The Express. — 1853-02-02 (London, England)

IRELAND.  Denraw, Fan. I. Groat preparations have been made to give effect to the demonstration which comes off to-day at:Kells, in the oounty of Meath. It has been termed, in the usual style of exaggeration which prevails hero " the gathering of Leinster," and is intended for one of those popular " pronouncements," continued usually in this country on the eve of a parliamentary session, to give eclat to the entree of the Irish members in the House of Commons.. This meeting oAtensibly assembles at the invitation of the " Religious'' Equality" Committee, and the leading topic will be abuse of those Irish members who have taken office, or given their adhesion to tho present administration.  It is stated that a field has been taken in the neighbourhood of Ennis for a military encampment to be held there during the Simile-bridge triais. Owing to the tranquil state of the county of Roscommon,the authorities have signified their intention to remove 40 of the constubulary force. It is understood that a large building, the mansion of Mr. Whalley, on the south side of St. Stepherfagreen, in this city, has been taken for the proposed Roman catholic university, the committee of which are at length about to commence actual operations. The Evening Mail gives the subjoined account of two fresh Ribbon outrages, of which the neighbourhood of Monte, in the count] of Westmeath,has been the scene :  On the night of Wednesday, the 26th instant, a poor man of the 11411111 of Marsh, a labourer in the employment of Mr. M'Donald, a Scotch Homan catholic gentleman, who lately purchased the demesne of Castle Daly in tile Incumbered Estates Court, was fired at in his own Amuse, but fortunately escaped with a slight wound in the thigh, a quantity of slugs being lodged in the waft beside him. No reason can be assigned for this attempt at assassination, except that Marsh was a man in the confidence of Mr. M'Donald, who has been continually annoyed by threatening not:ces since he came to reside at Castle Daly. The other outrage was one of those savage murders which have brought such indelible disgrace on our country. The victim in this case was also a poor labourer, in whom a more than ordinary degree of trust was reposed by his employer, Mr. Sills, an Englishman, who cecupics the farm of Joneslake, close to the town of Moate. This poor man, whose name was Thomas Kerry, had been for several years a convert from protestantism to popery, which, however, was not any safeguard against ribbon vengeance. On Thursday evening about seven o'clock, on the high road to Moate, within bearing of the railway station, and little more then a hundred yards from his master's gate, Kerry was brutally attacked by four men with bludgeons, who, haring fractured his skull, and otherwise injured Lim, left Lim apparently dead. After some time the poor man was able to crawl to Mr. Sills' house, where he was tended with the greatest humanity, and received immediate medical assistance. He was barely able to detail the few particulars we have mentioned, and to say that he knew the men that assaulted him. Before he could declare their names ho became insensible, and never spoke again. He expired at five o'clock on Friday morning, ten hours after he had been beaten. The circumstances which caused Kerry's murder are wrapped in mystery. He was wholly unconnected with land himself, and was a quiet inoffensive man. He had not taken a farm from which another tenant had been ejected, but pays a profit rent for his farm to the tenant who last occupied it. He was a highly respectable Englishman,who has lately introduced the manufacture of cheese into the neighbourhood with great success. Thomas Boylan, Esq., of Hilltown House, has, at the recommendation of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, been appointed a magistrate for the County Meath.