The Registration continues to be very much in favour of
the Liberals, except in Belfast, where the Tories have gained 17 votes. The Registration continues to be very much in favour of the Liberals, except in Belfast, where the Tories have gained 17 votes.
Mr. Edmund Phipps, as we expected, has given a direct contradic- tion to the assertion of Mr. Kyle, that the Lord-Lieutenant had avowed his intention of starving the Irish clergy into accepting 300/.
year. Mr. Phipps never told Mr. Kyle any thing of the sort; and Mr. Kyle has since denied that he named Mr. Phipps as his authority.
Mr. O'Loghlen succeeds Baron Smith in the Court of Exchequer ; Mr. Richards is to be Attorney-General ; Sergeant 1Voulfe, Solicitor- General ; Mr. Nicholas Ball, King's Serjeant.
By the death of the late Mr. John Boyd, two situations have be- come vacant,—the one that of Treasurer of Donegal, a place in the election of the qualified Magistrates of the county; the other that of Accountant Generalof the Court of Chancery, a very lucrative office, and in the gift of Lord Plunket.—Dublin Freeman.
Cooke, Crotty, and the other members of the holy alliance of apostate Papists, Popish Presbyterians, and Church of England in. centharies, have returned from their campaign crowned with mud. In
truth, there never was a scurvier or more wo-begone set shipped off from the shores of Caledonia. Cooke was the brains of the confra- ternity, but he has incurred ineffable disgrace by refusing the challenge of the Voluntaries ; O'Mulligan's monstrosities recoiled on his rene- gade head ; and as to Crotty, he was voted an impudent as well as a shameless beggar. Ile picked up a few pence, however ; nor is O'Mul- ligan likely, for six months more, to lose his hire : but we verily be- lieve that Cooke is completely done up. This we learn from a very moderate Belfast paper, and rather, we believe, Conservative—namely, the Belfast News letter.—Dablin Evening Post. LThese worthies now go by the name of" The Trumpery."]
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