The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(From the Freeman's anti :he Dublin Evening Post.)
Eq..i:6's't.The present MetAertf, Jameg Emer.,:on and
G urge )iitirith'i *it/ tre opposed by Lord Belfast and a tho-
rough-going Lib raf. 'h tWo former have " the
most sweet voices" of the prcud elpkfors, and the friends of
I 13elftt.t have been requested to kali their votes disen-
gaged. Of fitff)*. we have no fear. Lnftl Belfast has
many claims, personal and pOntleal, on his fellow-townsmen.
He comes forward as the advocate, of iiirite to Ireland. He
eernes forward to rescue Belfast from the foul diWriLce of being
miseeliFiltifitt4l. in the person of Mr. Emerson Te:'.'nent—a
man whose politictti pHylligg.2.7 has become a bycward al;:/ a
reproach. If he supports, ag fie vutilit—and as we have no
doubt he will—another Liberal c.lndidate, Mr, Gaurge Dunbar
will sire lea Rent to the right about.
COLERAINc: —Mr, Fdward Litton and Mr. Sealy Alexander
are already in the field. The address of the latter is not all
we could wish. He declare: himself, however, unequivocally
in favour of Irish Corporation Reform. Mr. Litton is for
preserving all the hideous deformity of the present system.
DUNDALK.—Mr. Sharman Crawford has declined to come
forward again for Dundalk. It is :laid that the lion. Gentle-
man will be called on to offer himself as a candidate for Bel-
fast. Dundalk, at any rate, is secure.
A14443E111 CiTY.—Mr. Dobbin, the present Member, re-
tires, and sill be succeeded by his nephew, AL% Corry, the
eminent Queen's Counsel. Mr, Corry is a staunch and de-
cided Liberal. He will be opposed by a Counsellor Kidd,
who starts under the patronage of the Primate, Mr. Kidd,
however, has about as much chance of being elected as he has
of being made Lord Chancellor. The Liberals have gained
a clear majority of one hundred on the registry since the last
election.

Ngwar.—This borough will be contested hotly, provided
the Conservatives can induce somebody to bleed freely. Mr.
Brady starts again ; and, although a large number of his late
supporters have been turned out of their holdings by the trus-
tees of the Kilmorey estate, we have no doubt that the spirit
and determination of the independent portio❑ of the constitu-
ency will carry him successfully through the contest.

DUNGANNON.—The Hon. Colonel "Knox has been anything
but attentive in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties. He
only voted twice during the last session, and we believe not at
all during the present one. The family interest will secure his
re-election.

Lount.--Sir Patrick Bellew retires, and will be succeeded
by Mr. henry Chester, a Radical. Mr. Montesque
the other Member, stands again as a matter of course. The
Fosters are growling at the arrangement ; they will scarcely,
however, screw their courage to the sticking place. The last
contest was attended with so much inconvenient expense, that
they will think twice before they act.
DROGHEDA. —Sir Marcus Sommerville will be returned by
an overwhelming majority, should the Hon. Randy Plunkett
be fool enough to risk a contest. It is said the heir of the
Dunsaneys has some idea of trying his fortunes once again in
the county; all the Orange bludgeon-men he can draft from
Cavan, however, will scarcely scare Mr. Henry Grattan and
Mr. Morgan O'Connell from the hustings.
WATERFORD.—Sir Richard Musgrave has published an ad-
dress to the electors, in which he states that it is not his inten-
tion to solicit their suffrages at the next election. Mr. John
Puwer, the present Member for Dungarvan, will start on the
Liberal interest, in conjunction with Mr. Villiers Stuart, one
of the present Members. They talk of Mr. Christmas for the
City, but it is all nonsense. Mr. Wyse and Mr. Winston Bar-
ron walk over the course.
DUNGAR VAN. —The Hon. Patrick Plunket, son of the Lord
Chancellor, has been called on by the Liberal clect.•rs. Tice
hero of Duckspool—John M. Galway—has not been called on
as yet by the Carlton Club.
QUERN'S COUNTY. —Mr. Fitzpatrick has avowed himself a
candidate. He professes himself the friend of civil and reli-
gious liberty—the advocate of Municipal Reform—a satisfac-
tory settlement of the tithe question—and the introduction of
Poor Laws. He pledges himself to do the best he can to pro-
mote these questions, which he believes to be most beneficial
to Ireland. Sir Charles Coote--who was once a Liberal—
would do well to take a leaf out of the book of the new candi-
date; it might save him the expense of cor.testing the county,
or the electors the pain of cashiering. him.
COUNTY GALWAY.—The late well-timed and vigorous mani-
festation of opinion in Galway assures us that the present Mem-
bers are perfectly safe.
CLARE.—Crofton M. Vandeleur, of Kilrush, Esq., will
offer himself to the electors of this county at the coming elec-
tion. Major M'lsiemara, M. P., arrived from Dublin on Mon-
day, and was canvassing the electors of Clare, resident in this
city, on Tuesday.—Limerick Chronicle.
KILDARR. Barton, of Straffon, is reported the Con-
servative candidate for this county.
KING'S COUNT T. —lt is reported that a son of the late
Colonel Bernard will stand for the King's County.
TRA LER. A Conservative candidate will dispute this
borough with Mr. Maurice O'Connell.—Limerick Chronicle.
BOROUGH OF BANDON. —They say that Jackson really
means to offer himself again for Bandon; if he do so, he will
be the Sorry Candidate, as well as the Sorry Sergeant. The
Duke of Devonshire and the Liberals are resolved to emanci-
pate the Borough. And the Orangemen thereof, having now
no hopes of any advantage from the Sergeant—and the Ser-
geant having gotten no money from the Carlton—the Club, in
soot'', haring very little to bestow, even on English boroughs,
will show their good sense by joining their landlords and their
countrymen, and rejecting the Sergeant.
COUNTY OF CLaas.—Major Macnamara and Mr. Corne-
lius O'Brien will be returned again for this county. There is
some muttering about a Tory candidate, in the person of Mr.
Crofton Vandeleur ; but will he come up to time ?
BOROUGH OF ENNIS.—Mr. Bridgeman will be returned
without a contest.

Bottouoit OF YOUGUAL—The Hon. Colonel Cavendish,
first Equcry to her Majesty the Queen, will start for this
borough, and will be returned. Thus the Tory Nobles have
come to nincpence.
BOROUGH OF CLONMEL. —Mr. Nicholas Ball will be returned
for Clonmel, without a contest.
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY.—There is some rumour of a change
in the representation of this county—but we do not choose, at
present, to say more on the subject—but only this, that Tip-
perary will have two staunch supporters of the Queen's
Government.

13ortoron OF CASHEL—The Attorney-General comes in for
Cashel in a gallop.
BOROUGH OF TRALEE.—It is said that Mr. Maurice O'Con-
nell will be opposed by an Orange candidate at Tralee.

AGRICULTURAL BANK of IRELAND.

Much has been written and spoken on both sides respecting
the Agricultural Bank of Ireland, independent of the labori-
ous investigation into its management and affairs before the
Secret Committee of the House of Commons. The manner
in which, under all the embarrassments of a stoppage, the
Bank discharged its obligations to the public, was highly cre-
ditable and satisfactory ; but the disappointment and danger
incurred by the shareholders created discontent and divisions
in the Company itself; and a portion of it have been en-
deavouring to procure their release from it by an Act of
Parliament, to compel its dissolution. As the evidence taken
before the Committee has not been made public, we are of
course unable to
determine how far the non-content share-
holders were justified in resorting to so extreme and uncom-
promising
a course, or how far the Directors were justified
in resisting it. Some remarks made by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, who was chairman of the Committee, on Mon-
day night, certainly seem to bear a construction favourable
to the Directors. In answer to a question by Colonel Per-
ceval, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, that if it were
not from a feeling of deference towards the Lion. Gentkinal
who had charge of the Bill for the dissolution of the Bank,
he should certainly have. moved at once that it be read a se-
cond time that day six months; and that he should at all
events, when the second reading did come on', give it, on the
part of the Government, the most strenuous opposition in his.
power. The Bank therefore will not be dissolved by special
Act of Parliament; and we understand, on the other hand,
that there neither has been such a proportion of its capital
lost as will, ipso facto, cause its dissolution ; nor that the di-
sentients are sufficiently numerous to command such a ma-
jority as would be able to dissolve the Bank by a vote to
that effect. Under these circumstances, we can see no more
eligible course to be pursued than that which we understand
the Directors have always been ready to accede to—namely,
that the dissentients should retire (if they still desire it), re-
ceiving the equitable value of their shares from the majority,
who are anxious that the Bank should be revived. Indeed,
as no,wes
moreh respectableenl
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extremely course
sorry if
this
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remarks,
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been, d
elicitede-
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edbefore us,
from us by the conflict of opinions and facts brought
have given pain or uneasiness to any gentleman concerned.—
Economist, July 1.
• The Bill was withdrawn in form by Mr. Emerson Tcn-
nent the following night.

On Saturday morning the man employed in exca-
vating the earth for the formation of a new sewer at the end
of Monmouth-street, and which is to have a communication
with the sewer in Tottenham-court road, dug out the root of
an elm-treet, which the previous day they found impeding
their progress. It was of very large dimensions, and in a very
excellent state of preservation, and lay about four feet from
the road. The surface of the root was cut level, in conse-
quence of which it is the opinion of Mr. Walker, who is su-
perintending the construction of the sewer, that, in forming
the original road, the tree had been cut asunder, the root
being left. About the middle of the day another root was
found on the line of the projected sewer, from which circum-
stance it is conjectured that there was formerly there a row of
elm-trees. Since the discovery a searsh has been made by
some of the parish authorities into the archives of the parish
records, but they have not succeeded in tracing the locality of
the trees. The roots must have been in the ground many
centuries. Several persons of respectability, on Saturday and
yesterday, viewed these relics.

The recent return of cold nights must, we fear, be
injurious to vegetation, especially to the young wheats just
reining into ear.