The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. SIM 12.
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway directors have
taken the lead in adopting a course calculated to pro-
mote the interest of the Great Exhibition. They
have made, or at least nearly completed, an arrange-
ment to enable the residents of Kingstown, and of
other places along their line, to visit the Exhibition
at almost a nominal charge for the fare ; as a &st-
elue ticket, to include the admission to the Exhibi.
lion, will be given for 25., a second class for Is. tid.,
and a third class for Is. 3d. These charges, accord-
ing to one account, are to be for return tickets, but
at all events the reduction of farce is a generous one,
and it is to be hoped that the example set by this
company will be followed on some of the other Irish
lines. It was full time that some encouragement of
the kind should be given to Dargaa's magnificent
enterprise.
The master-warden and officers of the Ironmongers'
Company of London have been visiting their estate
at Coleraine, and met the chairman and directors of
the Coleraine and Castledawson Railway in that
town on Thursday, when steps were resolved on to
forward that undertaking. The promotion of rail-
way enterprise in every part of the northern pro-
vince, which was so much needed there, is now
carried on with great spirit.
Richard Burnett, who was arrested for throwing
a paper into the Queen's carriage, has addressed a
letter to the Freeman's Journal, in which he states
that ho is not organist of Naas Church; that he
would be the last person to annoy any lady, much
less such an exalted personage as her Majesty; and
that what he did was to " put a note into her Ma-
jesty's carriage, calling her attention to an humble
memorial which he posted for her Majesty three
days before, beseeching her, as the fountain of jus-
tice, to compel a military officer to pay him the sum
of 501. which he had lent him."
No change has taken place to vary the favourable
tone of our harvest reports. The weather continues
moderately fine, being, on the whole, somewhat more
humid than is usual in this month. The workhouses
have been everywhere emptied of their able-bodied
inmates to supply the want of labourers. The
Limerick Chronicle says:
The entire of this week the weather has been most fa-
vourable for harvest business, and there is not a labouring
man or woman in the country, able to work, unemployed
in the corn fields. Agricultural labourers are scarce just
now in the county Limerick, and the operations of farmers
in completing the hay harvest and cutting corn arc not so
forward as they could wish for want of g tod working
hands. The general wages of suck are 25. a dsy, or Is. 3d.
to 15. 63. per day with breakfsst and dinner.

The following is from the weekly commercial re-
view of the Freeman;

After two successive week, of holiday-making, business
has been again resumed, and in the course of the present
week hu been tolerably active in most branches. The
salutary change in the weather which appeared at the close
of last week has continued, and appears to have prevailed
g lly throughout the country, thus essentially faci-
litating harvest operations, and rendering the corn trade
dull at a slight decline.

The monthly committee of the Royal Society for
the Promotion and Improvement of the Growth of
Flax in Ireland, held in Belfast, reports that the flax
crop in the south and west of Ireland is in general
superior to what it is in Ulster. The breadth culti-
vated in the southern counties is considerably
greater than last year, and remunerative prices
have been paid to farmers by the proprietors of ret-
tales.

The Commissioners of the Dublin Metropolitan
Police have received the following communication
from Major Ponsonby, private secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant :

Viceregal Lodge, sth Beptembei, 1853.
Oentlemen,—The Lord Lieutenant has desired me to
matey to rut his entire approbation of the manner in which
the metropolitan police conducted themselves is the nume-
rous duties performed by them during her Majesty's visit,
sad of the different police arrangements which were carried
out on that occasion. I have, &c.,
PONSONIr

(Signed)
The Commiesionere of Police, &c.
Tho workhouse of Carrick-on-Suir has very few at
present in it—about 400, including hospital. All
the able-bodied men and women went out for the
harvest.

DISMISSAL OP TIIE MASTER AND FiCIIOOLXASTER
OP Till COLICHAINE WORILIIOIIBII.—The Poor Law Conk
missioners have written to the board of guardians of the
Coleraine union, to the effect that they have directed orders
to be prepared, removing Mr. Curry and Mr. Craig, the
master and schoolmaster connected with the union, from
their respective offices. The commissioners have taken
this step in consequence of a report famished to them by
their inspector, Colonel Clarke, that on the 12th of July
last, a number of pauper children, connected with the
workhouse, had marched in procession, decorated with yel-
low ribbons, and having petty flags, and that this was done
with the sanction, authority, and in presence of the acting
master and schoolmaster. It appears that this practice had
been more than once tolerated in the workhouse, and the
commissioners " thinking it of such importance that work-
house officers should keep themselves quite free from poli-
tical or pasty demonstrations, and jespectally from one
which the law has declared to be illegal," have directed
orders as stated. The guardians of the union, annoyed at
the treatment which thew servants have experienced, have
requested the Poor Law Commissioners to suspend their
judgment till they can hold an investigation.—Louth and
Down Pilot.