The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-18 00:00:00

KINSALE.

This Committee re-assembled this morning ;
Bouverie in the chair.

Helen Ryan was acquainted with a voter named Mike
Mahoney. Before the election he told her that ho had
been offered money for his vote by some of Mr. Guin-
ness's party, but before he accepted the offer he should
try and ascertain what Mr. Watson's side were going to
do. He afterwards told her that he had done so, but
they would not give him anything, and he added, that if
he could have got half as much from Mr. Watson as he
could have got from Mr. Guinness, he would have voted
for Mr. Watson. He voted for Mr. Guinness, and she
subsequently disclosed the whole of the conversation to
the priest at confession after the election.
John Leahy, an elector of Kinsale, remembered the
morning of the election. In the early part of the day
he happened to be passing Sisk's public-house, where
Mr. Guinness's friends were in the habit of meeting,
when Sisk took him in doors, and after treating him at
the bar, be invited him up to a corner of the bar par-
lour, to have some private conversation, end on his re-
tiring to the corner Sisk offered to give 100/. if he would
vote for Mr. Guinness. He afterwards saw Dr. Jago at
Sisk's house, who gave him 55., and told him that he had
it in his power to get situations for half-a-dozen young
men. Ho declined to accede to Sisk's offer, and then
went and voted for Mr. Watson.

COLONIAL COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS AND NAVI-
GATION laws.—The import duties which have been
hitherto levied under the British Possessions Act on
goods imported into the islands of St. Vincent, St. Lucia
and Prince Edward's Island, having been repealed, the
Lords of the Treasury having concurred in the sugges-
tion of the Commissioners of Customs, that, for the
performance of the various functions which will still
remain to be executed by the officers irrespective of the
collection of the above-named import duties, and not-
withstanding their repeal, an officer with due autho-
rity from the commissioners shall be stationed in each
.colony, with the designation of Comptroller of Customs
and Navigation Laws, and that it shall be the duty of
this officer to attend to the due observance of all provi-
sions of the imperial laws relating to the intercourse of
foreign shipping ; to the importation of foreign goods;
to the registry of British shipping ; to the returns
of vessels entering inwards and outwards, whether
British or foreign ; and to the issue of any requisite
certificates of clearance, and of origin of produce, or
otherwise, in order to the admission of goods either into
the United Kingdom, or to other British possessions.
COURT or CHANCERY.—The charges on the
suitors' fund of the Court of Chancery, for the year
ending the Ist of October, 1847, amounted to 70,3601.
10s. 7d., and the surplus interest invested to 30,000/.
The income for the year, including a balance of 20,8271.
16s. 4d., amounted to 122,096/. 6s 2d. The charges on
the suitors' fee fund for the year ending the sth of No-
vember, 1847, amounted to 137,293/. 17s. 7d. The re-
ceipts were—from Master's offices, 36,2651. 16s. 3d. ;
from Registrars' offices, 18,0441. 2s. ; from Report
offices, 5,3181. I Is. ld. ; affidavit office, 4,7661. 13s. Bd. ;
Examiner's office, 1.615/. 7s. 3d. ; fees formally pay-
able to the Lord Chanceilor, 1,900/. 13s. 2d. ; fees naid
into the fund by order of the Lord Chancellor,
2,655/. Bs. 6d. ; fees received by secretary of lunatics,
3,288/. 16s. Bd. ; from clerk to Masters in lunacy,
3,510/. Os. 5d ; from clerk of enrolments, 7,100/.25. 4d. ;
from record and writ clerks, 23,163/. 3s. 10d.
LONGEVITY OF ANIMALS.—The average age of
cats is 15 years; a squirrel and hare, 7 or 8 years; rah-
bits, 7; a bear rarely exceeds 20 years; a dog lives 20
years; a wolf, 20; a fox, 14 to 16; lions are long-lived,
the one known by the name of Pompey lived to the
age of 70; elephants have been known (it is asserted),
to live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander
the Great had conquered Porus, King of India, he took
a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for the
King, and named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sun,
and let him go with this inscription—" Alexander, the
son of Jupiter, bath dedicated Ajax to the sun." This
elephant was found with this inscriptio❑ three hundred
and fifty years after. Pigs have been known to live to
the age of 30; the rhinoceros to 20 ; a horse has been
known to live to the age of 62, but averages 25 to 30;
camels sometimes live to the age of 100 ; stags are very
long-lived; sheep seldom exceed the ago of 10; cows
live about 15 years; Cuvier considers it probable that
whales sometimes live 1,000 years; the dolphin and por-
poise attain the age of 30; an eagle died at Vienna, at
the age of 104 years; ravens frequently reach the age of
100; swans have been known to live 300 years. Mr.
Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the
ago of 200 years; pelicans are long-lived; a tortoise has
been known to live to the age of 107.