The Express. — 1850-01-08 (London, England)

IRELAND•  DUBLIN, JAW 7.  _, The chief iniecLief which the present landlord movemect in Ireland will effect will be that of distrac.ing the athlition of the agricultural population from actual tillege work, and paralysing labour. Much of this mischief has been already done. Men who are simple enough to be influenced by the arguments of the protectionists must necessarily come to the conclusion that it is useless to cultivate the land at all —that the very best crops will not pay the cost of producing them, even without a shilling of rent being exacted. There are some people wrongheaded enough to swallow such absurdities, and they will, no doubt, very largely swell the tide of the spring emigration ; forgetting that if agricultural produce be so mach cheaper in America than here, that we can be undersold in oar own markets, and if labour be some five or six times dearer there than it is here, they cannot benefit much by the change. However, the evil is effected ; and with good reason we may attribute much of the leaguor which pervades every branch of pxblic industry here, to the infatuation and the uncertainty created by the landlord agitation. It is hoped that the important speech on Irish matters, delivered by Mr. Bright in Manchester, will have the effect of rousing the dormant energies of Irishmen at borne, and of reviving a better and more hopdal state of public feeling. The Ilvenian's Journal points out the immense value to Ireland of each a speech from such an advocate. The preparations for the aggregate protectionist demonstration of the 17th are made without any noise. The requisition has not yet appeared, but we may expect to see it in the protectionist organs of this or to-morrow evening. The Evening Packet mentions some half-dozen further signatures that have bean added to the protectionist memorial to the Queen ; amongst others, those of Lord Kinsale, the Hos. James Maxwell, M.P.,ArchdesoonManneell, &c. At the Portarliugton meeting, at which the Queen's County Protectionists assembled, and carried resolutions without interruption, Col. Dunn, M.P , addressed his constituents at some length on hie parliamentary services. The registries continue to be sadly neglected, and will remain so until a large extension of the franchise is made. Even in the county of Loath, one of the most prosperous parts of Ireland, the Newry Examiner thus describes the state of the constituency: The present state of the registry for Ma county must be anything bat satisfactory to the friends of littoral opinions. At the present Quarter Sessions only one liberal was roes. tared for the county; while three conservatives had their ! sums placed on the roll of parliamentary voters. Na, is this a solitary instance of the apathy of the liberal party of late: they have allowed their political opponents to obtain m great an ascendancy, as regards numbers, that in the event of an immediate election a liberal candidate would have little or no chases of success. _ _  who has already built some fine', Iron ships—among the rest the Blarney, which hail been plying between Liverpool and Itottkrdsim—is at present engsged in building an immense iron vessel for the New York trade. She will be screw propelled, and 1,400 tons burden. During the last week there was a heavy fall of snow, became hardened by frost, and interrupted the trains on some of the railways. On the Cork line the Dublin train was unable to proceed farther than the Blarney station on Friday night. Yesterday there was a complete thaw, but the frost this morning is as severe as before. A man named Ryan has been comm;tted to Nemeth gaol for the murder of his child, about ten months old. The remains were discovered on New Year's Day, nearl Finnoe, by the dogs of some persons who were amusing themselves hunting.