The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DOllllll4 Mate.. 28.
Ace improvement has takenaos in the weather,
which will be of considerable advantage to the agri-
culturists. The sold has moderated, the night frosts
'become meek lighter that last week, and the earth
has bees moistened by some showers of rain. Tte
work of the owing is carried = throughout the
=miry with unabated diligence, and no account has
yet reached tows of injury caused by the nipping
frosts.
A meeting of the corporation, convened by the Lord
Mayor, will be held to-day, for the purpose of upeti-
timing the Queen and both Howes of Parliament
!sabot the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant"
No day has yet been named for the next aggregate
meeting of the cilium, which it is said will be add
for the same purpose. A requisition is is course of
signature among the members of the Mechtaica' In-
stitute, fora similar meeting.
There has been another public sale of estates by
the Raerumbered Estates Commissioners. The first
estate submitted for sale was that of Mr. N. Tow,
assignee of Mr. Randal Pratt, an insolvent debtor.
The property lies in county Cavan, under the deno-
minations of Mullintra and Limeades, containing
60a. 2r. 12p. plantation measure, equal to 98a. Or. 24p.
statute measure, held ender e lame of lives renewable
for ever, yielding a rent under lease, dated 27th
November, 1830, of 931. 25., or about 309. an acre,
Irish. had rent reserved by lease of the 10th
of August, 1780, was 211. 9s. 3d., and the profit rent
accruing, as heretofore paid, is 711. 12s. 9J. For this
property Mr. B. J. Smith, solicitor for Mr. Robert
Doyne, was declared the purchaser at 1,0751., or at
the rate of 16 years' purchase.
The Court next called upon Mr. B. W. Flanagan,
the secretary, to submit the estate of Mr. John
114.Lrrughlln, of Cerruti, and of Mr. I)innioick John
VLacgblio, of the Lodge, in the island of Achill,
both =nate in the county of Mayo, to public sale.
These properties comprise eight lot., containing in the
aggregate 12,733 a. lr. 36p., the yearly rent of which
is set down in the rental at 1,4771.185. lid., but there
are a great many Interesting circumstances, local and
otherwise, connected with the property.
a The t lot, No. 1, Currant, wu to bear and pay
the whole of the head rent, 1921. 18s. bid., and tho
rent charge 81. 129. Tile gross amount of the until
was 6011. 109. bid. The total area of this lot was
7,878 a. 2r. 6p. statute measure, but of this there was
abint 7,620 acres untenanted, and only about
234 acres were actually tenanted at present. The
bidding for this was between Mr. Peter *Loughlin
and Mr. Peter Hallery, and it was knocked down to
Peter *Loughlin for 6001.
The next lot, No. 2, Toolegee Eist. and Poll, con-
taining 21 acres, tenanted at a rent of 241. 145., and
741 acres untenanted, at a letting rent of 511. 169.,
this was a'so bcnght by Mr. Peter M'Loughlin
for 4001.

Lot No. 3, Tonlegee West and Shrushanbee, con-
taining 29 acres tenanted, at a rent of 191. a year, and
637 acres untenanted, at a letting rent of 671. 10s.,
and for this lot also Mr. P. M'Lougblin was declared
the purchaser at 4001.
For lots No. 5,6, and 7 there was no bidding, and
sale of them was adjourned to the 23rd April.
For lot No. 8, a bleachyard, let to Sir It. O'Donnell,
Bart., and others, containing 17 acres and 2 perches,
at a yearly rent of 131. 17e. 61—for this there was
a spirited competition between the tenant in posses-
sion and Mr. Peter M‘Loughlin. Mr. Dillon was,
however, declared pare seer in treat Lr the tenant
in possession at 3001.
Lot No. 4 was a number of houses and tenements
in and about the town of Newtownpratt, let at a yearly
rent of 531. 4-., and nine acres of land untenanted, at
a letting rent of 2(1., and for this, after a short com-
petition between Mr. Peter M'Loughlin and Mr.
Isidore Blake, the latter was declared the purchaser
fur 6001.

There is also a general feeling in Dublin that suf-
ficient publicity is not given to the intebried sales, the
advertisements of them being almost exclusively con-
fiord to a weekly sheet circulated gratuitously, but
which, as it contsins no news, is scarcely ever looked
into. It is remarked that comparately very few per-
sons knew enythi.,g of the sale which wss to come eff
yesterday, and that it received no publicity whatever
in England. The commissioners will have to look to
this matter.
The Encumbered Estates Commissioners dismissed
two r etitiobs for sales yesterday. One was a petition
presented for the sale of the power which the owner
had to charge the estate with the sum of 5001., a d it
was contended, on the part of the petitioner that the
sheriff could take the power under execution. The cc m-
misaioners, however, decided that it woe real pro-
pertyonly, and not mere money charges or obligations
which, according to the intention of the act, could be
subject to their judgments. The other petition was
one to obtain the sale of an estate in th. county of
Louth to pay off the arrears of a rent-charge, but the
chief commissioner decided that in such cases the
proper course war to have a receiver appointed under
the Court of Chancery, as the Encumbered Erste,
Coart could not sell a property fur the payment of a
rent-charge.
An interesting military spectacle was witnessed
yesterday in the Pt team Park, Prince George of
Cambridge having presented new colours on this occa-
sion to the 55th regiment. The day was a brilliant
nee, and the parade took place near the Viceregal
Lodge, to which the court had removed fir the season
on the preceding day. The ceremony of consecra-
tion was performed by the Rev. C. Hurt, chaplain of
the garrison, and his Royal Highness subsequently
addressed the colonel, officers, non-commissioned
officers, and privates. He commenced by recountirg
their services in almost every part of the habitable
globe, especially in Chins. He passed the h'gheat
encomiums upon the regiment, and concluded by ad-
dressing himself particularly to Lieut.-Colonel War-
ren, and observing that should he (H R.H.) ever be
called upon to command a portion of the British Remy
in any part of the world, where bravery and skill
were required, he knew no regiment he would spacer
' lead into action than the 55th, headed by their gal-
lant colonel.

At the meeting of the Dublin Sanitary Association
yesterday the following letter from Sir W. S enter-
elite, on the subject of a Health of Towns B:11 for
Ireland was read :
Irish Office, londoo, March 21.
Gentlemen,— I have the honour to ackoowled4e the re.
ceipt of your letter of the 12th instant, and I beg to acquaint
you, for the information of the DeWitt S &nicely Attoeittion,
that I shall we every exerioa in my power in or.!er to
Carry through oarliammt a measure for promoting the
public health in Ireland dneng the present ssss have
the honour to be, &a, WY Somaaviihs.
To the Secretaries of the Sanitary Association.
Some intereetiog particulars relative to the new
silver mines worked in the vicinity of Gort, in the
county of Galway, are given in the Advocate. The
miner, which are now the property of Mr. Bickford
Collett., were discovered accidentally by a poor man
about five years ago, but attracted no attention at
VA, time. The ore is obtained in some places close to
the surface, but four or five openings have been made
in the rock, and two or three shafts surk, to trace the
direction of the veins, and extend the field of opera-
tions.

The Tipperary assizes, both for the North and the
South Ridings, have proved maiden, there beit,g no
capital conviction at either.
la Cork, a man named Matthew Lehane lies un-
der sentence of death for sacrilege. He was convicted
the same day in both a protestant church and a Rl-
man catholic chapel ; and as the act reducing the pro-
malty for such offenosa to transportation does not re-
pe.,l the 9.h Geo. IV., it was understood that it would
be necessary formally to record the sentence of death
against Lim.
The Dotomparkk .R porter gives the following
particulars of a fatal case of agrarian incendiarism,
which occurred on Thisedav night last at Grange-
calm, within three mih s of Dowapatrick

It appears that ore Fdapstriek, who held • farm at Quo-
Matestown, a short distance front where the above outran*
took place, lately beams insolvent and, at the instance of
his landlord, wee refused to be discharged by the Insvlnut
Commissiostr unless he gave up his poweesion of his lam,
which with some reisatatios he consented to do, getting rr
missies to remain in the home until the let of April ensuing.
Fila,ostrick's landlord gave the farm to • person mused
Kearney, who 0•MISII, need operations on it on Wednesday
I.Bt ; a bro.lin o. Kenny's, and owner of the house
now partiely burned, sent • plough and pair of horses
to are: his brother on the new farm This, it
appears, was the first plough which entered upon
toe land, and, on the sword night after, the house of
the owner of this plough was visitad by some person or per-
sona, and me wise of it sot finto—the perpetrators of the
cutter supposing that Kearney and his lima, bad slept in
that wind, which was not the case ; but, unfintuntely, his
mother nolaw, • very old woman, named 11.11boan, and •
servant-maid did sleep la that apartment, and about lon
Vele* la the noising the Innate of as other apartments