5 MARCH 1836, Page 10

If reliance is to be placed on the published accounts

of the proceed- ings of the Dublin Election Committee during the past week, they are of a most extraordinary character. One of the reported decisions attaches a penal consequence to the non-payment of a rate admitted to have been illegal: so that the refusal or neglect to discharge a debt of five shillings, which cannot be recovered by law, is held sufficient to deprive an elector of Dublin of his highest privilege! We shall look closely to the votes of the members of the Committee, when the lists are published ; and we can assure those gentlemen that their consti- tuents will scan them closely too.