IRELAND.
The Dublin Weekly Register has the following excellent remarks on the claims of Mr. Robert Dillon Browne, the nominee of the Liberal Club of Mayo, to the representation of that county : they are worthy the attention of all constituencies who would avoid political adven- turers, and elect men of known and tried patriotism.
" We have a right to question the claims of any unknown untried candidate for a situation of such vital trust and consequence. It is our duty to the People of Ireland, on all occasions in which there is even a risk of some new fledged patriot—without any guarantee from past personal or political charac- ter—who has nothing to show but extravagant professions of patriotism, and only these when he seeks its rewards—or the promises of briefed sponsors to his political purity, who would require sponsors for their own,—it is, we repeat, our duty to the People of Ireland at large, to throw before every honest, but, perhaps, deluded constituency, our suggestions concerning those we believe tr be such men—to give the People the benefit of our views—which are extea- sive, from the position upon which we stand, and the access to information and the experience which it gives. We have always done so, and done 60 manfully, even though slandered by mock patriots and renegade hirelings for the same : we have done so too with truth, and have been invariably justified by events. Eneas Macdonnell, for instance, was never our her though he brought a province upon us for doing our duty to Ireland, and forced O'Connell to quarter him on the public purse, not for the good he would do, but to purchase off the mischief—in the name of zeal—he was ready sad capable of doing. No, we knew him well; we never therefore made a star of him ; and how are we justified ? There he is now—the hireling reviler of bar creed and kind—the paid agent of the Conservatives, sticking to the Dublin Commission petitioners like a leech, and pouring all the venom and cunning of his nature into the ears of West, of whom he is the guide and confidant in the whole of the black transactions. • • * Is this (Mr. Browne) a man whose private character and past career give you an unfailing pledge of upright principle, unimpeached honour, prudence, good sense, gentlemanly feeling, and an abiding, devoted, disinterested, and high-spirited zeal in the cause of our country ? Let us have no flippant assertions or evasions—no hasty, unfounded professions in lieu of facts, substituted with the men we ad- dress for the stern and strict truth. We wish the pious pastors and honest electors to answer for themselves. Is Mr. Robert Browne the man we de- scribe? If they cannot answer, on whose faith do they receive him? Will any gentleman, deserving their confidence, stand forward in the face of the county, and openly pledge himself that be knows Mr. Browne to be such a
man !"
The result of the first day's polling at the Mayo election was— R. D. Browne, 67; John Browne, 41; Mr. C. A. Dillon having re-
signed.
We regret to learn that another tithe affray has occurred in the county of Limerick, in which a boy was shot by the Police, and one of the Police was nearly beaten to death on the very threshold of the
Magistrate's residence.—Courier.
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