Star.
London, England, 1831-05-16 00:00:00

The Knight tt, said to be canvassing for plumpers to O'Con-
nell, as his own only chance.
COUNTY Dow g.—Our active agents have communicate('
to us the following glorbitis intelligence. —Thurs:av Even-
ing. Third Day.—The following was the gross aaiount of
the votes at the close of this day's p ll:
Lord A. Hal, 990; Mr. Cr.v. turd, 599; Lord Castlereagh, 609.
MEATH.—The anti-Reformer, NI,. Rowley, has with-
diawn. Peat* be with him ; we shall not disturb his moats.
Indeed we never thought it necessary to canvass his preten-
sions or chance of success in Meath. Lord Killeen is at
the head of the poll. His friends were to split with Mr.
Grattan yesterday. Our letters meow, us that there is no
doubt of their success. At the close of the poll on Thurs
day evening, the numbots were :
Lord Killeen, 152; Grattan, 73; Saa.e•rille, 71; N,Pper, 58;
Rowley, 31.
COUNTY OF WEX FOR D. —This election commenced at
Wexford on Wednesday. At eleven o'clock th ?court-house
was flung open, and in a few minutes it was ciowded to ex-
cess. As soon as the Sheriff lead the writ of elecioti, R.
S. Carew, Esq. proposed Henry Lambert, Esq. who was se-
conded by Newton Fellowes, Esq. Cliff, Esq. pro-
posed Col. Chichester, who was seconded by Mr. Walker,
the Member for the town of Wexford. Lord Stopford pro-
posed Lord Valentia, but so tremendous was the uproar, that
we could not ascertain the name of the gentleman •vho se-
conded him. The greatest enthusiasm in favour of reform
prevails, and there is little doubt but that the vote given by
Lord Valentia against the ministerial bill, will now cause hie
utter defeat. Mr. Lambert is a staunch reformer, and Col.
Chichester already voted for the hill.
QUEEN'S COUNTY.—FinaI close of the poll on the se-
cond day (Thursday):
Sir H. Parnell, 303 I Sir C. Coote, 312 I Mr Kelly, 190.
The two first returned.
ft is rumoured that the apparent difference of opinion
upon the Reform Bill between the members of a great mer-
cantile family is a mere ruse de guerre, upon the principle
of having " two strings" to the peeral bow.
EXTRAON DIN ART SCENE AT ENN is.—Wednesday,
the Right Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald was elected mem-
ber for the borough of Ennis; and after the ceremony was
over, we learn that some of the principal gentry in Ennis
proceeded, in mourning cloaks, to the town clerk's (Mr.
*Donnell's) house, to bury the charter, which was enclosed
in an elegant black-mounted coffin. On arriving at the
house, which is close to the river side, we understand the
funeral service was read aloud ; when over, all were unani-
mous in committing the coffin to the deep. Thus ends the
chartered rights of the burgesses—" and in future," ob-
serves our correspondent, " the right of electing a member
will rest in the inhabitants of the town."—Limerick Herald.

SCOTTISH ELECTIONS.
REPRESENTATIVE PEERS..—The candidates in the field
are those who sat in the last parliament, except Lord Sin-
clair, who has retired ; there are six new candidates, namely
—Earls of Buchan, Leven and Melville, Airly, and Selkirk,
Lords Kinnaird and Elphinstone.
Eezertosrs.—Colonel Baillie, of Leys, relinquishes the
contest for the county of Inverness. The Colonel came
forward on the ground of opposition to the Reform Bill, but
finding the majority of the freeholders in favour of the
measure, he refrains, he says, " from proceeding any fur-
ther in a contest, which would probably subject his friends
to unavailing inconvenience and expense." Mr. Grant
will, therefore, be re-elected on the 27th without opposition
—a circumstance as creditable to the right hon. gentleman
as to the county. Sir Hugb Innes, of Lochalsh, as the
pledged supporter of the bill, succeeds Lord F. L. Gower, in
Sutherlandebire. In Cromarty, we understand, there will
be a pretty close run. The reform candidate, Mr. Macleod,
yr. of Cadboll, and Mr. Davidson, of Tulloch, his anti-
reforming rival, being about equally matched.
DUNBAIL—On Tuesday the magistrates and council of
that place chose their delegate, and thereby showed them-
selves adverse to Mr. Stewart, the reform candidate of that
district of burghs, and of course favourable to his opponent,
Sir A. J. Dalrymple. Two of the bailie., however, voted
on reform principles, another slipped out of the way, and
another declined voting. The greatest apprehensions of
a riot were entertained, but happily they proved fallacious.
To be prepared for the worst, the whole of the coast-guard
from Dunbar to Berwick-on-Tweed were on duty, and
the East Lothian yeomanry cavalry bivouacked for full
three hours, under a burning sun, at a dyke side about
three miles from the town—but the greatest congregation of
people visible on the High Street at any time during the day,
consisted of a few idle lads, two or three old women, the
sheriff, his clerk, and the Lord Provost.
ROXBURGIISHI lta.—Silr William Scott has withdrawn
from the contest for this county ; and Sir William Eliott
has announced his intention of proceeding to the poll on the
day of election, the 18th curt.
PEaTHIWIRE.—Tuesday last the election of a represen-
tative for the county of Perth took place. The freeholders
met in the Justiciary Court-room, and, after the usual pre-
liminaries, Sir A. Muir Mackenzie was elected preses, and
Mr. Patten, of Glenalmond, clerk. Mr. Smythe, of Meth-
uen, proposed that Sir George Murray be re-elected member
for the county, and the nomination was seconded by Mr.
Murray, of Murrayshall, and unanimously carried. Sir
George then returned thanks to the electors, and entered
into a lengthened statement regarding the all-engrossing
subject of reform. A number of constables were in the gal-
leries, but, with the exception of some hissing, no attempt
was made to disturb the harmony of the meeting.
In the reports of the Lord Advocate's speech in the
Council Chamber on the 3d of May, there was a degree of
indistinctness in that part of it that related to the intended
modifications of the reform bill, which has given rise to a
good deal of unfounded commentary, of which the following
remarks in Sir George Clerk's speech on Tuesday last,
may serve as a specimen :—" If what was said to be stated
by the Lord Advocate was true, that the qualification was to be
raised from 101. to 501. and not exceeding 1001. it wculd go
far to remove the objection he had entertained regarding it. If
it was to be a modification from 101. to 201. it would wipe
away a great many objections which a large class of the
community had to it. As the Lord Advocate himself, at the
Perth dinner on Saturday, took an opportunity of correcting
the errors of the newspaper reports, we have mode it our
businessa to obtain as accurate an account as possible of this
correction, and we are now enabled to give the following re-
port of what his Lordship did say on that occasion :
He said " that he had learned since he came into the
room, that considerable misapprehension had prevailed as
to what he had said at the Edinburgh election, in re-
gard to the qualification to be proposed under the new Re-
form Bill. He had been represented as having stated that
the amount of the qualification was iu no way fixed or de-
termined on ; and that it might be 1001. or 501. or 251.
Now, what he actually stated was as near as possible tie
very reverse of this. After specifying what he considered
to be the essential principles of the bill, from which no de-
parture could be contemplated, he mentioned that various
suggestions had been made to him as to the amount of the
qualification, especially as to house property, which he had
of course submitted to the consideration of his Majesty's
Ministers— that he had not any ground to suppose that they
would make any change in the qualscation as originally
proposed—but that if such a change was to be thought of,
be was perfectly certain that the qualification wutnd, at ail
events, be a low one, by which he meant that it certainly
could not be 1001. or 501. or the half of 501."—Mereury,

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