The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Douai, Jair. 13.
The Cork Reporter,a paper generally well in-
formed, publishes in iege type the following an-
nouncement. which, under exiaung circumstances, does
not appear at all improbable:
Tea 7ackLes SYNOD —We ere is a position to date,
on what we caisidnr latently Rand authority, that the
decrees of the Trude, Synod yid not be confirmed by the
Saver. ten Pontiff, and will, conuquenfly, not take effect.
The Freer:v.lWe ..k.urnol, however, in copying the
paragraph, adds, "Oar warms of intelligence would
lead us to predicate exactly the reverse."
fhe anti-centralisation movement progresses. The
Lord Mayor has appointed this day for receiving toe
rtquisition for the aggregate meeting, and I believe it
will be found that few documents of the kind in Ireland
have ever presented a more remarkable combination
of partiss. Mr. Batterebv, Q.C., a distinguished
conservative member of the Iriih bar, writing to
!deems. Loeg and Cantwell, the leading promoters of
the isee, Mg, say s
""1t fs the fashion .f late, in England, to speak of a largo
and influential portion ant oar population wan English gar-
rison, which it as now ceoviaoicot to abandon. I hope the
disbanded sildiers will see that they aro bound In in
as well ea in honour to spite with every other class in an
endeavour to advance the repents 'Waists of Ireland.
Your efforts will of puree be treated with contempt now,
but tee, may not be so always.
On S•outday, the hest day of Hilary Term, there
wire but five candidates for admission to the bar,
showing Vainly enough the falling off which has beea
experienced in the profession in this country.
The following pieces of legal gossip appear in
ISaunderes Acre Letter: •

Coatuaelloc Fishy, aselatiint barrister, is seriouely ill. 1
Thus are also three other a•sistant barristers so ill that
they spy. heeded danger of Ong circuit. It is stated that
Mr. Jonathan Henn, Q.C., will not accept any briefs. His
re tiring from the bar mil be severely telt by the public. Ha '
was the first lawyer es the Idun.ter circuit, We ace
authorised to state that John Franco Waller, Bp., burls- '
ter at law, is not the author of a brochure lately published,
soloist. •• A V ice of the Bar." Ou Saturday, the Hoe. '
Patrick Plunkett, If C . was else ad a Becher of the!
Honourable H witty of Quoits's lass.
The lrish Tenant League were burnt out of their
council room by a contlegration which took place this'
rooming on the premises of Mr. Le Faber*, a hatter,
at No. 38, Westmoreland-street. The fire was dis-
covered soon after miduight, and in a few hours the
entire house was completely gutted. The Tenant
' League occupied the thawing room.
The following is from the wtekly commercial re-
view of the Frernon :-
1 ,This bail been a fair steady week fur business without
Loch Driehaus. Prices of both produce and share. have
been folly sasintairied in the busmen which has been done.
Cutouts dutias 13,4001, of which 4 9001. on tea, 4,7001. es
tobacco, 1,.5C01 on wine, end 1,4001. on sugar.
A mall failure in the spirit made, Mr. George R. Jones,
is rip,,rted Oil week. The amounts, however, tot con-
siderable, and the debts smell in amount, incept two sums
of about 3004 each to distiller& An unfavourable result is
looked foe.
Yesterday morning the body of a respectable female
was found suspended by the head from the area rail-
lot!, in frost of the Railway Hotel, Westland-row,
femme of the windows of which it appears that she
had fallen by accident or design. As far as the par-1
titulars of the tragical affair have been onllected, it
Won that about six o'dock on the previous (Satlir
sdarl;)
afternoon the deceased, accompanied by as
man, of very gentlemanlike appearance, and a young
woolen, rigid about nineteen or twenty years, with a
file boy of mein or eight years of age, had come to
the hotel where a doable- bedded apartment was
ordered, and into theoccupation of which they at once
entered. The room was on the fourth or topmost
story of the house. and at least forty feet in height
from the street. The people of the hotel had no
knowledge of them. The two first mentioned parties
med to be man and wife, and it is sup-
posed occupied one of the beds, while the juniors
ith them took the other. The party had no refresh-
ts whatever frum the hotel daring the overlies or
ight, and the first notice which the people of the
!act, had of the terrible catastrophe, was from the
try of the body by the boot-boy. It may be •