The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-06 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TIIURSDAY MORNING.
The returns of yesterday show some variation in
the position of the contending parties. The Derby-
ites have gained one seat and lost another, while a
third has been won by a gentleman whose political
views are not yet rightly defined, but the belief
Ministry than a Government formed under any of
speculation. chiefs of the Whig party. This, however, is but
Mr. "William Kirk, the great gun of
the Presbyterian body, wild had always held the
position of first favourite at Newry, literally bolted
on the night previous to the polling, and left the
race to be run by Mr. Mq3lain a local barrister,
'who, as might be guessed, was tb'oroughly distanced
by Mr. Peter Quinn the Government candidate.
This was an undoubted victory for the Conserva-
tives ; but, on the other hand, a reverse was met
with in Limerick city, by the defeat of Mr. Spaight
and the return, after a fierce contest, of Major
.Gavin. Wexford borough was won without a blow

by Mr. Redmond, a Roman Catholic Liberal, who
takes the place of Mr.Devereux, a stanch supporter
of the Whigs, while his successor's views of parties
are at present hid under a cloud of g neralities.
Kilkennyborough has re-elected its old nd faithful
servant, Mr. Sullivan (Liberal). Galway town has
also given a new lease to _Mr. Lever and Lord Dun-
kellin, although the latter was sor ly pressed by
Col. French, an old Indian officer, fr tached t 6 the
Young Ireland party. Armagh 1 ()rough has cast
aside Mr. Sterne Miller, the late member, and
i chosen Mr. Bond, who sat for the borough n the
Parliament of 1852. Thevictor and the vanquished
are both Tories, but Mr. Bond's Toryism is of a
milder type than Mr. Miller's. He supports the
Maynooth grant. There are not likely to be
more than 12 counties contested namely,
Clare, Galway, Kildare (doubtful), Limerick, Lon-
donderry, Louth, Queen's County (doubtful), Sligo,
(doubtful), Westmeath,
.Waterford, and Wexford.
The Government are quite sanguine of a gain of
two seats in the places enumerated, and a third is
believed to be possible. Londonderry is expected
to substitute Mr. F. Heygate for Mr. Greer, and
Blare is to do a like office for Col. Vandeleur, vice
either Calcutt or Luke White. The less certain
success is Waterford county, where the Derbyites
are straining every nerve to secure the return of
' the Hon. Walter Cecil Talbot, a scion of the house
of Shrewsbury and Talbot.

KING'S COUNTY.
Mr. Pierce Creagh, a Roman Catholic supporter
of Lord Derby, has withdrawn from the field, and
waves his claim in favour of Mr. John Pope Hen-
nessy, of the Middle Temple, London, who has gone
to the expense of publishing a long advertisement
in the local papers announcing his readiness to sit
for the county as one of the select band of Irish
Independent Oppositionists.

SCOTLAND.
BUTE (COUNTY).
The nomination of a member of Parliament for
Buthshire took place on Wednesday at Rothesay.
Mr. Sheriff HUNTER having read. the writ, and
called on any elector to propose a candidate,
Lord JAMES STUART proposed Mr. Lamont, who
was seconded by Provost M'EWAN, of Rothesay.
Dr. GIBSON proposed the Lord Advocate.
Mr. R. MACALLISTER, President of the Bute Far-
mers' Society, seconded the nomination.
The candidates then addressed the meeting.
Mr. LAMONT condemned the conduct of the Go-
vernment in respect to reform, and, still more, their
course of dissolving Parliament at such a time as
the present. He contended that he was the fitter
man to represent the county, being able to devote
his whole time to the performance of his Parlia-
mentary duties, while the Lord Advocate had many
professional calls upon:his time and attention that
must interfere with his usefulness in the House of
Commons.

The LORD ADVOCATE denied that he was the nomi-
nee of any party, and added that the ties of office would
not prevent him from voting against any measure
which the Government might introduce, and which
he could not approve. In respect to general poli-
tics, he said that in being opposed to the ballot he
was a Conservative, but in regard; to free trade, the
Test and Corporation Acts, and others, he was a
Liberal; and it was in view of that he was of the
number of those who belonged to that party who
described themselves as Liberal Conservatives.
Upon the question of reform in Parliament he was
in favour of the general bill that was introduced
the other day. With reference to one point in that
bill, there was a difference of opinion in Parliament,
namely, the lowering of the borough franchise.
But that bill, he said, was no sham measure of re-
form, because, if it had been passed, it would have
added somewhere about 500,000 voters to the con-
stituency of this country, who at the present mo-
ment were excluded from the elective franchise.
He was in favour of all the " fancy" franchises. He
said that that bill would have given to the people of
Rothesay and the people of Bute everything that
the resolution of Lord J. Russell or any views even
of Mr. Bright would confer upon them, because it
was only in the franchise for the Parliamentary
boroughs that any reduction was to be made beyond
that of the Ministerial bill. Alluding to the pre-
sent aspect of foreign affairs the learned lord said,
we were now, so far as this country was concerned,
still at peace. A war had, no doubt, broken out on
the Continent of Europe, and it had broken out be-
tween two European Powers ; but this country was
entirely free from all participation in that war. It
was a most wilful and most criminal act on the part
of Austria, and on the part of Austria alone, and he
trusted that even yet, by the exercise of wise diplo-
macy on the part of the Foreign Minister of this
country, a stop might soon be put to the war. In
order that we might be in the position to keep our-
selves safe in the war it was necessary that we should
have an efficient administration in the executive de-
partment of the Government—more especially as
regarded the army and navy. He believed there
never was a time when greater improvements had
been made in the navy of this country, or when it
had been in such an efficient state as it was under the
present Administration. All naval men admitted
that. The army of this country, too, was in a
most efficient state, and providentially the Indian
mutiny being at an end we were enabled to bring
back our army to these shores. The Lord-Advocate
concluded by giving a general approval to the acts
of the present Government, and declared his inten-
tion ofopposing the Maynooth grant.
A show of hands was taken, which was declared
by the Sheriff to be favourable to Mr. Lamont. A
poll was demanded for the Lord-Advocate, and was
appointed to take place on Friday (this day).