The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DI purr. Mmicii, 1.

Ttr lard L'entrtatt and the l'euntive ef Clarindm
held their wend drawini-room fur the season lot
night.
An attempt, which is thus dcectibed in the Eren-
ing Poe, wee made yesterday to dispose of some
leaded prc by public sale:
This day, in the coffee-reom at the Chamber of Commerce
in Dame-street, Dlr. Littledale submitted for sale by acti
the lands of Balchanell, Carkagb, Printown, and Kilmateedis
situate in the neighbourhood of Clondalkin, within six milts
of the oily of Debits. He proposed to sell the property
two lots—the tint of which comprised even divolocs, to.
teasing in the apregete 316 a. 2r. 16p. statute measure, held
put in fee and pert on lessee for years, subject to 1991.41.10 J.
yearly rest. sad • amigos, to the Eulesiasticil Commis-
embers of Sill is. The emend lot comprised three divisions,
mulcting 276 a. It. 15p. statute measure, which is held by
the 'niacin in fee simple. Mr. Littledale set up the first lot
at 8.0001., and no bidder; then at 7,0001.: and lastly at
6,0001, but no bidder appearing the lot was withdrawn. He
then offered the second lot at 10,0001., and continued to dr
cline until he descended to 6,0001., hat in this case as in the
former there was no bidder and the lot was withdrawn, Mr.
Littledale saying atthe same time that the sole should stand
adjourned to a feture day. There were twenty' bee or thirty
gentlemen present.
The Erenino Post makes no comment on the cir-
cumstance, but it is obvious that there most now be
my great difficalty to di-pose of land in Ireland,
wittiest giving the parliamentary title which the
incumbered estates commissioners are enabled to,

confer on the purchaser.
Two important meetings in support of tenant right
and tenant campensatiou have boon held in the south,
one at Cashel in the Town-hall, and the other at
Rillseaule in the open air. At both meetings there
was a large attendance of persons of respectability,
and the numbers of the tenant farmers present were
very considerable. The doctrines advocated were :
the valuation of land by competent and disinterested
persona, the limitation of the landlord's right to that.
valuation, with compensation to the tenant for all
that he creates by his industry and capital beyond it:
and the discouragement by all lawful means of the
system of unlimited end insane competition for land
that has hitherto existed in Ireland.
Government has taken advantage of the present re-
duced prices to 131 the price of forage for army horses
on billet in Ireland at 9d. each per night.
The early sowing of potatoes is now carried on to
each an extent, and such general preparations for the
planting of that crop are in progress throughout the
country, that apprehensions are already felt for the
consequence& should another blight unfortunately
occur. Once more the fate of Ireland will be risked on
the potato.
An attempt was made last week to dislodge the
poor people who, since the famous wholesale eviction
at Toomavars, have bean seeking shelter in earth
hovels about the ruins of that village. The land
bailiff of the Rev. Massy Dawson, the landlord, was
assisted by thirty men on the occasion, and they went
to work levelling.
Six-five cases of cholera have been reported in
the Cshirciceen union, 30 of these having proved
fatal. The appearance of the epidemic in Valentin is i
also reported.
The Kay a Cbunly Chronicle states that vast num-
bers are preparing to emigrate from the midland
counties. Torte hundred and fifty left one locality
last week.
A wretched-looking woman named Bridgett Mann
has been sentetced to death at the Roscommon
Amino, for the murder of her newly-born child.
At the Trim Assizes • man named Charles Coyle
has been found guilty of the murder of a woman
named Catherine Gaffney, and sentenced to death.
The Neuagh Guardian mentions two or three in-
sMeaces of threatening notices to prevent persons from
taking lands from which the former tenants had been
'Meted.

Deaths from destitution are still of everyday oc-
currence in Ireland, and the details which are elicited
at the inquests on those occasions reveal • fearf•l
*meant of suffering and privation amongst the
peasantry.