The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. Aran 22.
The accounts from the country are more occupied
with disease than destitution. From every province,
and almost from every county, the intelligence of the
declining health of the permits.), is alarming. Fever
and dysentery are the principal diseases, and, a
usual, the towns appropriate by far the largest por-
tion. The Central of Health is making every
exertion to prepare for the calamity, which, it is to be
feared, will amuse a more aggravated shape hence-
forwsrd. They are in consuniaication with the local
medical authorities and boards of guardians, tendering
advice, and expediting the temporary accommodation
by all means in their power. Very generally provi-
sions have been made, or are in progress to mitigate
disease, and medical relief has advanced farther than
the relief of distress under the temporary act. This
is humane, but it is the converse of what is prudent.
Food is the best repeller of fevers.
The condition of Cork, which physically continues
to be ae depressed as ever, promises, I am happy to
pereebre by this day's accounts, a better future. The
m crops ale in a most flourishing coudition, and in
the neighbourhood of Cork rye was already reaping
upon Saturday last. Added to this, on the same day,
new potatoes, of excellent quality and fair size, were
en eaU in the market.
The shippers are taking advantage of the emigrat-
ing pressure to make their space as available as
pomeNe. Bat the grommet empectors are active
and vigilant, and have succeeded in protecting the
rights of the poor emigrants. In Limerick, a num-
ber of persons, who had been detained beyond the
day of sailing, appealed to the mayor, with Lieute-
nant ranch as their advocate. The decision was that
the eltip-agent should pay for the maintenance of each
presager detained beyond the day specified in their
certificates for sailing. If • the rale were stringently
am all the ports, some remedy, though not a
one, would have teen applied to an extreme
p. The poor defense..s prefer to pay the expense
of a Week's maintenance rather than incur the shock
of a price oilier, and generally succeed, through the
impeders, in obtaining from the shipper the statutory
allowance of a shilling a day.
I have from time to time noticed the enormous
amount of civil bills tried at the last acid preceding
Quarter Serious. Litigation and destitution move
in pandlel lines where the latter has been greater
the former his been meet active. I do not know
whether the Limerick Chronicl-, tibia is of doubtful
authority in many cases, is worthy of belief in this,
that Maths very poor districts of Killarney 12,600
promisee were issued at the Quarter Serious, and the
majoriV for sums under 20s.
Near 6,000 stand of arms are registered in the
peace Aloe for the county of Limerick. The masher
is large, bat there is a small armoury net Willa,
the rectum, which Birmingham has lately a=
The lotial paper says more than double the
hen—tint this is untrue.
The recent arrivals of grain to Limerick are ire-
mense. During the last week there were enters&
from foreign ports not less than 4,500 barrels of Boar
and 10,000 quarters of Indian corn and meal, and
since Saturday last no fewer than thirty-three vessels
had served, with either whole or part cargoes of food.
Several of those vessels were, from hose-ports, and of
three letter the arrivals from Loudon and Scotland
brought large quantities of Needs.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, Aram 22.
A requisition to the Lord Provost of Glasgow, call-
ing on him to convene a meeting to petition for the
suspension of Sir It. Peel's Currency Act, is now
lying in the Exchange for signature. The Nail says
that a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
been received in Glasgow, to the effect, that the act
eannot be suspended in Scotland on account of Eng-
land.
A large quantity of spurious pennies has been dis-
covered in a clothes shop in Glasgow. They be-
longed to a person named Hanley, who had brought
them from Ireland, and who has been committed for
Dial. The are all of one date, and apparently from a
common mould—the quality of metal is inferior, and
as a matt, r of course light in weight, but the gene' ul
appearance is not ouch as would create suspicion.
The A4ercleen Journal, a cautious conservative
paper, largely circulated among agricultural propric-
I tars, records its opinions against the entail system.
We are not aware that a single Scotch paper has
defended it, and conclude that, unless in matters of
detail, its abolition would meet with little opposition.