The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-14 00:00:00

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THE CAVAN Etscrios has terminated after a fierce
struggle, carried on amidst much excitement, in the
triumphant return of Mr. Burrowes ,the Protectionist
candidate, by a majority of not quite 400 over the
Papist nominee, Mr. Hughes. The poll Listed two
days, and the final numbers were not accurately
known, though the result was unquestionable.
His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Lieu-
tenant, arrived at Kingstown on Wednesday, at two
o'clock. Arrived in Dublin, he proceeded in state to
the Castle, loudly cheered by the people.
The name of the Rev. Dr. Stanford is removed
from the list of the Viceregal Chaplains, some person
having communicated to Lord Carlisle that the rev.
gentleman had been dismissed as chaplain to the
North Dublin workhouse, for proselytising ten-
dencies.
Sergeant Sullivan, says the Cork Constitution, has
got his well-earned commission; but it is not to the
War-office he owes it. "No ; ashamed are we to say,
and ashamed should the country be to hear, that
but for the press, for Sic De Lacy Evans, and for
Mr. French, he would be a sergeant still; and a ser-
geant he might continue until death relieved him of all
care about promotion. If we are not mistaken, even
this tardy act of justice was sorely against the will
of one who was not altogether unconcerned in the
doing of it."
The venerable Baron Pennefather, now in his
eighty-fourth year, has been visited with a melancholy
infliction by the death of his last surviving son, Mr.
John Pennefather. The sad event took place, after
a few days' illness, on Sunday evening. The de-
ceased, who was rapidly attaining a high reputation
at the bar, attended as Crown Prosecutor at the
Tipperary Assizes, where he caught typhus fever of
the most malignant type, and under the effects of
which he rapidly sank from the outset of the attack.
The Baron's eldest son, the late Mr. Richard Pen-
nefather, filled the post of Irish Under-Secretary
during the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel, and was also
carried off by fever. Mr. John Pennefather was
chairman of the Killarney Junction, and a director
of the Great Southern and Western Railway.
The Irish exodus has already re-set in at the
southern ports, and crowds of the peasantry are daily
leaving their native shore for the far west beyond the
Atlantic. The steamers from Waterford leave each
week, carrying with them their full complement of
emigrants. The Roman Catholic clergy at home
and in the United States have been for some time
past exerting their utmost influence to induce the
Irish peasantry to give " fatherland" another trial, as
there is no longer a prospect of bettering their con-
dition in the model republic until at least some
check is given to the formidable organisation of the
" Know-nothings." The reverend advisers, however,
see no objection to their flocks going to the Canadas,
which are now regarded as the land of promise,
although under British rule. From the province of
Connaught, too, the cry is still" They go," and even
the voice of John of Tuam is powerless to stay the
flight of his erratic subjects.

THE Post believes it to be probable that when the
Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill comes on for a second
reading on Monday certain clauses will be proposed
by the Government conferring upon newspaper
proprietors a copyright, necessarily of brief duration,
in all articles of original composition published by
them.

IN A RETURN moved for by Sir G. B. Pechell, and
just published, it appears that the total number of
Russian vessels captured as prizes, and against which
proceedings have been taken in the High Court of
Admiralty in England, from the 29th of March, 1858,
to the Bth of February, 1855, amounted to 105. A
few were captured under Danish, Swedish, Han-
overian, Mecklenburg, Dutch, Norwegian, Tuscan,
Greek, and lonian colours. Two were captured
under British colours by the Customs' officers of the
ports of Leith and Liverpool.