The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, JAN.
The Tipperary north riding is empt: .4 of its criminal
list. OnWednesday the prisoners triable at the commis-
sion reached Clonmel, accompanied with troops. of
cavalry and police. The duties of the commission
will be chiefly confined to the northern division, since
for the south riding the criminals are few. More than
100 witnesses from various quarters have also reached
head-quarters.
The judges left Limerick yesterday evening for
Clonmel. Previous to the rising of the court the fore-
man of the grand jury was informed that the presence
of that body might be required at a future day, when
the business of Tipperary shall have been completed.l
The scrutiny for anus is carried on with zeal and
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success, and it only just to the Tipperary peasantry
to acknowledge their submission to the law. The
head constable for the Nenagh district lodged, on
IThursday, in the military barracks upwards of 300
stand of arms, including pikes, bayonets, &c. In the
early part of the week anotherdeposit not so abundant
as the second, had been made by the Nenagh police.
The law officers of the crown have ordered the
publication of the addresses of the judges in passing
sentence in Clare and Limerick, and 3,000 copies to
be circulated among the peasantry. The Limerick
Chronicle suggests to the grand juries of the two
counties to request the judges to permit revised
copies of these admonitory addresses to be also pub-
lished and circulated in the proclaimed districts.
It has been remarked that throughout the special
commission no witnesses were produced to good char-
acter on the part of the defence. The inference to be
raised involves all the criminals in a very evil or
suspected reputation. In the south of Ireland the
absence of that class of testimony is very unusual.
The Irish estates of the Duke of Buckingham, lying
chiefly in the fertile plains of Meath and Westmeath,
are advertised for sale. _

The Limerick guardians have rented premises for
temporary accommodation. The total namber of
workhouse inmates will then be 4,000, the largest
provision made by any union in Ireland for in-door
relief.

The Mayor of Cork has been explaining to Sir N.
Fitzsimon, inspector of prisons, the rationale of wan-
ton window-breaking in that city. The Emigres from
the rural workhouse or electoral division crowd to
the city, and preferring the prison to the :workhouse
dietary, smash the panes to incur the penalty of im-
prisonment. Thus the citizens and rate-payers are
unfairly taxed to maintain the emigration of the rural
districts. The inspector promised to explain the evil
to the government.

Tars LATE MR. WATSON AND THE CONVICT CROWE.—
The Limerick Chronicle, the proprietor of which journal is
a brother of the lamented Mr. James Watson, furnishes us
with the following particulars respecting the connexion be-
tween Crowe and the murdered gentleman. If these state-
ments be true, there never was a case of greater atrocity, or
a conviction more deserved " John Crowe, who, at Ennis,
was convicted of conspiring to murder the late Mr. James
Watson, is sentenced to be hanged on the 19th February,
two day. after the execution of his wicked but less guilty
instruments, Ryan (Small) and James Hayes, who were
instigated to commit the atrocious deed. Another criminal,
under sentence of death, William Ryan (Puck) for the
murder of John Hells', was hired as an accomplice to effect
the murder of Mr. Watson, and, as it appears in evi-
dence, it was he that dealt the deadly blow by smashing
the stock of a gun on his head. This very Ryan (Puck),
whose name and character were a terror to the neighbour-
' hood, was heard, after his capture by the police in Frewen's
house, more than once to express his regret that it was not
for the murder of Crowe he was to be tried, and that all he
wanted was one week's liberty to do the job. It is under-
stood the full price of human blood was not paid him. He
professed his concern for being induced to assist in the
murder of ' a good gentleman,' as he described the un-
fortunate victim of agrarian conspiracy. The above John
Crowe is known to be a substantial farmer, bolding from
fifty to sixty acres of land, ado proprietor of a chap in
Killaloe. When hie cattle were distrained and sent to
pound for non-payment of rent, Mr. James Watson was
the person who came forward and passed his own as-
curity for Crowe, whose stock were they released, and
restored to the owner ; but whets in a short month after the
same gentleman declined to put his name to a bill of Crowe's,
to raise money for him in the Limerick bank, this recent set
of friendship was utterly forgotten in the diabolical spirit of
hatred, and the generous benefactor was consigned to a cruel
and untimely death by the hireling minions of a man whom
gratitude, honour, and justice, should have inspired to risk
his own life in defence of a good neighbour and sincere
friend. Pending the trial of Crowe, no allusion to any dr.
curnstance that might affect the prosecution or defence wu
obtruded by us ; and as the case is now finally decided, this
explanation is due to the m: mory of the murdered gentle-
man, whose every word and deed was h nourable, Christian.
like, and exemplary—a reflection gratifying to his friends,
and consoling to his widow and orphan children."
STATE OP THE COUNTHT.—Threatening notices are still of
frequent occurrence in the King's and Queen's Counties. In
the latter a meeting has been held to take measures to bring
to light a oonspiracy to murder Mr. Joseph Robinson Price,
agent to Lord Lansdowne and Mr. W. Fitzpatrick, M.P.
. and for which four men are in custody. A W. Cassan hais
had a notice from " Fire-hall Lodge " that he will have
" Ins job dine for him by Captain Starlight." Mr. Cum,
it appears, has recently taken legal proceedings 'gains*
tenants. A notice has alts o been posted on the gate of a
widow, threatening her with death unless she gives up some
land ; and a man named Draper, in the employment of Mr.
Birch of Emcees, has likewise been threatened, and " his
master also."—An impudent hawking merchant commenced
the sale of arms in Kilkenny a few days since, just in front
of the mayor's residence, mounting a table and commencing
auction. As he had no vendor's license, he was stopped.—
There are accounts in the Waterford paper of two cases of
death from destitution at Dungarvae ; and before the ma-
gistrates at the same place came on Saturday a complaint
against five paupers for an assault on the officers of the union.