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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DECEMBER 10.

DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK—JUDGMENT,
The Court of Delegates have delivered judgmt
in the long litigated case of the appeal of the. Rev.
Dr. Wilson against the election of the Rev. Robert
Daly, as Dean of St. Patrick's. The point at issue
was the validity of the votes of the Archbishop of
Dublin and the Rev. Dr. Todd, which had been ten-
dered for Dr. Wilson, and rejected. The Judge of
the Prerogative Court, Dr. Radcliffe, decided against
both votes, and hence the appeal to the Delegates,
who were unanimous in favour of the vote of the Arch-
bishop; but they differed, four to one, in regard to the
vote of Dr. Todd. Mr. Justice Crampton (who being
senior member of the Court, was the last to give his
judgment), Baron Richards, Master Venn, and Mas-
ter Townsend are against the vote, and Judge Perrin
alone for if. The decision of the Court is, therefore,
against its validity, and as Mr. Daly still has a ma-
jority of one, his election stands. Dr. Wilson hail
the right to btain a re-hearing of his appeal before a
new Commission of Delegates ; but his intentipii on
this subject has not transpired.
It is stated that a near relative of Lady de Grey is
to be the new Bishop of Cashel and Waterford.
The Earl of Lucan and Mr. St. Clare O'Malley
have both been removed from the commission of the
peace for the county of Mayo, in consequence of the
wordy conflict between them in the Petty Sessions
Court of Castlebar five or six weeks since. Under all
the circumstances this appears to be a just decision
of the Government; and it is creditable to Lord
Eliot and Sir Edward Sugden that they have had the
manliness to send a Tory Peer to the right about,
when justice and fair play required his dismissal. The
result of this decision of the Government is to cut off
all hope, on the part of Lord Lucan, of his succeed-
ing, at any time, to the Lieutenancy of the counts
of Mayo.
MURDER OF .MR.. SCULLY—CORRESPO'S.

DENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT:
The following is the memorial of the Magistrates of
the. South Riding of Tipperary to Earl de Grey, to..
gether with his Excellency's reply :
" Cashel, Dec. 2, 1842,

" We, the undersigned Magistrates of the Soutfrarn
Riding of Tipperary, feel deep regret at having to
communicate to your Excellency the circunr,tance of
the barbarous murder of James Scully, EPq., 4 Kil-
feacle, a Magistrate of this county.
,I:',re had hoped,
and we trust with reason, that tranquillity had been
comparatively established in this district of the county,
inasmuch as the late constabulary returns of outrages
exhibited at this meeting, prove a considerable dimi-
nution of heinous crime, as compared with antecedent
periods. We, therefore, trust that this lamentable
event may prove to be an isolated case.
" We take this opportunity to call your Excel-
lency's attention to the various memorials we have
in former years addressed to the Government of
Ireland on the subject of the law respecting the
possession of arms by the public, in which we have
invariably prayed them to amend the present law,
and render the penalties for their illegal possession
more stringent. We conceive that the law at present
in force is totally inefficient for the protection of life
and property. We respettfully observe to your Es-
cellency that the present law having been in force
for many years—by great length of time, and from
the loose manner in which the registration of arms
was formerly conducted, that fire- arms have fallen into
the hands of persons not qualified to bear them, al-
though they may be legally entitled to possess them.
We, therefore, earnestly hope that as many months
must elapse before such alteration can become law,
that your Excellency will be pleased to direct the
adoption of such measures as may have the effect of
withdrawing from persons not duly qualified the pos-
session of arms, although, perhaps, legally registered,
if such can be legally done. We respectfully admit
that by so doing great practical benefit will accrue to
the community at large.
"We beg to assure your Excellency that the
Magistrates of this Riding of Tipperary will exert
their utmost powers to apprehend and bring to justice
the perpetrators of this horrid crime.
[Signed by Lord Glengal and 28 other Magistrates.]
" To his Excellency Earl de Grey," &c.
" Viceregal Lodge, Dec. 6, 1842.
"My Lord—l had the honour of receiving the
papers transmitted through your Lordship from the
Magistrates of the South Riding of the county of
Tipperary whose names were affixed. I will request
your Lordship to assure those gentlemen that their
representation shall reeeive my most anxious atten-
tion, and to express my thanks for the assurance of
their best endeavours to support the law.
" I remain, my Lord, your obedient servant,
" The Earl of Donoughmnore, &c. "DE GREY.

R. Potter, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Queen's College,
has been appointed Professor of Mathematics in the
University of Toronto, Upper Canada. We under•
stand that the appointment was made by Lord Lyttel-
ton, in whose hands it was vested by Sir Clmrles
13agot, the Governor.—Cantbridge Chronicle.
We understand that a subscription has been raised
among the resident members of the Senate to relieve
the Professor of Music from the loss incurred on ac-
count of the musical festival during the installation
week, in July last ; and that the amount subscribed
is within 20/. of the actual loss, viz., 351:1.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.
THE LEAGUE AND THE CHARTISTS.—A meeting
of the Chartist delegates was convened yesterday at
three o'clock, in their Hall, Old Bailey, to transact
business relative to the forthcoming Birmingham Con..
ference ; Mr. John Mudge in the chair. After the
special business, Mr. Knight, the delegate for Fins-
bury, rose and begged to give notice of the following
motion :.—" That while we remain unaltered in our
opinions respecting the Anti-Corn-law League, we con-
ceive it to be highly impolitic and unjust to oppose them
in their endeavours to repeal an obnoxious law, and also
that it is our duty to conciliate and unite all classes
of Reformers." lie (Mr. Knight) was authorised by
his locality to press this motion : it had already been
adopted by the Chartists of Finsbury, and he thought
a wiser system of policy could not be pursued, seeing
that many, if not all, of the League were in favour of
an extension of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.
Skelton would second the motion upon the grounds
of justice and expediency. He though the people had
too long been fighting the battle of the Tory landed
interests.—(Hear, and No, no.) He was of opinion
that disturbing public meetings was not the way to
reform the franchise, but on the contrary, the way to
allow a Tory Ministry to perpetuate the abuse and
laugh at its victims.—(Hear, hear.) The notice was
then entered on the books, and the meeting separated.
In pursuance of resolutions passed at meetings held
a short time back both in Lambeth and Southwark, a
Company has been formed, called " The River Wan-
dle Company," for the purpose of supplying the in-
habitants of Lambeth ant adjacent parts with pure
water, and doing away with the combined monopoly
of the three local Companies, whose rates have been
raised to a most unjustifiable extent. An Act of
Parliament will be applied for next session, and the
number of shares taken up at the present time leaves
no doubt as to the state of feeling on the subject.
JOURNEYMEN BAKERS OF LONDON.—At nine
o'clock on Saturday night a public meeting of the
journeymen bakers of London was held at the Asso-
eiation Rooms, Holborn, to adopt measures to secure
to them fair wages, and protect them from the exces-
sive labour to which they are subjected. A deputation
from Dublin was in attendance. Mr. Patrick Crewe
having been called to the Chair, Mr. Joseph Williams
in a very lengthy address, stated the condition of the
journeymen bakers, whom he said worked for twenty
hours a day in places worse than the condemned
cells of Newgate, while their wages did not ex-
ceed 12s. or 20s. a week.--(Hear, hear.) The
Press sadly calumniated both masters and men,
when it said that they baked 100 loaves from a sack
of flour. He was well aware, that for the master
who made one shilling, hundreds were
severalerebenrvluv Aheic,ndgo
themselves in debt.—(llear.) ie knew
had worked 200 sacks of flour a week to
to the most abject poverty. Mr. 'Watson, and other
speakers, having spoken in similar terms, a Committee
was appointed to effect a union between the masters
and men of the United Kingdom, for the purpose of
redressing their grievances.
THE USE OF A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.—" Madam,"
said the keeper at the gate of the Royal Gardens,
Paris, "I cannot permit you to take your dog into
the gardens." • " Don't you see, my good friend," said
the lady, putting a couple of shillings into the keeper's
hand, " that it is a cat, and not a dog "Madam,"
said the keeper, instantly softening the tone of his
voice, " I beg your pardon for my mistake ; I now see
clearly, by the aid of the pair of spectacles you have
been so good as to give me, that it is a cat, and not s
dog,"
UoLLIERB' STRIKE.—We are glad to announce that
the Colliers' strike in this quarter is completely at an
end. On Tuesday almost the whole of the old hands
offered their services to Mr. Gordon, but, of course, a
great number of them could not be employed, as
others had been engaged. Yesterday the pits were
all in full operation with the necessary complement of
hands. No concession on the part of Mr. Gordon has
influenced this determination of his old workmen ; the
wages remain the same as they were previous to the
strike. We have good authority for stating that,
during the last four months, the sum of money paid
by Mr. Gordon as wages has been less by 6,000/. than
it would have been had the works continued to go on
without interruption.—Ayr Advertiser.
The Courrier Francais was sold at Paris last week,
by public auction. M. Leon Faucher, the tine daninee
of M. Thiers, went as high as 175,000 f. (7,0001.),
but it was knocked down to M. Theodore Boole, pro-
prietor of the Estafette, for 7,2001. It was not known
what would be the new politics of the Courrier
Francais.

A woman died. in Bath last week from six)Pie
produced by habitual intoxication. Iles'• name,
strangely
enough, was Temperance ,
perance Taylor— Cam
Omni-