IRELAND.
The representation of King's County, in Ireland, is vacant by the ap- pointment of Mr. Fitzsimon as a Magistrate at the Dublin Head Police- office. The candidates are Lord Oxmantown a Tory, and Mr. Arm- strong, of Gallen Priory, a Liberal, but not a Repealer.
In anticipation of a dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Roderick O'Connor, of Rahoon, is in the field actively engaged canvassing the electors of this town on Whig principles.—Galway Advertiser.
The Irish Government has roused the indignation of the Repeal and also of the other Liberal journals, by objecting to Mr. Roche, first on the Judges' list for Sheriffs, because he would not give a pledge against Repeal. The letter from the Lord-Lieutenant to Mr. Roche, who was• known formerly as a Repealer, not only asked whether he had ab- stained during the last year from taking part in the Repeal agitation, but whether it was his intention so to abstain. Mr. Roche replied, that it was a matter of fact that he had not taken any part in the agitation during the past year, but he declined giving any pledge for the future, as he considered such a course calculated in the highest degree to impair the dignity and responsibility of the office.
A letter from Mr. O'Connell to the Secretary of the Repeal Asso- ciation was read at the meeting of that body on Monday; the subject, 1.-911 Nerretb_ .13.egi!!=iO3 and Fraachise_Bill. Mr. O'Connell writes warmly in praise of the measure ; which, he says, must produce a good ' effect whether it shall pass or be rejected. If rejected, which he inti- mates it will be by the Tories, it will furnish an irresistible argument for Repeal • and if it pass, it will be the first measure of justice which- the Irish have received from a British Parliament.
At a meeting of the Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society, on Tuesday, resolutions were passed in support of Lord Stanley's Regis- tration Bill ; and petitions to Parliament in its favour were agreed to.
Business was entirely suspended in Cork on Friday by a snow-storm,. the most severe that had occurred since the loss of the Killarney three years since. Wexford Bridge has been in serious danger of being swept away by ice ; and no vessels are able to enter or leave the harbour. Vessels requiring to enter Wexford are obliged to run for shelter to Passage or Waterford.—Waterford Chronicle.
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