The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dusan, Sere. 8.

Several places in the county of Cork, and the nioen-
tainous district between it and Kerry, were searched
on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday for Mr. Richard
O'Gorman, jun. The vicinities of Dunmanway,
Bantry, Cutletownsend, and Castlehaven, were all
subjected to scrutiny. It was suppined to be certain
that Mr. Dohecy had been made amenable the
other day at Baltimore, Cork. A person
answering the description of the " man with
the coarse red face like one given to drink," was seen
on board a ho;tker just arrived from Cork, and the
police immediately took him into custody. The per-
eon, however, turned out to be the son of a gentleman
from a distant part of the county, and he was there-
fore released.

Mr. Pennington, a ship agent at Cork, and in
charge of the vessel on board which Mr. liPManus
was found, has been arrested on a charge of aiding in
that person's evasion of justice.
Two respectable inhabitants of Karnali, county
Clare, arc charged with having solicited a man named
Curtin to assassinate Col. Vandaleur the owner of the
town. The gentleman has rendered himself obnoxious,
rs well by his activity in searching. for Mr. It.
O'Gorman, as because of sime recent evictions on his
estate. Curtin is, however, a man already known to
the police as an informer, and his veracity is much
doubted.

The Right Hon. James Grattan, brother of the
member for Meath, thus states his views of the move-
ment in favour of ambulatory Parliaments:
fiir,—l have received a circular from the committee of a
society in Abbey-street, to be slgued by all persons adapts-
: tiny periodic al sittings of parliament in Ireland. As I believe
the 'senefit to be doubtful and the object impracticable, I deem
it of no use to sign the circular. It seems a partial repeal
of the union, to which England (at whoa. fest the late paltry
attempts of the Repealer' flu planed us) would never agree.
It seems another of those visionary measures by which Ire-
land is ever duped and deceived, and which only end in
making her the laughing stock of Europe, showing how
Wally incompetent she is to effect any gnat practical
measure. Are we to have a society in Abbey-street attempt-
ing a feeble imitation of Coned's, ion-hall, and, like it, effect-
ing nothing but discord throughout the country ? Far better
for those gentlemen who sign the circular to draw up a
statement of our impoverished and neglected condition,
and submit it to Lord John Russell, who is now in Ireland.
Let them show how all public works are neglected or mis-
managed—the navigation and drainage of our rivers, our
fisheries, our harbours. How our elective franchise is cur-
tailed, so that our counties are mere potkat boroughs, one
thousand electors jobbing away and pocketing the rem-
sentation of 100000 persons. How our priesthood, who
educate our people, are left in a condition in which no other
priesthood are left. How the commercial benefits which
were promised at the union have been taken from us by late
acts of parliament in favour of foreigners. How a great
portioa of our people have been supported by Indian cora,
the tribute of charity, unable to purchase Irish meal. How
our substantial farmers are leaving the country for America,
and our middling gentry, frightened by alarms—founded or
unfounded, n s one knows weidt—are emigrating elsewhere,
while those who remain barricade their houses, or sleep
with loaded tame beside them ; and let them aid that, so
far has his lordship carried his anti-protection principles,
that no person can now protect himself without a license
from a police-officer, permitting him to have a gun is his
house. Let these gentlemen refer to the late trials, and 'tate
the ruts, and sin him then doss he expect that any person
will live in such a country who can afford to live out of it ?
and if they do not get a favourable answer, let them turn
repralen at one*, and thus make their conduct intelligible to
their country.—Believe me, with high respect, younote.
J. Gaatrate.—Tinniehineit, Sept. 7.

CORK, Size. 6.
In whatever cause Lord John Russell's visit originated
it is certain that his arrival in the country has given
great pleasure to the rational men of all parties. The cir-
cumstance of a prime minister coming to Ireland is unpre-
cedented, and the fact is taken as an omen of incensed
attention to this country on the part of the authorities. The
only case that seems like a precedent wu Fox's visit in 1777,
which was attended with important eoerquences. At that
time Fox was not in office, but he was the leader of the
anti-North opposition, and expected coon to be at the head of
aff .in. He came over with -Lord John Townshend to the
Duke of Leinster's, add made the personal acquaintance of
all the Irish whirrs' including Grattan, who was then
striding forward to the first place in Irish politics. The re-
volution of 1782 was undoubtedly ameliorated by the inti-
macy subsisting between the leaders of the English and
Irish whigs ; and more personal knowledge of our Irish
influences will, no doubt, be of advantage to our premier.
In point of tact, Lord J. Russell has leas actual knowledge
of Ireland than his immediate predecessors in the premier-
ship. From the time of Lord Goderich to the present ca-
binet the prime ministers with the exception of Eitel Grey,
had all served in the Irish Office. The Duke of Wellington
was our Chief Secretary in 1807, under the viceroyalty of the
fourth Duke of Richmond. Sir Robert Peel served in the
same post from 1813 to 1817, under Lords Whitworth and
Talbot. Again, in 1827, Lord Melbourne (when Mr.
Lamb) was Chief Secretary under the latter part of the
Margtve Wellesley's first viceroyalty. Even though Earl
Grey did not serve in the Dish office his intermarriage
with the Ponsonbys gave him Dish influence arising from
family consideration. Thus our present prime minister has
been less penknally connected with Ireland than any
premier wince the days of Lord Goderith. Even from
1812 to 1827 the leadership of the lower house was in the
hands successively of two Irishmen—Castlereagh and Can
nine—the latter of whom was eventually at the heal of the
Trea-ury. Surely the want of that personal intimacy with
Irish politicians which his predecessors enjoyed might go tar
to account hr the visit of the Premier.
Lord John has had two ancestors—the fourth and sixth

Dukes of Bedford—who were Lards Lieutenant of Ireland
respectively in 1737 and 1805. It is only juain to toe
house of Russell to my that at all times it wee zealous in
good offioes to the oppressed catholic' of Ireland. The
tourth Duke of Bedford, while viceroy, laboured hard to
relit the anti-catholic code. His policy towards the,
catholic' is v-ry remarkable, now that so many
rumour. are afloat about the intentions of his descendant.
Rio plan was to give up conniving at the catholic religion,
and reeognise by law its actual existence, placing the
catholice undsr the powder' of authority. It is very im-
portant thit he wanted to coat set the priests with govern-
ment, though Irina protestant opposition he wee defeated.
lilt own words on the measure of lieensieg the catholic
clergy are of much significann now. " The priests to whom
by licence you grant ch., exercise of their religion most, on
ziking the oaths to government, be in charity presumed
good subjects; at all events, they will then be amenable to
government, and having dune( their good behaviour a
kind of freehold in their pulsing', they will be
bound in ink's* An keep foreign interlopen out, and
will be mach more responsible than at present for the obe-
dience of their A aka' (Are we reading of 1757 or 1844 ?)
He defended his favourite measure for licensing the prie.te
in the following question: " lie was told that it would be
estatrlisitieg ry by law, bat was it not de facto esta-
blioted a " [Vide "Bedford Correepondente," vol 2,
p. 16.]
Lord John Russell is a man notoriously prone to ancestral
feeling, and with mach historical spirit. He is subject, like

all the leaders of the whip, to traditiosary politics, ai.d the
remarkable policy of his ancestor has obtained his spinal
notice in the publication of the duk'e's eornapondenee. The
second volume of that work was pub!ishal in 1613, the repeal
year of monster meetings, and L ird Jahn ;rioted a preface
in which he complimented the frith catholic. in the follow-
ing terms. After describing how Dr. O'Connor mil the
Irish catholics gratefully thanked the Duke of Bedford for
his goad will, Lord John writes!—" Such has bee* on re-
peated reunions the conduct of the cathollea of Ireland.
While they have felt acutely the injury and degradation to
which they have been subjected by English laws. any relaxa-
tion of moderate severity, and even any dawn of a kindlier
di=porition towards them, has been met by a warmth of gra-
titude and a zeal of attachment which a, em to have no me-
mory of past injury, and no suspicion of future injustioe."—
(eorreapondence of 4th Duke of Bedford. Preface to vol.
2, p. 18
Notwithstanding the dastardly abuse which was heaped
upon the prime minister, because, forsooth, he could not ar-
rest the flit of Provideuco, and avert t .e famine there are
thousands of the influential catholies who do not forget that
the Irish people were nobly served in other times by the
Russells; and, though it is vain to expect that the lower
clams could have much of tLis Puling, assuredly there are
many influential dignitaries in the Irish catholic church who
oink the better of the Premier because he is a Russell. The
iptorarvine c,nt about " spoils of the reformation," and
" Woburn Abbey, the jackal's share of Henry the Eighth's
plunder," has no influence with the real heads of the eatholie
church, though such stuff did weal enough for base deem-
przue, panlerinz for a fraudulent popularity.
A prepos of Irish popularity, that commodity is now (to
use Lord id istfield's words) " gained without a merit, and
low without a fault." Lord George Battle& had scoured
;or himself a good dud of it by his praoosal to aid tin rail-
ways, but his strictures about the expediency of dealing with
the convict Mitchel in the severest manner have suddenly
bligntAll his name with the disaffected and discontented
putt,. "His cavilling about where Mitchel ate his dinners
nsa meted on his Irian popularity like the small black spot on
the potato-stalk--ominous of rot. Lord Gouge's grand-
father, the third Duke of Portland, was Lied
Lieutenant of Ireland under the Rickiogham snag
ministry of 1782, and it is only doing him his-
torical justiee to say that he was as slippery a politician
as ever held that office. In the " Malminbury Diary,"
end in Grattan's " Life of Grattan," there are some singular
revelations of his grass dishonesty. With his feeble mind
and his false heart he was a jockey amongst statesmen, jolt
us his grandson is a statesman amongst jockeys. Very dif-
ferent indeed are the antecedents tf Lord John and Lard
George in the politics of Ireland !
It Is whispered on good authority that the reconstruction
of the Irish lib. rd party will be one of the subjects
pressed strongly in Dublin on Lord John's attention. The
famous measure wnieh he himself moved in March, 1831,
and with which his name is so proudly associated,wise mild
by the votes of the Irish members, a fact which makes Ali-
son, in his voluminnua history, espies a grave doubt of the
policy 01 the union inessurs. There were 211 English and
Scotch me-hers for the bill, and '266 against it, making a
maj wity 01 15 cleat against the measure ; but the Irish.
M.P 'a turn, d the tide by • majority of 16 amongst them-
selves, 37 voting arsine, and 63 in favour of the bin, • fact
which I feel mach pleasure in stating in times like these,
when our national character has been so discredited by the
sayings and doings of certain parties.
Fox, to his 'tint to Ireland in 1777, obtained much popu-
lar:ty by his hearty good humour. Many traditions of
him are still current in social gossip. Amongst
others, it is said that when he wu at Killarney, tie
ascended Mangerton as far as the "Devil's Punch-
bowl," a tarn at the summit, in which the guides told
him that no human body c.:uld fl at. " Say ye so ?" cried
Fox ; and stripping his clothes, ho swam three times
round the " Bowl,' to the amazement of the guides. i'ox
was, however, • more athletic aristocrat than Lord John,
who will, yrobably, not be inclined to imitate Fox's example
in all respicts, if he should visit Killarney. lie
must content Maisel with drinking "Justice to Ireland " in
a bowl of punch smoking hut, and not " cold without," like
the lake in Mangerton.
Lord Castlereagh, when Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
visited Ireland in 18/0, in attendance on George the Fourth.
And Mr. Canning, whsle leader of the House of Commons,
visited Ireland, in 1824, on a enamel visit to hit daughter,
the Marchioness of Cianricirde. These are the only prece-
dents of the klinistees shit to Ireland.

Pale ha3o opprobria vows
Et dad potulare, non poluareo