The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Mniority for Ponsonby.... 75
At three o clock Mr. Maguire withdrew from the
contest, and this morning NIT.. Ponsonby will be de-
clared by the High Sheriff duly elected. The gross
amount of the constituency is 316. This defeat has
inflicted another heavy Glow on the Irish tenant
league, now in a most tottering emulition ; and, un-
less something be done to reorg,anise that body, or
arouse the interest of the country in its favour, it
must speedily share the fate of Mr. John O'Connell's
National Catholic and Repeal Association.
On Thursday two or three hundred seamen of Del-
fast, belonging chiefly to the vessels engaged in the
coasting trade, paraded the city in treble file, headed
by a musical band and some of the men hearing
flags on which were inscribed mottoes suggestive of
their wants. It appears that they have "struck" for
an increase of wages, as well as to express their dis-
-- content, atter their own fashion, at the innovations
ST. BARNABAS, PlMLlCO.—Yesterday Mr. Bennett recently introduced by the Mercantile Marine Act,'
took his farewell of the congregation of this church in two of which they complain as pressing on them in a
discourses, delivered in the morning and evening of the Most unjust and oppressive manner.
day. A crowded audience assembled in the expectation of THE fs•Ew num:nisi: Aet__The following are
hearing some statement indicative of Mr. Bennett's intuit-
the results of some of the late registries under this I
thins, but no such declaration was made. The preacher
said it seemed as if they (he and the congregation) had had act :--Cork (county), 13,351 •; Cork (city), 3,021
their day ; their night was now commencing. Mr. Ben- Bandon, 209 ; Kinsale, 143 ; Mallow, 139; Youghal,
261 ; Mayo county, 1,394 ; King's County, 2,397; '
nett's text contained the key-note of his discourse :that in
the morning was, " And every man went unto his own County of Derry, 4,305; City of Derry, 721; Cole-
house ;" that in the eveuing, " The night cometh when no . ~,,
raise, -I•
man can work."
The Erenioy Post has the following remarks on
ABOLITION OF STREET ORGANS.—On Saturday,
the subject of emigration from Ireland:
in consequeuce of the recent serious accident which occurred
Judging front what we observe in the port of Dublin,
to the brougham of a medical gentleman in North Audley-
and from the accounts from the other Irish ports, we are
street, and of the repeated complaints which have been
disposed to, anticipate that the emigration, clueing the pre-
made with respect to frightening horses and endangeringthe lives of the public by the street organ nuisance'
r the sent year will even surpass that of 013* Pm". year sluice
Commissioners of Police issued from Scotland-yard a
the potato failures and the famine. During the last five
in years fully one million of persons must have left Ireland—
general order fur the suppression of street organ playing
any of the public thoroughfares of the metropolis. in all probability, the number was still greater. The natural
touleney of the emigration is to reproduce itself ; for in 1
OBSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC FOOTFATIIS.—The officers general the great object of the Irish emigrant, ours settled
of the parish of Hornsey have just published a memoran- in America, IS to husband his earnings, in order to -ave suf-
(Wm on a question seriously affecting the public rights of ficient to bring out some metutwrs of his family at home.
welfare, convenience, and health, to well as On. private in- The sums received during the lost year, and paid through
terests of all owners of rights of way. The statement more the honks and private firms, were enormous in mount
immediately concerns the use of two ancient and must useful One establishment, thut of Mr. Miley, an eminent
footpaths leading to the parish church of ifornsq, and the and enterprising emigration agent in this city, paid
means by which the inhabitants have been deprived of its during 18.i0, 23,000/. on orders varying from 21. to 201.,
convenience. The attention of the public was called in from new Orleans alone, exclusive of large sums paid on'
1817 to some obstruction of these ways, and the resident orders from New York and other parts of the United
engineer of the Great Northern Railway, the body in States. We mention this fact, that the reader might fOrns
which the interruption has originated, promised that a some idea of the immense extent of the remittances to
convenieut footpath should be• made by the company Ireland. The banks of course, reeeive far larger sums;
in lieu of the one whose obstruction was at that and in all parts of ireland money is received to LI greater
time complained of, and it was at the same time or less amount. In the lust year the money paid by the
stated that as to another, it was proposed to cross it ou • banks in the city of Limerick, on drafts front America, was
level. On these promises the officers of the parish relied. 40,000!.; and one of the Meal journals mentions that la-
Up to this moment, however, they remain unfulfilled. Lounge who only left Limerick last April have, in many
M Nile the public were waiting for their performance, an instances remitted sums of 101. and IV.' to their rela-
advertisement appeared, giving notice of an intended appli- thins in that part of the country. Altogether the aggress
cation to parliament in its present session to stop up the gate amount received last year in Ireland must have been
said paths, and absolutely extinguish all rights of way over prodigious—Some years since, the late Mr. Jacob nor-
thern, without any substitution of way, or any eompen- vey of New York, estimated the annual remittances
cation whatever. A committee was immediately appointed from the Irish settlers in the States ut upwards of 200,0001.;
to protect the interests of the inhabitants, which entered I we are convinced that it is now double, or, perhaps, treble
into communication with the railway company, and from
that amount.
their subscribed statements, attested by several house-
The three conunissioners sat yesterday in the In-
holders, it would appear that the company professod
anxiety to meet the parish in a fair spirit, lulled the authori- cumbered Estates Court, where four properties were
ties into a blind confidence by thew assurances, and then to be submitted for sale. The first of these in order
took advantage of' this feeling to get their bill for assumiz belonged to Mrs. Ireland ; lot 1, situated in the
an absolute control over the roads so far advanced that count, of Galway, and, according to the rental,
opposition by petition to the house was precluded. Thus, • .
~ was purchased
through the omission of a technical form arising out of re- YR. mg
ld a net profit rent of 250/leased for
Mince on the good faith of a public company, two footpaths 2,100 f. The next 3 lots of the estate were adjourned
leading front a part of the metropolis through open fields in for want of purchasers, and the lust lot, shuttled in
one of the few rural neighbourhoods to the close town tho-
ronehfares, offering opportunities of free air and exercise income u}'29l., was sold for :210/. Some lands be-
rarely to be obtained, will certainly be lost unless some the county of Westmeath, and Yielding a net annual
101 l in to Louisa Jones and others, in the township
mentlwr of the house can obtain a special instruction to the g
committee to strike out the obnoxious clauses. 1 of Rat mine„ near Dublin, were next in order, and
g
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following i following unfit rents, were dis-
lots yielding the 1
~.
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations, Po's('
were admitted members of the colle • o the 'lst inst . 1 tor 1,4004 ; 85/. 16s. 11d. fur 1,5-d.; 531. 10!. 9d.
• •if of, viz., 114!. 9s. 3d. for 2,300/.; .2/. 9s. 2d.
Messrs. J. S. Riggs, Davies; C. :Samos Lambeth; M. / for 850/. • 38/. 15s. 4d. for 7501.; and $7!. 2s. 2d. for
Morgan, Danbury; C. W. Goodall, Normanton on the I LIVERPOOL COUNTY COI:RT.—GALE r. LEACII AND
OVIERS.—This was an action for a balance of U. 7s. fol. on
Welds, Notts; G. W. Pettinger, Sutton on Trent, Notts; .in ham-street, Dublin, amounting to 92/. Das. 2d., • promissory note for M., iu which Mr. Gale, treasurer to
1,1001. The profit rent of 3 houses, Lower Buck-
C. Holman, iiurstpierpoint, Sussex; W. 11. Getty, Market .
Harbomugh; G. Larle, Beverley ;W. A. Rogers, Staumore, I was sold for , ...the Scottish London Loon Society was the plantilf, and
g 6OO/. • and a profit rent of 24/. Is. 4d ,
Id for
Midd. ; T. Fuller, Brighton ;mad E. R. Bickersteth, Liver- ! on houses in the same vicinity, so
',estrange, in the countiy
1051. An. Mr. Leach (the borrower) and his sureties the defendants.
The case had bean before the court several times. Tho
pool. At the same meeting of the court Mr. Henry i estate belonging to Francis
Wettings passed his examination for naval surgeon. of Westmeath, yielding a net yearly rent of ititt ease was a dispute as to whether Leach and his sureties had
'-- - o ' signed a paper acknowledging the receipt of the luau and
THE PADDLE reran TILE Senrw.—The recent , promising to pay it again. Ilis Honour commented upon
arrivals of the Teviot (paddle-wheel steamer) at Southamp- lAt the Galway assizes an action of replevin was the evidence at great length. Ile said it was for the jury
ton from the Brazils, and the Bosphorus (strew steamer) at
zinc Bell Martin and the 'tight Hon. I
tried, in which Michael Kelly was plaintiff, and . to consider whether all the defendants signed the cute, for
Plymouth from the Cape of Good Hope, afforded a favour- I was sold for 5,000/.
' Arthur Go
able opportunity for contrasting the relative performances I i tained. 'the jury, after a short eonsultation, equmed a
of the Cape and Brazil steamers, and the comparative Lord Cottenham and others, dirtctors of the London if any of them did not do so the action could not be ens-
merits of the screw and the paddle-wheel. The Teviot ac- Law Life Insurance Company, defendants. The ~, If ••- •• • Icircular
which the plaintiff claimed complished the voyage from Rio de Janeiro (a distance of principal question was the vulidity of a lease of the oTAFF OFFICERS OF LsSIONER....--:
verdict for the philntiff for the full amount claimed.
, • issued by the War-office authwities to
5.241 miles) in 2(1 &vs, exclusive of stoppages, being an letter has la
adenomination screw and valuable have facilities or o . , ,
4th October, 1826, underlately
b"that, then - ffl
average speed of 81 miles per hour ;on some occasions, in , stair officers of pensioners, to the effect Of CA.. 0 cen
of land of 400 a f btaining information respecting residents
moderate weather, a rate of 10} miles was perforated. The
been granted to him by the late in: la the Scar
in their districts desirous of be, outing cal .% -
distance from the Cape to England, via Sierra Leone, is I rights of fishing in the river Owenmore, in Come-
about 6,090 miles, and occupied the Bosphorus 33 days, ex- I mune, as having r the Colonies has requested that ow ser-
ale mailable for riot • •
tat nut•post•, an at the
elusive of stoppages, giving a mesa rate of steatunig of 1 Mr.
ormer t_ere was a verdict' for the
Martin for three lives and 999 years, at a small si''s in3Y to
n" will be.granted for thus duty that
rather under , I miles an hour ; and exhibiting an a"rage rent. At a f assizes h same allowance
1 tory of State fo
given
advantage of a little above three-quarters of a mile an hour 1
favour of the paddle-wheel swainer.-Ifansoattirs Inds- . .
defendants against the validity of the lease, and the couple,
to the ents.umially employed, via., 20a. for each married
alus. tor each single female, and To. for each single
pendent, plaintiffs had obtained IMO fer a new trial on the male, inally appraved and embarked for a colony.

Durmix, MAEcn 22.
The Dungarvan election was vi.tinally concluded at
half-past two o'clock yesterday, neither of the candi-
dates having polled any after that hour, and the
numbers then were—
Mr. Ponsonhy
Mr. Maguire

BOW-STREET.
Hannah Dalton, wife of a salesman in Covent-garden-
market, was charged with attempting to commit self-de-
struction at the east fountain in Trafalgar-square.
On Saturday night the prisoner was ohserved by a con-
stable to enter the square without any bonnet or shawl. lie
watched her, and saw her throw herself over the parapet of
the east basin. He drew her out by her dreg.
Mr. Jardine inquired if any person could have been
drowned in the basin.
The eonstablo replied in the affirmative, as there were
three feet of water in the basin.
The prisoner said her husband behaved most unkindly
towards her. She had been rendered al three times through
his bad conduct.
Mr. Jardine said he must have some security that she
would not repeat the offence., and for that purpose he would
remand her to prison for a week. However, if she could
obtain bail he was willinz to accept it.
Bail having been procured, she wa. liberated.

In every successive stame her powersilevelthssl them-
selves more and more; the applause waxed warmer
and warmer; and her final scene closed:llldd demon-
strations of general enthusiasm.
Duprez is not one of those who curry an
audience by storm. She is very young--not yet IR,
we undenrand—and her physical powers !UM e evi-
dently not yet reached their full maturity. She is
of middle height, with a slender and somewhat
girlish figure, but she is exceedingly hantLsome and
full of grace in all her movements. She has lino
features, and her jet-black eyes are of uncommon
brilliancy and power. The beauty of her luxuriant
tresses adds to the charm of her appearance. Her
voice, we are convinced. has not vet attained its full
strength and volume. Its tone is thin; in this re-
spect resembling Persiutti's, hut softer and sweeter.
It is, indeed, entirely free from the shrillness which
is often found in voices of this kind. It is
a pure soprano, and has been so well formed by a
skilful method that, throughout its extensive scale,
it has the equality of u tine violin. But it is in tho
lower tones that its charm chiefly lies ; they are ex-
quisitely sweet and mellow. Then: can be no doubt,
in short, that Wile. Duprez's voice requires nothing
more than a little time and moderate exercise (for
now that she is bow& upon the stage there is somo
danger of its being too severely taxed) to become an
organ not surpassed by that of any sinwrofour day.
As an actress, Mdlle. Duper has great gifts; but
they, probably. require, even more than her vocal
powers, to be developed by :nore maturity of age.
After the opera " God Save the Queen " was sung
as usual on tic first night of the season, the house
presenting a most brilliant appearance during the
performance. The first verse wits rung by 'ladllct.
Dupre', whose clear and correct pronunciation at-
tracted general notice.
There was, lastly, a new ballet called " L'lsle des
Amours," composed by M. Paul Tuglioni. It is as
fantastical (or nonsensical) as such things generally
are, and those that have any curiosity as to its plot
will find it detailed in magniloquent language in tho
• printed libretto issued front the theatre.- It is suffi-
cient for us to say that it is a good vehicle for some
• beautiful dancing by Madlle. Amalie Ferrarts, M.
Charles, Madlle. Petit Stephan, and an excellent
ef!rps de hall,-t, some very pretty scenery, and splen-
• did decorations. It was greatly applauded.

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