workhouse basin,: been to-
formed of the circumstance, sent out some of the officers to
ascertain if there were truth in the report, and his men on '
returning stated that they disinterred the body of Mary I
Neill, and that on opening the coffin, she was lying on her
right side, the shrouding torn, a cap which she wore on her
head removed, and scratches and blood on her face, and
other marks of recent violent exertion apparent, but she
was quite dead. ittr apparent death previously was slid-
' den, but it is believed she was only sunk in a trance. How-
ever, there was no blame to the workhouse officers, as the
hapless woman was over twenty hours dead previous to her
interment.

Tne
Canet —The present genial warm weather,'
if it should continue, as there is every reason, from its set-'
tled aspect, to believe it will, must bring the grain crops
rapidly to maturity. A correspondent informs us that Mr.
John M.Seile, of Parkinount, has a field of oats which in
a few days will be fit for the sickle. Generally speaking,
however, the harvest this year will be considerably later
than last year; but it promises to be much more abundant.
Conflicting rumours continue to reach us of the state of the
potato crop. In some parts of the county Antrim the dis-
ease does not appear to have affected the crop at all; in
other parts it is said to exist to a considerable extent. It is
very probable that the symptoms of the disease may have
been exaggerated by the fears of the farmers; but that the
blight has set in it would be idle to say.—Northern Whig.

ADMIRALTY, ACGCST 8.--APROLYTMENTS.--SY
eons : J. Harrison, to Watorj_som and R. Jameson,
Rodney. Militant ditto : W. to via," ;
and
Ricardo, to /today. Master's Assistant: G. R. Wells,
Calypso.l Naval Instructor C. J. R. R. Archdeacon,
IVoteroo.