IRELAND.
All the Irish elections are now concluded ; and Ministers have, it is alleged, gained something like four seats. There have, of course, been some changes, some gains and losses, on both sides ; but the issue goes for the Government. The noticeable facts of these elections are the defeat of pure Whigs and the success of the Irish Brigade. The Tenant League sustains a severe defeat in the county of the house of London- deny ; and Mr. Sharman Crawford, writing a farewell address, "retires into private life." Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, and Wexford, have returned Tenant-right Leaguers. In the latest elections, Tyrone and Donegal, the Derbyites won in a canter. There will be twenty Irish and four English banisters, and four solicitors, among the new Irish Members.
The Tory version of the slaughter at Six Mile Bridge is, that the troops were unmercifully pelted, their caps knocked off, their ranks broken, and their captain and some of the men cut with stones, before they fired, without orders, in self-defence. Mr. Delmege, J.P., was in the rear of the line of cars containing the voters, attempting, he says, to quell the attack of the mob there. The voters, it appears, ran away for their lives, and did not poll : to this the Derbyites ascribe the defeat of Colonel Van- deleur. The inquest on the slain takes place next Tuesday.
One of the first results-of the killing at Six Mile Bridge was that the men of the Thirty-first Regiment in Limerick were fiercely attacked on Sunday, not only in the streets, but in their barracks ; and the rioters were not dispersed without a charge of bayonets. The Thirty-first have been removed to other barracks.
According to the Dublin Advocate and the Saunders's Newsletter, the po- tato crops are again very generally attacked by the disease but the latter intimates that it is at present confined to the leaves. The Dublin Tele- graph, however, reports favourably of Kildare, Westmeath, Roscommon, Galway, and dayo.
The polling-statistics of those Irish county elections which were not known last week still have their interest with the political student. In Down Lord Edwin Hill polled 8173, Mr. Ker 7124, and Mr. Sharman Crawford 4892. In Chre, Fitzgerald polled 1551, O'Brien 1141, Van- deleur 1139. In Carlow, Ball polled 893, Bruen 891, Bunbury 880, Keogh 877. In .Kilkenny, Shee polled 4173, Green 3804, Butler 822, Ellis 610. In Kildare, Cogan polled 2285, Henchy 2229, Kennedy 883. In _Leitrim, P. O'Brien polled 1976, Bland 1839, Bernard 1148. In Mayo, Moore polled 1094, Higgins 1029, M'Alpine 600. In Monaghan, Leslie polled 3417, Foster 3288, Gray 2348. In Tipperary, Scully polled 5154, Sadleir 6083, Otway 1235. In Sligo, Sheriff Swift polled 1565, Booth 1524, Gore 1237. In Waterford, Power polled 1404, Esmonde 1261, Hutchinson 1228. In 2)irone, Cony polled 3263, Lord Claude Hamilton 3233, Higgins 979. In Donegal, Connolly polled 1883; Hayes, 1695; Johnston 1049. Of all the old set of pure Wbigs, only two re- main—Colonel Caulfield and Sir Robert Ferguson.
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