Mr. C. Fitzsimon, Mr. O'Connell's son-in-law, has been appointed Accountant-General
of the Court of Chancery ; by the acceptance of which office he vacate:: his scat for Dublin County. Lord Brabazon and Colonel Henry White have been mentioned as the Liberal candi- dates; and the Tories talk of putting forward Mr. Hans Hamilton.
The O'Connor Doti has expressed his wish to resign the represen- tation of Roscommon, in consequence of ill-health. A relation of Lord Dillon, who is an Aide-de-camp of Lord Mulgrave, is spoken of as his successor; also a Mr. Daniel H. Farrell.
The registry of the county Mayo terminated as follows—Liberals, L55; Tories, one.
The Globe of last night gives some interesting details of the Irish Parliamentary election arrangements.
" Sligo town will reject its present ' half-and-half ' Member, Mr. Martin, and return in his place a decided Liber.d. The county also, it is said, will reject one if not both of its present Tory Representatives ; the Liberal landholders are now fur the first time exertimi themselves to increase the ranks of the Reform voters ; and the influence ot Lord Lorton, hitherto employed with that of the Cooper family in overpowering the Liberal interest, is either rapidly diminish- ing, or likely, from the fact that the heir of the family has abandoned the politics which have hitherto distinguished it, to be thrown into the scales of the adverse party. " The same means will be used to eject the present Tory Members for the Queen's County front its representation and we are told the effort will be sue. cessful in the case of both Members. Time Marquis of Lansdowne has consider- able property in this county, the freeholders on which, by some unaccountable apathy, have not until these sessions been registered in any thiug like efficient force.
"In Carlow, from the steps taken to complete the registration in both county and town no doubt is entertained that the three Tories returned from these places will, in the event of' an election, be left at home to improve their estates ; by the death of Mr. Walter Kavanagh, the son of one of the present !Members, the last hope the Tories entertained of even contesting the county has vanished; Mr. Vigors will be again the Member for the Borough, and probably Mr. Cahill, who has once before contested non thaiheral interest, and one of the Latouche family, or Mr. George Keogh, of Ku bride, if he can he induced to come into the field, will be his county colleagues. "The attempt will also be made in Monaghan to eject Mr. Lucas from the representation; and as the active assistance of the Rosstuore family will on this occasion be given to the other Liberal interests, there can be no doubt that the issue will be the rejection of the Tory Member, and the substitution in his place of a fitter colleague for Mr. Westenra. Donegal, too, has for the first time been efficiently looked after by the combined Roam iaterest, and Colonel Conollv will have to retire before a Liberal candidate.
" Athlone aill reject Captain Mathew, as well as Kinsale Colonel Thomas, both " oaes: this is as certain as any event not yet come to pass can be consi- dered. Even Cavan County, we are glad to be informed, will reject one of its
present Tory Representatives, if not both ; and this, where the influence of Lord Farnham has hitherto reigned paramount.
"To these may be added Cork County, from which Mr. Longfield will have to retire before a second Liberal Member. We are sorry to see that the Reform party in this county have not yet settled upon Mr. Barry's colleague : let them above all things take care that they are not deprived of their political voice which is virtually the case, having Members of adverse opinions—by an error similar to that which occurred on the last occasion, when the Tory, who polled only 1000 votes, was put in the place of a Reformer (wanting, nnfortunately, the necessary qualification), for whom upwards of 1600 had voted. " To these we may add, as quite see for the Reform party, Drogheda; Dublin City, two Members; Londonderry County, one Member, in the person of the Honourable W. Ponsonby ; and Longford, both Members—as the result of the coming election, in place of Lord Forbes, declared insane, will prove when Parliament meets. The only drawback we see to these flattering hopes from a general election in Ireland is the case of Youghal. where it is probable that a Tory :nay he returned in place of Mr. John O'Connell ; who, however, will take the place of the present Tory Representative of Athlone. The difference theteby creatd may be thus s llllll ned up— Gain to the Liberal cause—Comity Members 10 City and Borough 6
Total 16
Deduct Youghztl
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Majority 15
Giving the Liberal party for Ireland a difference in their favour on a division of THIRTY VOTES ! Were we not right, then, in saying that Lord Lyndhurst has done great good to the cause of his opponents ?
[It is probable that, instead of fifteen, twenty Tories will be turned out at the next Irish elections; making, on a division, a difference of forty votes. This morning we learn from the Irish papers, that Youghal has been secured by the registration just closed, for Mr. John 0' Connell.]
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