The Express. — 1847-11-15 (London, England)

IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 13. The month still continues troubled under the operation of the Poor Law. The Rathkeale guardians, to the number of twenty-four, have resigned, alleging as a general reason, the difficulty of the emergency and the increase of responsibility. The Listowel board (Kerry) have fallen into a more agreeable temper, and agreed to impose the long-withheld rate of three shillings. Concord is thus restored between them and the commissioner,. On the other hand, the  neighbouring board of the Killarney Union ferments with indignation against Messrs. Redington and Twislcton for having issued a circular' calling on the board to provide for the relief advances, notwithstanding the three shilling tax. Even the industrious North shows symptoms of disorder on the poor-law question. On Thursday last the Ballymena workhouse was besieged by a crowd of paupers demanding work or out-door relief. They were offered the accommodation of the house—but  thiaV was----rettoKtell—reft;:cl,--ancl they departed, i threatening plunder to the bread shops, The menace, however, was not put Into execution. The weaving trade is said to be in a very bad state in the neighbourhood of Ballymena, coarse cloths having declined more than one halfpenny per yard in the last three weeks, with very few purchasers. Weavers in consequence, after sale of the web, have not more than a shilling for the week's labour. Repugnancy to the workhouse in the north springs from a feeling of independent self-respect—elsewhere it is associated with a vagrant love of liberty, and a violent dislike of workhouse restraint  The Evening Mail announces the resolve of the Dublin conservatives to prosecute a petition against the return of Mr. Reynolds. Mr. Baldwin, the assistant barrister for the east riding of Cork, has accepted the inferior county of Louth, in consequence of ill health. The emoluments are leas by 5001., but so also are the trouble and time. Cork will be offered to some senior chairman, an' office requiring great temper, tact, and a reasonable degree of knowledge. A struggle is about to begin in parliament between the citizens of Derry and the Irish Society, relative to the charter of the latter and the rights of the former. The Derry corporation is also to apply for a city improvement bill. One of the persons arrested for the murder of Major Mahon, and lodged in Roscommon gaol, has died there from fever.  The conduct of Mr. Ormsby Gore, an absentee and extensive landed proprietor, to his tenants in Leitrim has provoked some harsh comments in the English and Irish press. He was charged with evictions under very cruel circumstances, and loud, in consequence, was the outcry. Hie agent, Mr. Lawder, makes out his case in extenuation. Charge the first : That where a year and a hells rent, up to September last, was due, he refused to accept less than a fall year's rent from any person holding less than twenty acres.—Answer : That not one of them offered a single shilling ; and though threatened with eviction, " never showed the least desire to pay anything." Charge the second: That the aged and persons in fever were dragged from their beds.--Answer: No single sick person was turned out; and the only " aged man " whom Mr. Lawder saw, walked quietly oat of his cabin. Quiet implies contentment, and surely there could have been little peace of mind in the breast of the aged man in leaving for ever his humble roof-tree. In several instances Mr. Gore's Leitrim tenants are stated to owe from twelve to fourteen years' rents, a proof of singular clemency, misery, or mismanagement. As a general reply to the imputa-1 tion of cruelty, the agent publishes a notice by Mr. Gore, dated the Bth inst., in which he offers to the evicted tenants, as well as to those who may hereafter be in a like state, to enable them ti emigrate next spring, and " in the mean time to provide for them the mean. of procuring habitations.' A benevolent quaker, Mr. Robinson, of Clara Mills, among other remedial measures of which he has a large store not usually in the best working order, suggests, among other thing., that when parliament legislates for the labouring classes, they will specially enact that five labourers on every hundred Irish acres shall have one acre each at the rent paid by the principal tenant for the remainder. The operation of this wholesome provision would be a better acquaintance between landlord and labourer, bringing more comfort to the latter, and making the former more the proprietor. The Central Board of Health has been recruited by the appointment of Sir Henry Marsh. The other medical members are Sir Philip Crampton and Dr. Corrigan.  ENFORCEMENT OF 11l