The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DVILIN, JAN. 2.
Yesterday, bcirg Lord Mayor's day, the usual pro-
cession pared, d the streets of Dublin, but the bril-
liancy of the antiquated p..mp was not improvt d
a disagreeable tog which prevailed throughout the
day. The old glue coach, which had lain by for a
considerable time, was brought forth on the occasion,
and looked exceedingly dingy. The proceedings of
the day, however, off with the usual fetal,
and Alderman Rejnordaerwedas installed with duo pomp;
in the office of Lord Mayor. The following letters;
were read by the town clerk at the meeting of the
council :
Whitehall, 28th December, 1849.
MT LOND,—I have had the honour to lay before Um
Queen Ma loyal sad dutiful resolution of the Corporation
of the City of Dublin, transmitted in your lordship's
letter of the 21st instant ; and I have the eatisfactina to ni-
-1 form your lordship that her Majesty was pleased to receive
' the same very graciously.—l have the honour to be, my
lord, your lordship's obedient servant. O. Gast.
The Lord Mayor Windsor
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Dublin, Re. Re.
Windsor utle, December 28, 1849.
Bth,—l have received the commands of hls Royal H.gh-
nese Prbiell Albert, to acknowledge the receipt of the repo-
Intiou expreesive of sympathy and condolence on the death
of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager, transmitted
through Colonel Phipps, and to request that you will have
the goodness to convey to the members of the Corpora-
tion of the City of Dublin, by whim the resolution was
voted, the expression of his Royal Highness's best thanks
for this mark of attentios.-1 have the honour to be,
Bir your very obedient servant, CHARLIMI OBIT.
The Right Hoes the Lord Mayor, Dublin.
When we recollect the boastful and menacing atti-
tude assamed by the Irish protectionists a few
weeks ago, and the formidable character which a
great many people attributed to their movement, it
is impossible not to feel some surprise at their com-
plete and unexampled failure. The Evening Post
well observes that they have tried and failed, and
that every further effort they may make will only
render their failure the more damnifying and the
more manifest. They have attempted to raise the
country and have not succeeded. Already they are
beaten men. A correspondent of the Evening Post
gives the following account of the termination of the
Wexford county meeting :
Banisowthy, Dee. 31, 1849.—This being the day appointed
by the High Sheriff of the county W :ford, James Power,
Esq.. to hold a county meeting la favour of protection for
native produce and iadustry, the attendance of the landed
interest was Loh rab:y large, but net considered sufficiently
so to bold a county meeting. There was a large array of free-
traders re ady to carry an amendment, bad the meeting gone
on. You may now consider a general county meeting for
Wexford a failure, although it was to have presented an
*staple to the landed interest of the other countin of
Ireland.
Still we have nut done with the attempted county
meetings. To-morrow Limerick is to "pronounce for
protection." We shall eft the result.
The following gratifying announcement appears in
the Cork Reporter received this morning respecting
the Agricultural Model School in Cork :
Aa intimation was on Monday received from his Excel-
long' the Lord Lieutenant, stating that the sum of 1,4001.
shall be expended oa the erection of farm buildings, in con-
nexion with the agricultural professorship of the Qseen's
College, Cork, in order to aid the success!ul establishment of
an agricultural model school for Munster. The interest of
the residue of the grant of 5,0001. is to be applied to the
msintsaance of the institution.
There has been some mistake about the represen-
tation of Dial., Mr. J. D. Fi'zgerald, Q.C.. having
addreseed the electors at a public meeting there last
week, under the supposition that the seat was about
to become vacant by the O'Gorman Mahon accepting
of some office. However it now appears that there
hu been a misapprehension on that subject.
The following gratifying instances of reduction of
rents have just obtained publicity
Tait LaNsannaocon PIOPIETY.—In October, 1847, the
Earl of Lanesborough got possession, under a Aabere, of the
lands of Bhantamon, Corwulls, Upper and Lower Shank-
hills, Re., held previously by a middleman. This year the
tenants of those lands applied to the agent, John Ligon,
Eq., to represent their case, in order that their rents
might be reduced.—His lordship immediately in-
structed Mr. Litton to comply with their request.
The taunts auembled on the 21st, when Mr.
Litton addressed them, stating he had visited their lands is
Gaut° tarry out the kind directions of their landlord,
whose motto with his tenants was, " Live and Ist live ;" and
and lest ha would set too high a value on their terms, he had
brought Mr. Reilly along with him, who, from his intimate
knowledge of farming, had a right to know what a tenant
could fairly and honestly psy his landlord and afford to live
himsetf. It was now his (Mr. Litton's) pleasing duty to tell
them that there would be a permanent reduction made in
their present rents, varying from IS to g 5 per cent. ; and, is
addition, he would give each tenant a plot of bog, rent tree.
He would also pets the tenants on small holdings a liberal
allowance if they would whitewash and repair their houses.
The announcement was received with great cheering.
The Rev. J. West, of Delgany Glebe, has instructed the
agent of his Drum/teen (county Fermanagh) estate, He :lett
Herodias, H.q., of Pettigo, to appropriate the arrears due
to him to the improvement of the estate ; to allow the
tenants a reduction of twenty-flee per sent. off their rents,
as well as to pay a proportion for draining and aubsoiling the
farms of those holding valuable leases.—Arnsagh Guardian.
The estates of the following gentlemen, producing
over 12,0001. a year, situate in the county of Water-
ford, will be sold in he month of April next, by the
Commissioners of Incumbered Estates, viz.: George
Bennet Jackson, J.P., Glanbeg; Edward Galway,
LP. Duokspool; James W. Wall, J.P., Coolnamuck
o=4; Richard bucket', LP., Tramore ; Walter
Jaffa Carew, J.P., Litkeran ; Henry Parker, J.P.,
Gress Park; James Fitzpatrick, Ballydonough ;
Greene, Kilmanahan Castle ; Wm. N. Barron, Bally-
macart ; James Morris Wall, Clones Castle; Astil
Thomas Welsh, Hacketatown ; Walter Ify Mansfield.
Sleady ; George Boats, Dackspool.