The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dwaine, Aram 26.
A judgment of great importance as affecting the
interests of swings bath depositors, was delivered
yecteadayin the Court of Queen's Beneb. The plain-
tiff in the case was one of the depositors of the Tralee
Savings Bank, in whose favour an award had been
loads by Mr. Tidd Pratt, as arbitrator. An action had
been tried on the award, and a verdict for the plain-
tiff found on some of the material points, and the
present judgment was delivered on a motion
to have that verdict entered u for the de-
fendant, one of the trustees and managers of
the bank. The Chief Justice decided in favour of the
defendant thus removing the liability from the true-
tees, and, as a necessary consequence, which the
public, under the circumstance, deduce from that
decision, throwing the responsibility in the case upon
the goverument. The chief grounds of the decision
appear to have been the noncompliance of the
arbitrator with the forms prescribed by the Savings
Bank Act, and heavy charges of negligence or in-
competence are consequently made against Mr. Tidd
Pratt. The Chief-Justice said:
The court would regret the determination arrived at if It
found that in fact the arbitrator had gone through a duo
course of Inquiry, by the re.ult of which he would alone
have been warranted in finding that the defendant ought
to pay twenty shillings is the pound to the depositors;
but he had not instituted suck an inquiry into the se
amnia as could have enabled ►im to ascertain the liabilities
of all parties.
Some excitement has been created by a statement
in a Mayo paper, that a wholesale processor eviction
had been resorted to by the mortgagees and present
holders of the Martin estate in the west of Galway.
640 ejectment decrees have, it is said, been obtained,
by means of which 3,000 or 4,000 persons will be
thrown upon the world; and in tact means, it is n-
eeded, are being adopted for the total clearance of
the tenantry from those estates, so as to make the
lands a more marketable commodity when next offered
for male than they appear to have been when last
brought under the hammer in London. If this statement
be true, and that no satisfactory explanation of it can
be given, it is calculated to bring an immense amount
of odium upon any plan for extending English pro-
prietorship in Ireland, the mortgagees being in this
case an English company, and the extermination
being, it is stated, reported to for the purpose of pre-
paring the lands for English purchasers. Already
the subject has been taken up by Irish newspapers of
every party, and both the Mail and the Freeman de-
nounce this wholesale application of the odious evic-
tion system on the part of English holders of Irish
lands as a "terrible imitation of what has been
hitherto held up to public hatred as the most loath-
some vices of Irish landlordism."

" The Killarney guardians," says the Limerick Chro•
sick, " have resolved that no system of tenure re-
quires amendment more than that of Trinity college,
who hold 88,000 acres in Kerry, yet their land is the
most impoverished, by the principle of short lease,
and heavy fines, thus retarding improvement, and de-
terring industry." It is well known that vast tracts
of land belonging to Tsinity College still remain un-
reclaimed and perfectly unprofitable, owing to the,
circumstances alluded to in the preceding paragraph.
Hence, notwithstanding the enormous extent of ter-
ritorial possessions enjoyed by that establishment,
Mr. Napier was able, in the House of Commons on
Tuesday night, to complain of the limited revenue
which the college derived from public sources. In
fact, if all the estates of private individuals in
Ireland were turned to the very best ac-
count that the nature of the toil would
admit, the country would still be found disfi-
gured with districts of waste land belonging to
Trinity College.

DEsTrrrnoN.—Tanday morning a man of the
name of Timothy Cunningham was found dead in a pig-stye
belonging to Pat %Vault,. of Crataloe, in the parish of
Athea, is the amaty of Limerick, where the unfortunate
victim was left a lifeless wimp, a prey to *e ravenous birds
and dogs of the nmatry. It appears he could not obtain
workhouse relief, cn the plea of his being &native of Kerry,
*wilt ha lived for the ISM seven years in the very townland
is which he died.—An inquest was held on the body by
Dr. Enright, eceremer, when the Jury returned • verdict
of ditatb, pm:loNa! by cold and hunger.—Limerick
Clwasick.