The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

IitELAND.

Dams, Aran. B.
The misgivings of the public oa the subject of reir
Jobs Ranilly's Irish Lund Debenture Bill, as it has
been termed, are rstuarnick and pedant turns,
clinking men a degree of assist, psipirtiessd to the
importance of the @ablest. The Avistals'e Journal,
which bas recently laboured to *meths masers in a
Womble light beton its rssi says, in the im-
primis:a of this mosaies:
We are sot without serious aleyeshenalens still ea to the
ant of this meneure. We sales* 111/184 Its effect is
madam a fever of laid
speed their espial ever t=lhabrilhandlitittill irsise;rnallit
of Wrly severing, is the expastaikia of bait* abbe, seer
bow or other, to make mall the I aslant. and
interest m they come due, andel taw begonia, the ulti-
mate owans of at 'wet of fends* estate, mon sommea-
ear•to with their fired imagiandem them with their sober
mesas of paying for it. Whas the semen ler repay-
ment caws read, the "flush" will be all over—the tide
will ban gas eat The maids. seserkies, which had proved
so estrassive la the mean sad hid alreulated as mosey,
will be ma setiegelehed sad reldekswa as it is paid off.
Then will les se esker Owe to repass thee, far the thing is
to be due (sly fee ewes. The saint will be alf the
Beak of hiked, basin essuraged borrowing, by issuing
vast 11211 Selie of sena, gradually withdrew all Niue
SOW hem eirealaties, sad its creditor., who had bees
tadued te trade at prime imitated by the haus, ware
regbed pay bank OW/ borrowings,
writrelipeises halo makto WWI the wltheliswal of meiNt,
sad what the emerilee of all the property that they had
wiping wield sot seam sas Winer cue quarter et what
they had bees bugged belay ant In the punkin of it. The
natant palm al hod umber Ma trade is not known yet;
and whoa ass use plosed if poomion of twice es mush
mealy ee they eres—their Menem befog, every sae of ,
them, Is the same plums pediment, sad the world
arced them all glowing with the rees-caloared hue Im-
parted by this bright but transient esnburst—they will be
very apt to bid for yenta, rather aireordiag to their old ideas
of the value of land, than nearing to the standard of vats
to whisk recent events have reduced it, sad beyond which
no efforts of their's eaa hereafter rahe its pradootiveneee or
form It to yield both the sums that, is an iatatuated
nay lave borrowed, to sequin Is.
At the urns time the Frogman publishes a letter
from an English member of parliament, whose name
is not metattoced, but who expresses himself most
salient to remove what he &ems the mistaken views
entertained of the measure in Ireland upon its first
announcement. He says:
I write is haste, to nonm my opinion that the object of
the bill must hen been wholly misunderstood, once it is pre-
cisely the tonne of whet le then Mated. The tact is, that
Eagliakura an by so means inclined to vest their espial in
the purchase of Irish land, from their *mans of what is
going ea there, aced their fears of poor-rater, agrarian crimes,
etc. And this meanie is Intended rather to noble Irish-
men, who are better ecguait.ted with their own country, and
not afraid to fin the risks of a purchase of its leads, to bor-
row English stony win which to effect the purchase, to the
extent of at least ball the purchase money, on thinnest pm
'ibis term. Thiel believe would be the certain oyerat ins of the
measure, and on this amount I support it. Indeed without
it I very suite fear the proposed transfer of lands under the
Eacamoerie I Betides Act will soon coma to a dead lock for
want of purchasers able to purchase.
And he adds :

The plan, as 1 think you mast know, was suggested from
Duolin, sot from London. It was then proposed, and it ia
now proposed by government expressly, with a view to faci-
litate the purchase of these mum is small portions by the
actual tenants, or, at least, by Irishmen best acquainted
with their teal value and capabiliti s, sad best able to deve-
lop these, but not possmaing capital enough to make the
maltose unassisted, and to go ea improving the land after-
wards. You know I look to this process as the almost ot.ly
hops apeman for Ireland, sod it I. with theatres, movic.
tion that this will be advised materially by the Solicitor-
General's bill that I support it.
Mr. Vincent Scully, Q.C., has, in letters to the
Evening Pose, been making some valuable suggestions
with respect to this measure. He apprehends that
British capitalists will not be found to advance
money even oa the security of the land debentures •
and he suggests that inetead dunking it compulsory
on the purchaser to find a person to advance the
money required, the commissioners should be em-
powered to secure the advance, and to take debentures
on the land in part payment of the parches.. It will
be difficult, he observes, to find a capitalist ready to
undertake the advance of money to a par:iculu per-
son who intends to lend, merely on the hypothetical
condition that the land wi!l be knocked down to that
person. Mr. Scully also proposes that all debentures
shall be for sums of 1001. each, the principal to be
paid off by fixed instalments of four or live per cent
Oo the whole the measure is one which naturally
absorbs a groat deal of attention at present in
Ireland.

All the preparations foe the great meetirg of the
citizens to be held in the 'Nand& to-day, to petition
against the abolition of the viceroyalty, are com-
plete, and the friends of the movement promise them-
selves a most successful demonstration on the occasion.

Mr. Grey Porter has addressed a letter to the
editor of the Freeman, advocating an amalgamation
of the railways in the north of Ireland. This subject
has been frequently mooted, :and the greater success
of railways among the poorer ani less commercial
districts of the south is attributed to the circumstance
that the great lines in the south are owned by a
sieglo company, *Lila is the north they are appor-
tioned out to several.

The illness of Mr. Serpent O'Brien in Cork is
stated to have usnmed a favourable turn.

A repeeve his been received from the earth of
Dublin, by Captain Henry Bolton, high sheriff of this
city, to stay the execution of the two men named
Dowling, convicted at last mixes of the mardsr of a
bailiff named Hogan, near Clones. It is expected
that a commutation of the sentence to transportation

for life will immediately follow.

DRAMA.

DRURY-LANZ.

The Puling Cloud,* which wu produced last
night at Drury-lane, by no means deserves its title.
It has too much merit to be so ephemeral, and yet it
is long—its chief fault But it contains very many
scenes of very powerful interest, right well acted
by the Vandenhuffs, Mr. and Misr, by Cooper, and
especially by Anderson.
A Hanse Towns merchant had once lren settled at
Lfthorn, where his brother, also in business, was
en dad into fraudulent ads, far which he was con-
demned to the galleys. The merchant left Leghorn
in consequence, and is represented as first mutstrate
in one of the towns belonging to Hamburg. He has
brought with him, and reared as his own, the daughter
of his unfortunate brother. Whilst he is about to
affiance this girl to a worthy lover, the chief of a band
of ruffians from Leghorn gets introdooed as his guest,
and showing proafe of the condemnation of one of the
merchants, terrifies the young girl into accepting him
as a husband in lieu of her betrothed. At the same
time, however, the girl's father having escaped from
the galleys, also appears on the scene, attracted by
the desire to behold his daughter. This character is
acted by Mr. Anderson, and the position leads, as we
observed, to very striking mous. Of curse the
villain is exposed just at the very point of complete
nooses; and this very serious melodrama, of which
the light parts are the least successful, terminates.

CONSECRATION OP ANRWFRoRcis.—Ths new church
of BL James, in tits perish of Edmonton, waa consecrated
yesterday by the Idird Bishop of London, in the presence of
a large numbir ot this gentry and clergy resident in the
sarreunding district.

Ohnixiiion —Tee following pollen'sn was ordaised
Domes at Archbishop Tenison's chapel, Regent-street, on
Beady law, by the Bishop of Rochester:—J. H. Smart,
Queens', Carob. • W. S. Davy, Lincoln, Oxon • A. Dodds.,
St. John's, Cash.; B L. Watson, Unity, Dahin ; W. 8.
Hemming. Chrlz'o, Garb.; J. T. Waiters, Bt. Jolla'.,
Carob.; T. Bruno's', Panto., Ozon : W. Butcher, Sidney
Baru, Cub.