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London, England, 1835-10-05 00:00:00

proof ~,at he was deficient in the sounder and more

practical parts of political knowledge, he should have
borne in mind the age at which he entered Parliament.
He was then fast verging on, if he had not past, his
seventieth year, and surely failure, under such circum-
stances, is not to be regarded as a proof of political
deficiency I " Quin's Steam Voyage down the Da-
nube" is a favourable notice, enlivened with copious
extracts of a very amusing book of travels. " Ancient
Scottish Poetry" is dull and trite to a most unread-
able degree ; but the Westminster Review is seldom
fortunate in its notices of the more imaginative and or-
namental branches of literature. Its discussions on

these subjects are always marked by a resolute and
pertinacious abstinence from any thing like fancy or

'eelmg.

REGISTRATION-LINCOLN.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The revising barristers attended at our City Court to-day
(Saturday), and proceeded to the examination of the free-
men's claims. The result of the business has been-29
Tory claims struck off, and only 3 belonging to the Liberal
party ; there are 14 cases postponed, 13 of which are Con-
servatives, and of these it is confidently anticipated 10 at
least will be rejected. There would have been many others
expunged from the liSt had not the barristers, Messrs.
Clarke and Wildman, put a different construction upon thb
33d clause of the Reforni Act than they had themselves
before laid down, and, we are informed, acted upon at
Grimsby. The barristers now Conterid. • that the clause
refers to potwallopers and that class of voters, and that free-
men are excepted from its provisions.
Another injury to the Liberal side has been the decision
that persons upon the receipt of alms and charitable bequests
are not disqualified, except by the usage of Parliamentary
election previous to the passing of the Act. The Tories
here are .straining every nerve to support their tottering,
cause ; and to-day, when it was expressly stated a gentle-
man would not authorise any one to defend his claim, and
expressed a desire to be off the register, that he might not
vote against his conscience, the pious clergyman of Wash-
ingborough, Mr. Humphrey Sibtborp, and the learned
lawyer who appears on behalf of the Pink party, persisted
in defending him, and placed him on the freemen's list.
Such is described to have been the practice of the Rev.
Gentleman on Saturday—on the Sabbath be will preach—
the truth.

DUI3LIN.-(SATURDAY.)

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Some Radical at Clonmel has run a buck upon the Age,
whose innocent editor should be more cautious than to
accept a gift from the' metropolis of Tipperary without
looking in the donor's mouth. They are an ironical set in
that town, not having much serious occupation, and scarcely
any delight to pass away the hours,beside a sort of bantering,
in which practice has made them very skilful, and which they
call taking a rise out of people. Such a trick have they just
played upon the master-spirit of Catherine-street, who makes
two thousand a-year by the sale of bad puns, scandal, and
smut. Knowing how patulous the ears of a dealer in those
wares must be to any rumour against the dignity of the Lord-
Lieutenant, these Clonmel wags sent him a paranTaph,
stating, that when Lord Mulgrave entered Clonmel lie was
met by a procession, at the head of which was " a little man
with a red wig," who had been tried for forgery, and a con-
victed libeller. It is easy to conceive the horror of the man
of the Age at learning that the Representative of Majesty had
b3en engaged in familiar converse with—a libeller! Most
shocking and subversive! He, I presume, was never ad-
mitted to such an honour by Sir Robert Peel, or Mr. Wilson
Croker. Oh, no. We shall_ probably hear of such things
when Chaos comes again, but not till then. None but
" Whig-Radicals" converse with convicted libellers.
Now how stands the real truth of the matter ?—The most
distinguished person in Clonmel,distinvished as a political
writer and an orator, and who has made himself remarkable
by flagellating tails of all kinds, from that of the Great Dan

himself down- to those of the conservative alumni in the
Corporation school, of which he is the Head-master, is the
Rev. Doctor Bell. At the Assizes before the last, a
jury in Kilkenny pronounced him to be the author of a
libel against the professional character of Mr. Dominick
Ronayne, M. P., and barrister-at-law, but it would be as
great a libel upon the Doctor to say that he had joined
in the procession to greet Lord Mulgrave. It was cruel
of the quiz who played off the hoax upon the Age to insi-
nuate such a thing. As for the little man with the red
wig, there is. a very respectable Tory gentleman there-
abouts, to whom such a description might be applied, but
he is as guiltless of the charge of appearing in the proces-
sion as he is of that, of forgery. This affair of the perruque
is a mere fancy sketch invented by the knave of a writer
to give his story a face.

APPROVAL OF THE ELECTION OF THE CORK
MAYOR AND SHERIFFS.—The Cork Radicals were. prompt
in their appeal to the Privy Council against the election of
Peter Besnard, Esq., as Mayor, and' the re-election of
Messrs. Bellard and Rogers as Sheriffs. The agent for the
memorialists lodged the memorial with Mr. Ebbs, the Clerk
of the Council, on Tuesday, and applied for summonses for
witnesses to substantiate its allegations. Mr. Ebbs replied

that he could not issue summonses without the direction of
tho Council, and that a Council would sit on Wednesday.
The Council met at three o'clock on that day, Mr. Besnard
and the agents for the memorialists being. in attendance.
The latter was called in, and asked by the Lord Chancellor
if he was prepared with witnesses to-substantiate the charges
mentioned in the petition. He replied that he was not, but
would on Saturday, and stated the cause of his not being
then prepared was, that he could not get up the witnesses
without their Lordships' summons. His Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant desired the agent to name the witnesses,
which he did, when their names were taken down. The
agent was then directed to withdraw. Mr. Besnard was
then called in, and was before the Council for a few minutes.
Mr. Ebbs, at half-past five o'clock, communicated to the
agents, that their Lordships had come to the determination
of approving of the election.

THE LATE SHIPWRECK AT VAN DIEMEN'S
LAND.—We regret to announce the death of Dr. M'Grc-
gor, the surgeon of the GOth regiment, who, it will be re-
collected, was one of the first who was landed from the,
long-boat from the unfortunate George the Third. On
landing he obtaining a musket, and went in pursuit of a
kangaroo, but was unfortunately lost in the wilderness into
which he had gone. On the departure of the persons
saved, eight men were left with a boat to receive him if he
should return, and these persons made large fires to attract
his attention. He was thus enabled to join his companions,
but in a most exhausted state, and died at Hobart town a
for.' days ,after, raving at the horrors of which he had been
the witness, and his constitution completely destroyed by the
hardships he had suffered. The wreck was subsequently
visited, but her bottom had been washed out, and everything
lost.. Parties were stationed on the shore to collect any
thing vihich might be washed in. One poor convict was
found lashed to a ring between decks, where, no doubt, he
had been confined for some breach of discipline. The Corn-

wall Chronicle, a Launceston Paper, states that the Co-
roner and a Jury were sent to the fatal spot in a steamer,
to hold an inquest on such bodies as could be found, but,
on arriving at the wreck, only eight jurymen answered to
their names, so that the object of the Governor, in direct-
ing this step, was frustrated.—[Surely the necessary num-
ber might have been made up of the crew of the steamer.]

TURN-OUT POTTERS.—A case of this description
was brought before the Rev. Mr. Sneyd and the Rev. Mr.
Heathcote, the sitting magistrates at Leek, on Wednes-
day, the 30th ult., in which Messsrs. Copeland and Garrett,
manufacturers at Stoke-upon-Trent, were plaintiffs, and
five of their glassed-oven men, whose names are John'
Sutton, John Glover, William Smith, Philip Mansfield, and
Samuel Steel, were defendants. Mr. Mousley, the attor-
ney for the defendants, objected to the warrant under
which the three first-named defendants were appreheneded
(the two last having been apprehended under a Warrant
issued by the Magistrates while.the defendants were in
the room), on the ground that it did not express the
time when the defendants absented themselves, but the
Magistrates overruled the objection, as it was expected that
the time would be proved in evidence. It was clearly
proved that the men absented themselves from employment
during part of the day on Friday and part of the day on Sa-
turday, the 25th and 26th ult. thereby causing a loss which
was satisfactorily shown, although much disputed, to amount
to at least 3001. Several other objections were also made
on behalf of the defendants on points of law connected
with the proceeding, which were overruled, and after a
protracted'examination, they were convicted and sentenced '
to imprisonment for one month in the House of Correction.
We are authorized by Messrs. Copeland and Garrett to
state that these " turn-outs" were in the receipt of weekly
wages averaging at least 11. 155., and that they refused to
perform their present year's contract because their em-
ployers would not consent to an extravagant advance of
prices for the next year. They were also desired to return
to their work on Saturday, immediately after they had ab-
sented themselves the second time, and were warned of the
consequences of their refusal. These facts wore not brought
out in evidence at the hearing of the case, the magistrates
judging that they were not necessary to the conviction of
the defendants. It may, perhaps, be proper to state, that
by the unjustifiable conduct of these " turn-outs," in con-
junction with some 20 more, upwards of 700 hands have
been thrown out of employnient.