The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1851.

IRELAND.

Drning, APRIL 12.
ANOTHER "INTENDED NUN."

In the Irish Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday
next, or as early as possible after the opening of
term on that day, a matter will, I understand, be
brought before the public which will present a pa-
rallel, on a humble scale, to the famous Talbot case.
In the present instance the case will come before the
court in the shape of a motion for a writ of ;Wheat: j
corpus to remove a young lady from a convent in the
west of Ireland and restore her to the care of her
father, whose position, as proprietor and editor of one
of the most thoroughgoing -Roman catholic news-
papers in the country, will not be the least remarkable
feature in the affair. The young lady has, I believe,
been residing in the convent for the last year, with
the intention of becoming a nun, and her father,
who is strongly opposed to her adoption of that mode
of life, has made frequent but fruitless efforts to
have her restored to his roof. His applications
to the Roman catholic prelate of the locality to inter-
fere have been all in vain ; and his offer to send back
the girl to the convent at the end of a year, if she
were allowed to return to him, and still persisted in
her intention to embrace a religious life, undertaking
then to give her the fortune of 54aff. which he had
intended for her, with his full consent that she
should become a nun, having been rejected, he has
resolved on taking the only course which remained
open to him—that of appealing to the laws of the
country. The ease, if it come en, will, in the present
state of public feding, be sure to excite considerable
sensation.

The Enniskillen election terminated yesterday in
the return of Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., by a majority of
17; the numbers being, fur Whiteside 85, and for
Co'bun 6s. All the Roman eatholies voted against
Mr. Whiteside, whose brilliant efforts in defending
the late Mr. O'Connell and the Young Itvlandersl
must ever eueuil so remarkable a plate in the his-
tory of the lnsh bar. Mr. IVhiteside's opponent
was, besides, openly pledged to support the strongest
measure of resistance to papal aggression; but the
popular object was to break down the monopoly of
the Enniskillen flintily, which had converted the
town into a poeket-borough, and whose nominee Mr.
Whiteside was ; and the Olen has hien unavailing.

The secretary of the Longford Club writes to the
Freeman's Journal to deny very emphatically that
there was any "mistake" on the part of the club in
supposing that Mr. Serjeant Shea had declined to
stand for the county. lie asserts that the learned
scrjeant's reply was clear and unmistakeable; and
that they had no other resource but to choose an-
other candidate. Scrjeant Shea, on arriving in Long-
' ford, finding such to be the state of things, and that
the club had definitively resolved on returning Mr.
More ()Terra'', finally abandoned the field ; but, to
compensate him for the disappointment the liberal
club of Meath, at a meeting held in Navan on
Thursday, selected hint and Mr. Lucas of the Mkt
as their candidates for the nest election.
The (lalgonu estate of the Earl of Mountcashell
was put up for sale yesterday in Iklfast, under the
order of the Encumbered Estates Commissioners.
The attendance of purchasers, chiefly local capital-
ists, was very large, awl the competition exceedingly
spirited. The estate contains 0,392 statute acres, let
to 303 tenants, chiefly on leases terminable, at the
aggregate rent, of 3,0,41. 17s. 7d., subject to
101. 4s. 2d. tithe rent-charge, leaving a clear profit

rent of 3,0211. his. id., and the aggregate amount
of the biddings is 64,525/.. which is 1,000/. more
than 21 years purchase on the present net letting of
3,021/. 15s. id., and it is confidently believed that
the commissioners will ratifv the sale by declaring
the highest bidder the purchaser in every instance.
The Leinseer Erprenv says:
We understand that the Earl of Portarlington wilt not
become the purchaser of Emo Park, so that that part of the
family estate now aikerti ed for tale must, within a few
weeks, he submitted to auction in small lots, to suit pur-
chasers. There have been hut one or two small limbs of
this vast estate yet sold, which produced near to til,ooo/.,
which has been distributed to thow first entitled ; there is
29,iasii. per annum yet to be sold ; including the towns of
Itoscria, l'ortarliagton, tic., all of which will be submitted,
in small lots, to public auction during this nod the next
year.