The Sligo Cliat»pion states, that Lord Palmerston has determined upon
registering fifty electors upon his estate in that county ; and that this number would be sufficient to turn the scale in favour of the Minis- terial party at the next general election.
The Pilot calls attention to the ejection of tenants now going on in several parts of Ireland. It appears that Lord Lorton and other Tory Lords are not solely chargeable with proceedings of this nature. Mr. W. Blount, M.P., Mr. Wright, the London banker, and Mr. Pierce Mahony, trustees of Lord Portarlington's mortgaged property, with Mr. John Clarke, the agent—all Liberals—are accused of banishing industrious families from their holdings ; and Sir Henry Parnell is said to be carrying on the same process on the Marquis of Drogheda's estates— • " On the estate of the infant Marquis of Drogheda, we have been informed," says the Pilot," that, pending the life of the uncle of the present Marquis, who had been a lunatic from 1791, Sir Henry Parnell (the Radical Member for Dundee, as well as the possessor of two offices under the Melbourne Ministry) was the committee for the estate ; that subsequently Sir Henry Patinas daughter, as parent of the infant Marquis; and her husband, an English gen- Certain have been named the legal guardians. Arthur Baker, Esq., of Dublin, is the acting agent. But as the same policy has been adopted by the guardians as by the committee, it is assumed that Sir Henry Parnell is now, as heretofore, the directing manager, particularly as the same acting agent is continued on the management. Does Sir Henry parnell sanction the eviction of industrious Catholic tenants, and the substitution of Protestants, whose qualification as tenants is hardly as eligible ? Or is Tory principle carried into operation from the suggestions of others ? "
The Conservative nobility and gentry of the county of Wexford have presented a magnificent salver to Mr. Nunn, who was dismissed from the Magistracy by the present Home Secretary. The following is the inscription—" This piece of plate is presented by the admirers of his character to John Nickson Nunn, Esq., a Justice of the Peace in the county of Wexford for thirty-two years. Loyal, upright, deter- mined, and discreet, his public career was at last crowned with the honour of being deemed unqualified for the Magistracy, at a time when faction, improbity, vacillation, and imprudence, endangered and disgraced this country, during the Viceroyalty of the Marquis of Normanby."
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