The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN', THURSDAY MORNING. HER MAJESTY'S
EXPECTEDVISIT.—It /3 the intention of the committee
of the Royal Dublin Society to keep open the exhibition
of manufactures for another fortnight, in expectation of
being honoured with a visit by her Majesty and his
Roy al Highness Prince Albert. Her Majesty and Prince
DAlbert
andii! , iptruicseed saidt; remain but a couple of days in
visit the Mat quis of Ormond. at
liiikeriny; the Duke of Devonshire, at Lismore Ca,tle;
and the lakes of Killarney.
The committee of the exhibition at the Royal Dublin
Society expect a communication this day, which will
enable them to make a definite announcement as to the
length of time the exhibition shall remain open.
The following is taken from the Limerick Chronicle of
yesterdays--
"Her Majesty will certainly partake of the princely
hospitality of the Duke of Devonshire, at Lismore Cas-
tle, in September next, and visit the beautiful scenery 01
the Biackwater. The Duke of Devonshire will revisit
Lismore Castle early in September."

TUE PuTATO CROP.
The reports from the country this morning aro sub-
stantially similar to those received the few days
together with"
of blighted stalks and other marks of Tipperary.
from Limerick, Kerry, Clare, and
ap-
pears to be perfectly free from suspicious signs. P's
We hear
in the potatoes, while the whole province ofe
Waterford denies the existence of disease;
aunfd
the thirty-two
we may
and in short,
great county of Cork has nothing unpleasant to report.
with the above exceptions, to
com-
plaint from places in Leitrim letters of
say that about five-and-twenty
cuunties are free from even blighted! stalks.tii
It is
Irish
of remark that up to the present but few blighteduwortby
tubers
have been produced. Subjoined are l •se ections from the
journals of yesterday :
LIMERICK.—(FroIIa the Chronicle.)—,g We may
repress the strung apprehensions felt this last week notfor
the State of the potato crop in Limerick and the sur-
rounding counties, whose luxuriance appears checkel
by a sudden blight, atmospherical we believe in its origin.
The leaves and stalks of the plants are discoloured in
many fields, and in others shrivelled up, betokening the'
approach of that direful calamity, which f.n• four sea- 1
sons has stricken down the eteple food ef the - Irish '
people, and caused a social revolution, the most terrific
in its effects. Reluctantly do we give expression to the
serious fears entertained by the principal landholders
and farmers in this county of a ' general decay' in the
crop. Our own hope and belief is, that the blight is yet
but partial and temporary..
" The potato is again blighted lin the neighbouring
or Newcastle, and the accounts from the neighbourhood
parishes are of the same nature. .At Ratkahill on Sun-
day morning the potato gardens were in a fleuriahing
state, and on the following they were blighted.
" A subscriber says that he has several fields of pota-
tces in the barony of henry, which, from the appearance
of the stalks, were giveu up as decayed, but on digging
the root was found quite sound.
" A gentleman arrived in this city yesterday, from
Waterford, where his intercourse was very extensive,
who assures us, from personal observation and inquiry,
that there is no sign of potato' blight in that county."
be perceived from our Kerry, giinss.dteier,erahse
,The Examiner says—" We regret to say that, as will
correspondence, the potato crop is extensively and fatally
&imaged, and the rot set in and extending with disas-
Newcastle, and Kilrush
disas-
trous virulence." Our Abbeyfeale correspondent writes
—" You will be sorry to hear that the blight has again
made its appearance here, that the stalks and tubers are
quite black, and that it is to be apprehended that the
crop will be almost entirely los'." A Castleisland cor-
respondent writes to a sindiar effect.
CLONMEL.—(From the Chronicle.)—" We regret to
say that the rumours of failure in the potato crop are
gaining ground here. It is true we have not sten, since
the commencement of the season, a single tainted potato,
farmers with whom we have converged en the matter
nor scarcely one that could be called bud, but the
say there ere great fears, and that diseased tubers have
been seen in many quarters of, this county. in se re-
ports have rendered us nervous Oa this most important
subject. The potato fields present a Insist luxuriant ap-
pearance."
CLARE.—Great alarm exists in Kilrush and round
that town, in consequence of all the
potato gardens, with
few exceptions, being completely blasted and withered.
There is no doubt of the failure of that root now. As
a consequence many who were in high spirits before are
now preparing to leave fur America.
Coax.—A correspondent of the Cork Exsminer writes
—" I hare just returned from a tour iti the counties a
Cork, Limerick, as conflicting
, and Tipperary, and,
etatereerita have "gone forge regarding the important
potato crop, 1 have taken great pins by ocular prod
to ascertain the real state of the crop up to the present