The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 21.
Pruett Comvett. A Privy Council sat yesterday.
Amongst other matters it was ordered, that the form of
prayer for relief from the dearth and scarcity now existing
in parte of the United Kingdom, directed to be prepared and
used in all churches and chapels in Ireland, should be
further used upon all occasions when Divine Service shall be
performed, until the 2ld day of November nest.
THE LABOUR RATE ACT.
BARONY 9F HILKIINNY.—The extraordinary present-
merit sess':cus for this barony were held on Monday
last in the county court-house, which was densely
thronged. The galleries and body of the building were
tilled with an immense mass of the labouring classes
There were also a great number of the ratepayers of the
barony in a"teodance. Sir Wheeler Cuff., Bart., presided.
The Chairman addressed the court. He 'aid they had
taken a geod deal of trouble up-stairs in examining the
presentment,' which were recommended, to the amount of
7,4001., by M... Carter.—Mr. Finn thought that it would be
satisfactory to the people to inform them that the moment
the presentments were passed, the county surveyor would be
authorised to get them to work upon the works which would be
agreed upon. After reporting the items seriatim the Kilkenny
Journal says:—" We do not by any means pretend to vouch
for the accuracy of the foregoing report, for, conversant as
we are with public meetings, we must give the palm to that
of Monday as having been one of the most disorderly which
weever witnessed, and the confusion which prevailed through-
out often rendered it a matter of conjecture rather than cer-
tainty with us as to what was either said or done."
BARONY or CRENAOK.—The presentment sessions for
this barony were held at Freahford on Saturday last, d. S.
Lace, Esq.. in the chair. Having divided the barony into
electoral divisions, they proceeded to present to the amount
of ss. in the pound of the poor-law valuation. The whole
barony is rated at 3:3,3911. The presentments were mostly
for new roads, or improving of t ones. In Kilmanagh a
considerable sum was passed for drainage, and iu Ballycallan
360/. to repair the Roman Catholic chapel.
BAItONY or FASN WINEEN.—The extraordinary present-
meat sessions for this barony was held in Castlecomer, on
Friday tha 16th inst. Thomas Butler, Esq., presided. All
the neighbouring clergy, Protestant and Catholic, were pre-
sent. The sum of 10,668/, wars voted for public work'', the
poor-law valuation of the barony being 4.7941. Bs. 9 id.,
and a further sum of 20,0001. was voted to be applied for
purposes of drainer.. the amount to be spread over the
barony, and appropriated for the bem-fa of all those who
would comply with the requirements of the Lord Lieu-
tenant's circular. On the motion of Mr. Groome, a resolu-
tion wee also agreed to, setting forth the alssolute necessity
for the immediate opening of depots for the supply of pro-
visions. We understand that 1,0001. was voted for the
completion of the new Roman Catholic chapel of Castle-
comer, the parishioners promising to supply all materials at
their own expense.

PROCEEDINGS AT M A CROOM- —EXTRAO:IDINA RV PRE-
SENTMENT SESSIONS QUASH ED FOIL I NFO ILM A L:T Y.—We
learned yesterday that an official communication had been
received by the grand jury secretary, intimating that certain
presentments passed at the late sessions at Macroont, under
the Laltour Rate Act, had been annulled at the Board of
Works' 0111.:e for informality. The document is to this
effect:—After acknowledging the receipt of Mr. Johnston's
letter (the grand jury secretary) of the 14th inst., accom-
panying the presentments passed at ltlacroum sessions, it
states "that the instructions contaie'tl in the circular of
the chief secretary to the chairman of the Board of Works
not having been complied with, the presentments were in-
formal, and should be considered strictly with reference to
the 9th and 10th Victoria. We infer that this informality
refers to the presentments for drainage.
EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTMENT SESSIONS CORK
CouNtv.—The following are the amounts presented fur in
the several baronies of Cork:

WEST RIDING.
Beer
Bantry
E. D. B.Carbery .. 31,706 10 0 Battle andßarryrne 29,311 0 0
W. D. E. Carbery. . 43,245 7 6 lannalmeaky • 8,127 0 0
E. D. W. Carboy. 32,233_11.2_ Watt Munkerry

EAST 1
C 13,000 0 0
32,70 G 10 0

lIDINO.
Imokilly
Korricurriky
)(inflater ......

git 4 °I " "

Condom and ClOn- 6,707 6 0
gibbose 21,411 II 10 kinnattdloon .... 10,109 In 0
Cork
Duhallow 59,187 0 0 East 3108kerry . 40,548 3 7
Fernley...
The whole sum presented amounts to 608,0151. I ts. 7d.
WATERPORD.—DUNOAHVAN, Oct. 19.—0 n this night
sixteen pernne were added to the very gnat number already
in custody for intimidating the farmers and others to pay
back the con acre rent receis ell by them this year. They
were arrested last night in and about the neighbourhood of
Dromana and Villierstown by the police of these stations.
An investigation was held to-day previous to their being
committed for trial at the Villierstown petty sessiow, which
was attended by the local magistrates, with P. C. Howley,
Esq., A M., presided over by Lord Stuart de Decies. Those I
who were committed reached here at seven o'clock this night,
on cars, escorted by 40 cavalry-, and about 100 infantry, under
command of Colonel Sir Charles O'Donnell (acting general
on particular service, Captain Arthur James, Lord Killeen,
and P. C. Howley, R.M., and lodged in Bndewell.— Water-
ford 'Aronicle.
KING'S COUNTY AND TIPPERARV.—On Saturday, a
man of the name of Gleeson, known by the sobriquet
of Gleeson, Minor, a very poor and mis-rable being, who
had been for some years employed as bailiff and collector of
tolls in Nenagh, the father of a large and most impoverished
family, proceeded to the lands of Garnafadda, near Toome-
vara, to serve some persons with latitats for the May rent,
at the suit of a Mr. White, who resides, we hear, in the
county Limerick. Gleeson had gone to the same place on
the previous day for the same purpose, but he was set upon,
boaten,driven off, and warned on pain of death not to appear
again. Stimulated, however, by the sharp goad of hunger, and
believing himself secure from further aggression, he went
from Nenagh at an early hour on the morning in question.
About eleven o'clock, a.m., his mangled body was found on
the road, diout a mile and a half from Toomevara, a hor-
rible spectacle. The contents of a blunderbuss had been
lodged in the right shoulder; four balls penetrated the side
and through the liver, whilst his head had been beaten
with stones till the brains exuded. Life was not
extinct. The police received intimation of the oc-
currence in about a quarter of an hour afterwards,
and had the miserable poor man removed to the
station-house at Toomevara, where he remained till yester-
day, when death put a period to his sufferings. We
have heard that a latitat, intended for a person in that
district, was found on his person. We have been also in-
formed that half the rent was tendered to Mr. White, wh:eh
he refused. _

A King's County correspondent says: Here in this county
we hear every night of robberies, sheep-stealing, &c. Pro•

perty is every day becoming more insecure. Runge: has set
in with terrific violence.— Tipperary Vindicator.
BOREISOLEIOR.—" I regr.t to inform you," says a writer
in the Vindicator, "that the people of this district are at
present in great distress, and they arc submitting to it with
greater forbearance than can be expected. I know many
myself who are living on one scanty meal diming the twenty-
four hours ; there is, to be rum, some employment now going
on at the low wages of teopcnce per day. Many of them
have from five to eight in family to support on this, Re-
member my words—that if the provision depots are not
formed, as I have already alluded to, that the people will
help themselves to the food and other stock which they can
come at, and I further fear that many highway and house
robberies will be committed during the winter, and that
under cover, by idle scamps. I further beg to say that half
the people of the district are nut employed at present,
amongst whom there is a great murmur, as there are very
near 8,000 inhabitants depending solely on their labour."
STATE OP KERRY.—Ii EN NI A ILE.—A meeting composed of
the chairman of the board of guardians and relief com-
mittee for the past year, met in the board-room of the work-
house on Friday the 16th, and formed into a c )mmittee for
the present year's application of relief. The necessity of
relief is urgent, and on the suggestion of the Rev. C. Tho-
mas, put before the committee in a resolution, two hundred
pounds worth of Indian corn and meal was sent for out of
the balance of last year', subscription, which remained in
hand. The Rev. John O'Sullivan proposed that the chair-
man should call a public meeting to give an
opportunity of canvassing fur public subscriptions
to relieve the present distress. The motion was
negatived by the other reverend gentlemen who were
present, some of whom seemed to dread the congregation of
the people to,'ether. Titus the out-door relief of Friday the
IGth ended, but on Saturday the 17th, one hundred and
three paupers p...esented themselves at the poor-house, and
only forty were received, the remaining sixty-three starved
leaking fathers, mothers, and young children, were rejected,
and that relief which the laws of the land and of nature re-
quired to be extended, was refused, leaviug them to pine is
misery until relief works are opened. The offices—namely,
master, matron, and schoolmaster of the workhouse, are
vacated at the commissioners' suggestion, and remain to be
filled. Thus at present ends the mockery of relief given in •
barren, thickly ',valued barony.—Xiery. E-raminer.
OUTRAGES IN COUNTY DEHLIN.—In reference to these
outrages, the following authorised statement has been made
on the part of the commissioners of Dublin police :
" The conitubstimiers of police have taken the promptest measure*
to put all tad to the disorderly and ilkaml conduct of certain pervious
. in the neighbourhood of Bleekrock and Kingstown, affecting to be
diitressoll labourers, who have visited the houses of many individuals
in that locality, demanding work or bread, to the great alarm of the
Pmiale portion of their families. The number of the day police has
been increased. The horse police have received directions to patrol
the district, and the detective police have been employed to aacertain
the mums and addresses of the men, eo that minimums or warrants
may be token out in even' case ht which evidence of intimidation
tin obtiined. There is rani doubt that the m..gistrates will com-
mit for trial say parties against whom satisfactory evidence can be
obtained."

01.1.081T10N Tfl TILE PAYMENT OF RENTS.—On Friday
evening hat, ab•mt eight o'clock (says the Nenagh Guar-
dian), a man armed with a blunderbuss entered the dwelling
of John Cormack, of Ballyhogon, within two miles of Ne-
!nigh, and ordered Cormack not to attempt to pay any rent
whatsoever, and also &sired him to tell all the tenants on
that property to act similarly, and swore he would give the
contents of his blunderbuss to Cormack, or any one else who
paid rent. . .

Sr.r/AllE or Cnors.—At the Nenagh Petty Sessions, on
Monday, the informations of Condon and Gaynor, bailiffs on
the lands of Mr. Hill, of Doneraile, near Portrue, against
the Bryans and other tenants, for attempted rescue of sheep
and crops, were dismissed, whilst the informations of the
liryana against the bailiffs, for beating and breaking the lead
of one of the Bryans, were returned to the next Quarter Ses-
sions of Thurles. There has been much excitement and
turbulence on these lands, on which the crops were seized
for rent about six weeks ago.
EXACIION of RENTN.—SHARP Prtscrter.. —We have
hem forwarded the copy of a writ, says the Tipperary Vin-
dicator, served on a tenant near Roserea, at the suit of a
landlord for the Septem6er rent. The writ was served in
the early part of this month.
MALVEILATIONS IN Cusistrim—The Kilkenny journal
states that the fun& of Es ans's charities, administered in
that city, have been defrauded to the extent of 10,0001.
Mg. O'CoNNELL.—The Hon. and Learned Member for
Cork will arrive in Dublin about Saturday next.
EXPI:DITIOM TO EucsDon.—The Limerick Reporter, in
publishing the letter of Sir \V. Ogilvie, which I forwarded
on Sunday last, says: "Mr. John Courtenay Locke, of
Newcastle, county Limerick, has also written ■ letter, sup-
porting the project, and announcing his intention of going
out himself. At the same time we must observe that the
mayor has received a document (which he has ordered to be
posted through the streets) from the Peruvian Consulate-
office, in London, denouncing the proposed emigration as an
expedition of General Flores, in which the adventurers will
be certainly cutoff either by " the sword or the climate." If
this be true, asks the Reporter, why does not the govern-
'noir interfere, whose duty it is to protect the people, and who
have the power of prosecuting the agents under the enlist-
ment act ?

SfAF.DING.-OFFICERS OF TIM BOARD or Wintxs.—An
unpleasant occurrence (says the .Venaglt Guardian) took
place in Bola isokane on the night of Saturday, the 10th inst.,
at a play which was being performed there. It appears
that a respectable man, named Conolly, had some dispute
with a gentleman named Holmes, an engineer on the public
works. The townspeople took an active part in Mr.Conolly's
favour, and Mr. Holmes was ruined, but nothing further
occurred that night. On Wednesday night Mr. Ilolmeshad
a large number of men collected from the public works at the '
play, and rolled out to know where was Conolly,
the blackguard, and who dare groan him now?
Words went very high, and from words to blows. A
petson, named Murphy, also engaged on the public(
work., had a claimer, sithich he used most unmercifully and
stabbed two or three men with it—one of them, named John
Ardill, is still in a precarious state.. Murphy was made a
prisoner of on Monday, and taken kefore T. O. Stoney, of
Kyle-park, Esq , who would not take bail until Ardill was
pronounced out of danger. Another person, named Mossop,
got three stabs in his arm, and has had it ina sling eversince.
Mr. Conolly was not at the play on Wednesday night. Since
the above came to hand (adds the (.uardia') we have
learned that Mr. Holmes received several cuts from a sharp
knife, and that there was a regalur attempt made to wound
him severely.