Doctor Joseph Stock, M. P. for Cashel, in a letter
to the Standard, denies the charge made by a correspondent of that journal, that he paid Doctor Joseph Stock, M. P. for Cashel, in a letter to the Standard, denies the charge made by a correspondent of that journal, that he paid
1,000/. in hard cash for his election. The following is the Doctor's statement of his actual outlay-
" My eXpcnditure was India IOU ; consisting of my traveliing charges, the items of my landlady's bill st the hotel where I lodged, customary lees to certain borough-officers, atal the fees to my retained professional agents. I was aware that it was expected that I should, after my election, give saute money in aid of the local charities. No such proposition was, however, made to me, until hai been returned as Member, by thi• retui ning.oilieet. and until, consequently, 1 1. as at liberty to give or not to give, nt my discretion. Then. end not till tileat, did 1 ii:vire as to the anuatat of the suns it would be considered proper foi no to conzeibute. Two hundred twunds was the stun cane: I. 1 paid it ; atel fly deaatien, in a day or two after, was reccipted in the newspapers of the eounty, to the ci edit of the Ow itth:e institutions at Cashel. All this was as
public as if prodaiincd at Charing Cross."
The Duke of Devon,Itire has relinquished his claim upon the find for arrcart, of tithes, ia fav“or of the parucii at Ci rgy auci has de- sired by his memorials that his puttion of it may ho applied to their relief.
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