The weeding of the Irish Magistracy proceeds. The Dublin Evening
Post announces that supersedeases have been issued for the following Magic trates—Mr. Valentine O'Connor Blake, for the county of Galway; Mr. James D. Rose Cleland, (at his own request,) for the county of Down; Mr. William Keown, (at his own request,) for the county of Down; Mr. H. B. Wilson Slater, (at his own request,) for the county of Meath. The first and last on the list are Repealers. Mr. Cleland and Mr. Keown are Conservatives and "something more." The Post adds—"The Government have yet made no move regarding the four Deputy-Lieutenants and twenty- three Magistrates who attended the Orange demonstration in Lisburn."
Two letters of the voluminous and ever-growing O'Connell correspond- ence appear. One is from the O'Connell, dated on the 19th instant, thank- ing certain Belfast electors for inviting his son Daniel to stand at the election on the 20th, (a day before they could receive his reply;) declining the invitation, as "too late "; and hinting that the second Daniel will be prepared at some future occasion "to rescue Belfast from the two contending but equally mischievous factions of Whigs and Tories." The second letter is from the Liberator's " son John," sneering at a letter written by Mr. Wyse, in acknowledgment of an address from a meeting at Cork approving of the support which he gave to the Irish Colleges Bill.
Mr. Cobden and Mr. Sidney Herbert are at issue on a matter of small importance, though much is made about it. In the debate on Mr. Cobden's motion for inquiry into the effect of import-duties on farmers, Mr. Herbert was represented by some reports as sneering at the farmers for " whining." At a meeting of the Warminster Farmers Club, lately, Mr. Herbert took tardy occasion to explain that he did not say that the farmers had been whining, but that it would be distasteful to them to do so; and in making that explanation, he added, that his remarks were drawn forth by the " very derisive language" which Mr. Cobden held with respect to the agri culturists. In a letter to the Wiltshire Independent, Mr. Cobden abstains from disproving the construction put by Mr. Herbert on his " whining" passage, but declares that he did not hear the words now claimed to have been uttered by Mr. Herbert; and he quotes extracts from his own speech to show that he did not deride the farmers.
The second meeting of Mr. Pilcher's " friends" among the Southwark electors was held at the Europa Tavern, in Rotherhithe, last evening: but neither the speech of the candidate nor that of his principal recommender, Mr. Shaw, throw any additional light on his political qualifications or views. He seems, however, determined to excel the other candidates in the parade of carriages, flags, banners, and bands of music; which may be taken to indicate a very constitutional adherence to old electioneering forms.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor has issued a handbill declaring his strenuous support of " Mall and the Charter." This reminds one of the support promised to Mr. Pitt in Coleridge's Fire, Famine, and Slaughter ; where the first of those three graces promises to " cling to him everlastingly."
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