The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Demme Mazes 16.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, with a deputation of
the Aldermen and Town Councillors of Dublin,
seeded on the Lord Lieutenant with • memorial
which they requested tabs Excellency to forward with
his recommendation to the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, praying that a grant of money might
be gis (it for the improvement of this city. His
Excellency having read the memorial, said he thought
it would be desirable that the council would point out
an, particular improvement which they thought
wouli be advisable to have made in the cite. His
Excellency referred to improvements which ho said
had been made in the Phcenix Park and in the neigh-
bourhood of the Royal Barracks, upon which in
one instance a sum of 18,0001. and in the other a
sum of 20,0001. had been expended. 'I hese were the
only two same of any consequence that he under-
stood had been laid out in the neighbourhood of Dab-
lin of late, and he thought the case of the council
would be very much strengthened if any of the gentle-
men present would point out any improvement which
they thought it would be desirable to have made.
The principle on which the governmeut wished to
act was, • hen a public body came forward to advo-
cate improvements which they said were contem-
plated, they ought to be prepared to state how much
they were willing to contribute for the purpose out
of the funds at their disposal, and then they could
call upon the government for a grant in aid. That
struck him as the mode in which it would be must
desirable to apply to the Woods and Forests Com-
missioners, and the way in which it would be most
probable that the commissioners would entertain their
proposal.
The deputation then mentioned various projects of
improvements, among others the construction of a
new street 'ceding from the Four Courts to the ter-
minus of the Midland Great Western Railway. It
was also oheerved that since the union the department
of the Woods and Forests had drawn from
Ireand so much as 3,100,000/, while the whole
expenditure in Ireland, under the same department,
daring that period, only amounted to 272,000/.
His Excellency observed that, during the last few
years, a somewhat larger amount of those revenues
had been expended in Ireland than had previously
been laid out in this country. In the year 1845 the
amount of revenue drawn by the Woods and Forests
out of Ireland amounted to 68,0001., and the expen-
diture to 11,000/. ; in 1816 the revenue was 66,000!.,
and the expenditure 11,9881. ; in 1817 the revenue
was 55,00 W., and the expenditure 14,0001. ; in 1848
the revenue reached 82,000'., and the expenditure
19,5231. ; in 1849 the revenue amounted to 69,0001..
and the expenditure in Ireland to 18,000/. ; in 1880
the revenue was 61,0001., and the expenditure
13,000!. Upon the whole of that statement it ap
peared that there was now a larger proportion of
those funds expended in Ireland than there
had been iu former years ; at the MUM
time he was not at all prepared to say
that a larger sum might not be applied beneficially.
After some further couversation, in which the Lord-
Lieutenant entered with earnestness into the subject,
his Excellency undertook to forward the memorial as
it at present stood, and to recommend it to favourable
consideration, while the corporation, in accordance
with his suggestions. would furnish a specific account
of the contemplated improvements for the satisfaction
of the Woods and Forests Commissioners.

DISCOVERY OP .t LEAD MINE IN TILE Corset
Dowx.—lt attn.& us sincere gestificatim to learn that on
Saturday last a discovery likely to prove of great value to
the country was made at Tullyratty, near fitrangford, by
William Coates, Esq., of the Logan Foundry, in this town.
We 'dude to the expusuro of • lead mine, rich In the
abundance and puri•y of its ore, at only 33 fathoms below
the surface soi!, an 4 in eircuinstanete otherwise remark-
ably favourable. It was at a late hour last night that
we received intelligence of the discovery, seeompaitted
by speeim-ne ef the mist rat, so that we arc fl3t at present
able to enter into particulars. Of the accuracy of the in•
form dem, bows• •, we hiss no roman to entertain a doubt,
and the ore, whit may he seen at our office, will afford
the best evidence as to its purity and value.—Banner of
Geier.

DRAMA.

HAYMARKET.

Tuts(lay night wa;:onenigrt mon "at this theatre
--the perf imams bcinz for the basalt of Mr. Frethrick
lit/sitar. There was littla or no novelty; but the want of
it was made up for by abundance and variety. A whole
/ '•• of vir.inen' actois and liertietll of tho Haymarket and
adolphi theatres, besides p.m.'', vocal ',Wormy', mien-
u. red their smite.. The es tertainments e insisted of Mr.
1/"lud's play, "St. Mary's Eve," the face of "Ilse
Vi almilf," Itiekstone's drams, " Osoil fur Nothing,"
F vs• ra's ballst of "The C sttraliandist," and Mr. Her- I
Elf I*. farce, '• His Last Lep," in which Mr. Oeorze Hol.
"theinslar tletinsatin of Irish character," from
Dubin, in appteranco. The hones was crowded in
nery part.

DnatTARD EitOßATtoN.—Mrs. Chisholm has ac-
septa Isa iasit.tise to &diver r lecture ut Purt.ntouth
to-
d'lift•ardee,, before the member of the Emigratiaa
$ hstabbst*d by the shipwrights of that dockyard.