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IRELAND.
DUBLIN, DECEMBER 10.
: 4 !1;!- DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK—JUDGMENT.
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The Court of Delegates have delivered judgment
in the Ling litigated case of the appeal of the 'Rev..
v;
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 Henn, and Mas-
ter Townsend are against the vote, and Judge Perrin
alone for it. 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 has
the right to obtain a re-hearing of his appeal before a
new Commission of Delegates ; but his intention 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 hare had the
manliness' to' send a Tory Peer to the right about,
when. ustice 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 county
of Mayo.
MURDER OF MR. SCULLY—CORRESPON-
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 Southern
Riding of Tipperary, feel deep regret at having to
communicate to your Excellency the circumstance of
thc barbarous murder of James 'Scully, Esq., of Kil-
feacle, a Magistrate of this county. We 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 i'ormer 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 respectfully observe to your Ex-
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 Donoughmore, &c. " DE GREY.

GLOBE.—The murder of Mr. Scully—who was
recently assassinated in that savage way in which the
Irish peasantry generally mutilate, as well as murder,
the victims of their blind revenge, has led to a meeting
of the Magistrates of the South Rifling of Tipperary,
at which Lord Glengall presided. The desire shown
by his Lordship, and the body of Magistrates, whose
position and office render them deeply interested in the
peace of the county, to restore tranquillity and or-
der—both of which are at present seriously endan-
gered and interrupted. by the disorganized condi-
tion of the peasantry—is worthy of praise. The mea-
sures suggested and adopted, as likely to lead to the dis-
covery and apprehension of the assassins, as well as to
protect the district from similar atrocities, seem to
have been well conceived, and we trust will be found
effectual. We cannot, however, read the speech which
Lord Glengali addressed to the assembled Magistrates,
and to which approving publicity has been given by
the Orange journals, without regret and disapproba-
tion. The Standard, echoing the laudations of
the anti-popular Press on the other side of the
Channel, bestows upon it characteristically
energetic encomiums, and seizes upon certain pas-
sages
in the address of the partial and hoodwinked
peer, on which to found an ill-merited approval of the
system adopted and the conduct pursued by the great
body of Irish landlords toward their tenantry. For
the purpose of vindicating the former from blame,
and of establishing against the latter the charges
which the Standard, and such writers, per-
severingly urge against them, they affirm that
the peasantry are stimulated ' to these deeds of
blood by religious antipathies, to which they
are prompted by their priests—that the outrages
and murders are political and, not agrarian ; origi-
nating with persons significantly_ hinted at, but not
named, who have, it is insinuated, an interest in keep-
ing the country in a state of ferment, whose agents
travel from district to district, to organise confedera-
cies, and to prompt the infatuated people to acts of
outrage and deeds of blood—these are the representa-
tions in which such journals indulge ; sometimes by
bold assertion, but more frequently by inference and
implication.
STANDARD.—The United Service Gazette has
kindly saved us the necessity of replying at any length
to the Morning Chronicle's attempt to retain for the
late Ministers a fragment of the merit of the late
campaign in China. As our able weekly Contem-
porary states, the only connection the Melbourne
Cabinet have had with the plan of Lord Colchester
is this, that they rejected it two years ago as
impracticable. Let it be shown, nay, let it be
specifically stated, that they ever revoked the act
of rejection. It may be, and we believe it is, true,
that Lord Colchester (secure in the particular case
that his views could not reach the enemy) did com-
municate his plan to more than one naval or military
friend, and that it by some non-official channel
more than a year ago reached Sir H. Gough,
while occupied in the miserable buccaneering war
to which his orders restricted him. That such an
officer should see at once the preference due to the
decisive and not impracticable course proposed by
the plan in question, may be easily believed ; indeed,
it is probable that his own genius, aided by
local knowledge, would suggest the adoption of such
a course without any hint from Europe ; but be this
as it may, the hint never came from the Government,
who had contemptuously rejected Lord Colchester's
plan. Sir Robert Peel took office in the middle of
September, 1841, and invited Lord Ellenborough
(Lord Colchester's brother-in-law) to become a
Member of his Cabinet. Is it creditable, that a pro-
position for a new line of operations in China
would be an hour kept secret from him, or that he
would lose an hour in giving instructions as to what
line of operations should be pursued in China ? But
orders given, say, on the Ist of October, would reach
the British force in the Chinese seas before the end of
March, and the campaign did not commence until
June. Looking, then, to the dates, there can be no
doubt from what quarter the orders under which Sir
H..Gough and Sir W. Parker acted proceeded, though
the continuance of Lord Auckland in India may have
a little delayed the course of communication. So
much for probabilities—all the means of knowledge
that can be at present generally accessible. We
shall soon have the facts authenticated. We promise
that when the facts shall become public, they will
fully support the just inference from these probabi-
lities, and, indeed, every word that we have said upon
the subject.

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 Charles
Bagot, the Governor.—Cambridge 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 201. of the actual loss, viz., 350/.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.
TEE LEAGUE AND TILE CHARTISTS.—A meeting
of the Chartist delegates was convened on Sunday 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 torepeal an obnoxious law, and also
that it is our duty to conciliate and unite all classes
of Reformers." He (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 and 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 involving
themselves in debt.—(Hear.) He knew several who
had worked 200 sacks of flour a week to 'fie reduced
to the most abject poverty. Mr. Watson, and other
speakers, having spoken in similar terms, a Committee
was appointed to effect a union be,twfoeretnhetlpluerpmoassetersof
eir'i"s'iSn:CrnrAcues.—" Madam,"
redressing oEft htoehrier
AgUrlin,eAiit,laeßnd co
said the keeper at
"Don'tthe
you see,
ygateof the Royal Gardens,
Paris, "I cannot permit you to take your dog into
the gardens."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 year pardon for any 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 a
dog."
COLLIERS' 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 leis by 6,000/. than
it would have been had the works continued to go on
without interruption.—Ayr Advertiser.
The Courricr Francais was sold at Paris last week,
by public auction. M. Leon Faucher, the rime damnee
of M. niers, went as high as 175,000 f. (7,0001.),
but it was knocked down to -M. Theodore Boule, pro-
prietor of the Estafetle, for 7,2001. It was not known
what would be the new politics of the Courrier
Francais.

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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
POST.—Money, for commercial purposes, was .0
little lower again to-day. An influential house in
Lombard-street, which held funds at 21 per cent.,
gave notice to the lenders that for the future they
would be unable to afford more than two per cent.
The Bank averages exhibit no material change in
the position of the Corporation since the publication
of the former return. The bullion has increased, but
the circulation has been moderately contracted. The
monthly statement was so very lately issued as to
have detracted much from the importance of the pre-
sent one.

The arrival of the Locust steamer from Malta, with
the Chinese treaty, accompanied by a letter from the
Emperor, undertaking to attach his signature thereto
so soon as it shall have received the ratification of
Queen Victoria, was made known in the course of the
day, and the event seemed to create much interest
among commercial men, inasmuch as little further
time will now elapse before .the document passes into
the hands of the Emperor for consummation. So
much as is anticipated from the late arrangement in
the way of trade, it is no more than natural that a
somewhat feverish anxiety should be felt by sanguine
and enterprising persons for its formal completion.
The treaty will no doubt be honoured with her Ma-
jesty's autograph with all practicable dispatch, and as
speedily transmitted back to the celestial empire as it
has been transmitted to Europe.

It is said that Lord Ellenborough purposes to re-
turn to England as soon as he has settled the affairs
of India on a better basis, and that the present Go-
vernor of Madras, the Marquis of Tweeddale, will
assume the Governor-General's office. We hear that
in this event Sir Henry Pottinger will proceed to
Madras direct from China, and Sir 11. Gough will re-
lieve Sir J. Nicollp.—Naval and Military Gazette.
WILL or THE LATE MR. JOHN REEVE.—The will
of the late John Reeve, the 'well-known comedian,
has recently been proved in the Prerogative Court of
the Archbishop of Canterbury. The personal pro-
perty of the deceased has been sworn under the value
of 4,0001. The property is pretty equally divided
between his son and two daughters. r. Sams,
bookseller, of Pall-mall, who was killed by being
thrown from his carriage a short time since, was one
of the executors of the will.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—TO DIE OR NOT TO
A short time since Mr. John Robinson, a farmer, re-
siding at Wootton, near Bedford, was so amazingly
increased in size by the dropsy, as to be twice his
usual bulk. His thighs were as large round as the
usual circumference of his waist. The water broke
three large holes in his leg. In this state his medical
man informed him be would be a corpse in two days.
Mr. Robinson, by a solemn declaration, made the sth
day of December, 1842, declares that he then dismissed
his doctor, and that he saved his own life and com-
pletely cured himself by those wonderful Medieinez,
Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which are sold by
nearly every Medicine Vendor throughout the civilised
world. Advice may be had gratis at Professor Hollo-
way's Establishment, 244, Strand.

A woman died in Bath last we.ek from apople

produced by habitual intoxication. Her- ism
strangely enough, was Temperance Taylor.— C a
briar,