Colonel Batter has published a letter to the electors of
Kilkenny County. intended as an apology for the offence of' absence in recent di- visions when Miaisters wanted every vote. The defence is couched in 3ubmissive and tinsatisfictory terms ; and he shirks O'Connell's heaviest charier--that Colonel Butler demanded the gift of patronage as the price of his vote in 1839, and on receiving a denial, deserted his post. Sir William Brabazon also appeals to his constituents against O'Connell, whom he taunts with mendicancy. But both Members are evidently under the painful impression that O'Connell can turn them out of Par- liament. A friend of Colonel Fitzgibbon thinks it necessary to publish the fact, that the Colonel's absence from Parliament is occasioned by severe illness.
Mr. Henry Grattan has written a letter to his constituents of Meath County, to ietlirm them that if Lord Stanley's Registration Bill he car- ried, he shall retire from Parliament, and they may look out for an- other Representative.
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