From the tenor of a letter which Lord Goderich has
addressed to a member of the Committee of Retail Brewers, it is to be hoped that they will soon he freed from the intolerable penalties to which they are now liable for allowing beer to be drunk at the door of their premises. The Customhouse of Dublin, the building of which cost the public 564,3624 was on Wednesday sennight abandoned by both Commissioners of Excise and Customs, whose boards were dissolved, and all the revenue business relating to England, Ireland, and Scotland, transferred to the Board in London, to whom the Collectors and Comptrollers are to report direct. We understand that the Board of Ordnanee hae &eon dire,-zZons fo rtke removal of the Laboratory and Powder Magazine under Mount Wise to St. Budeaux and the immediate equipment of the buildings forming that establishment, for the ac- commodation of troops as an infantry barrack.—Plymouth Chronicle.
All the Duke of Devonshire's forty-shilling freehold tenants in the borough of Dungarvan have a house rent-free, and the only thing required in return is a vote if there should be a contest. They amount to near five hundred, each of whom now insists on getting an acre of ground from the Duke, near the town, for the tillage of potatoes; • otherwise they will vote for whom they please, having leases of their houses ; but they say the Duke would have a tie over them, if he gave them the ground as yearly tenants without leases. The land they require would be worth a thousand a year, so that the Duke would have to pay pretty well for returning a member, after having laid out 60,0001. in building a bridge.—Waterford Alai 1. The competition between the btitchers at Tunbridge, has surpassed any thing within our remembrance. The very best joints of beef were proclaimed by the crier to be selling in the market on Thursday, by a Tunbridge butcher, at 4d. per lb. ; and, at the same time, good beef to be given by another butcher of that town to all deserving poor people—gratis !—Kent and Essex Mercury. BOROUGH OF LEOMINSTER.—The "independent electors" of this borough have during the past week been relieved from "the dull monotony of life" by the ex. hilarating prospect of an election, the vacancy occasioned by the delinquency of Rowland Stephenson being about to be filled up. Mr. Ward has been making an active canvass, with which he appears to be , satisfied ; but if we may trust to certain placards he will not be allowed to walk over the course ; "an elector" and "a brother townsman" have earnestly entreated the gentlemen in the inde- pendent interest not to promise their votes, inasmuch as an individual has de- parted for London, and is expected to return with either Mr. Bish or Mr. Cuth- bert— Worcester Journal.
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