The Express. — 1852-01-16 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, JAN. Li..  The following extraordinary statement' appears in the Ciork Cuitatitutiwt. However improbable it may be, rumours coming from sundry quarters tend to confirm it :  " A large French vessel is now at Queenstown taking in powder (200 tons it is said) for—if rumour be correct—the }Catlin ! Her Custom-house ' clearance' is Coast of Africa,' and she has on board, we understand, 5,000 long range muskets, to be employed in giving effect to the powder. This is the statement—we cannot of course guarantee it; but it is very generally believed, and the fact is pointed to as one of the advantages we derive (coin the repeal of the navigation laws. Notwithstanding, however, the benefit conferred on foreigners by our ' liberal' legislation, might not this vessel be seized in the harbour if her cargo could be proved to be for the purpose to which we have alluded ? Yet where would be the use ? Powder the Kollin, will get, and might we not as well have the profit on its manufacture? Previous to the war they obtained rather large supplies of it from this ; and we doubt not that it is with it, and with those capital ' long ranges,' with which it is Britain's misfortune to find even the must uncivilised of her foes ready to overmatch her miserable muskets, they have been picking down our officers and troops." The tenant-right question is on its legs again, an effort being found necessary to give an impetus to tho bill about to be introduced by Mr. Sharman Crawford at the commencement of the session. A public meet. .. . . . •  ing of the Tenant League was held last night in tho Mechanics Institute, and was numerously attended, the chair being taken by Mr. Patrick Later, of Tinnakil, and the usual quantity of eloquence being dispensed by the Rev. Mr. Quaid, of Callaghan's Mills; the Itev. Mr. Dwyer, of Tipperary ; Mr. J. F. Maguire, of Cork, Archdeacon Fitzgerald, of Limerick, &c. The following resolution, proposed by Mr. Maguire, was carried with applause : That we reprobate and condemn, in the strongest manner and with the deepest abhorrence, every form of agrarian outrage, as violating the law of God, destructive to the best interests of society, and creating one of the greatest obstacles to the settlement of the tenant cause on just and equitable principles—but that while we thus express our deep condemnation of these criminal proceedings, we cannot disguise from ourselves the conviction that in the unset-. tied and inequitable condition of the land laws is to bo. found the original source of those misdeeds which for gene-. rations have defiled the land with blood, and which nV amount of penal severity has ever been able to extirpate. A resolution, calling on the country for a supply of funds, was also adopted. The Newry Telegraph received this morning beings an account of a murderous assault made on Me nday night on a person named John Brady, an assistant bailiff employed under tho Earl of Charleiniyar, As the unfortunate man was returning to his residence near Camla, in the county of Armagh, hr: was set upon by three ruffians, who beat him so W mert fu II y with bludgeons that his life was despairr d of. Two men suspected of being parties in the outrage were arrested on the following day. The sarae paper states that a threatening notice has been served on John henry Porter, Esq., the agent to the I Hike of Manchester, the cause a.ssigned for this being that a process of ejectment has been resorted to maitist one of the duke's tenantry, in consequence of MS being in arrears for six years' rent. The Itiberma, Chester and Ihd.chead Railway steamer, yestenitti tsmveyed (tont Dublin a number of goverunient emigrants far South Australia. 'they belonged to a respectable, class of small farmers.  Lotto