The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

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IRELAND•

DUBLIN, JAW 7.

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The chief iniecLief which the present landlord
movemect in Ireland will effect will be that of dis-
trac.ing the athlition of the agricultural population
from actual tillege work, and paralysing labour.
Much of this mischief has been already done. Men
who are simple enough to be influenced by the argu-
ments of the protectionists must necessarily come to
the conclusion that it is useless to cultivate the land
at all —that the very best crops will not pay the cost
of producing them, even without a shilling of rent
being exacted. There are some people wrong-
headed enough to swallow such absurdities,
and they will, no doubt, very largely swell
the tide of the spring emigration ; forgetting
that if agricultural produce be so mach cheaper in
America than here, that we can be undersold in oar
own markets, and if labour be some five or six times
dearer there than it is here, they cannot benefit much
by the change. However, the evil is effected ; and
with good reason we may attribute much of the lea-
guor which pervades every branch of pxblic industry
here, to the infatuation and the uncertainty created
by the landlord agitation.
It is hoped that the important speech on Irish
matters, delivered by Mr. Bright in Manchester, will
have the effect of rousing the dormant energies of
Irishmen at borne, and of reviving a better and more
hopdal state of public feeling. The Ilvenian's
Journal points out the immense value to Ireland of
each a speech from such an advocate.
The preparations for the aggregate protectionist
demonstration of the 17th are made without any
noise. The requisition has not yet appeared, but we
may expect to see it in the protectionist organs of
this or to-morrow evening. The Evening Packet
mentions some half-dozen further signatures that
have bean added to the protectionist memorial to the
Queen ; amongst others, those of Lord Kinsale, the
Hos. James Maxwell, M.P.,ArchdesoonManneell, &c.
At the Portarliugton meeting, at which the Queen's
County Protectionists assembled, and carried resolu-
tions without interruption, Col. Dunn, M.P , ad-
dressed his constituents at some length on hie parlia-
mentary services.
The registries continue to be sadly neglected, and
will remain so until a large extension of the fran-
chise is made. Even in the county of Loath, one of
the most prosperous parts of Ireland, the Newry Exa-
miner thus describes the state of the constituency:
The present state of the registry for Ma county must be
anything bat satisfactory to the friends of littoral opinions.
At the present Quarter Sessions only one liberal was roes.
tared for the county; while three conservatives had their
! sums placed on the roll of parliamentary voters. Na, is
this a solitary instance of the apathy of the liberal party of
late: they have allowed their political opponents to obtain
m great an ascendancy, as regards numbers, that in the event
of an immediate election a liberal candidate would have little
or no chases of success. _ _

who has already built some fine',
Iron ships—among the rest the Blarney, which hail
been plying between Liverpool and Itottkrdsim—is at
present engsged in building an immense iron vessel
for the New York trade. She will be screw pro-
pelled, and 1,400 tons burden.
During the last week there was a heavy fall of
snow, became hardened by frost, and inter-
rupted the trains on some of the railways. On the
Cork line the Dublin train was unable to proceed
farther than the Blarney station on Friday night.
Yesterday there was a complete thaw, but the frost
this morning is as severe as before.
A man named Ryan has been comm;tted to Nemeth
gaol for the murder of his child, about ten months old.
The remains were discovered on New Year's Day, nearl
Finnoe, by the dogs of some persons who were
amusing themselves hunting.