Mr. O'Connell was elected for Kilkenny city on Tuesday, without
opposition. The proceedings occupied about ten minutes. Mr. Sul- livan, who nominated Mr. O'Connell, read a letter from the candidate, to the effect that he should never seek the suffrages of any constituency but that of Kilkenny as long as be aspired to a seat in Parliament. Thus "the Member for Ireland" is again in the House, after an absence of four days ; during- which he found time to produce a letter to the People of England on Peerage Reform, which may well make the Tories rue the leisure they provided for him at the cost of 20,000/. The lying Irish spirit which is in league with the Standard news- paper proved by a series of el aborate calculations published in that Journal on Thursday, that O'Connell could not take his seat before the recess. There was to be an opposition at Kilkenny; the return was to arrive too late at the Dublin Hanaper Office ; a fog in the Channel was to prevent the steamers from carrying the news to Eng- land ; ut short, in one way or another, O'Connell was not to reappear in Parliament till after the recess. What a triumph ! to have kept bin] out one day more ! But O'Connell was in the House on Friday, and presented a petition against the return of West and Hamilton' for bribery,—to tho Int small chagrin of the Tories, whom he _seems born to mortify and Just after the election at Kilkenny was over, a Mr. Talbot Glass- covk, who frequeiltly affords amusement to Irish constituencies, came post-haste to the court, and expressed his regret that the proceedings were terminated. as he had intended to have nominated himself as a can- didate, upon " independent principles." A good deal of fun and jokMg plssed betweiat this gentleman and the electors before the meet- Mg brake up.
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