The Express. — 1847-12-09 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, Dec. 7. At the last meeting of the committee of the Labour Rale Act, in Clare, a letter from Lord I. Russell to Mr. J. O'Brien, M.P., was read, on the subject of unfinished public works. His lordship states that the primary object of advances under the Labour Rate Act was to save the people from starving, and the employment on the roads quite a secondary consideration ; the latter having been sacrificed to the former and more important object, a system was established whereby three millions were fed by treasury advances and subscriptions. If the public works have been abused, improvidence encouraged, idleness fostered, by the course which the government have pursued, the justification of the government lies in the extraordinary nature and wide extent of the evil. But, whatever fault may be found with the past, his lordship tells the Clare landlords to consult for the future. The owners and occupiers of property are henceforth responsible for the improvement of Ireland. His lordship's letter appears not to have found much favour with the committee.  In relieving boards of guardians from duties which they were either unable or unwilling to fulfil, the poor law commissioners have hitherto been content with the simple act of dismissal, acoompanied with board, ve brief explanation. la the case of the Cavan they have gone into a more detailed enumeration of reasons, and, for the first time, a sort of proclamation, signed "13. S. N. Twisleton and N. Redington," follows the letters dimissory of Mr. Stanley- a formidable and terror-inspiring document it is in its qrave formality. The commissioners run up a heavy indictment against the Cavan board : First, that deaths by destitution, authenticated by the verdicts of coroners' juries, had taken place within the union without proper steps on the part of the board to avert them. Secondly, the contraction of heavy debts and uncollected rates. Thirdly, the appointment of relieving officers two months past, and little or nothing since done to enable them to enter on their duties—no depOts established and no houses taken for the administration of relief by the officers. For all which and sundry other grave considerations thereunto moving Messrs. Twisleton and Redington, the Cavan board stands discharged. The administration of the law works gradually towards a stipendiary body, a result which the owners of property will yet have deeply to lament.  Amid all the destitution and suffering of Mayo, murder has not been among its crimes. The peasantry are now passing through the tortures of clearance' and hunger, but, mach to their credit, the trial is patiently borne. One solitary instance of assaasination, in the person of Lord Lucan'a bailiff; was among the " current rumours," but it turns out entree. A sort of local tribune, Mr. Corry, passed into the sone of the alleged murder, and " found that statement to be a gross fabrication." He adds that "at no period within recollection has the process of wholesale ejsetion of tenantry been carried on with more ruthless avidity," and that on every side the eye is attracted by the blackened walls of roofless cottages, from which the wretched inhabitants are cast out even in this inclement season." He withholds names, lest he should be accused of pointing " public execration " to the moral destroyers.  At the half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Banking Company, yesterday, the nett profit of the year ending the lst of November was reported to be 19,6101. A dividend of 5 per cent. wee declared. The loaves on the year amount to between 5,0001. and 6,000/.  The stoppage of payments by the Messrs. Winans and Co. is only to be temporary. There are ample funds to meet all the liabilities of the firm. There is to be a county meeting of Longford tomorrow, to consider on the resolve of the government to provide no food ; and what is of more practical consequence, to take steps for the immediate relief of the "actually starving." Work first— speeches and resolutions after.  TER IRISH LORD is such better._  Chancellor Brady  13;oitW.--There was • severe gale from W.N.W. yesterday, which became very violent about half-past twelve p.m. Considerable apprehension prevailed for the safely of some Kingstown fishing boats, which were, however, brought in safe, chiefly through the exertions of the pilot boats and a trawler, manned by volunteers from Kiagetown. Last night there was a renewal of the atom, which came on with tremendous form tower& midnight. The London mail, rid Birkenhead, due at five yesterday afternoon, did not arrive until twelve o'clock to-day. The Liverpool mail due this morning, has not yet arrived. The weather has become calm but intensely cold, and sleet has fallen.