The Express. — 1848-01-04 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, JAW. 2.  All is bustle in the crown-office in smoothing the way for the special commission. Chief Justice Doherty will be replaced by Chief Baron Pigot. The latter, together with the chief of the Queen's Bench, leaves Dublin to-morrow for the Cashel Railway. On arriving at the terminus at Ballyhophy, troops of cavalry with mounted police will escort their lordships to the borders of the county of Limerick, where the high sheriff and his cavalcade will receive them. The calendar contains 110 names, of whom 20 are charged directly with murder; ten with conspiring, aiding and assisting in murder, and the rest with various grave offences, including robbery of arms, attacking dwelling-houses, shooting and wounding, assembling by night in arms, harbouring the famous Ryan Tuck, by which he evaded apprehension as a felon, and concealing Whiteboys. The attorney and solicitor-general, with Messrs. Bennett and Plunkett, Q.C., will conduct the cases for the crown. The resident magistrates are proceeding with great caution in granting licenses to possess arms. In Limerick city only fifty had been granted. In the country more liberality was shown, as in Newcastle seventy-six were privileged. The sanitary movement has found its way into Belfast, and already struggles for precedency with the " classical." At a meeting of the principal merchants on Friday last, the Rev. Dr. Drew in the chair, the question was forcibly brought under the notice of the community. Nor is the necessity for sanitary measures at all premature in Belfast, for, according to Dr. Malcolm, who furnished some interesting statistical facts, the average of life in Belfast did not exceed nine years—the lowest in Ireland. In conjunction with the classical and sanitary, the agricultural takes a decided lead in the public mind. The Chemico-Agricultural Society has had a meeting on the confines of the old and new year. The change of the society from l)ownpatrick to Belfast is likely to be attended with prosperous results. A paper in connexion with the society, and to be called The Irish Agriculturist, is on the eve of starting into existence. Amid the various movements, tenant-right takes the lead in the North. That old centre of Orange turbulence, Ballihay, is to be the theatre of a tenant gathering on the 11th. Sharman Crawford has been invited, and will attend. In his letter accepting the invitation be observes, " The tenant question is now arrived at a great crisis. I think 1 may say with certainty that a bill will be introduced by the government ; but I do not expect they will either have the inclination co the purse to  carry an effective bill through the two houses of parliament" Without a just revision of the law of landlord and tenant he despairs of either peace or progression for the country. the " threatening notice" system is spreading far and wide through the north. In Tyrone it is quite as extensive as in Limerick or Tipperary, though from an investigation which took place last week in Omagh it would appear that the local wickedness has its origin in a different class from that which circulates the missives in the south.  DISMISSAL Or