Mallow election has gone for the Home-ruler by an im-
mense majority, Mr. Naish, the Solicitor-General, having polled -only 89 votes, against 161 given for Mr. William O'Brien, the -editor of United Ireland. Mr. Sexton, in congratulating the -electors, used the usual florid and exaggerated language of the party,—" Never, within his knowledge, had any Irish town so suddenly leaped from the depths of shame, to the pinnacle of glory." It is a leap, certainly, and a leap in the dark,—for the change was made under the protection of the ballot—bat the -question whether the leap in the dark has issued in glory, will be differently answered by different people. For our own parts, we should say that if Mallow has leaped up on to a pinnacle at all, it is a pinnacle rather of temptation than of glory, and that -the tempter will probably have his own way. It is clear that outside Ulster at all events, the Government make no progress at all—make a regress, rather—in the favour of Irish voters. 'The Conservatives must in general either have abstained, or 'voted for Mr. O'Brien.
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