11 JANUARY 1840, Page 6

The Liberals of Carrickfergus, now represented by a Conservative, intend

to start Mr. E. Bruce at the next election.

The Whigs have been amazingly ready to pour in Tory Magistrates upon us. During their short reign they have added seven or eight Tories to our Belfast Bench, though it was previously overstocked by them ; whilst they have, on almost every occasion, exhibited a disin- clination to give us a Liberal Magistrate ; and have, in some cases, shuttled and deferred, or even declined altogether, as if they had an ab- solute horror of adding a Liberal to the list of our Magistrates. These remarks refer to two or three Viceroyalties ; but we are bound to say, that matters have not mended, Whether the Government are misled, by some improper advice, or act from their own impulses, we cannot say ; but we state the filets, and we wish the Government to know, that the Northern Liberals appreciate their conduct. In other matters, to which we could readily refer, the people of this part of Ireland have been most unhandsomely treated.—BeUitat Northern Whig.

A most atrocious murder was perpetrated near Donaghadee, on Tues- day night last, the 31st ult. Lieutenant Seacole, R.N., chief officer of the Coast Guard station at 1lihhisle, within two miles of Donaghadee, had been dining in the latter town with Captain Leslie, 11,N.; and on his return home, about eleven o'clock, when within a short distance of the watch-house of the station, he was shot through the body, and in- stantly fell dead, the ball entering at the abdomen and coming out at the back, Several of the Coast Guard men were almost instantly on the spot, as also Lieutenant Davies, commanding the Donaghadee sta- tion; but no trace of the murderers could be discovered. Captain Camillieri, the Inspecting Commander, has very judiciously put in se- parate confinement the whole of the crew of' the Millisle station, as strong suspicions are entertained that the atrocious deed was perpe- trated by one of theta. The body has been removed to a neighbouring cottage to await the Coroner's inquest. Lieutenant Seacole was a single man, about thirty-five years of age. He had just been ordered to remove to the station at Carrickfergus, which he was to join on the 5th instant,—United Service Gazette.