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London, England, 1852-07-31 00:00:00

the coridne t of the Romish priests. Never before did they
so generally' plurge into these contests. We took the
trouble, yes tern y, having'some Iriuti newspapers in our
4ancl9, to note down the names of thejtotni&priests
1711457ta1i-V.urt in the nomination of candidates, or made
speechestrora the hustings, at the late elections. Oar
list 3 mein- a- few-anion tes, is-of coarse-imperfect—but
it may give some icisacf-the extensive nature of the cle-
rical Moveinont:
In tho horobgh of Carlow, the RIV. Dr. Walsh;. of
Csrtow CfAlege, nominatezl Mr. Sadleir.
In 'the borough orGalway, the Rev P. Daley; P.P.,
nominated Mr. O'Flaherty.
In the borough of Clonmel, the Very Rev. Dr. Burke,
P.P., nominated Mr. .Lawless, and the Yen. Archdeacon
Laffin spoke in his favour. -
lii the county of Cork, Mr. Scully was seconded by
thalitiv., Mr. Corkraa, P.P. - •
In King's County, Mr. Bland was secindPd by she
Rev. Dr. (Yitafferty, P.:P.,-Tind 'ldr. O'Brien, by the Rev.
W. O'Malley, P.P. •• .
In Tipperary,' the Very Rey. Dr. Burk, P.p., and the
Bev. J. Morris, P.P., -proposed Mr. Scully; Auld tho
Mr. Lattan P.P. seconded Mr. Sadleir.

In -Waterford, the licv. Ur. Flynn, 'P.P., seconded
Mr. Power. ' ,

Ia Leitrim, the Very Rev. Dean Dawson, P.P., pro-
potted Dr. Brady; and the Ray. P. Curran, P.P., pro-
posed_Alr. hiMahon.

In Carlow County, the Rev. Mr. Lawler,. P.P., pro-
posed Mr. Keogh.
In Merit 6, four priests, the Rev. Mr. Kelly, P.P., the
Rev. 111 r. Power, P.P.; the Rev. R. t unto, P.P., and the
R-v. Thoth is Langan, united in recomnieuding Messrs.
C,,rhally and Lucas.

Qieen's County, the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick, P.P.,
propom, d Mr. Mune. •
In Mayo, Dr. M'llele himself proposed Mr. Moore,
and the Very Rev. Dean Burke and the Rev. Mr. ilardi-
man recommended Mr. Higgins.
In Limerick, the'Rey. Mr. Hickey, P.P., proposed Mr
Moused, and Archdeacon Fitzgerald, P.P., spoke in his'
favour.

eeitmeath, the Rev. Mr. doghlan, P.P., proposed
M. Urquhart, and the Rev. Mr. Dowling, P. 1?., spoke.
In Wexford, the Rev. J. Redmond, P.P., proposed
Mr. Morgan, and the Rev. P. Deveroux Mr. 11I'Manon.
In Galway, we find Dr. 11PlIale agair, proposing Mr.
Bellew, and the Rev: J. Macklin, P.P., recommending
Sir Thomas Burke.

In Clare, we find the Rev. Mr. Lynch, P.P., the Rev.
Mr. Quaid, P.P., the Rev. J. M‘Mahon, P.P., and the
Rev. Mr. Bourke, uniting in the recommendation of Mr.
O'Brien and Mr. Fitzgerald.
In Monaghan, we have the Rev. P. Brennan, P.P.,
prop, sing Dr. ray.
In liiikenny, we find the Rev. Mr. Ayward, P.P., re-
commending Sergeant Shee.

And in Limerick City, the Rev. J. Bruhan, P.P., pro-
posing Mr. O'Brien.

Now these names, we obServo
which felt twidet our tit
remembered,-itio,
Probably an equal number have ot again,
tahrreeemneerwe merely
atpheorsse.
escaped our view. Let
it be
which are universal in E
.-:
Chriatientsed parts of Ireland in
that all the• civilized.
and
negluanddtheendS,lllseee, elf) g
Dub-
lina prevail
and Belfast the priests know that. thteiarn6iorwardness
in these contests would disgust so many, that policy
makes them refrain. But •making these allowances,
what a picture does the rest of Iretend prr etit;
priests have thrown themselves into IE3 iront of the
battle. They dechtie that political power shall, be theirs.
And the
PS°PlPeunable to perceive thli mischief of such
a system, blindly fellow them. One result of this may
lead to good. _ Ne .power but that of the Conservative
party has :been able to withstand Maui. The Whigs,
who fifteen years ago; reckoned: fifty or sixtv.t.paeri..ebe
in Ireland, are extinguished as a party. 'Toe Times
itself was obliged to confess--' the other day. that all Ire-
may
yardly land has returned but twcyWbigas and these two have
both Promised to support Lord Derby. 'The peiests, then,
have not laboured in vain. They boast of an Irbiseh, bri-
Bade, of sixtyetlembers. It' probably numbere mole
result one
ih fi
will
-oBoebt'a,b
probably
troublesomefoiwh
iacsh the
the body m
priests
de-
sired; namelyea more-Proteetant tone than.heretofore in
the great mass of the House of Commons.
DAILY NEWS,!—With the 'exception of Otkney the
returns of all the' Scotch elections have been. received.
Scotland "stands where it did.:' - The most desperate
efforts of the Derbyites hare failed/30,wrest one seat from
the Liberals. 'As bw °era only one district of boroughs
sends a Teri Parliameet; the counalee uCe eeijoe:d
between the Liberale,and_the Twice the Lame proper.
Thereeee
tionas formerly. A large Majority of the Scotch ;on_
of
far tiro
to
stituencies arefirin in the reform faith. This immobility
peon-
rial change in the balance -of, parties among the Scotch
Members:l.o3oo the first election,underthe Reform. Bill.
teo t
present
eenptre els cfittieetni. o is a phheasn been little
lit nottle Mate=
This curious fact we - are -disposed to attribute to the
circumstance that the el, ctorai body a manner en-
tirely new; that it was first-created by the e'en of 1832.
Under the old electoral system in Scotland the only Voter's
were Some 2,t90 in the 6ounties, most of them a thficiitious
qualifications, the cadets, dependents, or m'• iana of the
great familitaS, and some 2,500 Members ofself-elected town
councils. These worthies returned the Scotch 45—that
phalanx so notorious for its servility. Their number
was too small to diffuse political corruption extensively
through society; their electioneering machinery was
quite inapplicable to the constituencies created by the
Reform Act. Hence there is, even in the present time,
scarcely any corruption among the Scotch constituencies.
The boroughs are remarkably pure, and in the counties
it is not so mica bribery as the Sir Pertinax Ilecsyco-
phant disposition to " bou" to groat men —a weakness
uiviving in rural districts from t,udal tint-s that enabl.s
the squirearchy to carry the day. This state of affairs
will probably beep the balance of parties in the Scotch
representation nearly what it is until some change is
made in the franchise or the distribution of the elec-
toral districts. A few constituencies which have
veered between the Liberal and the Tory ascendancy
might indeed be reclaimed to the Liberal cause.
Mr. Anderson, Q C., bad nearly carried the Airdrie
burghs, notwithetanding the enormous patrimonial in-
terest the Baird family possessed there; and Mr.
Cardwell, brought forward at the eleventh hour, gave
Sir D. 11. Blair a close run. Now the Liberal electors
in the Airdrie district are still labouring under the
paralysis of their energies superinduced by the divisions
between the Hamilton interest and the independent
electors attached:to the-late Mr. Wilson, of Duudyvan;
were they firmly re-united the district which was at One
time represented by Lord Lincoln, • and at another by
Gille), of Wallhouse, might easily be regained for the
reform cause. Again. the all but successful effort in
behalf of Mr. Cardwell in Ayrshire, was made notwith•
standing a scandalous neglect of the registration by the
Liberals, persevered in ever since 1839, to such an ex-
tent, that when ,Lord James Stuart was asked some
months ago to allow' his son t 0 stand for the 'comity, and
would base done it could he have been shown that
there was any prospect of success, note one' of the
leading Liberals could give biro the slightest.-idea
how the register stood. A vigorous effect at the
registration. is all that is required to enable the Re-
formers to redeem the county of Richard Oswald
from the Tories at next election. So, too, with regard
to Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Duakbartonsbire.
Every one of these counties has at one time been "
re!.
sented by Liberal Members, and might be again. It
at is
true that Mr. Sinollett (Dembartenshire) is as accom-
plished and Liberaleikded a Conservative as can be
imagined; and his atteation to local business, hi, airs.
bility, a spice of the humour of the old novelist of his
family, have endeared him to hie constituents. It would
not be easy tennscatihim•laut the attempt to regain the
county would not be hopeless. were any other candidate
On his side to succeed him. Again, Colonel Mare (Ran_
frewshire), as an accerneliahed scholar and -.men
of liberal sentimeritti, 'general favourite;—his
seat, however, is by no means .so aseured as Air,
Smollett's, and eligible Liberal: candidate. might
teepee it from. bee. Lastly, Mr, Lockhart's sole
hold upon Lanarkshire is -his exemplary attention to
local business; no such prestige attachee to him as to
the other two we have -named. Lanarkshire might
easily be gained by . resolute effort. We feel con-
vinced of thie'by the retialts of an inquiry instituted by
the late Mr. Colin Dunlop' a short time befbre he was
invited to stand for Glasgow. There are five constitu.
envies wbich'might and ought to be gained .by. the Li-
berals in Scotland. • The whole of
the boroughs would
then
have Liberal representatives. Ia all the counties
we have named (and,perhaps,ia Kirk db •rig h) cu , there
is au independent electorate, that might be kept de-
cidedly Liberal; in the .rest of the Scotch counties, the
landlord interest will prevail as long as the present Iran.
chile and the present distribution of electoral dis-
tricts continue, and as long as there is open voting.'
Where the great families are Whip, there will be a
Whig Member returned ; where Tories,' a Tory ; and
this not -BO much from corruption or intimidation, as
from a lingering of the clannish and vassaiaspirit among
the farmers—a romantic sentiment, which experience
and enlightenment will cure. The comparative absence
of a venal, or mean, mercenary spirit among the
Scotch
electors is a fact that has a mural of its own. It is owion,
to the circumstance of the infinitesimally small propor!.
tiorL in, which, an old corrupt electoral elettent was
mingled wish the new one called into existence by the
Reform' Act. When the history -of elections in Edin-
burgh and Glasgow is contrasted with their history in
Litaerphol; it will be ObiiOns how important it is to keen
otiose ituenClea pure.._ Where any considerable amount of
corruption has deielopad itself, it is scarcely possible
to
expel or neutralise is even by a large infusion of new
blond. The bad old_taints the good new.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, FRIDAY.
Her WNesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by r Riyal Highness the Princers Royal,
drove over to Shankini yeverdav attera"a• and v:si,ed
the Duke and Grand Duchess of Accklenburgh.
The Royal party remained some time at 'Shanklin,
nd returned to Osborne through Sab"" at a little
before Fig h t o'cic ck.
The Countosi of Gain9horough was in attendanca on
her m •
sty, end to Hon. Hon. Colonel Grey and [Acute_
naht-Colonel F. IT. Seymour, Equerries in Waiting.

Mr. Scere.
The Earl and Couute.s of Derby [trawl in town last
tsiyirVl4;ll
~.,. f
S
mh• • rorn Good food.
r ymerday at the Home.cffice. Mr.'Ed•
mond tceiTeßiddril had an interview with
Woth house h a - interview with the R'gh
Jim. Sceretary. 4..
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_;,;ATH or MR I 0 the "t" (lied
M. 4ENNIII. il
at the advanced of ' • Lenoio. long an
ernint.nt teacher in Edinbur ii, and author of the English
GrAITIMAT and other works gWkich bear his oarfle. Hi,
iigt, 73, Mr. William
works have long porisessed a iritish reputation, and still
keep their deserved place among
com-
petitors. Dir. Lennie 's loss will be deeply felt by a widely-
extended circle of acquaintance, he will be lamented by
many attached friends, and missed by not a few who were
the. recipients of his Ample and
unotentAtios bounty.—
Edinbuilli Witness. many distinguished