IRELAND.
Sir Edward Sugden arrived in Dublin on Tuesday ; and was sworn into office before the Lords Justices, by Mr. C. Fitzsimon, Clerk of the Hanaper. The new Lord Chancellor appointed his son, Mr. H. Sugden, his Secretary, in the place of Mr. C. Connellan, who held that office Under the two late Chancellors.
'Mr. Henry T. Lowry Corry, proposed and seconded by Mr. J. C. -Mowbray and Mr. C. Eccles, was reelected for Tyrone County, on Thursday week, at Omagh.
The Honourable Colonel Dawson Darner was reelected for Portar- lington on Monday. Lord Altamont, the son of the Marquis of Sligo, was to have opposed the new Comptroller of the Household ; but he didn't : the Dublin Monitor explains why—. "The constituency duly qualified to vote amount to about 150; of these fifty are Liberals, whom Tory gold could not purchase, nor Tory intimidation terrify from the conscientious exercise of the franchise. About twenty-five are stern Tories, who would, under all circumstances, support the Tory candi- date; so that there were about seventy-five voters—mostly low, needy Orange- men—who were purehaseable. To contest the borough, therefore, with any prospect of success, Lord Altamont would have been obliged to purchase at least thirty votes ! They were in the market ; their price was named ; they were duly ticketed for sale : great was the joy of the venal in anticipation of the golden harvest they hoped to reap; and BO deeply were the corrupt voters impressed with their own importance, that 2501. were demanded fur a single vote. Lord Altamont, however, when he found that to contest the borough successfully he would be forced to resort to such infamous corruption, most properly retired and left the corruptionists to themselves. Such is the state of our small borough representation under the Reform Bill. Lord Eliot talks of 'justice' to Ireland—of religiously respecting the real rights and privileges of the people'—of adopting towards Ireland a 'sound and wise policy.' lo test all these fine professions, we ask, will he enlarge the borough and county con- stituencies, so as to prevent fraud and corruption ? and 'willbe give us the Ballot, so as to prevent Tory intimidation and persecution ? Thus we test his professions."
Mr. Ffolliot was proposed as Member for Sligo County, on Tuesday, by Mr. Wynne of Hazlewood, and seconded by Mr. Armstrong of Chaffpool. There was no other candidate, and Mr. Ffolliot was de- clared duly elected.
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