The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DCBLIN, Oct. 3.
The Cork Om*ldidinti says that letters hare been
reetivetl,stating that the office of Professor of Eng-
lish Law in the (4th VW>, College, Cork, had been con-
temn upon Mr. o.lkointll. This gentleman it is
understood is the win of a Fellow of Trinity Cu)-

The same journal. with reference to the appoint-
ment ur u Medical Charities Cummissionvr, says:

The party *imposed to he best informed on the subject,
prwitively uw•rta that Dr. Power, one of the members for
tha einusty of Cork, never wiliriteil the office of Commis-
blotter under the Medical Charities Aet. Ile further tie-
elares that he iv unaware of any reasons the prevent go-
vernment could have for conferring 1,4001. a year upon that
honourable gentleman. .

The new Catholic Defence Association have begun
their career with nu attempt to perpetrate a job,
which. chiefly trout the grain ingratitude which it
imolves. leis given rise to Wong lee:ings of disgust.
Every Mk! who know. anything of the cireummtunees
under which the neent aggregate meeting for
fountiing the new itssociation took place, is well
aware that it:. tillaVV4 W 446 in a great measure owing
to the indefatigable and persevering efforts of Mr.
Janus Burke, the nern•tare. llowever, as anon as
the work VI .1% wane thousands of letters written

and distrihuteil, .111111.. Nil& ellikettli, and the
association istablishril on a basis, such as it
is, ii. became .ilivious that there was a '
desire among certain members of the Irish bri-
gade. who took an active part in the concluding
atagni of the business, to throw NIT. Burke over-
board. and tliuus obtain for:00111C creature of their own
an employment which might then be expected to be-
come u lucrative one. Aecortlingly a notice appears
in the pnps•rs that "applications will be received
from parties desirous to till the office of paid seere-
tary to the Catholic Defence Association, up to the
13Ch of Oetober ' • letters. aw. aw., to be addresired to
John Iteynolds, Esq., M.P.. &c. &e." It is only jus-
tice to 11w Roman catholic prelates to state that they
have taken no put in this attempt to oust their
foram: secret ary.
Mr. Ile S ili.., one of the directors of the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Steam Packet Company, has been
visiting Galway, Limerick, and other Irish ports,
with it view, it is supposed, of ascertaining the capa-
bilities for mean steam navigation. .tt an extraor-
dinary meeting of the Galway Ilarbour Commis-
sioners convened to nveive him, Mr. Ott Sails said—
I ant hen. merely as a private individual, sleeken to see
asyn.lf the ae,,inimodation which your harbour atfbrds, and
amnion., also, to turword the great question of quick ems-
munkation with Am,!rira, which interests not alone Ireland,
but the entire of the ia.perial kingdom. The selection of
a packet station is one it aurally much connected with that
great emigration which is streaming from the shores of
Ireland to Ami ilea. Much has been said about the preju-
dieial effects of that emigration, but in my mind the ques-
tion is one which has ben greatly misunderstood, for it this
emigration be properly directed and assisted, it must ne-
cessarily become a great means of permauently developing
the resources of Irela.ol. One of the main objections to the
prevent emigration was, that the poor man left his country
without any hope of return to his native land. The idea
was excluded from his mind, and the means of return vir-
tually deninl to the emigrant. 'lbis resulted from the dis-
tance as well as the eliptlllie attendant on the voyage.
Diminish the distance from fourteen days to six by the
judicious 'diction of a packet station in Ireland, and the
establishment of a line of powerful screw steamers, adapted
for the coon, once of the humbler classes, at moderate fares
compared with those which now rule, and you at once give
the emigrant facilities, nut only for going out, but also for
returning, which do not now exist. If the passage were
thus reduced to the short space of six days, the idea of a re-
turn to Ireland. might become as familiar to the tined of the
Irish emigrant 3s it is to those countless reapers wbo pro-
ceed annually from Ireland to England. I'eople would go
out with the object of working hard and returning to buy
their farms iu the ..113.3e of a few years. Many individuals
would came luck with their hard-earned American dollars.
Suppose only 1,000 returned in each Near with 200 f. to 3001.
each, what a large aunt would he ditfosed in the country ;
and it would all he applieeKto industrial purposes. The re-
turned emigrants, besides bringing money with them, would
bring what was beyond price—the results act their expe-
rience, gaiued in a foreign land, which they would impart
and lit use in this country. They would bring habits of
order and industry; they would istablish what is so much
wonted here—y,oinen farmers. It is because I am impressed
with the importance of laying the foundation of ouch a mea-
sure, the result of which would be ouch as I have described,
that 1 hints Collie to your town. At the same time 1 wish
it to be understood that I am not the advocate of any par-
ticular harbour or locality. A great mistake was made by
Irish interests at the time when the parliamentary commis-
sion was appointed to inquire into the means of expediting
transatlantic communication. Instead of all uniting heart
and hood for the purpose, they split into separate parties.
It was to be regretted that Cork should have tried to detract
from the merits (it Limerick, and Limerick from those of
Galway. It would have been much better if they had com-
bined to bring about a favourable consummation of the
inquiry.
At a meeting of the Belfast Town Council on
Wednesday, the following report on the question of
en Irish Transatlantic Packet-station was presented.
It will be perceived that the conclusion arrived at is,
that Galway is the harbour that should be selected,
and that branch lines of railway connecting Belfast
with Niulliogar, and thus with Galway, should be
at once constructed, so as to render the communica-
tion perfect. The report says that these lines are
already projected, and intimates that there is reason
to expect that they will be speedily completed.
The transit of goods by the proposed hue of
packets is also disewised, and the committee con-
cludes that much of the lighter fabrics of the west of
Scotland, and all the goods manufactured in Belfast
for the North American markets will be transmitted
by dim peskets.
Tho following is the report :
The town council of this borough have been invited, by a
aismadeition received front the committee appointed at a
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convened by the Bight lion. the Lord Mayor of
to give expression to their opinion on the subject,
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and political relations which have been created there, by
streams of emigration issuing from the variant nations of
Europe, renders it the immediate interest .of all that their
Intercourse and correspondence should be facilitated to the
highest degree attainable, by the application of science in
ireereemiag tie difficulties and obstructions of nature.
"Illegewiesseents and people of .Nortli:.tincrica have not
bus lbw W psuecive or to acquit themselves of their ant, in 1
this regard ; sad, by the formation of a railroad to Halifasl
the most easterly point of departure, by the laying down of
telegraphic wires, and by the acceleration of steam naviga- ,
tics, they have attested their readiness to perform, to the I
I utmost, their part, for the realisation of this great object.
It is earnestly to be hoped that, in meeting theirs by eorre-
sponding efforts on this side of the Atlantic, the project will
be taken up Btu. enlarged and national spirit, uninfluenced
by narrow or localised interests.
'On the recognised principle of combining the meet direct
journey by land, with the shortest possible voyage by sea, a
glance at the map is sufficient to show that the coast of Ire-
land is the point of Europe on the west which most nearly
approaches to the point of departure from the continent of
America on the east, and that between these two the sea
voyage is reduced to the shortest possible limit.
' Hitherto, however, owing to the want of rapid means of
transit across Ireland rom west to east, that route has (not
unreasonably) been set aside, and the passage to Liverpool
from the United States has been effected by the mem pro-
longed course of the Irish Cannel, after taking • eirenit
either mond Cape Clear to the south, or lanistrahull to the
north.
" Ireland, from her defective resources, has thus opposed
an obstruction, when her geographical position entitled
her to present a facility for expediting the intererurasof
Europe with America. But Irish enterprise has at length
assisted us to get rid of this reproach ; the opening of the
Irish Great Western Railway from sea to realm advanced
the direct line of British communication from Holyhead to
Galway, and thus enabled Ireland to assume a beeemieg
position, and to claim her rightful share its conducting the
great march of intercourse from the Old World to its set-
tlements in the New. It is neither consistent with the
duty of England, nor reconeileable with the requirements
of uther European states, that this claim should remain
unrecognised; and we are fully of opinion that Ireland
must, of necessity, become the terminus to the line of
communication on this side of the Atlantic. Under this
conviction, your committee have felt their duty, on the pre-
sent occasion, to be limited to a consideration of the port
on the western coast, the selection of which as a packet
station they believe to be the most desirable fur the trade
of Belfast, and most conducive to the advancement of Imo'
land universally.
" In pursuance of this train of inquiry, they are anal&
mously of opinion that, of all the harbours whose facilities
have hitherto been under consideration, Galway presents
the greatest combination of advantages, and is, in a national
point of view, the best entitled to adoption. Even pre-
suming its capabilities and accommodation to be no more
than equal to those of other localities, its central position
would be sufficient to confer on it this superiority. A direct !
line of railway from Galway already carries the communi-
cation due eastward, through Connaught and Leinstes, and
its extension either towards the South or the North will
distribute similar advantages to Munster and Ulster. The
whole extent ul Ireland will thus be benefited by the adop-
tion of the central line from Galway to Dublin, whereas
the selection of a harbour at either extremity would more
ur less limit and localise any molting improvement.
" As more immediately concerns Belfast and the northern
Vits of Ireland, the advantages of a packet station in the
est must be conducted towards us by means of an exten-
sion of the present system of railroads, so as to connect
our port with that of Galway. And so steadily is
public anticipation directed to the completion of the whole
project that preliminary steps are, as your commit-
tee have been informed, already in process fur connecting
the counties of Westmeath, Cavan, Monaghan, and Ar-
magh, with the county of Antrim, by menus of a branch
line from Mulliegar, passing through Cavan, Clones, and
'onaghan ; so as ultimately to unite with the Ulster Rail-
road at Armagh, and thus carry through the communication
to Belfast.
"A further junction is likely to take place between this
projected branch and the railroad from Londonderry to En-
niskillen. The details of these projects have been before
your committee; but without incumbering this report with
these minutir, it is sufficient to state their result. Of
eighty.one miles of uew railroad required to connect Belfast
with Galway, negotiations are now in progress for eon-
structing one-half; and lees than thirty miles will suffice
to connect Londonderry with the main line east of Ennis-
killen. Thus, by the formation of 110 miles of new rail- I
way, the port of Galway will he brought into direct com-
munication
with Londonderry on the north, with Belfast'
on the north-east, and with Dublin on the eastern coast ;
and a southern extension of the Oalway line will place it in
similar connesion with Cork and Limerick.

To the manufacturing and trading classes of the north
of Ireland it must be a manifest advantage to be thus
placed in communication with the agricultural and pasture
districts of the west—an advantage which would be reci-
procated by affording to the graziers and fanners of the
central and southern counties a ready market fur their pro-
duce and cattle, in Belfast and the large towns of Ulster.
" As regards the cummeree of Belfast, and the surround-
ing districts, your committee are of opinion that, whilst the '
moat striking advantages would be realised by the trans-'
minion of correspondence and telegraphic communications,
and the acceleration of passenger traffic, the ultimate con-
veyance of goods and merchandise is not to be excluded
from consideration . • and, from the inquiries which your
committee have made on the subject, they believe that our
linens, and plain and sewed muslin, would be generally
shipped by Galway instead of Liverpool, and that, uy the
adoption of proper precautions on the part of the railway
companies, the sick of damage would not be increased.
the same remarks will, to a certain extent, appl
squally to the lighter manufacture of the West of Scotland,
whirls might be expected to be transmitted by way of Bel-
fast to Galway; but the great object to be secured, both fur
Scotland and Ireland, by • line of railway connecting Bel-
fast with Galway, as the port of shipment for America, will
be the expediting of mercantile correspondence, the trans-
mission of telegraphic despatches, and the facilitating, in
rapid conveyance, passengers to and from the United
States.

"On this branch of the subject the committee cannot with- I
hold the expression of their opinion that, however well
suited the present class of Atlantic steamers may be fur a
service combining the carriage of heavy goods with the
transport of mails and passengers at a moderate rate of
speed, the paramount object of promoting emigration and
the colonisation of our own possessions in North America
can only be effectually secured by the adoption of vessels of
►uch enlarged dimensions, and proportionate increase of
power, as will enable them to carry out settlers of a middle
class at rates much below the present scale of fares by the
passenger steamers. Emigration so facilitated and con-
dueled by the great railway now in progress of formation
from Halifax to Quebec, will be directed towards the vast
and almost unoccupied territory of Great Britain on the
American continent, where it will locate our surplus
population in another and not remote possession of the
Crown, instead of crowding, as they now do, in weekly
thousands, to transfer their labour and allegiance to a foreign
and a rival state.

'lly meanie,' this great line of communication maintained
from Halifax to Galway the merchants and travelers from
the United States, who are interested in the manufactures
and commerce of Ireland, will be conveyed direct to Belfast
and the manufacturing districts, instead of being carried, as
they now are, past their point of destination, and landed in
Liverpool, with a further voyage of 300 miles back and for-
ward across the Irish Channel ; whilst, on the other hand,
u the saving of time will always be • leading consideration
with the mercantile classes of every country, the foreign
' merchants who now make their voyages to America from
the ports of Ironer and of Germany will be induced to take
this, the most certain and direct route across the Atlantic,
and thou, by bringing Ireland and her manufactures more
directly under the notice and observation of new classes of
visitants, add to the activity of her industry and the eaten-
ohm of her trade.
Your committee cannot reject the hope, amounting to a
conviction, that the further examination of this important
subject will outlive to satisfy the government and the people
of Great Britain of the soundness of these views, and lead to
the adoption of Galway as the point of departure for Ame-
rican intercourse ; thus securing to England herself, and to
her continental neighbours, the benefits of the most direct,
the most expeditious, and the most certain communication
with the states the American continent, and securing to
Ireland the benefits which nature and providence have con•
(erred on her in her physical and geographical position.
" JoIIN COLEMAN, Chairman.
Belfast, September 29,1831."

ASo KILLED DE Ills FATHER.—O 4 the morning
of the '2Sth ult., John Jingles, of Ballyedward, near Lame,
having, unfortunately, some quarrel with his son, a lad
about seventeen years of age, struck him a blow with his
hand, when the boy fell down and never spoke afterwards.
The unhappy parent was arrested, and a coroner's jury
returned a verdict in accordance with the facts.—Belfast
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