Star.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, MAY 17.

Kerry has done its duty nobly. It has conferred a reward on Mr.
O'Connell peculiarly dear to him, and has rendered good service by
rejecting a clever and plausible anti-reformer. All our private Sc.
counts represent the enthusiasm as tremendous. The oountry rose up
as one man, and Rung every consideration but gratitude and honour to
the winds. It is fortunate, we believe, 'there was no contest. The
murderous scenes of a former election could not in that excitement
have been repeated with Impunh
The Liberator was pro by the Hon. Major 3fullins, and
seconded by O'Donoghue o the Glins, the representative of an ancient
line of Irish Princes. Mr. Mullins, who is the eldest son of the ILL
F. Mullins, was proposed by John O'Connell, Esq. of Grass, and
seconded by Wilson Gun, Esq.
When the Liberator, amidst the most enthusiastic plaudits, was de-
clared duly elected as knight of the shire for his own Kerry, the scene
baffles all description. He addressed the vast assemblage in a speech of
over two hours' length, in which he displayed all his varied powers in
as fine style as I ever saw them exerted. " When he was born he was
a slave—he was not entitled, by the infamous code which then &red,
to be a petty constable, no, nor as much as a scavenger to a dirty ow-
poration.
As we foresaw—from a thorough knowledge of the county, Roscom-
mon is no laggard in the fight for freedom. On Saturday the two
honest, independent reformers nearly trebled the boroughmonger.
There were then upwards of 300 freeholders polled, so that if Mr.
Lloyd were to get plumpers from the remaining electors, he could
scarcely save distance ! This is one of the most glorious triumphs the
friends of reform have to record. The Saints to • man, with bred
Lorton as their generalissimo,—the Brunswickers and the Parsons,
were leagued in a close conspiracy agaiast the independence of the
county ; and a heavy uock.purse was clubbed, to support them.
On Wednesday last, the inmates of Messrs. Guinness and Co.'s ex-
tensive brewery, were thrown into the greatest state of alarm. in ran'
sequence of the ignition of a quantity of escaped coal gas in a vault or
cellar under the counting-house. One of the gentlemen in the office had
a most fortunate escapee—the stool on which he had been just sitting
having been projected by the force of the explosion so forcibly upwards
as to leave a visible dent in the ceiling of the counting.house. Two
tradesmen (plumbers, as we are informed), who were engaged at work
in that part of the concern, we regret to hear, were not so fortunate.
They were both seriously hurt, and conveyed to Stephen's Hospital In
a dangerous state. The windows and other fixtures on the concern were
shattered and otherwise injured by the force of the explosion.
MARRIED—In Mountjoy-square, E. R. Borough, Req. to Leaf
Elizabeth St. Lawrence, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Hooch.
—At Mountenellick, Joseph Jacob, Esq. of Cionmel, to Ann. dwaSilwr
of A. Pim, Esq. of Mountmelliek.--The Rev. Rowland Conner, to
Miss Flora Warner, of Brown-streeti Carlow.—in Carlow, J. B. Pim,
Esq. of Greenmount, to Ann Jemima, daughter of the late W. Lackey,
Esq. of Ballinearrig.

MARRIED.
The 18th instant, at St. Saviour's, Southwark, Jarrett Da4l-
- Esq. surgeon, Guy's Hospital, eldest son of the Reverend
Jarrett Dashwood, eccles„ Suffolk, to Matilda, the third daughter of
the late Samuel Cowell, Esq. Sutton-at-Hone, Kent.—The 17th 111'1'
at Lee, near Blackheath, Mr. H. Reynolds, surgeon, of Great Prescot-
street, to Louisa, second daughter of Mr. W. Taylor, of Ludgaw
street.—The 17th inst. at Kensington Church, and afterwards at the
Catholic Chapel, Maximilian Joseph Jacques Bernhardt, Ma CO
Mademoiselle Julie Cotbet Caltnus—The 6th inst. at Poole, Dm&
John Morgan, Iraq. of Broadstreet.buildings, to Anne, fourth daufhto
of John Gosse, Esq. of the former place—The 19th inst. at St. Gliag,
Camberwell, Charles, eldest ma of J. Roberta, Esq. of Camberwell.t"
Maria Frances, daughter of the late J. Gay, Esq. of Champion-hitt.
Surrey—On the same lay, H. William, eldest son of J. Hcsitt.E•ti•
of Peckham, to Octavia Charlotte, daughter of the late J. Gay• EN;
of Champion-hill, Surrey, and Gimmingham, Norfolk.

DI 1.. D.
The 18th inst. John Vaughan, sixth Viscount and third Earl ni Lii-
burne, formerly a colonel in the army. He is succeeded in hi. titk and
estates by his eldest son, Ernest Augustus Lord Vaughan—The lid'
inst. at Marlborough-house, Leopold John, eldest son of Sir It. Gar-
diner, aged 13—The 18th Inst. aged 21. Andrew, the youngest son of
Lieutenant-Oene,al Dunlop, of Dunlop, Ayrshire—The 17th in"' at
Portsea, Mrs. Laing, the wife of Mr. H. Laing, of Prince's-sfrect,
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LONDON s hinted and Published by JOHN Id ATWE. at Ow StAt
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