The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1846.

the commanding officer of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars,
directing that regimant to prepare themselves to le..ve Houns-
low Barracks to route for lic.and on this day (Monday).
Ever since the conclusion of the late inquest heiel on the
body of White, the lower orders of the town and neighbour-
hood of Hounslow, when they have seen any of the
officers, and particularly: Lieut.-Col. Whyte, out of the
barracks, have assailed them with upbraiding', couched in
no very pleasant terms. The farriers have also, when they
have ventured into the licensed houses in the neighbourhood,
been publicly insulted for the part they took in the infliction
of the punishment on White, and it is believed that the
knowledge of these facts have induced the Horse Guards'
authorities to issue the order for their removal. Their de-
parture from Hounslow Barracks is looked forward to with
much gratification by the majority of the inhabitants, as it
will allay musts of that excited and irritated feeling which
still exists in that neighbourhood on the subject of military
flogging.
MILITARY MAGNIPICENCE.—WR learn from a letter
in the Natal and Military Gazette that each trooper in the
Bengal Horse Artillery has two native attendants for his
hone—:t groom and a forager.
CHILD DROPPING.—On Saturday night a fine male
child, warmly, but poorly clad, was left in the hall of Mr.
Kelly's book-binding establishment, Water street, Strand.
The constable on duty conveyed it to the union workhouse,
where every attenti is was paid to the foundling, who is not
more than a fortnight old.
ACCIDENT.—DEATH FROM NOT HAVING LEARNED
TO swim.—Yesterday morning, a young lad, acting as call
boy on board the Laurel Richmond steamboat, then off
Arundel-stairs, whil s engaged on deck cleaning the fore
sponsun, lost his balance and fell into the river. He could
not swim, but struggled violently. A gentleman who was
rowing past at the time, threw off the upper part of his
dress and plunged in. Though he dived several times, he
failed to reach him. Exertions to recover the body, too,
were unarailieg.
INQCP.STS.—DEATII PROM TAKING LAUDAND.W.—
By Mr. W. Payne, on Saturday evening, at the Golden Ball,
King-street, Snow-hill, on the body of Miss Lucy Ann
Pratt, aged 21, of No. 10, King-street. By the evidence of
the witnesses it appeared that t:,e deceased had complained
for some time past of passing very restless nights, and that
she could hardly get an hour's sleep. A few days ago she
heard that her aunt in the country was similarly troubled.
She was in the habit of taking laudanum to procure sleep,
and asked her brother-in-law, with whom she resided, how
much was usually taken. lie told hi rhe did not know, and
advised her not to follow the bad practice of her aunt, tclling
her that she would soon recover. On Saturday morning, as
she was not at the breakfast table at the usual hour, her
brother-in-Law went up to call her, and found her apparently
asleep. Shortly afterwards, when he went up aga n, he
found her dead, and it was probable that when he first saw
her she was, suffering fr.,ni the effects of laudanum, which he
mistook for sleep. A phial and a cup, both of which had
contained laudanum, were found on her dressing-table, and
a subsequent examination of the body proved that she had
died from opium. Verdict, " Acci-dentally_ poisoned."—
Drain FROM DETECTIVE PAVINO.—By Mr. Baker, at
the London Hospital, on the body of James Waters, aged
75, ae, open. On Thursday declined was on his way home
from the London Docks, and on passing along West-gardens,
Ratcliff-highway, he was met by a wagon laden with sugar
on its way to the dock. The deceased was c ailed to by the
wagoner to retrace his steps, or he would be run over, the
place being just wide enough for the wagon to you with only
a few inches to spare. The d.ecitacd. instead of turning back,
placed himself to the wall. The wagon could not be
stopped, us it was passing over a declivity. The near front
wheel passed him, but the hind wheel' " lurched" into a
hole in the road, and struck the unfortunate man on the
chest, twisted him round, and threw him clown ; the wheel
passing over his right shoulder, broke his right arm• and
five ribs. lle lingered until Wednesday, when death put an
end to his sufferings.—The jury said the roadway in West-
garden. was in a most disgraceful state, aril that several
accidents had occurred there. There were stoppages daily
of wagons and carts, which fell into the holes. and there was
great neglect on ;he part of the authorities. Verdict,
" Accidental Death." _ _

EX etansivE Corros. —The lecture S
delivered by Mr. Grove, at the British Association, and
merely referred to in our paper of Thursday, commenced by ,
an explanation of the ioteotate of the composition of gun- I
powder which depends 0.1 mixing combustible substance, I
with a substance that supplies abundance of oxygen, fur the
support of combustion, without depending for the supply an
the oxygen of the atmosphere. Nitrate of soda, or saltpetre,
wan a substance that answered these conditioes, and when ;
intimately mixed with charcoal and sulphur in proper pro. ;
portions, it supplied those combustible bodies at once with
sufficient oxygen, and the composition became explosive at a
given temperature. There was, however, a considerable
reailue after the explosion of even the best gunpowder,
which showed that the combustion w. s nit perfect, read
the residue proved greatly inconvenient by soiling fire-
arms. In the invention of l'roftseor fichoenbein this
inconvenience was entirely r. medied, and the explo-
sive force was said to be double that of gunpowder.
The substance was, in fact, cotton, which wan pre-
pared in some manner not yet made known, and could not
he distinguished in its app •aranee from or.linary cotton.
There were two qualities of the preparation, one of which was '
intended for comfit n purposes, and evolved a small quan-
tity of smoke on explosion ; the other, which was more ex-
pensive in its preparation, emitted no perceptible smoke,
and left no residue whatever. The gun cotton, he said,
explodes at the temperature of 400 siegrees—the explosive ,
point of gunpowder being about 600 degrees; and it might be
exploded on gunpawdei without igniting the latter. Mr.
(hove then exhibited the experiments. lie first exploded
a small qnantity of gunpowder, for the purprete of show-
ing the large quantity of smoke evolved. Ile then ex •
libeled a small 10:k or the gun cotton of the second ;
quality. It flashed off as rapidly an gunpowder, and but
a very small quantity of smoke was perceptible. The
piper on which it was exploded w s hut slightly stained.
f he better kind of the gun cotton exploded still more
rapidly, without any smoke whatever; Rlld it gave out as
orange-coloured flame. The exhibition of the experiment ,
was received wits loud applause. Mr. Grove next exhibited
that peculiar property of the cotton nut being injured by
water. Ile steeped a piece of the cotton in a gloss of water,
and then pressing it between blotting paper to dry. Though
it could not have been thoroughly dry in the time, the cotton
floated off when the heated wire was applied to it, and
without any perceptible smoke. The flash, however, was
not in this rase so instantaneous as that of the perfectly dry
cotton. The last and moat curious experiment was the
explosion of a piece of the gun cotton when placid upon
loose powder, without igniting the latter. The experiment
succeeded perfectly, though it requires the cotton to he iliac
dry to insure its success, tor if the combustion be less rapid i
the gunpowder explodes.
NEW BORING APPACIAITS.—This world in so
arranged that many substances of the greatest importance to
man—such as metale, coals, salt—are buried at great depths
in the crust of the gl.:he. Of the amount of mineral wealth
thus hid from our view we have a very imperfect idea, because
boring, which furnishes the most direct knowledge of the inte-
rior, is a very expensive operation as hitht rto conducted
When the bore is deep, the mere cutting the strata is but a
secondary part of the process. The implement aeon bee oiling
clogged with the detritus of the sock, must be withdrawn at
short intervals, and replaced by an instrument of a shape fitted
to lift up the Lose matter. When the bore is 500 or 1.000 feet
deep, it may be conceived how much time and labour is con-
Burned in withdrawing one heavy iron rod (or rather a series, f
rods) of that great length—inserting another to catch up the I
detritus—withdrawing that again—and reins rting the first ;
one. It was a happy idea to save the whole of this labour of '
shifting and lifting by making the boring tool hollow, and
forcing down through it a strong current of water, which
wend. in the open space between the outside of the tube and ;
the walls of the bore, bearings ith it then hole tiiturated mat-
ter an fast as it is produced. It will be easily unfit stood that I
the boring tool will work more easily in water thou when
plunging through some feet of sand or gravel, and that Li the
new process most of the power formerly wasted in pounding
the debris after they have been separated from the rock will
be saved. The example given [at the meeting of the British ,
Awociation] of the power of the implement will appear in-
credible to our miners. A bore of .i6O feet in depth (and
for an artesian well it must have been 6 or 8 inches wide)
pierced in 110 liours : —why, this is mere like the effect of
the prophet's rod than the miner's! The nature of the rock
is not mentioned ; but on consulting the geological ma' of
France, we find that it must have been the lower part of the'
chalk, called the green sand," or, it it pierced beyond this,
it must have gene into the transition strata, which would he
harder. Now, the celebrated artesian wtll of Grenelle, at ,
Paris, passes through the same rocks (the chalk
and green sand); its width is probably the same;
its depth three times greater ; hut what was the time re-
quired for i ts execution Why, seven years ! The bore at Per- I
pignan was sunk at the rate of 31 feet per hour; the bore
at Grenelle at the rate of 9 inches per day ! Making every
allowance for the increased difficulty attending the greater
depth of the latter, the difference is still enormous. The in-
vention
will be applied to a hundred important purposes—to
searches for coals, for ores, for salt or salt springs, for
mineral waters. Every town or village, which has no
stream near it, may bare its sates:an well. The manu-
facturer may hare one close to his engine or mill : the
gentleman may have it in his house or garden. When
openings downward can be made at so small an expense
(one tenth, it is said, of the present cost), how easy will it
be, by forcing down currents of pure air, to ventilate our
coal and other mines, and prevent those fearful explosions
which often till a whole village with widows and orphans in
a single morning.—Sco!sman.
EXTR.‘ORDECARY SI'IITERR.INE.IN NOISER. The
most striking instance of uninterrupted subterranean noise,
unaccompanied by any trace of earthquake, is the phenome-
non which is known in the Mexican territory by the name
of " the subterranean roaring and thundering (brarnidos y
truenos subterfaneos) of Guannxuato." This rich and cele-
brated mountain-city is situated at a distance from any
active volcano. The noise began on the 9th January, 1784,
at midnight, and lasted above a month. I have been ena-
bled to give a circumstantial description of the phenomenon
from the report of mane witnesses, and from the documents
of the municipality which I was permitted to make use of.
From the 13th to the 16th of January, it wan as if there were
heavy storm-clouds under the feet of the inhabitants, in
which slow rolling thunder alternated with short thunder-
claps. The noise ceased gradually, as it had commenced ; it
was confined to a small space, for it WU not heard in a
basaltic district at the distance of only a few miles. Almost
all the inhabitants were terrified and quitted the city.
in which large masses of silver were stored ; but the
most courageous, when they had become somewhat accus-
tomed to the subterranean thunder, returned and fought
with the binds of robbers who had taken possession of the
treasure. Neither at the surface, nor in imam 1,598 Eng-
lish feet in depth, could the slightest trembling of the
ground be perceived. In no part of the whole mountoinou:
country of Mexico had anythang similar been ever known

before ; nor has this awful phenomenon been since repeated.
Thus, as chasm in the interior of the earth elope or open,
the propa. atiun of the waves of sound is either arrested in
its progress or contiuned until it reaches the ear.—lison-
boliys Cosmos.

BILLETs DE BANQUE AND BILLETS Doex.—The
following romantic story appears in the Augsburg Gazette :
" The Countess de --, one of the most attractive lionnes
of Berlin, and who is now in the prime of her beauty, is
noted for her adhesion to the ultra-liberal principle of female
emancipation. Having contracted, when very young, a
mariaje tie coaremaire with a man for whom she did not
feel the slightest attachment, she dec'ded on making up for
the sacrifice by indulging in intrigues with those more to her
taste. The count, her httsband, on the other hand, carried
on a secret and guilty connexion with the Marquise de
ld—, which becoming, at length, known to his wife, she
resolved to watch him narrowly in order to procure proofs
which might enable her to obtain a divorce. For this pur-
pose she summoned to her aid two of her admirers. These
gentlemen, one of whom is connected with one of the tri-
bunals at Berlin, cngaicd to get possession of the letters
written by the Count to Madame de M—. Knowing that
she had just set off for Paris, they followed her and reached
an hotel at Cologne, where she had just alighted. While she
was at dinner, they contrived to get hold of her luggage, and
observing a small box which they imagined must contain the
wished-fur billets-doux, they carried it otf. Madame de
M— soon becoml4 aware of her loss, made inquiries, and ,
discovered the gentlemen at the station of the railroad from
Cologne to Bono, just as the train was about to start. She
got into it. The two gentlemen had in the meantime opened
the box, and to their horror found that, instead of contain-
ing the coveted billets.dors, it contained nothing but a
parcel of matter of fact billets de banque, and that in-teal of
having executed the m.ssion of them inamsrata, they had
placed themselves in the poilt.on of common robbers.
Alarmed at the consequences of their act, they endeavoured,
on arriving at Bruhl, to make their escape, but the vigilant
marquise prevented it, and had them taken into custody by
the police, under whose guardianship they still remain, to
await the result of further investigation."

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Sire. 19.
MAYO.—In the FiYemeni's Journal of this evening there
is the following reference to the adjourned meeting in Mayo
on Thursday.—" I send you the important resolutions of the
great adjourned county :meting held here yesterday. I say
great beeause, notwithstanding the absence, with some hono-
rable excep•ions, of the forty-nine magnates of the land, who
assembled in secret conclave here on Saturday, there was an
immense tesenib:age of the people, to the number of sonic
thousands, of whom not one-tenth could obtain admission
into the court-house where the proceedings were eirriAl on."
The most Rev. Dr. Mae Hale was present and addressed the
mectisg. The Freon -at's correspondent further lays:—'• I
should not omit that the 79th Highlanders, just arrived here,
were kept under arms the entire day, as well as the police--
I all under the direction of the noble lieutenant of the county.
These precautions were ridiculously unnecesmry--the poor
people dispersed quietly to their homes when the pntceedings
terminated. During the meeting a banner was earned into
the body of the courthouse, on which WAS painted in black
letters, • Work or Bread ;* but, at the request of his gran•
(Dr. Neenah.) the Archbishop it was instantly removed."
The following are tho principal resolutions referred to in the
communication:—

Moved by hi. Grace the Archbishop of Thant ; recond.l by Valen-
tine O'Coner 'Shake, Es q., D.L. sad J. P., of Tower-ltill. 1t,..010rl -
That it. met:melody evidence obliges us to concur in the that resolution
'seemly adopted by the assembled magistratee and landloi chi of Mayo,
"that pie potato, which const.tuted the food of at leant mine-tenth of
the Imputation of this count If, amountunt to nearly 110,1501.1presons,
In now badly pme ;" bolt though this awful vinitation of an Mateo-
table Providento cannot be adequately met without large aid from the
national resew:nes it is vet RI extensive .wel tio generally spread over
every locality, however antall and remote, that without the labour
rate art of the 111th of Victoria being brought, without further delay,
into operation, the nine-tt•nth of the people, thin old of their daily
food, moat nem...My %tarty.
Moved by Valentine °Tome Blake, F.q., It. L. and J. If. ;
actondell br James (Mow& Esq., harriater-at-Law Resolved -
Then•fore. that we, too, concur with lb magtstrataa and Walked%
in the opinion of the (suture haunts which the country will theist.
hoot railr. cols traversing this county from the extrentitit is thereof
toward the metropolis. But that much as we Indite ouch benefits,
they would be toodistant in time, too remote a. to several
• n•i tut narrow and limited in their operation, to sine the liyrs of
nearly 4154110, perstais. who are threatened with instant starvation•
which utmost brook delay, and who are spread through mould:we.
and piontuntories over and of more than 2,utio square mile..
Moved by tit,. Very Ike. JAM. Ilughea, 1..1'. of l Larentorrin; re-
emoted hv the Bev. Riehar.! Henry, ff.ff., of Islandeady Res.olved -
That are concur in the benevolent resolution of adjuring the coven(.
intat to supply convenient depot. with boot, alto II may enable the
starving poor to reach it, and at a reasonable prim, without being
the vicimia of commenialcupblity. But I. will tweoant-
rily be attended with delay, and a 'urge portion tot the In...ph has e not
MUM, to parchase toed, until the system of labour, ro-extensivt• with
their 'local distress, is net on find, there is not any tereible hope of
av ping the psopls from perishing in the interim, lout by all the
laugllonln imitating the benevolent resolution of so 111011, hunume
nicollßes of their body, and not uunemaceibly dishaining the Mae of
their tennntry.
Mucci by Rev. PATRICK MAI:MANUS, P.P., Louishurgh;
seconded by Rev. James Browns, P.P. of Balliutubber -
Resolved, —That nothing could Or farther from our mint. than
any interference with the find rights of the landlord., easentiol to the
welt being of noeiety. That the cry of paying nu rents would be tun
newel,« and iMpOll tie on the one hand, as the threat of rigoroualy
cn'oreing them, without ant exception, by legal machinery,
be unnitionabb• and unwise on the other; that those tenants who
hate au interest in the loud, independently of the potato produce,
• would ine ir the reproach of gr injustice if tlo•j• should avail thco-
I aches of thi. calamity, to the liefr.suilifig of the landlord of his rights;
and that again as the covenant between landlord* and tenants in
• bonded on the reciprocal equality, which is nopptessl to be the bind.
ins principle of all contract*, it would he utterly at variancr with
every nation of equit • anal right, that the teuautr., nine-tenths of the
peo' ple should vu-eon the whole calamity of the potato that Imo
perinhed.
The resolutions recommend also that parliament should be
called together to consider more fully the it has yet done,
land with inure einem.", as hiving more knowledge, the state
of Ireland, and that it should meet in October.
Mohr: or EMPI.OIIN4; THE I'EOPLE.—At a meeting of
the Nenagh Hoard of Guardians on Wednesday last, a rewi-
lotion was unanimously agreed to that a memorial should
I he presented to his Excellency, praying that he wval4 he
pleased, under the oat of 10th Victoria, through the Beard
of Public Works, to advance to the directors of the Temple-
' more and Nenagh Railway Company money roe loan, to
commence that line.—The Rev. Mr. Power, au excellent
Roman Catholic clergyman in Nenagh, prernesl th.t the
special sessions under the Employment Aet,whieh assembled
in that town on Wednesday, should construct a canal from
Nenagh to the Shannon, with docks and wharfs at Nenagh.
The vest would be 3.3,0011 V., and the profits, as entail:dell by
Mr. Buck, an eminent engineer, 2,000/. bet per unuuni. The
proposal was rejected.
Cut!NTY or CLAWg.—At an adjournment of the sessions
for the half barony of Tulle, on Wednesday last, the sum of
61,:192f. were preaented furthe employment of the poor. This
will *rive an expenditure of 14/. per family to the labouring
population fur a period of four months. The Li ini.r.rk
Reporter, in recording the proceedinga of the meeting, says:
.• Ml. Steele enters' the court, and It cheered liv the people innote
aa well as out Iheirter the proceeding. he rtkie,sed the people,
'ave.:aim on theiti the ne....ity of preserving Mill tranquillity
and cordial co-operation with the clergy of bah persuasions whom Be
saw limo-tit, the unigintratra :Ind gentry 14 the neighbourhood when
he saw be tore hint doing tlit•ir part, and lie handed a letter to the
chairman $ o belt was read f Mr. We-oiled, under-neenstary to
the lord-lieutenant, assuring him of the unholy of the government to
give every assistance."
TIPPLESItY.—The Nenagh Guardian notices in the,.e
terms the endeavour of a Roman Catholic clergyman of that
coon. y to preserve the people from tumult and riot i—
f` Rev. A. Nolan, P.ff., ore Sundae Lint, at Carrie Chapel, and Arr.
want, at Monwa Chapel, addressrai the respective congictrations on
t lilTßellt state of the destitution which plcyail., anti the inteutled
determination against the payment of rents The rev. gentleman
spoke fie upward* of an hour is each pariah on the withholding 04
rents from landlord. under the pretext of the potato I
that the solvent farmer should, as far no in him power lay, dia.
charge the obligation due to his landlonl by the payment if hi.
rent. That it would he woro. than &shoot st so to act, for the land-
lords of that district, daring the period of diem.. of the I:eit WARM,
came forward nobly and contributed Largely to the relief of the people,
and t at if their rents were now unpaid, they mould not be able to tut
in a similar us inner fur the future.
Cona.—The Lord Commissioners of nee Majesty's Trea-
sury have given their sanction to a loan of 6,00(i/. for the
construction of a market in Cork ; for enlarging another mar-
ket, and building a bridge.
Tile HELLS IfrsoLVTIONS.—The resolutions passed at
the special sessions assembled at K ells, hay e nlreadr appeared
in the Exprest. The views of the Labour hate Act
taken in those resolutions were peculiar, and therefore the
following account of an interview of the parties concurring
in them, which appears in the Pile(, will he read with in-
terest, more especially the conversation of the Lord Lieu-
tenant and Mr. I,abouchere:
" In lie course of Thursday a deputation wed' on the Load
Lit utenant at the Castle, to potent the resolution, passed at the
meeting of hells on the 12th. The resolution- having been read by
Naper, of Loughcrew, his Excellency said that he understroil
them to eorrespond with the act ID Vic., c. lof as tar as the making
sod levying of a rate for employment ; and that they alibied
from that act in desiring to apply that rate to the urns
pavement of agriculture, rather than to public works. The
Lord Lieutenant also stated that it was not posaible to put
such a construction on that net as would admit of the object of throe
rt.-solutions being carried into effect under it. Ile observed, that
during the last three or four days he bad received letters innumerable
from all parts of Ireland on the aubject of the resolutions ; but that be
MUMdeputation
Only Hive to the the same advice which he Ltd giver
to the writers of those letters—to make presentments for public work.
under that act, and to suggest any other works the y could think of to
the Board of Works, to which they would give a. favourable...wider-
anon as they could. Ilis Excellency also assured them that the govern-
ment woubl give us favourable a conntruction as they could to the acts
under which works were to be executed. The evil of wasting the re-
sources of the country upon web,m roach haying been forcibly implored
by the deputation, Mr. Labouebere inquired whether drainage works,
tending to improve the district could not be fount' and was informed
that the baronies...in question (Ad not afford werls of the denerlption to
any considerable extent. It was then put Wins Excellenry by a mem-
ber of the deputation, whether her Majesty'. government would be
ready to take such a plan an theirs into conaideration, and whether
means might not be found of putting it, or something to the like
effect, into operation ! To which boo Excellency replied that no mean
of doing 90 were vested in the government. After some conversation
reap teting the giving assistance to railways, the deputation took leave,
hi. Excellence renewing the assurance that the oubject would continue
to receive the attention of government.
ASSEMBLAGE OF FARMERS AND LARDER/DIA IN WEN-
roRD.—A correspondent informs me by letter that there wan
a meeting on the 16th of hungry farmers and labourers, on
Oulart Hill, armed with scythes, pitchforks, and spades.
There was also another assemblage in the district on the
Fith, to which the Wexford police hare hurried. My cor-
respondent adds, that whatever may be the measures of
government, they most be prompt.
persons at least, consisting of the unemployed labourers,
Pestle DISTRESS IN Ctalle.—Onltlonday last a thousand
artisans, and small farmers, of the district* of Kilnasnolagh,
Newmarket-on-Fergus,
half-barony of Bunratty,
Carragerra The Well, Itinanna,
Fenldoeed, coal e
soteetheertepadr
Para parts of
Newmarket-on-Fergus, demanding
employment. Several of them bore the appearance of
starvation, some of whom had not a bit to eat nor any
means of obtaining breakfast that day, and were actually
starving, and scarcely able to come into town to make their
grievances known by reason of hunger. It was really dis-
tressing to tce AO nanny fine, able-looking fellows without

food, or any means of Panting it. It is now seen, beyond
contradiction, thit the potato is absolutely gone. After
filing up the stree's fcr some time, and not being met by any
of the gerelemen (a ho knew tot of their meeting), they
assembled in a field near Ballycar, to see what would be
done, at the same time observing the greatest possible order
and quietness. Mr. M'Dermott, M.D , and Mr. Heard, sub-
inspector of police, hearing of it, attended at the place. The
people voted the former to preside at their meeting; they all
then sat down on the grass, and the learned gentleman
addressed the meeting at some length. Resolutions were
proposed and passed unanimously, amongst which was the
following :
Proposed be nags Higgins, seeonded by Mr. J. Ward. Resolved,
that we would reepeetfuily recommend to her Majesty's government
to take thin their serious and immediate con,iiieration, the wise
policy of giving as extensive employment as pos-ible, by draining,
railroad making, and every kind of public works, which in their
wisdom they may deem it fit to seleet, in order in time, to provide
anuinst the ravage. of famine, pestilence, and disease, which it is our
firm and honest conviction are otherwise Merit •itite to the pour unem-
played laborers and farmers of this populous district.
The assembled multitude then gave three hearty cheers
for the late government, and three for Earl Besborough, the
present viceroy. They departed a little satisfied, and tilled
with hopes based on past experience of assistance hitherto
afforded. . _ _

DINNER To SERJ RANT MERPIIY.—The dinner to this
learned gentleman took place on Thursday night in Cork.
Upwards of 280 gentlemen sat dowu. The speeches were
not of a polities.) charactarr, but un allusion by Serjeant Mur-
phy that he might again he' honoured with the representa-
tion of Cork was received with enthusiastic applause. The
following letter from Lord John Manners, who had been
Invited as a guest, WAS read :
Lloyd's Hotel, Mood;, 1046.
Sir,-1 beg coo will rresent to the gent:emen of the Commune
appointed to make prep:in:bons for the dinner about to be given to
seneant Murphy, my sinc,re ai.knowledgements for the invitation
they have been good enough to send me. Were it in my power, it
would give me the greatest pleasure h, witness so gratifying a main.
festution of the feelings entertained by the citizens of Cork, tawards
their distinguished gated, ho' engagements in another part of Ireland
compel me most relavtantly to decline the invitatiosi.—l have the
ho:usir to be, your faithful servant, JullS M ANNLIM
James Roche, Esq.
ItEPRESENTATION OF MONAGHAN. —The Northern
Standard states that the return of Mr. C. P. Leslie, M.P.
for Monaghan, in t,e event of a general election is secure.
This statement i., I think, somewhat nuns- than doubtful.
It is certain that the Hon. Mr. Ibisesun, M.l'. for Louth,
will offer himself at the next election for Monaghan, and I
hAse very little doubt, from all I learn upon the subject,
that he will till one of the then vacant seats.

FEN YR —Fever is very prevalent, especially in Belfast, at
present, amw g the pourer inhabitants residing in narrow,
filthy streets, and living upon unwbolesonc: and ssanty sup.
plies of food.
A NV ELCONE A univat..—A man-of-war's launch from
the Comet, government steamer, arrived yesterday at an
early hour, and laude d a large quantity of specie, for the
payment of those who may be employed on public works.
Her valuable freight was conveyed to the Bank of Ireland
without the toed:tame or protection of police or military ;
Mr. Craig, of the Bank, and a navy lieutenant, being the
only parties iu charge of it.
STA IC I: OF OTONN eolasaal statue of O'Con-
nell, by Hogan, the distinguished sculptor, has arrived in
Dublin from It-mte. The Freeman's Journal says of it
that it " is a eolo-sal figure of the Liberator, upwards of
eight feet high, of the purest Carrara marble, robed like a
Roman tribune, and in the position of haranguing an ad-
miring multitude around htm. The likeness i. admirable,
taken from li•e, an l the work itself is altogether one of the
finest and most interes.ing specimen. of art ever introduced
intr this coun:ry. A sulneet worthy of the ,rtist, and the
artist or the auWeet." This statue, together with a bust of
Lord Cloucurry, will immediately be placed in the Royal
Exchange, Dublin, where are the statues of Grattan, Flool,
Lucas, and others.

Tur LATE Jons Bt ti,i, Esti . —The Kilkenny Moderator
states that, through the exert' of the Dean of Ossury, the
relict of John Bimini, the di•tintvi.hed novelist, has been
granted a pen.ion of upon the civil list.
LON', EVITY. -There is at present resideut in the county
of 13 none a f.srmer who has reached the age of 120 years; a
son, who re-ides with him, is aged 99. The chit rof the two
can read without glasses, and his her still retains its original
hue, which is brown.

Ltrl: Petit:ye NIEETINIi IN COHK.—Sir.— Allow me
to correct a misrepresentation (no doubt Irmo misconcep-
tion) of some observations made by me at the late great
public meeting in Cork, which appeared in your paper of
the 11th inst., apparently communicated by a Dublin cor-
respondent. In this abridged report Of the peneetslings I am
represented as " opposed to a ding railways in Ireland by
Inane of public miner." Now this statement is diametri-
cally c tntrary, as well to my deliberate dlOnillll.l WI to the
whole tenor of my ohnervations on the subject at the me. t-
ing in question. I believe that there is no channel thmugh
which *tate nilvanctss can he more advantageously applied to
the distresaed labouring poor of Ireland, at the previa mo-
nemt, than through the medium of well projected, isimi.kie
railways in room of construetion. Aided by liberal loans,
at a low rate of interest —which could be fully Premed, first
by a ben upon the cells, and afterw Arils by the mortgage of
the lines—these work,, would give immediate and extensive
employment to thousands of h.:lf-famished human beings,
ho now pray only for " work" to keep them from istarva-
tion ; and W.) 10.1 you'd possitily fall upon the Government,
for there is na dooPot that all main hint of railway id
Ireland, which will neeessarily monopolise the present-road
traffic, most he rentuntrathe. in accordantte with ilsisie
views, I submitted the following reiedittion, which was una-
nimously adopted at the Cork meeting:—" !lewd% eil : That
amongst the measures best calculated to afford immediate
and t stenaive relief to the labouring poor, well projected
railways and other public companies offer the most nutty
assistance ; and that under fide and adequate security, pro-
viding against soy eintingent lieu to the state, they are well
deserving of liberal p.euniary aid from the public exche-
quer." I also took oveasion to observe upon the cretin; tins
notion of railway works only affording relief and employment
in their immediate vicinity; whereas it is will known that
labour rs will travel twenty and thirty miles to obtain work
on a railway in this country, thus relieving the pis ssnre on
the labour market and the land in the quieter from whence
they come. The Whig government of Delft proposed to
con-trust all the main lines of railway in leelaud at the
public expense, conceiving them too eirdly for private cute,-
prise, but admitting that they would repay the ins estmi sit.
Surely they will not now so depart from their own mins
eiples—in this calamitous year of scarcity and distress —an to
refuse loans *mired, upon these very works.—N. LUDLOW
[ LILA NIP'.