The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

The journals received to-day inform us or the fonowing
details in reference to the distrganisation wh:ch unh:. pity
prevails through so large a portion of the country:
MONAOHAN.—An Aughnacloy correspondent informs us
(Monaghan Standard), that parties of fellows are scouring
the country in that neighbourhood, visiting the hoii,,s of
gentlemen and farmers, demanding non' y and food. :Simi-
lar parties are parading through various parts of the ctuntry
levying contributions. Threatening notices wen:. last week,
posted at and in the neighbourhood olFort-Johns ton, threat-
mg death to Mr. Johnston if he would receive any rent, rr to
any tenant who would dare to pay any. Mr. Johnston has
made a reduction in his rents of Id per cent.
INQUEST ON TOE lionv or GLEMMX.—Thejournala re-
ceived to-day contain ample reports of the evidence given on
the Inquest on the body of Gleeson, the processserver, of
whose murder, ou account of his service of law papers on
certain tenants in that county, I forwarded an account to the
Doily Vitra on Wednesday last. Nothing satisfactory was
derived from any of the witnesses, and the jury ultimately
returned a verdict that the deceased came by his death in con-
sequence of injuries which ho received fiom some person or
persons at present unknown.
o'Bit:uses BUIDGE.—We (Tipperary Vindicator) can-
not possi'oly describe the fearful state of misery to which the
people are reduced in t'ds place, without a reside .t landlord,
and depending; wholly on chance for subsistence. We regret
that outrages have been committed, and from what we learn
we think it likely that they are to he followed by others. A
man of the name of Thomas Walsh, of Lackeragh, in this
parish, was fired at and dangerously wounded in the jaw on
Monday night. " Rumour," says our correspondent, " as-
signs as the reason for this outrage, a suspicion that he repre-
sented to the. Board of Works that the people of this locality
were not in the state of misery and destitution represented,
which caused, it is thought. the b,arsl to delay employing
the starving poor." The relief committee have determined
to give up the office altogether, having nothing to do but to
listen to the wailings and lamentations of starving crowds,
without the means of relieving them, the government having
absolutely refused to give either food or in .nay.
Kittatou.—We deplore the irritating listless apathy of
the authorities. We understand that Mr. Macmahtn, the
agent of the Board of Works, promises to commence some
new works on Monday next, which will give employment to
about half the number in utter destitution. '1 his Las by no
means satisfied the committee or the public, as the result,
it is feared, will be by no means such as the friends of peace
or good order would desire.
Lim Ent ex..—On Thursday the Limerick corporation adop-
ted a petition to the Treusury, with the following pruytr :
W " e Wiese that to mitigate
impending calamities, nothing lees
will be sallicivid than to admit into our ports every species of food
necessary for daily subsistence, free of duty; and to permit it to be
brought indiscriminately from every country, by vessels of every
seen or due, To pronhit in our distilleries :Id breweries the tun
of grain, sidedituting that of sugar und moiasseo, without Pierer,r• to
the country of their growth, or to ships which have already brought,
or may hereafter bring them to us."
I'ItoPOSAL TO sent' EXPORTATION OF CORN FltoSt
laa-
LANtr.—A motion of this nature was, as your rewires aro
aware, placed on the books of the Waterford Poor-law Union
by Captain Newport. The gallant captain brought f reward
the motion accordingly on Thursday last, supporting his caw
by such arguments as the following :
" I am asked by many where the rents are to mom trout if we will
not ollow the wen to go ti, England! I answer the rents will come
out to the consolidated fund. The thirty millions required lone the
Nuotenanee of the people will take ten years fur payment, which will
amount to but three millions u year over the whole estuary. I have
been told that I have creat“t a great oensation in thin city by
the nature of my notice of motion, but I can well under-
stand where these reports came from they were dioseruinated
by the agents of English corn merchant.% who fear their
employment will immediately COW if I succeed ; lo it they
ought to seek employment In Odessa, Ancona, or in some of
granaries of England. I now torain tell you that "repress/Ms nom
halt! 1eg..." The great mune of this country IN the exportation of
her corn, and I can well ice that unless we take some decisive steps at
thee for the provention of its exportation, we will be overtaken by
Conine In le, than three month.. (Isew, hear.) 1 have no diopoo
Lion to emboli:ow the Government by any motion of UAW', for I look
on the present Government as the moot paternal that ever governed
this country ; but still there is such a thing 11.., pressure from without,
cold inn convinced the Government would be better pleased to have
suggestion made to them than that it should emanate from them-
selves."
The Captain's motion, and an address founded on it, were
carried.
OmerituerioN of PCIILIC WORKII.—The following cir-
cular has been addressed by the Lord-Lieutenant to the
chairman of the Board of Works:
tier,—l am sorry to find that great obstruction is made by
labour, ro indifferent part, of the opuntry, to work by piece or eok-
work, which 1.4 the only mode by which employment ran he given at
this time of general diet gists to any law portion of the people. I
con under the necessity, therefore, of deoinng that you will instruct
the officers under your• control to explain to those who are Taunted
to them by the relief committte as destitute and in want of employ-
m- nt the nature of the tank in which it is pro:mond to employ them, the
mode in which the melourentent will hepatic, and the wages that tht y
may earn, which are to be pad to them in money by weekly payments.
If, after this explanation, they shrill refuse the work that is, provided
for the support of themselves, and their families, you will direct. your
capers at once toso itlitimw from the locality, as it its nut eun.a.tent
with the directions of the government that they should be subjected
to offence and violence in performance of their arduous dutica.-1 re-
Main. air, Sc.. 11r.sitatmots.o."
FOOD FOR NEXT YEAR.—The government,: feeling inn-
• premed with the conviction that potatoes will not he planted
in large quantities next year, have made arrangements to
supply seed rye and seed barley, at coot prices, to such par-
ties as desire a supply for present planting.
LaNntonnism or InetaNn.—Lord Cremorne, in an ad-
dress to his Monaghan tenantry, just issued, proposes to
modify his claims upon them as follows :
" In 0011Millelle, of the failure of the potato crop, I have instructed
my agent to make the following reductions upon the pur's rent now
in course: of payment--To tenants whose yearly rent does not exceed
101., a relation of 30 per cent. upon the year's rent. To tenants
wham yearly rent exceedo lot, but does not exceed 20/., a reduction
of 20 per cent. on the yeor'e rent. To tenant's whose yearly rent ex-
ceed, :Pd., a reduction of 10 per cent. I r this a fair settle, no
the high price of groin and other protons gives the bolder, of largo
farms• greet advantage thin rear over the small farmers, who depend
principally upon the potato crop."
This reduction does not extend to parties having leases in
perpetuity ; further he says :
" I shall endeavour to organise a general system of drainage on the
estate, and to undertake a piece of work in each district."
Mr. Johnston, a gentleman of estate in the same county,

mys:
I therefore prop** to make a reduction of 15 per cent. upon all
the rents of this rex, which shall be paid at a reasone.ide period, nay
fur all the last May gale paid before the first of Dear abet. next, and
fur all next November rents paid before the flea of MI .y, 1017."
Lord Leitrim's agent, Mr. Richard Mayne. addresses his
lordship's tenants as follows :
" The Earl of Leitrim has directed me to areas, noierding to
the following scale, upon the year's rent row la course of
payment:—To every tenant whose land is te t at the foil ap-
proved value, where the year's rent does not exceed GI., SO per
cent., being 10s. in the pound ; where the rent is above Of. and not
ohm 101., 30 per cent., being Gs. in the pond; 'ahem the rent is
above la. and not above 121., 20 per cent., b Ting ht in the pound ;
where the rent is above 15f. and not above Sui., 10 per cent., or 2-. in
the pound. Tenants whose rent exceeds 204. his lordship Jo-UN con-
siders are nearly as well off as in any other year, haring the advan-
tage of unusually high pricer, which fully males up for the loos
ed
the potato crop. My good friends, I true*t time that Lard Leitrim
heen considerately and kindly made this refauction, and that you arc
no liberally dealt with, so you will feel tt to be your duty to evince
becomiNr sense of it by cheerfully coming, forward, jwing roue rest,
and thereby enabling your landlord to c Met the heavy and now un-
avoidable charges attached to landed property in Ireland."
The agent of Mr. Bond, a gentler can of Louth, has promul-
gated the following scale of redr,ctions. He says;
"The failure of the potato crop b annaf fallen heavily on there who
hold small farms, Mr. Hood feels fez them, and has, thceejoee, directed
me to make the following redo alone out of the year's rent, ending
May, laic:—Under 5 statute ne'.es of arable land a reduction of 30
par cent ; above 5, and nut en* ~sling In acres, +1 per cent ; above 10
and not exceeding 15 acres, 2.2 per cent; atove 15, and not exceeding
25 acres, 13 per oent ; abm,e 23, and nut exceeding 33 acre,. 10 pee
oent. A tenant, haling mire than 95 acres, owing to the high 'dice
of prodme, is supposed to be compensated for the lose of his potato
crop. Than: tenants who hold by lease• of old date, whether the
original leant- he renewal:, e or not, Mr. Bond does not *,ashler as re-
qulf;bvi! one reduction. The quantity of land in each farm to to 000.
a
the
Same was originally held."
THE LATE STOKII.—The Southern Reporter of Thursday

sas
cite and surrounding country have been visited by n storm
equalling in violence any we bare witnessed for mane yearn. It com-
menced at an early hour last evening, and continucil to increase in
fury, during the whole of the night, thin morning, and, with mo-
mentary lulls, up to the hour that we write. The Dublin mail, due at
3) clock tins morning, did not arrive until considerably alter six
awn, and then minus the guard. The driver Mated that, on leaving
Cater, the guard was "all right," but, on sensing at Atltehelstostn,
bin seat WWI sweat, and nothing relative to the occurrence could be
ascertained. It appears that a most fearful storm W 34 raging
at the time, and it was with the greatest cliffiriaty the
driver could keep his at
so that the probability is that
the unfortunate man was blown off, and erns so atoned or
injured by the tall that he could make no elective appeal for awis
at
t-
MCC ; or if enabled to do 110, the fury at the storm was so I.,eat th
his efforts were unavailing. The mail due at 12 o'clock this clay did
anise until half-an-hour after, bringmgni intelligence west omg the
fate of the guard, whose name we understand is l'atneli At
I Listwittng.—The Limerirk Reporter has the following

do-tails :
At six o'clo.olt fn the morninzt, Ir ;ten the tide rose higher 11"11
be remembered be the oldest inhahivint, the rage at the teumnt
really terrific. - sea was one maw of ram and roiled over the

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