The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1848.

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The maim et peons unemployed at Bier last
week was a gabfest of hums 'misty. Lord Roses
discharged 400 men has his employ. The drainage
engineers dissoatinned 100, and at the same time the
poor-law guardians dismissed a number from the
workhouse. Des man in the town whose name is
not given, bat who afforded much employment, has
failed for 18,0001.
The refocused corporation of Dublin have postponed
the application of the test which the ordinary pro-
fited:age of yesterday would have applied to that
mesh-seeking body. The aloe of city solicitor has
been held in oonjunation, and one of the joint holders,
very prominent in our remit political movements,
dammed it prudent to withdraw himself secretly after
the blievensanon affair, and has tried the air of France.
This gentleman, Mr. Morgan, has figured in the
" Hue and Dry am a runaway. It egad hardly be
hoped that Mr. Kaman aou:d remain joint solicitor
of the eeepaeation, Inasmuch as it was doubtful when
be amid return to this country, if ever; and to bring
the matter to a conclusion, his 00-eolicitor, Mr. Smith,
tendered his resignation. Hereupon Mr. Morgan,
with neverenfliciently-to-be-admireci modesty,actually
called upon the oorporatien to name him sole solicitor.
This request was absolutely entertained by the corpo-
ration, and it hes been known through town that a
party was being organised for the purpose of potting
in Mr. Morgan in order to manifest their sympathy
with his politics. Of course, the conservatives in the
corporation would have opposed this open and advised
" fraternisation " and there are some repealer' also in
the body who 'thought this would be a move rather
doubtful in respect to loyalty, and that he
ought rather to be removed at once, ;Tr-
ended that the corporation must, alter such
a step, apply with a bad grace to an imperial legis-
lature for farther powers, as his been dons recently
in more than one session. The consideration of Mr.
Morgan's application was to have been made yester-
day, and much curiosity was felt as to the result. For
the present, at least, the question has been got rid of
by a side wind rather—the whole question has been
referred to a committee of the town council.

Belfast is manifesting considerable sanitary activity,
and a few details, brought forward at a recent meet-
ing, show that there is room tor doing good. Dr.
Malcolm has estimated that there are in Belfast
4,000 booms occupied by the humbler classes, to the
number of 30,000 at least, dependent for a supply of
water on 13 fountains, and these so inconveniently
placed that 4,000 persons draw their supply from a
single fountain.

SCOTLAND.
IDINIIOIOII, SITT.I2.
The Visit of the court to Aberdeenshire will be of
advantage to the trade of the district, which stands in
need of some impulse, owing to recent manufacturing
asbarramments. The drain on the fund for the num-
played in the town of Aberdeen is latterly said to
have risen from 601. and SOL to 1001. per week.
The recent boat wrecks have at het called atten-
tion to the neeessity for harbours of refuge on the
ironbound coasts where the herring and other
fisheries are prosecuted. Bat the difficulty is to fix
on proper sites for the impose. Take the word of
certain parties, and their own ports are the places,
and none other. This wee shown at the Edinburgh
meedn to raise aufweiptions for the fishermen.
" Pead is theplece said we speaker ; " Banff,"
said a second ; " Wick," said a third. The first pro-
wler was the secretary of the body to whom Peter-
head belongs, the sewed was sheriff of Banffshire,
and the third was sheriff et Cathleen, of which Wick
is the county town. Oapt. Washington mud, on
public grounds, point oat the place, if one there be.
If two or more bare equal advantages, preference
&mild be given to the port which can most liberally
subscribe with government towards the cost, as, how-
ever much the my of philantLropy may be raised, the
good of the place is never loot sight of, sad any local
contribution would be well repaid by the increased
maritime importance and consequent traffic that
would follow on the eonstrustioe of a refer harbour.
Mr. Anderson, the member for Orkney, is pleading
with government regarding the foreign market for
h • The impediments of which the constituents
of the gentleman chiefly complain are as follow :
That higher eaten of duties are levied in the ports of
Belgium and Ramis on herrings the prodsce of the
British fisheries than on herrings the produce of the
fisheries of other countries, the particulars of which
have been already submitted to your lordships That
British herrings are excluded altogether from the
markets of Fillao9 and Spain, and that the high rates
of import duty imposed by Spain on dried cod and
bug fish, together with the differential duties imposed
on fish imported in British vessels, in order to give
the monopoly of carrying it to her own shipping, ope-
rate as serious impedimenta to the due development
of this important branch of industry. Sir Denis Le
Merchant promises that the attention of Lord Palmer-
ston shall be drawn to the subject.