The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dust rir. ArOIIST 21.
It is stated that the Lord Lieutenant is about to
pay a visit to the north of Ireland, and easy be ex-
pected at B-lfsst early in the ensuing month. The
IVortheris LW, which make* the unouncutent, be-
speaks a cordial reosplioa fee his Excellency, on the
ground that he hu unilbemly shewn a deep anxiety
"for the promotion of the industrial resources of Ire-
land, and especially for the advancement of the staple
manufacture of Ulster."
All eyes are now turned towards the little town of
Thurles, in Tipperary, where the prelates and other
dignitaries of the It risan Catholic Courch in Ireland
are congregated on the ere of one of the most
solemn and important eccluisatical conferences ever
held in this country. Every hoses in the town and
its vicinity is dumbed as being ompied with visi-
tors : in many instances the barns are said to have
been converted into temporary residences; and
among the people assembled in and around Thu-Ire
are many strangers from England and other coun-
tries who happen at the moment to be visiting the
south of Ireland. The Limerick Reporter says:—
We understand that some of the dignitaries of religious
orders on the contiettat, including earned mitred abbots,
have arrived in Ireland. preparatory to the *ruing of the
eyaod. Tame, however, are not psratitted to take part in
the deliberatione of the council.
Tile hierarchy of the Iri-h Roman Catholic Cherub
is composed of four archbishops and twenty three
bishops. These, with the exception of two or three,
who are prevented by illness or other causes, will
attend the synod, the absent bishops being repre-
sented by pracuratore, and each of them will be
attended by a theologian, whose duty it will be to
discu.s the several Tee-Alone brought on for conside-
ration, the bishops and archbishops alone having a
right to vote. The primate, in his double capicity of
papal legate and Archbishop of Armagh, will be ac-
companied by two theologians. Tne beads of the
religious ciders will also be present, and of these
there will be some eight or ten. The only mitred
abbot in Ireland at the present day is the Abbot of
Mt. Melleray. The deliberations of the synod will
be c nductcd with the strictest secrecy, none
of the members composing it, holding com-
munication with others durieg the proceeding.; audit
is cot expected that the result of the deliberations will
be published for come ten days after they shall have
terminated, if, indeed, it be not necessary to wait un-
til they shall have the approbation of the Pope. At
all events the minority, on these occasions, are bound
by the majority, so that, wtatever be the result, we
shall hear no more of one portion of the Irish bishops
supporting the provincial colleges, the Bequests Act,
or other disputed point, and the remainder of them
ranged in opposition. The synod commences to-
morrow, when it will be opened by a high mass of
peculiar solemnity, and a 'amen preached by one of
the bishops, the public being admitted to the church
on this occasion ; and tne next brogues will be
the appointunit of officers of the council, ooptmittees
for the discussion of the different questions submitted,
arrangements of time, and other routine business.
Thy Limer,ek Reporter states that nineteen houses
were ltvelled, and 148 parsons turned out roofless,
last week in a village called Bellagh, near Cloneulty,
not far from Thurles. The village is the property of
Colonel Perceral, MP.
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The Kilkenny.r.ternal says that if any one came to
that county and offered 15s. an acre for the standing
wheat, he would get offers of nearly all the wheat in
the county.
Tee C 11371.6 AND TIM WE-ITEM' —We bare had some
heavy showers latterly, which have had the etfi et of laying
the grain on gnarly low laying situations. The intervals of
sunshine wete, however, very pleasant, that mellowness, so
eharaeteriMe of the meson, being pleasantly observable.
and latterly the weather has greatly improved. The prae►eu
of the crop le in general, satisfactory, and harvest wail be
eonriderably earlier than it enuld have been expected a fort-
night ago. The grain fields all round are utting on the
yeilow hue cf hareem, and several p etches of early here and
wheat are already reaped. There is still considerable society
man& steel r.spitetiag the potato crop, and it is cow evident
that at least a portion will be affected with the disease.
Szvere spots appear partially blackened. but the malady
appe ire to be much slower kits progress than in former years
and .he tubers are is . eneral only slightly injured, and in
many case nit at all. The supply at market during the
poet week has not been remarkably large—nor have the
priers been lower than. under ordinary circumstances, we
might have cep, cted. Tole indicates that the farmers are
regaining contichece, and that a hope yet tele, that no
large smilax( of danger will be sustained. The finality of
all, with a very DM] g exception, is remarkably go:d.—
Arnsnoh Guardian.

The Kilkenny Mode,.afor has the following account
of the renewal of the syttem of crop plunder in that
ooriroy :
The Svbbath plundering comatmeed in our county cm
Sunday lest, at Templemartin, on the property of Chamlion
Brady, Esq. A farmer named Clancy fell to work at reap-
log his wheat at eight o'clock on Saturday evenirg, and
continu-d till between three and four o'clock on Sunday
nonuser. when he desisted, owing to the pastier by of the
police patrol. However, the pnliee had no instructions to
interfere, though Mr. Brady's artut applied to the authori-
ties foVauistance. The landlord had four keepers near the
spot, but they only looked on at a civil d stance, as they
were afraid to to to the ground without constabulary pro-
tectien. The crop was removed off the lands of Templemartin
on Sunday might, the cars conveying it paring through the
turnpike without let or molestation.

THE MARQUIS OF LON DONDERET AND Ms TENANT-
RY AT NnwTOWXARDS —A report has reached us (Bonner
of Ulster) to this effect, that on the afternoon of Saturday
lest a rather curious meting took Vacs in Newtownards,
between the Marquis of Londonderry and his tenantry in
that quarter, but the details of this interview have not beta
communicated to us with all the minuteness we could wish.
We ought, perhaps, to have mentioned that the place of
meeting was the noble marquis's own rent effice in New-
totenards, Ind, that after the commencement already sub-
stantis.ly reeited, the noble marquis proceeded to inform his
tenantry 'hat, in the very first pees they need ncitter ask
nor expect any reduction of rent. If they were not content
to pay es present rents he (the Marquis of Londonderry)
conlii do without them, and could live on hie English
estates, even though not one among the present tenantry
were in existence upon his Irish pr.perty. His lordship, as
we are informed, further told his Newtownards " farmers,"
that there was a combination amongst them, that the revo-
lutionary paper called the Banner of Ulster, and the presby-
teries clergy, were at the head of it; and his lordship then
bestowed upon the presbyterian ministers sundry epithets,
which we forbear to mention until we 'hall have had an
animistic acerunt from our own "special" who was at the
time in the thickest of the throng. Having delivered him-
self of en oration, of which the points mentioned constituted
the substance, his lordship was aboat to retire, wren the
people blocked up the doer, and insisted that he should hear
a statement on their put. His lordship refused, and wanted
to getaway; but the people were resolute, and some of
them, by abler urgency, obliod his lerdehip to listen to a
vindication of their ministers, is which the laity took upon
themselves the whole responeihility, and publicly declared
that, in all they bad said aid d ,ne, the ministers were acting
merely as the organs of the tenantry at large. Mr. Andrews,
too, was loudly called upon to come forward and declare, in
his lordship's presence, the natal s of his own knowledge in
regard to their actual condition, and especially their ins-
bility to pay the present scale of rests. After several refu-
sals, our informant adds, that Mr. Andrews did come for-
ward, sad the amount of his declaration war, that if the
people would oily slope his new system of farming, whisk
he has been so leg inculcating upon them, they wall pay
their rents with perfect ease. The effect of this decimation
may be readily imagined; and so various and so urgent
were the representations made to his lordship on all new,
that we are asour.d he put his fingers into his ears, and
took his departure instantly, lest he should hear the remon-
strances addressed to his.

MILITARY.
ROTAL ARTILLIIIRT.--Dirpoty Adjutant General's Office,
Woolwich, Amp* 17.—General Order.—His lordship the
Master-Hapral has hean *mad to approve of the followisg
sedan eadianging compuelse:—Beciend Captain H. H. CPS
km, of Najaf A•kwith's company, sth Battalion, with &mond
Captain P. F. O. Scott, of Captain Macloan's company, 11th
Heusi i9n. Pint Lieutenant W. H. King, of Capt. Mitebeli's
company, 10th Lembo's, with Lieutenant I. A. F. Adams,
of Captain Tuner's company, Bth Battalion.—(higned)
H. D. Rasa, Deputy Adjutant Genital.
Deputy Adjutant Umieral's Office, Woolwich, August 19.
—General Ordov.—l. hemond Lieutenant W. W. Hagen is
transfers.) from Camels Hill's company, 6th Battalion, to
Captain Warburton's moray, lk Battalion. By order of
the Maeter•Generel.-2. ftrgoomt David Hoge, 6th Bat-
talion, is appointed Milan (leaner Master Sergeant to Me
Field Batteries.—(l3igned) J. R. Jots's, Colon.), Assistant
Adjutant Clausal.