The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1847.

lords will undertake to remove those which
may already disfigure their estates, and supply
their places with others of a better class. The gentry
also agree that the legislature shall limit the power of
distress for rent now enjoyed by Irish landlords, and
so grievously complained of by the tenantry. They
will recognise the right of the tenant to compensation
for permanent improvements on the land, and in other
ways contribute to the permanency or security
of tenure. Upon the question, whether the Irish
landlords shall object to or permit the govern-
ment to take possession of the waste lands for culti-
vation, there are in the committee two parties. The
one led by Mr. T. B. Martin, M.l'., the hereditary
possessor of the " houseless wilds of Connemara," is
opposed to granting any such power to the govern-
ment ; the other, more reasonable, and, I am happy to
add, more numerous, parts-, are disposed to permit
the wastes to pass for reclamation to the state, upon
proper compensation being afforded. My informant
assures me that Mr. O'Connell's opinions on these
subjects are listened to with great consideration in the
committee, and that, though most of the members are
opposed to him in polities, he is uniformly treated
with great deference.
In the North the spirit of insubordination is quite
as active, though assuming a less fatal shape, as in the
South. The Horse Gazette contains a long catalogue,
not to be exceeded by the occasional returns in the
Tipperary Constitution, of arms robberies, house-
breaking, thefts of cattle and sheep, and crimes of that
class, which indicate a disease rather than a vervdan-
gerous condition of society. Scarcity is ever the fore-
runner of disorder. The steady „North is not more
patient under its pangs than the sensitive South.
The Central Relief Committee, I understand, is pre-
paring a circular, to be distributed through all the
districts where destitution exists, requiring informa-
tion as to the stock of food in the farmers hands, re-
tailers' shops, &c. The clergy of all persuasions, chair-
men of the unions, and leading gentry, are to supply the
facts which will guide the committee in amount and
character of the relief. I may also inform you that
government has taken stock within the last month,
as, so far as appearances could warrant a true arrival
at the result, ministers are in full possession of the
available food of the country. It is said the same
course has been pursued since the autumn. The
mode, however, of attempting to fix the quantity is
very fallacious, and why it is unnecessary to state.
In some of the country meetings the people are
misled by false statements as to the supplies stored by
the government. Thousands and thousands of tons of
provisions are, it is said, rotting in stores and
steamships, while the people are dying. We may
not approximate very closely to the truth by taking
data supplied so far back as August last, but from the
comparatively small additions and considerable sub-
stractions made since then, we may infer the exist-
ence of very inadequate supplies by the state. In the
first week in August last the number of tons of oat-
meal in all the government depots was 430—0 f
Indian corn meal somewhat more than five millions
of pounds weight, and of Indian corn less than eight
thousand bushels. This is but a poor staff to lean
upon.
A question of some interest was determined at Car-
rickmacross, county Monaghan, on Friday last. It
was, whether a tenant from year to year might claim
compensation for tenantright. A great number of the
Marquis of Bath's tenants, holding yearly, claimed
against the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Com-
pany, not only for the quantity of land required by
the company, but for their interest by reason of the
tenantright, which was to be estimated at twenty-one
years' purchase
on the annual aereable value. The
right to compensation was negatived by the ma-
gistrates, but an amount was awarded in the first
which decided all the other cases, showing the incli-
nation of the bench to attach a value to the interest.
Northern juries have in several cases awarded full
compensation for the right.

ing in behalf of the famishing thousands at Skibbereen,
the Catholic rector was the first to suggest the names of the
two Protestant clergymen who went on that disheartening
mission. In every district in Ireland there is the some
Christian concord. Charity is in morals what drapery is in
painting—At lover. a multitude of faults. A etle.wated
polemic, nut unknown to Exeter Hall, hes lately come forth
with a fervour of language which indicates a must generous
feeling in behalf of his countrymen. We shall not disturb
the rohe which he wears with so goods grace, and hopo that
all religious animosi'y and inisrepiesentati, n skill hence-
fueword cease uu both aides of the Channel.—Freeman's
Journal.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 11„
The promptitude which the people of England
have shown in organising measures of relief for the
Highland destitution, will act as a stimulant to
higher efforts here. In a brief space there will not
he a county or town in Scotland which will not have
held their meetings, or otherwise have taken means
to raise contributions. I'aisley, which in all times of
distress, at least of recent occurrence, has been the
first to feel the gripe of poverty, has not beer, more
fortunate in this season of depression. A contem-
porary reports that he has "heard of several well
authenticated instances where both individuals and
families in the town have had to subsist, for a day or
two at a time, on nothing but a few turnips taken
from the fields, without the consent of the owner.
We are not, however, equally depressed in all guar- I
ter.. Leith and Port Glasgow show maritime pros-
perity, and in Galashiels trade is spoken of most
favourably. The Leith statistics arc as follows:
Ib.VENVE or CVATOll..—Year ending 3th Jan., 1847. 579,8031. en;
is 510,123/. 193 3d.—lncrease on the year, 39,679/. 12, 9d.
Vassets non FOREIGN PUSI 'I wren 1917, 953; in
1646, 724—Increase, 221.
In Port Glasgow the customs, for the year ending
January 5, 1847, exceeded those of the previous year
by upwards of 44,0001. From Galashiels the rep in
is more favourable of the state of manufactures this
month than of the two last, especially in lighter
fabrics, fur which there is an increased demand. The
snow, which has so long interrupted intercourse with
the north of Scotland, especially for heavy goods, is
now breaking up; but here, where there has scarcely
been any, we have indications of a similar visitation,
The operations of the New Poor-law Act has rendered
still more obvious the necessity of a national system
of registration of births, deaths, and marriages in
Scotland. The following overture or petition from
the presbytery of Lochmabcn to the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland, will explain the matter:
Whereas, according to the new poor law for Scotland, it would
2ppear from nectior, 75 that, in a large propor ion of case., porde*
becoming objects of parochial relief will revert to the pirbh of their
hi tit, and as it is well known that the registration of b.rths, especi-
ally in country parishes, is not sutSciendy attended to, in consequence
of which it is very frequently • matter of diiiiculty to tin upon the
particular pari,lt of the pauper,— It is humbly °mimed to the
General Assembly to take what atria they, in their wisdom, many
think eight to bring the matter under the notice of the legislature, is
order that • general eystem of registration of births may he intro-
duced into Scotland.

KING'S COLLEGE, AHERDEEN.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint A. Scott, ffi. A. (Edin.), at present Rector
of the Pultneytown Academy, Wick, to the vacant chair of
Hebrew and Oriental Langusgcs in King's College, Aber-
deen.

Heotois HOSPITAL.—Another interim report by the
special committee appointed toe insider the cases cf the boys
expelled fur insubordination, has been given in. It announces
the re-admission of other fifteen of the boys—in regard to
five of whom it is stated that as they have in a more especial
manner forfeited their claims on the hospital, they should
be re-admitted only to finish their education, and not to be
entitled to any of the usual allowances after they quit ;he
institution, sullen the governor should, on a review of their
whole cor.duct, think tit. Fourteen boys still remained
excluded from the hospital.
Stoaa DISTILLATION.—At the annual meeting of the
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, held on Tue.lty, W.
Buchanan, Esq., moved, " That the chamber petition par.
!lament to repeal the prohibition on the use of sugar in
breweries, and that the restrictions on its use be withdrawn,
so far as is consistent with the protsetion of the revenue."
The motion was carried unanimously.
GLASGOW. E tHtntTtos.— In reference to the late
' New Year's-day exhibition of the tilugottr Philoso-
phical Soci.ty, the Constitutional newspaper of that
place makes the following communication: "At eight
o'clock at night we received the following gratifying note
from the Superintendent of Police ' Shut the street
entrance at six o'clock ; 16,117 in the hall during the day.
All orderly. Not an article touched""