The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-17 00:00:00

DUBLIN, Bavvanav lITIXIXO.
A trial deems political interest has occupied the
Court of Common Pleas during yesterday and to-day,
arising out of the proceedings at the protectionist
meting held last year at Longford, when the laud-
lord party, at that time engaged in their most earnest
Montane to stir up the country against free trade,
received ow of the earliest and most decisive defeats
of their campaign. The plaintiff in the case, Mr.
Hugh Morrow, was sab-sheriff of the county, and
acted as lead agent on several estates; and the de-
fendant, the Rev. Mr. WO:lever, parish priest of
Oranard, was the mover, at the meeting in quietism,
clan amendment which called ea the landlords to re-
duce their rents, and which was carried by so over-
whelming a majority, that the chairman, with the
whole passe of landlords, abandoned the meeting.
In assailing the Irish landlord system, the reverend
gentleman slimmed up an appalling series of acts of
cruelty and heartlessaess, which he attributed to land-
lords or their agents, and when called upon to state
by whom those acts were committed, he mentioned
the names of the plaintiff and another person. The'
slander, u stated in the plaintiff's declaration, ran as
follows :

The pelmet meeting wee got up by the landlords far the
pummel having them TIMm raised, for I, of my own know.
lodge, know a number of well conducted bonen tessate in
my own neighbourhood who have been held up to high roan,
sad hive bees compelled to give up their land for the per-
pose of enabling en individual to get it into his emu poen-
mon ; and on. man having six germ was drives Out of his
farm to satisfy the wishes of thb pima, and mother tenant
who to k oompassim on that mu and let bin ,a was sent
to by the agent, and the bailiff told kW that if ha sheltered
him be would be putout hiaseelf, and another meet respect-
able man, althmigh be wore a Mese coat, was galled
upon by the same penosi to give up his farm
at forty-eight hours' nosier, as he wished further to
enlarge his demesne sad make ravel walks, and arm his
asking Whin am I to go,' he wee told,' You hays so
person but your old wife sad yourself, and you may go into
the byre (the sow-haw), bet if you do not give me up the
land I will put you into pcl ear the rent you sow owe me.'
Be then said to the agent Ten came to me three years Imo
demaading posersaion, and my ma, who was then recovering
from a fever, tech a shivering , and yea killed him—and you
are mow going to kill me.' It turned out too true—Andy
Egos was the man. He took to his bed seat day. I at-
tended him in his illness, sad be was dead in one weak—
murdered by that agent, the same midi son masa few swaths
before. Toe mine agent told him that mother son of his
was a ribbonnisa, and he wu the same si kaaiahtag bin
from the c matey. This is the treatment which may ho ex.
pentad urea leadleris sad their agents. I would sot on..
forward to make any statement that was net tree, sad I did
sot state anything but what I knew of my own kaowlado,
and Ilagh Morrow is the person to whom f aikido, and wke
has thus treated them people and murdered as honest man
—Andy Spit.

It was urged for the defence that the language need
by the defendant was, under the circumstances, pri-
vileged ; and that at all events the plaintiff could not I
complain of having suffered damage, as the very
charges made against him would be the strongest
recommendation to his employers, the landlords, who
wished to have strict and severs agents to manage
their properties. The cue did not conclude till a late
hoar this evening, when the jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff, with 3001. damages. Counsel for the
defendant tendered notice of a bill of exceptions taken
to the charge of the learned judge who tried the case
—Mr. Justice Ball.

Crowded tenant-right meetings have been held
within the last few days at Them and Enniscorthy.
The Beating Rut gives the following account of
the state of trade in its weekly commercial article:
Is 0011Ziemial again in Deblis, and in the country gene-
rally, then is still meek lassitude ; the only branches of
*a& in which may degree of activity prevails are those con-
nected with the necessaries of life All others, which deal
in luxuries or in articles not of absolute seventy, are mash
dreemenibed is their operations. For instsace, the hook
NUM, trade neva, perhaps, was more langaid than at this
moment This, however, is the inevitable result of the con-
dition of the country, alter a famine which has exhausted the
responses of those these heretofore amongst the best ens-
Mesas of those traden wbo deal in costly and lexunous
articles. An abundant harvest, however, would be the first
great step towards recovery.
The Orangemen of the Moneymore district assem-
bled last week in the Protestant Hall of their town,
with Mr. William Blair, their district matter, in the
chair, and palest the following sensible resolutions:—
That inasmuch as it seems to be the opinion of many
eminent men—men of every shade is politic—!hat party
processions should be discontinued, and that the law of the
had la inimical to the development and c levying out of the
Orange system, and that in the providence of God, the
causes which called that society into existence are fast
passing away, we deem it to be oar duty, as members of
the State and as christians, to dissolve our connexion with
that sesociation.

That we would humbly tender our advice to the various
lodges, instead of immobile* for pslitical purposes, as here-
tofore, I. establish reading societies throughout the length
and breadth of the land, and devote their money to the di'.
fusion of knowledge, which, in a short time, with the bless.
ing of 0 xi, would raise them to a higher degree is the
male of public °pinks than ever they had attained tender
the " old regime," always r►memberieg that " knowledge is
power."