The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—At an adjourned tr.eetincg of the
Society held in the Dublin Corn Exchange last Tuesday, the
Registry Report (a part of which specially refers to the city)
was brought up. There was also brought up, read and
adopted, the " Report upon the state and nature of the Irish
Franchises, contrasting them with those of England and
Scotland, and suggesting the best mode or extension, and
identification."
The Pilot observes of this letter Roport, that It is an
" Admirable analysis of the extension of the ITranchise in
Scotland and Wales, as compared with tl:15 country"—
adding, " We must confess that bad as wc: thought things
were, we were not prepared for such an expose. Short and
deficient as we knew the Elective Franc'Aise to be in different
counties in Ireland, we had no idea th.at a measure which they
called reform at the time would so soon have reduced us to
utter destitution,"
ATTEMPT TO MURDER LORD NORBURY.—Lord Norbury, Se-
cond son, to the late Judge, an excellent landlord, has been
fired at whilst walking through a shrubbery on his own estates;
he is wounded by several slugs. The Surgeon-General left
D',.;olin early last Wednesday to attend him. Various rumonra
as to the cause of the attempted assassination are in circulation..
But on that point (the Pilot of VF ednesday says) nothing
authentic is known. It is said that his Lordship lived upon
friendly terms with his Catholic dependants, and especially
with the parish priest, and from this reason it is supposed
that the assassin is from his Lordship's estates in Tipperary
where a person was recently shot at in mistake for his Lor
ship's agent. Another story has it, that this is but a deve-
lopment of part of a secret conspiracy to murder five Pinded
proprietors, in the direction in which the crime occurred.
Other causes have been assigned for the fearful act, but
they are of a nature which will not allow us to allude to therm
for the present.
THE VACANT BISHOPRIC.—It is now sail that the vacant
Deanery will decide the question of the succession to Cashel,
and that the having the disposal of Down will insure Lord
Plunket's son the Bishopric. The Government, it is added,
are in no common want of a place in the Church at the present
moment; for it is whispered that a provision for a reverend
son is a sine qua non for the resignation of a venerable Judge
If this job be perpetrated, it will be the most scrAdalous and
barefaced instance of " bargain and sale" that has yet oc-
curred.—Dublin Evening Mail.
From the !lolence of the gale during the last forty-eight
hours, the London Journals due at twelve o'clock on Tuesday
did h'2,"c reach their destination till early on Wednesday morn-
...g—the Holyhead mail, due at six, did not arrive till ten
I o'clock; and up to Wednesday afternoon the Liverpool packet
remained due.

A LAWYER IN TROUBLE.—Yesterday Francis
Roxburgh, of Great James-street, a solicitor, was brought
up at Bow-street, in custody, before Mr. Minshull, charged
on the sworn information of Mr. John Shimoin with threa-
tening to shoot him. After hearing both parties, Mr.
Minshull ordered the defendant to find bail, himself in 2001.
and two sureties in the sum of 1001. each, to keep the peace
towards all of her Majesty's subjects, but particularly to-
wards the complainant, for the next twelve months. The
required sureties were found, and the parties left the office.

LIVERPOOL MAIL.—We have much pleasure in
stating that Government has at length yielded to the re-
monstrances of the commercial community of Glasgow, by
ordering arrangements to be made, by the Post-office offi-
cials, for having the Liverpool Mail brought into Glasgow
at two o'clock, the hour it formerly arrived at. It is un-
derstood that this desirable change will take place about
the 20th of the present month. When Government have
yielded this much, we cannot but think that a very little
pressing would bring about an alteration of the hour or
departure from London of the day-mail, so that it couldi
arrive in Glasgow along with the Liverpool Mail at two
o'clock, instead of seven o'clock, as at present, when it is
perfectly useless. Indeed, the late arrangements as to the
nalanyNv e shall have
arrival of the mails have been the most unsatisfactory that.
could well be imagined. Even the proposed change in the
Liverpool Mail, shows anything but a due regard for the
pfrhurbel
mail service.
After
arriving then
IrOotmh ofEgnud every
Jar
day, when
two could answer the purpose equally well. if Government
would order the London day-mail to be aoecelerated, so that
coachesvi
it and the Liverpool Mail could arrive together at two
o'clock, they would of course save the addition mail-coach
altogether, and confer a great benefit upon Glasgow and
the West of Scotland.—Glasgow Chronicle.
The shipbuilders of Liverpool have seldom, if ever,
been so busy as they are at present. All the yards on
both sides the Mersey are occupied by vessels, of various
tonnage, in process of building ; and more frames would be
laid awn if the builders could undertake the work. The
shipbuilders along the west and the east coast are
equally busy% and have frequent occasion to refuse proffered
contracts for building vessels. All these circumstances
show, that the shipping interest is in a very flourishing
state.