The proceedings of the National Convention attract little attention, The
principal business of' the week seems to have been the appointtaent of a committee, after two days' discussion, to enlighten the Irish people and free them from the O'Connell thraldom. Delegates are to visit Ireland and columbine with the Trades Unionists of Dublin, who have quarrelled with O'Connell.
At a special meeting of the Marylebone Reform Association, held on Thursday night, it was unanimously- resolved. that the Whig Ministry no longer deserve the confidence of the people. It appears that their refusal to support Mr. Villiers the other night has quite exhausted the patience of the Marylebone Reformers.
The contest for the Coronership of Middlesex closed at four o'clock on Wednesday. The final numbers were—for Wakley, 1,998; Adey, 579. Mr. Adey denied. that he had kept the poll open to harass his op- ponent ; he had done so solely to enable the freeholders to register their votes. But a glance at the numbers shows that the opposition was really vexatious : front the first it was fruitless, and its continuance en- tailed a very heavy expenditure—several thousand pounds, it is said— upon Mr. Wakley. What on earth did it signify whether a fraction of the Middlesex freeholders recorded their -votes, or not, for Mr. Ailey? The net income of the office is, we have heard, about 800/. a year.
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