The election for Kilkenny ended on Wednesday in the return
of Mr. Whitworth, a Manchester manufacturer, by a majority greater than the combined vote of his two opponents. He had 290 votes, Mr. Gray 120, and Mr. Marum 112, the total number of electors being 709. The result was in some respects remark- able. All three candidates were Home-rulers in some sense or other, but Mr. Mart1111 was the strongest, and had energetic Catholic support; while Mr. Whitworth was a very lax Home- ruler, was a Protestant, and was foreman, or believed to be foreman, of the Grand Jury which returned a true bill against the "Man- chester martyrs." Nevertheless, he was returned, chiefly, it would seem, because he was rich and wished to make Kilkenny prosperous, and the deduction is that the Home-rule fury is beginning to ebb even in the South of Ireland.
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