Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1870-03-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England)

TIPPERARY ELECTION.—The official result is —Heron, 1,678; Kickham (Fenian convict), 1,670. The Daily News thinks on the whole Mr Heron's experience should be a lesson to him and a warning to others. The paucity of votes recorded on his behalf shows that people have little respect for sham patriotism. The gentle Kickham, as the true Fenian is called, though the pithet and patronymic seem somewhat incongruous, comes in every way more creditably out of the matter than his rival.. The silent protest of the 6000 electors who found Mr Heron as impossible a candidate as Mr Kickham himself, ought not to be last on politicians who in future may fancy it their interest to assume a sham Fenianism. A cominercial traveller who was staying in Waterford during the election, sends to the Times his version of the riots. Whilst sitting in the traveller's room of the Commercial Hotel on Thursday evening, an avalanche of paving stones shattered the entire front of the windows. The hotel was attacked and an omnilms propelled against the entrance door wi h a view to breaking it in Some shots were fired through the shutters into the hall. During a period of two hours not a policeman or soldier appeared. After a most anxious interval, a force of police arrived, but no magistrate could be found, and the police actually looked on almost "standing at ease," while houses were wrecked and stores set on fire! The town during the night was left in the hands of a mob more resembling a heard of Cherokee Indians than Christian men. A telegram from New York states that President Grant has made an important declaration with regard to American finance. He has instructed the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, by whom the declaration has been reported to a New Hampshire audience, to state that what should be done by the administration to effect an honest collection and economise the expenditure of the revenue, was only an earliest for what the Government intended to do. Every dollar of superfluous expenditure would be cut off. This declaration has been well received. Taken in connection with the decision of the Supreme Court, that the legal tender act is not retrospective and will be rejected by the Senate to expand the currency, it has produced...a general expectation that a return to specie payments is not far oft and has exerted a corresponding influence on the gold market. The Times thinks that Mr Gladstone's reply to Lord J. Manners' question whether the Goveniment intended to introduce any measure for the better security of life or better administration of law in cases of trial for murder in Ireland, was conspicuous for its ambiguity. The Times looks upon the ministry as hesitating what to do, and protests against any more dallying with the repression of crime in Ireland. It is too late to talk of haste, when undetected and unpunished crime has been rampant for 12 mouths past. The Irish Executive must have been seriously considering the means of maintaining peace, and what is the result of their deliberations? Already we have waited too long. There ought not to be a week, nor even a day's further delay in deciding upon the course to be taken in Ireland. Parliament will readily support any resolution honestly taken in the paramount interest of peace and order.  The Countess of Breadalbane died at Nice, after a lingering illness. At Brentwood, on Tuesday afternoon, a private in the 9th regiment cut his wife's throat, and afterwards connnitted suicide. Both deaths appear to have been through jealousy. A. Gorton, leading man of butchers at the Royal Clarence Dockyard, having been convicted of systematically taking gifts from contractors, was on Tuesday dismissed the service. The Daily News states on authority that Mr Berkeley's health causes the gravest anxiety. It believes Mr Odger will visit Bristol this week with a view to contesting the seat in the event of an early vacancy. A private telegram has been received at Bristol announcing the safety of the Boston steamer. She is reported to have been spoken off the Irish coast with cylinders damaged. The Telegraph has made enquiries, and regrets its inability to confirm this rumour in any particular. Mr Gladstone will receive a deputation from the National Education League on Wednesday, the 9th inst. The deputation will explain the provisions of the Government Bill which require alterations in order to render the measure acceptable to the advocates of a National system of education.  Apropos of the Dawson-Damene question concerning the advisability of making the proceedings of the Divorce Court more private, the Standard emphatically protests against giving the judge discretion to hear cases with closed doors. That the occasional publication of offensive details has any immoral tendency it altogether denies. A verbatim report of proceedings in the Divorce Court would not stimulate the young, who might read, to immorality—it would rather generate vows of perpetual chastity. . _ _ •  A telegram has been received by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, dated Bombay, 26th February, 4.50 p.m., in which Capt. Halpin reports the Great Eastern on that day to have been fifty miles from Aden, in 600 fathoms water. The laying of the deep sea portion of the British Indian Cable would be completed the same evening, and the intermediate cable to connect with Men shore end was to be spliced about sunset. The Great Eastern was therefore at Aden on Sunday last, and by report from there received by last mail, all neccesBary arrangements were completed for opening Aden Bombay section for traffic immediately. The Daily News bitterly complains of the present unsatisfactory state of the telegraphic department. The frost has utterly vanished, the atmospheric disturbance due to sharp east winds has ceased, but the winter of our discontent is scarcely broken by the first promises of spring. There is no certainty about telegraph. Everywhere telegraphic intelligence is scanty, and what there is conies in a bad form. A great system of internal communication is stricken with the palsy, ad communication has become halting and fitful. The post-office officials do not seem to have comprehended the task they undertook in taking charge of telegraphs. They seem to have no notion of the absolute necessity of exactitude and despatch.  MR