With unfeigned satisfaction we communicate to our readers the dis-
missal of Captain Gobbet from the commission of the peace. It is enough to recall to public recollection the part this gentleman enacted during the inquiry about two months since before Major Burke, into certain Orange riots in the town of Euniskillen.—Dublin Freentan. Mr. Cresar Sutton, one of the great unpaid of Wexford county, thought proper to prefer certain charges of a most paltry nature against a Chief Constable of Police, who, according to the evidence of a respectable and impartial Magistrate, Mr. White, labours under the dangerous imputation of discharging his duty with zeal and attention, but "with a great suavity of manner towards the common people." Mr. Caesar Sutton discovered, as he thought, a blot in this disagreeable Chief Constable's character. He had recommended an unfortunate Policeman, who was once in his life induced to drink more than he ought, to the merciful consideration of his superior officer; and for OAS offence Mr. Czesar Sutton denounced him to the Government. A solemn investigation into that charge, and another of an equally trumpery description, took place before Major Millar, the provincial Inspector-General ; and amongst the witnesses produced to substantiate them, was Mr. John Cotton, or Cottom, the Clerk of the Petty Sessions at Taghmon, Mr. Cotton, on his cross-examination, admitted that "he was a correspondent of the iireajbrd Conservative, and had communicated to that paper false reports of the state of the county. He acknowledged that what he wrote in the anonymous letter to the Conservative was false in many particulars ; and that he had the means of ascertaining the truth of all the allegations in the letter at the time he wrote it, but did not avail himself of those means."—Morning Chronicle.
An affair of honour has taken place in Longford, between a Lieu- tenant and a Cornet of the Queen's Bays ; arising it is said, out of an intrigue between the latter and the Lieutenant's wife. An exchange of shots took place without damage. The lady has since left her hus- band, and the Cornet is about quitting the regiment.
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