The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-14 00:00:00

LEWES FAT STOCK SHOW.

The anneal show of fat stock tack place on Tues-
day. and was very largely supplitd with ear •lleut beef The
steers were annally fine, and excited the adtuiration of ell
who beheld them. The t r.. i beasts were placed, as usual, in
Albite-sweet The Moieties is very conliaid; sod we are
rather surprised net a more @pea span is not *sleeted.
At three o'clock nest forty est down to dinner, at the
White Hart Hotel ; Sir Henry Shiffser, But., in the chair,
and Mr. Hart, vice-chairmsa•
In giving " Snows to the Lewes Fat Stock Show," the
Makatea said the show was better than hat year, sad would
have lama better still if the Smithfield show had not taken
place the mum day, as a great quantity of the Mock which
had bees serried to Senithilaki would have been shown et
Lewis. The same resatuk applied to the attendance of
ampaay.
The Chaffin' Ikea read the award of the judges.
Two 32 month withers, Inhibited as extra Make were
highly commended.
oar 20.mentle withers, belonging to Messrs. W. and T.
Arakeoll, were Mao highly commended.
Three four-yesr.old withers, of Sir H. Shifter, fed only
cm white carrots, were aoticed as a great novel.y.
The show of sows and pip were spoken of as superior to
say before theme at Lewes.
After sassy complimentary toasts, the chairman left, and
the company shortly afterwards terminated.

IRELAND.
Dcaux, Dsc. 12.
The Mail of this teeming thus refers to a paragraph
from the Limerick Chronsck, which appeared in the
Daily News of Tuesday, describing a protectionist
petition to her Majesty, on the state of Ireland:
We published in our last the concluding portion of a
peaks to her Majesty on the present state of Ireland,
whisk we copied from the Limerick Chronicle. We are''
menrised to state that these is no paragraph in the docu-
ment relative to the abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy of
Imbed. The address has already obtained the signatures
t the asjwity of the Irish peen, and is now in course of
eiresthition snag the membere of the House of Commons.
When siva& by members of both of the legislature,
as desement will be blished sent round the country
Maths limestone of the sagistraus, resident gentry, and
bra of Ireland.
The addrees to Lord Alden, according to the Eves-
ing Mail, has already reenived " the better part of a
thousand signatures of magistrates and deputy-lieu-
tenants, rot to mention peers, members of parliament,
and other gentlemen." As there are only about three
thousand magistrates and deputy-lieutenants is
Ireland, the number stated above would form a very
considerable proportion of the whole, and considering
the strong feel;ng of bigotry which pervades so large
a portion of the class, that proportion would not be
matter for wonder ; but the Mod leaves us in the dark
as to how mach the "better part of a thousand" is.
The Evening Mail gives the following account of
an eitempt at assassination in the county of Carlow :
On B.inday evening, at 10 o'clock, a shot was find Into the
drawing-room window of the residence of Henry Drury,En.,
at Bhetswosd, in the county of Carlow, within sae mile of
ICildavia. Miss Drury was at the time sitting close to the
window. The family were about commencing evening
see ; and, we regret to say, one ballet entered bar cheek,
them teeth, and lacerating her tongue ; fire bullets
It the shutter, and some even through the doer
s bath drawing-room. The police from Tunow, with
Midednfrebeff Goold, were on the spot in two hours, sad
Mot swam direcud to Mr.,Drery, dairies him to inform
Kr. Dewing, the head landlord, to prorate his coMa if be
was Est partial to his BellinveUey tenants. This explained
the to Mr. Drury and Mr. Downing the cause of
the entrap, sad threw suspicion cn the parties concerned'
is it.
The Mail adds that a gun, recently discharged, has
been found by the police in the house of one of the
tenant&
The weather continues excessively b3isterous and
severe. Accounts from all parts of the ceuntry de-
scribe the land as utterly unprepared to receive seeds,
and the winter sowing of wheat has been almost
everywhere postponed in consequence. The inces-
sant rains have steeped the surface in a pezm silent
dood which defies drainage for the present; and is
some places we hear of the peasantry being obliged
to drive their cattle to a distance to find dry ground
for them to stand on. About Belfast the floods have
committed a great deal of mischief, the linen having
been carried into the river off some of the bleach.
greens, and several houses having been inundated.
This morning and dark g the put night the gale we
have had from the north-east might be termed a
storm ; and as the winds from that point and round
to the south-east, have prevailed with great severity
during the past fortnight, the shipping in the Chan-
nel have been exposed to great disasters along the
Irish coast.
The Eretting Mail gives the following curious and
striking statement of the mode in which some of the
Irish properties have booms incumbered to the pre-
sent swamping extent. After referring in a pitiless
tone to the oases of two Irish noblemen, whose estates
are before the commission, and dwelling on the
Shyloek-like exactions of the mortgagees, the Mail

Mlyb :
We are enabled to illustrate our statement by a
wally eonneeted with one of the estates alluded to fa this
article. Bosse years ago A sold an estate to 13 for 70,0001.,
Wag about 35 years' purchase on a very high valuation,
and, instead of payment, accepted a mortgage at 5 per cent.,
secured upon the whole of the inmate" estates of the per-
chaser. Ever since that period, therefore, A has received
an sassed payment of 3,5001., the biters@ of his mortgage,
which was *early double the "mount of the fames of the
estate which he had sold. That was a_ good bargain ; but
there was nothing wrong in it. lie did not want to part
with his land; but the purchaser was urgent, and would
sot be deeded. Accordingly he made him pay well for it.
The present vein* of that property is probably about 6001.
a year. Certainly, at the most extravagant calculation,
it will not sill for 18,0001. • but A being the first inane-
hemmer on the whole posses'sioas of the present unfortunate
proprieter, will be entitled to draw his 70,0001. out of the
proceeds of the general confiscation before any other creditor
can touch a farthing. Thus, then, the case stands in point
of fact: A, an English mortgagee, during the twenty years
(It is about that period) sines he ceased to be the nominal
sweet of that estate, has received a sumo( 70,0001. interest
is his mortgage, that is, shout 34.0001. over and above what
le could have received had he contiased is possession and
received the rent' in full. Bat he is presently to draw the
sum covenanted in the male of the estate ; that is,
.710i,10; so that he is now virtually is the condition of a
mite, who is the year 1550 sells en estate worth about 6001.
er 8001. a year in Ireland, for 1001. and 4,0001.! This is
perhaps an extreme ease, though true to the letter ; but
it is not aa unfair c xemplification of the different measures
of justice which by virtue of the Encumbered 'restates'
.Act, is about to be dealt to Irish proprietors and English

neertgas.
The Runner of Ulster thus mentions a singular
proceeding of the Marquis of Downshire
A Rood deal of oriaversation, together with • oonaiderabl-
amount of *. *deist animatice," has been the 'consequence of
• rather peculiar movenuat made by the Marquis of Downs
shire at a mediae of the Lisburn Poor Law Guardians held
se Tuesday. The noble marquis ia chairman of the board,
cad ea Mere is, is point of plural principle, no substantial
difference between the anion schools end the schools under
the Board of Maimed Education, a number of the oldest
ationben of the Board of Guardians in Lisburn deemed it
expedient to bare their own abode formally plated
nadir the national system. Accordingly, on Tuesday
last the question was regularly brought forward, and, Aar
a lengthened disenesion, it was put to the vote, sad wee
carried in the affirmative. by meshes out of twenty-two
reemben in attendatos. During the previous discussion,
Lied Dowcatthe had net interfered beyond his usual habit
on ether questions • but when it was sem that a resolution
to favour of national education had bees es sweepingly car-
ried, big lordship immediately rose and declared, that, since
the guardians had gem so directly In opposition to his own
oplakus oa that subject, hewoola so barer continue chair.
nese of the union ! TM gusedians were, donne, surprised
at this imperious resolve, sad a good deal of canverration
ensued, the smolt of whirl was that they agreed to re•con-
eider the matter, end, in feet, to debits and vote it over
seals at their next violably meeting.
A fifth death has resulted from the explosion of a
bailer In Mr. Roberahompson'a printworke, Belfast.

Limns mos Ms. Bmrrii O'BILIEN.—We (Lime-
rick Reporter) have been favoured by we istensed friend and
fellow-utizes, end • devoted Masi of Kr. William Smith
O'Brien, wilt the following 'street of a letter, written ea
bawd the liwift when nearing the Cape of Good Repo:—
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of deed Hope. B. plumber 12, 1849. My deer —, &-
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