The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1847.

has shipped off his hawing stud and hounds for male
at Tattersall's.

ATTSMPT TO ASSASSINATR D. O'GRADY, Min.—Yes-
terday (Monday), in the noon-day, a reckless attempt was
made on the life of Darby O'Grady, Esq., in the town of
Rathkeale. Just as he had alighted from the coach and
catered the hall of Mr. William Mulcahy, a stout, athletic
man, haring entered immediately after him, deliberately
pulled out a pistol from under his coat, and having placed
it quite close to the side of Mr. O'Grady, pulled the trigger,
which fortunately missed fire. The would•be assassin then
coolly said," I mimed you, Darby, but I'll not miss you the
nett time," and deliberately walked off, handing the pistol
te • man outside the door. Strange to say, though there
were three bailiffs in the hall with Mr. O'Grady at the time,
they made no attempt to arrest the fellow. The police
shortly after went in pursuit, hut their search was fruitless.
It would appear, from a paragraph in another column of
the journal which publishes the foregoing deliberate attempt
to murder, that the intended victim is a highly popular
gentleman, for we are told : " Derby O'Grady, Esq., beiug
about to retire from the office of chairman of the Newpallas
Relief Committee, the population of the district asaembled no
Sunday and presented him with an addreas."—Limerick
Reporter._ , . _

181811 PROVIDENCIL—WO (Dumfries Jerald) have seen
it stated, in • published letter of the beat authority, that
during all the bygr.ne winter there have been incessant small
remittances from Irish emigrant, in America t• their dis-
tressed relative, at home. We know, too, as a fact of the
same kind, that by far the greatest number of money-letter
going from the labourers on the Caledonian railway, in our
county, have gone from the Irish to their poor relatives.
From the Eugln,h labouren comparatively few have gone.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, 31Laex 31.
At last the organs in the press of the principal sec-
tions into which the public opinion of Scotland is
divided have fully entered on the discussion of the
government scheme of education. The Scotsman,
which, in matters of ecclesiastical discipline, advo-
cates the voluntary principle, but is entirely free from
sectarian bias, and which, holding the tenets of philo-
sophical radicalism, is uniformly lenient to the Whigs,
expresses a fear that the plan will create too much
government patronage, and a regret that the scheme
has not been brought forward as a legislative measure
in parliament. The Scotsman guards itself again it
the supposition of being opposed to State education,
and hints at the adoption of the American plan. The
Scottish Guardian, a Free Church paper, is decidedly
hostile to the scheme. The Witness, generally consi-
dered the Free Churehorgan, appears afraid to declare
either for or against it. Tait's Magazine, though the
organ of no party, represented under the old manage-
ment a numerous though unorganised section of public
opinion; its actual position under the new proprietorship
is not so easily ascertained. It admits that the scheme
is " not only extensive, but in many respects admi-
rable; but objects to its tendency to undue centra-
lisation, and to its not having been brought before
parliament. Lowe's Magazine condemns the scheme.
This magazine is edited by Dr. Candlish, but, as
might have been inferred from the Witness's hanging
in the wind, other leading clergymen of the Free
Church are in its favour. The organs of the volun-
tary Dissenters are loud against it. The meet re-
markable feature of the discussion hitherto is the im-
perfect acquaintance with the details of the govern-
ment measure betrayed by all the writers. One and
all of them appear to defer to the prepoesemions of the
class of readers they rely upon for support, without
having taken the pains to examine for themselves. The
guarded and respectful opposition of Tait and the
Scstsman shows, beyond a doubt, that a prejudice
against the measure is widely diffused among even
the most intelligent of the middle classes. Still, "for
a that has come and gane," if ministers will court
publicity, and throw themselves upon public opinion,
they can carry their scheme, though it is not to be
denied that the effort will task all their courage and
energy.

ANTI-ENTAIL MEETING IN GLASOOW.—This meeting wu
convened for the purpose of following up the blow struck at
the meeting recently held for the same purpose at Edin-
hurAls. It was addressed by Sir Hew Crawford
(as eateiled proprietor), Sir David Baird, Sir W. M.
?dopier, Robert Lockhart, Req., of Castle-hill, and other
landed proprietors, and by same of the leading and influen-
tial merchant; of Glasgow. The meeting was thinly attended;
a circumstance accounted for by the Lord Provost, who was
called to the chair, from the necessary absence on tonshiam of
Mr. Oswald, M.P., and a number of landed gentlemen who
were friendly to the object of the meeting. A fact staled by
Sir Hew Crewfurd illustrates in a striking manner the bone-
ful operation of the existing entail law of Scotland
There is at present funning on my property, and the p ink
John Maxwell,' a Gravitation Water Company, to supply the day
of Corbels sad places Mimed with pure and wholesome nem lo
this ernes law neat& en or severe met ittagmat. Yet It me the
meat Mimi Wit Inatiable Ow the mope, sapsilho awn to
any Inn of ea eninni operelion. The dissisenal=beerit
fettered by the tame& of entall. and I =yeti
by a threat of ciellary-oe mad so, that we IMO WWI atWre
throw mush= ewer the Land Cleave Ant, and spent way Va,
and mad le de& Way, to awed a yore sell eskaph•yen*
may to peg sip weep pomat et their lconbia new haw they
dare le taro a se& The ran sonewerd bee Ink as sa Lemon
inmemmal Indy; the peetedgar dere aot tau& gm sinew of It -
no, rod so mush as Enna Um lalseast-until he palm the Court or
Sulks he ebony *do se, mid Mametely the petalpin sow Such
out to rowsrehon Yak obi& Yid ant seals be ye-entailed.
laws an the nets of &end bad system, and totally incompatible
with the age we lee L.
Sir David SOW pawed in a clear light the condition in
which the Ischlineheir to an entailed estate often finds him-
self under the flag& entail law, as modified by the Hoot-
gummy sad Aberdeen Aar:
It *I to readily esmtled Yi whams mum er had=
Surnets te en en Waist asteatimpot
by the orh&ed andel rd, hes line to the sant d a&
sin= ea inertness' with the wend Sotto of a& sweeense In
ewskeni-er, m other verb, hne hem * tag 'nen a ewienelos
of the omen el thole reepostne eseestraiin No& no wseena
=a= ri=oel to learn thee It ens ellehedioll
Mine the enimillse ef &a Mem
or Ounmen ask wider tbe ten whlsh I
ham mudimed. Wier ney be tappeed son
• able"
emotes to an seasetmiang the aesamu'ated penes& et aws.tlids
of their rani la more Mlle be leld tut
hut the stimuli veso purposely kept within the mos Now, ft
ululated tan simeeeds at the age dWand that is
his
slain of peania 27 year; lain inn as Ine malt- -that at
the see itch eel sake apies et V roe% then seay bare been
any / &Oft wadi be see Inn Int the ease fide "Moment of a
yaw& sin& ta enapeohinfte, he one by the- •,d of his
liggine In here entssidat It tree and uneasiness& Nose, I beg
*lts ask of you, mews. whether, after thee shin& interfce-
fgati-ease this leisehrel nohetion of the swabs pelmet* on which
then ame ef ow =MOM were constructed, nom sea properly
obi r m,gmesm agpWsieb delicacy ae to farther *Won.
Sir David made a direst application of this state of affairs
to the distress actually existing in the Western Highlands
and Wanda :
Oily lieretoyearagen the mottion at this moment of such an
we atm Ink dada pemeeloo, whose lot happens to have
woo oe, M IM tioldende r din, with Me! proper feeling,
pmt--with every anxiety to fulfil the duties of his
hie& an absolutely maniocs for good-his deaden-
ing weensolad sa.ayite plus-himself lectured na to his duties by
the repeated by them to head-quarters, and FIG
concter:-.4 priirlaty contranted wi,h that of the fee simple
proprietor deopM it him. On the part of my clam, I firmly but
==protalltiparrat the coatinuance of such a state of Minns.
ttellg Oal to this meeting whether I hare sot dta-
Mild the tridents a precedent on which to found any amount of
betide& (App )
Leakhart directed attention to other equally inimical
ghats a the entail law. He mentioned:
gemadof the dllhaeltbre alder which the law el ratan laid yen.
=rnimarti=larmosirjhoZeeszethtunerAzona,,,,
Ye
money hanowed er ash mann leak if hatrowed and en=
off la Sanwa Wend lon *the innelnielantileddlleir
lie mod "are* weir at lean /sales ant Mien moots
cause they wen moirrit r Out, pad' Is as hone of the la*
Tara antekey ant net nein &dr macerate at sal • wiseesig.
Ile had as dun mesa nein to burgers, oedema le imbes. bet bur
object nu to bon the mom at supparrint hlmseltniipseinikes keg
as he velettell galgoity. one et the mos eves we, not It a
gent m'. allenenne daughter to marry an baste en sanded }tale
drat mint, sod biked forward to • comilarisbis graviton. yet If
the her beepaill lo As Win We etas, veep a• wile meet be mat
wirer rlmp Mr. Pee liewit, le would not let any
el hi Inglites be In any wea slag&
The medadosi pima lir sslMr pointed out the
steady imam In the number of estdb i inferiority in
r .ose of cultivation reserally olsonelde on satiated lands
and fibs
neeenity of an extensive asallitatima of the entail
law te afford relief. The fourth ressislise Anima :
That meet Medan In the earthen and ads et hod le hums.
Seely dummied as pre ci the great mesas el Mende.
To this resslidiss Sir W. M. Napier lanunted, on the
ground that Waiting too much they not nothing•
via file view, i would eat we peaks le
haeltil=wi ac to innent property in goer samegmse,s,,,b.g
wage Ewe Mese as the law imputing egad ereentg In Imp
km& . I Idl& tbe view on the subject etailint tip may
et the len end in Seetheeds Soy 111110CIt
len they amtale="that if ma go fOrtne.,
orillrtessede hum wham
The retina, however, negatived, by • lugs majority, the
papa& that this resolution be withdrawn. It was then re-
solved that petitions, founded on the reeolutioan should be
presented to both houses of parliament.
Tim DRAINAGE Acr.—The following application for a
loan Lids thin act appears in the Edirtbeogh Gazette of the
30th of March :

Lmis in

Temple Y. Sin-
clair purl his Lynda Wanes
_ _ .

S s. d.
1000 0 0

CALISDONIAN CANAL.—We underatani the Caledonian
Canal is now open from Inverness to Gair:oehy, and will, in
a few days more, be open from sea to see.—Ross-shire Ad-
vertiser.

WALES.

IMPRISONMENT OT IRTSA PAUPERS TOR REFUSING TO
woaa.—At the Newport police court. on Monday last, two
Mont, able-bodied Irishmen, named Murphy and Barry,
were charged by the governor of the Union Workhouse
with having refused to perform certain work in gardening.
The evidenco produced proved the two men to be strong
and healthy, though very lazy ; that a few days since they
ware ordared to do some light work in the garden, as they
and their families bed been living spon the pariah about two
months; but they refused, Mropll asserting that "because
he was a tiler and plasterer, he esaldn't do a bit of garden•

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