The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dumnr. Nov. 7.

The total failure of the atteml,t to
estates in London forme, as might be expected,
a subject of general ounvererion here. That it has
caused no little alarm to those who have lands of their
own to come ere long seder the hammer, cannot be
denied ; bat the pascal fader appears to be that if
the lands had bean awed with a parliamentary title,
under the new commission, they would have found
more ready perehamers,and that in Ireland their value
would be 1r understood and appreciated than be-
yond the Channel. As it is, Ace extraordinary
holding back of the Eegli.h capitalists se-
makes rather severe comments here. I believe
however that much of the failure of the experiment in
to ba attributed te its having been made prematurely
by a few weeks. The Incumbered Estates Commis-
sioners resume their public sittings the day after to-
morrow. In the mean time there is a total stagnation
of businessin oar law courts, and the hall presents a
moat deressin4 exhibition of empty begs. Mr. Jobe
O'Connell appeared there yesterday in his vig and
gown, and as it was the first time people remembered
to have Win him thee, he became an object of notice.

MEETING OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.
Last night the Dahlia Protestant Associatioa held Omit
promised demonstration in the Rotunda, "to pronouns. on
the met of tyranny perpetrated by the government on Lead
Roden and the Masan. Bats, to petition the Queen to recall
Lord Clarsoden, and to dismiss her present ministry, by whose
councils Ireland Is reduced to the lowest degree of calamity,
and the British empire well nigh overthrown." The meeting
was numerous, but was umposed almost exclusively of a
fanatic party, known here by the title of " Greggites," or
parties= of the Rev. Tuatara Gregg ; and • great number
of thee" present were decorated with Oatrige
Letters of apology were read from the Marquis of Dorn-
shire, the Earl of Raniskillen, Dean Murray, Lieut.-Colonel
Lewis, &a. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Alexander
Johnson Montgomery ; and the speakers were Mr. Thomp-
son, • hatcher Mr. Munn, Grand Master of the Orange-
men of Dublin; the Rev. George Do Butts, the Rev.
Tea-sham D. Gregg, and a few others ; bat the tone of the
meeting may be peresived from the follawiag resolution,
unanimously passed:
"Resolved,—That the lying in wait of • body of Papists,
of whom great numbers came from distant parts, at Dolly'.
Brae, with arms, ammunition, and weapons of assault, for
the avowed parcels of impeding the lawful procession of
Orannemen, et murdering them, and triumphing cur them,
this Popish embus:ado being cheered on by priests, led by
them, excited and blessed by them, affords &glaring instance
of the utterly intolerant character of Popery ; and that this
intolerance becomes more marked, hateful, and disgusting,
when it is remembered that Protestants um interfered to
impede the processions of Roman Catholics during the
whole progress of the monster meetings; and that we be-
have that when the Orangemen on the occasion in question
gathered around them the lawful authorities, whose duty it
was to disperse the ambush which contemplated • mur-
derous assault, they did all they were sailed upon to de, or
that it was possible to do, in order to avoid • breath of the
peace, and to show their respect for the law; and that it is
the deliberate conviction of this meeting that if they had
yielded to the threats of Wee papists, and allowed them to
conclude that their ambuscade had frightened at once the
protestant' and the authorities, that they would have acted
as traitors to their Queen and the British connexion, and
originated a feeling in the breasts of the Roman catholic' of
all Inand, which would have rendered protestant life un-
safe in every past of the kingdom ; that on such grounds
we thiak that the conduct of the Orangemen, previous to the
assault of the assassins, was legal, praiseworthy, end admi-
rable ; and that their opponents were alone to blame for the
subsequent enemas which their own intolerant and unlawful
violence solely and wholly provoked."

EXPRESS MAILS ON INN LONDON AND NORTH WEST:

zax.—With the

of the month a new

important system of acceleration was effected in all the mail
trains on this line, and by which an hour is gained to pas-
sengers and correspondence at all the principal termini, such
as Liverpool, Manchester, Holyhead, Dublin, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and other places. The speed on some por*ins of
the line Is at 'sprees parr, and the average increase in the
rate of speed is about five miles per hour. This improve.
meat is the malt of an arrangement just come to between
the Postmaster-General and the railway authorities.

A HINT TO LANDLORDS.—The Hon. Lady Cock- I
erell. et 8, ziecot, Glouewerabire, te:urned ha tenants 10
per cent. a• her audit on Friday last.
SCARCITY OP WELSH BEGGARS.—A work entitled
Tales about Wales," recently pubisbcd, contains the fol.
lowing ()usage —" A Welsh beggar is rarely seen, even in
these days, in any part of the kingdom ; and it is a fact
worthy of notice, that when an investigation into the men-
dicky of Lmnion was made some years ago, not one Welsh-
man was found, although the number of beggars that in.
tested the cents of that capitul at that time was reported by
the committee of the House of Commons to he 15,249 !"
may add (says the editor) that I have frequently travelled
the rrircipality, and in some very poor and sick diatriets,
bat never met with a Welsh beggar.

AN ARITHMETICAL ERROR.—A young woman,
named Ann Smith, was brought before the Liverpool magic.
trace. on Tuesday, on charge of John Whittaker, of York,
who hid sent her to bridewell, for robbing him of 1891.,
es appeared by the police sheet. As the prosecutor
had left by the morning train the woman was discharged,
'be magistrate remarking that it was a serious thing to be so
lightly dealt with. After the case had been disposed of it
turned at that the 1891. should hay.• been 11. th. 92., the
Meer who booked the charge against the woman having
omitted to place the dots between the figures.
AODIT OF POOR-LAW ACCOUNTS.—The Liverpool
Courser states, that on Tuesday, T. Rebuts, Esq , attended
at the Beard-room, Birkenhead, for the peewee of auditing
the accounts of the various townships in the Wirral Union.
On the Birkenhead overseers presenting their accounts, it
was found they d•ffered materially from those laid before the
sauuc-hiczt statiedt, be had no power to punish the
ratepayers for their inspection, which led to en espy alter-
which was very wrong, and if it
Cos:: roenee. reTtohre
were es stated, they were liable to penalties. Mr. Mortimer
said be would take are the penalties were sued for, as he
had no bertatioa in stating that the accounts had been fal-
sified for the purpose of deceiving the ratepayers. This
charge wee indignantly denied by Mr. Willis, on behalf of
the overseers. The audit wes then Proceeded with, and,
after the disallowance of one or two items, the accounts passed.
THE IRON TRADE or AMERICA.—The Mount Sa-
vage Iron Works—the lamest in America—are now pur-
chased by a new company, and will soon be ready to re-
ennimence operations. The** works were started by an
E ,glish company, some 15 years ege, for the purpose of
manufacturing iron on the largest scale. They consist of
three blast-furnaces, amongst them the largest in the United
Stares, the blast of which is carried by a steamengioe
erected at a coat of 72,000 dollar, a puddling-furnace and
rolling mill large enough to employ 600 men, a foundry,
fire-hrick yard, store, 321 houses for workmen, nine miles
of II railroad, besides eight or ten miles of plate mine
roads, a very large real estate at Mount Savage, Cumber-
land, comprising mines of iron and coal of various qualities,
a superior clay for firs-brick, abundance of lime stone, and
building materials of all kinds. From the balance sheets of
the old company, it &open that the works and property
have cost over the sum of 1,600,000 dollars. The whole
concern was sold to the new company for a little over
200,000 dollars. This company are now bury making sr-
, raogements to open the establishment for work as soon as
the price of railroad iron shall be such u to admit of sue-
orshil competition with the English article. At present,
tbsp say, "the high price of labour in this country renders
B impusible to compete smth the English manufacturer,
who, ch prived of a market in Europe by the suspension of
all works of internal improvement on the continent, sends
ail his stock to America." The Mount Savage establish.
sun?, when is operation, employs nearly 4,000 men, mostly
(retinue. These men are II banded together among them-
selves, and with the workmen in other establishments, that
they will remain idle, or work at another business fot one-
Salt what the company could afford to give them, rather
than abate one amt. from their wages. Puddler', for in-
stance, who formerly received from 3 dollars toy dollars per
ton, mu:d now urn 2 dollars 60 cents per ton, but prefer to
work in the mines, or on the canal, for one-half the
amount. A pretty general complaint of the inferior quality
of English railroad iron is getting abroad ; and, in one in-
stance lately, the Camden and Amboy Likud Company
have made a contract Witt. a Jerry iron company for a quan-
tity of tells at something Oyer 60 dollars pi r too, in pre-
ference to buying Brithh iron at 45 dollars. The English
rails, it is said, arep made of three qualities of iron, the best
g
u the to, where the most wear comes. A short
time a terpon these rails have been used, this surface wears off,
sad the a ear then comes upon the second layer, and in a
Urie while the rails become FO much worn that they are
useless. While on this subject, I give the following extract
from a Pennsylvania paper. It notices the fact that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have contracted in
England for all the iron necessary to lay their track from
Cumberleni to the Ohio , and says: "The contract
prie--, we understand is 25 dollars per ton, delivered, we
belies+, in Baltiaore. From Cumberland to the Ohio
river, the divines by the railroad is something upwards of
200 miles. Quantity of iron for the track, per mile, 94 tons
—lB,BOO, whole quantity ; contract price, lees duty, 19 dol-
lar, 26 cents; add duty ander tariff of 1842. 25 dollars ;
total, 44 dollen 23 osrils; number of tone, 18,800 ; cost per
ton, 44 donee' 23 cents ; cost of iron to make the whole
road, 831,524 dollar. It requires 7 tons of coal to make a
ton of iron. Then 18,800 tons, by 7, would show 131,600
tans of coal required to make the whole quantity, at, say,
1 dollar 12 cents. Then 81,800 tons; whole cost, 137,392
dollar ; cost of iron, 831,514 dollars; cost et coal, 137,352 ;
total, 968,916 debars." In connection with this iron sub-
ject, it may perhaps interest some of your readers to hear
of a new method of casting *samosa, lately adopted at Pitts-
burg. Instead et bringing them from the mould solid, and
dterwaras boring them, they are cast with the proper bore ;
the bore being carefully prepared so as to endue a circle of
cold WOO r, which it receives and discharges in a continuous
eurrent during the process of cooling, the object probably
being to chill the inner surface mote rapidly than the outer,
and thereby give to it a greater density and strength. The
plan is the suggestion of a Lieutenant Rodman ; and two
gnus, one cast as the old, and the other on the new plan,
having been subjected W the usual testa,
_the first exploded
the 84th round, and the latter at the 266th round.--Corres-
pondent of the Birmingham Journal.