The Downshire Tories had a meeting at Banbridge on the
9.:Id ultimo, from which reporters for Liberal newspapers were carefully excluded. The renegade Mr. Emerson *ferment and Lord Castle- reagh were the chief orators : Lord Hillsborough had a co/d. There is always something the matter with his Lordship when he is required to speak two consecutive sentences. There was a Tory gathering at Enniskillen on the 2-Ith ultimo. Lords Cole and Loftus were the great men of the party; whose spirit may be guessed at from the following toast proposed by the Vice-President, Mr. Darey—" The Protestant clergy of Tyrone, who refused to support the cursed Na- tional Board, and thus remained faithful, while the clergy of Derry had taken the false step of giving ins their adhesion thereto." Lord Alexander has found it necessary to disclaim the rumour of his having formed a coalition with Lord Claude Hamilton, with the intention of keeping the representatiou of Tyrone in their joint hands. We are glad to find that Mr. 1'. G. Barron, a cousin of the Member for Waterford, is likely to be returned, without a contest, for Dungar- van. lie is an excellent Whig, a Magistrate, and landed proprietor of the county, and served the office of high Sheriff last year. Mr. Bar- ron would have been returned without opposition at the last general election; but he retired, and resigned in favour of the late Attorney- General, though the principal interests in the borough were pledged to him. He did this solely with a view to strengthens the Administration of Lord Melbourne and the present Irish Government. Mr. P. G. Barron is a gentleman of mature judgment, of sound principles, and by no means a violent politician. lie is, in fact, juA that kind of man whose personal and private character and stations add is eight to the Government that he supports. We congratulate Dungarvan on its prospect of sending such a man into Parliament.—Globe. [But the Radicals are not so fond of Mr. Barron as the Whigs ; and there is a split between them.]
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