The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

MANCHES fER.
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In September, 1862, in the Leiden-road district, there
were 77 deaths [rum diarrhea ; in the same quarter of the
present year, 24. Market-street district, 69 in the same
quarter of 1962, against 22 in the quarter just ended.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SIP!. 29•
The opening of the new docks, which took place
yesterday at Limerick,was the moet important event
connected with the visit of the Lord Lieutenant to
that locality. The ceremony passed off with much
eclat, and at night the event was celebrated in
an effective manner, all the principal buildings in
the city having been brilliantly illuminated, and his
Excellency, with a large number of distinguished
guests, having been entertained at a banquet by the
Dock Committee. This morning his Excellency
and Lady St. Germans will proceed at an early hour
to Adore Castle, the residence of Lord Dunraven,
where they breakfast, and immediately afterwards
will proceed by carriages to Foynes, where they will
meet the party that will go down by the Holyrood
steamer. His Excellency will then "turn the first
sod" of the Foynes Railway, after which he will
return on board the Holyrood, and partake of a
dejeune, to be given by the directors of the London
and Limerick Steamship Company, to which up-
wards of 200 of the principal nobility and gentry
are invited. Previous to the (Nelms his Excellency
will be presented with an address from the directors
of the Limerick Steamship Company.
Sir Edward Blakeney is gradually recovering from
the effects of his late severe accident, but is still con-
fined to his room at the Portrush Hotel.

The Limerick Chronicle says :
The Duke of Cambridge is to succeed to the command in
Ireland. and Lord Cardigan is to be the inspector•general
of cavalry. This implies that the brevet will take in more
colonels to be major-generals than was at first surmised.
Mr. C. G. Daffy, M.P., was entertained at a public
dinner by his constituents at New Ross, on Tuesday
evening. There was the usual amount of young
Ireland eloquence, and declamation about tenant
right, &c., on the occasion.
On Monday a court martial was held on board her
Majesty's ship Queen, on Lieutenant Toms, officer of
marines, for being drunk on the 12th instant, in
Bantry Bay, while on guard. The admiral of the
fleet and twelve captains presided, and the prisoner
was assisted by Counsellor O'Hea, and Mr. P.
O'Connell, solicitor. The proceedings were conducted
with all the imposing pomp and ceremony usual on
such occasions, and a large number of spectators from
Cork, Queenstown, and other localities round the
harbour, were present. The Judge-Advocate having
read the charge against the prisoner, the captain
and several other officers of the Queen were ex-
amined, who swore that he was quite drunk at half-
past five o'clock on the day in question, when he
should have been on duty. The evidence for the pro-
secution having closed, the prisoner, by the desire of
his counsel, applied for two hours to prepare his de-
fence, which was immediately granted. At the end of
that ime the court re-assembled, when the prisoner
requested that his counsel should be allowed to read
the statement which he had prepared in his defence.
This request, though an unusual one, was at once
complied with, and Mr. O'Hea accordingly read a
long and elaborate defence. Several witnesses were
then called on his behalf, who proved that he was
perfectly sober up to five o'clock • that he then went
down to his cabin, and lay on his bed, from which
he was suddenly called up; and that when he came
on deck, he appeared rather confused and frightened ;
he also received the highest character for good con-
duct and gentlemanly demeanour. The defence hav-
ing closed, the spectators were
.requested to with-
draw, and the court remained in consultation for

sometime. About four o'clock the spectators were
readmitted, and the names of the witnesses and the
officers presiding over the court having been called
over, the Judge-Advocate delivered the following
decision :

That Lieutenant Toms was guilty of drunkenness on the
12th inst., in the Bay of Bantry, while on duty, but tak-
ing into account the defence which had been made, and
the recent death of his father, the sentence of the court is,
that he shall leave the Queen, and be sent on board some
other ship; that he be reprimanded, and is accordingly re-
primanded, and that his promotion be stopped for twelve
months." This sentence was considered by all who heard
it as remarkably lenient, and was received with evident gra-
tification by the prisoner himself, who had apparently anti-
cipated that it would be much severer.