The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dennis, OCT. 2.
Soon after the aggregate meeting of the Roman
eatholies at the Rotondo. it may bo recollected that
a meet:lig was convened in the same locality by the •
Rev. Mr. Gregg, of the Dublin Protestant Moods- I
thin, when loud complaint' were made against the •
lice and a petition was adopted, calling on the
government to dismiss Mr. ()Terrell, the police
commissianer, for the alleged inefficiency of the ar-
rangements thzt had been made to preserve the public
Free, and to protect the persons and properties of
protestant'. the following reply to that petition
has just obtained publicity :
Dublin Castle, Sept. 27, 1851.
Sir,-1 am dircteil by the Lords Justices to intorm you
that they have had before theta the petition transmitted
in your letter to me of the sth instant, agreed to at a meet.
ing of a number of inhabitant. of the City of Dublin, and
complaining of the conduct of Mr. John Lewis °Terrell,
one of the commissioners of police of the metropolis, and of
the force under his orders, in reference to certain proceedings
connected with a meeting called, "An Aggre,rate Meeting
of the catholic.. of Ireland," held at the itotunslo on the
19:11 day of August last, and praying that Mr. O'Ferrall
anneld, in consequence, be dismissed from his office as such
comaaimiower. It won not without surprise that the Lords
Jentices wire made Swore that au opinion prevailed with
any portion of the riCti n. of Dublin, tither that the police
arrungenitute were in..uffitient and objectionable on the
oceasion referred to, or that the conduct of Mr. O'Vemil
had been
.rrourable ; but in consequence of the charges
act forth 'II your pi talon, their Excellencies have called for
such information as would, in their opinion, enable them
to lona a correct judgment as to the validity of those
charges, so far as ri Fords the conduct of Mr. OTernill and
of the police under bra control ; and upon a full consider...
tom of the allegation' contained in the above-mentioned
document, they are satisfied not only that no just grounds
sand. her WOW, of that gentleman, or of the police, in re-
uce to the matters complained of, but that, on the con-
tents, they setae in strict conformity with their duty
throughont the entire ware of the proceedings detailed in
the patios. sad that the peace of the metropolis was us
elf coldly preserved so, under all the circumstances of the
cao .00ld have bet n antieipated.-1 am, &e.,
(Signed) W. M. SuMEUVILI.E.

The Ilan. Mr. Lawrence, with Mrs. and Miss
Lawrence, and a numerous company, were enter-
tained last evening at the Mansion-house by the
Lord Mayor. The Lord Chancellor and Mrs. Brady,
the Karl of Ilowth, Lord and Lady Gough, Judge
Jackson, the Attorney-General, &:e ,&c., were among
the company. In the course of the day Mr. Law-
rence and his family visited some of our public insti-
tutions, beginning with the National Education
Board, where the distinguished party seemed greatly
gratified with tho appearance of the children and the
regulations of the establishment. When some beau-.
brut specimens of ladies' work, executed by the
female children, were shown to Mis. Lawrence, she
exprisocil a hope that the more practical business of
knitting and darning was not forgotten; and the
hint appeared not to have been lust by the matron
and instructors who were present.
The (Milroy 117ntlieistor mentions a melancholy
catastrophe which took place near that town yester-
day. Mo. Townsend, of Ballinasloc, and two boa/l-
inen having IMAM drowned by the upsetting of a boat
near the cliffs of Barna. Sir. Wade, son-in-law of
Mr. Burton Politic, and a child who were also in the
boat, had a narrow escape, having been picked up by
Conemara boat.
'lite lieffiivi News Letter says:—
W. regret to learn that on Friday last, as the Marehioneae
of Londonderry was driving in a c wriste in the neighbour-
hood of (Jarron Tower, the carriage was, by some mishap,
overturned, and her ladyship was a rood deal bruised by the
concussion. We hose not ea yet heard the full particulars of
the ',reverence, but we are happy to learn that her ladyship
L last recovering from the effects of the accident.
The following letter from Mr. Maurice O'Connell,
M.l'., which appear:a in the Chrk Eraisnioe, winds
up for the present the hostile correspondence between
that gentleman and Mr. Richard Nialionv, and also
serves to throw 111t/re light upon the affair than tho
preceding portion of the correspondence had done:
Cahertiveen, Sept. 2s, 1311.
Sir,—Since I despatched my letter of the 26thi to you I
have received the billowing from Mr. Richard Mahony
"dept. 26, 21, Lower Fitswilliam-strect,
" Sir,—l am just in receipt of your favour of the 23rd. I
had imagined that my first reply was conclusive. You
brought a charge against my father in the House of Com-
mons—you threatened an investigation, which you have
abandoned. I examined the matter myself—the result of
that examination has been given to the public, on the peti-
tion which 1 published. All the facts mentioned on that
petitiee, as well as my remelts for drawing further infer-
ences, 1 ell prepared to prove and state on oath, loth per-
sonally and by witnesses, if you will continuo the investiga- '
lien, vslikh you have brought and suffered to lie against
my lather. Until you base completed that investigation,
1 It g to decline further correspondence on the subject of
your inquiry.—l bevy the honour to be, sir, your obedient
servant, " RICHARD MA/10:41"."
Mr. Mahon y PAW., firstly, that I brought a charge against
his father in the flouseof esommons.
This is simply false. I brought no charge against any
intl., 'ideal. 1 never mentioned the lute Mr. Mahony's
name to the house. I presented a petition, and gave notice
of is motion for a committee, to inquiry into certain for-
geries; hut I charged no one individually. The time for
thutwould not arrive until the committee had reported; and
it is well known that, on giving notice of a motion, it is un-
usual for a member to go into any detail.. If the late Mr.
Mahony's same has been brought into question, it has been
the result of ttle filial piety of his eldest son.
&soundly—lle says that I threatened an "investigation,
and afterwards abandoned it." I threatened nothing—l
stated that I would inquire-1 have done .is. I have evidence
to show that there was foul play on the part of the persons
employed to eulleet signatures fur the petition presented on
the '_'Bth February. I have not abandoned, nor shall 1
ahAndoss, the investigation. Its postponement was caused
by heelings of delicacy towards Mr. Richard Maliony ; I
now tell him that I am ready to proceed with the inquiry,
and shall renew the notice ut motion early in the next see
lion, and I shall do so without fear of the results.
In Mr. R. Mahuny's petition he says that there w,

neer fifty signatures to the petition lent from Dromore, by
private hand, to Dahlia ; and that ere it woo transmitted
from Dublin the signatures were counted and found to
amount to 47. The la tition. he says, sas firwareled to Mr.
Napier on the 22nd of February, it was presented by him
on the 28th, and then bore one hundred and seventy-three
signatures. How came they there petition was
nearly four days in Mr. Napier's hands. Let hint account
for thew additional signatures. This fact Mr. Mahony
lICW, not even allude to. Mr. Napier, I repeat, had the
custody of the petition. For my part, I never even heard
at its einem°, until written to for a copy.
V.lll Mr. Napier, cm any one on his behalf, state
Ist—now many signatures were there to the petition
when he res. ivied it?
2041771/id he at any time receive any sheets with addi-
tional signatures to said petition, how many, and from
whom
3rdly—lf the petition had only 47 signatures when it
reached him, and ho received no additional sheets, how
came it to have 173 when he presented it to the house?
These are important matters. Did Mr. Mahon y, when, as
he he examined into the matter,- ask theme simple
and olivine. questions? and if so, what answer did he Set?
Li. ceamination is evidently imperfect if he did not do so.
I have up to the latest 1...di1e moment behaved with
scrupulous courtesy towards Mr. Mahnny, as the copies e(
our correspondence in March and April last in my posses-
sion will show. In return. I have been left until now with-
out answers to any of the ee letters written in April last, and
dually Mr. Mailing, as he h. now at Out avowed, makes ea
attack en sae ia print—shag,+ and creeks an answer to my
inquiries—sad, at length, on the Stith September, two days
atter I was arrested, and w nen Mr. Mahon; might have
known that I was arrested, Le writes me the epistle, a nap
of whiokl have Prat you.
Let the rablie now judge between in. Private 41011111111111. I
Wiens of any hind I will not in Paton hold with Ms. Mr
heey—sei. raise perden far any intension on year Ipso.'
I sow Modes tie subject until the commencement ant
mesion.—Yerar obedient servant,
MAI' at( Otom

To the Molitor of the Cork Eza,;;;r7--
The Errainy Poll thus notes the most recent ac-
counts that hare been received of the prospects of 111
the potato crop :
11 we were te judge by the saajnriq of the reports in our ,
provincial contemporaries, we shmld be forted to the dis-
agreeable conclusion that the blight is still extending, and
that the prospects as regards the potato are by no means so
favourable as we had represented them last week. But we •
assured, from quarters in which we place unlimited
confidence, that the dame. is considerably less than has
been stated in moat of the accounts, and that the crop, after
all, is likely to turn out well--a considirable, if not an
abundant supply fur consumption, after due allowance fur
the dimmed portion. One of our correspondents, who has
been through every county in Mui.ster, and in several of
the midland and western counties, making it his esposisi
business to obtain correct information IVllpeCtiiii the crops,
insures us that the loss in some dimriets is not a twaitirli,
and that a fourth would exceed the general average, `n
unusually extensive and predestine nap. new is mot in-
cluded as his estimate ; but mis pthos boo other norms
that although the blight has boss moo Merle in that
visor. nary than a moiety of the atop Ass so far aarapad thn
contagion.

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