The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DVILIN. Dec. 17.
The " Priests of the Deepen of Tuam," which
people are in the habit of looking upon as only m-
aim designation for the "Lion of St. Jerlath's,"
have just issued a long series of resolutions to give
vent to their bitterest denunciation of the income tax,
and of all who have had hand, act, or part in impo-
sing on them the irksome duty of 'Ming up certain
=flwilh the heading of " Schedule D," coming
aw. O'Flaherty's office in Dolier•street. It
seems they have resolved " to enter into subecrip•
tiona for a sound legal opinion upon the best mode
of protecting ourselves from a tax unconstitutional in
Its imposition, since we derive no income from the
state or any other legal source, as it is uncanonical in
the unheard-of pretensions associated with it of bring-
ing the purely spiritual arrangements of the catholic
church within the inquisitorial cognisance of persons
who can have no claim to judicial supervision over
ecclesiastical affairs."
The writ for Memel is at length all right, and
the Mayor has Axed Wednesday for the nomination.
The resew of Smith O'Bnen's escape, which I
mistimed yesterday as having prevailed in Lime.
tisk tens out to have been better founded than was
=pita, if the following statement in the Limerick
Isjperier, received this day, can be credited :
We haw NO bees beemloi it letter from a highly respect-
able Wawa reshastie ha Adelaide, giving full details of
Ste gig! el Soak O'Brien ben the penal exile to which
fibs BM& soveraasat deemed him, and from which he
lies bees released by the meow sae fidelity of a few Irish
Meads is the colony, and the sloyathisisg aid of the cow.
Iteeiter of an Americas boiling vowel which was in the
tiling, to take him away to the free shores of America.
These is ao doubt whatever se the fact, se far as reliance
as be pined in our informant ; and we need not state that
• considerable pleasare in being the first median of
:2=44intelligence se agreeable to his political tn.-
as friends. The writer of the letter wu nee
of thew who assisted Smith O'Brian in his escape. We
• add, that he was bound by no parel to the govern-
ors"); and that no chugs of breach of faith can be made
Wink him.

1112. MAURICE AND THE BEECHER!! OP LINCOLN'S
31111ri, mimeos bevies speed that Mr. Maurice had
weed hie resigereine Mahe besehers of Lincoln's-inn, an
WNW le the Yew. gmitlemew hem members of the society,
end mobs= of the esegregetime of Lincoin'e-iun chapel,
espeemive ei their meimelft with
_Ma trader the Wash-
Steam esemeeted hem his
at Liegt Osage. Lamer% sod el their CZNitl.teratt
might matinee his misietratieres erase=r tbseezirs wee drawn
ver. eel was in mune of being nuneeressly ed, when
the farther crested/la of it wee Mopped meference to
what is understood to have been the feelings of the
beechen, that the continuance of hie eseeNsion with Lin-
coln's-inn is a suMeient *videos& of the eelleffettiort of the
society with his labours. The thrseged eqemdesee in the
chapel at the same ties* laqueedemobly shows the sense
which the public entertain as to their min.—Globe.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SITAGEONL—The following
gentlemes having undisegese the asecesm examinations for
tee diploma were aidteed molls of tho College at the
meeting of the Court of isitieleies ea the 16.11 inst. :
Maus. Henry Enter. Tiekhill, Yorkshire ;
William Fisher Favell,Mbelleld,_-William Heron, St. An-
drew's-street, Dublin ; WBlia. Frederic Ewington, Her-
ford ; Andrew Harvey. Pasoan, CornwaS ; Francis
O'DeaseU, Bellingarry, eoanty Tipperary; Thomas Terry,
Bath; Jolts Frame Holden, Hull, Yorkshire; George
Eli:herd &obeli, Healey -ow Chimes ; James Gulden Puna,
Cork; Richard Jukes IVorthington, Llancansch, Blamer-
'sawn ; William Doke Tad Ticehont, Hon. East India
e,esipase• service, Bombay; James Champion Penny,
Fulham.
LiIt:TENANT BELLOT.—Paris letters state that the
members of the cub-committee for the testimonial to this
lamented officer were received a few days since by his En-
callosity the Minister of Marine, who promised to further
their views in any way they might point oat. The tablet
to hie memory is to be placed <a the Marine Museum ef the
Loans. The subecriptio• list will be closed on the 31,t
Last., after which the postal committee will make its
report.
SOUTH BASTZEN RilLwaY.—A correspondent
during Private liestiop of proprieton have been held
the pot weak at the Loudon T • Bishoperrate.
Stmt. eel at the Chino Hotel, Manchester, sad !viola-
ties' silereed te support the Liverpool movemeat 14 the
Weed= el aid independent candidates to supply
the esemeies is neat. Mr. Beige, the secretary to
fiseLimemeel Cemmittee, attended en each encesion. The
greatest unanimity prevailed as to the polity to be pursued,
sad subscriptions were entered into to defray the necemary
u=silinw Can Acr.—Sir R. Mayne, Commis-
tioan Police, has applied, by circular, to the varies
boards of trustees for applied,
the node leadiag from the
metropolis, to the effect, that the most effectual mode of
giving iallermatioa to the public, at eight as well MI by day,
of the point of the circumference of a circle of kw miles
radius from Cherie/paces (with referesce to the sew eab
law of last sissies) is to place a lamp-pest at the spot. open
which a notice of the dirtied* may be lazed. The trustees
are therefore regeohed to rime a lamp-pod to be put up at
places, which will be palatal out to them bistbe sequin-
Readouts of the respective divides, a polka which
are situated ; and who will amply the hespieM&es whin
the notice is esibessed la white mind helm wee • black
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