The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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Draws, Om 31.
Letters and requisitions to the Executive Com-
mittee of the Exhibition are coming fr nn various
quartets, calling on them to keep the Exhibition
open during the next month, or at least for the full
period of six months originally promised, and which
would not terminate until the 12th of Novein'ier;
but whether these entreaties be to any extent com-
plied with, the formal ceremonial of eluting the Ex-
hibition will be performed to-dat with all the eehit
that can be conferred upon it. he Lord-Lieutenant
and the Countess of St. Germans will be present. A
selection of sacred music will be performed by an
orchestra and chorus of five hundred performers, and
his Excellency will then declare the Exhibition to
be closed, after which the "National Anthem" will
be performed by the orchestra and chorus, aided by
the military bands of the garrison. Whether
any prolongation of existence be subsequently
granted to the Exhibition appears to be btill
doubted, but a meeting of the exhibitors
will be held to-day in the building, after the
closing ceremony to make a final appeal to the eat-
, entice committee for that Inirpose. On Saturday
23,116 persons visited the Exhibition, and portions
of the building were of course toler.tbly well tilled
by such a multitude; but the throng was not incon-
venient in any part, unless to some extent in the pic-
ture galleries. Up to Friday last large batches of
excursionists continued to arrive from England.
The price of aduaistion this day will be raised to
half-a-crown.

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The exhibitors' banquet to Mr. Dargan, which
comes off on Wednescluy in the round room of the
Mansion House, is expected to be a splendid affair.
The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor, anj a great
many distinguished persons have signified their in-
tention to bu present.
The bishopric of Derry is now chargeable with a
further yearly payment to the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners of 2,00b1., in addition to 4,160/. paid by the
late prelate. Ilis successor's income will also be
liable to a heavy tax under the provisions of the
Church Terapor ilities Act. The vacant mitre is in
the gift of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.
The l'reeni,m's Journal has the following bio-
graphical sketch of the late good and lamented Lord
Cloncurry :
Born in Dablin, in August, 1773, when the independent
movement began to agitate men's minds, he was old
enough in his tenth or twelfth year to be impressed with
the grand ideas of commercial and political liberty which
pissed through the heart of the nation like an electric
current. Among hie schoolfellows and playmates at the
school of Dr. Burroughs, in 1765-6, was the late bishop of
Derry, Dr. Ponsunby, who preceded him to the grave by
48 hours' His father, following the evimple ot some of
the Irish aristocracy, who looked to the English universi-
ties less as tcl,e,,li of learning and discipline than as the
media of introilv!ing their sons to high English society, in-
tended young Valentine fur Oxford, but the patriotic spirit
of the son prevailed in. r the intentions uf the father, and
he entered Trinity College, where he sir-dueled in 1701.
After a brief sojourn on the Continent, he found himself
in Ireland not very well disposed to the English govern-
ment. Ardent and susceptible of the keenest emotions of
patriotism—tilting the treachery of all English parties,
`which soon after the commercial propo,itions began to co-
operate for the ruin of Ireland, yuurg Lawless joined the
1" only hope of the country"—the Snetety of Unired Irish-
men. Fitzgerald, the Emmett., Sampson, O'Connor, were
his intimate friends, and en their metiers Lord Cloncurry
sheds the clearest light, which aspired to no other change in

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the constitution.at that time than the civil and religious
equality which all admitted to be thecretically just, though
practically inadmissible, on the side of the fatuous oppressor.
Mr. Lawless carried over his prioeiplea:to
where he established "a branch" of the United Irish Society,
and, of course, the government epics were anon upon his
track. At the St. Patrick's dinner, in 1798, he happened
to appear in green, " tho colour of the true," and making
some mistake when the King's health was proposed, not
satisfactorily cleared up by his lordship some fifty yeses
' after—we suspect because he could aot—the government
grew more intense in its suspicions, and he was scum after
arrested with excellent company—the late Duke of Leinatcr,
Curran, and Grattan—who happened to be en a visit at his
lodgings in St. Alban's-street. They were, however, imme-
diately liberated. He was taken before the Privy Council
—sifted by Wcdderburne and Pitt—significantly asked
whether he " woo an United Irishman," which he an-

'seared in the affirsnatsve, " before any law was passed to
incriminate the actsof the society. Mr. Lawless, not-

withstanding, was discharged, with admonition's to
be good for the future. This was in June, '9B. Un-
daunted by the past, he threw himself actively into
the liberal movement, though he had the good sense to
keep clear of the fatal net in which so many brave hearts
had been immeshed and sacrifLed ; and again he was
seized, under a warrant of the Duke of Portland, in April,
'99, and committed to the Tower, where he remained for
two years, until the expiration of the habeas Corpus Sus-
pension Act in 1801 restored him to liberty.
We selected the early part of his lordship' career be-
cause the St%oll patriotism and indepeodeat spirit that de-
termined his latter years drew their strength and vitality
from the fountain at which he drank in the beginning of
his career. Ilis life was uniform in the principles he pro-
fessed and practised. They were with him living prin-
ciples, for without action principles are only hollow
professions—:iypocritiml assumptions of justice or
virtue, instead of the real essences which shape the
lives and actions of good and virtuous men. Lord Clon-
curry's scarcely underwent a change. In pas•ing through
such a long and honoured existence—having seen the rise
and fall of nearly three generations—it is almost impossible
in the career of political characters that events should not
Lometimes create a passing diversion in the straightness of
iceir path ; but in Lord Cloncurry's there was a noble so
well as a rare consistency from the opining of manhood to
the last years, and almost days, of a singularly consistent
and protracted life, fur we find his last pu.hlic act was a
donation t' the Dublin Library, provided it assumed the
addition of " Hibernian Athenteum "—an act trifling in
itself, but indicating very strongly the direction of his
lordship's thoughts as he stood on the edge of the grave.
The following is from the week's commercial re-
view of the Freeman:
Trade has been eery inactive this week, the produce
market drooping, and the customs receipts show a heavy
deficiency. In shares a little more business has been done,
but no improvement has taken place. Credit is well sup-
ported, and money easy. The market has been stiff
throughout the week, in consequence of the foreign news
and the wretched state of the weather, which has been in-
clement in the extreme. Mr. G. Burke, the stolebroker,
whose stoppage a week or two back we noticed, has been
made a bankrupt.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S.-MON DAY,

The business of settling was resumed, and satisfactory
evidence was affirded that it proceeded mor. smoothly than
had been expected. In the course of the afternoon a great
deal of money changed hands.
Several absentees were spoken of, but from tbeir positi fa
and prospects favourable opinions are entertained of most
of them.
At intervals there was a little betting ou the Derby.
Gameleas colt was backed for some money at 50, 45, and 40
to 1 ; and Acrobat, who had been in strong farce at the
clubs was in so much demand that he rapidly advanced to
26 to I. In one instance 1,000 to 50 was taken; but the
current price at the close was 25 to 1.
The events to be decided at Epsom on Thursday and
Friday next were not touched upon.
WORCESTER HANDICAP.

6 to 1 each aget Frida and MYsaroui (t)
DERBY.
4 to 1 aget Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat
14 to I Lord Derby's Dervish (t)
22 to 1 Mr. Merry's The Wild ltunorstan (t)
25 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat (t freely)
30 to I Lard Derby's Baiardo (t to 100!.)
30 to I Mr. J. Adkins's Ruby (t)
1,000 to 23 Mr. T. Taylor's colt by Orlando dam by
Doa John out of Gamelass (t)
1,000 to 25 Mr. J. Bull's Cone (t)
1,000 to 20 Count Batthyany's Star of Surrey (t)

WORCESTER RACES.
HORRES ARILIVED.—Astres, Czarina, Indiana, Little
Davie, Little Fawn, Past:rook, Radcliff, Here, Mane-
Toni, Ethelwolf, Sugar Candy, Rourton, Theodine, &c.

NEW LIVERPOOL ALDERMAN.—Yesterday a spe-
cial meeting of the Liverpool Town Couccil was held, when
Mr. Thomas Bold was elected an aldermen in :he r..om of
Alderman Relines, deceased. The mayor (Samuel llolme,
Esq.) was brought forward, but upon a poll Mr. Bold was
declared elected by a majority of 30 to 18. The term of
Mr. Bold's altlcrmanic honours, however, expires at the
II end of the munMipal year, whcu he will require to be re-
elected.
Mr. G. V. Brooke appeared at the Theatre Riyal. Liver-
pool, on Monday evening last, in the character of Othello.
The enthusiasm of the audience was gr. it, Mr. Erocke
being summoned several times during the prercs • ..1 the
tragedy to receive their congratulations.
RECOVERY OF A WIFE THROUGH THE ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH —A few days since a telegraphic message was
received at the Stroud Station of the North Kent Railway,
to the following effect :—" Please to detain two ladies, ono
short and the other tall, and a man very much marked
with smallpox." The parties were stated to be in etirst-
ease carriage. In consequence of this communication, on
the arrival of the train at Higham, the cauiages were
locked, aol the parties were detained on theie arrival at
Strood. A message back to London !naught dOssms gat-
tleman, who claimed one of the ladies to his wißt who it
was said had eloped with hie managing m. e. After some
parleying the lady joined her liwbaud, and the parties
departed in cab., taking different ilireet!ona.—KentisA
Obscrrer.