The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dents, Tan. 12.
the ceremony of opening the Commission of Oyer
and 'To miner yeateeday was distirguished from °Mi-
ner; ch.c.sions of the krd by the c.rcumstance of Mr.
Reynolds' attending, wi h great civic pomp, to twist
in opening the court se Lord Mayor. The presiding
judger wore Baron Pennefether and Mr. Justice Tcr-
rens. The former learned judge warmly shook hands
with Mr. Reynolds, ard both judges subsequeutly
entered into ornversation with him, and rose and
bowed him oat when be was leaving court. They took
p&ne, indeed, to show that they differed in opinion
from Meters. Walker and Weeded, of the corpora-
tion, Ls tot a decree of clef, ref os which was to be
pad to the hon. gentlenice %Lila continuing to occupy
the seat of Lord Mayor.
The following very extraordinary correspondence
has been islet for pubFerrion to the Tipperary Free
Pr.ss by the Hun. C cil Lisle's, member fur C on-
es. L It the fist letter b genuine, and there is no
moos hrs:des its singular character to lead to say
doubt &brut it, it ciiecloore one of the most batufcced
satemute to bribe a member of parliament that have
beau hoed •if for some time:

Cimm• 1, 26 b January. 11130.—Acia. Bir--Ar oars of your
enostitunve, e-. sit la .1 • r. quint yourkiad attention to the
lo!lowiani-1 bees ben i an woe !TIMM here fer the put
maid ylwe, wick buia.sa I am 4W.e. d to relinquish, is
eon.-vi arse ul the very pi". ran nee ot the time, lad the
total erratioa 4 few Inn. upon ell month,. of industry (e.
Ikea sous'''.ide rut a main, shut thin poise years axe. aand *M. qto fig fll the du•ke of mat
at wtu,se b.nsi, a tr,k vet e..k is both, and mot 'wipe obis
to anew. it to may pratitat.is areciant at Fraud. I thus
roost rt •yo Way sal ..e.n.fideati)" sok it yout bind iota-
. aro is tf. your qien• to chola tut me sores sleowat
uueurrasekt (however at kamhie), let which
(mill. I pubis 5)541 to Mad the friend the sum of 30(4,
tn. t..ll'llut 1 get the oppthiment. I drift bend Id., mud
.u,. hose nn orinetios to sowetr., sad
•ould prefer England. 1 us well aware bow math I iek
1.,, ; loot let tko lomat 'ls f .vutpaole or wbarwise. tai moral
tepee this •4e ► *boll •VIII he •he wiwr of it, se tar au I.m,
or b • tioneerned. Bnould pm be so good a. .o graot
this r- ito.4t, I would wait upon you at any time or place
1 41 t i..b prop. C; it would be the prudiat and inwtda,crtct
t yes -or ...Add have no obivetion to meet logs friend in
'Arica or i.ssirberrr. lon ors•and all the coil situation
••• •twe orpsitiron,, h-Anns tem d as aerjeasr-la.jor
of Annliry upon ti a 1.1 led of B'. na for Ivo years;
and li.cc.hing your " eonfidenoe" uses again. awl begging
year kind lads gears for tl i trouble—l subsorl'e stystlf,
botiosoini• It, your ob..i,nt and Teti b amble servant,
JAMIE/ Na'.
Ito& (sell Lawler, M.P., at, AL

A reply in duo souse, if yea piers, as I iatead to try
olsowbere.—Address, James Ryas, membeat,
Glasdorr, BIM Carberry, Feb. 1, 1550.—Arc,—Tear
letter. of Jaaa.ry 25th, having bees dimmed to Dabliabas
may aft me. I regret this, es 'Mould base sighed
you to have ,excited my amine us sees us pemlble, is order
that you miplit be at 'Marty is mobs you offer "inshore,
as yea say yea Snead &dog ; sad I should feel Allis* Irr
ear Weenie, met with what mow pas try ebovilien. 1
have be.. more Asa ones dirguseadi by seam our members
traekliv the present gmenuneat, who ham worked more
sissitief 10 Ireland thou say of out humor stirs dale the
terrible sales ; but yet, air, I will sot believe that you are
likely to snowed better with sat rte of diem. At all mate,
es I as about to psblish thou oorresposdeses. I doubt
whether the bleakest sheep of the A telt will basteourags to
peomote your interest for area double the bribe you offer
me. 1 think it lam be just possible that your obMst was
to try me is order that you might "rocas meshoold 1
fail, sad so you might muss so Iniquitous a member to
be removed from use representation. It you had say
ask virtaoss, though to me ant &Wring, AMA la
view, you era mow ',plain ft throsgh the same medium that
publish year offer and my maser. You may, perhaps,
suppose that your astute that youadiresed yourself te am in
.satidene• ought at Nast to pretreat my disclosing, the matter'
bet as I never Mirka so insulting • piece of saddens,l
amide" myseff fres mid even ballad to publish it as it may
cave as a wanting to others who, like you, would have fres
trade sot is eons, but is masseionm. I am proud to my
that MN miming is as required by say other of my raw
sitarists. This is the int time that I ham boos requested
to all myself Wind I must admit the prim was bandsous).
slam I bad the bosom to be their reprsaaetative; sod if I
believed that my three of them Gould have advised you to
the step you have take, I should tomorrow request then
to look for a member with whom they might make their
baraties. Is this matter I am neither your faithful for
obedient servant, Cow. Lammas.
Mr. James Ryan, merehaat, CloasaaL

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Mr. John O'Connell stated yesterday, at theweekly
meeting in Conciliation-ball, that Ryan had written a
similar letter to him, which he (Mr. O'C.) forwarded
to the Attorney General.
Sir Robert Gore Booth has issued his address to
the electors of Sligo, in anticipation of the resignation
of Mr. Ffolliott. Has principles are, he says,
" national, as regards Ireland, and conservative as
regards the United Kingdom." This is the new
political creed of the Irish Weiss, the "nationality"
being a very recent addition, which the public, will
not yet give them credit for.
The minutes of evidence taken at inquests on the
victims of starvation in same of the western and
southwestern unions of Ireland, still disclose scenes
wor.hy of the worst period of the famine. At an in-
quest held on the 30th ult., at Knockbreck, in the
Kilrush Union, on the body of Michael Cloncy, the
daughter of the deceased, stated in her evidence:
Treat he had five in family, and himself and his wife ;
they were petting two stone of meal a work ; they used not
to get it regularly; they only got one stone foe the whole
family on laic Thursday ; they had nothing else to enbskt on
since, except they got somethicg from the neighbours.
While the stone of meal held they tat two mesh a day, but
had not enough in each meal. All the meal was eaten ea
Saturday night; they had nothing since bet • teacup of meal
and a few heads of cabbage which witness got from the
neichboare ; witness's thceasel father partook of his portion
of the teacup of meal and the cabbage; he had not enough;
be would have eaten more if he got it. He died on Monday,
about 12 o'clock. He drank the cabbage water on Sunday
evening, as he had not enough in the cabbage. Dmeased
had no complaint ; he was as well the day before he died as
ea was for some time. He was wink from hunger. If be
had enough to eat he would not have died 23 soon. The
family have notline to live on today. Looking for the
meal is what caused her mother's absence that day.

And Bridget Butane, sister-in-:aw to the deceased,
deposed that :
Miebl. Clancy lived with witness for about two months,
until he left about seven or eight days ago. He was br..ugbt
b:ek to her house the day he died. as his own but was too
small, and it was almost impossible for any person to get
into it, it was so low. He had to creep in and out of it him-
self. Hs was gottirg two stone of meal for himself and
family weekly. He did not get his meal regularly sine:
about tea days before Christmas, until the woad last
supply; and the last supply was only hall the complement.
He and his family were for tweve days trusting to four
pounds of meal. Deceased was &limos when he tame to
live with her, but he toad her it was want of food canoed his
ill health. They hat not enough of meal atany time. They
were ifays on one meal, and were frequently for three days
tithout meal at all, having only a few turnips which merely
kept the breath in them.
The verdict wan of course " died from starvation ;"
but these things surely do not take place, in the
midst of abundance, in any other part of the world.
A correspondent of Limerick and Clare Examiner
writing front Newcastle West, mentions the following
horrifying fact :
The body of unfortunate John Harnett, on whom the in-
quest was lately held, wee on yesterday dragged from his
grave by dop, and wu devoured by them.