The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

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IRELAND.

Due.m, Dae. 21.
The Assailer still lies in a very precarious stab.
The demi formed on one of his lungs levies hunt,'
the weeltreleteto which he has been reduced preemle
the 0101M0 Of the purulent matter in the meal
manner, Powerful medicines are, in 'consequence,
mpioyed b) absorb it, and already bave produced
Kam allsct. HU breathing is Mere two, and cough
lent treablestene.
l'lss Plllll Of Einem an absentee nobleman, but
kind end hberelibea remitted the half year'. dna
on the Isit of November, and also paid the poorrent
reem
while Sir Charles H. Coots, St. George Caulfield, and
the Rev. Mr. King, rector of liallyflin, have strook
me 20 and 25 per cent. The conduct of the latter
gentleman, who 'holds considerable property in Ros-
common,' has excited the particular admiration of the
.Roatommon Journal. In the town union the county
ceu is said to reach the immense sum of 7s. 6d. in the
pound ! There must be a mistake in local calculation,
and county use substituted for poor rate.
The proposal to " adjust all disputes and differ-
snoes" between the two parties in the Dublin corpo-
ration be. found some disfavour among the citizens
atante. Some of the liberal concessions are re-
in a fair, others in en unpopular light, 1. e.,
adverse to the popular interests. The conservatives
have prepared a memorial to be discussed in the
municipal council, praying for an identity of all rights
and pnrileges between the municipality of Dublin
and those of England, and the establishment of the
three years' rating clause. It also /reposes the re-
tention of the present 101. rating qualification in Ire-
land, though the three years' rating qualification in
Ragland is counterbalanced by a 51. rating qualifies-1
tion ; and, hotly, it suggests the abolition of the,
existing ward divisions. Of these prayers and pro-
positions the popular party accept only the first
without reserve. The second is objected to as directly
tending to diminish the democratic influence; but it
would be accepted on condition that the Si. rating
of England be substituted for the 101. rating of
Ireland. The redistribution of the wards is the
great obstacle. The object, according to conservative
theory, is to have property more fully represented in
the council. "To that," reply the liberals, "we have
no objection. Increase the qualification of represen-
tatives, but do not deprive the poor citizen of his
franchise by a redivision of the wards." Matters look
favourably for a happy adjustment of all conten-
tions.

Tun REPRAL Lueocievion.—Aldermaa O'Brien, M.P.,
presided at the meeting on Monday. The hall was
very full, and Mr John O'Connell and his brother, Mr.
Maurice O'Connell, were received with great enthusiasm.
The speeches were of course confined to reviews of the pro-
ceedings of the recent short session of the legislature, and to
certain indications of future policy.—Mr. John O'Connell
called on the constituencies of Meath, and Mayo, and
Kerry, to pronounce whether they were eatistled with
the course taken by their representatives, Messrs.
Grattan, Dillon Browne, and M. J. O'Connell. He also
bidicated as the future policy to be adopted, that the parishes
of Ireland should if possible stumble severally in the in-
terval between this and the February session, to call upon
the legislature to pass remedial measures for Ireland, nee.
sures calculated to give food and employment to the people,
to call for the development of Ireland's resources, and for
tenant-right. Mr. O'Connell promised that on the first day
of the minion of parliament, the eleven measures propounded
by his late father in 1846 should be in a state of preparation
to be laid before the legislature, and that parliament should
be alled upon to enact them. He promised that the Irish
Members who remained true, and whom he enumerated at
12, would oppose any ministryl not prepared to deal justly
with Ireland.
Tito LATB Ma. LLOTD.—The following is an extract
from a letter dated Dec. 17: " You will be delighted to hear
that the man who shot Mr. Lloyd is taken and fully identiffed.
He was committed the day before yesterday at 13Iphin. I
halted there en Wednesday, and was at the magistrates'
meeting and saw the ruffian. What is better mill, they
have got fourteen or fifteen of the conspirators who
put up' the murder. One man has confessed, and they
are all to go off to-day to Roecommon gaol, under a
sas
trong
rirfor hart-ving evicted The nanfor
yb .s
ody , bebinult! msi"mpdiyrbdttlis"
In the first place, they owed him arrears of rent, and se-
condly, he was a middleman, and his life was the last in the
lean. The tenants thought the head landlord would con-
tinue them in their farms at a lower rent than that which
they paid to Mr. Lloyd, and that they should also get off
paying their arrears. In short, as in Mr. Roe's cue, it was
their interest to shoot him, so they got a man from a dis-
tance to do it. He got either 15s. or it. for the job, which
is not the first he has done. There is strong ground for
suspecting that he is the man who shot Major Mahon ; at
least, one of the magistrates told me so.
AROTEER SHIPWRECK AT &ACT...L.—The Cerk Eramiser
eentains the following:—" Skull, 1 o'clock, p.m., Dec. 17,
1847.—About four o'clock on the morning of the 17th inst.,
a ship Lubin with deals and oak staves was driven ashore at
Gunpoint, about two miles west of Skull harbour, and three
tram whose the Stephen Whitney was lost, and in a few
scants Insane a total wreck. Her name has not as yet
I been seeedebied, although I went to the place when the
Wide we Myles whore in hopes of being able to learn
smilkhogel he& Hem of the New have been seen • 110818
l tbsysin•delied bar, ethers that they were driArned
aunPitlin with NM, to amt. nay that were they on beard
when the siresitthq_aevereseld land, the beach being sops-
cipitone. end the beaus running so high. A poor me
named Ma a:ilia, while in Shoed of taking one tithe desk
which the surge 114 on the reek, was carried away and
drowned by the rending surge; he has left a wife end
three children to deplore his loss. Another vowel het oleo
cast anchor this teeming outside Skull harbour, sad in
=mei et the violent storm which was then reegrael
to eat evep be seats. The commi nand
sad ere el the *LEV at Skull, with three other volnn-
teereorest le sea to and nada the crew and vessel what
indolence they Gould, the see ran so high and the gale
being stilt unabated they were obliged to return when more
than four-fifths of the way, without being able to accomplish
their object, the beet which they had not being of the best
description. I would moat earnestly recommend to the
Humane or some other society to furnish a lifeboat to the
coastguards of the Skull station (as it mightno o b brie the meenatif
saving many valuable lives), as oat could
render any assistance to a vessel in anthem off kill harbour
on such a day as this or even on a much more moderate
day."

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, DEC. 21.
This is the period when the half-yearly dividends
of the Scotch banks are usually paid, but as the
amount of the dividends are not quoted it is to be
feared that in some cases they have not reached the
customary amount, which used to be from 6 to 8 per
cent. Parties who have sold out of joint stock con-
cerns are at great pains in announcing that they have
done so. The Glasgow Herald of yesterday contains
advertisements of this description from eighteen dif-
ferent individuals, certifying, in legal form, that they
have disposed of shares in thirty undertakings of the
clams referred to. The effect of this will be to depre-
ciate some kinds of stock unnaturally, and to cause
an artificial panic, the alarmists overlooking that cer-
tain kinds of enterprise can be best undertaken by
(joint stock effort, and that, properly conducted,
they must prove the safest and most ex-
tensive form of investment in this country. The
Ayrshire Iron Company shareholders have, according
to the report of to-day, subscribed 100,0001. for the
immediate satisfaction of creditors, and are prepared
to pay that amount within a month.
The convenor of the sheriffs of Scotland having
ordered blank forms of anti-nuisance proclamations to
be filled up by each sheriff, intimation was sent,
amongst others, to Sheriff Alison. The learned judge
wrote to the Glasgow town council that, having no I
funds at his disposal for such a purpose, he would
defray paper and print if the council would pay for
the bill-sticking. The council munificently agreed ;
but it is really humiliating that the fiscal power of a
sheriff should be so limited as to make such a paltry
matter the subject of formal negotiation. In Fdin-
burgh, Dr. Alison has submitted a proposal to the
metropolitan council in reference to the apprehended
approach of cholera.
At is understood that the liabilities of the Ayrshirel
Iron Company amount to 217,0001., and that the
assets, consisting of property and debts, amount to
71,0001. The number of partners is stated -at 196,
which would give 8001. to be made up by each. But
about 100 are worth nothing, and of the balance many
have become insolvent, so that the ultimate extent of
the mischief is still incalculable. It is said that a
payment of 10e. in the pound is to be offered for Jan.
15, and that bills are to be granted for the remaining
10s., and 5 per cent. interest, payable in equal insbil-
manta, at the end of six and twelve months. Various
rumours are current as to whether these proposals
have either been made or accepted ; but in a diess
time the formal investigation will be =nomad—
which is particularly desirable, as the general &say
is favourable to the propagation of all-kinds of exag-
gerated reports. The stern testimony of the Gazette,
however, leaves no doubt as to the extent and seve-
rity of the disasters.