The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duette, Jews 1.
During the lut seven or eight &ye the weather
has continued at almost the slimmer temperature of
the south of Europe ; and this genial hest following
the copious fall of rain which we had at the close of
the preceding week, has caused a progress in vegeta-
tion which no one remembers to have seen exceeded
within the same space of time. Tee accounts from I
the country state that the growth of the potatoes has
been so luxuriant that the leaves already almost con-
ceal the furrows ; and several fine specimens of
healthy potatoes, excelling any ever seen before so
early in the season, are mentioned in the provincial
papers. The wheat crop, although it suffered a good
deal by the long.continued cold, has regained its
vigour, and the crops in general exhibit a most fa-
vourable appearance.
The Northern Whig mentions a sample of flax,
eighteen inches in length, taken from a field of six
scree; and that valuable crop, although in many
places sowed tuo late, premises well iu other parts of
the country.
While nature, however, is thus blessing the labours
of the agriculturist, the poor tenant-farmer will not'
be a little ala-med at the progress of Lord Lucite's
bill for restoring to the landlords one of the most
fatal engines of the it rapacity—the power to seize
the growing crops. People hero have read with
amazement the statement of his lordship in parlia-
ment, that that power was never abused by the Irish
landlords. It appears scarcely credible that he could
have made such an assertion. or have expected any
one to believe him ; for if there is any griev-
ance better known than another in the his-
tory of the rack-rented tenantry of this country,
it was, one would have thought, the very
circumstance of which Lord Lucan denied the
existence. The practice had, in fact, become quite
common of late years fur the crops to be seized before
saving for arrears of rack-rent ; and while in a
great number of cases great waste and loss took place
from neglect in cutting the crop, in almost every case
it was sold for greatly less than its value, often for
less than half what the poor tenant could have pro-
cured for it in the market town, and thus an act of
the most tyrannical injustice was inflicted on the
grower. Tee expedient of carrying off the crop on
Sunday, to which dishonest tenants had recourse last
season, after the repeal of the old Landlord's Act,
was, before the close of the year, defeated in almost
every instance, and ought not to be pleaded now as
an argument for the restoration of the cruel and most
unjust power which L,rd Lucan seeks to give back to
his own class.

The pilot who took the Viceroy out of Galway
Bay states, that she steamed the first 27 miles, from
the roadstead to the North Sound of Correa, in two
hours ten minutes, and lad than got fairly under
way, with almost a perfect calm. She carries 33
passengers—not 28 as stated—and rather a large
mail.

The matsion of Mrs. Wolsley, at Sandymount, near
Dublin, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night.
The Hibernian Joint-Stock Bank held its half-
yearly meeting yesterday, when the usual dividend
of 5 per cent. on the year was announced.
The insubordination of the paupers in Limerick
continues to give a good deal of trouble there.

SHOCKING CHILD MCRDElL—Yesterday Mr. H.
M. Watley held an inquest at the Lord Hill, NJrth Wharf-
road, Paddington, on view of the body of • child about 18
months old, which was discovered murdered on the (heat
Western Railway. On the 29th of October, 1848, a deal
box, about 14 inches square and 101 Inches deep, sewed up
in a piece of canvass, sad which had the direction on it,
"Mr. Watson, passenger, Exeter, Devon," was found on the
platferm of the Slough station by one et the porters. As no
ease applied for it, after a few weeks it was brought up to
London, and placed in the lust property department. It was
there till Saturday last, the Ist June, that being the 'canal
day when lost property is examined. Mr. Beaty, the super-
intendent of that departing/iv, opened the box, and then
discovered the body of the deceased, which was carefully
folded up In a piece of calico. It had all the appearance of
a mummy, having been evidently pressed down in the box.
A cambric handkerchief was tied tightly round its
throat. There were cuts about the arms and legs,
'bowleg that there had been attempts to sever the limbs
from the body. Mr. Collard, superintendent of police, and
Mr. Seymour, manager to the company, have been &Rear-
ing to discover the pia petrator of the murder, but without
effect.—Dr. Thorn, surgeon, Harrew-road, said that the
body was covered with tisane! clothing. There ware four
teeth in the upper and two teeth in the lower jaws. Over
the shoulder Joint of the right arm he found two deep cuts
elms together, showing that a blundering attempt had been
made to remove the arm at the socket by some one unac-
quainted with anatomical principles. The left arm awl
both thighs had been cut in a similar manner. He was
of opinion that the c'tild was from 18 to 18 months old. Ile
' had not the least doubt bet that death was the result of
strangulation. Verdict, " Wilful murder against some per-
ion or persons unknown," and the coroner directed )lr.
Collard not to rola: his exarti.ms in order to discover the
guilty parties, whisk he promised to do.