IRISH "BULLS."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "ElrzcTAToR.-] Sin,—Some curious Irish " bulls " have cropped up daring the canvassing for the coming- election for North Belfast. Mr. Wilson, speaking in support of the working-man's candi- date, Mr. Adam Turner, who is an undertaker, made the following delightful bulls " quite worthy of Sir Boyle Roche : —" Who is it that has not a father who is alive in his grave, or an uncle or brother that is toiling, raising humps on their shoulders for their landlords ?" And further on in the same speeoh,—" I would ask you to contrast him with the other candidate that is before you, and I know of my own knowledge of cases where poor people that died and came to Adam Turner, and had not the money. (Loud laughter.) You only laughed before the time. (More laughter.) It was the people's wives that came when the man died, and had not a penny to pay the man, and Adam Turner was the man that went forward and supplied the coffin and the hearse, and buried them free,
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