The Sun. — London, England, 1837-11-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OYTEIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.. The state of Ireland will be brought before the public to-night by the motion of the Earl of Roden. His Lordship brings this important subject forward with the no inconsiderable advantage of having had the case, which, we presume, be designs to prove, already powerfully stated by the Tory journals ; and being thus enabled to bestow his undivided attention upon the selection and arrangement of the evidence necessary to sustain their positions. The public ex pects, and has a right to expect, from the Noble Earl a fair attempt to prove the charges which have been deliberately and pertinaciously advanced against Lord Mulgrave's Government by the Times and Standard. We shall not consent to have a mitigated case brought forward now in Parliament, after the enormous one that has for months been daily and nightly submitted to the country in the columns of the Tory press. We shall expect, in the first place, to have evidence pro duced to prove not merely the universal prevalence of Ribbonism in Ireland, but the frightful extent to which that system influenced the late general election, and, what is worse still, the monstrous fact, distinctly and repeatedly alleged, that Lord Mulgrave connives at the existence of this abominable conspiracy, the bond of whose union is an oath "to walk in the blood of the heretical clan," meaning, of course, the Protestants of Ireland. The Standard has gated— " Here, then, is proof of the existence, no matter to. what extent, of a treasonable, murderous, and secret con spiracy, contemplating, as one of its objects, the return to Parliament of persons nominated by that individual by whose support Lord Melbourne's Cabinet stands in defiance of the people of Great Britain. The conspiracy exists. What has Lord Mularave done to prove that it does not exist by his connivance ? Has he instituted any prosecution against Ribbonmen? Not one. Has he discountenanced those persons who rely for support upon Ribbonmen ? Arc these proofs of any disposition to put down Ribbonism—are •they not, rather, proofs that Lord Mulgrave knows and feels that to a Ribbonmen majority—a majority returned by Ribbonmen, using all possible means to assist Mr. Daniel O'Connell in his great plan'—he, Lord Mulzrave, owes his continuance in office °" Lord Roden will of course go into evidence of the heinous charges here advanced by one of the most reputable organs of his party. But he has more to sustain than the allegations contained in this strong passage ; for the Standard went still further, and asserted, repeatedly and confidently, that more than one Itibbonman had actually been returned to Parliament ; nay, more, our Contemporary declared that this was a fact which he was ready himself to prove in person at the bar of the House, so that Lord Roden can have no difficulty whatever to cstab!ish this ,part of his case; lie has only to produce the editor of the Standard, whose anxiety to discharge his bosom of the awful secret with which it has long been swelling, must of necessity be extreme. Having demonstrated that the bulk of the Irish people are thus bound toge ther in a " secret, murderous, and treasonable society," contemplating objects the most sanguinary and dia bolical, wielding power the most enormous, and exer cising paramount influence in the highest places, and over the highest personages in the country, Lord Roden will, we may presume, proceed to spread before the House the appalling consequences of this system. And here again his Lordship has his case stated to his hand; he will only have to read the following series of extracts from the columns of the Times, and the speeches of Sir Francis Burdett, which we have taken the pains to collect for his Lordship's assistance ; and, having done this, his task will be simply to recapitu late the various massacres and hot and ruthless perse cutions which have so horribly distinguished Lord Mulgrave's viceroyalty from th e h a ppy Governments of his Tory predecessors, and cast deep into the shade the harrowing tales of the Albigenses and the Vaudois. The Times, of September 22, put the 'following inter rogatory : We ask all men, is it now an unquestionable fact that the Protestants of Ireland, the Clergy in their daily bread, the laity in their persons, are those who, suffering from the non-administration of the law, have neither themselves disobeyed it, nor clamoured for the abolition of it, but are the undefended victims of 'violence, qf robbery, of wanton hatred, of cruel murder, of every form and degree of per secution, of every excess of fiend-like malignity, that ever cursed a devoted country, or rendered infamous the deposi tories of power r Ana some days afterwards the public was told in glowinr , phraseology by the same Journal that " Every wave that breaks across the Western Channel wafts hither the yell of outrage or the moan of suffering from the Irish shore." Or if his Lordship would prefer to hold forth upon a text furnished by Sir Francis Bur dett, let him take the following passage from the ora tion of that upright and consistent statesman at the late Tory festival in Wiltshire : " What the partisans of O'Connell called peace was at tended by miseries far more calamitous than a state of honourable warfare. Every day Protestant blood was shed in the most cruel and outrageous manner, only because 'nen were not afraid to exercise their legal and constitu tional rights, and would not be deterred from voting ac cording to their consciences in matters which they believed concerned the interests of their countrymen. Li7:e martyrs these men scaled their devotion with their blood, and per severed in defending a just cause, undeterred even by the fear of death."—(Cheers.) _ _ But if any Noble Lord should be so inquisitive as to ask how this wholesale destruction of human life can consist with the establishment of the constabulary force, an armed body of many thousand men spread over the country and expressly designed for the public protection, the Times of October the 3d will tell him, and Lord Roden will of course feel himself bound to demonstrate that " the Police Bill was passed for no end but to place a standing army of constables bearing muskets at the disposal of Daniel O'Con nell." It will also tell him the means by which this end is accomplished :—" Mr. Daniel O'Connell, the priests and the demagogue associators, abuse, as was inevitable, their inordinate power, by manning the po lice, in all its ranks and branches, with eicers and privates upon whom the revolutionists can depend." Nay, more, that this end has been actually brought to pass The police or civil force of Ireland has been so remodelled as to afford a fruitful field of patronage to the Papist agitators, and, through the friendly and liberal bias of the Castle, has been so purged of Protestant dross, and so en riched with the precious metal of O'Connellism, as to answer all the purposes of negative, at least (if not yet active,) assistance to the villainous mal practices and outrages dictated by the Popish priest hood." Such, then, is a sample of the statements which, day after day, have been reiterated by - every Conservative orator, and poured forth from every Conservative press. To delay a moment in bringing the whole of such a case before the public would be an act of cruel treachery to the • sufferings of persecuted Protestantism, of which to suspect so zealous a friend as Lord Roden would be, no doubt, the grossest injustice. Lord Roden must do one of two things. He must repeat the charges of his able allies, the Times and Standard. "My lightning thou, and thou my thunder"—he must de clare his belief that the majority of the Irish represen tatives are returned by electors, the majority of whom are sworn to walk in Protestant blood—he must declare that some of those representatives are themselves sworn Ribbonmen—he must declare that such of the Protestants as have survived that unintermitted havoc, to which, according to Sir F ranc i s B ur d ett an d t h e Ti mes, they are subjected, are now, " counting the hours with their sighs, and the minutes with the distilling of their bloody wounds"—he must repeat all this, and declar e his readiness to prove it, or he will acknowledge that those statements are gross and palpable ° rnisrepres en t a ti o ns—outracreous false hoods—forged f or t h e abominable misrepr esen t at i ons — o utrageous of kindling English prejudice against the Irish people, and thus withholding from them those rights to which the Union declares them to be heirs. What ! does the Standard believe that the public will endure to be told, durin g the recess, when complete refutation was impossible —to be told, we say, day after day, that 4‘ murde r was stalkini , through the land"—that the Protestants were the victims, the unprotected victims, of this murder that the majority of the Irish people were sworn to extir pate not only Protestantism, but its professors ; and now, when the opportunity and means of proof are all at hand—nosy when a Protestant Parliament is as sembled, and the Protestant heart of England beats high —does our Contemporary, we say, believe that the fair and thinking people of this country will endure to be told by the Standard of last Friday, that " the full investigation of the state of Ireland and the Ribbon system is to be put off to a more fitting moment" ? to he postponed until some more rivers of Protestant blood be shed, and until every Catholic in Ireland is involved in that conspi racy, encouraged by Lord Mulgrave, the bond of whose union is a pledge to exterminate Protestants ? No ; the season is, thank God, arrived when the shameless fabrications of the Tory orators and press will be laid bare. No doubt crime, and that to a con siderable extent, subsists in Ireland. -Two years of a liberal Government have. not repaired those moral ra vages which centuries of that worst of oppressions— religions ascendancy—have produced. Lord Roden will prove this, and nothing snore. No doubt combina tions prevail, founded upon that ignorance of true poli tical principles which must abound in a country where education was either proscribed by Act of Parliament, or turned into an engine of proselytism, and thus ar rested in its progress, or opposed by a faction who hated the light as midnight robber dreads the dawn. No doubt the people of Ireland, the victims of a code " designedly framed to extinguish within them every moral sentiment," will not bear comparison with the inhabitants of this favoured isle, " The greatest and the best of all the main," Conservatives are in the ascendant. As far, then, as concerns the retention of office, the noble Lord and his colleagues are evidently of opinion, that any hostility they can encounter from the wretched corps of impract►- cables may be more than neutralized by that abstinence from factious opposition which they can count upon on the part of the Constitutionalists. Knowing, there fore, that the Conservatives will disdain to join in any Radical vote for the mere purpose of dislodging the Whigs, it will probably be the studious object of the latter to conduct the business of the session on such negative principles as, while not provoking the strength of the one party, will treat with indifference the impo tent wrath of the other. Accordingly, taken in con nexion with Lord John Russell's fulminations against ultra-Liberalism, one may not be far wrong in pre dicting, that in the measures about to be submitted by Government we shall have no " appropriation clause," no Church-rate divisions, no tampering with the Uni versities (nay, in Scotland they are actually endowing new theological professorships), and since Lord Pal merston's journal declares at length that both parties in Ireland, Papists as well as Protestants, are equally culpable in point of sectarian partisanship, we may fur ther assume that the forthcoming Municipal Bill for that country will be tendered in a shape to which no se rious object►ons can be offered. In disposing of all this. there is implied, no doubt, a good deal of unfastidious bolting ; but the oesophagus of a Whig, famishing for the grub of office, is wide enough to swallow anything. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Radicals seem threat ened to be placed in a very sorry predicament. The unexpected trimming of the Whigs has stung them to madness. The juicy orange which they had expected to suck resists theirdirty paws, and submits itself to the squeezings of their opponents. Now, their wrath at this has known no decent bounds. The high- aristo cratic contempt wherewith Lord John Russell con signed Mr. Wakley's " three powders" to the ridicule of the country is unforgotten and unforgiven. The leading Radical practitioners have sworn war against the Melbourne Ministry, as sharply as ever the Member for Finsbury applied his Lancet to the tu mours of medical corruption. Mr. Leader declares that he " detests" the Whigs. Mr Ward avows that l►e will take the earliest favourable opportunity of squeezing them out of office. O'Connell protests that he is no longera Whig-Radical, but a Radical absolute. Well, will anything come of this ? Not a shadow. To all practical purposes it is mere noisy palaver, every word of it. These Republican braggarts will sneak back again into their old habits of compromise, and will once more lick the feet of their betters ; and there they will lie, scouted and scorned by the entire public— " As pale as any clout in the 'varsal world." —Times. with that people whom a thousand years of popular government have made pre-eminent among the nations for virtue, for morality, for every noble quality. Lord Mulgrave carries no enchanter's wand, nor is the -ele vation of a people depressed by ages of misrule the work of a moment. But what any ruler in his circum stances could do, that we verily believe he has done. Opposed in every step of his policy by a Tory magis tracy, slandered by a Tory press, preached at by a Tory pulpit, denied by a Tory House of Lords those mea sures of redress by which the condition of the Irish people would have been exalted, he has infused into the public mind that confidence in Government which is the seminal principle of all improvement ; he has introduced an improved vigilance into the execution of the laws, now an object of fear only to the offender, and produced that marked improvement in the moral state of Ireland, the proofs of which we have so often laid before the public, drawn from sources above all suspicion—the charges of judges politically hostile to the Government, and the results of official reports, the accuracy of which admits of no question.—Morning Chronicle. In our opinion much more importance has been at tached to Lord John Russell's recent declarations than they are really entitled to. We do not mean that they arc deficient in explicitness, or that they present any conceivable postern whereby their author can ho nourably retreat from the course of action to which they bind him ; but after all, interpreting them by such parallel passages as have occurred in former announce ments by the same oracle, our conviction is, that the Conservatives have just as little reason to confide in their constitutional tone as the Radicals have to protest against their anti-revolutionary tendency. Heaven forbid that we should do his Lordship injus tice ! We would shut the door of repentance against no man. Nay, we even admit that the symptoms of Monday and Tuesday were somewhat encouraging ; or, at least, one of the evidences of true penitence (we mean confession) was exhibited by the Noble Lord to this extent—that he acknowledged his evil ways were reprobated and condemned from honest conviction by an immense proportion of the people of England. Indeed, his Lordship could not very decently do otherwise : for, in answer to the appeal which he and his colleagues have recently made to the general constituency of the empire, backed by all the admitted advantages arising from the possession of Government patronage and the assumption of Court favour, the electors have returned a Parliament, neatly one-half of whose members have publicly declared themselves to be hostile to the Mel bourne Ministry. To account for this the usual de clamatory cant about intimidation and so forth may do well enough for your raw greenhorns. Bat Lord John Russell is neither raw nor green : he is gray enough to know, that if Tory gold or Tory winding could. compel Conservative returns in 1837, the same mate rials must have been equally efficacious in 1833, when the Tories could hardly muster 150 votes. Accord ingly, his Lordship's confession, touching the consci entious and unbiassed condemnation which the Eng lish constituency have pronounced upon Whig policy, is not only well founded, but is creditable to his in genuousness. At the same time we cannot forget that, in the course of a protracted prodigality, he has done a good deal which he is bound to atone for. He has allowed himself too long to be a mere chartered smuggler, under the supercargoship of O'Connell. The plague of democracy, so prevalent among the re gions in which he has prosecuted his contraband traffic has been extensively propagated by his instrumenta lity. We therefore maintain that his Lordship must perform a tolerably extended quarantine before he can get rid of his political infection ; and if the period of his probation should bear any proportion to the cha racter and continuance of his malpractices, we fear that a considerable interval must transpire ere the pre fessed Conservatism of the noble skipper can restore him to public confidence, especially after • the suspi cions indications into which lie and his comrades re lapsed on Thursday night, in regard to election peti tions, and the adjustment of the Civil List. Indeed, we strongly suspect that the ostentatious way in which they have flung overboard the three principal bales of Radicalism, has only been a manceuvre to throw the preventive service offtheir guard, in c k rder the more easily to effect a landing for some smaller kegs of equally interdicted commodities. To these things we deem it right to draw the attention of the proper officers, who in due time, will put the broad arrow upon them, we have no doubt. Now, while such are our own views respecting the Conservative feint where with Ministers have opened the present Session, we are ashamed to say that the accusations, apologies, threats, and invective with which they have been variously treated by their Radical expectants and the Liberal Press, have afforded us a good deal of down right irreverent fun. An evening quidnunc, sorely discOntented, gives a gentle utterance to his belief that Lord John Russell has greatly under-estimated the extent to which the public are favourable to the Ballot. Another nocturnal, of somewhat bolder kidney, de clares, that if his Lordship can be supposed to have spoken the concurrent sentiments of his Colleagues, they ought all to be cashiered witfrout a moment's delay. But what we have been most amused with, beyond comparison, is the tremulous twaddle put forth on this occasion by the accredited organ of Lord Palmerston. Notwithstanding the ." sure and decided majority" which his Lordship boasted of in his address to the electors of Tiver ton, he manifestly feels that the ground of liberalism is tottering beneath him. As usual, therefore, he is pre paring with great circumspection to fall back upon a more profitable position. This is always the first object of the Noble Viscount's solicitude ; and so ur gently has he felt the necessity of putting himself into marching o r d er , t h at amidst the alarms of the week he actually could not find leisure to take his seat in Parlia ment until he had written the protocol, which is ob viously meant to pave the way for whatever exchange of treaties his official experience may suggest. The paper in question was given to the public on Thursday night, the evening on which his Lordship took the oaths, and a beautiful piece of diplomacy it truly is. This wily disciple of the Talleyrand school has at length discovered that " there is a good deal of recently developed Conservatism in the country," from whence he argues the necessity of eating in a good deal of his formerly developed Liberal ism, in deference to the paramount necessity of his retaining the pay and patronage of the Foreign office. How far that Conservatism can be said to be recently developed, which three years ago ejected his Lordship from South Hants, dismissed his Home colleague from North Devon, and sent 300 representa tives to the last Parliament, it is not necessary to say. The fact th a t th e f orm id a bl e p h a l anx on the Opposition benches convinces Lord Palmerston that the Whig majority is by no means so " sure and decided" as he had rep resente d to t h e Tivertonians, is quite sufficient for our purpose ; because on this single fact the whole policy of the Melbourne Ministry, during the current session, if they can weather it out, will unquestionably hinge. Mark what we say—Radicalism is found to be at a discount in the country. The principles of the A letter has been addressed to Lord John Russell " On Registration and the trial of Controverted Elec tions," by a Member of the last three Parliaments, which contains many suggestions well calculated to alleviate the inconvenience and evils consequent upon the present mode of qualifying for the elective fran chise. In regard to the superintendence of the re gistration, the author proposes to appoint seven judges, who, it is calculated, would complete their labours between the months of September and March, and might afterwards meet in London as an appellate Court to decide all contested cases ; every person appealing unsuccessfully to pay all expenses. The appointment of the Judges to be vested in the Go verninent, and no practising Barrister to be eligible. As to the mode of election, until the Ballot be introduced, the author despairs of any peace or har mony being established in the country. In cases of disputed returns the unsuccessful candidate is to de posit 1001. in the hands of the returning officer, to be returned if unsuccessful, in which case also he shall pay all costs. Either party who objects to a vote shall, if unsuccessful in the objection, pay to his op ponent 51.; and also, either party retaining upon his list a vote declared to be bad, and the unsuccessful party upon the whole scrutiny, shall pay all other costs. This would effectually throw the responsibility of fictitious votes on the party seeking to make them available. The following is the mode in which it is proposed to try the elections :—At the beginning of each Session, the Speaker should name one hundred Members who he shall consider the best qualified to sit upon Election Committees ; the House afterwards to reduce such list to fifty, in the following manner— each Member to deliver at the table a list of twenty five of such names to which he objects, and the fifty to whom there are the greater number of objections to be struck off the list of one hundred. The foregoing are some of the more important hints contained in the pamphlet before us. With regard to the improve ments of the system of registration, they merit deep consideration ; but as the present state of the franchise and mode of taking votes is such as will never give sa tisfaction to the British public—such as will, on the contrary, i❑ progress of time, create more and more discontent—it will be necessary that these emendations in the mode of registrations and the trial of contro verted elections, should either be preceded or accom panied by an extension of the suffrage and protection in its exercise, or we shall be as far as ever from ob taining the great object of all fundamental changes— a full, fair, and effective representation of the people. If the people of Great Britain were disposed to limit their claims to the zdtimatztm of representative reform specified by Lord John Russell, the letter of his cor respondent would be admirably adapted to form the basis of amelioration such as alluded to by his Lord ship. But the 'people expect other and greater re forms, and not only expect, but are determined on their accomplishment. Therefore, to attract public atten tion in the present critical juncture of affairs, it is not on registration and controverted elections only that one must write, but on an extension of the suffrage, the bal lot, and short Parliaments. These are the subjects on which public attention is now fixed, and on which the country and the Home Secretary are at issue. This is the time for the friends of these measures to declare themselves in a manner that will leave no mistake as to their sentiments. Let it never be forgotten that, however much we may confide in Ministers, we must always depend most upon ourselves.---Morning Ad vertiser. The debate on the Address, and the political esca pade of the unmanageable Member for Finsbury, which lent so unusual and unexpected a brilliancy to the opening scene of the Parliamentary campaign, have elicited the expressipn of very different opinions, and betrayed the operation of very different motives, in the lucubrations of two of our weekly Contempo raries. We allude to the Ministerial Examiner, whose principle seems to be expediency, and to the Radical Spectator, whose notion of expediency involves the uncompromising advocacy of principle under any cir cumstances. The Eapaminer reprobates the egotistical impudence, the " fever of impatient patriotism," the passion for premature notoriety, the bad taste and the bad temper which induced the medical and mulish mover of the amendment, in defiance of the remonstrances of his Reforming confederates, " to give the Government an attack in the rear." But, as our irate Contem• porary himself admits " that the Government drew up their front so as best to frustrate their enemies," we really cannot perceive the indiscretion of Mr. Wakley's mode of attack. To say nothing of the pro fessional habits of the Hon. Operator, it was obviously safer to direct his battery against that quarter which the enemy were least prepared to defend. " Hine lachrymm." Hence the Jeremiade of the Exa miner. The ruthless impetus of the a posteriori as sault on his Ministerial friends may well have scan dalised their sensitive and calculating ally. A mere Melbournite must have been horrified at the frantic folly of Mr. Wakley's amendment, which called forth " the declaration of Lord John Russell—.a declara tion, the irrationality and offensiveness of which no irri tation can excuse, a Vandal declaration of war against any step of improvement beyond the rotten ground of the Reform Bill." Our discomfited Contemporary, however, consoles himself with the hope that " Govern ment will reconsider their judgment upon alpoiiit so important ;" and by wa y o f encouraging them to be good boys, and behave better in time to come, he gives them a broad hint that the Radicals are not to be affronted with impunity ;--." It is clear that a Go vernment must be in a false and unnatural position when it is at direct issue with the large majority of its supporters. Reformers are like other men ; and, in looking to the talent, the industry, the c ommerc i a l wealth, the natural ambition of that vast party which IIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 18)7 are pledged to this question (the ballot), it is impos sible that they should not feel it almost as an affront that while their support is necessary to the Govern ment their prinicplcs are proscribed in the Cabinet." The complaint is natural. No man can deny that the Radical ballot-mongers, and Reformers in general, have undergone on this humiliating occasion the very " worst of ill-usage, at the hands of the Parliamentary Papa of the Reform Bill. But— " Insults are innocent when men are worthless;" and we have little doubt that the contumelious denun ciation of the Movement-men by Lord John Russell will, for expediency-sake, be forgiven and forgotten. The Radicals know, and feel acutely, that even in the Reformed House of Commons they cannot stand alone. Powerless themselves, their Whig allies are equally so ; but the two negatives united make a clumsy affirmative. Hence the laborious efforts of our Contemporary to smooth down the ruffled feathers of the Radicals on the one hand, and to explain away the unqualified de claration of Lord John Russell on the other. Our Contemporary may lay the " flattering unction to his soul," that though " Lord John has said that he will not support the Ballot, he has not said, nor even im plied, that the Cabinet will oppose it." To this extent Lord John Russell has not betrayed the secret of his colleagues. But does the Examiner suppose that the Noble Leader of the House of Commons is sufficiently out of his leading-strings to walk alone ? No, no. The Movement and the Ballot are cushioned for this Session at least. The Spectator, more attached to principle than to expediency, and wholly regardless of times and sea sons, and person and place, is much more moderate in his qualified and quasi condemnation of Mr. Wakley's irregular attack on the rear of the Government. "Our criticism on the amendment would be, that it was not ill-timed, but somewhat inexpertly framed. It should 'have been made to grow out of the topics of the Royal Speech, and been general, not technical. It should have been based on the old and admitted Parliamentary claim of redress of grievances." " It might have stated that her Majesty's faithful Commons desired to direct their early and earnest attention to the re medy of imperfections in the Reform Acts, the evils of which have been growing for some time, and have been especially felt in the recent general election, constituting, in fact, the heaviest e x i s t ing grieva n ce of the nation," &c. The Reform Bill " The heaviest existing grievance of the nation I! !" If it be so, what, then, are we to think of those who engendered the monstrous abortion ? Of Lord Grey and his journeymen—of the rabble of Re formers who lifted up their most sweet voices for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill" —of the refuse of the Grey, now constituting the Melbourne, Cabinet ? Can it be expected that after such a costly experiment, and such an unparalleled failure, the reflecting people of England will again embark on the shoreless ocean of innovation, under the guidance of the same presumptuous and unskilful pilots, who have already all but wrecked the vessel of the Sate ? The idea is absurd. The so-called Re formers have rendered the name synonimous with arro gance, incapacity, and empiricism. Lord Brougham, the brightest and boldest . of the band—he, too, has made public proclamation that the very fundamental principles of the measure which, on his bended knee, he besought the Peers to pass, were so ill adapted to the end in view, that no correction, no amendment in detail, nothing short of new principles and new details, could make it what it ought to be, and what it was intended to be. And this is the Reform Bill ! and these men are Reformers ! And to such political quacks—to men who have thus ignorantly and reck lessly tampered with the very vitals of the body politic —are we again to commit the national safety, again to become the subject of their desperate experiments ! Morning Post. The subscribers to the Irish electio❑ petitions are called by O'Connell and his faction " conspirators." Who are the real conspirators in reference to the Irish elections ? Are they the persons who have come forward openly and in the face of day to subscribe to a fund for the vindication of the law against fraud, intimidation, and violence, or the persons who have put their heads together in secret to disappoint justice of its rights by rendering the law powerless ? The subscribers to the Irish Election Petition Fund are not the persons .who advocate the unconstitutional and tyrannical principle of trying public offences by ex post facto laws. They call for the execution of the existing law relating to elections, while the Popish and Ministerial factions are resorting to every possible shift and contrivance to defeat the law. Which looks more like a conspiracy, the open and manly effort to uphold the law, or the manoeuvre to subvert it ? A great offence, not only against the rights of individuals, but against the public interests, is the usurpation of Parliamentary seats by fraud or violence. Of this sort of usurpation several of the now sitting Irish Members are accused—are they guilty or i►►nocent ? That is the question to be tried. Every man in the community has an interest in the trial of that question, because every man has an interest in upholding the due exer cise of that electoral privilege which creates the legis lature that enacts laws of every man's property, liberty, and life. How should the question be tried ? Justice says, " by the laws which were in existence when the alleged offences against electoral rights were committed"—faction says " Not so ; it should be tried by an ex post facto law." This is a principle of ad ministrative justice new to tile Constitution—at least it is a principle repudiated ever since the Constitution, which James 11. had nearly subverted was restored and defined by the Protestant settlement of 1688. Whenever any attempt has been made since that time to punish any offence by an ex post facto law, the Whigs have most indignantly exclaimed against it ; yet at this moment the Whigs, as is obvious from the expressions and tactics of Lord John Russell in the House of Commons, are conspiring with the Popish party to prevent the administra tion of " Justice to Ireland," under the existing law, relative to elections, which, if successful, would lead to the establishing of a precedent most dangerous to the liberties, and even the lives of Englishmen. If any public offence can be tried by a law made subse quently to the committal of such offence, there is no reason why any other alleged crime should not be triable after the same fashion ; a doctrine as hostile to the genius of the British Constitution, as to common rea son, and the first principles of justice. The great object of the Ministerial and Popish stratagem seems to be to procure delay by tying up the Grenville Act in the first instance, and then, relying upon the diffi culty of framing a satisfactory law in its place for the trial of election petitions, to extend that delay of jus tice over the whole duration of the present Parlia ment, so that the alleged usurpers of other men's seats may continue to sit and vote in support of the O'Con nell-Melbourne Ministry, just as if there were no im peachment of their title, and their elections had not been secured by the frauds and violence of the skull and cross-bones system of intimidation.--Morning Herald. An enormous sturgeon was the object of much ad miration on Friday, at Gorton's fish warehouse, behind the General Post-office. It was purchased by some loyal citizens and forwarded to the Queen. As Sir Richard Gethin, Bart., who, it will be re collected, lately succeeded to the title, on the death of his grandfather, Sir Percy Gethin, and who is a minor, at present under the tuition of the Rev. C. Roper, was amusing him self with firing off a small cannon on Friday, the powder.. flask which he held suddenly exploded, inflicting a very serious injury on his hand, the skin being torn from his fingers i n a dreadful way. The sufferer was immediately taken to Mr. Madnen, surgeon, of Heavitree, who dressed the wound with the greatest care ; and though the appearance of it at first was so serious as to threaten amputation, we are happy to say that the youthful Baronet is going on as well as can bo expected.— Western Luminary. Grandy and Asselin, two English workmen at a cotton manufactory near Calais, agreed lately to settle some personal dispute by a boxing bout. The English residents at Calais and Boulogne are, for the most part, exactly the sort of people likely to take great delight in a prize fight; it is therefore not surprising that on the appointed day a large assemblage was found congregated in a field at a short dis tance from the town. Seconds, umpires, bottlemen, and the rest of the paraphernalia of the ring were formally chosen, and the fight commenced. The French police, however, had received information of the intended " breach of the peace," and before many rounds had been fought a party of military made their appearance, carried away the combatants to durance vile, and dispersed the valiant crowd, who were highly in censed at so arbitrary an iinterferellee with the it fined diver sion which they had come to behold. Grandy and Asselin were brought before the Tribunal of Police, and severally con demned to six days' imprisonment. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS. ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 24. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Shure 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. 113 s. sh. 135 1,182 41. Ashhr.de_le.Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 5 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150,. sh. 100 8,000 1-16 sh. 91.65. Birmingham, 1-16th share sli. & 711. 220 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251. sh. lOU pd 26 600 04 Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Elackwater 100/• sh. 10'2 ~..... ...- -... -.-......... -. 500 481. Coventry Y R 'OOl. sh. 700 4.515 Croydon 2,060; 4/. 03. Dudley ..... 1001. sh. $3 tioo 71. Derby 1001. sh. 1t.3 2,,000 3,574 Si. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 77 2.31 401. Erewash lOOl. gu. 700 . _ _ - 1,2797 .)1.81. Forth and Clyde kvcrage 41401.165. th. 610 11,000 121. Grand Junction 100!. sh. 215 2, 8 494 U. Grand Union 1001. sh. 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 20,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 70 3,106 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. Ilk. 4d. 230 749 10t. Grantham 1501.8 h. 212 6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. ficl. sh. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,3213 11. ss. Kennet 2nd Avon, Average 391.186.10 d. sh. 24 2,897 k 24/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 514:0: 545; 131. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 225 1,897 41. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 131. 108. 88 2,400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 21111) 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001. rh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 565 3,000 N. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52 2 , 17 17/. Neath , 100/. sh. 325 1 786 30/, Oxford 100/. sh. 530 ~::GO 51. Peak Forest Avei.ge about 781 . sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 16 5,609 61. per cent. 11 ochdale Average 85/. sh. 111 500 8/. Shropshire /'2.51. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 151; 3,600/. 41 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh. 114 700 40/. Statibrd and Worcester 140/.Bh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 9/. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. i's. Stratford-on_ Avon ...Average 791. 9s. tld. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea lON. sh. 231 6,782 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Ar 351. sh. 264 2,60850. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share 100/. sh. 560 8,149 Thames :mil Medway...Aver. 191.55. 2d. sh. 2 1,000811.1 „I. Warwick and Birmingham lOO/.sh• 265 1,01.104,11.3 - 9P,0 I It. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 185 6,000 41.05. Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 78/. Bs. sh. t''o4 5,000 255. Wilts an, Berke .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 125!. sh 75 isro Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45 905 L. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 214 DOf.7KS. 2,600 Ss 7 1,06545 h j3p. c Commercial 10 0 /. sh. 5 5 198,667 e/. 6 per ct. East India Stock 107 3,233,31011. 50s. p.c t. London Stock 534 Ditto Bonds po 1,380,000/. 44/. p. ct. West India 2,..1114 2/. 19s. Brist ~ l 68,321/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 44 percent. St. Kathatine stock 98 50(4,040 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,0011 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tor 10 years 994 Shoreham harbour 2.500 .... .... Deptford Pim ` ) 01. sh. 3/. B 11.1 DOES. 1,660 Ifs. Ilaminersm.ti 5Ol. sh. 221 7,2:11 Southwark, Old AY. ti:',./. 2.5. Sd. sh. 2 1,700 1/. Iss. Ditto, New, of 7.1 per cent. 501.8h. 141 5,600 5,000 ISs. Sd, Ditto, Old Annuities of W. 6O/. pd 19 5,000 16s. 4d, Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 161 60,0001. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds IIS 5,345 17s Vauxhall Average 70/. 10s. 3d. O. 161 ASSURANCh: COMPAN:ES. 2,009 SI Ins Albion WO/. sh. 50/. pd 80 50,000 [sfnii lent.} Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1011. pd 121 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 5/. pd 51, 24,000 11 per sh. Atla' 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 131 1,9.00 fah. Si. Birmingham 1' ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 42 10,000 61. per cent. riritith Commercial 501. 0. 5/. pd 6; 5,000 Si. per cent. Clerical, MeJi.:al,&c. Life, ICO/ sh. 12110 s pd 4 4,000 '2l les County 100/. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 206 r 5 per cent.? Economic Lila WOOL sh. 250/. pd 375 tand 301 bs. .5 2,271 225. per cent. European Li, `)01. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd li 1,000,0011. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 155 20,000 5/. Guardian lOO/. sh. 27f/ pd 33f 40,000 On. 6td. Hope 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/. sh. 50/. pd 125 7,500 9e. Imperial Lile 1001. sh. 101. pd 10 13,458 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine.... 1,111. sh. 81. pot 16f 2,029 Si 10s Kent Fire.... 50/. sh. all pd 82 Si. Ditto Llfr .a 10,909 1s: Law Life 100/. sh. IN. pd i5l 5,P.1U ios. London, Fir., 25/. sh. 12/. Pls. pd 15f :1,900 10s. Londcn, Ship 251. sh. FS. 105. pd 151 . 30,060 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. 21. pd 218 s 04 5.1,001 4/. per cent. Protector Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd Plc Od 2,590 1/. Provident Lite WO/. sh. 101. pd 19f 100,000 ss. Rock Life 00/. sh. 11, pd tii 6-0,2201 Si. per cent. Royal Exchange Sto k... 225 6,000 5 par cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. rid bf 50,000 4 per cent. United Kinvdom Life 2/. pd JOINT SIOCK BANKS 25,39 8 per cent. fkgric7and Comm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4O!. sh. 40!. pd 57 (0,(r.1 10 per cent. Bank of BO iningham 5ll. sh. 10/. pd 13 10000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank . . 5O/. sh. rd. IA 16i 30,000 5 per cent. I ,on,lon and Westminster-100/ sh. 201. pd 2 , ..1 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 1.0 25,000 Liverpool 1001. sh. 101. pd 23 50,000 7f per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/.811. 15/ pd 20 Discount 20,009 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. 251. pA 391 20, (.0 National Bank of Ireland s'l. oh 17i1. pd 151 10,000 5 per cent. National Prrwincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 03/. pi 21 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 20 (1,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. rh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT ANL) COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1156 (id Bath b,O(JO Brio ill 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 [ 5l-I ' - ' rcent i Ditto Provi.scial 201. sh. 19 pi 221, and Bs. ss. 928 51105 Birmingham 5Ol. sh. S9B 1,259 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 3.' 10s ht Brigon '2Ol. sh. 11 - - - -- - - 750 31 les Ditto, New 201. sh. 18/. pd 1 , 2,471 43 per cent. Btighton General 901. sl , all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 623!. pd 85 1,000 10/. City of London 1 00/. sh. all pd 180 1,000 61. Dittn, New 1,000 4/. 10s. Equitable l .Ol. pd 203 10,000 23 per cent. Imperial -01. sh. 451 800 56, per cent. Isle of Tnauct 9 51. sh 2O/. pd 20 2,350 61. per cant. Independent ,r.',01. sh. 011 psi 483 9,000 3/. per cent. Phomir. I 'o/. sh. 39/. pd 213 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcli(t" lOO/. sh. 89/. pd 57 4,115) - South Metropolitan 'VV. sh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. pd 25 210 5/, per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 311 400 10/. per cent Wakefield 12,900 Si. Westinirster Chartered ...... .... 5Ol. sh. 46 6,00,1 12s. Ditto New 600 Yarmouth 201. sh. 18/. pd 9 WATER WJRKS. I,NO‘t Os. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 21i 1,;24 6!. East London lOO/. sh. 145 5,500 21 lOs (+rand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. .51 2,000 2/, Kent 1001. sh. 43 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 3: - .6 1,500 21 lOs N ew Inver London Bridge WaterAnnui ties 5S (3,436 11150 Maochester and Salford lOOl. sh. 53 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOOl. 1). 37 .... , 8,2,14 3al. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 6d. sh. 64 1 1 1,360 Il 14s Fork Lei !di lig Co. Lessee Prop ..... ..100/. sh. 35 IRON It AII,\VAYS. 6,000 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby l5/. pd 7 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 124/, pd 34 7,54 X) Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction (ii 15, , C0 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. RI pd 24 600 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. 2/. pd (' 7,54)0 Cheltenham and G. Western...'. 001. sh. 74/. 14 3,009 Clarence lOOl. sh. 1001. pd 30 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 24 pd 04 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/ sh. 3/. 0 6.5. 4 ci Grand Junction 1001. sh. toi. pd 161 Great North of England 7l. pd 54 25,00 2,0'10 Itartlepool 103/. sii. 100/ pd 100 6,000 ...... ... Hull and '.elby 50/. ah. 10/. pd 5 10,001 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. fd. pd 14 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby h:;0 sh. 44 1,500 11.50. Leicester and Swannington ....50/. sh. all pd '7O 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchestcr...lo(Lsh. 1001. p 4 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ";l. pd 61 36,000 London and Brighton 50/. sh. 5/ pd 24 12,009 London and Blackwall 5O!. sh. 3/ pd 9s 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sic 20/. rd 14 25,000 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. SW. pd 148 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. lid 214 20,000 London and Southampton..... 01. sh. 501, pd 33s Ditto ditto New 7,000 ... ...... London and Croydon Trunk 201. ch. 20/. pd Is 7,000 Ditto Scrip 14/. sh. 2/. pd 6 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 5/. pd 04 10,000 Manchester and 13irmingham 50/.sh. 5/. pd 3,4 North Midland 100/ ah. 25/. pd 234 Northe , m and Eastern lOOl. sh. 81. pd 2i 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 5/. pd 28,000 ...... ... South Eastern and Dover .. 71. pd 3 1,000 191. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 100!. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . oh. 3/. pd 04 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 4,000 1/. 53. A lten 151. sh. 121. lOs pd 111 10,000 ........ Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription 25/. pa 4 2,000 • 1 0 1. Bolanos i 1501. sh all pd 721 10,000 • 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. .35/. sh. 20/ pd 21 6,01.'0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 25/. sh. 231/. pd 6 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey '2Ol. sh. W. pd 3/ 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. 20/. pd 5 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 10!. sh. 81. pd 6 20,000 British Iron 5O/. sh. 501 pd 351 6,000 ... ...... British Copper ~ 5/. sh. 4,11. lid li Cata Branca 61/. pd 7 Candonga 7/. pd 6 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. s h 1211 pd 111 5,500 .. Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 31. English 12! Rs. pd 20,000 General Mining Associati on ...2o/ s h . 15/. pd 101 6,153 Mexican Company 100/. sh. 551/. pd 01 3,000 Polberou Consols 10! . sh. 8/. pd 2 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered l4l Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 1121 30,000 ......... United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd :2i DWG Scrip 2f • - Ditto New Scrin Jitto NeW Scrip 5l pd 3 West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 - London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs sh. 20j 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd '2 l l 700 Russell o .sgs sh. 9 King' College 1001. pd 28 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. 264/. pd 34 i 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 231. pd 14 10,000 61 per cent. Canad a Co m p a ny 1001. sh. 26/. pd 35 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 94 City Bonds, 4 per cent l oot 15,000 11. 6s. General Steam Navigation ... 151 ';' . 131. pd 22 , 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock - 2,000 11. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 251. sh. Y. pd 11 New Brunswick Land Company 431. pd 11 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 125 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 70/. pd 66 4,000 10,000 61. Van Die_ ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd 1( i - LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, OCT. 21, 1837. BANKS. _ _ _ 831.65. Bd. sh. all pd 19011. 100/. sh. all pd 161/. 2,000,0301. 5i P. ct. Royal o . British Linen Company 100/. sh. all pd f.:32/. 500,0)0/. g P. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1004 pd 1711. 1,500,0061. 61. p. ct. Rank of f 3,000,0004 6/. p. ct. 1 1004 sh. 101. pd 161. a Isit lona t•CO;tEinC 5 .40 0 , 000 • ' D. . Glasgow Union 2 50/. oh. 50/ pd 68/. 2,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Western of Scotland . . 2OOl sh * D -4,000" 04 4 p - • ct* INSURANCE COMPANIES*. 301. ' d 3.'7 ' . . 000 sh 64 p. ct. Scottish Union .................. 20/. sh. 1/. pd 26s 250, • 100/. sh. 10/. pd 131 15s. ~..,,,„. p. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland -.104 sh. all pd 81 1 , 2 , : , mv 6 p. ct. North British 2OOl. sh. 10/. pd lb/. 5, ; , )-n; 5 p. ct. Caledonian Fire. lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 18/ 00 ',WO 61 p. ct. Hercules 10V! , ,;;_',',; 6 p. ct. Edinburgh Life lOO/. sh. 101. pd 14/108 o '4 31 p. ct. West of Scotland .... .. ............ 10/. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin. and G!as. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto A110cated,,,,,,,, .... 96/ sh all pd 65/. ... . • 5,400. 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water.... 25/. sh. all pd 341. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 451. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founder,/ 50/. sh 3RI. pd 43/. 10 , 000 3 per cant. Fdinhurgh & Leith Glass 9O/. sh. 16/. r.l 8, 1 4 4,500 10 per cent. I ': 4 !nburgh Coal Gas ‘?,/. sh. all pd 56 / 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas , 51. sh all pi! 611, 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 9 0/. sh. all pd 45/. 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...sol. sh 55/. 3,000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Corepany 251. oh. 91, pd 101. IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1 hv the The following are the names of gentlemen returnea for th e Judges of Assize to serve the office of High Sheriff ensuing year .. ANTRIM.—J. O wen s, M'Neil, Esq., of Parkmount, Belfast; J. Agnew, E x l" • Kilwaughter, Larne. e, Esq., of Holcstone, ARMAGEL—J. M. Stronere, Esq., of Tynan Abbey; A. Cep Esq., of Loughgall ;L. 'Dobbin, Esq., of Armagh. , nOW CARLOW.—Hon. J. B. Ponsonby, of Garryhill, f A u C c a b l or..., Ballyelare; /0i W. F. Tighe, Esq., of Woodstock. Innistiogue; fl• i" ) " Esq., of Clogrennan, Carlow. Merq n CAVAN.—.R. Burrowes, Esq., of Stradone, Cavan ; ,„-- o f Pratt, Esq., of Cabra, Kingscourt • R Saunderson, .c'sq" ~ R. Drumkeen, Cavan. Simile- CLARE.—Stafford A. O'Brien, Esq. , o f Cratloe, ;j, bridge ; F. J. Fitzgerald, Esq., of A dei p hi, Corofin Crowe, jun., Esq., of the Abbey, Ennis. Ban don; CORK.—Viscount Bernard, of Casle Bernard, gs,'' J. H. Smith Barry, Esq., of Fuaty, Cove; R. Whi te ' ""-' of Inchiclough, Bantry. DONEGAL.—D. Chambers, Esq ,of Belvillc, L etterkennf ; J. Vandeleur Stewart, Esq., Of Rockhill, LetterkenoY; R. G. Montgomery, Esq., of Convoy. it% DOWN.—Trevor Corry, Esq., Newry; T. Johnson Stn Esq., Lisburn; T. Waring, Esq., of Warringfield, NeorPaa. DUBLlN.—Colonel T. White, of Woodlands, 14nctio: Baron de Robeck, of Rathcoole; J. J. Bagot , Esq., a ' ~as bagot, 1,:il a ; FERMANAGH.—Lord Loftus, of Ely Lodge , Ennis.,ny E. Denny, Esq., of Derryvolane, Enniski llen ; S' Ar strong, Esq., of Hollymount, Manor Hamilton. brea; OALWAY.—Sir J. Burke, Bart., of Marble-hill, Log Kir , J. S. Lambert, Esq., of Gregclare, Craughwell; Denis wan, Esq., of Castle Gun, Hacker, Tua. KERRY.—Wilson Esq., of Rattoo, Tralce ; A . S. 113' /- mond, Esq., of Ballyloughran, Tralee ; J. O'Connell, stl' of Grena, Killarney. li r, KILDARE.—Hon. E. Lawless, of L Rathcoole ; Lyons, Esq.! Hussey Burgh, Esq., of Donore, Naas • A. Mansfield, of Alorristownlatrin, Newbridge ' • KILKENNY.—Lorenzo N. lzod, Esq., of Chapel Izod, Ke j . Theophilus St. George, Esq., of Wodsoift Freshford Butler Wandesford, Esq f C t" '., o astlecomer. 01, KING'S COUNTY.—T. Bernard, Esq., of Castle Ber n , Dr Kinnotty ; J. Warburton, Esq., of G4rryhinch, Pollaril ton ; F. Jackson, G. of Innane, Ros( Tea. olv LEIT i RII.. Hon. G. Keppel, of Drumsna and 22, B r° street, London ; Sir Morgan Crofton, 1 ' 11 hill. Bart., i o King Tennyson, Esq., of Castle Tennyson, K d Kea due. ° re, mLi —ERICK.—Hon. Standish O'Grady, of Caller Guill anl Bruff; Viscount Glentworth, Limerick; T. M. Wilson, 54:1 Caherconlish. ' one et LONGFORD. - J. Fetherston, Esq., of Fitzwilliana--,Fos, Dublin ; Shirley Ball, Esq , of Abbeylara, Longford ; Esq., of Foxhall, Longford. A a lk; LOUTII.—T. Forteseue, Esq., of Ravensdale , 1 ) ° - , 11. J. Brabazon, Esq., of Dromiskin, Castlebellingham ' M'Clinton, jun., Esq., of Dromiskin, Castlebelling h l ° MAYO.—M. Blake, Esq., of Ballinafad , Balla • 13 ,4 /a io, Knox, Esq., of Netley Park, Ballina ; Of Fisherhill, C astlebar. MEATII.—M. E. Corbally, Esq., of Corbalton-112111 19 ~44 1• :r shaughlin ; R. Rothwcll, Esq., ofßockfield, Clonar d ; 'l' G. Nugent, of Castle Sheanc Newcastle. NO' MONAGIIAN.—T. Crawford, ' Esq., of Fortsingleto n )c , bliss; T. Coote, Esq., of Fortwilliam, Cootehill ; R. Eq., of Mount Louise, Carrickmacross. fino, QUEEN'S COUNTY.—C. H. Coote, E s q., of BAY h . , Mountrath ; W. W. Despard, Esq., of Donore, 111ountrat J. Tibeaudo, Esq., of Portnahinch, Mountmeilick. , g o s. Roscommos.—D. H. Farrell, Esq., of Beechwoou, --eh, common ; R. O'Connor, Esq., of Miltown-house, Fre° park ; D. Maon, Esq., of Strokestown. • o Suoo.—Li h eut.-Colonel Sir W. Parke, of Doonally, Si/gle J. F. Knox, Esq., of Mount Falcon, Ballina; E. 03611' jun., Esq., of Belleck, Ballina. fell ; TIPPERARY.-Hon. F. A. Prittle, of Corvine, R.,.° sc l ig - r , R. Pennefather, Esq., of Darling-hill, Clonmel ;S. N Y--11 ton, Esq., of Rochestown, Caber. v! S• TYRONE.—Lord Corry, of Castlecoole, Enniskillen ; ",-,..6" a , Caulfield, Esq., of Drumkern, Stewartstown ; T. Knox, r'. _ D WA unannon. g TERFORD.—J. Musgrave, Esq., of Turin, La s " . d; Shapland C. Morris, Esq., of Harbour View, WaterM John Fitzgerald, Esq., of the Island, Waterford. a te; WESTMEATH.-James Count Nugent, of Ballinacor, bIo Cuthbert Fetherstonc, Esq., of Dardistown, W. Reynell, Esq., of Killynon, Muingar. e eth WEXFORD.—C. J. Tottenham, E ll sq., of Tottenhal m g r O. New Ross ; E. Beatty, Esq., of Healthfield, W exf ord; Le Hunte, Esq., of Altamont, Wexford. n , ore ; WICKLOW.—J. Pratt Tynt, Esq., of Tynt Park, Bally o 0 °0 D. C. La Touche, Esq., of Luggelaw, Bray; R. 11 ' 1(12 Esq., of Springfarm, Newtown Mountkennedy. On Thursday evening an adjourned meeting of 1 16 5,, loom weavers was held. After an hour's discussion, 'plias causes of distress among this suffering body, and on the n e itte o sity of uniting together for their own protection, a Con n c o te la dst t was appointed to prepare documentary evidence to Y irai a ii . the Commissioners appointed to enquire into their From this discussion it was evident, that the weavers gen e oi e have abandoned all hope of relief from the ridiculous so` n o of appointing a Board for the regulation of wages: Thel at ed begin to perceive, that wages cannot be materially angl. n . c a to whilst they have the power-loom and foreign congeal° 00 , contend against; and the growing conviction a mong tb is to o fortunate class is that a repeal of the Corn Laws can ei afford them permanent relief. —Blackburn Gazette. at At one of the last fetes of the season give n , pd, Tivoli a young medical student, lately arrived from Eng` a t he anxious to view the tournament to advantage, got astr ide t ye wooden barrier. This being contrary to the regulatio ns 'ot municipal guard desired him to dismount, and as the Y ° d e r• islander, either unable or unwilling to understand the 0 r a ll did not obey, the police officer seized him by the leg top to him down. This was a proceeding equally unintellig ib i Taa v the student, who, with the force and skill of a Cribb or af o ot son, gave his assailant a facer which cut open his lip lino., two of his teeth down his throat. This prowess, bo w arc eo was unavailing. Our pugilistic student was seized, in e c o o. rated, and on Saturday brought before the Tribunal of rectional Police, by which he was sentenced to a furth er t o $ prisonment of ten days, and to pay to the municipal O a sum by way of damage. he r France continues her endeavours to improve oe breeds of cattle. Tups from English sheep imported to be Agricultural institution at Alford several years ago ar e h igh ginning to be distributed over the country, being in Corp' request at the annual sales. Lately the Minister of na y meree has had brought over to the same establishment a li bpi ber of the Durham short,horned cows, which are EIS Y e t n during o, litt'e known in France, but are esteemed in England as ueing the finest meat npon the smallest quantity of f° e H y de o de POTATOES.—The potatoe crop has this yea r ; pow considerable amends for its former misgivings. Nob o4 i . for talks prophetically on the subject of the exhausted pol la propagation of this most useful root, and how could .ri tio al the face of such an excellent crop? We believe it will ta , if be agreed that the former failures arose in a great me est ; t hat not entirely, from the peculiarities of the season, an lot' the drought and heat at and subsequent to the time of P ing was the main source which, in so many instances' i n j e oce stop to their vegetation. This year, however, in cons e l, o ti of the lateness of the season, the potatoes have done we t oo the crop is g e n era lly su p era b un d ant . I n some cases eref"aid, very good crops ha ve b een success i ve l y raised.--Fife HERRING TRADE.—The fi s hi ng season in land land may n ow b e cons id ere d as over. Th e co d -fishing. S eas a ocl has been unusually abundant, the whole quantity curetoos• dried being estimated at about one thousand six hundreu ll , for Many cargoes h ave a l rea d y b een s hi ppe d o ff, pr ineiPa api sh Ireland. Two cargoes have been purchased for the SP_ two market, and it is said th a t or d ers f rom Spain for one °: a at cargoes more wer e rece i ve d b y a L on d on house, but tre.,oo - partly from the uncertain state of our mail eow"i; e ia cation, and partly from apprehension of the quality not ag ip suitable. There is a considerable quantity yet remainss tha t the islands. The ling-fishing has not been so abundant_bing. of the cod, but is considered fully equal to an averageLnesrrior The saith-fishing is much below an average. The n ovate fishery is also very short, but as yet there is no correct e an d formed of the quantity. There have been some hurl . : r ise• prices have varied from 16s. to 18s., and are still on tfl e w e st A slight demand for spent herrings, for repacking f or thole to India market, has also taken place ; prices much the fast dis those sold for the home markets. The whole stock is appearing, and, in the course of a week or two, there ,7 0 .01. all likelihood, be none left in'tbe country.—She tland CAOUTCHOUC RICK:CLOTHS.--A new c ° . c _; t oral for hay, straw, &c. has been presented to the Agrl_ u ,.d Society of Paris, which has been found to have ansvro.; pro ceedingly well during the late heavy rains, not °nil 10f pug' venting the wet, but having also the desirable qualitYlera. venting . insects from depositing their oves. This c,, q o§; which is very simple, consists of a piece of strong;ece, similar to that used for ships' sails in the shape of a n r ube r ' well saturated with a dilution of caoutchouc or Indi l a e ca b a ss with spirits of common turpentine. It renders tl a. t o c an quite impervious and more elastic, and the prepa w r I ! b u ing be made at a trifling expense. The Government, La y s eer?: make a trial of it at the late camp of Compeigne , ° wo rt 01 4 of the soldiers' tents prepared with it, and from the it ha board of officers appointed to make the experimerns to 13.3 that j‘re io proved so efficacious in propelling the damp. d adopted throughout the French army l" Farmers' Journal. , _ S ho o r On Thursday an inquest was held City house, No. 16, Walbrook, before Mr. Payne', o f John f a nor, and a respectable jury, on view of the body rnstannes,°o - encamp • ler, aged 47, who committed suicide under c ircathe evidence very distressing nature. It appeared from. w ith a ~.e r duced, that the deceased, who was a married.o7 4 ateo se t n6 ; of "were / Je n ; for family, for a number of years held the situation to the firm of Oppenheim and Co., uss unfortunate ma, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury. The been seasa vettr!thuat, e some months prior to his melancholy death _a ‘st • „get pressed state of mind, the chief cause 0 " twen.Y y e ars . ; ~( p y able to his eldest son, a young man about Wed . e e', involving himself in some serious difficultie..•wire suspe!.1000:00., morning the deceased was discovered by No . 89, Chocked, a rope to a hook in the wall at his lodgi ngs 'd r eadful l Y 5 ,v :1 3 P° Cannon-street. The poor woman, who wa s d „urgeol e ies gave an alarm, and he was cut down, an n d other re f life ba d attended, and endeavoured by bleeding an functions affectei, restore animation, but ineffectually, as the wag deeply f ceased. The widow of the deceased, wh o we re e- i o d 0 at her slid bereavement, and otherreiltiti:d that t he ve e- rdict o f from whose st a t emen ts the jury were n sa d t " the unhappy man was distracted, " Temporary mental derangement." ,returned