The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-11 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

WORM in Ft MIN. By JULIAKAVANILON. Smith and
Elder. 1860.

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What effect would it have upon a nation, were the
position of the mats to be reversed, and were women
to become masters? This is the theme that Mias
Julia Havanmh seems to have undertaken tadilate
upon, by depicting that long period of French history
In which female influence predominated bath In the
government and in society. France has certainly the
credit of emancipating women. Francis the Find
began that revolution, which king after king fur-
thered. The regime reached its highest point under
Louis the Fourteenth and Louis the Fifteenth, when
women were the octuacillors, the statesmen, the minis.
tent of both public and private life. And it is some-
what remarkable that when women were deposed, or
attempted to be deposed under Louis the Sixteenth,
the political and social fabric fell to pieces.
Miss Julia Kavanagh is evidently a writer of
esprit, who has undertaken a task rather seabreux,
but has got through it with great skill, delicacy, and
snotty& She is, on the whole, too indulgent, and
evidently dazzled by the splendour she depicts and
the power she describes. And she sometimes paints
as attractive what was really disgusting. But Miss
K gh only follows the world in all this; and
M. Thiers spoke but a general opinion when he de-
dyed the other day that he preferred the . glorious
profligacy of Louis the Fourteenth to the simplicity
of either Swiss or New England republicanism.

DUBLIN, MARCIE 9.
The question of the abolition of the lord-lieutenancy
is privately debated in all parts of the city. It would,
perhape, be rather premature in me to offer an
opraion as to what the majority of the citizens think
u to the expediency of doing away with the vice-
regal court. Public meetings will no doubt be held,
and the subject brought before them ; but, for the
present, I may observe that those tradespeople
amongst whom the patronage of such as attend the
levees, and drawing-rooms, and Castle balls is divided,
all say that, with the lord•lieutenancy, if it be abo-
lished, a very large annual expenditure will with-
drawn ;rom the Irish capital. Saunders News Letter
of this morning contains the following:

The contemplated arrangement is to create a Secretary of
State for Ireland with a seat in the cabinet, and to transfer
to him, by act of parliament, such of the executive rights as
are at present vested in the Lord Lieutenant. The pre-
rogative rights will go to the Queen. This Becretsry for
Ireland will have a parliamentary Under Secret►ry, and an
office establishment, uniting the Chief Secretary's Office in
Dublin Castle with the Irian Office in London. By the con-
stant residence in Idusdr.n of the Secretary for Inland, Irish
members of parliament will helve the government of Ireland
always on the spot, without dropping in at the Irish Office,
or going to the Home Office, or wri•ing over to a Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, as at present. These arrangements
will of course involve some others, and be perhaps them-
selves somewhat altered, but the abolition of the viceroyalty
is expected to take place before the opening of next !session.
Such at least it understood to be the proposed charges. An
occasional visit of tee Queen is part of the plan.
The county of Westmeath grand jury have adopted
the following petition to parliament:
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That many works of arterial drainage have been cons.
menced in Ireland within the last few years—that from want
of funds, arising pertly from misgovernment and extrava-
gant expenditure on the part of the hoard of WAIS, moot
of them are now inoompl.te, to the great detriment of the
country at large. That your petitioners entreat you to direct
advances to be made to the Lords of the Treasury for the
completion of these most important works, to inch parties as
may wish to finish them under such restrictions as will insure
their speedy, perfect, and economical execution.
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The Tyrone Constitution eve that Mr. Robert
Evans, of Dungannon, the agent of Lord Cast lestuart's
estatcs, contradicts toe statement regarding a general
reduction of rents by his lordship, whicti appeared
in almost all the papers last week. A red-mama
has been made upon some portions of his lordship's
properties, but not in the manner or upon the scale
stated. .

The accounts of preparations for spring cropping
are highly satisfactory; and the sowicg of wheat,
which was necessarily very limited during winter,
owing to the severity of the season, still continues to
be carried on, and will perhaps for some weeks
loner. But the chief attention of the small agricul-
turists is bestowed upon the potato. There is a large
stock in the country available for seed.
The Galway Vindicator states that a lead mine has
been discovered in the neighbourhood of Gort, which
contains a large amount of silver ore.
At the mews now being held in various parts of
the country, there have been during the present week
some convictions for offences of a very serious cha-
racter. In Waterford, on Thursday, two men, named
Downey, were found guilty of the murder of Michael
Hogan, a person who had been sent to the lands cf
Curragaun, in that county, to distrain for arrears of
rent due by a farmer. On Wednesday, at the same
amizes, four men were convicted of having made an
attack on the police barracks of Cappoquin in Septem-
ber last. Daring the trial there were about 50 pikes,
fixed upon ash poles 7 feet long, lying on the table
of the Court-house. These instruments furnished
strong evidence of the intention of the parties under
prosecution. In Limerick, on Thursday, there was a
conviction of two men for • whiteboy offence—an
attack on a dwelling ; and, in the King's County, a
man named John Ryan was convicted of the murder
of Staff-Sergeant Grant, wbo was aesasinated in No-
vember, 1848, whilst on his way to Shiurone, whither
he was proceeding to pay some pensioners.
As yet few remarkable cases have been tried at
these assizes. In Westmeath Mr. William Vise, a
person holding the rank of a gentleman, has been
acquitted of a charge of murder for shooting a man
named Flynn, who was one of a party of men who
lame to take forcible possession of a house. The ease
excited a good deal of interest when the occurrence
took place. Mr. Vise is married to the niece of a
deceased gentleman, Captain Ogle, and was in occu-
pation of the family mansion at Dysart, in virtue of
a will bequeathing the property to his wife, and dis-
inheriting the nephews of the deceased. The latter
came with a numerous party of men to take the house
by force, when Mr. Vise fired and shot one man dead,
wounding another.

PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN ST. PAUL'S CIIVRCII.
YLUD.—A very general feeling prevails throughout the City
in favour of the plan recently proposed in the Court of Com-
mon Council, for the removal of the cumbrous iron railings
round St. Paul's Cathedral. A deputation to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and Demi Mill-
man will be beaded by three of the City members, Sir Duke, Baron Rothschild, and Mr. Mastcrman, and it is con-
fidently expected that the removal will commence early in
the ensuing month.
A FATAL ACCIDENT IN HCNTINO, with the Shrop-
shire hounds, occurred on Tuesday to C. 8. Stoke+, Esq
youngest soa of the Rev. J. C. H. Stokes, of Abbey Fore.
gate, in Shrewsbury. The meet was at Liston Shelf, and
the hounds had found at Preston Hubbele, and were in
hll cry towards Battlefield, when near Preston Gubbals,
oa the offside of a fence, there was a pit ten feet deep, to
avoid which they had to turn on one side, and it is sup-
posed that, instead of doing so, Mr. Stokes' horse rushed
straight over the gap and stumbled into the pool. Mr.
Stokes was then unseated, and was struggling a short time
with his hands and whip above the water, unable to reach
the bank, apparently sinking into the mud, which was very
deep. Peter Beck, Esq., of this town, who bad just passed
the place, on hearing the struggle turned back, and went
into the pool, but the deceased bad disappeared, and Mr.
Beck found himself so fast sinking into the muddy bottom
(immediately getting up to his chin) that he was obliged to
return, which he only did by the assistance of a whip that
was thrown to him. Assistance was obtained, but it was
nearly half an-henr before the body was got out.—Eil .owes's
Journal.

The GAME LAWS.—On Tuesday week, the keeper
to Lord Hardwick', brought a man named Peacock before
the bench of magistrates at Caxton, Cambridgeshire,
charged with snaring a rabbit. Peacock in his defence,
said that the rabbits got into his garden and destroyed all
his green crops, and as they were not reckoned game he
thought he had a right to destroy them. The man was un-
doubtedly right, t very person is justified by law in destroy-
ing rabbits on land in his own occupation, without being
amenable to the iniquitous game laws. The game procrving
Salons who occupy the magisterial seats at Canton thought
different, and committed the man to pri.on—thus
log his family on the parish and the man on the county for
kis maintenance. It is high time for Mr. Bright, or some
other member, to secure the repeal of these atrocious feudal
laws.—Catnbriii,e Advertiser.
BUIIGLARIEs IN EAST SUSSEL—For eeveral weeks
past the inhabitants, both of the turn of Lewes as well as of
the neighbourhood, have suffered considerable fear And ap-
prehension from the uotorious gang of burglars who suc-
ceeded in their nefarious practices at Willingham and at
Lures, being at large Warren w were issued by the Lewes
magistrates for the apprehension of several suspected persons,
and on Thursday the police riceived their orders of pro-
cedure, and before one o'clock at night they had secured live
prisontirs,vit.Gawer,Carey, Riehardsongunnell, and Darby,
and safely lodged them in the Lewes police station. The
men underwent an examination before H. Blackman and U.
Motion'', Elva. us Friday afternoon, at the House of Cot•
reati,,e, and remanded. Several witnesses were examined,
but the laristigatiou was strictly private.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
Bente, Mann 9.—The •aareieers appeieted to sward
ee• Hulked .mar ehip I. the eacouradesent of Lade
literature (tee whisk then were no Las WIGS 42 atealidates),
ens& d to the Vke Ckswealler this shames that they
base Owed lir. Themes Cis) toe. scholar of Trinity Col-
ef The Names el Mr. Robert Edwin Bartlett, scholar
Triaity Cohere, sad Mr. William Brandt, whaler of
Oriel College, Wife she reamed Si ',Prosier Acme."
Outsu COLLSOL—Tbe "mast lir* of Aberfortl, York-
Ake, la the pia ef pelmet sad fallow* of Oriel Case,
it h madenteol adi be Mei up by tbe Rev. Marla Page
Mew, sem ef the make hams aud viisr of Et. tbe
?hats, Oda& TM Rev. Charles Marriott, dee. and fallow
of Oriel, etUl, is is said, be the sew vitae el Bt. Marys.

Par. B. Enna, to lionraiorstaa-1. C., Darboar, din Dar.;
yahoo 1201., with reoillese ; pan., D. as/ C. of Darts's.
P.n. J. 8. Vaughan, la Cabbage C., nasty Ltitidef,
es. Poterborough.

NAVAL.
ADMIRALTY, MAILITE 11.--Arrournmorro.—To Arrogant
—Asonmat-Bargeon T. B. Pumas& BlotAtins—Mastar'•
Assistant T. 11. W. Rewl•th. Zespregisobh—Second blas-
tee W. R. Ramie. Te Greenwich Hospital—Aeristant-
Summon R. Bei&
DETONTOZT, MAINZ 10.—The Philonml, 8, Commander
Forbes, sailed en Shamaley for the Comm of Attics. The
Please 60, Captain Owego Rleiott, was inspected, her crew
and mid edema ea Thunday, sad is Pridey the
sailed for Lithos. The Brio:mart. 0. was as
Yeatesay Lied y
John R, se • pre lio to kat being re
read for John
The eteammessel.
or Drake, having lad her defame mode good, and I
sombred a nip* • seal, west out of harborer yeetinday, and
is eapected forthwith to proceed to Lisboa. The Arethusa,
60, Captain Symonds, will, it is expected, be bawled off from
the dockyard an Monday, and be taken into the Sound
eao seat week.
WooLvrlcn, MAIM 9.—Preparations are being made for
the launch of the Makin, 60 guns, which is now settled to
tam place on Saturday an 11 t, the 16, instant, at high
WO? (3 o'clock). All respectably Mimed perms will be
admitted to the body of the yard, lint only times wko have
duets will be allowed to pre into the shed leader whisk
the mete his been built. The Raskin will immediately
after the hearth be towed to Chatham to be fitted for sea.
bleapra, boa st. troop ship, and the Gay:, at. packet, have
bees docked, the former to be elamined previous to leaviag
for Sheeran% where she is to be fitted ; the latter to have
the defects she outsized by the late casualty made good.
Wagiciesme, et, sloop, will proceed on her experimental trip
is the Nan Chasms' on the 16th inst. The shiperighte,
Le., employed on the Agamemaon, SO guns, have been
ordered to work unlimited home, in cider to frame the ship
by the 311 last.