The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENIvG, NOVEMBER 16, 1849.

IRELAND.

Daum, Nov. 16.
THE CORK ELECTION. .

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The n stilt ;Iti;eC;;;k elccionbae filed everybody
with em &Anent, ann note more then the conserve- '
tives them elves. The triumph has come upon them
' most unexpectedly, and they turn it to good account '
in favour of protection, to which they attribute the
whole merit of the success. The Evening Mail styles
it " the great reaction—signal defeat of free trade,"
"the eehmn pronuneiarnento of the utiond city of
this kingdom against the merits of free trade." The
Press repeats a theme which it has been urging on
public attention, and attributes the Ices of Cork to the
fact that " the constituencies of Ireland are in the colo-
nit s—in the poo'house—in the grave." The Freeman,
I believe with a good deal of trich, throws a portion
of the blame on popular divisions. The Cork Exa-
miner, received this morning, gives the following hu-
miliating account of the way in which the battle was
fought and won by toryiern :
In this inlay:es, toe popular par y have b-en taken by
surprise, defeated by a sham, and conquered by those in-
evitable allies of a bad cause—bribery end intimidation. We
freely admit that protecion, arrant humbug 10 It is, has wan
the day i but protection has been gilded with gold, and
strengthened by tyranny. The lowest class of our voters,
those over who*, miserable beans nave alter wave of cari-
osity has rolled its bitterness and its sorrow, have been pur-
chased; and the serfs of the soil have been either bam-
boozled by sophistry and humbug, or driven to the poll by
the moat v.oleut nisaarips. The former offered their Totes
to the friends of htr. M'Carthy at a lower price than they
said they were offered by the friends of Colonel Chatterton,
or, that they would consent to take from " the enemy ;" but
their offer was unhesitatingly rejected, and they went
their way ; and, on yesterday morning, in ISM than
half an hour alter the opening of the poll, seventy of
this class of independent electors, whose feelings, passions,
and very utstineis, are all opposed to the party by whom the
colonel ts supported, recorded their votes on behalf of " the
enemy." Then the liberty farmers, now were they treated?
Fur Ibe last week, agents have limn scouring the country,
brandishing in the faces of scared wretches letters from their
landlords, lull of the moat terrible vengeance, if their tenants
tid nut go as they were ordered by their lords and masters.
And on yesterday, might be seen batches of shame-faced
slaves actually bustled is to the pollisg•booths, guarded and
surrounded by landlords, agents, and a host of active parti-
sans. In ouu place, thirty liberal voters were compelled to
go as a landlord ordered them, or an egeut commanded
them; in another, it was a venerable dowager alum
ukase drove her serfs to the bustinge. Hen it was mat-
eriel.' lying that did the work; there it was barefaced hum-
bug and effrontery. There was one din of eaten, numbei fag
assist as many as that of the liberal party. who held back ;
and they distinctly mid, " We will remain in a certain place
until a certain hour, and we will see who will make us the
best offer, for we are tired of voting for nothing." And this
class voted almost to a man for Colonel Chatterton, but not
until they knew for what; for they are old birds, and chaff
would not catch them ; they should have a "guarantee."
Facts such as these which we indicate will account for the
majority of 200 or so over the 600 honest men who, without
any consideration, but that decline honestly and faithfully
acccrdiog to their principles, recorded their votes on the aide
of civil and religie.us liberty and rational progress.
The numbers at the final close of the pall (five
o'clock) .toed thus:
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Chatterton
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61•Carth7 696
Majority
The address of Lord Roden, adopted at the recent
extraordinary meetirg of the Ulster Protestant Asso-
ciation, with the Marquis of Downshire in the chair,
has only now made its appearance, with his lordship's
reply ; but so totally has the matter ceased to attract
public attention, tnat it is useless to encumber your
'damns with these documents. The address seems
insularly tame, when we recollect the furious and
haatical speeches delivered at the meeting.
At the sitting of the Incumbered rotates Commis-
sion, yesterday, some points of general interest were
nettled. The Learned Chief Commissioner called the
attention of the profession to the fact that, in several
awes, orders which had been made upon petitions bad
get been taken out, but had been left in the office
without any further proceeding. This practise wee
not in accord ince with the spirit of the act of parlia-
ment, and the commissioners would not permit it.
Such delay was injurious to other petitioners as it
prevented them from proceeding, and the commie-
sioners would in future take the carriage of the
matter from petitioners acting in this way, and
charge them with the costa that had been
incurred. This course was necessary to prevent
the proceedings of the court from being trifled with.
The commissioner also decided, in refusing the peti-

Con of an incumbrancer, that no lands would be sold
under that court the enj-yment of which was subject
to be disputed, or the indefeasible possessory title of
which, subject to leases at it might be, could not be
given up to the purchaser. This decision, which is
oonsidered important, was made under the 27th sect.
of the act.
It was very generally reported in Dublin yesterday
that the serious illness of Dillon Browne, Etq., M.P.
for the county Mayo, has terminated fatally.

THE LOUD LIEUTENANT'S PRIVATE SECRETARY.—
We believe there is co longer any doubt that /or. Corry Coo-
nellan is about to retire from the office of private secretary to
the Lord Lieutenant.—Dublin Herald. _ _ _

ATTEMPT TO SHOOT Ma. KIERNAN.—On Saturday
night last mother attempt was made to sessalinate Mr.
Francis Kiernan, agent ever the property of the Messrs.
Scott, of Longhorns. Mr. Kiernan was sitting at his fire
with some friends, when the shot was fired at him through
the window of the room. Most providentially a sack of Mktg
bad been removed near the window a short time before,
which intercepted the ball and saved Mr. Kiernan's life. A
considerable reward has been offered for the apprehension of
the offender,.—Tiype►ary Vindicator.
REDUCTION or Rncr.—The Earl of Mountembel

hassigiaried his intention. through his agent, Alfred William
Cleverly, Elq., to pay the rate-in-aid for the tenants on his
County Antrim estates. Mr. Cleverly has taken up his resi
dean at Gelatins Castle, and intends farming eaten-ively on
the most improved principle. As he Is a person of very good
taste in agricultural matters, no doubt his example will be
beneficial in the country. Already be has spent a large sum
in draining and other improvements on the demesne.—
Northern Whig.
FESTIVITIES AT HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE.— On
Wednesday last Hillsborough Castle was the wine of great
festivity on the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of
Lady Alin Hill, the youthful daughter of the Marquis and
Marchioness of Downshire. The noble marquis and mar-
chioness sailed on the meat day for England, and will remain
a short time at Combermers Abbey and Oxfam Mall prior
to their return to Hillsborough.

must have fretted and broken his spirit. No sooner
this over than he is ahnut to r: alise the dream of
his youth, but untead of Boding himself the toctical
rover of the sea, ho is bouhd l-y the galling rule of
.),ip Jew, and coLdemned to spend the greater pact
of his life kith a herd of beyo, who, however esti-
mable se young sailors, could neither understand nor
sympathies with the habits of an aspirant for literary
fame. We hope that the story of " Doug's@ " may
have 101116 influer ca in bringing about a change in
the anomalous and very disgraceful position of our
naval assistant-surgeons.
With regard to the " adventures," they are com-
posed of various incident', and incidents shaped into
marvellous tales, which would be likely to befal a
medical student and navy easistant-surgeon.
They all betray a certain want of ar-
tistic skill and taste, but their blemishes
in this respect are amply made up for by the
power and vividness with which the author describes
his scenes and characters. The earlier stories
in the volume exhibit in the strongest manner
both his weakness and his strength. He evidently
prefers dealing with the marvellous and the terrible,
but some of his incidents are worked up with won- '
derful tenderness and pathos.
Here is the description of one of those rooms
of which there were many formerly in London,
but which are now fast disappeariog, under the in-
tlueaceof the modern arrangements introduced in our
collegiate institutions. It is a description of a private
dissecting room :

" This plus was situated in Lane, Southwark, a
dingy, disreputable bole, the unseemliness ot which prevented
tile Mediae, for study which it afforded from being properly
appreciated and tsk n advantage of. Only some of the very
poorest students frequented it, though about a ceatury ago it
was'the best attended anatomical school in London.
"-The proprietor made no emolument from it, its sole use
being to all.rd him the title of anatomist,which was of course
of infinite advantage to him in practice. Ile was the descen-
dant of two generations of eminent medical men who had
lectured there, and whose valuable museums of morbid pre-
parations he inherited. To find your way ti it Seel turned
from the lane up. a dark covered outage for abut fitly feet ;
then, emerging into a kind of court with blind walls all
around, you saw before you a tall, dark building. The lower
stories had been used formerly for a leather faetory, but had
long been deserted, and were now quite ruinous and empty.
The upper stories formed the school, approaci,able by a stair-
case behind, to get at which you had to go through another
arched passage, as dark, but shorter than the first. After
m muting this, and entering within the wall of the building,
'
on ascended two narrow staircases of wood, and traversed a
'ong passage with two doors, the further of which opened into
the dessecuag-room, the nearer into the theatre or clue-rosin.
Immediately under these were two large rooms, the museum,
which opened at the top of the first wooden staircase. Their
walls were concealed by shelves, crowded with cylindrical
crystal bottles, containing various portions and organs of the
body of man and of other animals, preserved in alcohol.
Several of these were very ancient, and also most interesting,
from the important phenemena of which they were the
proofs or illustrations.
"in various cabinets, with glass fronts, were displayed
bones varnished, preparations of the arteries, veins, and
nerves—in short, the place had all the ghastly features of an
anatomical museum, with the peculiterstillneu, coldness, and
strange earthy smell.
" The dissecting-room was an extensive boll, lighted by
two large windows in the roof. From the ceiliag, which was
very high, depended a couple of skeletons, one of which had
the thumb of its band fixed up to the nose, in an attitude of
derision, and the other had stuck between its teeth a short
pipe, wheat one hand was made to hold a quizzing-glass to
its empty socket, AU round the dead walls were Lung up
drawings of various organs, plans of their action, preparations
of legs, arms, tic., in the proems of drying, and the leather
and cloth gowns of the pupils ; whilst to complete the picture,
fancy a couple of tables, each bearing the cast off and ;decay-
ing tenement of a spirit, opened up in its intricate machinery
to the eye, like a watch denuded of is case.
" Such was the scene in which I passed many a lonely
night of hard and uninterrupted study, with no companion but
my books, a small voltaic) bate ry and coil, and some other
instruments and apparatus of my own construction, of which
so man but myself understands the nature.
" The place was plentifully supplied with light, the two
windows taking up nearly the whole of the ceiling. In one
of them I lad fixed the reflector of a small solar microscope,
with which I pre:faceted my physiological investigations.
" But the first step towards my grand discovery was the
finding a substance which had power to harden the nervous
matter to an infinitely greater degree than alcohol, alum,
corrosive sublimate, or any other antiseptic previously
known.
" When my views began to open up more distinctly, I
became apprehensive that my experiments and dies, ctions
might be watched ; and during the day I came only at those
hours when I knew the other pupils were enforced elsewhere.
The night was my chosen time for labour. To facilitate my
proceedings in this way, the proprietor allowed me to have
gaslight to what extent Diked, and to keep the keys of the
various doors of the rooms.
" Night after night did I sit these, absorbed and wrapt in
my solitary study, my light visible to no human creature,
and the cnly sound I heard being the dropping of a coder
from the fire, or the rattle of a mouse or rat among the bones
to the glass ass s below.
ilt s said that next to the study of the abstract
and deeply interesting questions of theology, mon
persons go mad in seeking after the mysterious
principle of life than from any other cause.
It is nifficalt to give en idea of the merit of these
Wories by mere extracts. There are few who read one
that will not go on through the whole, and we can
promise those who take up this volume much pleasant
reading, with passages of great power, and scenes of
thrilling interest.