The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

IRia. A ND.

In the Court of DI7ILIN. JAN. 14.
Queen's Bench on ti aturday the
Attorney-General appeared on behalf of the new Lord
Mayor, Mr. Reynolds, to show cause why the con-
ditional order obtained last term, to remove his name
fr im the burgess-roll, should not be made absolute.
The case had not concluded when the court rose.
A remarkable brochure on the Irish Poor Law
System, by Mr. Vine nt Scully, Q.C., is promised
immediately by the Evening Post.
It would appear that the promoters of the address
to Lord Roden are @till beating up for signatures,
probably to make a show when they publish the list
one of them days, the address having actually been
presented several weeks ago. The following is Lord
DunFannon's reply to the application recently made
to hun on the subject. _ . _

Brynkinalt, Jan. 6, 1850.
Sir, lam h d with the receipt of your letter of the
Slit of December, requesting me to authorise you to append
my name te the address to Lord Roden, on his recent dis-
missal Irom the magistracy by her Maj, sty's ',venom:aut. I
consider it but fair end honest to state, in reply, me grounds
upon which I feel compelled to decline, though with real
sorrow and much reluctance, appending my name to the ad-
dress in question. Au regards Lard Roden, I can only repeat,
what has been, throughout, my sincere opinion, that, t,warda
that excellent and highly-to-be.valued nobleman, a very
harsh, unjust, and uncalled for proceeding has born adopted,
So far as he was personally concerned, I was ready to ex-
prow, in the strongest manner, my sympathy and respect as
an Orangeman, a sincere preostent, a neighbouring land-
owner and a brother magistrate; but ere affixing my name
to such a document u the one transmitted to nee, I em
bound carefuily to weigh and consid, r, no: only every senti-
ment it may contain, but, also, every principle it may in-
volve. I regret to be obliged to declare, ta•r• are one
or two points in the address to which I eon never sub
scribe. I cannot admit • right inh-rent in the crown
to distal.* at pleasure its servant., being in any manner,
direct or indirect, questioned. It i% true tlat the advisers
of the crown may some inns, se I conceive they have
done in the present instance, reoamaend the exercise of
that prerogative in an arnitrary manner; but one, two,
or more such cues occurring, are by no means sufficient
to cell in question a very essential enu important power,
as regards not alone the security of the government, but
likewise the well-being and bee interests, in a found sense,
ef the communi'y. %Wen, therefore, it is contend. d, as it
seems to be in the proposed eddrews, that it is unjust to visit
upon any individual filing a public and reepoineble office,
provided hi, intenti ne are honest and coseriectious, the evil
consequences &tieing from error in lu lgme,t, I cannot but
conaidtr that, cos only i. the right et the crown to &soli.s its
servants thus called in triesti in, but a pi inciple is laid down
equally dangerous as opa ..is precedcie, cud mi•chtevous in
practice. Feeling (ha: it I allow my name to be appended to
the aedri se, I must be on,idert d es subscribing to every
sentiment and principle in v.lved in it, I 4111, from an bouest
conviction of the fallacy in the points above &linden to, com-
pelled, with real regret, to decline acceding to the must
contained in your letter r.t the 31,e of D cumber.—l hare the
hi flour to subscribe myself, sir, your °belie! t Moab!, ser-
vant, DCSOANI.4O3. .
Richard Nu.rent, E•q., &c.
The ass.stavit barrister for Clare informed tie grand
jury of that c set. tv loot week, accordir g to the Lime-
rick E inminer, that hi- wai aware of • till aeing in
prepare., i.in by g ,vernn.err. aat would prevtnt land-
lords recovering by Neu pr °etas rent " not in keeping
with the poor-law v us, ion."
After a longer interval than usual, we bear of one
of those horrible cs,•cs cf agrarian murder, which
afford such a teeth t comment on the rel,.Cors of
landlord and tenon, n Ireland The crime on this
occasion, as on so in trey similar occasions, was per-
petrated in Tipper.ry, an,' the victim was a land
a.;ent. The Nettagh tieardtan states that William
Ardtll, steward to Mr. Faliaer, was shot through
the heart on Friday rieht last, and his body found
t' e next morning where he fell, b-twfth his em-
ployer's residence and his own housA, wera
about a quarter of a mile asunder. Tie c.,.urs, of the
murder is not stated.

En the same c uuty se Lcar of numernus evi..tions
even at the present inelemi.n. season. " You wall be
sorry," says a correspondent f the Lfintrick Ex .ntifier,
" to learn that ebo a tweiry henries have be n tum-
bled and the inmate• treed, at* place cellel Drum.
clieve, near the town of T pp,rary. A n.uib r of
houses were also knock d down at d the t.cupiers
cart out at Bunch.. At Doan se%eral houses cave
also been raz-n to thi. ground."
At the Tuam Quart.a St6lll/41138 last wet k there
/were upwards of fifty casts of ejectment.
A correspondent of the Lout) aulerry Statulard
complains that the Ironmum. era' Lompsuy have not
yet sten the propri.ty of reducing the rents on their
Ulster estates, although, he adds, the Mgt of the
tenantry on this prop. rty ";:re in alaset as wretc.ied
a condition us any in tier Mikiesty 's dominio" rave
and except those who Lave the mistretone to be under
the Mercers' Company." We learn, obsei vet the
Londonderry paper, ti et the latter company tr. ated
with contempt a petition lately addrvisect to mem for
an abatemeut of their rents, winch was sighed by
almost every tenant on the estate.

The Merc'arseile Adeertis;;TiescribPs the state of
trade in Dublin as undergoirg som improvement:
A very favourable report, ,t observes, to the present cir-
cumstances of .Le aeon 'Ty, and after the ezhau •ting effects
of famine, coulr scucel exp. tel ; but, neve &lams, we
are assured that the working classes generally are in a better
condition aa regards their means ot pure using food and
clothing than for several pars put. We have heard ot one
extensive house in general business connected with wearing
apparel, which ►as route • c nsiderable inmate of sales
during the put year—during the manth of D umber last its
receipts were 3,0001. beyond lbw for 'be c rre•p'nding
month of the preceding year; and we understand that
several other houses hays experienced a similar improve-
ment, which is attributed to the cheapness of fool, enabling
the working people to lay out more mosey in their clothing
and comforts than heretofore.

The Northern Standard A Friday has the follow-
irg :
A report is in tows to-day that Crom Castle, the magnifi-
cent seat of the Earl of Erne, has been destroyed by tire.
The report originated in a trovel!erwho wee pas ing through
Lisnaskea at about one o'cleck yesterday, when the inhabi-
tants were rushing to the castle to aid in suppressing the
fismes. Another gentleman, who travelled by the Ennis-
killen mail last night, mated in Monaghan, that when pass-
ing by the demesne, the passengers distinctly saw the Haves
of the still burning edifice. This, we believe, is the third
time this splendid oils of building has been burned.
The .Erening Post of last night published the fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Cobden, in reply to one from
Dr. Shell, of Ballyshatmon:
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•
Llndon. Jan. 5, 1850.
Dear Sir.—l have sent you a newspaper containing a
report of Mr. Bright's speech at Manchester, upon the sub-
ject of Ireland, in whose views generally I heartily concur.
My own remarks at Leeds would explain the opinion I en-
tertain of the present movement of the Irish landlords.
There never was such a barefaced display of shallow cunning
and base hypocrisy, as is this cry of the landowners a
bread tai, under the plea of bet.wing the condition of a
starving people! I very much doubt if their representatives
is the house will dare to bring forward their cue for discus-
sion; at all events, I should wish nothing better than to
have the opportunity of meeting thcm on that ground, and
I remain, dear sir, truly yours, RICHARD COBIAIN.
Dater Shed.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A most tragiell event
occurred at Earlsgaft, the :widest), of the 800. and Rev.
Charles Douglas, on Wednesday afternoon, during the
absence of that gentleman from home. A little boy, named
Barney Doherty, a stable servant, son of Mr. Douglas's
coachman, was desired by his father to watch occasionally a
pan of coals that had been placed hot in a canine for the
purpose of airing it. It appears that the poor little boy,
not aware of the danger ha incurred, either out of fun,
or supposing that the carriage would be better aired by
his doing so, pulled up all the 'blinds so as to exclude fresh
air, and remained himself in the carriage. The boy not re-
turning from the carriage, his father being surprised at his
remaining so long a time away, went to see after him, and
found him quite dead.—Deny Sentinel,

1 THE BLOOD OF AN INEBRIATE.—Dr. George Ste-
, phew Jean, of Boston, communicates to the Medical Jour-
nal the following singular though not unprecedented case of
the transformation of the blood of an inebriate:-" I was
called upon in great haste to see a patient who was ulna-
seated to be in a dying condition, and on my arrival at the
house I really found him sick, but far from being as bad as
was represented. My patient had a severe attack of pliru-
ritis. The symptoms being very urgent, I thought proper
to take blood. The peculiar odour emitted by the blood
while running from the vein, together with the singular ap-
pearance it presented after remaining in the howl some few
minutes, led me to • farther examination of it. One hell (c hat
is lateral half) woof the normal appearance when drawn mom
a patient labiuring under an inflammatory affection ; the
ether half had the appearance of milk upon the surrace, so
mach so that I .inestioned my assistants as to the fart, al-
though I was quite positive of the vessel being perfectly
clean when handed to me. I gave the bowl a rotary motion,
yet the fluid would not mingle, remaining just the same as
when first observed. What is still more interesting, and to
which my attention was attracted, wen the fumes of alcohol,
which were so strong that one would have supposed that
article to have been thrown in among the blood. I did not
apply a lighted taper to it, but have not the least tioubt thatif
I had I should have ems it ignite, burning with its lambent
flame. Is it at all strange that we find in autopsies of those
persons who are in the habitual use of alcoholic liquors such
depositions and concretions ? Why should not their thanes
he mat deemed when their blood has been so charged with
carbon and hydrogen, which is eatirely foreign to its vitality ?
Disease, with all its concomitants, must m.els make • Ilt•
vegee; the stomach suffering first, the !sped, . .1,
don destroyed; the brain, frog% eoatinu ... 's 4:.4., Pi
softens,lenteks, and the creature Ices.My pa . rrA.--7-,,, ,• 4
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