Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

IRELAND

WICKLOW ELECTIOII.—Lord Proby was re-elected for the
County of Wicklow, on Monday, without opposition. The
election was rendered necessaryiby his lordship's acceptance
of a situation snider the present Government.
COMMERCIAL FAtLURE.---A firm engaged in the flax trade

at licitast has failed. The liabilitieg' are stated to be from
£50,000 to £lOO,OOO, which' are principally with foreign
house. The name of the firm is not mentioned hi' the
local papers which allude to the failure.

TICE VACIISTRACY:—'---Thos. Graey, Esq., of Ballyhossett,
has been appointed a magistrate for the county of Down.
THE Coulsrry JUDGES.—The Evetting Mail says:—"Jt is
understood that Mr. Andrews declines to accept the chair-
manship of Cork, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Berwick.
It was offered to Sir Colman O'Loghlen, and of course re-
fused. Sir. Colman has already a first-class county.. Ile
goes the Munster Circuit, and is by law precluded from
practising in a county where hepresides as chairman. "Will
Lord Carlisle venture to appoint Mr. Barron to the East
Riding. of Cork ? "
TENANT RIGHT.--The following paragraph has been going
. . .

the rounds of the provincial press :--4 If the late govern--
meat had remained in office, Mr. Longfiold, M.P. for Mal-
lo~v, have filled a high office under it, as he was
selected,r
i.uch to the surprise of his Irish legal brethren, to
n
the most important clauses in the much talked of
uoeN-, aie would.

which during the last few weeks has been
y- THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS:—The excessive heat of
t
-its character, has produced a great drought,
from almosth
generally e
wteiaiti:l°lecailtrrri::etimffering severely. There is one good result,
Ilisinof which pasture meadows and the crops
however, Namely—that the maturity of the potato crop has
been accelerated._

GRATTAN, Este,.-Este,.Este,.-HenryGrattan,
DE OF
Esq., only survivingTlEl'lll son of the great Irish orator of—l
niimht say—the past century—died suddenly on SUnday last,
at his residence In the county Wicklow. About thirty years
ago Mr. Grattan represented the city of Dublin for a short
4.1;n parliament, and subsequently sat for the county of

ae way tor a coin-
ha withdrew at once fronr connection
parative stranger, the ',la, t! Mr. Lucas; proprietor of the
Ultramontane Tablet. ihis event took place in 1852, and
he felt so deeply the conduct of the party which had treated
him so badly; that
with agitators, and but. rarely afterwards appeared as a
volitician in public. Mr. Grattan was, notwithstanding the
excitability of his temper in debate, inoffensive to his poli.
tieal opponents, and at all times the gentleman. He was a
member of: the Repeal Association, and a close follower of
the Tublie career of the late ,Mr. O'Connell. He was pre-
sent at the Andress 'levee, given by the Earl and Countess of
Eglintou, on the occasion of their departure from Dublin
,Castle about a .fortnight ago, ,nd then appeared in his usual
.robust health. •

'om w

be surprising if such of the legis-
lors as were most opposed to the war were the
eloquent and the loudest in their congratulation_ _
The question that interests us just now is, whether
the terms of the Villafranca agreement will be sub-
mitted in congress to the powers that signed the
treaties of 1815, or will be quietly and definitively
settled by the plenipotentiaries of Austria and France
in simple and friendly conference at Zutich. Austria
is decidedly opposed to a congress ; ' and France
earnestly desires it. We know that' the idea of
causing the treaties of 1815 to be cancelled by
the same hands that signed them has been for years
the cherished idea of the French Eniperor, and with
the present advantages in his favour it .is with some
difficulty he would allow the opportunity to escape
him. Could the act of immolation be performed in
Paris, it would still be more striking. • The confer-
ence, being a less solemn mode of. prOcedur(
less humiliating, as taking place only between the
victor and the vanquished, would suit Austria best.
It would be a hard task to get an Austrian plenipo-
tentiary to sit in congress with the representative
of Victor Emmanuel. The keenest pang the dying
chieftain of the old ballad felt was that his here-
ditary foe beheld his defeat—" Earl Percy sees my
fall !"—and the sacrifice would derive increased bit-
terness from the presence of the Sardinians. The
Emperor of the French may allow his delicacy
towards a prostrate enem to get the better of his
pride, and may spare him the affliction of a Congress,
though so desirable. Victor Emmanuel will be as
little cared for in the matter, as he was consulted
about the proposals for peace. What will England
do in this difficult matter ? Will she, or can she,
take part in a Congress which has for object the
annulling of that settlement to which she was the
principal party in 1815 ? If she declines to enter
Congress, the matter will be arranged without her
by the two Emperors.. •
Liberated Italy, "from the' Mediterranean to the
Adriatic," promises •to be •' a -tioublesoine enough
protegee, and the Emperor's Vicegerent has, perhaps,
already found that the bed which M. Cavour' has
made for him is not exactly a -bed of roses. A
communication, It is said, has been made by the
Tuscan Provisional Government to the Emperor of
the French, informing him that the Tuscan people
are determined not to receive the Grand Duke
back on any terms, to which the Emperor replied
that he would not force. the Grand Duke on them ;
and. that all he wishes is to form an Italian Confede-
ration and nothing more. The King of Naples, it
appears, declines the' honour of becoming a member
of the Italian Confederation. The Lombards are be-
ginning to fear that the annexation to Piedmont will
necessarily fix on them a proportionate amount of all
the Piedmontese liabilities

I call attention to the following paragraph in the
Emperor of Austria's manifesto to his subjects. We
have not forgotten the repeated assertions of the
French Government that no preparations had been
made for war :

" Another fact which is not doubtful is, that our adver-
saries, in spite of their immense resources, prepared long
before for a war projected in advance, have, even at an
enormous price, obtained only advantages, and never a de-
cisive victory."

Again, it the statement in the following be correct,
relative to " the less unfavourable conditions," the
Italians will hardly be satisfied with what their
liberator has done for them :
" In consequence, the honour of Austria being safe, owing
to the heroic courage displayed by the army in field of battle,
I resolved to yield to
,political considerations, to make a
sacrifice for the re-estabishment of peace, and to consent
to the preliminaries proposed for its conclusion, after
having
,acquired the conviction that by a direct under-
standing with the Emperor of the French, and without the
intervention of a third party, I could in any, case obtain less
unfavourable conditions than I could expect from the inter-
vention of the three great Powers which did not take part
in the war."