The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-02 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 53.
FICTITIOUS YOTEs.—A case was heard on Saturday in. the
Insolvent Debtors' Court, which clearly proves that the sys-
tem of creating fictitious rent-charges, so notoriq,,ts hr. the
Queen's County, is also in extensive operation In the co unity
of Carlow. It appears that a Mr. Duckett, who held an eK-
tensive farm in the:county of Kildare, was opposed by twer rof
his creditors, Mr. Lalor, of Ballyragget, and Mr. Cooper, of
Cooper's-hill. The debts of the insolvent amounted to 1,370/7.,
and he; returned, of available property, only some trifle
farming stack on his lands, in the County Kildare, 551. 14s.
He had a large farm, a house, mid extensive out-offices, which
he held under the Duke of Leinster, the lease of which had
expired. Mr. Creighton, as counsel, for Mr. Lalor, in stating
his objections to the discharge of the insolvent, mentioned that
he was a regularly registered voter of the County Carlow, in
virtue of a rent-charge for upwards of twenty pounds annu-
ally, arising out of certain lands in that county, and there was.
not one word of it in his schedule. The Commissioner there-
upon inquired why the rent-charge was not placed upon
face of the schedule. We shall give the reply of Mr. Die ;-
kett in his own words ;—" I never had any interest in it ;.- it
was given to me by a friend, for the purpose of creating; a
vote !—a vote in the County Carlow I" The Commissioner
directed that the case should stand over.
We recommend to the especial notice of the Committee
appointed to inquire into fictitious votes in Ireland, the case
collusion here proved.
The Dublin Evening Post says that " fictitious rent-charge s
to a great extent have been got up in most of the Irish coei -
tics, but it is only by means of the most searching investir.. •
tine, aided by the local information of individuals in the -
ferent districts, that the full extent of the fraudulent prar:tiea
can be developed. The creation of fictitious freeree n is
Dublin can be more easily come at. Not less than for ty of
those voters were made at the meeting of the Corporatiotr
yesterday." _

CITY REGISTRY.—The Corporation is making a desperate,
becauie a dying, struggle. They made nine new, freemen yes-
terday, who immediately went to register their votes; the ba-
lance was thus turned much against the Liberal interest, the
numbers registered being--
Orangemen
Liberals..
The apathy that pervades the Liberals is as unaccountable
as it is treacherous.—Freeman.

EIGHTY !—Never did human beings look more mortified and
crest-fallen than did the Tories of Dublin when the news of
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the division arrived on Saturday. The stormy weather of
the preceding days having prevented the arrival cf the packet.
until a late hour in each afternoon, anxiety to learn the
suit of the debate was depicted upon every countenance.
Some persons provided themselves with telescopes that very
night, to descry before the approach of the steamer to the shore.
any of their friends who might be on board. The suspense.
however, was but of short duration ; for in a few minutes the'
braggart tone of the Mail, on which we some days ago re-•
marked, was proved to be but the idle vapouring of a boastful
partizan. Twenty times, and in as many forms, had this ve-
racious vehicle asserted that the Melbourne Ministry were
scattered to the winds, and that Peel had actually formed 'an
Administration of the right sort. But the bubble burst, and
the majority has left the wily Conservatives, with their noisy
organ and helpmate, condemned to creep serpent-like, gro-
velling along with averted eyes to the holes and corners of
their own corrupt places. Will the morals of the Mail re-
main unimproved after the lesson against falsehood and
boasting received on Saturday ? Eighty—if that number
only be kept in the recollection of our contemporary, he will
become perhaps sadder, but both wiser and better