27 FEBRUARY 1841, Page 9

IRELAND.

The polling for King's County election commenced on Monday. The Tory candidate had evidently no chance. The numbers polled on the first day were—for Mr. Armstrong 235, for Mr. Bernard 90 ; on the second day the majority against Mr. Bernard was increased to 439 against 219. The Tories served a notice on the electors, to the effect that Mr. Armstrong is disqualified, as being in the receipt of a super- annuation-allowance.

The election finally closed on Wednesday evening, with the return of Mr. Armstrong, by a majority of 216. The Tories talk confidently of upsetting the return, on the ground of his holding a pension revocable by the Government. It is stated on the other side, that Mr. Armstrong resigned his pension before the opening of the poll on Monday.

The Royal Dublin Society having refused to attend to the recom mendations of the Lord-Lieutenant for altering their regulations, re- ceived notice on Tuesday last that the Irish Estimates would not con- tain the usual grant of 5,000/. for the Society.

Mr. O'Connell has written another epistle to his Dublin double, on the pending Registration question. The letter is dated on Saturday before the announcement of the debate, and the anticipation of substan- tial if not formal defeat. He commences— "I have much to write to the Irish people, but I am unable this day to do it. My mind is in that state which one feels during the sullen calm which precedes a coming storm. On Monday the fate of Ireland will be in the scale. We shall be making history—the first great step towards a national movement for Repeal, or a damper to that, the sole preservative measure. I own it can- didly, I do detect myself sometimes in the fact of desiring, or at least being predisposed to desire, that Lord Morpeth's bill may be rejected. The rejection of the bill for the extension of the franchise, and the adoption of the bill for the extinction of the franchise, ought assuredly make every honest Irishman a Repealer."

He expresses some doubt, however, whether it would have that effect, owing to the division of parties in Ireland-

" My mind is full of the coming contest. I anticipate a defeat. I pass by the struggle, and standing, as it were after it was over, on the 'vantage-ground of recent insult and injury, I call on every Irishman to make up his mind at once either for Ireland, or against Ireland. There will immediately be no me- dium, or neutral-ground. When this blow is once struck, whoever is not for Ireland is against his native land. Hurrah for the Repeal !!! Remember, however, that whoever commits a crime, or violates a law, strengthens the enemies of Ireland."

On Tuesday, part of the old Court-house in Newry fell down ; whereby a number of young girls who were employed in " veining" muslin, as it is termed, were precipitated into the area of the building. No lives were lost ; but of the whole number, nearly 300, about one-third were more or less dreadfully injured.