The last bubble of Spottiswode's Joint-Stock-Company Gang has burst !
and with no better lack than that of its predecessors. The Westmeath Tories have abandoned the struggle, at last, in despair; and Chapman and Nagle continue the unquestioned Representatives of the county. In fact, the contest from the commencement has been an unprincipled and profligate attempt to break down the sitting Mem- bers by expente, and to stifle the independence of Westmeath.—Dublin Post.
Mr. John David La Touche, the banker, died on Monday, at Mot- ley, near Dublin.
The sister of a highly-respectable gentleman is now a prisoner in Dublin Newgate on a charge of infanticide. The facts of the case are said to be strongly circumstantial. Whether sufficient evidence can be got to maintain a prosecution, is not yet ascertained. —Post.
A steward of Dean Holmes was nearly murdered on Wednesday night, at a fishing.lodge on the Upper Shannon, by some country- people, who supposed the boat he had been in at the regatta carried orange colours!—Limerick Chronicle.
Fourteen Protestant clergymen have challenged an equal number of priests to meet them in controversial discussion.—Kilhenny Moderator.
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