The election for Dublin University took place on Thursday. Mr.
Shaw, whose nomination has been ineffectually opposed by the Ultra- Tory Corporation, on account of his assent to the Irish Municipal Cor- porations Bill, was proposed by Dr. Wall ; who vindicated Mr. Shaw's conduct to his Conservative friends— Some persons were so unreasonable as to be offended with Mr. Shaw for his conduct on the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill; but the outcry raised against him on that ground was most unfounded and most unjust. Mr. Shaw had documents in his possession which would disabuse all honest minds of any bad impression on the subject; but those documents could not be publicly pro- duced. (A laugh.) Be hoped he was considered incapable of meanness or misrepresentation, and that he should be believed when he stated, that, having seen those documents, he could solemnly declare, that they had produced upon his mind the conviction that Mr. Shaw had acted a manly, honourable, and creditable part throughout the progress of that measure. (Loud cheers.) Mr. E. Pennefather, QC., Dr. Shaw's seconder, gave testimony to the same effect— The documents referred to by Dr. Wall he had also seen; and he willingly confessed that they had produced upon his mind a similar conviction, and had removed every shadow of doubt or suspicion which he might have previously entertained through ignorance of the real facts of the case. They had so fully convinced him of the correctness of Mr. Shaw's conduct, that be bad felt him- self at perfect liberty to come forward and support the pretensions of the right honourable gentleman as their representative in Parliament.
Dr. Prior and Mr. T. B. C. Smith, Q.C., proposed and seconded Dr. Lefroy. Mr. O'Malley Irwin then, amid the utmost confusion and uproar, proposed Dr. Phipps; but no one seconding the proposition, the other two candidates were declared duly elected ; and they addressed their con- stituents. Mr. Shaw entered into a general defence of himself about the Municipal Corporations ; saying that he was now ready to produce the documents already mentioned ; and observing that he had been the first to object to the clause for giving compensation to himself and to procure it, through Sir Robert Peel, to be expunged.
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