The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 23.
If ,:s well known that the inspectors appointed for
the het ter carrying out the provisions of the poor law
han ich a
act wet e only temporarily appointed. Their missions
were to have entirely ceased on the let September
next. 're .‘"Y have this week received a renewal of
pdpeociinatremse nt e fore s t
ia m
a another h e
which
ch year, a
the
their appeL itments for six months from that day. In
reality, this is
circumstance which
poor law soh°. rities form of the prospects of the close
of this and the F we-harvest period of the coming year.
It would secs: that neither in incidents or results
can Irish trials b s conducted like any other trials.
We have challenge to the stray and challenges to
the poll, and speei. 11 challenges, all of which are
not.ed in the text-boa ks as occurring in other places.
But in challenges to .the counsel we make our own
precedents. The Atter. ley-General during the s'ate
trials of 1844 challenged one of the counsel for the
traversers—the counsel f 'r the prisoner, in 1848,
challenges the Solicitor-Lleneral. On last Sa'ur-
day night, Alderman }Judson waited on the Soli-
citor-General on the part of Mr. Butt, to require
of him that he would retract certain language, in
which, as Mr. Butt conceived, he reflected personally
on his character. The Solicitor-General thereupon
assures him he did not intend the language offensively,
and there the matter ends. One cannot help con-
cluding that our official men would manifest more
dignity aed our counsel more grave self-possession, if
they could see themselves as others see them. A
correspondence upon the subject has appeared in the
Dublin papers.
The London journals due in Dublin yesterday did
not arrive at the post-office turd four o'clock p.m.
The London evening papers of the same date (Mon-
day) were in the hands of the public fully three hours
previously. No circumstance could occur to prove
more conclusively the superiority of the route by
Holyhead as a line of communication with the metro-
polis. The Holyhead route in this case beat the
Liverpool route by nine or ten hours. Much of this
is, however, owing to the slowness of the boats on the
Liverpool line.
Some observation has been made upon the circum-
stances that the Brescia] commission should be fixed
for the capital of the north riding of Tipperary,
whereas Mullinahone, Bailingarry, Boulagh, sad
Slieveardagh, as well as She ver.amon, are in the
south riding, as is also Thurles. But the act of parlia-
ment dividing Tipperary into ridings expressly ex-
cepts cases in which special commissions shall issue,
when the body of the county may be summoned to
either place. Besides, in cases of treason the trials
may be had in any part of the kingdom. The venue
is not local. The presiding judges are not yet
named ; but there is no question that Chief Justice
Blackburne will be one of them.

The Lord Chancellor has just issued an order re-
specting the terms of setting of property of lunatics
and idiots. His lordship says that the custom of
setting property in such causes before him for a term
" pending the matter" or cause has an injurious effect
upon the property and those who are tenants thereon.
He therefore orders that in no case shall the demise
of property of lunatics or idiots made by the masters
be for a less period than 21 years.
Several arrests of clubmen have been made st Don-
nybrook Fair. They are parties whose names have
never been before the public. It seems they could
not debar themselves of the humours of this old haunt
of jollity, and, losing their dieguise with their discre-
tion, fell into the hands of the police.
Prices were up yesterday at our corn exchange;
but the purchases were limited, because as yet the
real condition of the harvest is not sufficiently esta-
blished to enable millers or merchants to venture upon
stock. [For figures see Dublin corn report in first
Me.
The] largest market of potatoes for the last two
years shown in Dublin, was that held yesterday—a
strong proof of the injury done to the crop, as It
shows how anxious cultivators are to get rid of them
thus early. Of course prices receded.
A tremendous flood Mu carried away the bridge
over the White River near Dunleer, Louth, on the
line of the Belfast Junction Railway.
The Nenagh Guardian records a brutal outrage.
It is, that some ruffian entered the lands of Kiljustin,
Toom, Tipperary, and stabbed in the bellies three
horses, four milch cows, and three heifers.
In Clare and Tipperary the work of eviction goes
on rapidly. Not a local journal we open which does
not record some each. A sure indication of what we
shall have to expect in the coming winter, which pro-
mises not to need that aggravation.
A dreadful fire occurred in Cork in Monday night,
in the endeavour to extinguish which a man, named
Short,lost eis life. Threeothers were ber,oua'y injured.
On the 6th instant an affray took place between the
military and people in or near the towu of Tipperary,
whicti ended in the death of a soldier ,f the 43rd,
named Joshua Colville, who was so severely injured
by a blow of a stoic in the forehead that he died
some days atter. An inquest was held on the body
at Templemore on the 18th, when it appeared that
Colville and eight other soldiers had been drinking
on the 6th, and had got tipsy, as some of them
were confined for drunkenness that night. On their
way to barracks the party overtook t trier, who was
on hors-beck. A soldier named Mason says the
friar used some bad language to them which he could
not recollect ;" at all events the party commenced
swearing at the Pope, and one seized the friar's horse
by the reins. On this tie peo,;de became excited, and
were about to attack the eoldiets, when the friar in-
terfered to make peace. He, however, rode on, the
police having come up ; and then some stones were
thrown, one of which struck Colville on the forehead.
According to Mason's evidence the friar could not
have been near him at :he time. The party who
flung the stone is Lot known. A verdict in accord-
ance with these facts was retur.ed.
David Coughlan, of Drowgan, Tipperary, Paving a
commission of colonel in the rebel iorce on him, bas
been arrested.
The constable Haniver, who had the warrant film
the arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien at the Thuile. station,
and who was on the platform when Halme hid
hands on him, has been promoted to a first-class head
onatableahip.

SCOTLAND.
EDIMBIIROH, Are. 22.
The weather here has not as yet been to any extent
characterised by the severity which has been so much
complained of in other quarters. We have had no
rains remarkable either for duration or intensity, and
the crops, including potatoes, look well. The effeeta
of the pcnic, however, are observable in the CAW of
the latter, as large quantities are offered in the mar-
kets at low prices.
On Saturday, Bailie Stott and Mr. Georgeson were
liberated from gaol, their annuity dues haying been
raised in penny subscriptions from among the inha-
bitants. They quitted " durance vile" as privately as
they had entered, no mob being collected or excite-
ment of any kind having taken place. Last night •
soiree in honour of their liberation took place in
Queen-street Hall—the Music Hall, our most aristo-
cratic place for public meetings, having been refused
for the purpose. Mr. Rurewli, who was incarcerated
onin
for non-payment of the e.rinuity tax-wasa,
,y ears ago,
•, presided at the festival. Railiwithitia Aw. y 've the
drelT
amount claimed for anlnitaila " fi di
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