IRELAND.
The death of Mr. Ardill, father to one of the Dublin Election Commissioners, has occasioned RH interruption of their proceedings. The Irish Governnnent has issued a new authority to the Paving Com- missioners, thus virtually declaring the insufficiency of that under which they have beenacting. Two witnesses have confirmed the state.- merits of Malachi Coyle relative to the personation of voters and bri- bery on the part of West and Hamilton's supporters. The Commissioners have refused to admit evidence in favour of the claim of the sitting 31endiers to place 50 voters on the poll, who, it is alleged, were improperly rejected by the Orange Sheriff's deputies at the election. This refusal raises the old point, which was supposed to have been decided, respecting the power of the Commissioners to reject evidence entirely. Mr. Commissioner Ardill was in favour of admitting it, but was overruled by the other two. On the :26th ultimo, all the Judges, with tine exception of Baron Smith and Justices Burton and Torrens (who were absent from indis- position), assembled in the King's Bench, to hear counsel on the "lodger point," on which Mr. Martley, the Registering Barrister for Cork, and others of the same political stamp, had given such extraonlinary decisions. It was ruled by these gentlemen, that the occupying tenant of any house, however valuable, was disqualified from voting by having let even the smallest apartment to a lodger, without the slightest re- gard to the value of the premises in his own actual occupation. Mr. Holmes was beard on tine part of the Liberals, anti Mr. Gilmore on that of that Conservatives. Tine Court ultimately decided against the construction of tine Tory Barristers; thereby restoring several thou- sands to the right of the elective franchise throughout Ireland. The effect of this decision is, that in Dublin alone, seventy-eight out of the late claitnants to register, all Reformers, vill obtain their certifi- cates on Monday next. The accession to the Liberal interest in Cork will be immensely greater ; and there is not a city or town in Ireland that will not experience the advantage of their Lordships' constructiot. by a very considerable extension of the franchise.
Queen's County will probably be rescued from the grasp of the Orange party at the next election. The new candidates will be Lord Henry Fitzinaurice, second son of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Colonel Fox son of Lord Holland, who mean to oppose Mr. Vesey and Sir Charles Coote, and with a certainty of success. Lord Lans- downe has great personal interest in the Queen's County, and Colonel Fox is the relative of the Ladies Fitzmaurice, who own by far the largest estates in the county. The influence of public opinion and spread of Liberal principles, superadded to the high station and pro- perty of the above distinguished individuals, will render the triumph of Reform in the Queen's County almost certain. It is rumoured that Lord De Vesci is dangerously ill : in the event of hie death, Mr. Vesey would succeed to the Peerage, and then an election for the county would take place.
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