The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-26 00:00:00

THE KING'S COUNTY ELECTION.

to all the calculations of electoral gains and losses
which have been published by the liberal journals it has
beet assumed that Sir Petrie& O'Brise, the liberal eandi.
date, was detested at the election for Illog's County. It
now appears, however, that Sir Patrick was second on the
poll, and that it is Mr. Pope Hemmer who has lost hie
seat. The Dublin Freeman of yesterday publishes the fol-
lowing letter from its owe correepondeat : . .

Tullamove, Monday Eveoing.—The boastioga the special
telogram's, and the " undoubted returns* notwithstanding,
Sir Patrick O'Brien occupiem the second place on the poll.
On Saturday serious doubts existed as to the accuracy of
tho totems which place Sir Patrick lest, although it was
sought to platy him in a minority of hut cies. After farther
thought and totting, his friends claimed for him a mil ority of
two, and in this very perplexing dilemma yesterday was
passed—neither gentleman positively knowing his posi-
tion. To-day, however, all doubts have been pot to rest.
The Sheriff ham had the poll books " east up," and after a
close scrutiny, I am happy to annoesa• a clear and decided
majority of six has been established for Sir Patrick
O'Brien. This will be officially &slimmed to-morrow, and
even now the greatest satisfaction is felt throughout the
county that Sir Patrick still matinees one of our represen-
tatives. The oorrect state of this poll is as follows:

King
O'Brien
Hammy

. 2,192
.. 1,246
.. 1,240

MR J. P. HENNESSY'S DISAPPOINTMENT.

The Dublin Evening Mail says :—" The return
for the King's County, as amended upon • mutiny, places
Sir Patrick O'Brien second upon the poll, and excludes
Mr. Hennessy. This result, if anything were wanting to
add fords and bitterness to the lesson which Mr. Disraeli
may reed in the elections supplies it. Mr. Hennessy was
the most prominent member of that ultramontane contin-
gent which the leader of a 000 e protestant opposition had
succeeded in drawing, by his perverted policy and dangerous
promise, into subsidiary relations with his party. Nor was
he important merely as the chief of Mr. Dundee fanatical
Romeo catholic allies. He possessed powers which, quite
apart from that peculiar position, would have rendered
him a considerable um. A ready and forcible speaker,
industrious and enterprising, with a quick perception of
weakness and a ready grasp of details. is slyer formidable
—at least is those guerilla hostilities which embarrass and
fatigue • government. Mr. Hennessy was, measured by
his parliamentary stews, worth to Mr. Disraeli more
than all the nitremontine contingent beside. His lon
is, therefore, so far as we an see, an irreparable
one. Mr. Disraeli has lost • servant, and Mr. White-
side a colleague, for whom they may search the ranks of
' catholic' bigotry in vain to find • parallel. We say
nothi,g of the diagrams involved is such an alliance. It
certainly did Dot touch Mr. Hennessy. To purchase him
and his associates Mr. Darnell had promised them all that
their ambition had dared to look for. A papal policy abroad,
and in Ireland • settlement' of the church, of the edu-
cation system, and of the poor-law, according to the scheme
of the Quirinal. It placed, certainly, no strain upon Mr.
Hennessy's conscious to support an opposition conducted
upon such a basis. How much honour the treaty reflected
upon the ex-official gentlemen who negotiated and concluded
it the public have already pronounced."
"Mr. Pope Hennessy," says the Northers Whig, "n-
-presented the alliance of Toryism and ultimo:atomism in
the late parliament, and aspired to represent it in the
newly-elected House of Commas ; bat the thing has ceased
to be, and with it have vanished all the rams of Mr. Pope
Hennessy's peliticsi existence. This electors of King's
County have, therefore, dispensed with his services, while
they have retained thole of his liberal catholic colleague.
Mr. Pope Hennessy is now an anachronism. The combine.
tion which gave him importance belongs to • pest which
will have no future. Mr. Hennesay has fallen into • fatal
error. He has deliberately snuffed himself out. He nude
the double mistake of conceiving that • politician can do
withouta chancier, Ando/ Skies tie accident of • moment
forfora permanent undeentioding and alliance."