The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

The contract for tobacco has boa adjudged for the
9 years ending September 18.39, to tbe senator Em-
manuel Fetus, at the annual sum of 2,922,300 limes.

Circulars of the Minister of the lotertor to the
prefects and governors, and of the Minister far Ec-
clesiastical attars to the archbishops and bishops,
prescribe the celebration of the soniversuy of the
12. h April. 1849. A solemn mass is to be celebrated.

Zio Court.

The (Ireee and P.ince Albert walked yebterdey in
the garden of nueleinglude Marx.

A deputation, oonsistind of Lord Mosteagle, Lord
Letterboo, lord Alta Meanies, Sir William Verner, M.P.,
Mr. Adderley, Mr. do Salim, Mr. M'Ortger, M.P.,
Mr Willis* Brows, M P , Mr. Mark Fiord, Kr. Divots,
M.P., Hen. Berb.eiry, M.P., Mr. Ligon, Mr. Bass, M.P.,
Mr. Jacksoa, Mr. G. R. Saint, sad Mr. Davide**, had ea
interview yesterday with Sir John Hebhoner, at the Ace
of the Board of Control, en the subject detests einamnaits-
don with Australia.
Mr. W. R. Itensalle, Mr. J. A. Rankey, and Mr.
Alexander Stewart, comambnoaers as to loan for Jamaica,
had an interview with But Grey yesterday at the Colonial,
darn
Earl Howe had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at his °Skid resident* In
Downintstreet.
A deputation from the Bouth-Eastern Railway,
consitstag_or Mr. Macgregor, Mr. Reashow, Mr. Venable*,
and Mr. Prunus, had an interview with the Commissioners
of Railways yesterday, at the oflice of the Board of Trade.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Richards, Mr.
Hawkiam, Mr. Stewart, and Mr. Henry, accompanied by
Mr. Wilhite (monetary), bad an interview with the Right
Hoe. Henry Laboschere yesterday, at the office of the
Dosed of Trade.
liespatehes were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial filo- for the governors of the North Americas
eolouies. Demuth's were alas seat off last evening from the
Colonial-otlim for the Governor of Van Diemen% Lead.

DIIIILIN, APRIL 12.
The inauguration of the Belfast school of design
took place on Wednesday evening before a very
crowded and fashionable audience, the inaugural ad-
dress being delivered by Lord Dufferin, the president
of the school. His lordship referred to the peculiar
advantages which such a school held out to the pro-
vi
ace of Ulster, the chief some of the manufacturing
industry of Ireland. He said:
Uakappily, Ulster is the oely pestles of Ireland when this
saperincumbvst population seams to do something son
than enistrab:y vegetate upon the soil. From Ulster alone
theca there amend the &quint and gladdening tumult of
manufacturing labour ; for, ladies and gentlemen, though
many may affect to lamest that the bane sky of heaven
should be assaultei by en( ke-wmiting c.himniet—that
whole populations should be imprisoned within a Babylon
of brick, where ones shone green and silent fields—yet
assert that it is an unmanly thing to shut our eyes to the
great devalopmews of the age—to refuse to accept the
&genies which Providence has marked out for ore—sod, in-
stead of rejoicing in the wonderful ecinomy a large manu-
facturing town exhibits, with its thousand thousand inhabi-
tants, each mac if be will—mind you—working in God's
visit/aid so muck as he who
Drives his plough,
And walks in joy and glory on the mountain's side.

Instead of looking with thankful eyes upon wonders, the
scene of snaa's tmmy over the material world, when he
fashions the most obdurate elements at his will, sad gather.
lag them from all grunters of the globe, compels duns to
minister to the most trifling luzartes and convenience of
his daily life—instead, I say, of rejoicing at all this, to look
with jealous eye upon extending streets and multiplying
chimneys. Bat the day is past when the population of this
ctuatty can depend alone open the aril for its support, and
most anxiously ought we to cherish the small portion of
manufactnriog industry which Inland can host, and most
eagerly ought we I. encourage any means by which our
manufactures can be increased sad cur trade extended.

He stated that prizes to the amount of 601. and
upwards had been offered by the merchants of Belfast,
for patterns to be executed in damask and sassed
muslin, for exhibition subsequently at the Great
London Exhibition of 1851 ; and he proposed himself
to found a scholarship of the value of 201. in the
school.

Mr. John O'Connell has published an address to
the " Repealers of Ireland," announcing that the
support of the country has been so far withheld from
him that he mint dtscmtinue his efforts to keep up
the associaticn after • fortnight, if some demonstra-
tion of attachment to its principles be not made
within that time.

Two brothers named Gavin, one nineteen and
the other only seventeen years of age, were executed
in Limerick, on Tuesday, for the murder of John
Ryan at Cappamwe. On the same day in 'fulla-
more a man named John Ryan was executed for the
murder of police Sergeant Chant.
The Commerce, of Liverpool, Capt. W. Rinds,
was wrecked on one of the Blasket Islands,
off the extreme point of the peninsular of Dingle
in Retry, on the 3d instant. The crew were
saved in the long boat, but the ship, a large three
masted vessel, laden with palm oil from the coact of
Africa, and bound for Liverpool, became a total
wreck. The brig Ranger, from Malta, with wheat,
has been wrecked in Dunmanway bay, Skibbereen,
crew saved.

The report of the meeting of the Ulster Flax So-
ciety, held in Belfast, states that ten of their agricul-
turists have been located for the sowing season in the
counties of Mayo, Cork, Queen's County, Sligo, Kerry,
Wexford, limerick, and Clare. In Newport and
Castlebar, the company of Bernard and Koch buy up
Sax to the extent of MO scree, at prices varying from
71. to 91. per acre.

Extostanoa.—Monday and Tuesday, the following
vessels cleared °satin the Cussosn-louse of OBS port: for New
York, the Charles Richards, 97 passengers; for Quebec,
Caledonia, 127 passengers; for New Yolk, Waterford, 101
wingers • total, 326. A fleet of twelve pan. suer smelt,
will have cleared this and the ensuing week for Canada ant
the Uni.ed Eltatal. Four ogled Tuesday morLing.—Linsersch
CArowick.