The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-28 00:00:00

CIATION TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.

"Fellow-countrymen—O'Connell is no more! The eni-
mating spirit of Ireland has posed away ! The light of the
nation is extinguished!
" Weep, and wail, and let your grief be without limit, 0
children of Ireland, for the cup of your affliction is full, and
the extent of your suffering without measure. The pride of
your hearts has been stricken down—the bright one of Erin
is removed—the Liberator of our country bu departed!
" With a season of sorrow it has pleased the Almighty to
afflict us to the uttermost—pestilence and famine blight our
people—in a foreign country, far away from his own loved
native land, low lies the champion of Ireland's liberties.
"Oh, well may we mourn him, for the whole human race
race deplore his loss, and the gloom of our bereavement
afflicts the world.
" Fellow-countrymen, how shall we best prove that we
loved him whilst living, or mourn for him when dead ? By
reverencing his principles—by. obeying his dictates—by
pursuing the same noble objects in the peaceful steps he trod.
" In one sense in the true sense, O'Connell is not dead!
Men like unto him can never die; all that was mortal hu
passed away, but the immortal part remains. His spirit,
fellow-countrymen, abides with you. His moral teachings
are spread for ever through you, and through the universe.
No tine can extinguish the lessons of his wisdom.
" For ourselves, associated as we were here by hint, our
purpose is determined to stand by his principles, and to abide
by his doctrines, and by them alone. This is our fixed and
unalterable resolve.

" Throughout the wide world a mighty void is felt; who
shall fill it up? What nation—what people has not lost a
benefactor? Our country has lost its guide and leader. Oh,
let that country still be directed by his wisdom, and be mar-
shalled beneath his standard.
" His paths were the paths of peace. He walked in the
ways of the law and of order. Remember, still remember,
the motto of his association, the moral of his wisdom and

experience—' The man who commits a crime gives strength
to the enemy.
" By his long and faithful service—by the noble example
of his life—by the glory of his immortal name—we beseech,
we implore you, fellow-countrymen, swerve not from the
principles, desert not the objects, nor abandon the doctrines
of O'Connell. "Cutts sues M.Lorontisi,
"T. M. Ray, Secretary." " Chairman of ,he Meeting."

The committee of the Reproductive Society ad-
journed yesterday, in consequence of O'Connell's
death. The name of the new body has been fixed
as "The Irish CounciL" . . . .

The board of health have issued a long circular for
the information of the relief committees on the ques-
tion of sanitary precautions. After quoting the 9th
and 16th sections of the fever act, the board suggest
that, in reference to cleansing and purifying the diiel-
liege of the poor, the relief committees may secure the
services of the able-bodied destitute in removing col-
lections of manure, contents of ash-pits, by a
trifling addition in rations or money. Among other
suggestions, a short pointed notice is recommended
for circulation, impressing on the people the necessity
of avoiding wakes and places of assembly which both
germinate and diffuse infection. To induce cleanli-
nese of clothing and person, some committees hays
adopted a rule of insisting on an outward cleanly ap-
pearance from the recipients of gratuitous relief. This
regulation it is proposed to extend by establishing
washhouses on a simple plan, to be kept open
a certain number of hours each day, with a drying-
room attached. On the interment of the dead, the
following suggestions are offered, which are not
likely to be universally acted on:—" That graves
should invariably be sunk to a depth of five feet; that
the surface of each grave should be beaten hard ; that
where burials have already taken place, leaving the
coffins nearer to the surface than five feet, clay should
be carted in to cover the graves to a sufficient depth,
and that, wherever obtainable, yellow clay should
be preferred for this purpose; and, finally, that wham
new graveyards are opened, localities should be se-
lected at least a quarter of a mile from any town, vil-
lage, or hospital, in a sufficiently exposed situation to
prevent the accumulation of malaria."
Lord Clarendon arrived this morning by the'.
Medina steam-vessel, specially placed at his service,
and at three o'clock, P.M. precisely his excellency, was
sworn Lord Lieutenant with the usual formalities,
which are thus given :
At three o'clock precisely, after a short conference, their
excellencies the lords justices intimated to the Earl of
Clarendoa that the members of her Msjesty's Most Honour
able l'rivy Council were assembled in the Council Chamba,
and in readiness to administer the oaths to his lordship, in
the usual manner. A procession was then formed, and his
lordship proceeded to the Council Chamber, where their
excellencies the lords justices and the privy councillors, being
seated, covered, the Earl of Clarendon standing uncovered,
I on the right hand of the lords justices, his lordship delivered
to their excellencies her Majesty's letters patent, appointing
him Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which was then handed to
the Clerk of the Hanaper, who read the sane aloud.
After the letters patent had been read, the oath of Chief
Governor was administered to Lis lordship by the Lard
Bishop of Meath, and then the usual oaths were admix's.
tered to his lordship by the Clerk of the Council, the Privy
Councillors being uncovered during the administratioa
the oaths.
The Earl of Clarendon then produced to the lards
tires her Majesty's letter, authorising and co
them to deliver the Sword of State to his lordship ; which
being read by the Secretary of State, the lords justices de-
livered the Sword of State to the Earl of Clarendon accord-
ingly, and invested him with the Collar and Insignia of the
Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, as Grand Master
thereof, and his excellency thereupon took his 'eat covered,
at the Council Board, as Lieutenant-General and General
Governor of Ireland ; upon which, a signal being given by
a roceet from the Castle Yard, the ordnance in the Park fired
a salute of fifteen guns,
When the Council rose, his excellency proceeded from
the Council Chamber to the Presence Chamber in the same
order and state as observed in the procession to the Council
Chamber, his excellency taking the place of the lords jus-
tices; the Sword of State, carried by a Lord of the Council,
the Maces by the Sergeants-at-Arm, was placed under the
canopy in the Presence Chamber upon his excellency taking
his seat on the throne, during which time the ordnance,
upon signal as before, fired three rounds of twenty-one guns.
The following Members of the Council were in attend-
ance :—The Lord Bishop of Meath ; the Earl of Meath ; the
Earl of Donoughmore ; the Earl of Cloncurry ; the Earl of
Charlemont ; Lord Talbot de Malahide ; the Master of the
Rolls; the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ; the
Lord Chief Baron ; Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart.; Baron Rich-
ards ; Mr. Justice Ball; Mr. Justice Perrin ,• the Recorder;
the Attorney-General; Judge Keatinge; and Mr. Kennedy.
His excellency, upon reaching the Presence Chamber,
took his seat upon the throne, mid held an undress levee,
when the noblemen, tic. who attended the Council, together
with the officials consecied with the viceregal suite, and a
few others, were presented.
There is a rumour to-day that Mr. Tuffnell is to
succeed Mr. Labouchere in the Chief Secretaryship,
and that he is to be succeeded at the Treasury by Mr.
--*-,ohen French, member for Roscommon.

STATURITE D'Orsay has pre-
sented his statuette of O'Connell to the committee of the
Ousted Relief Society in Dublin, with tho moulds and ne-
cessary apparatus for taking casts. Re writes to say that he
stakes the committee a present of the copyright of the figure,
and transmits the models in the hope that the sale of the cuts
will realise a sum which may assist in relieving the distress
of the poor.
MI:RDIS. IN TIPPIIIIARY.—This county was, a few nights
since, the wee of another frightful murder. The object oi
vengeance was a poor man named Dillon, bailiff on the pro-
perty of Mr. Manning, who resides near Thorley. Dillon
was to have prosecuted some tenants of his employers, on
Saturday last, for having taken forcible possession of pre-
mises from which they had been ejected. On Friday night
he was beaten to death.
BUCCANECHINO.—The underwriters at Lloyd's have had
their attention directed, by some unpleasant applications, to
the petty piracy practised on some portions of the west
coast of Ireland. Some ships laden with corn had recently
been boarded in pasting or lying to by the country boats,
and portions of the cargo taken away. Applications were
made by the shippers to the underwriters for the value, but
the latter refused all compensation, referring the owners to
the provisions of " The Malicious Damage Act," and they,
moreover, declined for the future to insure any cargoes on
board vessels freighted with provisions for Ireland. „

SCOTLAMD.
EDINBURGH, MAT 26.
The Kilmarnock Herald says, " Within the last
few days it has come to oar knowledge that sche-
dules have been sent by government to various agri
cultnrists residing in Ayrshire, requiring answers in
reference to the state of the growing crops in this
county."
It was formerly mentioned that a London house
had commenced an action against a Paisley establish-
ment for pirating fabric desict A similar suit has
been commenced against a G w firm, and as these
things go by contagion, a menu turer in the latter
place has come down upon a Kilmarnock worker, and,
of course, if Galashiels has been nibbling with any
of the " Killie " patterns we shall hear more of this
new kind of litigation.

DUNFERMLINE ABBEY.-A Ho/A.—As formerly men-
tioned, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests are engaged
is the renovation of this venerable pile ; and in referring to
the cirmunstanco a correspondent of the North British Ilea
gives an amusing account of the failure of a previous intention
of restoration. At the discovery, in 1820, of the remains of
King Robert the Bruce, the Barons of the Exchequer
assembled around the tomb at the re-interment, and gave •
1 public promise that the abbey should be restored. It was
not fulfilled; and it is said that this was partly owing to the
disgust created in high places by a clever and successful hoax
played off by • rogue of an engraver, who then resided in
Dunfermline. The pro fa that the body discovered was that
of Robert Brace were entirely satisfactory, but it was

suggested by some one that a plate, with the
name of the hero engraved upon it, was only wanted to placo
the identity beyond all question. Such a plate was nut lone
wanting. It was prepared by the engraver aforesaid, and
" the likeness of a kingly crown," with the legend " Bober-
tus Scotorurn Rex," engraved on it in ancie..t characters.
The semblance of real antiquity was given to it by keeping it
some time in a strong fire, after which it was deposited a
little beneath the surface of the ground, near the Bruce's
tomb. The plate was found and received by the barna, with
transport. Facsimiles of it were made in steel engravings,
some of which were put into rich frames, and the original
plate itself presented to the Prince Regent. Some time after-
wards the waggish engraver divulged the secret of his hoax.
The barons were chagrined ; the plans f r repairing the old
abbey church were for the time abandoned ; and ever since
these noble ruins have been mouldming away and hastening
to total deck