The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-18 00:00:00

I IRELAND.

Casing, Pas. 17.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the
Countess of St. Germans gave a grand ball at the
Castle last night, to which over 800 of the nobility
and gentry were invited.
Addresses from various public bodies continue to
pour in on our new Viceroy, and his Excellency's an-
swers have been in every case such as are calculated
to give public satisfaction and secure the confidence of
all 'ranee. The following is his Excellency's reply
to an address from the South Dublin Board of Guar-
dians:
Gentlemen,—Yeur address, dated the 10th instant, and
*nod on your behalf by the chairman of your board, has
been placed this day in my hands. I receive with pleasure
pear assurance of undeviating( loyalty to oar meet fv=
lilawn, and your congratialatscias on my arrival in
siViteroy of this important part of her Majesty's doubtless.
Is my answer to the address presented to me by the Cow
pennon of Dublin, I tapered my opinion that the
impitab of this city have • peculiar claim to aid from
the public purse, and my welt that the parliament»,
foe their support may net be discontinued, nor eves
elfiaLl'd. Entertaining that opinion and that wish,
shall very willingly commend to the favourable considera-
tion of her Majesty's ministers the »presentations which
lea maks on the subject. I will at the same tints make
Mews to them the objections you urge to the removal of
the Royal 11. /pita ut Kilmainham. I am satisfied that
the slim of Lord-Lieutenant ou4ht to be maintained. I
Suitors do not hesitate to assure you that no measure
Whig foe its object the abolition of that office will be taken
with my wonr• Sr. °amuse.
Jas. 12,

, 18.53, Dublin Cantle.
A vote of thanks sad confidence in his Excellency
for the opinions expressed by him on the Dublin
Hospital and Viceroyalty questions, was adopted
yesterday unanimously 'by the guardians of the
Korth Dublin Union.
Last evening, a numerous and respectable meeting
of the citizens was held in the Mechanics' Institute,
to hear Mr. Elihu Burritt lecture on the importance
of an Ocean Penny Postage. The chair was taken
by the Lord Mayor ; and, besides Mr. Filihu Burritt,
who was loudly applauded, Mr. A. Parker, Mr. It. It.
Guinness, and other gentlemen, addressed the meet-
ing. A petition to parliament on the subject for
which they had assembled was adopted.
The detachment of the 31st Regiment, concerned
ia the affray in Six-mile-bridge, arrived in Limerick
on Tuesday from Fermoy, en route to Ennis Assizes.
The magistrates at Tuba investigation, fined sub-
eonstables Austen and Cooke 20s. each, for being in a
Iln:orderly state near Callaghan's Mills station, ani
exclaiming, "To hell with the Pope, &c."

THE CAPE AND INDIA MAIL.—The General Screw
Company's fine yesml the Queen of the South, Captain Nor-
man, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday murrains,, re-
ceived the mails tor St. Vincent, the Cape of Good Hope,
Metal. Mauritius, de., and some pwaeugen is the course of
`•• "Y, end in the evening, shortly after five o'clock, she
needed_ the Breakwater on her voyage to the Cape and
MU. This vessel taken out a very valuable cargo, arid a
number of passenrs gen.
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IN HYDE PARK.—During the last
two or three days the state of the roads out of the metropo-
has been exceedinsly bad, in consequence of the fall of
mow end subsequent frost. Omnibus drivers have had
treat difficulty is getting their vehicles up and down such
slippery roads as Piccadilly-hill, Hyde-park-corner,'
41tichtsbralge, Bayswater, de. At Knightsbridge the
reed Au proved particularly difficult, a circumstance that
lus led to a &palter, from a strict rule, via., the 'scia-
tic,a of omnibuses, Ike , from Hyde-pars. By permission of
ihn, Board of Wax!. and Works the Kensington and
ralinnn nraninuses hare been, since Monday, permitted
ent•t the perk at the principal este, and proceed to the
AD" and Kee•inetton gates, passing through the latter
into the Kensington-road.