The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

TRURO ELECTION.

The liberal candidate has been elected at Truro, in
ipite of gnat exertiose wade by the cicaservetive party. At
'levee o'clock on Wedm city the samba n were declared to
be—William', 2208; Smi.h, 186. At noes tre poll um—
Wi lyerna. 233; Snick. 217. The sanative this exhibited
by the r. fmmere was resintsitt,d through the day, ari will be
wen by the following statement of the
CLOPS OP Till POLL. -

(Lihrr.l)
Smith ('Tory)

Majority for WiHymns

IRELAND.

Duzuw, JAL 11.

There was a meeting of the deposlorsin the Cutft-
strett Savings Bank yesterday. Of the 50,0001.
lodged in it by the industrious claws the remaining
oasts are only 871. !
The Galway Vindicator says that Archbishop
*Hale has summoned a provincial synod for the
specie! purpose of excluding catholic students from
the " Queen's College's." There is much less opposi-
tion now than there has been hitherto to " the godless
colleges," and it is to be hoped that Archbishop
*Hale will not succeed in trampling out the seeds of
education in Ireland.
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Mr. Gana Duffy has pointedly disclaimed all
knowledge of the new weekly paper called the hi/A-
mon, published at the office of the defunct Nation.
Ile says that "he has no knowledge of its purpose,
manager, or of any person or persona connected
with it."
Mrs. M'Clee has addressed the following letter to
the Freeman's Journal :
Sir, —ln your paper of Monday, the Bth instant. I find it
stated that tome peran .connected with my husband's paper,
the New York Nation. his wade a foul and malignant at-
tack on Mr. Smith O'Brien. As this statement is rot well
founded, and would, I am convinced, be deeply painful to
Mr. Won, who loves and honours Smith O'Brien, I feel
bound to est you richt in the matter, when he to whom the
duty would &nue. lly tall is thousands of miles away. The
statement referred to in Mr. Dillon's letter, which you pub
li.hed. was not written by any person connected with the
New York Nation, but appeared in a letter from Dublin,
published in that paper; and Mr. M'Oee. so far from
agreeing is it, appewled this note to Mr. Dillon's letter,
which, it you had published along with the letter, I would
sot hare thought it necessary to beers written to you:
"Oa reading over the paragraph in ea' correspondent's
letter we do name with Mr. Dillon, that it is unjust towards
Smith O'Brien; but we must observe that few men—no man
perhaps in or out of Ireland—had tertal opportunities of
knowing the truth wilt Mr. Dillon. When eireumstanees
warrant, it will be a good sad we nary work to clear away
the lies and errors that have be'n heaped oaths head of him
whom we always esteemed and reported the most injured and
most upright public Mamas of his am. The total saisap-
prehenaions of his character existing here two months woo
' have disappeared, but we hone that it will be yet Mr.
T'syrerit to put hint in his proper niche In lustory.—

Ed. Nation."
I thit•lt it lineman to add, as my husband would not -on.
tainly publish a malignant libel on Mr. 8. O'Brien, even
from a correspondent, that the statement in question was not
a malignant libel, but an observation, " that Mr. O'Brien
did nit mike a good military leader." If you have read
Mr. WO •e's paper, you must certainly have observed that it
has chiefly been devoted to the vindication of Mr. O'Brien
and the other Confeeletatoo still in Ireland. Bacon me, sir,
fur intruding mye.elf on your notice, but my husband's cha-
racter is dearer to him iota his life ; and I could not be at
ease while any one might suppose that he would publish a
slander on VI, great and good man who is suffering for his
country.—l am, sir, yews, Am., Mawr J. M'Ortn.—Anna.
Tilly. Ranelajgh, Jan. 9,11149.
Mr. Napier, M.P., as president of the Dublin Ora-
torial Institute, made an elaborate address to the
members on Monday evening. It is surpriang how
very popular debating clubs have always been in this
metropolis. Thinking clubs are more wanted here
than talking societies. Much of the stuff of " Young
Irelandism" was of vowing club origin.
There has been a meeting at Swords to devise re-
pro,lnctive employment for the poor. The resolutions
contemplate a vo!untary rate of sixpence in the
pound between landlord and tenant, foe the purpose
of raising a present fund.
At the Fernley Sessions, Thomas M'Donnell was
sentenced to a twelvemonth's imprisonment for the
abduction of Anna Maria Slack. The Crown Solicitor,
Mr. Nagle, proved the case against the prisoner,
without resorting to the evidence of the young girl
herself, though he very properly tendered her as a
witness to the counsel for the defence, if they thought
proper to examine her.