The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Faa. 25.
The country papers suggest no very agreeable
prospects. In Galway, King's, and Queen's County,
and Waterford, the condition of the people is miser-
able, but the deaths are not so numerous as in dis-
tricts loss accessible to provisions. Cork announces no
fresh flood of mortality, although the destitution can
scarcely be said to have decliued. Skull has deprived
the neighbouring. district of Bantry of much of its
melancholy notoriety, still Bantry is m a very pitiable
state, the number of deaths iu the workhouse for the
last fortnight being 110 out of 800 inmates. Another
county town, Clonakiltv, begins to prefer claims
on public sympathy. the mistress of the work-
school, in which orphan children have been educated
in lacework of a very superior description, and which
has been encouraged by her Majesty, appeals to the
public for her little ones, who, she says, "are dying
in awful numbers." The lady patronesses of the locality
should look to these suffering innocents. In the city of
Cork, fever now excites more apprehension than famine,
ar.d efforts are being made to provide as largely as
possible for the maintenance of the public health. At
a meeting of one of the relief committees a very sug-
gestive communication was received from the firm of
Messrs. Johnson and Co., offering to supply Indian
corn before April next at 565. the quarter, provided
1,300 or 1,500 should be required. The letter was
accompanied with samples of rice, of which 20 tons
were ordered at the rate of 221. per ton. The present
price of Indian corn per quarter is nearly 80s.
A number of hands are employed in clearing the
site of the New Munster College in Cork. The work
itself will be immediately commenced, which will
afford employment to a great number.
It is rather remarkable that works of a reproduc-
tive character exist only in name. In seventy-
seven baronial meetings, portions of the preeent-
• I ments were taken for drainage, but in not half-a-
dozen instances have the promised works been
carried. into effect. In Wexford, where the largest
sums were taken for drainage, not a proprietor, I un-
derstand, is fulfilling his contract with the public
distress. In many districts, the baronies have been
again convoked, to employ the destitution which it
was calculated drainage would absorb.
The Central Belief Committee has exhausted its
funds, after having accomplished much good. At the
meeting of the committee, yesterday, the Archbishop
at Derry in the chair, the following resolution was
ado:
That pted.
in consequence of the almost exhausted state of
oar funds, we deem it imprudent to make any further grants
for the present. We are obliged to come to this resolution
with the utmost reluctance, more aptcially so, from the
tenor of the query sheets that lie before us for consideration,
there appears to be a very formidable increase of destitution
in all parts of Ireland.

EDZI•LISATION OF Poon.RATEL—It is aonousced in the
Wexford papas of to-day, that the two county members,
t .goher with the member for the town of Wexford, as well
as the borough of New Ross, will all support that pineiple
of Lord John Russell's measure of poor relief, which goes
to equalise the rating on the several Irish unions.
A New LIBERATOIL—The repealer* of Wexford town,
at a recent meeting of their body, adopted a petition for
repeal, which they agreed to entrust to Lord John Russell
for presentation.
DISTRESS IN CIALWAT.—This County bids fair to rival,
in the painful interest of its social relations, Mayo and Cork.
In the Galway Vindicator of today are contained commu-
nications from several clergymen—one dates that in the
district of bloycullen there were, within a week, fifteen
deaths by starvation—a sixteenth csrpee was found exposed
ofu oaamwosuntafionurin lieeasame district. oul
ths had occurred iin theurb same
parish
period, and one additional death from want had occurred in
a second suburb. In the midst of this destitution
it is grateful to know that much has been done to alleviate
the condition of the Claddagh fishermen. From a fund of
1001. contributed for that purpose by the benevolent body of
which Mr. Poster is the agent, sums were expended suffi-
cient to release from pawn the nets of 44 fishermen, and a
sum of Its. 9d. each was given them for boat stores. The
bads put to sea, and in the course of one night caught fish
of the] value of 2t. 9s. to such boat. The result of this
seasonable relief has been to take from the relief funds the
subsistence of the familes of those 44 fishermen.
MIDLAND COUNTIER—The destitution of those midland
counties bordering upon Munster seems characterised by
great severity. Deaths by hunger are, the journal published
in Hire, the centre of this district, amines us, of daily preva-
lence both in the King's and Queen's counties, as well as the
adjacent parts of Tipperary and Kilkenny, and fever and
dysentery carry off a large number, while many of the poor
remain several data unburied, because their friends arc un-
able to provide coffins for their decent sepulture. The misery
at Dungarvon is described as extreme, and the people have
become so dissatisfied with the measures for their relief that
they threatened disturbance, ard the magistrates have
assembled at the *all of Lord Stuart de Deciee and Lord
Huntingdon, to request an addition to the police force.
A MURDER TRIETT-SIX YRAID AOO.—A man named
Malone has been committed to the gaol of the Queen's
County for • murder committed in the year 1811. After
the murder, the accused escaped to America, but returned,
and has lived in Ireland for the last eighteen yearn.