The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 25.
The accessions to the anti-centralisation movement
are daily becoming more numerous and important.
Letters have been received from the Marquis of
Westmeath, Lord llowth, the Esrl of Donoghmore,
Lord Olengall, and Lord Talbot de Malabide, pro-
mising their attendance at the ag4regate meeting of
Monday next, or their co-operation in its object,.
Letters to the same effect have also been received by
the permementcommittee from Mr. Sharman Craw•
ford, M.P., Mr. P. Somerset Butler, M.l'., &c. The
Marquis of Westmeath, writing on the subject,
says :
Although some circumstances relating to the exercise of
the powers and authority of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in
a seism not very remote, gave me a distaste to the contoin-
aaceef the office, so that I rejoiced when the bill was
lately brought in—yet when I see by the phalanx of names
which are attached to the requisition to the Lord Major is
layout of its continuance w►at the uni vcr •al leaning of opi-
nion is, and this irrespective of the general politics of the
requisitionists, I confess myself too happy at this colon of
sentiment amoag Irishmen to persist obstinately in my own
individual sentiments. Dublin has been too severely af-
fected by the Union, and Ireland in general by bad impe-
rial legislation, to b.: open to any censure now fir condemn-
ing the continuance of the system of centralisation, which I
much fear is a plan matured and acted upon. I shall, there-
fore, upon this question il-fer to the g I wish of my
countrymen, and not only attend t►e meeting, but owes
the measure if it shall be proposed.

Mr. Sharman Crawlord, addressing the secretaries,
Messrs. Long and Cantwell, sap:
It is my intention to currop:y with the d ' you have
done me the honor to repress, having on lull conriderstion
made up my mind to the conclusion that, whil.t ,o many
operate and different laws exist tube ailuri.,icered ia Ire-
land, it is inconsistent with constitulional Len:loin and
with the rights and interests of Ireland to tyinster :he . dual-
nisiratlon of these laws to a centralised power front the
heads of the Queen's Viceroy, locally re ideot and sepa-
rately responathlis ler the acts ut the goVert.tuent.

The Cork Examiner states that the Right Rev.
Dr. Keane, the new Roman catholic bishop of the
newly constituted diocese of Roes, will be consecrated
to-morrow (Sunday) weak.

The Cork Egaminer contains the following state-
ment with reference to the snivel in Cork harbour
of the disabled American steamer Athletic:

•
Though the arrival of the Atlantic may appear to he
owing to an accident to which alight importance ought to be
attached, it is likely to prove of great advantege to this port,
as illustrating the amount of skill and enterprise which even
at prevent exists in Cork. About 11 o'clock on Wedges-
, day night a despatch was sent up to the establishment of
Mears. Leaky and Be le, itfornsii g tin m that the At-
Matte had coins into Queenstown with eer =whim ry dia.
abled • and, at an early hour next morning, Mr. Lech; went
on baited to ascertain the amount of injury done After
examining the machinery, Mr. Leeky at once expressed hie
readiness to undertake the neceseary repair.—the pritcipal
of which was the constructive of a main shaft—and to
complete all that is required to place the vi awl in the tame
condition as she was before she left Liverpool, and that
with the same despatch as the work could be done in any
pert in the United Kingdsna! Captain West said he
should consult his correspondenta in Liverpool and Glasgow
Genre coming to any conclinion, but is the meantime ex-
pressed himself favourably towards the arrangements offered.
Captain West, accompanied by the Arnetican consul, visited
the foundry firm of this establishment yesterday, and went
through its venous exteusive departmente. lt to a fact not
generally known that this firm at present temente, facinies
that would enable them not only to repair the injuries that
have been done the Atlantic, but to construct a vessel t goal
in power and tonnage—a vessel noel in all respects to the
Atlantic herself. Messrs. Leaky and Beale wine to Queens-
town this morning, and, accompanied by Captain IVt at and
Mr. Mitchell, the American consul, went on board the
A lantic. On the receipt of advice, which we expected from
Liverpool to morrow it will be known whether the necessary
repairs will he effected in this pore, or whether the ship will
be taken to Liverpool in cow of some large steamer. le is an
incident worth mentioning, that, when the passengers were
leaving the Atlantic to start by the night train for Dublin,
linen the small steamer had started from the .hip's side, they
gave three hear y awl unanimoutt cheers fa "Cork Hubner
as a Packet Station." It is irtmeehat singular that, within
the last few weeks, four American linen—namely, the
Equator, the States Rights, the Jessica, and, lastly, the De
Witt Clinton, have been driven back to the Irish coast, and
have found in Cork a harbour of refuge and protection.