The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DOMAN. Boxn•Y Noaxixo.
MAYO ELECTION.

At the close of the first day'e poll (Friday evening),
the numbers wen:
Minima (free trader)
Batt (protortioshat) 73
Majority for Minim
At haltpast 1 o'clock yesterday (Saturday), the
numbers were :

lisites - 103
Batt 9l

Majority tee Higgins l2
. At the departure of the mail yesterday, the success
of the liberal candidate was quite certain. His
majority on the day's poll was 10, and the protec-
tionists had not been able to poll more than two men
in the space of a couple of hours. It thus appears
'that the constituency of that vast county is mach
smaller than soy one anticipated. It is not likely
that the poll will be kept open longer than another
day: The excitement wee very great, but no breach
of the pros had token place.
It appear that the proceedings at the nomination
on the preceding day had not terminated until near
seven ecloek, when the High Sheriff adjourned until
next day without calling for a show of hands for any
of the candidates. The speeches bad been going on
from half-pest 10. in the morning, and all parties
were quite exhaustert, Besides the two bonafide candi-
dates Sir Richard Daiwa was nominated, as I men-
tioned yesterday, and ales at a later period, Capt. Hugh
Higgins, and Mr. E. Costello, barrister. It would
seem that the nature of the contest is thoroughly un-
derstood by the people, and that the battle is really
fought between the exterminating landlords and the
tenantry, the ranks of the latter having teen reduced
by the firmer to a state which readers them as little
capable of struggling with effect as they could well
be supposed to be. The Hon. Mr. Cavendish, in his
speech proposing Mr. Orley Higgins;said:
He held In his hand • list of 27 villages which had been
pulled down and destroyed. They once contained happy
homesteads, but now there was not a vestige of them to be
found. (Hear, hear.) He could name a few.of them.
The village of Aughada inset cattail:A alma. 70 houses, but
now no trace of it remained, and the land on which that and
ether villages was built was new employed feeding Lord
Luctsn's bullocks.

The utmost excitement prevails, and the sager of
the people against the exterminatory, cr "crowbar
brigades" as they have been termed, is raised to the,
very highest pitch.
The following cheering intelligence of the potato
crop is given by the Cork Examiner received this
morning :
The accounts which have reached us this day from various
parte of this county, Kerry, and Limerick, are of the most
cheering character, and ere calculated to fill the heart with
gratitude to Aimiabty God. The late rain has been indeed
• blessing from II ; it hay given new vitality to the
potato crop. Potatoes were telling at 10d. the weight of
21 lbs. early on Tuesday In Charleville, and at Od. towards
the does et the day. All our latest communications are filled
with words of hops and congratulation. . . . Since
writing the last paragraph we have authentic accounts from
Kinsale, Bandon, Ccurtaaaherry, and loniskannon, all
'peeking in the most favourable terms of the potato crop.
One gentleman in particular speaks from personal examina-
tion. All the crops are equally. good.
The Freeman of to-day gives an important commu-
nication on this subject, which it prefaces as follows:
We have received the following letter, written by • gen-
tleman of the utmost veracity, at.d wham means of informa-
tion are as perfect, from the nature of his employment and
the frequency of his visits over an extensive agricultural
district, as those of any person who has written on we
character and extent of the supposed bight. We may add
that he has no interest whatever in land, and therefore may
he csoneidered a very unprejudiced authority cn the subj.-et
with which he has made himself familiar, simply from a
desire to ascertain the resent troth, as well al the future
prospects of the peasantry, es to the potato crop
" Killarney, July 24, 1850 —As you may be anxious to
have my opinion of the present condition of the potato crop
through a dietrict of great extent, and which I have recently
and frequently visited, I am glad to be able to say, that up
to the present, I have no cause to apprehend that the disease
will be either general or . I have found, on examina-
tion, one peculiar feature in it this year different from other
seasons—that is, that the blight, so tar as it has appeared, is
almost confined .o the 1 f the early crop nearly ma-
tured, and that the stalk and po titles remain perfectly
sound. lam glad to inform you that the Killaroty market
at present is well supplied with potatoes, much superior to
any offered for sale for some years at this season, and there-
(sae I see no cause of serious alarm,"

A public meeting will be held at the Royal Dublin
Society, on Monday next, to meet Mr. Henry Cole, of
the Executive Committee of the Royal Commission,
appointed by her Majesty for the Exhibition of the
Intgutty of all Nations in 1851, who is in Dublin to
report upon the British exhibition now open in this
city, and CApt. B. Ibboteon, as commissioner, to ex-
plain the advantagesof scientific reunions in general.
A farmer named Michael Walsh has been con-
victed at the Kilkenny assizes for poisoning a bailiff,
Lamed Simon Puwer, who had been placed in care of
his farm. Sentence of death was pronounced.
Richard Shirley, and the other prisoners convicted at
the same assists fur the Burechurch outrage, have
been sentenced to ten years' transportation.

CLERICAL.
PARIMILMENTB.

Rev. R. Hankinson, to Halerworth It , and Che iiston V.,
Suffolk, on the presentation of Elizabeth Rideley, of Hales.
worth aforesaid. widow.

Walpole C., St. Andrew, Norfolk.

VACANCIES.

liodgeeton R value 1051, patron 8:r J. Owen, Dart.: and
Llanetadwell V , value 941., pa'rou L Child, Eq Pena•
brokeabire, dio. Si. David, Rev. T. Owen, tee.
NAVAL

ADMIRALTY, JULY 27. APPOINTMENTS. —To Impreg-
nable : Assistant•Surgatins. P.W.Govet and Samuel Denny.
To Victory : Assistant-Surgeon, T. J. Mcrae.
To Trafalgar: Gunner, Jobe Mavens; Carpenter, E.
Andrew ; Boatswain, Filbert Moultan.
To Thetis: Mee, W. F. Gregory; Midshipman, J. Coles.
POICIRMOUTH, JULY 28 —Tree 'Trincomalee, 26, Cept.
Warren, to hourly expected from the West Indite, !lasing
sailed from Jamaica on the 26th alt.—The Amphitrite,
Car. Macdougall, was paid off at this port on Friday.
Devourers., J VLT 28.—The Albion, 90, Captain W. J.
Hops Johnstone, was towed out of harbour into the 'blind
on Wednesday.—The Greenock, at: haling under-
gone some alterations, was on Thursday taken out fcr a
trial of her engines. She was very deep in the water. Her
machinery is very powesful, and in going out round the
Eddystone and bate, she made an average speed of some-
what more than nine knots to the hour.

commenced brcek-
ing up the old Fame, 74 (formerly Dragon), long used as •
temporary barracks and hospital by the detachment of Rtyal
Marines seta they occupied the fortified barracks. he
Martin, 16-stein tbrig, will be !smutted next month. The
infantry companies of the Royal Dock-Teed Battalion, under
command of Abethel, finished their summer's
drill last night. They went through a variety of evolutions,
preparatory to tho general inspection, is • most satis!actury
manner. The artillery companies finished theirs on the pre-
ceding sight, and executed their evolutions with equal r
ciency. The Castlemertin Yeomanry Cavalry, under the
command of Major Bawling, are to assemble for the usual
permanent duty rest month, at the termination of re loth
service they win be inspected by • field °Moor selected by the
government for that purpose.
WooLwscg, JULY ST.—Princess Alice, rat.-hack, Second
Master E. C. Rutter, arrived yesterday from Dover to have
same defects in her machinery made good, and has been
taken remelt,: bail. et.-y., was taken out of the
basin yesterday into the hatbour, and is nearly ready for
sea. Captains E. St. Ledger end Cannon, and Commander
C. T. Ammo, have been ordered to study at the steam fac-
tory. A paper hu recently been printed fur private circu-
lation from the pen of Captain Halstead, of the steam de-
partment, Somerset-house. It contains tables of the results
given by tho trials of ell the government screw-steamers.
The table gives the, toilettes end hone-power of the %easel
and engine ; her dimensisnr, form, Re.; her indicated
horse-power (the only true bath of comparison), pitch of
screw, number of revolutions, speed, &e., and it would be
well if a similar table were published in reference to paddle-
steamers.