The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-10 00:00:00

gentleman with a melancholy expression. The indict-
ment, which contains fourteen counts, wan read
by the Clerk of the Crown, and Mr. Daffy was called
upon to plead, on which Sir Colman O'Lodhlen inter-
posed, and, having remarked that in Mr. Mitchel 's
case it had been decided that a party accused of
felony was not entitled to a copy co, the indictment,
asked, that the crown would grant a copy as a favour,
and so save time, as otherwise they must have it read
so slowly as to enable them to take down its words.
The learned judges seemed to desire they might
be saved from the wearisomeness of the
reading, but the crown would not give
way. Baron Pennefather desired the suggestion
might be considered, when the proceedings in
court ended for this day.

THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—THE CHARGE.
The commission, which, from the number and
gravity of the political offences to be investigated, was looked
forward to with much interest. opened to-day, before the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayer: the Right Hon. 1). R. Pigott,
Chief Baron ; and the Hon. Boron Peonefather. Their
lordships entered the court at a few minutes after 11 o'clock,
when proclama• ion for the att. ndanee of the grand
jurors was made, and the commission opened. The grand
juries having been sworn, the Chief Baren addressed them
in a very luminous charge.
At the conclusion of the charge, some unimportant cases
having been proceeded with, the city grand jury came into
court, and handicg down a roll of parchment of large dimen-
sions,
Foreman : We find a true bill wand ChttlesGavan Duffy
for

felony.
Baron Pennefather ; Let Mr. Duffy be sent for.
Mr. Daffy soon made his appearance, and on entering th•
dock, Mr. Janhet Alley, Clerk of the Crown, proceeded
to read the indictment in abstract. Having concluded.
Mr. Duffy was called on to plead.
Sir Colman O'Loghlen, one of lois counsel, applied to haws
the indictment read out slowly, in coder that • copy of it
might be t•aen, unless the crown would grant a copy of the

do;ument.
Counsel for the crown would not permit the copy to be
given, and it was ultimately decided th..t the matter ahLuld
be postponed till the next morning, to give the Attorney-
General an opportunity of considering whither the applies-
lion for the copy of the indictment should he grunted.
It is said the crown will press on Mr. Duffy's trial to mor
row ; but it will hardly take place it the indictment be r 011
three times, as Mr. Duffy'a counsel threaten. Probably it
will be fixed for Thursday.

THE STATE OF THE SOUTH.
We have received via Bristol, by the feat-sailing packet,
Sabrina, Capt. Parker, from Cork, advices from that city,
to 12 o'clock Tuesday, and by the Rose, Capt. Burgess, as-
counts from Waterford to the same date.
At Waterford all was quiet. The re had been a little ex-
citement consequent on some arrefes, but it had entirely sub-
sided, none having taken part in it but women and boys. it
was reported that Doheny was in the nacuntain at the had
of a large force, but after what was from time to time re-
ported of Smith O'Brien's doings all such statements must
be received with extreme caution.
A letter from Cork, d.ted Monday night, says : " All is
quiet here, but it is thought that there will be some guer'lls
movements in Tipperary and Waterford similar to the attack
at Abbeyteale, of which 1 enclose an ace aunt. The news
inm Tipperary is looked for with anxiety ; Bianceni's car
has just arrived without passengers, and the mob at the office
supposed that the car had been attacked, and some Inv
shouted. The passt-ngere got off outside the city, by the re-
quest of the police, is, order to avoid the excitement which is
nightly kept up on the arrival of the car from the disaffected
districts. In Tipperary there is the greatest mystery ob-
served by the peasantry ; and even amongst the middle
&asses it is very difficult to get information about any
occurrence. To-night's report is, that all was quiet on

the reed.
Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Napier, commander of the channel
Stet, had struck his flag on board the St. Vinci nt, 120 guns
and hoisted it on hoard her Majesty's ship Stromboli, in
which he had sailed for the Shannon. Her Mai( sty's screw-
propelled sloop Rifleman was taken into the Victoria Dock
us a leaky state. She is said to be a new vessel.
The Cork Constitution of Tuesday sajs " There is m
better barometer of confederate feeling than the savings'
banks. Last week large sums were drawn out here, and
notices for larger given. Yesterday, numbers of the notices
were withdrawn, and many of the drafts redeposited, same
of the owners remarking, ' We'll have no war now.' The
arrest of O'Brien has had a very sedative effect."
It was reported at the post-office on Tuesday morning that
the bags and letters stolen from the up and down trail
coach's had been found on Sunday morning, outside the
Abbyfeale post-office. The bags and letters had all been
opened. The arms were not restored.

ABBETPEALE, AVOUST, 5.
You will be anxious to bear from us ; mutters are becom-
ing more serious. A small police ',Arty came into tows last
night, only sufficient to hold the house (that to which
the Cookes lived), not enough to send out patrols.
Two parties came to our house to-day to search for
arms. The leader of the first party went ell through
the house; the other took our word, hearing that it
had been searched before. We are in a very defenceless'
position, and we hear that the bridge is to be dentoli.hod
and all the bridges on the leading roads.

CONFEDERATE DEPARTOY.EB.—On Saturday, the Bache
M'Evers sailed with emigrants from Cove for America.
Amongst the passengers on board wire the active president
of the " Arthur O'Connor Club," and the vice-president
of the "John Mitchel ditto !" Both rather respectable young
men, hut, unfortunately for them, ardent supporters of Young
Ireland doctrines. The president, who has thus suddenly left
his friends in Cork, was bail ter one of the parties arraigned
lut Wednesday, in the County Court, for attending a meeting
and uttering sedition at Cro.sbarry. In addition to the above,
other presidents and vice presidents have also deemed it
necessary to leave Cork for the present. a change of air
being requisite after the late excitement in this country.
Three of them, all club presidents, preen eded by the Jn
vertu steam-ship to Bristol on Friday morning. An in!.
mense crowd of people assembled yesterdi.y evening at Mr.
Newsom's shop, awaiting the latest news by Blanc mi'r car,
when the announcement that "all was quiet" on the routs,
and the confirmation of Smith O'Brien's capture, seemed to
act as a wonderful sedative on the excited and tumultuous
mese. Two children were severely tr4mpled on in the
pressure.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASIII RE.
OPENING OF ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC
SALFORD.—The new church built by the Roman cat Wigs
in Salford, at an immense cost, was opened yesterday, whoa
the Right Rev. Bishop Brown, vicar apostolic of the Lanca-
shire district, celebrated pontifical high mass, waisted
Ii
Bishop Briggs, vicar spoetolic of the York district ; Dr.
Wareing, vicar aspotolic of the eastern district ; Dr. tf ice-
man, Bishop of London ; Dr. Brown, vicar apostolic of
Wale. ; Dr. Morris, and other dignitaries, torethir with
200 of the catholic clergy. After the ceremony a lunch was
given at the town hall, Salford, Daniel 1.• e, Erg., presidia&
and including in the company Lord Arundel and Surrey,
Sir Thomas and Lady Dc Traff ..rd, Hon. Charles Langdale,
Lady Frederick Stapleton, and Sir Wm. Lawson. MI
proceedings were not over when our report left.
ATROCIOUS CONDUCT OF AN ENGINE DRIVEIL-
On the East Litecashire Railway works, affunnt I End, near
Burnley, on Friday, the driver and stoker of the " Medusa"
locomotive were drinking, and had left the engine in charge
of the cleaner, whose name is Rhodes. Whin be was about
to take the fire out of the grate, some persons in authority
came down to the engine, and, wishing to go to the " tip
end" at Rose Grove, were taken thither by Rhodes. Shortly
after Rhodes had lett, the driver, named S. Whittle, came
down to the works, and finding the engine gone without him,
he was very much vexed, and determii.eil to 'dace some
obstacles on the rails to obstruct the engine on its return.
He accordingly got three "tail boards," belonging to the dirt
waggons, and placed them across the rail., and i.stened them
by driving " iron picks" behind the boards into the sleepers.
He then got four iron furnace bars, and ids cod them aerate
the rails, and afterwards more "picks" to the numbr r of eight
were struck into the sleepers, with the shafts upwards! By
this time the engine wan returning. Tie cleaner, Rhodes,
eat in front et the coal-139x; the Rev. T. G. James, his
brotber, Mr. Jam, o, of Liverpool ; Mr. Donaldson, the
engineer of the line, and another gentleman, bring in Oa
truck of the engine. Some person having noticed the ob-
structions mate a signal for Rhode. to abut elf the steam,
and apply the brake. but before he could do so the wheels
came in contact with the " tail boards," and Rondo was
thrown cff upon the line. The engine, too, was at first
thrown off the rail, but by. some means, after having mu a
considerable distance, again came upon it All the gees..
tlemea in the truck fortunately kept their hold, and escaped
unhurt ; but Rhodes was " doubled up " by the' engine, and
on being examined was found to have his right arm almost
taken off, and both thighs broken. Mr Smirthwaite, cur-
peon of Burnley, wassent for, and amptitatei the arm above
the elbow. The fractured thighs were also reduced, and
there are hopes that Rhodes may eventually recover.
Whittle was immediately taken into custody, and atter •
hearing before the magistrates on Saturday he was com-
mitted for trial.

WORCESTERSHIRE.
Tae Doc CART NUISANCE.—The new Worot'ater
Turnpike Trusts Act, with a view to the checking of this
dangerous nuisance, contains a clause impobing a toll of two-
pence on every dog used in drawing a carriage of any kind,
accompanied with other enac.ments of so stringent a r.ature
for punishing attempts at evasion of the toll, and cu!orcing
caregil driving of the dogs, that it is C :petted the nuisance
will speedily disappear from the roads of tho Worctster
trusts.

DISTURBANCES BETA;RN ENGLISTI AND IRDili
LABOUILEII9.—For upwards of a week the generally tear-
able town of Doncaster bas been the scene of a series of riots
and disturbances mused by some misunderstanding between
the men who are working on the Great Northern and South
Yorkshire Railways on the one band, and on the other the
' Irish reapers who have been flocking into the town ea routs
to the neighbouring villages in sea'ch of employment. The
first disturbance took place last Wednesday, and since then
not a day or night has passed without a repetition of the
frty. The plan pursued by the " navvies, " who are
almost in every ease the aggressors, is to mumble in
considerable numbers at the different entrances to the town,
and to insult and beat every Irish labourer that makes his
appearance. The result of these attacks has been a considers
able number of black eyes and broken beads, and, in INTIM
inetances, the lives of the unfortunate men have been put
in jeopardy. The Irish being a very feeble race, end being
besides evertowered by nimbus, have lurk await