The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-28 00:00:00

IItELAN D.

Thrahre, Jaw. 27.
The prevent week has more than the ordinary share
of business of public interest chalked out for it in
Dublin. To-day we are to have the great aggregate
setting at the Rotunda to protest against the abolition
of the viceroyalty ; to-morrow two meetings oppasite
in their objects are to come off—one a protestant dr-
mor stration to protest against the "papal eggressioo,"
and the other Mr. John O'Connell's meeting of Irish
Roman cattolic members to protest the other way ;
on the following day the first viceregal levee of the
',mon takes place ; on the next day the drawing-
room ; and finally, the week closes with an aggregate
meeting to be presided over by the Lord Mayor to
give expression to public opinion on the subject of
the packet station. 01 these various proceedings the
meeting of to-day seems to take prcc.decce, not only
in point of time, but iu the general interest evinced
for it by the citizens at large. Several of the Irish
nobility and representatives are expected to be pre-
sent on the occasion.

The following characteristic letter from the vene-
rable Lord Cloncnny has jut made its appearance :
Mantissa Jan. 24, 1851.
MT Loan MATOI-1 should have te,t it my duty to
attend the meeting of my fellow citracs, called for the 27th
lasseat by jour lordship, but I am fearful of the heat of a
=room. The wishes f suoliestisirzwetrakehould be a
poi soyersaist. sea.
of viceroy or deputy so important es the charade: Of the
*person holding It, and in that we have, in general, teen very
safertunate. 1 have known about two down, of whom two
er three only eared one pin far the minty, they had to
govern, end of these the beat were speedily. recalled; but the
efice itself is pert and parcel ci the institution vouchsafed
to us by Hogeord, and to plot its extraction is little
short of lemon. ii, prior to the year 1799, a men.
ba of the Irish legislature had proposed such
a measure, the consequence to him might here
hues most serious,. Many an hoses: and noble patriot out-
heed most grievously for propotiug or supporting a far more
acd a most necessary measure—a foil, adequate, and
effutual reform in the Commons House of Parliament.
Had we a parliament 113 reformed, the paltry expenditure
of a Viceroy emirs bens to recruit his dilapidated fortune
would be as notblsg to the @Weeps of Dublin; hut in our
degraded state, every guinea is of importance. I will not
soy that mims:en may sot hay, erred more from ignorance
than malice prepense, but are not the melancholy conse-
quences the same to us ? Have we not lost two millions
of people in frar years ? Were rot oar corn, our cattle, and
oar other produce exported, whilst those who grew them
starved ? Were sot raw turnips and mangoid substituted for
bread and meat? The very Indian corn sent from America
was ordered over to England, where it rotted and was
thrown Into the en. Wu not a good Lord 'Lieutenant
threatened with recall if he stopped the distilleries or
exports? Famine and rebellion are the two great engines
of HegLish government for Ireland; they were the prepare,
titres of the union—they may be the preparative' for farther
seauslimatiott and the withdrawing of the Viceroy. I hop.
they won't withdraw the Oninnesees from James's sliest—
they are worth a dorm Viceroys. L t us !earn, my lord,
from your respected house the advantage, of union and in-
dustry—let us forget all leakagu and ill will, and let us
insist on a domestic legislature. Nothing else can "eve se
Irons utter ruin; a governmeat of angels living in West-
minster could seisms' ace. We have sank deeper and deeper
rash year eines the transportation of our parliament ; and,
at the lest, it will be gonad that Holyhead is not qui*" •u
seas New York as Hallway, Limerick, Valenti', or Bore
haven, and wed, therefore, hardly answer the benevolent
wish of our governors se protect us from Antrim—l em,
ray lord, de., CLoaccaar.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.

The following interesting details are from the
weekly commercial summary of the Ilveman :

This has again been a dull week for business. The trans.
actions in produce have been but limited, and shares are
quite negleeeed. Railways fart venting tow aa aa heir former
position. Money le tolerably abundant, but rather more
in demand than for some time past. The customs duties
for the week ending 24th January. sr* only 16,6001., of
which 6,8001. on tea,:1,8001. on sugar, 2,2001. on wine, 3,30 W.
on tobacco, and COOI. on spirits
Tne following notice was posted at the Back of Ireland on
Toeaday :
.810TIO1 —Liens on the security of Government or Berk
Stock may be obtained at three per cent. per annum
interest.—M.B.—lnterest may be only charged in each cam
Par the number of dais for which the loans is held, and re.
payment of all, er anypare, may be made at the convenier ee
of the borrower.—By order, W. ORAVIS, meretary.-21st
January, 1861."
la shares only a moderate basenessDu been done, and
the general tendency is downwards, especially in railways,
S wthern and Westerns, Midlands, and Waterford and
Limericks, being all quoted considerably lower.
The manual return of the foreign trade of this port, which
we culvert from the bill of entry, is very interesting. There
is a falling off of 72 slips and 19,117 tons in the British
vessel. and en increase of 68 vessels ar.d 11,476 tons en the
'snip: trade. Taking both together, there is a decrease:
1850 1849.
Ships. Toes.
British

'Ships, Tow.
961 69,263
126 27,774

Fvreign lB3 39,250 ... •

Total 462 83,396 .... 476 91,037
Lela in 1853,14 ships, 7,641 toes.

The chief instanc.s in which a transfer of trade has been
made are Ruse* • tie.h, in 1849, employed 34 British and
six foreign, this year 8 British and 29 foreign. Russia, in
,1849, employed 28 British, 18 foreign; tbi. year 8 British,
26 foreign. From DeLmark, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and
the United States, there was a decrees, in both Brhiati and
foreign; in Holland, France, Spain, aid Portugal, an
iacreesi in both ; and from the West Indies sod United
States, a decrease in the Britith. In 1849, the foreign shins. '
es diapered with the British, were one third; in 18.50,
two-thirds, and in point or tonnage more than nine-tenths.
Mr. Twine, unintentionally wounded by Mr.
M..urice O'Connell, is pronouoed out of danger,
and the ball was extracted by Dr. Cramp. The un-
happy accident has caused intense distress of mind to
Mr. O'Connell. Mr. Twins is a son of the coroner for
Kerry.

In various parts of Waterford, Cork, Tipperary,'
Kibg's County, and Kilkenny, the kitchens and
larders of gentlemen's houses have been entered by
burglars, and rifled of tLeir cantxnts, almost every
sight since Christmas.
Several armed attacks on dwellings have been
made within the last few days in the counties of
Tipperary, Kilkenny, and the King', County.