IRELAND.
The Carlow election commenced on Monday. The supporters of the rival candidates mustered in great numbers, but their orderly conduct showed the effect of the Temperance movement : not a drunken person was to be seen. Colonel Bruen was proposed by Sir Thomas Butler, ' and seconded by Colonel Rochfort. The Honourable F. Ponsonby was proposed by Mr. Tighe, and seconded by the Reverend Mr. Tyrrell, parish-priest of Tynriland. Mr. Tighe said Me. Ponsonby emne for- ward as a supporter of the present Government, end that he WaS DOC a Repealer. Colonel Bruen had great difficulty in obtaining a hearing, ' in answer to attacks upon hint by the Reverend Mr. Tyrrell and the Reverend Father Maher. Mr. Ponsonby professed himself to fie " no orator," and said little. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Pon- sonby. The polling commenced on Tuesday ; and at the close of the . day the numbers were—for Colonel 13ruen, 2n9 ; for 31r. Ponsonby, 201. At the close of the second day's pulling the numbers stood thus—fin- Colonel Bruen, 400; for Mr. Ponsonby, I3a6 ; majority for Colonel Bruen, 94.
The Du6lin Evening Mail publishes a declaration, signed by twenty- SIX of the Earl of Courtoun's tenants, being the whole number of registered freeholders on the Courtoun estate, in which they express their sorrow at having opposed his Lordship on former occasions, desire his forgiveness, and promise never to offend in like manner again.
At a recent meeting of the Fermanagh Conservative Association, Sir Arthur Brooke, one of the County Members, is reported to have ex- pressed himself in the following terms, " amidst tremendous cheering.," respecting the expulsion of Catholic tenants fr:e. his estates— Ile would say, as one of the principal landed proprietors in the county, it had ever been his practice and determination to encourage and summit the Pro- testants; mid further, he would say, that never while he existed Would lie give land to a Papist while he cull get a Protestant. He would not turn ma the Roman Catholics that Were iii holdings, but they should never receive land in preference to a Protestant, He did mean to say, that when leases dr.il.ped, he would deprive Homan Catholics of their farms, but at the sme.:. :dont them the means of going elsewhere. Where farms happencit to be di% Ilea be- tween two Protestants and two Homan Catholics, he NiOtlia pu t 011t the Itomall Catholics and keep tile Protestants. This, he said, was oini way of encourag- ing Protestants in the country, knowing them to be good stanch Conservatives, and who have acted right; as far as Was in their polver.
There was a run on Mr. O'Connell's National Bank at S;ign last week, which, however, ceased after some days. '.I he eitcet hes lit to bring down the markets in that neighbourhood. 'Pile Sligo ( asserts that the Tory landlords and agents refused the notes of the !Lank before the run beettine general, and urged the people to hatten to the bank and get gold for their notes. This, it is said they did from spite to O'Connell.
The Anti-Corn-Two Circular of Thursday reports the progress of Mr. Murray, the Anti-Corn-law lecturer in Ireland- " At the time of our last publication, Mr. Murray was under an interdict, from the Magistrates, not to lecture in Limerick. On Mr. Acland's arrival, those worthy instruments of the Bread-taxers were put upon the defensive, by his demanding from them collies of the depositions upon which they had acted, but which tiny refused to give ham H vusiad flog had none of a satisfac- tory kind to pile'. It is due to Mr. Steele to say, that immediately upon hear- ing from Mr. Acland a corroboration of Mr. Murray's account of himself, he did his best to remedy the injustice which, in conjunction with the Magistrates, he had committed upon our led tier. A public, meeting was called, at which he presided; and resolutions weni unanimously agreed to, condemnatory of the entire proceedings. Arrangements were immediately afterwards made for an- other lecture, which was delivered to a crowded and most enthusiastic audi- ence. The obstructions which our lecturers receive have invariably the oppo- site effect of that enatemplated by our oppononts. Mr. Murray has, ever since the Limerick outrage, been an object of curiosity and solicitude to the town and surrounding district. Ile has since lectured in Ennis, with complete success, and, thanks to his pevsecuturs he will not sympathetic listeners during the remainder of his tour in the South of Ireland. Mr. Acland has re- turned; and the Council of the League have now under their consideration the question of the propriety of applying for it mandamus against the Limerick Magistrates, calling on them to produce the information upon which they acted."
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