The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Saturday Morning.
The electioneering campaign has fairly com-
menced on this side of the Channel. Both parties
are in harness, and, as the Derbyites have been
warned by an influential Conservative journal that
in resorting to a dissolution Ministers have played
their last card as a party, it is certain that no effort:
will be spared to preserve them from the impending
catastrophe. In Dublin city Messrs. Vance and
Grogan will be opposed, but the names of the can-
didates who mean to take the field are kept secret
for the present, and if there be no dissension or any
other Marplotism there is just now a chance of the
Liberals winning one of the seats. This, however,
can only be achieved by union and forbearance.
The metropolitan county has so far made no sign.
Time was when Toryism stood about as good a
chance there as it would in the city of Westminster.
The Freeman's Journal announces that Colonel
Luke White is about to address the electors of
Clare, where his father, the member for Longford,
is a large landed proprietor. Lord Francis
Conyngham, it is added, retires, this making the
fifth resignation since the sentence of dissolution
has gone forth. Sir William Hort is the Liberal
candidate for Kildare, vice Hency, one of the re-
signed. Mr. Hassard, the Derbyite member for
Waterford city, will undoubtedly meet opposition.
Sir Winston Barron is on his way from home de-
termined to poll to the last man. The borough of
Carlow, too, will be contested by Mr. R. H. Gridley,
an Englishman and a Liberal, who intends to try
conclusions with Mr. Alexander, the present Con-
servative representative. Sir T. O'Brien has suffered
for some time past from impaired health, and it is
thought likely that he also will seek the quiet of
private life. Under any circumstances the borough of
Cashel, with its 147 voters, will be contested. Mr.
Sergeant Shee's address to the electors of Kilkenny
county is published in the local papers, and it will
create no surprise if one of the most respectable
and worst-used men of the Roman Catholic party
finds his way back to the House of Commons. Mr.
George Bowyer again solicits the suffrages of the
Dundalk constituency. In his appeal he explains
that his vote on " Lord John Russell's amendment
was given with a view to defeat a manoeuvre, and
to save the country being again governed by the
author of the Durham Letter and Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill." This will hardly do. The Liberal
local paper holds out no hope of absolution. Mr.
Bowyer might as well take his farewell gracefully
and at once of his quondam supporters. The cata-
logue of resignations has been further swelled by
the retirement from the representation of Derry
county of Mr. J. Clerk, a moderate Conservative.
11l health is the cause assigned. Mr. J. W. M.
Bond, who sat for Armagh in the Parliament
elected in 1852, announces his intention to come
forward in opposition to Mr. Miller. Mr. Bond has
the support of the Lord Primate, and is a moderate
Conservative. The address of the Solicitor-General
of England. to the electors of Belfast is published
in the local papers of this day. (It appeared in
the Times of Saturday). Mr. Thomas O'Hagan,
the eminent Queen's counsel, has been offered the
representation, without any expense, of several
boroughs, but the learned gentleman has declined
them all, inasmuch as if he entered. Parliament
just now he would be constrained to surrender the
chairmanship of the county of Dublin, and thus
place a highly lucrative berth at the disposal of the
present Government. This Mr. O'Hagan has no
intention of doing, and will, therefore, bide his
time for seeking a seat in the House of ommons.