IRELAND.
The Liberal Club of Longford, rejected by Mr. Sergeant Shee, the ac- complished Tenant-League lawyer, of the English bar, have in turn thrown overboard the Tenant-League itself, and have fixed on Mr. More O'Ferrall, the late Governor of Malta, as the candidate for the vacant re- presentation of their town.
The contest at Enniskillen is likely to be very severe. The late Mem- ber, the Honourable Mr. Cole, supports strongly Mr. Whiteside; whose other partisans covertly suggest that he has promises of office under Lord Stanley which may be realized to the advantage of the townsmen. On the other hand, Mr. Cullum's friends are energetic and confident.
The Mercantile Advertiser, a journal reputed to be well-informed and careful in its professional statements, gives this pleasant announcement-
" A decided tendency to improvement has been apparent in some of those branches of trade in Dublin and to some extent in the internal trade of the country, which afford the best criterion of the condition of the consuming classes. For ten days past there has been a very active wholesale demand for teas and sugars in Dublin, and larger quantities have been disposed of than in any previous three weeks since the opening of the year. In some of the principal country markets there is also a better appearance; and it is a fact deserving: of notice that the traffic in goods by the Grand Canal has latterly increased, notwithstanding the great and increasing facilities by railway communication."
The Cork Examinpr says, we hope not on the foundation of mere gossip —" It is a mirious incident that for two centuries a Lord Clonbrock never lived to see the majority of his heir. His Lordship's eldest son will be of age in a few months' and the circumstance has so preyed upon Lord Clone brock as to throw him into his present dangerous state."
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