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PRICE 5d

IRELAND.
THE NEW CORPORATION—ELECTION OF MR
O'CONNELL AS LORI) MAYOR.
DUBLIN, Nov. I.—This day the Aldermen and Com-
mon Council returned at the late municipal election, to
serve in the new corporation, met at the Old Assembly-
house, in William-street, for the purpose of electing a
Lord Mayor,-and transacting some further routine busi-
ness. At an early hour in the morning the principal
thoroughfares about the Assembly-house became crowded
with spectators anxious to see the new Lord Mayor, and
one-twentieth of the demands for admission into the in-

:erior of the building, on cards, from thQ Common Conn,

cil, could not be complied with. At eleven o'clock Al-
derman O'Connell entered the house, and a cheer for

him burst forth, which he immediately suppressed,
stating that it was his particular wish to avoid all de-

monstrations that were nut unanimous. The house pre-
sented the same internal appearance it had at the late
meetings of the old body ; there were in statu quo the
portraits of King William 111., Alderman Bradley King,
and the late Mr. John Gifford, as if sanctioning by their
presence the deliberations of an assembly which the real
men WoUld have looked upon with truly Orange horror.
After the Aldermen and Council had subscribed the
necessary declaration.
Mr. O'CoiliELL said that, according to his view of
the Act, the Alderman who had the largest number of
votes at the late election should, ur.til a Lord Mayor was
elected, be called upon to take the Chair, and he pro-
posed that Alderman Keshan be called upon to preside.—
Passed.

The Chair having been taken,
Mr. ARABIN proposed that Alderman O'Connell be
elected as•a fit and proper person to act as Lord Mayor
of Dublin for the ensuing year.
Alderman G. ROE seconded the nomination in a com-
plimentary speech to Mr. O'Connell, in the course of
which he said that this being the first time that a Roman
Catholic gentleman became qualified to fill that office after
a lapse of 150 years, it wouli go far towards effecting con-
ciliation and allaying the feeling of inferiority which had
so long existed in the minds of the vast majority of his
fellow-countrymen. Many great political changes which
had for their object the amelioration of the condition of
the people had passed within the past twelve or thirteen
years, and which he took a leading and important part
in effecting. If it were only a reward for his services in
enabling the present body to be formed, he was entitled
to that or any other compliment they could pay him ;
but he (Alderman Roe) proposed him on higher grounds
—they were his perfect fitness for the office in every pos-
sible respect—whether as an adviser to the new Corpora-
tion, a local judge, or a person eminently qualified to
bring about that spirit of conciliation which all expressed
a desire to see established.

Alderman. Burr, in a very conciliatory and moderate
speech, proposed Sir Edward Burrough as a fit person to
be Lord Mayor. He opposed the election of Alderman
O'Connell, becaused he conceived that his success would
be looked upon, whether justly or unjustly, as a party
triumph by a portion of the population.
Alderman KINAHAN seconded the nomination of Sir
E. Burrough.
Mr. T. AUCULLAGH spoke in reply to Alderman Butt,
and, as a Protestant member of the Council, expressed his
decided approval of the election of Mr. O'Connell.
Mr. BOYCE said, before the question was put from the
chair, he wished to ask Alderman O'Connell, if elected,
what course he would pursue during his year of office re-
garding the Repeal question?
Mr. O'CONNELL said that if elected he would allow Bo
man to guess what his opinions were in his capacity of
Chief Magistrate; but apart from that office he would be
a Repealer, and advocate that measure, which he thought
the only substantial one for benefiting this country. But
in his character of Lord Mayor he should totally 'repu-
diate politics, for in that capacity he should have no po-
litics whatsoever.—(Cheers from all sides.)
Mr. BOYCE did not think he could separate his private
and public political conduct from the duties of the office,
and being of that opinion he would vote against him.
Mr. O'CONNELL said there vas no reason for supposing
that he should eat, drink, pray, and sleep as Lord Mayor
of Dublin for the year he held the office.—(Laughter.)
Mr. DARLEY begged to observe that the small party

in that house to which he belonged did not suggest the
question that had been asked by Mr. Boyce, nor did they
approve of its introduction. [Mr. Boyce is a very de-
cided Conservative.]
The CHAIRMAN then put the question, when there
appeared about forty votes for Mr. O'Connell, and not
more than seven or eight against him.
The new Lord Mayor then subscribed the declaration
provided by the Act of Parliament, and ascended the
chair amid great applause. For some minutes the cheer-
ing was continued, but the greatest good humour pre-
vailed on all sides.

His LORDSHIP returned thanks to the Council for the
high honour they had conferred upon him. He ac-
knowledged the kind and conciliatory manner in which
his nomination was opposed. by Alderman Butt on the
part of his political opponents, and he was proceeding
at considerable length to point out to the assembly the
duties which would iinmecliately devolve upon them, when
Mr. Askins, Mr. O'Connell's tailor, entered the house
with a rich crimson velvet robe, ornamented with satin
bows, and presented it to the new Lord Mayor, who
excited some laughter by his awkward manner of put-
ting it on. When dressed the assembly rose, and cheered
him for several minutes.
His LORDSHIP continued to call the attention of the
Council to the state of the finances and the modes they
should take to ascertain their exact state. For this pur-
pose he suggested Committees to be formed, who should
look diligently into all the accounts and books connected
with the old corporation. The guiding principles of the
new body should be economy, the lessening the taxation
on the city, and perfect justice to all persons.
' After some amicable discussion between the Lord
Mayor, Mr. Butt, and other gentlemen, it was arranged
that the Liberals should appoint Mr. Nelson, Q.C., as
Assessor, and that the Conservatives should appoint Mr.
Baker—neither party offering opposition to the election
of these gentlemen.
At the suggestion of the LORD MAYOR the Assembly
adjourned to Friday next, and at three o'clock it broke
up for the day.
Several thousand persons were in the streets to greet
his Lordship on his return from the Assembly-house.
The vast crowds conducted themselves with the greatest
decorum. _