The Kilkenny Journal of Wednesday last has an account of
a pub- lic meeting in Kilkenny, whereat much wrath was exploded against an imputation of bribery supposed to have been advanced by Colonel T1105IPSON against the electors ; and which supposed imputation the Colonel is called upon, as a gentleman and a soldier, either to prove or to retract. For a very complete and pithy reply, we refer to an ad- dress from the Colonel to the Electors, in our advertising columns. For our own part, we never for a moment interpreted Colonel THOMPSON'S allusion to the "military chest," and the circumstances attending the last election for Kilkenny, as implying any charge dis- creditable to the Kilkenny electors ; who have always been reckoned preeminent among the Irish constituencies for honesty and indepen- dence—that is, as such terms are interpreted by Irish politicians. It is plain that the Kilkenny" boys," or men, could not have seen Colonel THOMPSON'S second address, explaining the sense in which be alluded to the "military chest."
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