The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1847..

TENANT-RIGHT MEETING AT CASHEL.

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The unsettled relations existing between landlord end
tenant in Ireland were discussed yesterday at Cashel, in the
southern division of Tipp. racy. There were at this meeting
from eight to ten thousand persons, a very large body of
Roman catholic priests, numbers of tenant-farmers, but few
gentry.
Mr. N. MAHER. M.P., took the chair. Ilis
Mr. Scully, wan present, as also Mr. Keatinge, M.P. Mr.
Maher, who is a considerable proprietor, and who was ex-
tensive a. a land agent some years since, spoke in favour of
tenant-right. Ile thought the peace, happiness, and pros-
perity of the country dependent on the adjustment of this
question, for it was notorious that in that county, and no
doubt in other counties, landlords had flung people out to
die in the ditches and they had died there. For twenty
years that he had held extensive agencies he had always
acknowledged the principle of tenant-right ; and for the Let
four years, on his own estates, he had permitted
any of his tenants who desired it to dispose of
their holdings. On his first election he had stated
that no landlord should possess the power to seize upon the
property of a tenant, or to proceed against him by action or
ejectment, except for non-payment,of rent. He was still of
that opinion. The landlord had a right to insist upon the
payment of a fair and reasonable rent, but the tenant he
considered had as much right to dispose of his farm as the
landlord had to let it to him. Mr. Maher denounced via
lace as the worst enemy of the tenant,
Mr. Joux O'CoNxem. addressed the meeting. He ex-
plained what he meant be the tenant-right for which he
sailed on them to pi titon. He comelimented them on their
assembling peacefully; he deprecated violence mid denounced
crime, but he contended that in Tipperary there was no
natural or constitutional tendency to either. Mr. O'Connell
also touched on general topics, and urging the claims of
Ireland upon England, he promised that not one day should
pass over without the assertion of those claims in the session
now about to open.
Mr. Faxxcia Sct'LLY, M.P., proposed the first reso-
lution :
Resolved : That the present state of the relations between landlord
and tenant is marked by contention, Insecurity, injustice, mhery, out-
rage, and, alas! sometimes the spilling of blood. 'That these evils,
for the most part. grow out of the di,ardroue competition for land,
rendered inevitable wring our people by the denrivation of all other
resources for maintenance—since the ruin of Irish manufactures and
trade under the blighting act of Union—and that the effects of
that competition have been cruelly aggravated by the censtant inat-
tention of the impel ial legislature to the interests, the wants, and the
just demands of the tenant clam in Ireland.
Air. Scully pledged himself that in his place is parliament
he would support tenant-right, and stated that 17 Irish
members were pledged to maintain it.
Archdeacon LAFFAN seconded the resolution.
Mr. It. KEATINGE, M.P., proposed the next resolution:—
Resolved,—That the neglect and violation of the gent rights of the
tenant directly operate to check industry, and depress agricultum,
and thereby to impede and diminish the accumulation of national
wealth.
He said that he, in his small sphere as a landlord, always
recognised tenant right.
The Very Rev. Dr. BURKE seconded the resolution,which
.was passed.
Mr, E. Scully, Mr. J. Scully, Mr. Bianconi, Mr. P.
Keatinge, Mr. Meagher, J.P., Mr. R. Max, Rev. Mr. Ryan,
Mr. P. Fogarty, and other', subsequently addressed the
meeting, and the following resolutions wcre adopted ; after
which the meeting separated in good order and peace
That it is most just, equitable, and Imperative that the landlords'
rights of property should be respected and preteeted--but that It is to
the full as just, as imperative and as neciesiary, that the tenants'
rightsshould be equally respected and protected.—That the custom of
tenant-right has given security and prosperity to every district in the
north of Ireland in which it prevail. ; and that the most prejudiced
wltnesse,igiinst it admit that it fully secures the landlord in his
rents, while it encourages the tenant by the security which it gives
him to lay out his capital, and give his best labour to the improve-
ment of his holding.—That we find the main feature of this
custom in the north to be, that the occupier cannot--whether
he be a tenant from year to year or on lease—be ejected
from his holding without being allowed to mil the occu-
pancy or pomerelon, including his interests in any improvements
made by him, to the highest bidder, due notice being given to the
landlord that he may have full opportunity of competing for the pur-
chase, and he (the landlord) being also secured in the payment of all
rent due to him out of the proceeds of the sale.—That copies of Ws
petition be forwarded to every parish priest of this great county, with
a request that on the Sunday after the receiving of such copy, he, the
parish priest, will get as many signatures tot so possible, and for-
ward the copy thin; signed to the county representatives for preecnta-
bon to the !loose of Commons In parliament assembled, and that John
O'Connell be requested to support the prayer of this petition.

THE LATE PROFESSOR M'CULLAOH.
The brother of this lamented scholar—Mr. John M'Cul-
lagh—has written to us a lengthened statement respecting
the account given under this head, on the oth inst., of a
search said to have been made for manuscripts, &c.,
in the professor's chambers. It appears that there
was no such search as was described, and no com-
mittee of inquiry to make it. Mr. J. M'Cullagh says:—
" On the morningof Professor M'Cullagh's funeral I went
through the entire building which he occupied. I locked
every door, and carried with me to the country the keys.
From that morning until I returned on Wednesday night,
the 10th inst. (the day after the publication of the article in
the Express) no human being was in Professor M'Cul-
lagh's rooms."
Respecting the papers mentioned in our account our cor-
respondent adds:
" On my arrival in college on Tuesday night, the 26th of
October, on going into Professor 31'Cullagh's study, his
writing-desk was lying open on a table. I raised the lid,
and the first paper I saw was the commencement of a paper
on light. Oa the morning of the 25th, hie slate was lying
on another table, just as it sou left out of his hands not many
hours before. This I know by examining the slate pencil,
which was on the chimney-piece, the rubbings on the point
i of which were quite fresh—plainly and remarkably so."
It further appears that no "piles of manuscript, contain-
' ing matter for many volumes of print," as mentioned by
our informant, were ever in existence, and could not conse-
quently have been destroyed. Neither were the literary
remains of the unfortunate professor "arranged in years."
It was his custom to write on any piece of paper
that might chance to be near him, and this scrap
was left on the table where it was written, or
thrown into a drawer, or a basket, or a hat-case,
or the corner of a room. His papers were never arranged,
but they were to have been set in order this winter, as he
felt that his doing so had been too long delayed ; and his
only direction to me on going to the country after the elec-
tion was, to see that all his papers were carefully collected in
a mass, during the removal from No. 40 te No. 10, as • pre-
liminary to the arrangement which was contemplated. The
papers thus collected were, on the night of October the 24th,
and are now, just as I placed them at the time of the removal."
The only collected MSS. left behind was a small bound
book, containing the results of a very remarkable year of his
life, namely 1829. The only papers burnt were about six or
eight loose leaves covered with mathematical calculations,
and their ashes were discovered hy Mr. J. M'Cullagh on Wed-
nesday, Oct. 27. " Regsrding the position of these ashes," he
says, ' I have no doubt that the burning of these papers
and the last event took place within one minute of time—
certainly within se short a space of time as the nature of
things would permit. And I have no doubt that one minute
premously the thought (if there was thought at all) of either
event was not in Professor M'Cullagh's mind. This is
capable of proofs that are conclusive to my mind. But I
will not now give these proofs. To any one that knew him
they are not necessary. But, generally, I may perhaps be
permitted to say this : Bodily disease, brought on hy con-
finement and overwork, joined with low spirits, the accom-
paniment of ill-health, combined with intense and long-
continued thought on the most difficult of all human sub-
jects, and all these acting on a temperament at times of the
most profound melancholy, had for a few days before the
24th of October a powerful but a natural effect on a mind
constituted as his was. For some days the lonely man had
been throwing himself on the sympathies of his fellows. Rut

end he wee bat. On the nightof the

24th, as he sat alone is his chambers, these sasses for as
instant completed the wreck of one of the noblest intellects
of this sge ; and the pious Christian (for, is the words of one
of his oldest friends, "he submitted his mighty intellect to
the truths of revealed religion with the humility of a child"),
the purest spirit, and the best man I ever knew—l say it
deliberately and advisedly, the best man I ever knew—
fell a v:ctini to his labours in elucidating the laws of nature."

TESTIMONIAL TO TITS Care Mn. O'Cos Em..—There
was a collection yesterday at all the Roman catholic churches
of Dublin, for the purpose of erecting a monument to the
memory of the late Mr. O'Connell. The total collected was
1,220/. In addition to these, accounts have been received
from Waterford and Wexford—the former place raised 2001.,
the latter 1101., and several private subscriptions have reached
the treasurer, _ _ _

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ST TE OP THE COUNTRY.--The bad eminence of the
south would seem, from the accompanying account which
reached town to-day, to be abou. being emulated in the north.
There is no cause assigned for this horrible attempt to
assassinate, and 1 speculate upon motives which may have
no existence. The account is fi om the Pilot •

Sunday afternion.—l regret deeply to inform you that
on thn return of Ivan Howard, Esq., our county treatuver, to his
seat at Garden hill, within right miles west of this town, about the
hour of half•past tire o'clock on the erenind of yesterday, in
passing up his avenue, he was tired at by an assassin, who
concealed himself in the plantation skirting the used, and I
Liaient much to Ray that he mei% cd the contents of a heavily
loaded gun or blunderbues in the groin and thigh, but I hope
sincerely it tray not prove dungeon is, as be is an indulgent and
humane gentleman as any in the county, and greatly respected
by all classes in his neighbourhood. Surgeons Yrith and Ovenden
attended immediately on a niemen.i r arriving here, and extracted
round shot, small stones, and nail, from the wound, and have
hopes of his teeovery. I pray sincerity this may be so; as I men-
tiomd before, he Is greatly respected to this county. The police hare
lodged two persona in our gaol on suspicion this