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List.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE
(THIS DAY.)

The gqjrnjaix. rave minutet!
Mr. MAXWELL (the Chairman) requested the Counsel on
both sides to confine their observations on legal points as much
as possible, so as not to occupy the time unnecessarily. The
Committee were now pretty well conversant with the bearings
of law on the several classes that came under discussion.
Mr. JOY assured the Committee that on the part of the sit-
ting members there did not exist any disposition to occupy un-
necessarily the time of the Committee, but in the course of
the scrutiny some new legal points might arise which would
call for the obsesvations of Counsel.
The scrutiny was then proceeded with ; one vote, that of
John Dunn, was struck off Mr. O'Connell's poll, by consent
of his agent.
The votes of Edward O'Neill, No. 82, Thomes-street, and
of Christopher Fitzgerald, No. 14, Fishamble-street, were ob-
jected to by the petitioners, but on argument, were decided to
be good.
The vote of William Nowlan, No. 40, Francis-street, was
struck off the poll. This closed the class of objections taken
by the petitioners, on the ground of non-payment of the Pipe
Water Tax.
The next list gone into was that of persons objected to for
change of residence between the period of the registry and the
election.
William Brien, of Ropers-rest, was proposed to be struck off
on this ground, and after argument, it was decided that the vote
MS a bad one.
A like objection was taken to the vote of Henry Kennedy,
Powers-court, and after Counsel for the petitioners, read the
evidence applicable to this case. It was struck off by consent
of the sitting Member.
This placed the sitting Members in a minority of one, and
Mr. JOY, on behalf of Mr. O'Connell, was proceeding to
attack the votes of the petitioners, when our Reporter left at
three o'clock.

Married on the 2d inst., Frederick Hawkcs Nottage,
of Berden Hall and Park, Esq., to Miss Emily Adeliza Beres_
ford, of Belton House. . .

There is a great quantity of land under water in the
neighbourhood of Staines, and the flats in many places on the
banks of the Thames, which «ill be a great loss to the far.
mers, and unfit the ground fur the labour of the agriculturalists
at this seeding time of the year. The weather throughout
March, on the whole, has been unseasonable, and unfavourable
for husbandry.

COWPER, S OPINION OF POETS.-The perusal
of Johnson's Lives left an uncomfortable impression upon
Cowper. "Itis a melancholy obset vation," he says, " which
it is impossible not to make, after having run through this
series, that where there were such shining talents, there should
be so little virtue. These luminaries of our country seem to
Have been kindled into a brighter blaze than others, only that
their spots might be more noticed :—so much can nature do
for our intellectual part, and so little for our moral know
not but one might search these volumes with a candle, as the
prophet says, to find a man, and not find one, unless, perhaps,
Arbuthnot were he." "In all the number I observe but one
(a poet of no great fame,—of whom I did not know that he ex-
isted till I found him there), wLose mind sems to have the
slightest tincture of religion; and he was hardly in his senses.
His name was Collins. He sunk into a state of melancholy,
and died young. Not long before his death he was found at
his lodgings in Islington by his biographer, with the New
Testament in his hand. He said to Johnson, I have but one
book ; but it is the best.' Of him, therefore, there arc some
hopes. But from the lives of all the rest there is but one infer-
ence to be drawn :—that poets are a very Worthless wicked set
of people."—Southey's Life of Cowper.
So great was the violence of the wind on Thursday
morning, that a young man, named Christopher Barres, was
blown overboard from a vessel laden with fish, which was pro-
ceeding to Billingsgate, and drowned, in spite of all the en-
deavours of the other men on board to save him. The acci-
dent occurred just off Blackwall. The body has not yet been
found. _ _

SINGULAR CONDUCT.—After the Judges of As-
size had arrived in Carlisle a respectable-looking, well_
dressed man, who signs himself " James Thompson, M. A.,"
went to the Police Office, apparently in great agony
of
mind, and told the Superintendent that he had committed a
forgery by indorsing- an order for obtaining money from
Messrs. Curtis and Co. with the name of the Rev. John
Fawcett, Minister of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle. He seemed
anxious to know if he could be tried at these Assizes, and
on being answered in the affirmative he produced the forged
document, which was an order for the payment of 3601.,
which he had offered at Messrs. Wakefield's Bank, in Car-
, lisle, but payment was refused. The prisoner was tried
and acquitted, as it could not be ascertained without writing
to Messrs. Curtis and Co., whether or not the prisoner in-
tJuded to defraud, which could only bring his offence within
the meaning of the statute. It appeared that Thompson
had gone to the Rev. Mr. Fawcett, and requested him to sign
a document, which he said it was necessary to have signed
before he could recover a certain
'As soon as he had got the Rev.
Gentleman's signature he had gone and imitated it on the back
:Minister
which co fcltahiempeadr.ish
of the order, and the imitation was certainly an excellent one.
annuityb y th e
During the whole time the prisoner was In Court he shed tears
in profusion and sobbed bitterly ; but not one individual in a
very crowded
Court had the slightest knowledge as to who he
came.—Cumberland .p
was, or from whence he came.—G achet.

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.tiL 2, 1836,

_...PING INTELLIGENCE.

GRAND WRESTLING MATCH.

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Yesterday was the day appointed, by annual custom, for the
extensive prizes given by the gentlemen of Cumberland and
Westmoreland, to be awarded to the best wrestlers of the two
counties. As early as twelve o'clock about two thousand had
assembled, notwithstanding the badness of the day. At two
o'clock it was determined to make something in the shape of a
commencement, but the ground was in such a state, that after
a little light, but very good play, the match was adjourned.