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strenuously a more righteous estimate of the importance of the
franchise, and a reform in the mode of using it. The scenes
he had witnessed, the authentic cases of intimidation which
had come before him, and the general exertion of illegitimate
influence by the gentry, the clergy, and the landlords, furnished
abundant occasion for such advice. On Thursday morning
Mr. Hume started again by coach, and arrived in town in the
evening.
We are sorry to hear that Lord Panmure, one of
the most consistent and determined Reformers in the kingdom
has been indisposed for some weeks past. The latest accounts
are more favourable. May they continue so !
Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. P. Thomson left town
on Saturday for Brockett Hall, the residence of Lord Mel-
bourne. Lord John Russell, and, it is said, Lord Duncannon,
will also join their late colleagues on this occasion.
ARRIVAL OF THE LIBERATOR IN KERRY.—
Mr. O'Connell arrived here at half-past eight o'clock this
evening from Meath. Nothing could equal the dismay and
confusion created in the Tory camp when the shouts of the
people announced his arrival. The game is up with the
Knight, and we would not feel surprised if his friends with-
draw from the contest, at an early hour to-morrow, aware, as
they now must be, of its utter hopelessness. Mr. John
O'Connell, the member for Youghall, also arrived this even-
ing from Cork.— Tralee Mercury of Wednesday.
ORANGE BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.—Mr.
J. J. Murphy, the able and respectable conducting agent of
Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven, has got several affidavits,
charging some of the voters of the Orange candidates with
flagrant and specific instances of perjury, such as totally to
vitiate their return, if even successful.—Pilot.
Though the writs for the new Parliament are return-
able on the loth of February, the speech from the Throne
cannot be delivered till nearly a week after, by which time the
circuits will have commenced, and many Members attending
them unavoidably absent.
Counsel have been retained on behalf of Messrs.
West and Hamilton for the conduct of the petition against
the return of Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven ' • and the ac-
knowledgment of the retainer by Mr. Harrison has been re-
ceived by Mr. Maguire, the agent of the petitioners.—Dublin
Evening Mail.
Mr. Etwall, on& of the candidates for the borough
of Andover, calling at the house of a voter to Bereft his suffra-
ges, was informed by the worthy ten-pounder's better half,
that her lord was not at home, but the candidate might rely
upon having his vote, and a plumper too ; "or else," added
the I will give him a plumper."—Hanipshireareniek.
At the West Norfolk election, Sir Jacob Astley
having asserted that Lord Charles Townshend had admitted
to him that he would "coerce" his tenants to vote for the
Conservative candidate, Lord Charles peremptorily denied it,
or, in other words, gave the lie direct to such a statement,- the
consequence was, that a hostile message was sent to Lord
Charles, but their mutual friends interfered, and both were
bound over to keep the peace, themselves in 1,0001., and two
sureties in bOOL each. Sir Jacob's sureties were Mr. Coke
and Sir W. Folkes.—Lincoln Mercury.
The work for Election Committees in the new
Parliament will be " pretty considerable." We understand
that Mr. Sergeant Mereweather has already been retained in
thirty cases.
CANTERBURY.—Mr. Villiers will not keep his
seat. The city rings with indignation at the disgraceful
practice resorted to for the purpose of securing a paltry
short-lived triumph. We prejudge no man. The despica-
ble arts employed are in every body's mouth ; the names of
the persons, too, by whom they were employed are freely
pronounced ; but in the hope and belief that what is now
merely matter of common talk will take the form of judi-
cial evidence, we abstain from detailing the facts that have
come to our knowledge.--Kentish Observer.
On Saturday despatches for Madras and Bengal
were made up at the East India House, and forwarded to those
Presidencies by the ship General Kyd. Despatches were also
forwarded to Bengal by the sh'p Hindoo.
MADAME VESTRIS.—We are concerned to state,
that Madame Vestris was so indisposed on Friday evening,
that she was unable to appear in the representation of Calypso,
and therefore the Retort Courteous was substituted. As
Madame's indisposition, an inflammatory sore throat, continued
on Saturday, she was confined to her residence in Belgrave.
square, and was unable to perform on that evening.
At Drury-lane, on Friday night, in the last scene
of the first act of King Arthur, three or four feet of the floor-
ing of the stage gave way, owing to the weight of one of
Ducrow's horses, which fell, but was immediately raised ; and
fresh boards having been thrown down, the performances pro-
ceeded amidst loud acclamations.
ADELPIII THEATRE.—Yates, the spirit-stirring
manager of this flourishing establishment, is, we are glad to
hear, recovered from the severe cold and hoarseness that
nearly incapacitated and paralysed his exertions. Another
spectacle upon a grand scale, with the addition of new music,
scenery, and dresses, is, we understand, in active preparation
at this very successful little theatre.
Charles Mathews, the comedian, who is now at
Boston in America, has during his present trip been even more
successful with his " At Home," than on his first visit to the
United States ; but we regret to say, that when the last letters
left America, Mathews had been so severely indisposed as to
prevent the full and free exertion of his mimic powers so fre-
quently as was solicited by his patrons and friends. There
was the greatest prospect, however, that his health was iron:,
proving.
As an illustration of the pernicious and ungodly
latitude to which clerico-political feeling has been recently
carried, we think it proper to mention that on Sunday, the
18th, at the close of the evening service in one of the new
metropolitan churches, the congregation were desired to sing
" God save the King ;" it was sung accordingly Proh
pudor. Talk no more of the Catholic priests, or the desecra-
tion of the Protestant Church.
Mr. Brady, the Reform candidate for Newry, has
been returned by a majority of 28 over Sir Thomas Staples,
who was sent as a special emissary by the Tory Government,
to contest the representation of the borough. This is perhaps
the most splendid triumph which the Reformers have achieved
in Ireland since the commencement of the present elections.
A close Lorough has been opened for the first time, and this in
the midst of the " Black North 1" The Peel_ Wellington Mi-
nistry have, by this event, lost a vote, and the ranks of Oppo-
sition have gained one. All the good effects upon which I
speculated in my letter of the 20th instant, in speaking of the
borough of Newry, will thus be realized. Glory to the inde-
pendent Newry men 1
DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. JAMES FITZ-
GERALD.—Qn Tuesday last this gentleman died at Hooters-
town, at the advanced age of 93. He was called to the Irish
bar in 1769, and in a space of time inconcievably short, at-
tained the highest professional honours. In 1784 he was pro-
moted to the dignity of the King's Prime Sergeant, which
office he held till the blighting Union was proposed. With
the eloquence of a most consummate orator, and the energy of
a patriot, he opposed this withering measure. Had he been
base or weak enough to withdraw his opposition to the Union
he might have attained the highest honours that the crown
could confer; but no—his maxim seemed to be-
4, When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station."
He then resigned his office of Prime Sergeant, and never
after accepted office. He became a member of the Irish Par-
liament in 1772, in which situation he continued till its de-
struction by the Union. He was the first man who, in bigotted
times, had the honestly and liberality to propose, in the Irish
Parliament, a bill for the relief of the Roman Catholics, which
he successfully carried ; by this they were freed from some of
the severest restrictions of the penal code. When Ireland
ceased to be a nation, he was returned five successive times
to the Imperial Parliament as the representative of Ennis.
He has lived a long, consistent life—the principles he em-
braced in his youth, he cherished in his age, and thus he
lived respected, and died regretted by every Irishman. His
eloquence was of the purest style, and the tone of his voice
so harmonious, that he has been deservedly styled the " silver-
tongued Prime Sergeant." He has been the last
those glorious men, who, in a bloodless 1i -' g'-r_vrivor•
eon!'
country a constitution in 82, in . won for their
Baroness he married the
Baroness Yesci, grand-clBl7'uter of John Vesey, Archbishop
of Tuarn, Her 1.-aa.yship :as created a Peeress in her own
right.; id on h death in 1832, William Vesey Fitzgerald
succeeded to theer title as Baron Fitzgerald and Vesci.—.Free.
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A PROJECTED NEW WATER COMPANY.—A
notice was affixed on Saturday to the doors of the Court of
King's Bench, Guildhall, to the effect that it is intended to
apply, iu the next Session of Parliament, for leave to bring in
a Bill to obtain an Act for establishing a Company for the
better supplying with water the inhabitants of the metropolis
in the boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets,
Southwark, Lambeth, and Greenwich, the Cities of London
and Westminster, and all the parishes within the bills of
mortality.
Some incorrect statements have got into circulation
respecting the failure of Messrs. Gibbons and Williams,
bankers and money-agents, of Dublin, which it is highly pro-
per to set right. It is wholly untrue that the stoppage was
brought about by the refusal of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co.,
to honour their drafts, some of which were paid in London
on Thurgday, the day after the failure had occurred in Dublin,
and the event, when made known by the letters received yes-
terday morning, was wholly unexpected by the above house,
through which the London agency has been conducted for a
great number of years. The amount for which the Dublin
bankers have failed appears also to have been greatly over-
rated, the Dublin letters estimating it at 300,0001., and after-
wards at 200,0001., with a very small proportion of assets, not
exceeding 50,0001., to meet those claims. From the account,
however, of the parties themselves, given to connexions
in London, whom they could have no motive, but the'
contrary, for misleading, the liabilities of all kinds,
including those of the old and new firm and the private
debts, do not exceed from 56,0001. to 63,0001., and their assets
Qf all kinds, and private property, are estimated at from
32,000/. to 40,000/. They state also, in explanation of the
catastrophe which has befallen their house, that " large recent
losses, together with the ineumbrances and losses of the old
firm, have obliged them to suspend their payments, which has
been done on the principle of protecting the property for the
benefit of all, and not allowing either old or new firm, or even
private engagements, to have any preference." There is no
individual of the name of Gibbons at present belonging to this
firm, and though both names were placed at the head of their
netes, the signature Was " li. T. Williams," and pavoo
his own account only. A docket was struck
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