1 JANUARY 1831, page 19

Ireland.

Our notices on Ireland are more meagre than we expected. A gentleman well versed in its local poli- tics, andpledged to supply us very largely with infortna. tion on that branch......

English Counties.

If we could reject from our estimate the costliness of elections, we should pronounce the Counties of England open, with very few exceptions. The smaller freeholders are too......

Notes.

0 u R. Tables would be incomplete without some notice of the anomalous varieties of the elective suffrage, and of the methods by which a few persons have gained the ascendency......