The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Doixne, Nov. 29.
Ireland is not likely to escape soot free from the
religious excitement of the day, notwithstanding the
hopes and wishes of many to the contrary. It now
appears that some attempt will be made to get op
titn, meetings, for tte purpose of protesting against
the introdeotion of legislative measures, to deprive the
English Rama who** of any of the privilm
wsthlheil enjoy aster Ilpsividom Act.
ost memo tti.aiiw it el such measure.,
mly go to prevent the new Roman catholic
bishops from seaming the titles of dioceses in Eng.
land, obs-rving that such restrictions have existed in
Ireland without any effect. The Freeman's Journal

says :
Difference of country is in this case no difference. The
catholics of England are c ,enparatively weak, and surrounded
by a moat bitter and hostile agglomeratbn of sectaries, and
though on former occasions we Old not receive that co-opera-
tion and support which we had • right to expect from that
quaver, yet when catholic ire. done is in danger, and a
catholic can scarcely stand up at a public meeting in Eng-
,
lead withost *lenders on his ri Helmand scoff, at its -tyre ate
head, it is time to stand up boldly and ratify a mutual al:i.
awe for mutual defence and prof: ction. What protestant
could object to ouch a proposition ? No attack is intended
or magseeted oat his religion or his rights; on the
other hand, the object is one which should chaV
lenge all his support and admiration if he be, as he boasts
to be. "the fitted of civil and religious linerty." The
catholic+ of Ireland should meet in their respective counties
and addrise the (a 15611 to maintain the charter of their
rights inviolate. No hieg more is required t: an t. is sim-
ple and necessary declaration of opinion, and we have the
fullest confidence in their prudence to Wain from every
topic except the env which iseiniedieely demands the re-
monstianoe. The c •unty of Mayo, headed by its repre-
sentatives, has determined to meet at an early period.
Other catholic count.*. sly u d at once follow, so that the
ur.aoimous sok* of catholic Ireland should find fall expres-
sion before the meeting of perilous:woe.

On the other hand, Sirtuntlrr's Nears Letter says:
We have rood authority I.ir stiVirß that thee:trey of this
diocese are by no means it.d,ll.r.rit or supine on the all-
eagroa•iog subject or the ini.ult olfer*d to the crown and
the church, and that in a lew days this will be made very
apparent.
The presbyterians of the north are determined to
keep aloof from the movement; and their organ, the
/Mann. if Mater, impresses that course on its readers
in each publication, observing that the qmstiou is a
purely urtlatie one between both parties.
Mr. Benjamin Lee Guineas has consented, at the
request of 33 members of the new corporation, to till
the office of L'rd Mayor fir the ensuing year, and
Mr. Reynold/ has withdrawn his pretensions to the
office.

The Kitty's County Chronicle says—
It is said thet the Hon. Dev.d Plunk. t, whose health has
been toe some time in an unsatistactery state, is about to
re:iniaiii‘h the offire which he has held for upward. 01 to enty
year., as Prothonotar_y of the Common l'iess, and to retire
oh the lull 'shay. The ii.evine i. leititi& a p ar, rad the
patronage is now is the crown. When Mr. Plunket °Trained
the deice it was hestowed upon him by his lather, then
Chief Ju,ties of tee Common l'.eas.

The Marquis of Waterford has itwued an addrew to
the tenantry on his Ulster estates, to which he an-
nounces reductions of rent, which it is calculated
will amount, on the whole, to 2,00 W. His lordship
lays:

same time ago, ordered • Manioc to be made to
all form tenants on paying di. it yearly rent, duo lot N
1t49, before • given day. 1 now find that you are in • worse
position than 1 had imagined. I have, therefore, peon di.
tedious that • larger redeems should he made on the rent
due Nov. lot, 1419, it paid before the lot of J4rtie,y, 11451,
on the following scale: lot. To tinatte holding obi teem*
previous to 140, the land being let below its value
reduction, except in partimilsr came, will be given. 2. To
tenants holding leases made since 1401 to the grew sit time,
2.. in the pound will be allowed on ma year's rent. 3. To
. .

tenae.ta at will holding land at a moil: rite rent, 3t. in the
pound will be allowed. 4. To tenants at will, holding land
at full value, 4a is the pound will he allowed.
the Waterford 31ail mention; the following cans
of reduction of rents:—
si.nanthr W. Lime EN., of Cork, le the month of June
last, purchased the Lends el Ardolehasty, near Ardmore. in
the county at Wstertold, in the Encumbered Estates Court.
The land. were let in the year 1838, under lease to one
tenant, for 2.5.1 f. a year, and Mr. Law. having lately walked
over the form, cospiclem d the rent too high, and, unsol cited,
' related it to 1461. 13e 4d., b ing a reduction of 331 per
met., and offereo a lean. at this reduced rent, mime he
wished vi live aid let live—that he would not require nark
rents. The tenant, however, &dined taking a new lease,
preferring to be a yearly tenant, Stades the times may not
improve. Thome. St. John Oraot, EN., of Edmore), has
creen a reduction of 7s. In the pound on his radii to his
tenants in the counties of Weirdo:4 and Cork.

A long and melancholy estalNue of outrages
arising Ir• m the relations of landlord and tenant in
Ireland appears, however, in the roviicial papers.
The followtog arr some items from the black list :

MIAWEIL —Wit have just l-arned from a correspondent,
that on Monday night Qat • moat atrocious murder was tom-
twitted at Co isith, an the Queen's County, between Cadens
town and Clenselee, on the borders of this runty. The
unfornanste victim was a luau named John Hottu., who was
Mad band( of a Mr. Layne. Teo pour man press r.ttel an
aortal spretae:e, hie bead baring b•-en severed from his teed,
by a reaping-11..4. An mgr..% was held yesterday, when
• verdict of +Mal murder was retenteti against persons
unknown. George Fitimsurice, Esg ,it M who hm been
sent tonsporerily to Fraaktord, attended the ingots*, and
owing to his virdhasca and activity a great number of
persons have been apprehended, and but little, II acy,
donSt tilts that the perpetrators will be made amenable.
—A119.8 Co. CArmait te.
01:TilitOE —Abell{ the hoar of tins o'elock on Friday
sight an armed par.y, camieting of over titters men, so I,
armed, attacked the hone of a man sowed John atria,
careodr r on the lands of Rspla and Bouth Hill, in Tipp*.
rnry, the pretperty of Mr. Vincent, of Dublin. The mama
dory had been lying In wait ter a !maid who bad been placid
in care of corn seized lug rent no Ilia farm of ono of Mr.

Vir:cef;tc tenrnte, ;awe- .i ]loon. _The door wu opened for
theta by Martin's wve, whom the first of the ruffians cruet
with his gun on the head sucti-i-bloW that the poor woman
VAS stunned and felled to the sant. Some of the p.m
rushed as, and .eiz.ng the Won:loos bsiliff, beat him sith
the buns of their puns sad with spade hanales in a most bru-
tal naann.r, civting his head, and itfi.cting many severe
bruises on various p-rs of the body. Toey even beat the
children, and the womno on ',covering from the swoon into
she bad beau thrown by the tint ruffian's blow, was
swain laid told cf, tor did her cries that she was pregnant,
save bur It. m a repetition of blows, the ruffians enclaimii g,
We wili sot spare woman with child, or a chill in the
cradle."

SUSPECTED Mt'IDER AT ATWORTII, WILTS.—On
Thursday morning, ma a man in the employ of Mr.
Mr. Samuel Poulson, of A•worts, Wilts, was catch t g moles
in a field belong:lst to his master, he discoyari d the dead
body of a man lying in adi eh. 114111:,Dal b i •,z t rocur.d
it was discovered to be that ot a y. ding man named Wakeley,
who tad been ml ind i,r several days The cece set was
taken •n Ilse New lr.n, A•worth, and on commit ation it was
found bat be way shot 'trough the teat, and also lid his
jaw broken, sad one of bm eyes knocked out. These in-
jerks loads it but too apparent that a horrible n'urder had
been perpetrated, ao I the semi t toes of the constabulary was
called in. Wekely, it app, are bad the eharaet- rot being a
pa ,ear, and stupid In fell upon a gala, keeper in :h- whit-
boarhood, with whom ne has long been on ill Pima, and
who was iramedia•ely &odes's. no. d.