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The correspondent of the Times announces two new candidates for the county of Galway—Mr. James Daly of Dunsandle, a Tory, and Sir John Burke of Marble Hill, a Roman Catholic and a Whig, but " in bad odour with the priests and Dr. M`Hale."
" There are," says the same writer, "no less than six gentlemen spoken of as claimants for the honour of representing the town of Gal- way,—namely, Messrs. Lynch and Blake, the sitting Members, Mr. Roderick O'Connor of Rahoon, supported by the interest of Lords Clanricarde and Oranmore, Mr. Handcock of Carrintrilla, Sir Va- lentine Blake, and Mr. M. B. Bermingham. The principles of the forementioned are Liberal in all the various phases from Repealer to pure Whig."
On another day, the same authority says—" It is reported here, on food authority, that in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Hutton, the silent Member fcr the city of Dublin, is to be thrown over- board by his quondam Radical supporters. His studied absence from Cis constituents on oecadena where his presence at least, if not hie
speech, was deemed necessary for the support of Whiggery, has given dire offence."
Another hit of gossip from the same source—" It is stated that Mr. O'Connell has issued his mandate to the constituents of Kilkenny to keep the representation there open for him, as he apprehends, in case of a dissolution, the necessity of offering himself as a candidate for Kil- kenny. He fears the Conservative strength of Dublin, and therefore wishes to make a safe retreat into Kilkenny."
If Mr. Murphy cannot be induced to stand for Cork, or if his election is thought unsafe, we learn from the Cork Reporter, Mr. Callaghan will be brought forward in his stead.
The Dublin Monitor again calls attention to the neglect of which the Liberals have been guilty in regard to the registries- " We have so repeatedly called attention to the alarming state of the Li- beral registries throughout the country, and so trifling have been the exertions made to place them on a more satisfactory footing, that we have little heart to return to the subject. However, as the crisis is great, the danger imminent, and the people yet slumbering, it is our duty to endeavour to awaken them to a true sense of their position by repeated exhortations. The facts of the case are exceedingly simple, and sufficiently alarming to render their bare mention enough to rouse Reformers to active and zealous exertion, In Louth County, , the Tories have attained a dangerous ascendancy on the registry ; in fact, they boast that the county is their own, and the only hesitation is whether they will start one or two candidates. The Queen's County is in a similar situation. The King's County is also in an alarming position ; and many other counties are similarly circumstanced. Is there nothing to he done to provide against the inevitable result of a general election should the Reformers be surprised in such a delimceless state ? "
A "great demonstration," in support of her Majesty's Ministers and in opposition to the Tories," was made on Friday, in the Dublin Royal Exchange. Lord Charlemont, the Honourable Frederick Ponsonby, Mr. Lethbridge, and some of the leading Repeaters, are among the few in the long list of " gentlemen on the platform" whose names are known in England. Lord Charlemont was called to the chair, as a matter of course. The speeches offer little matter for notice. One of the speakers, Mr. Ross, is at issue whim his friend O'Connell as to the Irish sympathies of the English people ; a proof of which he found in the occurrences at the Leeds meeting of Further Reformers— Did greater applause ever issue from any public assembly than that with which Mr. O'Connell had been greeted at Leeds, when he alluded to the case of unhappy Ireland ? And although Mr. Ross did not wish to speak osten- tatiously of himself, yet lie could not help remarking, that one part of his own speech was received with applause the most thrilling and heart-stirring—that In which be asked if it were possible that a people like the Irish—a people en- dowed with every advantage, whether physical or moral, which Heaven could confer, should crawl on, from age to age, a miserable, persecuted, and bullied race ? And the assembly shouted " No." This proved that there did exist in England a spirit of friendship, good-will, and sympathy towards the Irish people. This being the case, he would exhort, with all the power and earnest- ness he might possess, every genuine Reformer to discharge from his mind all shades of difference, to merge all jealousies, and to join hand and heart in opposing the return to power of a party who were the hereditary despots of the laud.
A petition to the Queen was agreed to, praying that the petitioners might be preserved from the grievous calamity which would be inflicted on them were the fortunes of the empire confided " to that party who are the enemies of all popular rights "—the Tories.
On Sunday, the people of Carrick-on-Suir assembled in great num- bers to express their approval of the financial policy of the Govern- ment.
A show is still made of the Repeal agitation, though it seems ex piring. No letter from O'Connell to his " dear Ray" enlivened the proceeding of the Association in Dublin on Monday. But " great Repeal meetings" are recorded at Tuam, Galway, and Drumcree.
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