The Express. — 1853-07-13 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DOILIN. JOLT 12. The appearance of the Great Exhibition yesterday y igtsii ts nxtrer stteehlhleaeiiptlint extreme, sc oyt hfh teahavn ebi ynuFg. there .lardr other i i lan nf at db tyoi .anunGsgei enaprnemtaeenoraatutrohnol tenwsf tgreatlyohpopening. ndt giha nr exceedingi ryn endHi thousand e attended by Major Ponsonby, honoured the Malta& tion with a visit ; the Duke and Duchess of Leinster paid their first visit there; and among the other distinguished persons who attended were the Marquis r f Conyngham, the Earl of Charlemout, Lord Massareene and Ferrard, Sc. In the course of' the afternoon there was a performance on one of the fine organs erected in the building. A number of the leading conservatives here arc making exertions to raise a subscription for the purchase of the Midsummer 4Vight's Dream service, exhibited by Messrs. Kerr of Worcester, in order to present it to the Earl of Eglinton. Among the pictures that have recently been added to the Exhibition is a fine original work of Barry's, representing the three Marys at the tomb. It is understood that this day—the ill-omened 12th of July—is to be allowed to pass over without any of demonstration being made in public by the Orangemen. There will be a meeting at the Hotundo to-night to celebrate the occasion. Various saddening rumours are beginning to reach us about the re-appearance of the potuto blight ; but as it is too early, judging from our past experience, for the fatal symptoms to manifest tnemselves, I am inclined to think that the reports are grossly exaggerated, and come most probably from parties interested in keeping up a feeling of alarm in our markets. The Mowing is given as an extract from a private letter in Saunders of this day : Dunshaughlin, July 10.—I am very sorry to tell you that we have every symptom of the disease coming on the potatoes as we have bad those last years, particularly on the Kemp,. The others have not shown as yet, nor neither did they here liefore as early as those I mentioned. This day twelvemonths it appeared first with us; but we have been suspecting since this day week that it was approaching, and t thin morning we had just such another fog es the first year of the blight. My opinion is, that the oat crop is not tl:e deurtshiug one that it is represented in the papers. I hope 1 may be wrong. . .  Her Mak.%Fy's 'screw steam-stip the Blenheim is at present moored in Kingstown harbour. The citizens are going out in crowds to see the noble vessel.  The trial of the nun for the murder of Mr. BateTon had not terminated last evening at the Monaghan assizes.  Mr. Justice Crampton, in addressing the King's County grand jury yesterday, made tho following allusion to the state of crime in the county : The extremely light calendar which has been laid before me would, taken by itself, afford most gratifying evidence of the present orderly and tranquil state of your county, but a hen I contrast it with the amount of crime and outrage of the aggravated description which, until wry recently, existed, I cannot refrain from congratulating you most sincerely on the alteration which has taken place. In Waterford, Mr. Justice Moore congratulated the grand jury on the absence of crime. There was no prisoner charged with a capital offence in the county.