The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 18.
TIIE ELECTIONS.—The numbers at the final close of the
poll for Dungarvan have fully confirmed our anticipation.
Mr. Galwey polled only 163 votes; the majority for Mr. John
Power, of Curteen, who polled 279, is therefore 116 1 The
victorious candidate, with his father Mr. Sheil, leave Dublin
forthwith, to attend their Parliamentary duties.
At Carlow, on Thursday, when the poll closed for that day,
Mr. Vigors, as will be seen by the state of the gross poll, was
28 ahead of his opponent. Gross Poll :—Vigors, 740; Bun-
bury, 712.
The Freemen ascribes the result to the praiseworthy exer-
tions of Messrs. Min phy, French, O'Connell, and Cahill.
Agitation has done well in Carlow.
The Liberal candidate is quite safe. As in the case of
Longford, we are menaced with petitions; and were the priests
messengers of hell, instead of what they truly are, ministers of
peace, the papers in the pay of the defeated faction could not
assail them with harder words. The ministers of religion are
recklessly reviled ; they are anathematized with a bitterness
and vituperative vehemence characteristic of Conservatism in
despair.

The condo& of Captain Vignolles, a stipendiary Magistrate,
according to all accounts, seems to have been very reprehen-
sible ; and if he have proved himself; in the contested election,
a follower of the. brick-bat and bludgeon system which the
Times, in its palmy days of Revolutionary Radicalism, was
the first to unveil, Vignolles ought unquestionably to be super-
seded.
Connected with the Carlow Election we give the following
from the Dublin Evening Post:—
.‘ We have one word to say about a piece of law upon
which the Orange papers are making a very silly racket. The
Sheriff, it will be seen, admitted certain freeholders, wLose
names had been struck off by a Committee of the House of
Commons, to register their votes for the gentleman whom we
may now call the sitting member. He allowed these votes
under the advice of his very intelligent and impartial assessor,
Mr. I'. Walsh. At the which the Orangemen arc outrageous
and declare that their admission is in direct contravention to
the Act of Parliament."
To the English Reform Act it is, but it is in complete con-
formity with the Irish, which, it is well known, was drawn up
by Lord Stanley.
THE VICEROY AND HIS CENSORS._A paragraph having
appeared in the Evening Mail of last night, stating that Lord
Mulgrave lately released from Clonmel gaol two men of the
name of Kennedy, who had been convicted of having attacked
the house of Robert Hall, Esq., of Merton Hall, county Tip-
perary ; and that these very two were of the party who at-
tacked Mr. Brereton's house, a fop; nights since, we have
made inquiry as to the fact, and can state that there is no
truth whatever in the assertion that these two men had been
convicted of such a crime, and released by order of Lord Mul-
grave. The fabrication to which we allude was adopted by
Saunders' News-Letter of this morning. It will go the
rounds of the Orange Journals, and will, probably, form an
item in Sergeant Jackson's next budget.—Dublin Evening
Post.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—The usual weekly meeting took
place yesterday, Ebenezer Jacob, Esq. in the chair. A good
deal of routine business was transacted ; and in a speech of
much ability, Mr. Shea Lalor attacked 0./conduct of Mr.
Sergeant Jackson in aspersing the character of the Irish Go-
vernment. He concluded by giving notice of a motion for
Tuesday next, of an address to the people of England and
Scotland, justificatory of the existence and objects of the Asso-
ciation, and also of a vote of thanks to Lord Cloncurry, for
his manly defence of this body in the House of Lords. The
amount of the justice-rent for the week was one hundred and
eighteen pounds three shillings and one penny.