The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dr 'tux, 31.
The Trish tenant league held a Inciting yeMA:tensterday
for the purpose, as they described it in their placards,
of hearing " a ttatement from the parliamentary
reprmentatiers as to the workings of the select com-
mittee on the land bills, and to take counsel together
for the further advancement of the cause generally."
The muster on the occasion amounted to some tifty
or sixty persons, chiefly Roman catholic prices, from
various parts of Ireland, the only members of parlia-
ment among them being Mr. Potter, Mr. Lucas, and
Mr. C. G. Duffy. Mr. Potter took the chair, and
among a batch of apologetic letters which were reed
were brief notes from Mr. Serjcant Shee, M.P., and
Mr. S. Dab, M.P., the writers of the others being
chiefly presbyterian and Roman catholic clergymen,
who expressed their sentiments in a tone very sub-
dued when compared with what it used to be a short
time since.

The Ch t;rman said it appeared very desirable that the/
country stioull know what had been done in parliament,
and what yet remained to be dove with relerenee to the
cause uf tenant right. (Ilear.) lie bad not himself been
placed on the parliament try committee, but having attenl4
in his place in parliament, he was able to state that at yet
the question of tenant right had not b.en fully brought be-
fore the House of Commons or the English !venial.. (Hear,
hear) It was their intention, and he believed it to be eh-
solu'ely nneestary, to educate the English members ut par-
liament and the people of England generally upon the ques-
tion of tenon: right, and the other CLAMS and requirements
ut Ireland ; atm with that view *event of the Irish re-
presentatives had promised to place tho.r views before the
English members of the House 6f Cannelton*, and to put
thin its 1'111%1'4011 of important facts, showing how this
century had been treated from the time ef Oliver Ctemwell
down to the present momen'. (Lear, hear.) Thu Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer had cut the matter very short v. hen
it estate on for discussion in the house, by rending it to •
committee; and it was a remarkable feet that although tins
only person who was allowed to express his views was the
hon. member fm Meath (Mr. Lucas), yet be had heard that
one member of parliament at least—he referred to Mr.
Drummond—was converted by his speech on that:oecasion
fur he (Mr. Drummond) came forward and expressed very
strong opinions with respect to who: would be bectileial and
useful to Ireland. (liter, hear.)
Mr. Duffy, M.P., and Mr Lucas, M.P., having expressed
an unwillingness to communicate intOrmation relative to the
roc' edings of the par iatueutary committee, in a meeting to
which the reporters of the public press had been admitted,
a disen-simi to-k place as to the propriety of admittio4 or
excluding the public press whilst those gent:a.m.:a were ad-
dressing the meeting on the matter in questiou ; an I it was
finally resolved that the reperters should be requested to
withdraw fur the space of one hour, ut the expiration of
which period they were to be iavitol to att. uel again, in
order to r: port the remainder of the proe.sedings.
The reporters of the several morning wiper+ then with-
drew, and after the lapse of an hour (Si 64:11. Lucas and
DAV having addressed the meeting in the meantime),
they were requested to return, when, in consequence of
what transpire,: during their absence, a re solution was
reeved, seconrted, and passed, to the effect thet the Council
of the League sksuld rewaiu in private confers nee for the
rest if that day, and that a public meeting should be held
on the day following of all parties friendly to the cause of
tenant-right.
The remainder of the proceedings were conducted with
closed doors.

The t;altray Vindicator states that one hundred
and live persons had just left that town per train en
route for America, and that a vessel with one hundred
and thirty emigrants on hoard, fur the sante destina-
tion, was about sailing from the, port. The results
of the emigration and evictions of late years are, it
is stated, beginning to be seriously felt in the western
province, in the scarcity ot labourer's for agricultural
work. The Galway Parka states that in many dis-
tricts about Tuam and Galway, it is almost impossible
to procure a sufficient number of hands to till the
soil, and those who want to employ them are obliged
to travel tulles in their search. In parts of Mayo
the labourers are already beginning to combine tor
high wages, and threats to put the Molly Maguire
code in force against the farnwrs have been math-.
The following account of a daring burglary, result-
ing in the death of one of the burglars, is given by
a correspondent of Saunders' News Letter:
Sainrone, Wednesday Evening.—This morning, twtwera
two and three o'clock, this town was thrown into a state of
excArnaint which routed the inhabitants frum their beds.
he alarm was occasioned by the report of tire-arms at the
residence ot Georg', l'erey roe, Esq., county cuss collector,
which had been attacked fur the purpose ot plan ler. Mr.
I Poe, en hearing a noise beneath his sleeping apartment,
hastily dressed, and. armed with a brace ot pistols, descended
to the drawing-mem, whew he found several men engaged
burning his papers. lie at once called on them to desist
and to surrender, which request nut being complied with,
he discharged one of the pistols (which was !:ailed with
ball), which took effect on one of the burglars, named
Thomas Stapleton, supposed to belong to Cateht.l. The
pollee soon after arrested two others ot the gang, also from
Cashel, and who gave their names as John Myan and
Michael Connell. An inquest was held on the body at
12 o'e!ock to-day, by H. T. Midgiey, Esq., coroner, when,
after a lengthened investigation, the jury returned a ver-
dict of "Justifiable homicide." They also adopted a re•
volution approving of Mr. roc's gadaut conduct oa the
occasion.

The Limerick. C'hronicle says :
Sharp frost at nigl.t, and bright sun by day, with a cold
dry temperature, peculiar to easterly wind, ire the features
of this last week of March. The ere', wheat and iced
potatoes have suffered front ungenial weathet—the former
by rrofuse moisture' and the latter by the frequent frost.
The auction of Lord Derby's stark on his Irish
estates took place near the Tipperary Junction of the
Great Southern mid Western Railway, on Wednesday
last. The sale commenced with 100 Very well
finished heifers, in pairs, at from 18/. 10s. to 151.138.
Fat and store strippers, of which there were 33,
ranged from 191. 10s. to 101. 10s; fat bullocks, from
101. to 131. 10s.; store bullocks, 3 at May, 141. 10s. to
121. 10s. • fat bulls, 18/. to 231.; 70 two-year old
heifers, irom 101. down to 81. 10s.; in calf cows and
heifers ranged Tom 101. 10s. to 13/. 135.; two-year-
old wedders, 00s. ; hog eta, from 40s. down to 381.
rt..; tub atic must Lare mimeo over

TILE GREAT INDVSTRIAL EXHIBITION, I&i3.
The progre, 3 of this great industaial elfin advancas to the
satisfaction of every one immediately interested in its com-
pletion. It will be for the public to pronounce finally upon
the result of these efforts. To prove that the desire to aid
and assist is almost universal, we have to state that the
Cunard steamers have most liberally tiered to convey all
goods for exhibition free of expense from America and
France From arrangements with the Customs authori-
ties these goods will be transmitted to the Exhibition
without the risk or inconvenience of a search at the Custom
house. The first-class steamer, the Duke of Devonshire,
belonging to the British and Irish Stearn l'acket Cam-
Oany, has also been chartered for exhibitors.
It will leave London on the 16th of April, and will
call at Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Hamburg for goods for
the Exhibition, and will sail thence direct for nubile. This
lo.ks something like real earnest work. Major Fairfield,
and Mr. J. C. Deane, the Secretary of the Exhibition, have
been for some time in London, and have succeeded in pro-
curing many fine works of art and paintings for the Exhi-
bition. Major Fairfield is at present in Paris upon the
same errand. The Lords of the Admiralty have offered to
exhibit all the models of ships, ancient and modern, in their
possession. The committee have selected a model of a dra-
chm vessel, of the reign of Ilenry VIII. ; a model of the
Royal George, sunk at Spithead fifty years ago, and several
others; and the Duke of blanchosta will also exhibit the
original models of the America, and the Maria that beat
her, the two fastest sailing vesesla probably in the world.
TIM PRISONERS HACKETT AND NOONAN.—WO
have been informed that the executioner who is to oarry
the extreme sentence of the law into effect on the 15th of
April next on these two unfoetunate men, convicted at our
last assizes for the murder of the late O'Callaghan Ryan,
Esq., has already arrived at our county prison.— 11'414i-turd
Monk*.

CLONMEL, TUESDAY EYEYING.—On Sunday morn-
' ing last a communication was received at the gaol here,
from the Chief Secretary's Office, c•immut;ng the sentence
i of death recorded against Michael Rourke at the last as-
sizes held in this town, who pleaded guilty to the murder
of a man (name unknown), but supposed to be a nattve of
the county Wexford, at Silverspring, near Clourael, to
transportation for life. Too much praise cannot be given to
Sub.constable James Browne, for his untiring exertions to
bring the perpetrator of this toul ciiine to jtotico.
EMIOIIATION.—With the roturn of spring emigra-
tion has increaso.l in this district—hairely, in the counties
of Louth nod Down, and the number who take shipping at
the ports of Newry, Dundalk, and Drogheda, is almost
incredible, many of them the better ela. of farmers, and
some in a truly wretchtd Ashdiuou.—Louth and Dore4
Pilot

GENERAL SCREW STEAM SNIPPING COMPANY:—
Yesterday being the day fixed for the half-yearly meeting
of this company, thy sharehnlders met at the Loudon Tavern.
The Chairman, Mr. J. U. Ellis, stated the, in communise
of the great intr.:an of business which had token place
during the lust nice months, it had been found impossible
to prepare the scootints in time 14 the meeting, and it
was therefore the wish of the board that the meeting
should adjourn after supplying the vacancies in the irirt ction.
After some explanation in reply to questions, Mr. Peter
11.11, Mr. Thomson, )dr. Major, and Mr. /Amber', were
re-elected directors unanimously. An aiijnarnment to the
14th of April having been %axed to, the chairman said
there were some reasons which induced him to hone that
the directors would meet the shareholders when thqi
with ple muter fetling. in referenv to thelime-
r 1 ir.ere.t. of the c.) np t!v, than thy et•in!il `nee ned if
the haa bean pew wind with tint shy. Certain
Luau, re were in a train which, he trusted, would issue in
satiolte.iuu to the sh-reholders art large. A vote of thinks
ere tI.II given to the ellairsatn, and the meeting ad-
journed.