The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-19 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
TUESDAY, Faa. 17.-1 rejoice that I cannot confirm
rumour which I communicated to you on Sunday last, of
death of the Earl of Enniskillen. The report was first im
tioned at the Dublin United Service Club House, and was
nerally credited during the whole of that day. But as no c•
firmation has been received in town, although two days hi
since elapsed, it is to be hoped that there was no foundat
for it.
We are all in a state of nervous expectation of the
,g-ri
event of Thursday. Should the Tory be placed in the Chi
it is childish to hope that the party can be ejected this sessii
Ireland, in that case, will abandon herself to despair; and
will not be for want of the provocation of numerous pet
tyrannies and oppressions, practised both by private individu,
and public functionaries, if she will not give herself up to tho
excesses, in which the desperate commonly seek a refut
from reflection. Lord Haddington intends to make a she
♦isit to London, for the double purpose of taking the oat:
which will qualify him to leave his proxy with his party, ai
escorting Lady H., if necessary, to her temporary seat in El
Phcenix Park. His Excellency is as yet known in Irelan
only as a bachelor, who keeps bachelor's fare, but great thins
are expected from the taste and munificence of his consor
TheAides-de- Camp look forward with considerable satisfactio
to the period of her Ladyship's arrival.
A petition will certainly be presented against the return c
Messrs. Shaw and Lefroy, for the Dublin University ; and i
a fair committee shall be appointed to inquire into its merits, i
must as certainly be successful in sending the Right Honour
able par nobile back to another election. The same may be
truly predicated with regard to Sergeant Jackson, who ha:
been returned for Bandon ; with this essential difference, that
if the petitioners make good their points, he will be thrown
out and Mr. Barry, a Reformer, declared the legal represen-
tative.

A certain Pat Finn, who has assailed Mr. O'Connell in the
newspapers on the subject of the Carlow election, highly
praises Mr. Francis Bruen, " for expending a sum of fifteen
hundred pounds in opening the borough." Mr. Pat Finn is
one of the most intimate friends of the said Mr. Bruen, and
may be supposed to possess correct information about the costs
of the late election. Far be it from me, then, to deny his state-
ment ; but this I will fearlessly assert, if Mr. Francis Bruen ex-
pended 1,500/. at the election of a small to wn, which lasted
only one day and part of another, and where the only trouble
the electors had was to walk from their houses through triple
files of Lancers and Policemen to the hustings and to tender
their votes, then most assuredly Mr. Francis Bruen must have
expended at least 1,300/. of that sum in opening the borough
by means which are not recognised either by the law or the
Constitution.

Sir Edward Sugden has been addressed by the Guild of
Merchants. His answer contains the following passages :--.
" Sprung from the middle class of society, front which I desire
never to be severed, it is to me most grateful, whilst occupying
by my Sovereign's favour so exalted a situation as that of the
ford" Chancellor of Ireland, to find myself received with can-
gi atulations and welcomes by the citizens of Dublin, of whom
lam proud to say lam already one. My political sentimenta.„
to which you refer, have ever led me to support, in their re-
spective rights, prerogatives, and liberties, the Church, the
Throne, the Aristocracy, and the great body of the people,
whilst I have been always ready to assist in improving the laws
and institutions under which we have so long flourished r
His cordial co-operation in the Reform Bill; to wit. These
people must suppose that every body has as treacherous a
memory as their own.

A manoeuvre has been played off by the Tories, which I
can call nothing else than a dirty trick. They engaged the
seats for several days successively in all the public coaches
from Liverpool and Holyhead up to London, for the purpose
of obstructing the liberal Irish Members on their way to Par-
liament. If this was designed as a ruse in favour of Manners
Sutton, it has failed ; for all the gentlemen who were unable
to procure seats, took post-horses, and will have doubtless
arrived in their places in time. But if it was intended as an
annoyance, and a genteel mode of picking their pockets, the,
worthies are blessed to their hearts' content. I hope the Go-
vernment agents had no hand in this stratagem, which must
have cost money, from whatever quarter it came.