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

IRELAND.

Dentate, MAT 4.
The annouseement that tithe Viceroy steamer of 800
tons and 350-horse power, Robert Riving, master' is
to sail from Galway to New York, calling at Halifax,
on Saturday June 1," is hailed as opening up a new
era for the west of Ireland, and indeed for the country
generally. Men of all partieserave heard the intelli-
gence with delight, and if the experiment turn out a
successful one, it will be no ordinary triumph of private
enterprise in a quarter when it certainly was least
expected. It must be recol'ected that the waters of
the magnificent Bay of Galway hate never yet been
distarbei by the piddles of a steamer, except when
some government lint paid the coast an occasional
visit chiefly for the purpose of conveying food to the
famine-stricken inhabitants. The Evening Mail
slums favourably from the name of the boat chosen
to make the experiment.
Joy, perhaps, says the Mail, as well as fear, will make
men superstitions; and we are disposed to draw a happ
augury from the very name of the vessel selected, and toy
thick that the Viceroy departing from oar western coast
might have been intended to remind us that we were about
to motive a certain compensation fee the departure of our
English Viceroy and his whole staff, civil, military, and we
trait, politica!, "white, black, and grey, with all their
trumpery," eastward, through the Britannia tube. Felix
fasistsmegue sit omen; and may the yeas distinguished by
the departure of the useless, and the worse than meets,
Viceroy, be the epoch from which our long oppressed and
nearly ruined country will hereafter date the commence-
ment of her independence and prosperity.
The Court of Queen's Bench was yesterday occu-
pied all day in hearing the arguments on the applica-
tion for a mandamus to the Dublin corporation to
eloct a new lord m tyor. The arguments will be re-
seamed this morning.
The new Roman catholic prima'e arrived in Dublin
yesterday, and proceeded at once to the college of
Maynooth.
The Freeman states, on the authority of a Liver-
pool correspondent, that Mr. George Mathews, of
whom so singular a biography appeared in that jour-
nal the other day, was on board the Niagara steamer,
which sailed on Saturday last. The Freeman adds
that another castle clerk has absconded.

On the suhieoi Of Lhe approaching tenant right
conference, the Freeman states :

The prob;bility Is that the conference will not meet before
the end of May, or even the first week of June. This pots'.
ponement beyond the time originally contemplated is neces-
sitated by the prolonged stay of the tenant deputation at
present in London, it being the conviction of all that the con-
ference cannot be held with effect until the deputies return.
In the meantime the preparatory committee will proceed to
perfect the arrangements, to solicit the aid and co•operation
of the influential friends of the tenantry in all parts of the
country, to collect opinions, end to invite counsel from all
capable and willing to theist in this great national project.
The vacancy, says the Evening Mail, which has
occurrel in the custom., by the retirement of Mr.
C. A. Scovell from the secretaryship, has been filled
by the appointment of Mr. W. Maclean to that office.
Mr. Scovell had been nearly forty years in that de-
partment, and the Lords of the Treasury have been
pleased to direct the Commissioners of Customs to
oonvey to him the assurance of the high sense enter-
tained by their lordships of his services.
Yesterday there were several lots of property offered
for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court. In the case of
three of them, being subdivisions of the estate of Mr.
Charles Wright, devisee in trust of Michael Creagh,
and situated in the totem'''. of Cork, the sale was poet-
poned, in consequence of there being either an inade-
quate bidding or no bidding at all. Another lot of
the same property, yielding a profit rent of 251. odd,
was sold for 2601., or about ten years' purchase ; and
the Beer's Bridge mills, in the county of L3llO, which
it was stated formerly brought an annual rent of
1,3001., or without the machinery, of 6001., was
knocked down for 5,5001.

The commissioners' of this ccurt have, as it appears
from some advt rtisemeds of estates to be sold, come
to the resolution of allowing purchasers of property
the option of paying, for the present, only half of the
purchase money, allowing the remainder to stand
over until Sir Jolla It gnilly's bill shell have been dis-
posed of, to give them the advantage of that measure
should it pass into law.
An extensive estate in the county of Donegal, the
property of Mr. Daniel Tod], has been put up for
auction. The estate, whies is situated in the barony
of lnnishowen, and cont tins in the whole, ecaordizg
to the ordnance survey, over 87s acres, producing an
annual rent of 718.. 4s. Od., was subdivided into five

lots for the convenience of purchasers. The first lot
was knocked down to Mr. Henry Cosgrove for 5,000/.,
bring a little better than 22 years purchase at the
present rent.